It is a while that all I read in the papers is how bad the economy is and how troubled is the financials of not only this country, but around the world. The prices of food, gas and most consumer goods are way up and the houses have plummeted, and the economists can go on and on and babble about it to aggravate the frustrated consumer even more and plunge them further into panic and depression.
On the other hand, companies like Exxon and Chevron have record profit for this quarter in the history of US or any other place, now how they justify their profits while millions of people are suffering from high prices, is another story for another day, but GM, one of the biggest American companies has lost so much profit that it is record as well. Many banks who were making record profits years ago, are now going out of the game one by one.
But am I the only one who sees the trend here? Gas companies have more profits, car companies less. Food goes up and houses come down. Euro is up and US$ down. And on goes the list. The way I see it, things are always, always, in balance. One has to loose so the other one gain and that is the rule of the world, and that is what exactly is happening now a days. One loses a Dollar and the other one finds it. It is not fair, I know, especially when middle class is on the loser side and upper class on the profitable side, but this is how the world works.
Until the day that we respect and value money over our humanity and ethics, then this is how it is going to be. Until we do not use our brain to find the catch 22 in every too good to be true situation, then this is how it is going to be. Until we do not learn to live within our means, nothing improves. There are vultures out there that justify inhuman business profit by any means they can and we let them. Until then things remain the same. Other than that, whatever goes up must come down and that is how it is.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Thursday, August 07, 2008
What About Paternal Instinct?
We women are suckers, and I am not kidding you. We bring many things on ourselves and blame it on our nurturing maternal instincts. Bologna.
The other day, three of us went to a local sandwich shop to pick up a preordered lunch order from a local deli. It was two colleagues, a man, Dave, and a woman, Gabs, and I. The order was packed in six shopping bags with two small trays of drink, and in my head I do the math that each one takes two bags and two of us a tray of drink and we will be good. So, I grab my two bags and a tray of drink and head toward the office without looking back. When I got to the last traffic light waiting for it to turn to green for pedestrians, I look back and I see Gabs carrying four bags and Dave just carrying a tray of drinks. At that very moment something snapped in me! I placed the tray of drinks that I was carrying on his tray and I said “it seems that you can carry this.” I was so mad that I could feel my blood pressure rising in my head.
Ok, the story gets better or worse depends on your perspective. When we get to the building and as we are waiting for the elevator, another colleague woman approaches and says, “Hey Dave, let me help you, it seems that you have a lot to carry!!” and she took the two trays away from him.
We got upstairs and arranged everything and I went straight to the other woman’s office and asked her angrily if she saw Gabs with four bags, and she said yes, and I asked her why did she help Dave and not Gabs? She thought for a while and said that she honestly did not know! Even she was surprised by her answer!
What is it with us? Why did Gabs take four bags and did not let Dave grab two? In this particular case I do know the answer; she was sucking up to Dave, because Dave is her boss!! Why did the other woman help Dave and not Gabs? I don’t know, even she does not know. And the million dollar question, why did Dave sat back and let all these women take care of things and why didn’t he man up to contribute at least a little bit? And it gets better, because at the end he took all the credit.
Honestly, the way I see it, it is our entire fault for the way that we pamper these men as mothers, wives, sisters and daughters. We find them a victim of I do not know why, and they accept it, because life is easier for them not that they find themselves victims. They can’t care less what we think as far as life is smooth and comfy.
I still get mad when I talk about this, but Dave can not come for help to me anymore, because every time he comes, my answer is a dumb smile and “I don’t know” or “I can’t.” He should be on someone else’s BRAT list, because God knows I have my own.
The other day, three of us went to a local sandwich shop to pick up a preordered lunch order from a local deli. It was two colleagues, a man, Dave, and a woman, Gabs, and I. The order was packed in six shopping bags with two small trays of drink, and in my head I do the math that each one takes two bags and two of us a tray of drink and we will be good. So, I grab my two bags and a tray of drink and head toward the office without looking back. When I got to the last traffic light waiting for it to turn to green for pedestrians, I look back and I see Gabs carrying four bags and Dave just carrying a tray of drinks. At that very moment something snapped in me! I placed the tray of drinks that I was carrying on his tray and I said “it seems that you can carry this.” I was so mad that I could feel my blood pressure rising in my head.
Ok, the story gets better or worse depends on your perspective. When we get to the building and as we are waiting for the elevator, another colleague woman approaches and says, “Hey Dave, let me help you, it seems that you have a lot to carry!!” and she took the two trays away from him.
We got upstairs and arranged everything and I went straight to the other woman’s office and asked her angrily if she saw Gabs with four bags, and she said yes, and I asked her why did she help Dave and not Gabs? She thought for a while and said that she honestly did not know! Even she was surprised by her answer!
What is it with us? Why did Gabs take four bags and did not let Dave grab two? In this particular case I do know the answer; she was sucking up to Dave, because Dave is her boss!! Why did the other woman help Dave and not Gabs? I don’t know, even she does not know. And the million dollar question, why did Dave sat back and let all these women take care of things and why didn’t he man up to contribute at least a little bit? And it gets better, because at the end he took all the credit.
Honestly, the way I see it, it is our entire fault for the way that we pamper these men as mothers, wives, sisters and daughters. We find them a victim of I do not know why, and they accept it, because life is easier for them not that they find themselves victims. They can’t care less what we think as far as life is smooth and comfy.
I still get mad when I talk about this, but Dave can not come for help to me anymore, because every time he comes, my answer is a dumb smile and “I don’t know” or “I can’t.” He should be on someone else’s BRAT list, because God knows I have my own.
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