Everybody Run!

Hello most humans and many others,

I used the title, "Everybody Run," because there is a song called, "Everybody Run, The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun." Missy Linda thinks that song and the video for it are funny.

Oh my!! When Missy Linda came home last night, she was as mad as a wet hen! (whatever that is) It seems that yesterday at work, there was a new security policy that each person must read about and indicate that she has read it. It is not hard to know when each person has read it, Missy Linda said, because, to a person, everyone is furious!

Mostly, the new measures are just insulting to the honesty and comradery of the group. The new measures include searching each person's purse, lunch, drinks, and anything else they bring to or take from the store. No one can have her own lock on a locker. Company locks must be used. There are other things, but those give an idea.

Missy Linda feels that if she had been hired while these measures were in place, that would be one matter, but it feels demeaning to have this suddenly be required. She says that she understands that big department stores and other businesses do this, but there are fewer than twenty people working at her fabric store, and no one has given any signs that she is dishonest.

One indication that the workers are honest at this store is that the "shrink" (the unexplained losses that just seem to happen in business) is below the percentage that the corporation has as its goal. Anyway, she says it just feels crappy to work hard for so little pay (with fewer people as time passes,) and then to suddenly feel mistrusted for no reason.

Missy Linda says that if the corporation wants the loyalty of the workers, then it must give them reasons to want to be loyal. It just seems, she feels, that more and more lately, the company is causing dissension and unease.

I say, "Please, Corporation, don't make my life more miserable by making Missy Linda upset!"