*How to get a bonus in business:  Work for a company that needs a federal bailout.  How can a company that is begging the American People for money because they need funding to survive, pay anyone a bonus?  Wouldn't a bonus be expected if the company did well or was prospering and not when they are begging for funding?  Maybe the reason the company is in such dire straights is because of the "bonuses" given when they weren't earned.  Just because you lasted another year in the company doesn't make it a requirement to give you a bonus.  If that is the case call it what it is, an automatic cost of living adjustment.

*My company was before congress recently asking for removal of the requirement for a 6 day delivery cycle.  Within 5 hours of Postmaster General Potter's request the wagons began to circle.  There was a proposal to keep the 6 day delivery cycle but privatize the post office.  What a disaster that would be.  In my humble, unsolicited opinion, the union contracts need to be re-negotiated and people need to be let go.  Companies are letting employees go all around the country just to survive.  The post office has to basically have an act of congress to let someone go.  One union has stated that they will fight any layoff situations even though there are no jobs.  We basically pay people to sit and play cards most of the day (not joking here). 

There are a certain number of jobs in a facility and we have what is called excessing for extra employees.  These extra employees are still paid and don't really have a job.  Last week, within 500 miles of Virginia Beach, 1100+ employees were excessed because of declining mail volume and work available.  All areas are in the process of excessing employees.  The only problem is all areas are in the process of excessing employees.  Where are the extra people going to go?  Every area is losing jobs but the employees still get paid, for doing nothing.  I think the unions serve a purpose, certainly, but there needs to be a line drawn because all of us will be out of a job if they privatize the postal service.  The new "owners" won't pay us what we make and I won't do what I do for 30K a year.  It's gonna get bad.

*I certainly hope that no federal, state or local money is being spent on a woman who, by her own choice, has 14 kids and no husband and lives with her mom.  I saw one news article that said humans were not designed for litters.  They also can't afford them.  Who is going to pay for these kids?  The federal government, you and I.  I told Pete that if we have to keep paying for the extra kids then I want one.  A girl so I can dress her up in all the frilly dresses and tiaras.  I need something for my investment.

*I ask people at work, to get them to shut up, why is there braille on the drive up ATM?