The Sun has set, The Beach is gone and life goes on...

The sun has set, the beach is gone and life goes on but at least we can look forward to next year. Sorry that I got lazy and did not update my blog for a full month. I have no excuse.

For those of you that might be interested in the inner workings of The Post and Courier newspaper, there was some startling news this past week. All eligible employees were offered early retirement packages. This has come on the heels of the elimination of their customer service department (roughly 20 part-time employees).

When I retired my position was not re-filled. They eradicated the two Zone Managers in charge of single copy distribution (store and rack sales) and outsourced the customer service functions to a call center located in Colorado. Yeah, that's right, Colorado. Like some guy in Colorado is going to understand why it is so important that a little old lady is so interested in the Bridal section of the Sunday paper and she can't find it. "Well let me just pick up the paper and see if I can help you find it." Hah! Whoops, he's in Colorado and has no copy of the paper. "Sorry ma'am but I will have the local distributor call you or you can call him." And all this after the poor old dear went through an interminable number of "if you want this then push 1 or if you want that then push 2..." Maybe now she just feels like, "hey buddy, I ain't gonna push anything, why don't you just shove it in whichever aperture of your body you choose. Go ahead you pick the number!"

With all this brilliant downsizing that the "Indianapolis wunderkind", (Stevie Wunderlander, the "Director of Circulatory Re-programming and Diversion") has dreamt up, the landscape and the faces at the old newsrag have drastically changed. The rationale is that expenses have gotten out of hand due to the drastic rises in prices of ink, newsprint and plastic bags; all of which contain petroleum products in their manufacture and production. Well, that's okay because that just makes "W" and the oil boys a little richer now doesn't it? Of course the line at the old newsrag is still, "vote Republican because we create jobs and we'll take care of you." Jeez-a-ree!! The blind leading the blind!!

So, why don't we have a "Summer gas tax holiday"? And that will solve the problem!!!? We have downsized our businesses, we have outsourced our economy and jobs to southeast Asia, we are trillions of dollars in debt and we are going to take a "holiday" from gas taxes. Sounds to me that "Stevie Wunderlander's (the wunderkind of Indianapolis)" evil twin is running the country.

Perhaps the sun has set on the good old US of A? It sure is setting on the old newsrag here in Charleston. Somewhere in the depths of the old "Past and Cruddier" there is a lone remaining Zone manager in the Circulation Department singing sadly to herself, "All by myself, don't wanna be, all by myself anymore..." Asta la vista baby!! That's it for the day, I am out of here!