Walk-outs are lame

[chemos]

just got an announcement for everyone to walk out of work if we go to war in the next couple days. i'm against a war with Iraq, but that has to be the dumbest idea i've ever heard. i hope you idiots lose your jobs--you deserve to.

 

[Keego]

it doesn't serve a point. I love how my college had a "books not war" protest, but promoted skipping class... how is that books?

 

[Grey]

Where do you work? If my employees did that there would be some hell to pay.

 

[xirtam]

What announcement? Where do you work?

And yes. Dumb idea.

Wow, the economy's doing well! Let's walk out of work!

 

[datalink7]

Unless you work for the Pentagon, this is a stupid way of protesting. How is harming your company, and yourself, going to protest the war?

 

[isaacmacdonald]

Originally posted by: xirtam
What announcement? Where do you work?

And yes. Dumb idea.

Wow, the economy's doing well! Let's walk out of work!

actually that's not half bad. decrease inventories and increase demand for workers.

 

[chemos]

sorry, this announcement was posted on another board. no one at my work (afaik) would endorse this idea. i work at home doing tech support (phone and email) so "walking out" would be absolutely ridiculous in my situation. in any case, it's a silly idea, and obviously someone didn't bother thinking before proposing it. either that, or they wanted a lame excuse to skip out on work, and want others to follow suit so they don't feel as guilty about it.

 

[Nitemare]

Change the locks?

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Change the locks?

haha, yeah... plain, and simple..

 

[metallibloke]

I thinks its a stupid idea.

Besides, if i agreed with the walkout, it would be just my luck for it to be raining really hard, and i'd forget to put my coat on, and no one would have an umbrella.

 

[FoBoT]

work? what kind of person would suggest that

i can see liberal professors pushing their students to do such non-sense, but what would any particular employer have to do with a war?

 

[chemos]

this is the group calling for the walkout.

 

[Quixfire]

Where were these people when Bill Clinton was sending our troop into combat???

 

[TallBill]

Hehe, im just imagining a doctor in the middle of surgery and looking at his watch. He realizes that its 12:15 and time to walk out

 

[brtspears2]

You just have to respect the desires of some people. If they want to rob themselves, let it be.

 

[Queasy]

I wonder if the first person fired over walking-out will sue claiming 1st Amendment Rights?

 

[Zipp]

this is the group calling for the walkout.

Ooooh...This International Answer


International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) is a front group for the communist Workers World Party. The Workers World Party is, literally, a Stalinist organization. It rose out of a split within the old Socialist Workers Party over the Soviet Union's 1956 invasion of Hungary -- the breakaway Workers World Party was all for the invasion. International ANSWER today unquestioningly supports any despotic regime that lays any claim to socialism, or simply to anti-Americanism. It supported the butchers of Beijing after the slaughter of Tiananmen Square. It supports Saddam Hussein and his Baathist torture-state. It supports the last official Stalinist state, North Korea, in the mass starvation of its citizens. It supported Slobodan Milosevic after the massacre at Srebrenica. It supports the mullahs of Iran, and the narco-gangsters of Colombia and the bus-bombers of Hamas.




Micheal Kelly,Washington Post