http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/06/work.death/index.html
is a link to the news story regarding the number of France Telecom suicides since the start of 2008...I think the number is 24 currently. Bar the windows, disarm the employees and the bosses (too many of those!), only bike to work and ban all pills and poisons. That ought to do it, at least it'll reduce the skipping out/malingering/striking dead for s while til they find another way to end it all.
Inside a France Telecom Office:
Ringggg! goes a phone...Rinnnnggg! Rinnngnnngg!
Employee: Alo!
the other end: Anyone alive there? Been calling for 2 days!
Employee: Call 0678100100 to complain.
the other end: I WORK for France Telecom!
Employee: Too Bad...next sound "BANG"
the other end: Alo? Anyone there?
Thats NORMAL these days! Who in their right mind would want to work for such a failed
company? My God, why? So many employees and noone capable of doing anything useful...who is hiring these folks anyway...shoot him or them (likely a committee!) as soon as you can find him/her/them. I have watched oh so many times the looks of fear, frustration, disbelief on the faces of both a paying customer AND the employee that I'm used to the comedy by now. So many arguments about bills, service, contracts, missed calls, bad equipment, Orange(!), DSL, Dial-up (yes..these days the still sell it at $20 Euros a month no less!), missed appointments et al. It's a company without a head, the buck...no...Euro stops nowhere! Even the billing doesn't stop after THEY turn you off! Amazing! While at the same time employees AND their management walk the streets in protest to "working conditions". I guess so. So no one is inside doing anything for the poor wo-be-gone customer who needs help. Tough life.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Friday, October 02, 2009
Food, Sex, Music, anything else?
No. That is THE short list of major worldly motivations. Everything else is a distraction. Now back in sunny, warm California, a certain State of Dreams. Mexican food comes to mind. It's everywhere and a favorite. All of it, anything of it, the flavors, textures, subtle and not so. A party, no, a fiesta for the taste buds. I dearly LOVE the stuff. I was simple at it in the beginning, tacos...folded, fried corn tortillas, tomato, ground beef, onion, a cheddar cheese. Simple, too simple actually.
Needs a kick...add some jalapenos minced or a big slice to each steaming folded beauty. More...braise skirt steak for 4-6 hours in typical flavors of cumin, marjoram, onion, garlic, cilanto leaves, lime, tomato. Then slice thinly and use it instead of the benign and boring ground beast. Chicken, grilled after marinating with olive oil, garlic, cilantro and cumin cut thinly as well or chunked or torn. Delicious! Not cheddar...not typical at all...monterey jack or questo, much better. Now we are getting somewhere. A dollop of mexican sour cream. Ohhhh. Fish...or Shrimp, yes, yes, yes! All good. Enchilladas, rolled tortillas, corn of course, around questo or chicken or pulled pork, beef, goat, whatever. A few leaves of cilantro, diced tomato, red onion coverred by a fresh tomotillo (green) sauce. My or my.
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I make it all now after such a humble beginning. Sicilian, California, Mexican fusion. Fabulous food with all the ingredients available at Larry's Produce amidst the vines and olive groves outside of Fairfield. Wow, spoiled I am, no...RUINED! I always thought France was for Foodies...and certainly it is a popular thought, but dear friends...THIS is the Holy Grail of Food! The quality has improved oh so very much in the last 10-15 years with the growith of the Slow Food movement and the extensive list of local farmer's markets. We have food on our collective minds now and we are all better for it.
Needs a kick...add some jalapenos minced or a big slice to each steaming folded beauty. More...braise skirt steak for 4-6 hours in typical flavors of cumin, marjoram, onion, garlic, cilanto leaves, lime, tomato. Then slice thinly and use it instead of the benign and boring ground beast. Chicken, grilled after marinating with olive oil, garlic, cilantro and cumin cut thinly as well or chunked or torn. Delicious! Not cheddar...not typical at all...monterey jack or questo, much better. Now we are getting somewhere. A dollop of mexican sour cream. Ohhhh. Fish...or Shrimp, yes, yes, yes! All good. Enchilladas, rolled tortillas, corn of course, around questo or chicken or pulled pork, beef, goat, whatever. A few leaves of cilantro, diced tomato, red onion coverred by a fresh tomotillo (green) sauce. My or my.
___
I make it all now after such a humble beginning. Sicilian, California, Mexican fusion. Fabulous food with all the ingredients available at Larry's Produce amidst the vines and olive groves outside of Fairfield. Wow, spoiled I am, no...RUINED! I always thought France was for Foodies...and certainly it is a popular thought, but dear friends...THIS is the Holy Grail of Food! The quality has improved oh so very much in the last 10-15 years with the growith of the Slow Food movement and the extensive list of local farmer's markets. We have food on our collective minds now and we are all better for it.
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