Sunday, July 16, 2006
We at Hazleton Pravda have been completely unanimous in thinking it better that we just NOT bothered about the recent circus events going on in *trumpets please* The Greater Hazleton Area and how amazingly stupid THE REST of the country must be to be paying attention to Mayor Lou much less putting him on TV, and that goes for WYLN too, but at least they have the excuse that there is nothing REAL to report in Hazleton because all the corruption and backdoor dealings of the powers that be seem to get passed over and missed somehow. However, it seems we must finally say something about this ridiculous situation.
GROUNDBREAKING
More like FOOT STABBING as in stabbing one’s self in the foot. This is only alienating the Latino/Hispanic people for no real good reason, because not only is this new measure only going to hurt the little people ONCE AGAIN and distance ethnic groups even more, but do you really think any of this will be really enforced? Do you really think THIS will stop the crime and the drugs? No! Not by a long shot. This is just another attempt to step up the ladder for the mayor, Il Zilcho. His touting about how many positive e-mails he’s received is complete nonsense. Ask the people on the street. The average joe thinks this is all just a ludicrous show, a joke taken too far, and something that really won’t solve any problems just make more INCLUDING INVASION OF PRIVACY. And we have received word that all of the speakers on both sides of this were ‘selected’ if you get our meaning, just to make it more interesting for the news. As the one lady, a Latino representative pointed out in a interview on TV, it’s the criminals NOT the illegal aliens that are causing the troubles. Although we here at HP do feel the illegal aliens shouldn’t be here either and should be sent packing because they are taking our jobs, most of them are hardworking average people running store shops or slaving in the LAND OF CANT DO. Sure there is a drug problem and crime, but blame CANT DO. They put up all the posters in the metropolitan cities saying ‘COME TO HAZLETON—ENJOY! ENJOY OUR SLAVERY!’ You must admit the influx of Hispanics has invigorated this dump’s economy. Where there were vacant shop windows for so many decades there are now thriving shops offering variety and AN OPTION TO GIANT COMPANIES LIKE WALMART AND THE LIKE. And once again it is Hazleton’s growing pains. You can’t bring the inner-city to Hazleton and have them sit down and bark like the lapdogs WE have all been trained to be. People in the REAL world don’t like being Hazleton drones. Why? Because it sucks. Think people. And let’s try to—dare I say it?—get along! Let’s not draw lines between people we—or rather the powers that be—invited here just so Mayor Lou can get on national television and tell the world all the things he’s pretending he’s gonna do. This all has nothing to do with the real problems of Hazleton. THEY all live in glass houses evidently. Besides, now that we are OFFICIALLY A FACIST STATE, shouldn’t the official language be hazleton diego?
And as far as Lou Barletta being called a racist, well let’s clear this up right now. MAYOR LOU IS NO RACIST—JUST AS LONG AS YOU ARE ITALIAN! Hey! Yo! Stugats. Yous OK den!
HERE ARE SOME OF THE NATIONAL MEDIA CIRCUS ARTICLES with the smiling Il Zilcho!
Pennsylvania Town Enacts Strict Illegal Immigration Ordinance
Dobbs: Bush, Senate 'lackeys' reach new low
Lowe’s blows!
I heard it from at least a half dozen people when I told them I had an interview. I heard it from at least two dozen people since I took the overworked underpaid job I was offered. However I have yet to experience it for myself. “Lowe’s is a great company to work for”, “They pay really well”, and “The benefits are great” are some of the misinformation that was pumped into my head. In all reality, (keeping in mind this is coming from someone who has had around 20 different jobs to date) I calculated this is the third worst job I have ever had.
Let me start by saying the pay is horrific. The work is backbreaking, and they expect you to be nice to fucking 5,000 people every day on top of this shit.
They do not hire full-time, although you work full-time hours. This is just another way for the Lowe’s juggernaut to fuck you out of one of the most basic elements of someone seeking gainful employment – benefits. You are “part-time” for several months and then if you bust your nuts long enough and hard enough, you are then considered for full-time, provided a full-time position has opened up, at which time 90 days after that you are eligible for benefits.
You are told when you are hired you get a break every two hours, until you get out on the floor. “We don’t take breaks here, not unless you really need one”, is what I was told by my boss.
The schedule makes it impossible to have any other aspect to your life, including a part-time job, which everyone who works there does need. You can be expected to start as early as 6 am or get out as late as 11 pm (provided there is no extra work that needs done). You are mandated to take a one-hour lunch every day (what a great way to keep you in their control for an extra 5 hours a week). You almost never get overtime. You may be asked to stay a few hours here and there, but they will send you home early or tell you to come in late at the end of the week.
The rules, procedures and policies are absolutely eternal. I can honestly say if I was there 20 years I would still have a stack of procedures to learn. It is absolutely endless!
The most recent mind-blowing thing I have seen is how they use this eternal list of procedures and rules to fire people when busy season slows down (after July 4). The management team will sit and watch the dozens of cameras that scan every square inch of the store (does Alcatraz ring a bell?) and wait for someone to make a small mistake, often for a procedure we were never informed about. They are soon after called to the managers’ office and fired on the spot. Nothing like job security, eh?!
I guess my gripe isn’t so much that Lowe’s is a horrible company to work for, it is that the simple-minded Hazletonian way of thinking masks the truth so the people of this area think this is a great place to work. Sure, I can’t do any better at the moment either, but I do not go around bragging about how great this company is. DO NOT fall into the trap of the typical Hazletonian; take a deep breath and see things for what they really are.
Trust me, if you can get a job somewhere else, take it. Lowe’s fucking blows!
Ray Ians
We’d like to thank are newest contributing writer, Ray Ians for that insight into another thing TAINTED by the ways of Hazleton—Gombeggar, Editor
“DON’T GO TO THE HEAD OF THE TABLE—EVER!”—Hazleton axiom? Or CANT DO credo? Check out our FORUM (look to the right) to discuss the matter—Gom
GROUNDBREAKING
More like FOOT STABBING as in stabbing one’s self in the foot. This is only alienating the Latino/Hispanic people for no real good reason, because not only is this new measure only going to hurt the little people ONCE AGAIN and distance ethnic groups even more, but do you really think any of this will be really enforced? Do you really think THIS will stop the crime and the drugs? No! Not by a long shot. This is just another attempt to step up the ladder for the mayor, Il Zilcho. His touting about how many positive e-mails he’s received is complete nonsense. Ask the people on the street. The average joe thinks this is all just a ludicrous show, a joke taken too far, and something that really won’t solve any problems just make more INCLUDING INVASION OF PRIVACY. And we have received word that all of the speakers on both sides of this were ‘selected’ if you get our meaning, just to make it more interesting for the news. As the one lady, a Latino representative pointed out in a interview on TV, it’s the criminals NOT the illegal aliens that are causing the troubles. Although we here at HP do feel the illegal aliens shouldn’t be here either and should be sent packing because they are taking our jobs, most of them are hardworking average people running store shops or slaving in the LAND OF CANT DO. Sure there is a drug problem and crime, but blame CANT DO. They put up all the posters in the metropolitan cities saying ‘COME TO HAZLETON—ENJOY! ENJOY OUR SLAVERY!’ You must admit the influx of Hispanics has invigorated this dump’s economy. Where there were vacant shop windows for so many decades there are now thriving shops offering variety and AN OPTION TO GIANT COMPANIES LIKE WALMART AND THE LIKE. And once again it is Hazleton’s growing pains. You can’t bring the inner-city to Hazleton and have them sit down and bark like the lapdogs WE have all been trained to be. People in the REAL world don’t like being Hazleton drones. Why? Because it sucks. Think people. And let’s try to—dare I say it?—get along! Let’s not draw lines between people we—or rather the powers that be—invited here just so Mayor Lou can get on national television and tell the world all the things he’s pretending he’s gonna do. This all has nothing to do with the real problems of Hazleton. THEY all live in glass houses evidently. Besides, now that we are OFFICIALLY A FACIST STATE, shouldn’t the official language be hazleton diego?
And as far as Lou Barletta being called a racist, well let’s clear this up right now. MAYOR LOU IS NO RACIST—JUST AS LONG AS YOU ARE ITALIAN! Hey! Yo! Stugats. Yous OK den!
HERE ARE SOME OF THE NATIONAL MEDIA CIRCUS ARTICLES with the smiling Il Zilcho!
Pennsylvania Town Enacts Strict Illegal Immigration Ordinance
Dobbs: Bush, Senate 'lackeys' reach new low
Lowe’s blows!
I heard it from at least a half dozen people when I told them I had an interview. I heard it from at least two dozen people since I took the overworked underpaid job I was offered. However I have yet to experience it for myself. “Lowe’s is a great company to work for”, “They pay really well”, and “The benefits are great” are some of the misinformation that was pumped into my head. In all reality, (keeping in mind this is coming from someone who has had around 20 different jobs to date) I calculated this is the third worst job I have ever had.
Let me start by saying the pay is horrific. The work is backbreaking, and they expect you to be nice to fucking 5,000 people every day on top of this shit.
They do not hire full-time, although you work full-time hours. This is just another way for the Lowe’s juggernaut to fuck you out of one of the most basic elements of someone seeking gainful employment – benefits. You are “part-time” for several months and then if you bust your nuts long enough and hard enough, you are then considered for full-time, provided a full-time position has opened up, at which time 90 days after that you are eligible for benefits.
You are told when you are hired you get a break every two hours, until you get out on the floor. “We don’t take breaks here, not unless you really need one”, is what I was told by my boss.
The schedule makes it impossible to have any other aspect to your life, including a part-time job, which everyone who works there does need. You can be expected to start as early as 6 am or get out as late as 11 pm (provided there is no extra work that needs done). You are mandated to take a one-hour lunch every day (what a great way to keep you in their control for an extra 5 hours a week). You almost never get overtime. You may be asked to stay a few hours here and there, but they will send you home early or tell you to come in late at the end of the week.
The rules, procedures and policies are absolutely eternal. I can honestly say if I was there 20 years I would still have a stack of procedures to learn. It is absolutely endless!
The most recent mind-blowing thing I have seen is how they use this eternal list of procedures and rules to fire people when busy season slows down (after July 4). The management team will sit and watch the dozens of cameras that scan every square inch of the store (does Alcatraz ring a bell?) and wait for someone to make a small mistake, often for a procedure we were never informed about. They are soon after called to the managers’ office and fired on the spot. Nothing like job security, eh?!
I guess my gripe isn’t so much that Lowe’s is a horrible company to work for, it is that the simple-minded Hazletonian way of thinking masks the truth so the people of this area think this is a great place to work. Sure, I can’t do any better at the moment either, but I do not go around bragging about how great this company is. DO NOT fall into the trap of the typical Hazletonian; take a deep breath and see things for what they really are.
Trust me, if you can get a job somewhere else, take it. Lowe’s fucking blows!
Ray Ians
We’d like to thank are newest contributing writer, Ray Ians for that insight into another thing TAINTED by the ways of Hazleton—Gombeggar, Editor
“DON’T GO TO THE HEAD OF THE TABLE—EVER!”—Hazleton axiom? Or CANT DO credo? Check out our FORUM (look to the right) to discuss the matter—Gom
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