Subj : Re: WW II
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : George Pope
Date : Wed Oct 27 2021 12:49:21

 >   Sometimes a job in security is just being there, in case something
 > happens.

My job went through a period like that, on night & weekend shifts. I could
sleep, so long as I could hear & answer my phone when it rang.

I preferred to sit up & play on Facebook or watch TV/read books.

Awawke or asleep, I got minnimum wage; if I got a casse & began working it, I
billed the higher rate(about 50% more) for that time only.

Since we worked from home, we had to clock our own time & submit timesheets to
the accountant every 2 weeks.

If we weren't dong the minimum (amnswering emergency calls) the boss would soon
know, because after being unanswered 3 rings, it rang on HIS phone, & he
reasonably disliked being woken when he's paying someone to do this. . .

He'd ask me, "Why anm I paying him if he's not even doing his job?"

If I knew the guy to be a slacker,. not too committed to his job, I'd reply,
"Doesn't make sense to me." but if it was a on-off error/lapse, I'd say so &
caution "wait & see."

Moral of the story: don't consistently dump your work on me! There's a reason
why I was the highest paid person in Operations--I'm worth it!

I try to pass on that thinking to the newbies, but so far not many can accept
it as reality until it's too late at this company.

I'm just grateful my dad taught me hard work & personal responsibility when I
was young.




 >   I retired (or thought I had, long story) I am more of a floater now.
 >   One post today, another tomorrow, etc.
 >   Some are active (such as back in parking at the moment), others I make
 > occasional rounds, others where I just there in case an alarm goes off.
 >   They all have their pluses and minuses. 

 > > I agree the temptation to keep pushing against those he considers subhuman
 > > & deserving of conquering & killing would've rapidly become toomuch for
 > > his megalomania.

 >   For him personally, but once a land was conquered true believers would be
 > made who would carry on (i.e. Hitler Youth).

 > > True. What gets me is how the Italians were mere pawns to the Germans,
 > > even though nominally "white"

 >   Hitler didn't really care for Mussolini,whom he saw as a clown.
 >   IMO once Hitler had England and Russia under his rule, he would have
 > turned on Ol' Benito since German troops were already in Italy.
 >   He knew with all his bluster Mussolini would fold in no time.   

 > > America can be brutal to newcomeres, makimg them jump through hoops 

 >   Various groups.
 >   The Dutch in New York hated the English when they took over, the
 > English/Americans disliked the Irish, the Irish disliked the Germans and
 > everyone
 > disliked the Jews.
 >   As waves of new comers came they were seen as taking American jobs,
 > working for lower wages, etc.  See above.

 > > From the same group?  They'd already been busy in the South Pacific, which
 > > slowed way down after December-1941 & the USA's declaratoin of war on
 > > them.

 >   By early 1942 Japan had already over run Guam, Wake Island, and Hong
 > Kong, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), Malaya, Singapore,
 > and
 > Burma.  They didn't stop after 12/7/41.

 > > You still hold Guam(Now home of textile sweat shops making clothing for
 > > American corporations) from then.

 >   Guam was seen as a fort against the USSR.
 >   It may still be needed as a fort against China the way things are going.

 > > Your second view certyainly follows wqith what we've seen since, with
 > > Arabic- looking American citizens

 >   Yep.

 > > I like how Jeff Foxworthy explained it:
 > > Blue Collar, White Trash & Rednecks are put down constantly, buy think
 > > about it:  blue collar meanas a laborer.  Rednecks labour so much under a
 > > hot sun they get sunburned, white trash are laborers whose
 > > industry(mining, often) dried up & were abandoned to 

 > > The Red, The White, & The Blue, they're who made & make America what it
 > > is: great!

 >   Concur.
 >  
 > > Because they were raised to beoleve that, even though they're a superior
 > > race, they need do whatever work is nee3ded to support themselves & their
 > > families.

 > > Amereicans tend to think(on average) they're superior/chosen people but
 > > wo9n't stoop to do work they feel should only be done by slaves and
 > > immigrants.

 >   Its always been thus, going back to ancient times.
 >   Medes and Persians conqueror some country and enslaved those people.
 >   Greece, Rome, etc all the same.
 >   
 > > Hitler pointed to Jews running the banks as the source of all of the
 > > common German's troubles.

 >   This goes back to the Middle Ages.
 >   As merchantism began, church law didn't allow interest to be charged on
 > money loaned to the merchants.  The Jews had no such prohibitions on loaning
 > money.  
 >   As merchants borrowed more and owed more they became resentful of owing
 > that money and took it out on the ones who loaned it to them in the first
 > place.
 >   Jews, in general in Europe, found a way to make money in banking.
 >   Joe
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