September 08, 2002
9/11

From this Yahoo! article found via Jeremy..

Here in New York, corporations are planning to celebrate the second Wednesday in September with an array of gleefully gauche gestures. According to managing consultant Andrea Eisenberg, many companies plan to allow employees to come to work late(perhaps since only employees who arrived before 9 a.m. died in the attacks) and will display the American flag (never mind that many corporations have moved their HQ to Caribbean tax havens). Also look for "a personal statement by the CEO or office head, delivered in person" (hey--they can announce the latest round of layoffs at the same time!). One business "is naming conference rooms after employees who were lost on 9-11."

If it follows anything like I've seen elsewhere nearly a year ago.. the heart-warming letter from the CEO will have a paragraph on how *we* too can help fight terrorists.. How you ask? By being the best employees we can and being productive and selling, selling, selling more of whatever it is we sell!

Let's all be joyous Americans and wave our little flags and light up candles in memory while our freedoms are taken away from us in the name of national security.

Yes, putting up a flag on an SUV while spying on our neighbors who look suspiciously like Arabs is the way to remember the victims.

Cynical much? Not at all..

Posted September 08, 2002 11:30 PM in Random
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On September 8, 2002 11:38 PM Techie2000 added:

Ain't that the truth. I'd say the one constant in America through all these times and years has been capitalism...

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On September 9, 2002 10:08 AM Dan de Isaacs added:

That reminds me, I need to replace the flag sticker on the window of my SUV. It obscures my view of the Pakastani's that live across the street.

:)

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On September 9, 2002 11:21 AM Steve added:

I didn't know that Polish citizens were allowed to have an opinion on this... :-)

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On September 9, 2002 09:12 PM Dan de Isaacs added:

Yeah. The fact that Kasia didn't grow up speaking German means she should be grateful for anything the US wants to do. She owes us that much.*

*I'm of course being sarcastic. :D

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On September 11, 2003 07:33 PM George Jones added:

Kasia must be lauded for her brave protest marches that galvanized the world to stop the massacres of innocent Muslims at the hands of Saddam Hussien.

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