So, I'll never order from this pizza place again - if you care about how they treat new employees, then you won't either

Well, my 28 year old daughter just took a second part-time job 2 weeks ago. She's a single mom, struggling to make ends meet. She's a hard-worker, willing to learn new things and puts in extra effort because, well, that's what she does at work.

She currently works a closing shift 4 days a week at a well known discount retailer - almost 1 year now. However, she needed a 2nd job because, well, most of these retail joints won't let you work 20 or more hours a week because they don't want to pay benefits. She needed more money to pay the bills.

But, in general, they treat her well and with respect. They appreciate her hard work and she gets along great with her co-workers, managers, and customers.

None of which prepared her for the nightmare she just experienced at her new job, at a local pizza place here in town.

She got offered the job during her first interview - right after she just walked in and handed them a resume. She already had experience at two other pizza parlors in town, so, she knows what to do and how it works.

Or she thought she did until she went to this place.

You ever see the Paul Newman movie, Cool Hand Luke?

Remember the ditch digging scene, where one guard told him to get the dirt out of the warden's hole, then after digging it out, the other guard told him to put the dirt back in? This went on back and forth until an exhausted Newman was struck with a guard's baton and knocked out. (Here's a YouTube link if you haven't seen it.)

YouTube: Cool Hand Luke Ditch Digging Scene

Now, although there wasn't any physical violence, that's about what happened to my daughter. 

After only 1 week and 1 day on the job, she was forced to quit in tears after the abhorrent ways that her shift manager, the shop owner, and her fellow employees treated her.

For example, she was told to make and stack 12 pizza boxes by one manager. So, she did that, only to be screamed at by another manager for not making 15 boxes. In front of the other employees. And in front of the customers in the store!

She was told her duties included cleaning the bathrooms whenever there were no customers - she worked the 11 A.M. to 3 P.M. shift, so there were down times after lunch. So, last Monday during a down time with no customers, she went into the men's bathroom and started cleaning a urinal. A customer came in the store. Rather than ask my daughter to come out and help the customer, she was loudly berated by the manager for not being at her post when the customer arrived!

And once again, she was screamed at in front of her co-workers and the customer!

A short while later, the owner came in and asked what was going on. My daughter tried to explain she was getting conflicting instructions from everyone in charge and just wanted to know what she was supposed to do, that she couldn't be in two places at once. And asked why she was being criticized for doing exactly what she was told to do. And how could they set up better communications between them. She was angrily told by the owner, "Well you'll just have to figure it out! The customer always comes first!" 

My daughter was in tears. She could not believe how she was being talked down to and mistreated!

And her co-workers were not exactly any help to her either. They just stood there and watched!

I think it's pretty obvious why the job my daughter took was available in the first place. If those guys had said that to me, they'd be out cold on the floor covered in pizza sauce and melted cheese. But my daughter is barely 5 feet tall, so that wasn't going to happen.

She did the next best thing though. She told them that no one, nobody, is going to treat her with such disrespect on a job, especially as a new hire.

So she quit. Walked right out the door. Screw' em!

Right now, I'm thinking about what to do about these scumbags, other than just give my daughter some support until she finds another 2nd job. Maybe I'll use Yelp and put a real negative review about them and give some details. Maybe some of  my paisano's and I will show up and go all Italian on them! Or maybe we'll set up a picket line in front of the store. I dunno. Let's just say I get more pissed the more I think about it.

I won't name the pizza joint. Oh hell, I'll give a hint. Look toward the end of the alphabet - maybe you can figure it out!

Russian citizens - your government is lying to you about Ukraine; Putin and his generals are war criminals

I hope that this gets through to Russian citizens somehow. I hope they don't get punished for accessing this information. My Blogger stats show that my posts are, indeed, getting read by some in Russia.

You are being lied to by your leaders. You are being lied to by your media. You are even being lied to by your fellow citizens, who have fallen for the lies BECAUSE YOUR GOVERNMENT HAS BLOCKED ACCESS TO WORLDWIDE MEDIA THAT TELLS THE TRUTH!!!

Why are you believing such nonsense from your leaders? 

Russian Bucha killings, train station attack

Video Credit: CBC/Radio-Canada

Almost every country in the world has imposed sanctions on your country because of the illegal, immoral, and insane invasion of Ukraine by your power mad leader Putin and his bloodthirsty, inhumane generals.

Innocent Ukrainian citizens are being slaughtered every day under the orders of Putin and his generals. Apartment buildings, theaters, even a train station in Kramatorsk with hundreds of citizens attempting to flee the country to escape the war was destroyed, killing dozens of more people, including children!

A few days ago, the United Nations voted to suspend Russia from its Human Rights Council because of "...gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights committed by Russian troops in Ukraine."

Ukrainian citizens have been killed, tortured, raped, kidnapped, robbed, buried in massive, unmarked graves, shot and killed while riding bicycles, set on fire and burned... All of these have been reported on by the world's media and witnessed in real time. Yet, your leaders say they were "staged" by the Ukranians, that they are "false" news reports. 

What your leaders say is absolute bullshit!!!

Your leaders are war criminals. They are committing atrocities against mankind not seen since World War 2!

I have no reason to lie to you. I make absolutely no money from this blog. I'm retired. 

Arnold's message to Russian citizens

Actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently released a powerful video decrying Putin's illegal war in Ukraine. 

Here it is for all of you who haven't seen it yet.

If this gets through to Russia, please leave a comment below.

Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova continues her protest against Russian lies about the invasion of Ukraine

I cut and pasted the following from YahooNews in the event that Russia has prevented access to Yahoo in order to continue it's shameful blockade of the truth from its citizens.

To all Russian citizens who may be reading this - Putin and his cronies are war criminals - they are lying to you!!!

Russian TV protester Marina Ovsyannikova: 

State propaganda 'becoming more and more distorted'

Colin Campbell

·Managing Editor

Sun, March 20, 2022, 8:22 AM

Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova's decision to publicly protest against her country's invasion of Ukraine didn't come easy, she recalled in an ABC News interview released Sunday.

"As soon as the war began, I could not eat. I could not sleep," Ovsyannikova said in Russian, according to ABC's translation.

Ovsyannikova, an employee of the state-run Channel One, said she contemplated going to a street protest against the war, but the prospect of spending years in jail convinced her to make a more public statement.

The news editor ultimately decided to interrupt her own channel's live evening news broadcast, walking across the set with a sign reading “no war” and “Russians against the war.”

In Russia, where President Vladimir Putin has an iron grip on power, and his critics often wind up killed or in jail, this was a risky protest. The Russian government recently passed a law threatening up to 15 years of jail time for publishing news that runs counter to the Kremlin's war messaging, which denies that a "war" is even taking place. She has already been arrested and fined, and she is reportedly being investigated under the new draconian censorship law.

"This protest was a spontaneous decision for me to go out live on air, but dissatisfaction with the current situation has been accumulating for many years, because the propaganda on our state channels was becoming more and more distorted," Ovsyannikova said Sunday. "And the pressure that has been applied in Russian politics could not leave us indifferent. When I spoke to my friends and colleagues, everyone, until the last moment, could not believe that such a thing could happen, that this gruesome war could take place."

Is this why Russia is labeling everything "Z" ?

I dunno...given Putin's purposeful repression of honest news about the war, do you think he's also trying to brainwash his citizens by misappropriating the theme of the 1969 classic film "Z" to justify his invasion of Ukraine? Is this why the letter "Z" is emblazoned on tanks, trucks, uniforms, and just about everything else?

Z (1969 film about government corruption)