What'd He Say?

I have been listening to a lot of Joe Rogan’s Podcast lately. I really enjoy the ones with Duncan Trussel. The conversations they get into are very interesting and reflect some of my views and open up a good deal of discussion between me and one one of my good friends, Vinnie. 

One of the points Duncan brings up more than a couple of times on the podcast is the “game” we play. By game he means the obedience to your boss, and suppression of your self in the workplace. 

This is interesting to me, and as Joe Rogan points out, you don’t want someone yelling cock jokes and talking about all sorts of crazy shit around your wife or your kids, even if you are OK with the jokes themselves. You don’t want your kid to hear about some drunkard 30 year old’s one night stand while he/she are trying to make some cash by pushing cash register buttons at a convenience store. 

That being said I do agree with Duncan. The reason I am bringing this up is because I have a friend who was recently told something interesting by his boss. 

He was told that there had been no complaints about his work, in fact, he does great work. He manages his people well and people in the office like him, they want to move him into a better position eventually and the one thing holding him back was how he dressed.

He works in an office and is allowed to, and regularly, goes in in jeans, sneakers and a polo or button downed shirt un-tucked. Mind you this type of dress is allowed in his office. Mind you this was told to him by a boss that walks around in sandals and jeans etc… (To be fair his boss acknowledged this and told him he just didn’t care because of his position etc..) His boss doesn’t care but the corporate big wigs do.

Two points I want to make. If you want someone to dress a certain way, make it the dress code. Then you can judge them on how they dress. If you are going to allow it to be semi-casual, you can’t discriminate based on how someone dresses. That leads me to me second point. 

Is this not discrimination? If there is no rule in place, is it not discriminatory to tell someone they have excellent work ethic and do a great job, but the only thing holding them back is their personal choice in clothing? I understand these things happen unsaid all the time. His boss was essentially giving him the heads up since he was in the know. Which is something you want in a boss I suppose, but is a company really willing to give a job to someone that is less qualified because they tuck their shirt in? It’s ludicrous, really. And we wonder why companies fail… 

 If we have learned anything, it is that a suit and tie does not make an honest man, look at Wallstreet, but to CEOs and others in corporate America it is a sign you are willing to conform in order to become successful

So Governor Rick Perry does’t believe in these “man made global warming theories”. Which is interesting because he held a prayer rally. And to my knowledge there is no actual proof of God. I don’t get how religious people can say these things with straight faces, I really don’t.  

Look you can be religious if you want. I would prefer if you weren’t and just lived life by your own means and realized you didn’t need a God to tell you to be moral or explain life’s happenings. If you need it, if it helps you cope, great. You can’t look at me dead in the face and say something like Rick Perry said after calling a Prayer Meeting (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/us/politics/07prayer.html).

You don’t believe in global warming because it is a theory and hasn’t been proven? The existence of God isn’t even a theory, it is a belief, it has no REAL proof. You rely on faith that it is there. The bible has been translated and re-written more than a handful of times that is completely convoluted, and nobody has found one of God’s hairs, fossilized flip flops, or any such thing that would lead me to believe that he/she/it  actually exists.

You can tell me you have spoke to God yourself so you know. You know who else God has supposedly talked to (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/god-told-me-to-kill-boys-says-mother-558706.html) this woman who stoned two of her children to death, in Texas, yet you will probably tell me she is crazy, right? I seem to recall God telling someone to kill one of his children in the Bible. Maybe Abraham was just crazy….

Look, Global Warming, whatever the cause, exists. Factually, the Earth is getting warmer. Why it is getting warmer could be a number of things. It could be part us, part natural warming. It could be all us. I don’t know, but scientists are working on it. So until Rick Perry comes out and says he isn’t sure about this Man Made Religion, because there is no proof, he’s dead to me politically. Not that he wasn’t already.