rant and ravings on my disillusionment of everything ...

Well, I started this, as most can see about a year+ ago and unlike lots of people, it never took. Well, as many new things have occurred in my life, I once again am going to attempt to maintain a blog. Eeek. So, recently I went from a job in Rockville, MD as and Executive Assistant for the Armed Forces Medical Examiner, it was a federal contracting position. I recently move to the Rochester, NY area and now have a job as an Appeals Specialist working on the new Medicare Part D Drug appeals. I work for a private company who independently reviews the decisions of the Plan's on appeal. Now, working with Medicare in some capacity definitely provides me with many possible discussions and criticism. However, there is one thing I would like to discuss first...and that is the workplace. Granted, I am 26 years old and have only been in the workplace for 5 years part time and 4 years full time. I've had miscellaneous jobs from US PIRG, retail, Local government, etc... What I find ironic is that I’ve heard many people complain about how the government is such a bureaucracy and very inefficient. I agree to this statement for the most part. In the government there are so many protections set up for the employee that it would take a long time to say "fire" them if need be. However, I have to mention that the regular government employee is being taken over by contractors who are at will employees who can be fired at any time; so much for job security in the marketplace. Ok, back to what I was saying. True government can be inefficient and inundated with bureaucracy; however, I have yet to be employed by a private corporation where it's any better. Yes, they can fire me at will; some would believe this to be efficient. However, as in my current job, I've found you have to be almost incompetent to be a manger and move up in this world. For example, they have set up a division in which two supervisors exist to oversee 5 people. Tell me, where is the efficiency in that decision. On top of it, one supervisor summarily refused to learn the job of the people they are supposed to be overseeing. In addition, the other, who was a friend to the 1st supervisor and was hired by them, came in trying to write standard operating procedures about the job in which she never took the initiative to learn. Tell me how a person can write operating procedures for job in which they do not know. On top of it all, the majority of employees have very little job security or protection from being fired at any time. It almost begs the question, why should I sweat and put my time, effort or loyalty towards a company, in which they can turn around at any time and fire me. And don’t get me started on the pension issue. I can safely say in my limited experience I have yet to see a positive aspect of corporate America. With the state affairs existing in this world, I believe this is extremely sad. It is just another piece of disillusionment uncovered in my life experience in which is supposed to be my Great, Amazing, county of mine. At moments like this, it is very hard to be proud to be American especially when the world hates us, our government and politicians are continuously breaking the law and/or are inundated by scandal, and our corporations are raping and pillaging the world all in the name of free market and profit. Nevertheless, then I remember what is great about this nation; I can say whatever the damn I want about it, either negative or positive, and I can for the most part make choices about my life without the interference of the government or other peoples beliefs. Wait, aren’t those freedoms that make me proud to be American now under attack by the Christian and Republican Right? Tell me, if you listen to my phone calls, police my bedroom, dictate to me what a family consists of, control my body, force my children to learn “Intelligent Design” as science, create the poor and then cut off any aid to them, preach values and not fund education, healthcare, and force families to have both parents working in order to get by, what am I supposed to be proud of? I can be thankful but not proud to be an American. And I can only pray the fear which has been struck inside me by the threats of limiting my freedoms will only be prevailed over by cooler heads. Well, today is just another day in which my frustrations have come to head. This, hopefully, will be only one of my many rant and ravings on my disillusionment of everything …

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