Casual Dress Friday: The Landlord
If you’re not a regular on funnyordie.com, you’re missing some great bits by Will Ferrell and a host of other comedians. For this weeks Casual Dress Friday, we’re really letting our hair down with the inaugural bit from funnyordie.com. It’s called ‘The Landlord’, I hope it makes you smile. Have a great weekend.
Until next time…
Beware the 007 in your company
Most of us know that when we are at work, any activity we do, whether on a company computer or just on company time is subject to surveillance by our employer. So when I heard about Boeing spying on their employees I figured it was a case of employees surfing inappropriate websites or something to that effect.
But when I read that ‘a Boeing investigator told a Puget Sound-area employee that he was followed off company property to a lunch spot, that investigators had footage of him “coming and going” and that investigators had accessed his personal Gmail account’, to me that seemed a bit too Orwellian.
Racism by any other name…
This landed in my email a short time ago, it’s mind boggling to believe this could still be happening on a college campus in 2007. Below is part of the University of Delaware Office of Residence Life Diversity Facilitation Training manual used just this last August. The full document can be found here.
Excerpts from University of Delaware Office of Residence Life Diversity Facilitation Training Manual:
“A RACIST: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists, because as peoples within the U.S. system, they do not have the power to back up their prejudices, hostilities, or acts of discrimination. (This does not deny the existence of such prejudices, hostilities, acts of rage or discrimination.)” - Page 3
