Odds and ends.
Oct. 27th, 2008 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumFirst the bad news. Tony Hillerman died. I was dreading it, with such dread as one can have for someone who is a removed personality. His mysteries made the Four Corners real to me.
In Memoriam
Shiprock
Then the good news Senator Ted Stevens (Crook, Alaska) was convicted on all counts. The jury seems to have not believed his saying "I paid all the bills they gave me. I assumed it was for everything". We'll see who else goes down.
Lastly, the really good news. Call center workers "strike" rather than read McCain ad
Some three dozen workers at a telemarketing call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the center and one of their parents....
Williams' daughter told her that up to 40 of her co-workers had refused to read the script, and had left the call center after supervisors told them that they would have to either read the call or leave, Williams says. The call center is called Americall, and it's located in Hobart, IN.
"They walked out," Williams says of her daughter and her co-workers, adding that they weren't fired but willingly sacrificed pay rather than read the lines. "They were told [by supervisors], `If you all leave, you're not gonna get paid for the rest of the day."
In Memoriam
Shiprock
Then the good news Senator Ted Stevens (Crook, Alaska) was convicted on all counts. The jury seems to have not believed his saying "I paid all the bills they gave me. I assumed it was for everything". We'll see who else goes down.
Lastly, the really good news. Call center workers "strike" rather than read McCain ad
Some three dozen workers at a telemarketing call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the center and one of their parents....
Williams' daughter told her that up to 40 of her co-workers had refused to read the script, and had left the call center after supervisors told them that they would have to either read the call or leave, Williams says. The call center is called Americall, and it's located in Hobart, IN.
"They walked out," Williams says of her daughter and her co-workers, adding that they weren't fired but willingly sacrificed pay rather than read the lines. "They were told [by supervisors], `If you all leave, you're not gonna get paid for the rest of the day."
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Date: 2008-10-28 08:55 pm (UTC)(And that sounds like he isn't getting nearly as much volunteer support.)
At least it made me stop and think, though. Not *all* Republicans are screaming loonies--I have this weird dichotomy in my head, because most of the ones I meet online are the scary kind, and yet I've got family who put me up for a year and a half who aren't (on the third hand, they do hold scary views, if you take them to the logical conclusion).
Anyway, thanks, call center workers, for adding to my faith in humanity.
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Date: 2008-10-28 09:02 pm (UTC)Pretty soon, I suspect that the loony Republicans will be the only ones left, as the reasonable and conscientious abandon the party to the Palinites and Rovians.