The New Look of the Working Class

                                                   
Over and over again we hear both in the news and on the streets, companies going way too far in controlling their employees beyond what is reasonable.

For instance: Tattoos.  Personally, I don't like tattoos.  I think that getting one is a poor choice, I wouldn't get one, but many people do get one, and they don't get it to be hidden somewhere, whether on their leg or their arm, and sometimes on the back of the neck, and I figure, to each their own.

Businesses, however, have been moving toward not allowing visible tattoos on their employees in the name of professionalism. Now I tend to agree with that for certain kinds of employment, such as office jobs, banks and the like.  I don't want to walk into my bank for instance and have the guy or girl handling my account to be filled with all manner of tattoos.  Its not that I don't think they should have them but in a setting like that, its not something that I would expect to see in such an environment. Walking into fast food...my expectations aren't really that high, so I would expect to see tattoo's here and there, on one or both arms, on the neck, maybe small ones on their face.

The same goes with how people talk, specifically the slang they use.  Mind you, I'm personally a grammar Nazi, or at least I try to be; and I do so because I feel like there's a level of intellect conveyed in using proper grammar that lends itself to a certain level of credibility over sounding like a 2nd grade dropout.

That being said, there is a line that I wont cross when it comes to what I expect in certain environments.  Where I do expect a business professionalism from certain employment archetypes, the fast food industry is just not one of them.

Which brings us to our ever favorite Chik-Fil-Ay.  The picture above is of a note that a manager of an undisclosed location placed in an attempt to quell the "unprofessional" language, even referring to the employees as professionals.  You know who believes that the people taking your orders and are flipping burgers in fast food are professionals?  Exactly no one!

These people are not professionals, These jobs have been embarrassments for the last thirty years, are some of the worst paying.  The only job set that out scums fast food is Walmart.  When you're at about a level playing field with Walmart, don't expect that you're going to attract people of a professional five star restaurant.  You're not going to get the professionalism of a 5 star restaurant worker because those workers are probably already working at a 5 star restaurant and wouldn't be bothered by a fast food environment.

Frankly, if you want a professional environment they you probably should stop working at Chik-Fil-Ay and actually get a professional job.








                                                                                                                               

What Direction Do We Go From Here?

The dust has cleared and the midterm elections are over, and we liberals got creamed!  Its a matter of fact!  It doesn't mean that our beliefs are any less right mind you or that our values are substandard.  To the contrary our values and beliefs are very much a force for good in the country.  Instead of being selfish and only pleasing to a select few of our countrymen, our prefer ed way of helping the country is by developing, passing and implementing legislation the most amount of the population the best way possible.Things like better gun legislation, Women's right, workplace equality, marriage equality, and increasing the minimum wage to a level that the demographic that largely works in those areas are able to sustain themselves in a way that doesn't nearly make them homeless from month to month.

These are all important things to the health of our economy and country  But we have a massive problem as liberals.  Where we're awesome at coming up with these ideas and working to implement them when they do pass, we fucking suck at running campaigns that will get us elected to the positions that will most allow us to actually accomplish these things.  That's why we got our asses handed to us across the country!  I watched as one state after another turned from blue to red as republican after republican take seats in their districts, setting up a really bad problem that will either lead to more gridlock in Washington and now in the state senates and congresses, or see some dangerous legislation start passing that would threaten to undermine the incredible progress that we've already made in repairing the damage that was done by President Bush and the republican control ed congress that existed between 2001 and 2009.

So where do we as liberals and democrats go from here?  Well right for the moment its far to late to spring back and win the 2014 midterm elections.  What we need to do now is regroup.  The first thing we need to reflect on why we lost and study our opponent and try to understand why they won.  If we dont learn from it we're going to keep making the same mistakes over and over again and keep letting the republicans win.   If we keep letting them win its going to throw the country further and further into a downward spiral.

The next thing we need to do after studying what went wrong for us and right for them, is sit down and come up with an actin plan to retake the ground we lost on the state and national levels.  We're in for a turbulent storm over the next two years.   Mitch McConnel is the most likey person to be chosen for the republican majority leader and he's been quoted on camera as saying that "he looks forward to working with President Obama".  I think we all know that what McConnell really means is he and the Republican majority run house will work with President Obama, so long as he's doing what they want him to do, or else gridlock and government shutdowns are likely to continue.  We'll see.

We can take the senate back but its going to be a hard fight.  But I think if we were to correct our campaigning issues between now and the primary elections in 2016 that we can not only take back the state level senate's and congress' we lost this year, but add to the number of states we turn blue, while at the same time getting the majority of the house back in our national senate and house and set up a really good environment for a real progressive president instead of the one that we got.  Dont get me wrong, Obama has done a number of great things, but at the same time he's also allowed though a number of dangerous things things like more tax cuts for the wealthy for instance, though. 

Lets make the next two years count so we can repair the damage that's about to be done to the country via bad republican policy.