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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 11/19/2008 : 03:34:25
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I do not like to see people lose their jobs, especally in this economy. It is a sign that the company is having problems and there might well be more layoffs to come. But in this case, I can, in good conscience, hope it happens. UPDATE: Focus on the Family announced this afternoon that 202 jobs will be cut companywide — an estimated 20 percent of its workforce. Initial reports bring the total number of remaining employees to around 950.
Focus on the Family is poised to announce major layoffs to its Colorado Springs-based ministry and media empire today. The cutbacks come just weeks after the group pumped more than half a million dollars into the successful effort to pass a gay-marriage ban in California.
Critics are holding up the layoffs, which come just two months after the organization's last round of dismissals, as a sad commentary on the true priorities of the ministry.
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Imagine that. They can afford to blow a half mil on supressing others whilst having economic problems of their own. They are willing to spend big bucks uselessly but tell their employees to piss off.
I hope those employees find themselves better gigs with more honorable companies, and would love to enjoy a little shadenfreude watching Dobson reduced to standing on a street corner somewhere holding up a "GOD HATES FAGS" sign.
Edited to add: And that ain't all!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Edited by - filthy on 11/19/2008 04:24:23
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
Posted - 11/19/2008 : 04:58:22 [Permalink]
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| Karma is a bitch, ain't it? |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
 Posted - 11/19/2008 : 07:56:44 [Permalink]
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Well, I guess they had to prioritize what families to focus on. Not their families, apparently.
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 11/19/2008 : 12:00:45 [Permalink]
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| Shit Kil; I was going to write just that... ;) |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Anyone up for a little schadenfreude?
