Not me. I don't get fired.
This is the time of year that I always remember a good friend of mine that I was stationed with in Thailand.
He had previously been posted to Burma. Labor is really cheap and quite a lot of the embassy/office-of-the-embassy folks have housekeepers. He had told his housekeeper time and again that she was not to use the phone. He never used it, but he didn't want her using it either. On Christmas Day he caught her talking to her family on the phone, so he fired her on the spot.
To lose a job like that in Burma is a pretty significant event. Not only because it's good money, but because those housekeepers rely on good references as they try to stay within the embassy/office-of-the-embassy labor pool.
He'd tell you that she was supposedly a Buddhist, therefore Christmas should be just another ordinary day.
I don't know. Yesterday was the first time I really thought it out and decided that to fire her was probably a bit much.
I'm not much on Christmas and I actually hope to be a Jehovah's Witness by this time next year so I don't have to deal with it anymore, but I'd just as soon not be fired for Christmas.
Whatever. Yawn all you want, but I've never started a thread here before and I decided it's my turn.
This is the time of year that I always remember a good friend of mine that I was stationed with in Thailand.
He had previously been posted to Burma. Labor is really cheap and quite a lot of the embassy/office-of-the-embassy folks have housekeepers. He had told his housekeeper time and again that she was not to use the phone. He never used it, but he didn't want her using it either. On Christmas Day he caught her talking to her family on the phone, so he fired her on the spot.
To lose a job like that in Burma is a pretty significant event. Not only because it's good money, but because those housekeepers rely on good references as they try to stay within the embassy/office-of-the-embassy labor pool.
He'd tell you that she was supposedly a Buddhist, therefore Christmas should be just another ordinary day.
I don't know. Yesterday was the first time I really thought it out and decided that to fire her was probably a bit much.
I'm not much on Christmas and I actually hope to be a Jehovah's Witness by this time next year so I don't have to deal with it anymore, but I'd just as soon not be fired for Christmas.
Whatever. Yawn all you want, but I've never started a thread here before and I decided it's my turn.
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