Its Not a Color Thing, Its About WHAT You Know.

My mother has always told me that if you're gonna do anything else in
your lifetime, spend it reading. No one will ever judge you by you
reading or what you're reading. This is true.

Reading, gathering information is the key to life, that, and other
things too. To NOT to know can be dangerous. Remember when you were a
kid, and were teased about trying to be a know it all? My mother wanted
her kids to be labeled that. When I was a kid, I enjoyed reading. I
didn't care what it was, any and everything that I could get my hands
on, I wanted to read. Playboy magazine. Most people read, not look at
this mag just for the pictures of naked women. Me, I read the articles.

Yesterday at work, the store manager came to my department and said that
in my department we have to take a half an hour lunch break now. Its
only me and the deli manager that work form 7am, 8am, to 5pm 4pm during
the day time. I listen to what he said, and then gave him a half an hour
to think it over, think about what he just told me. I went back to him
and told him, Im a parttimer, 7 hours a day, why all of a sudden, after
3 years with this company, now, the deli department HAS to take lunch.
He told me its the labor law. I say, so you and the owners have been
breaking the law for 3 years? Ok.2 hours later, he tells me this. Its
not a half an hour, its 20 minutes and its a paid 20 minute break. But,
you have to clock out, then back in after the 20 minutes. I said if its
a paid 20 minutes, why the clocking in and out. He says, that if you go
over 20 minutes, you get charged.at the end of the week, he will adjust
the time so that the 20 minutes we get paid for. I waited again, then
approached him.

I told him what kind of BS is he trying to pull. You already messed up
my time card 3 times in the past. This madness you talking about creates
more work for you, which will cause you to mess up my time card again.
If you do, I'm going to the Union. Later he tells me the owner wants to
speak with me, and we do. I listen to what he said, which was some more
BS, then I said my say. I tell him, that after 3 years, now its against
the labor laws. Twenty minutes later, he tells me not to worry, just
keep doing what you have been doing. He'll, I wasn't worried about
anything.

Information is the key to everything nowadays. If you know something
before the other guy, you stand to make thousands, maybe millions. For
us everyday people, read everything that you are told to sign. Business
owners make millions cause consumers feel that they can't be bother
reading all that mumbo jumbo. Ya better read !!

--michaelchappell