sick day

SICK DAY


I’d like to thank the minion that suggested the book “Pitcairn’s Island” by Nordhoff and Hall. This is the kind of book I can sink my paranoid, cynical, socially maladjusted teeth into- a tale of man’s inhumanity towards man when survival is at stake. I’ll be ordering it this week. I just got done reading three books this weekend. You probably don’t want to hear about “Acid Dreams”, a tale of CIA mistreatment in the quest for the mind control and the Hippies good times with acid. But perhaps you would like to know about “Written In Time” and “Far North”. I got the time travel book as it was mentioned by Rawles and I figured, what the heck. The authors were Jerry and Sharon Ahern, who brought you the pulp fiction series “The Survivalist”. It can’t be any worse than that series, right? Well, I guess I got my monies worth since it was a rather long read. But that’s about all I can say for it. It is pretty obvious who wears the testicles in the Ahern house. I was subjected to same old tired FemiNazi crap from the Seventies, how bitches are equal and the only difference is that they can’t pee standing up. Or carry an unconscious man out of a burning building. Or subdue a criminal physically. But let’s not have reality stand in the way of political correctness ( I don’t have a problem with equality, but I do with blindness to differences to the point of danger ). There wasn’t the same tired crap The Survivalist had, describing each gun in nauseating detail ( Studly Yuppie Character pulled out his Super Maximum Semi-Auto pistol custom crafted by Humpin Gun Works in Daytona Beach Florida from his custom worked leather holster made by Two Illegals Holster Works in El Paso Texas and blazed away at the commie bastard, the hollow point 150 grain bullets sending a red mist into the air ). It was still there but in more subdued form. He did go on and on and on about the paradox of time travel which was interesting at first but got really old fast. By the end of the book I was just glad the damn thing was over. Far North was better written, although at times his snobbery was showing. It was a good book, but I would give it failing marks in the post-apocalypse category.

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Okay, it is pretty obvious when you don’t want to show up for work. After an asteroid hits the Atlantic ocean and a tsunami wipes out half the US population. Chances are good that things will pretty much go down hill after that ( and as much as I would really like to see the entire DC area washed away my kids do live too close to there for me to break out my juju beads and voodoo dolls and get to work making it happen ). When the sun farts out a super flare and fries the entire electrical system. First, you can’t drive to work and second, no lights will be on anyway. And after a nuke has taken out the nearby downtown area. Exposing yourself to deadly radiation might be a bit above your pay grade. It is also pretty obvious when you should go to work. You can’t call the boss and plead for a personal day just because there are riots in the street of Saudi Arabia and you are positive that the oil supply could be disrupted at any time. He won’t buy it, being one of the RoboSheeple that thinks the oil will never run out and we should all be driving to work in a solar paneled powered Prius. The fear of bad things itself is no excuse. However, you can’t just wait for a blinking warning message on the TV to tell you when it is time to hunker down. You have to make that decision yourself and disguise it from others. You need to know when it is time to call in sick from work.

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This is one of those things that has to be decided before it happens. Just like such questions as, who do I take into my fortress and feed? When do I shoot a threat? When should I spend the rent money on last minute preps? You must decide before things fall apart. A rational, well thought out plan is much better than an emotional response based on fear and time pressure. You don’t want to be in the position of jeopardizing your life because of your job, and neither do you want to risk losing your job over premature panic. At my job we get a week of sick days each year. In two and a half years I’ve never taken one. Mostly because I want to be invaluable and pink-slip proof. When I do call in sick, it will be because I think things are quickly going top crap. I don’t want to be stuck pedaling down the road as all the idiots race to Wal-Mart to buy food for an empty cupboard. Nor do I want to leave the wife alone in the Compound if real trouble is brewing. I don’t mind being a bit dishonest in this manner. I would only do it if I honestly thought rioting could break out in the general population. If an obvious disaster happened, one were all could agree that work suddenly dropped down to the bottom of the list in importance, I wouldn’t even call in. Just stay home. But if it was a situation that might stabilize, it isn’t like you have any other choice. The boss might think your life is worth less than minimum wage, but obviously you might think differently.

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Would Saudi Arabia ceasing imports be that bad? Who knows. But the way things are going in the middle east right now, it definitely bears thinking about. Be the perfect employee, it is just more insurance. Against premature layoff and to give yourself an excused absence if needed.

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