5-23-07 New Rules

Yep.

Up there in Hooksett, New Hampshire, four employees at tbe town hall were fired for gossiping. This is a news story where I have to scratch my head and ask, "What are we missing, here?" Is there some as yet unrevealed aspect to this story that hasn't been reported? I mean, HUH???

So, the new rules for Hooksett include "no talking about the boss behind his or her back." The concept of "politically correct" has now been carried to a new low. Yes, ideally, we would conduct ourselves in a manner that precluded backstabbing, gossip, and so forth, and the world might be a better place as a result. But the actual enforcement of such is, in actual practice, still truly beyond the reach of our present day social and psychic abilities, at least without looking completely absurd. In keeping with that insistence upon absurdity, however, as now demonstrated by the powers that be in Hooksett, the way to enforce this ridiculous standard is to hire a lawyer to question the suspects and then fire them for what they said they might have gossiped about. At least, that's the way the story is being spun so far.

Other new rules being worked on in Hooksett are "no thinking bad thoughts about the boss," and "no seeing the boss's mistakes." The boss's new clothes, as well, must always be seen the way the boss wants them to be seen.