Well, last time I posted was quite a while ago, wasn’t it? On November 19th, I said that I lost my cushy overnight gig and was stuck doing 3-11. Here’s the full story behind that. On Thursday, June 12th, there was an electrical fire at my work. It damaged the roof and wiped out the power. Over the next couple of weeks, the power and cable were both turned off in the building as well. My job was literally to sit on my ass from 11PM to 7AM five nights a week and tell anybody who might come by that we’re closed. For five months I did this, which I didn’t mind, because there was nobody coming by that late at night, so my job was essentially to go into the building and get a good night’s sleep. On November 19th, my manager asked me if it I’d be ok working 3PM - 11PM instead of my overnights, to which I reluctantly agreed. I absolutely hated it. Every single day I went in there I couldn’t stand it. I finally managed to get my supervisor, who was moved down to the owners’ other property, to switch with me so that I’d work down at the other property and he’d work where I’d been working. Finally, they laid somebody off at the other property, giving me her hours, and closed the property where I was originally working. So I worked all kinds of different shifts at the other property for a few weeks until it closed from a lack of business.
What does all this have to do with George W. Bush? I worked in the hospitality industry, being the Senior Night Auditor of a Niagara Falls hotel for the last three years, being a desk clerk for three years before that. Until this recession, I’d never seen either of the two properties do zero business in my six years with the company. People have less money these days, and as such, they aren’t traveling as much, which means that hotels aren’t doing as much business as they were. Even airlines haven’t been immune to the effects of the economy, with several cancelling massive numbers of flights. Why? Well, for one, we’re in a country that we had no beef with prior to our invasion of them, spending thusfar in excess of $583 Billion in Iraq. Note to the President - the guy you’re looking for is in AFGHANISTAN, not IRAQ.
Look, in the eight years between Bush Presidencies, we had no war, no major terrorist attacks, and no major economic problems. In fact, Bill Clinton left us with a large budget surplus and a low unemployment rate. Now, we have the complete opposite. I make no secret about it - I’ve absolutely despised Bush since the first few months after September 11th, and now that I’m a victim of his horrible management of the country, I hate him even more. I’m counting down the days to Barack Obama’s Presidency. We’ll finally have an educated President with some fucking common sense.
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