It's a holiday and no one told me about it!

It seems today is National "White Guys in Suits Don't Have to Wash Their Hands After They Use the Bathroom Day!" Yay! The title is only part of the festivities - you also get to pee in urine soup left by your predecessor, hell flushing is now a totally optional activity! Push and pull those doors open with pride! I just can't wait to use tongs to create a salad from the salad bar, or to eat a sandwich with my hands touching the bread! In fact, I'm finding that every time my face has an itch I remember this holiday before I rub my eye!

Unfortunately, it seems the janitorial services, maintenance, and construction staff are not part of the festivities. They are still regulated to the hand-washing activity. Hopefully future generations will celebrate this holiday without the collar-color stratification that I am seeing exhibited here today.

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Read this: http://www.livejournal.com/community/paidmembers/13251.html?style=mine if you wondered about the slow LJ crap. Thanx mpeace

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July 4: I wasn't going to, but it seems I don't have anything else to do but hit 'freaks united' at Nation. I had fun there last year, so I should probably stumble out tonight to grab a ticket. I'm all about my friends, but I'm kinda so-so on live acts in general and the Nation thingy. Eh. I'd stay home but I feel funny when I hear parties outside and I'm doing nothing. I'm self-concious or just odd that way.
Oops - it's only $5 different. No ticket for me - not worth the bother.

I love my job!

They pay me to write stuff like this, and somehow they let me get away with it...

If we do issue this letter, I request that...we also include with the letter a red foam ball with the with a triangle-shaped wedge snipped out of one side. This way, EMPLOYEE can put this device on his nose so all staff and plant personnel can recognize him as a clown at a greater distance.

Your claim that you are protected under your EEO complaint seems to indicate a fundamental flaw in your understanding of the EEO complaint process. You are free from retaliation of any sort for filing an EEO complaint - but the filing of such a complaint does not 'exempt' you from the standards of conduct required of Federal Employees. You are held to the same standard as your peers, regardless of race, sex, religion, or other status. You are not allowed to engage in misconduct just because you have chosen to engage in the EEO complaint process available to you.

I cannot find that you were required to spit as a reaction to a cold. While a sickness produces discomfort, there is a wide range between having phlegm production and being forced to spit it out in public. While I am not a trained physician, I feel confident that it would be a rare prescription indeed that required spitting, and I see no evidence of such a prescription in your case. The claim that your desire to spit out phlegm kept you from being able to work your shift does not appear to be reasonable.