I don’t know how many of my readers have run their own companies or been in charge of running a business or for that matter been in a leadership position where you were responsible for a division within a company or a team of people. In the last 10 years of my career I was the Senior Vice President of a small management company overseeing all operations within the company. We employed a little over 250 people. During those years I would hold management meetings once a month. Over the years I recall accusing the team of managers, always including myself, of becoming too accepting and in other cases, too patient.
The accusation of being too accepting always came about when our customer satisfaction surveys dipped below an acceptable level. Our rating system was simple. It was based on the standard 1 through 10 with 10 being excellent. As far as I was concerned anything below a nine was a red alert. These surveys or comment cards if you will were the benchmark by which we operated the company. The only thing that is worse than a company who doesn’t track customer satisfaction is a company who does track it and then doesn’t care enough to do anything with the information. We cared and we were quick to react. We weren’t perfect, that’s for sure and at times I would become sidetracked only to look up and find we had fallen behind. The longer you wait to correct something the more difficult and costly it becomes to fix. In every case of low customer satisfaction, it came down to management being too accepting of staff performance. It was either, their quality of customer service or their quality of work, the two most obvious key elements in any business, right? Not rocket science by any means. Keeping the rocket in the air however is a whole other challenge.
There is a moral to this story, I promise. I cannot help but to think that we, as a Nation, have been too accepting of our elected officials for too long. Our excuse is the same as the one I gave above in running my company, we’re sidetracked. “Most” Americans are busy with their individual lives, attending to the needs of their families, their jobs, and all that challenges them along the way. Meanwhile, when we get a minute to look up we find a Government that is completely off the rails. Years go by and we find that we’ve accept the seat belt law, we’ve accepted no smoking at the bar, aborting babies at-will becomes okay, we allow the Government to take over our healthcare, men dressing up as women is fine too. We are so accepting that our only push back, if you call it that, is to tell people to do whatever they want just keep it to themselves, not taking into consideration the impact this and so many other things we accept have on society itself. Thousands of fellow Americans are killed each year on the streets of our major cities and for the most part our only push back is to say to ourselves “glad I don’t live in the city.” Our taxes go up and up and we bitch and moan but few do much of anything about it. I am among those of whom I speak. There is no holier-than-thou in me. We’ve become so accepting that we just spent a year+ walking around wearing masks. Companies throughout the country are putting their fingers right in the middle of their employee’s healthcare choices by demanding that they get vaccinated or else! All because they are “accepting” a mandate from a guy who in many folks’ eyes is not even a duly elected President much less a King. The mandate is neither legal nor morally acceptable but here we are.
While the election in Virginia this week was a refreshing change and rightfully so and we all (well, all of us on the right away) celebrate this change, at the same time we watched a replay of the 2020 election and a replay of the California election this year in New Jersey. Once again all counting stopped and then restarted giving the necessary votes to the evil bastard who spent the last two years screwing the good folks of Jersey not to mention what he did to those poor elderly folks in the nursing homes. But again, here we are, accepting it like a bitter pill.
As for the “too patient” side of this week’s blog, the same was true within my company as the accepting story. I would look up to find the level of urgency within the company was nowhere to be found. Our managers were far too patient for my liking. “Did the sidewalk get fixed?” I’d ask, knowing it hadn’t. “No sir, the contractor was delayed on another job.” So we just wait until someone slips and falls and sues us? We spend $600,000 a year employing maintenance people and no one knows how to mix and pour concrete? There’s only one contractor in the whole area? Stop being so damn accepting and so darn patient! Almost without question, no matter the topic, the reason something wasn’t getting done was someone else’s fault and the thing is, I was never looking for whose fault it was. I was looking to get something done. If it wasn’t some vendor’s fault then it was some other internal department’s fault but rarely was it the manager’s fault. Sometimes the amount of finger pointing would make me dizzy. Who cares? Have enough urgency to get the thing fixed.
Well once again, are we not, as a Nation of people, just a bit too patient? I say we are a LOT too patient. How is it even possible that we are in month 11 accepting a complete and total take down of our election process which has produced a fake installed President who everyone can agree doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing, who’s not really in charge and by all accounts is completely destroying the country? Why are we patiently sitting back allowing this fraud to continue? Why hasn’t Arizona’s election been overturned? Why are we still “hoping” justice will be served on all the Russia, Russia, Russia hoaxsters? And why in the hell is our border still open? Why, why, why, because we are a Nation with zero urgency and far too much patience. That’s why.
If you are a sitting Congress person and you are not screaming at the top of your lungs every single day over all that is so wrong in this country then you should be fired and we should be standing outside your office daily until you get up off your lazy, lousy, useless ass and do what is right by the people and our country. If you are not doing this you are a part of the problem and you need to be dealt with. Not tomorrow, today, right now! None of this is okay, none of this can wait. It all has to be tackled and with swiftness and a strong arm. What the FBI has been doing to us is NOT okay. It’s not okay that Americans were left behind in Afghanistan. It’s not okay that our elections are rigged. It’s not okay to mandate people to inject their bodies with anything much less a drug with side effects we still don’t know about. We should not accept these things and a thousand others. Why do we accept killing a baby at birth? Why do we accept these shootings in Chicago every weekend? Why do we accept Congress passing bills they don’t even read? Why do we allow them to pass laws they themselves don’t have to follow? Who made it okay for a lawmaker to lie without consequences?
I could go on and on and right about now I’m guessing you are saying to yourself, “I wish you wouldn’t.” LOL
My point is that we should not continue to sit back and be patient, our lawmakers aren’t going to help us. They are a part of the problem. The courts might, in time but why are we being so patient? What will our country look like by the time these ass-hats actually rule on anything? Besides, what makes you think they’ll rule in our favor and when I say “our” favor I mean in favor of the Nation, the Constitution. Most of these judges might as well be Nasty Nancy Pelosi, or Chuck “dumbass” Schumer or hell, that racist son-of- a … Obama.
Our time to stand up and be heard was yesterday! All hundred million of us better get up off the couch and let our voices be heard because this crap we are experiencing today ain’t going away by itself. God Bless the airline pilots who are taking a stand, and the parents at the school board meetings, the one or two pro sport athletes, the one or two country singers, the one or two congress people but that’s not going to get the job done until We The People stand beside them and pitch a full on, ugly and loud bitch! Seriously friends, are we just going to step aside after all that we’ve been made to endure? Do we need to join forces and say “nope, we’re not paying taxes until OUR Government hears us.” Sounds pretty radical don’t you think? It’s pretty damn scary to even think such a thing, yes? Well, it’s pretty damn scary and radical to have open borders during a pandemic of all things and pretty damn radical to be told what to do by a guy who wasn’t fairly elected or who doesn’t even know he’s alive.
Whew… Y’all might have thought this week’s rant was going to be a bit more positive following the wins we racked up in Virginia this week and don’t get me wrong, that was great. It was wonderful to win again but it’s not enough, not for me. I am not interested in living off the crumbs they decide to throw at me. I want, and I know you do too, our country back, all of it!
Once again, thank you so much for taking the time to let me get this crap off my chest. I wish you all a nice rest of your weekend and week ahead. The good news is, we’ll stay in touch and together, good or bad, we’ll have each other to lean on. #Resist
