Insensitivity knows no bounds
October 27, 2005 ~ 5:41 p.m.
I try not to make outrageous assumptions, but, alas, as a man with strong political opinions, I often fall short. I don't quite know what was going through his head, but I am going to nominate Clark Galloway as the most unpatriotic piece of flotsam ever to disgrace the country.
Galloway, Vice President of Benefit Management Administrators Inc., of Caledonia, Michigan, fired the company's receptionist after she saw her husband off to Iraq.
Unbe-fricking-lievable.
Suzette Boler had received time off from the company to be with her husband, a mechanic with the Indiana National Guard, before he left for duty in Iraq on October 16. Although the company asked her to return on Oct. 17, Boler says it was more of a request than an order, and had told her supervisors that she would definitely return on the 18th. On the 17th, quite understandably, Mrs. Boler felt emotionally drained and used what she thought was a legitimate day off.
Instead, that afternoon, she received a phone call telling her to clear her things off her desk and to collect her pink slip.
Galloway coldly sums up the company's attitude to her situation: "We gave her sufficient time to get back to work."
If Boler had not checked with the company beforehand before taking the day off, it would be a bit more easy to comprehend. But, as she said, the implication that she should return on the 17th was an arbitrary one. If anyone's at fault here, it's Galloway for failing to let her know that she definitely had to be there. That would be insensitive, but at least it would have ensured that she kept her job.
The mind truly boggles at the thoughtlessness of the company to fire a woman who just saw her husband off to a war. Galloway says that there were other considerations that lead to his decision to sack her, but failed to decline what they were. But of course ...
One seriously wonders whether Mrs Boler would have received any time off to grieve should her husband be killed.
Clark, have you any relations to George Galloway by any chance?
Baseball comes home to Chicago
I'm not going to deny it, I feel very good for the Chicago White Sox. After more than eight decades of fruitlessness, the South Siders won the ultimate trophy and glory.
This is, of course, a deja�vu-like throwback to last year when the Boston Red Sox won their first championship title in 86 years.
The similarities are there: A 4-0 sweep of their NL competitors (the Astros), and the last out was made on a bouncer to the pitcher (although it was actually the shortstop, Juan Uribe, who threw to first).
And so, as yet another frustrated team can comfortably leave their tortured past behind them, that begs the question: Can the Cubs or Indians be next?
Or, if we are truly backtracking through time to get our World Champions, i.e. 1918, then 1917 becoming history, then the Red Sox are fated to become back-to-back champions for the next two years: The BoSox won in 1916 and 1915!
Baseball has become interesting and worth watching again!
� M.E.M.
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