Dear Employees:
As the CEO, I have resigned myself to the fact that with President Barrack Obama’s health care bill now law, our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way.
To compensate for these spikes in cost, our prices would have to increase by about 10%. But since we cannot increase our prices right now due to the dismal state of the economy, we will have to lay off sixty of our employees instead.
This has really been bothering me since I believe we are family here and I didn't know how to choose who would have to go.
So, this is what I did. I walked through our parking lots and found sixty 'Obama' bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these folks will be the ones to let go. I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem. They voted for change...... I gave it to them.
I will see the rest of you at the annual company picnic.
THE BOSS
As the CEO, I have resigned myself to the fact that with President Barrack Obama’s health care bill now law, our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way.
To compensate for these spikes in cost, our prices would have to increase by about 10%. But since we cannot increase our prices right now due to the dismal state of the economy, we will have to lay off sixty of our employees instead.
This has really been bothering me since I believe we are family here and I didn't know how to choose who would have to go.
So, this is what I did. I walked through our parking lots and found sixty 'Obama' bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these folks will be the ones to let go. I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem. They voted for change...... I gave it to them.
I will see the rest of you at the annual company picnic.
THE BOSS
Chris, thanks for commenting on my blog. A bit off point but I appreciate the candid expression.
ReplyDeleteThis is what happens when the fearfulness of the right-wing starts blowing up in their face. They are getting paranoid about what they are doing and what they are not doing and before long they will be chasing their political tail. Fake Teabagger? The fake "new" Tea Party is already a joke waiting to happen if the media will ever turn the light on them but as of now it looks like the Tea Party will take care of that themselves. What you have with these poor folks is essentially bunch of disenfranchised vindictive Republicans and country gentry that are ashamed to show their Republican face so they push their tired old and disastous political ideology under another name but in the process already trash their new name.
Are they all Republicans? No. There are a few Democrats, mostly southern and a trickle of independents and thank God most of the independents see through the charade but for the most the tea partiers are just Republicans trying to get away with stupidity. As for Scott Ashjian I'am sure he is most representative of this all too prevalent facist character of the increasingly feverish rabid rightwing. Boy, is the tea party express in for a surprise.
I love the letter.
ReplyDeleteWant to go bumber stickering with me later? I'm thining that we should hit the rightwing cars in the lot.