Howdy y'all.
I've been temping at this great little insurance company in downtown Honolulu for about a week and a half now. It's really been a nice experience so far. My boss is very sweet, and the people in the office are nice to me and helpful.
However, today there was a little snafu to all the pleasantries. There's a flat screen tv behind me so that people waiting in the reception area have something to stare at. We keep it on mute and on a news station. Or so I thought until today. It turns out that we only keep it on Fox News because all the big wigs in the company are conservative Republicans who can't handle even the idea of non "fair and balanced" news being spread throughout the office, even if you can't hear it.
This all began Friday afternoon when someone turned on the University of Hawaii game. When I returned to work on Monday, the sports channel was still on, so I turned the sound off and scrolled through the channels, stopping on the first all news channel I came to. It happened to be the apparently uber offensive CNN. No one even noticed that there was a different non "fair and balanced" news channel on until our IT guy was loafing around and putting off doing any work by hanging out at my desk and watching tv. It took him about 5 minutes to even notice that the channel wasn't FOX. And then he got all huffy. And, I think a little scared that he might be influenced even the slightest to not hate gays, minorities, and poor people. And the kicker is that Larry King Live was on. Who gives a shit about Larry King? I mean, seriously. Is a 150 year old, suspenders-wearing Mormon really so threatening? He was interviewing some televangelist from Houston. Shouldn't that put his "conservatively compassionate" - I mean "compassionately...." oh, who am I kidding, I had it right the first time - hackles at ease?
Wrapping this up, I didn't get in trouble, and my boss even laughed as I pretty much made fun of this guy to his face about being so upset over Larry King. I just think it's funny that I've come so far west to land in a red state...or at least a red office building.
-Nothing Special
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Dear the writer,
I'm not allowed to surf the web at all. Even when the phone isn't ringing, there's no one in the office, and there's absolutely, positively no busy work from any department for me to do. Needless to say, my thumbs are very strong from all the twiddling I do.
-NS
It's not Larry King I fear...but that Nancy Grace lady...she's just mean.
I fear the Coultergiest. For reals.
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