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By Samantha L. Quigley

American Forces Press Service

May 16, 2008 - The support Chrysler LLC offers its activated military employees is "an investment in freedom," the company's chief executive officer said today. Bob Nardelli, Chrysler's top official, was at the Pentagon today to discuss his company's initiatives with senior defense officials.

The visit comes on the heels of the car maker's official kick off of its "Honoring Those Who Serve" program.

"We're here to talk about basically a three-pronged program," Nardelli said. "What we're trying to promote here is an awareness of the importance of, first of all, creating jobs."

There is nothing better to do for the self-esteem of servicemembers than to create job opportunities, Nardelli said. In working to make that happen, the corporation has reached out to its 3,500 dealers across the country, and all of them are on board, he said.

To support this aspect of the initiative, Chrysler is putting training programs online so when servicemembers are discharged they can already be certified, qualified and aware of opportunities available to them.

The company also offers sound financial support to its employees who are National Guardsmen and reservists.

"We make up any gap in payroll, [and] we continue to support all of their benefits [while they are activated]," Nardelli said. "Beyond that, we also have a transportation program where we offer not only active men and women, but retirees, a substantial reduction in the cost of owning any Chrysler vehicle [and] services."

In addition, Chrysler, working with home-front groups, has sent more than 300,000 care packages to deployed troops and has contributed to the Pentagon Memorial Fund.

"Those are the kinds of things we're actively involved in [to show] our kind of support, our recognition, our appreciation for these brave men and women," Nardelli said. "I think there's no higher calling than to serve their country.

"I don't think we can thank them enough," he added. "I don't think we can honor them enough."

Before departing the Pentagon, Nardelli took in some of the performance by the "Lt. Dan Band." The band, co-founded by actor Gary Sinise, plays mostly for military audiences and was on hand for the 4th Annual America Supports You Salute to Our Military Men and Women.

Nardelli also took time to stop and talk with representatives of 38 home-front groups that attended the event to show their support of troops and share information about their groups' activities.

Chrysler is a corporate supporter of America Supports You, a Defense Department program that connects citizens and companies with servicemembers and their families serving at home and abroad.

By Samantha L. Quigley

American Forces Press Service

April 24, 2007 – The National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve has worked to gain and maintain the support of America's employers for the nation's National Guardsmen and reservists since 1972.  ESGR is a member of America Supports You, a Defense Department program connecting citizens and corporations with members of the military and their families at home and abroad.

"ESGR was formed (because) the secretary of defense and the president of the United States recognized that we were going to an all-volunteer force ... and that we were going to depend more on the Guard and Reserve," Air Force Reserve Maj. Robert Palmer, the national committee's chief of strategic communications, said. "(They also realized) that there needed to be a DoD organization whose mission was to foster good relations with employers."

ESGR has a three-pronged approach to succeeding at its mission, Palmer said. It conducts outreach activities to familiarize employers with the role and the mission of the reserve components.

The organization also offers informal mediation for employers or employees needing assistance resolving issues pertaining to employees' military service and the 1994 Uniformed Services Employment and Re-employment Rights Act, he said.

"We have volunteers trained in what the law says as well as dispute resolution," Palmer said. "If we can resolve problems quickly and easily for a Guardsman and reservist, that's a value to both the (servicemember) and the employer."

To reward employers who go above and beyond what USERRA requires from an employer in support of military employees, ESGR operates an awards program, he said. "We recognize employers that go above and beyond what the law requires," Palmer said

Each year state ESGR committees can present Above and Beyond Awards and Pro Patria Awards to employers who excel in supporting their military employees. At the national level, employee-nominated employers can earn Patriot Awards.

"Our highest honor ... is the Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award," Palmer said. "Up to 15 employers are recognized each year with the Freedom Award."

Award recipients are categorized as large private employers, small private employers, and public-sector employers, he said. Some notable Freedom Award recipients include American Express, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Harley Davidson, Wachovia Bank.

"Harley Davidson always resonates with the military crowd," Palmer added.

Supporting the military certainly resonates with the American public, but occasionally Palmer said he receives offers to support troops that ESGR can't make use of. That's when the organization's America Supports You membership and the networking opportunities it provides, comes into play.

"If someone contacts me and we're unable to use their help, I know that I can turn to America Supports You (to) plug them in," Palmer said.

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I don't mean the people that use drugs... hell, some of them are better off on them.  I am tired of working endlessly for my employer, and getting no credit for what I am doing, and then finding out that the superviser is talking behind my back fearing that I am incompetent.  Unfortunately, I am doing the job of two people....yeah...even the supervisor acknoweledges this, yet, I guess I just suck.  Well fuck em.  I can be a slacker as good as the next guy... its kinda like that boyfriend that says he cheated because you accused him of it anyway...well, it makes a sick sort of sense to me now.... heh... You know, if you are going to talk shit and say that I am not doing my job, I can show you what not doing my job is.... hmmmm, yeah, I might just do thatl.

I hate office politcs.

Yes, Peeing for the Man is something we all have to do eventually.  Thanks to the torkers, crankers, shooters, boozers, drinkers and whatever the else they are fucking called; many of us have to now take pre employement drug tests, random drug tests and/or yearly drug tests for our jobs.

I for one am one of the few that do NOT mind having to take the drug test.  Simply because of my husband's occupation.  He is a maintance worker at a packing plant.  Janitor many of you are thinking.  Sorry folks in a packing plant maintance folks are actually the skilled and higher paid employees.  My husband holds a Federal Journeymen's License in Electronics, an electrician, a mechanic, a trained first responder/emt and a supervisor who pushes paper work all in one shot.  The engines they work on can range from 10 lbs up to a thousand plus.  The wiring they work on is anything as a house might be to as complicated as wiring a whole panel of switches and wires that run anywhere from a dozen machines to the whole complex.  The electronics they work on look simple and most comp geeks would turn around and end up killing themselves with one misprograming of  a control.  I for one do NOT want a druggy or an alchie working anywhere near my husband.  Because SAFETY is important to NOT killing not only the maintance workers but the entire population of a plant. 

Many of you, myself included, do happen to wonder why one would have to pee for a clerk job, a cashier job, a bank teller job, food job, and the such.  Well simply put......if one is fucked up with drugs or booze......seriously folks your mind is fuckered be the reason and you do stupid shit like steal money or items, spit in someone's food, or server a food item that someone told you NOT to give them and you do and you kill them because they are allergic.  The list is actually quite endless as to the reasons.  As a teenager I got pist off as hell when I got my first real job as a supervisor/clerk at a small grocery store.  Why the hell did I have to have a pee test when I don't do fucking drugs?  As an adult I figured out the reason, just because someone says they aren't on drugs doesn't mean they are.  And it is safer just to test everyone then put your trust in someone who is lying.  And after my husband had to respond to one of his own crew when he was getting ready to come home one night.............I am a strong supporter of the pee test.  The dude was a drunk......hubby and his boss kept turning him in for drinking before, on and after hte job.  The dude had lots of DUI's and everytime my hubby got him out of the plant in NE, the union got him back on.  Then one day the guy was drunk off his ass..........and he didn't use his head.........and forgot his electrical gloves (the industrial rubber thingys-electricians will know what I am talking about) and granted he was only working on a voltage that normally wouldn't have killed anyway....he didn't even have the normal electrical gloves on and he got a volt of electricity through him and it killed him.  If it was a higher voltage he could have killed the employees in the general vicinity becuase even a small voltage caused a fire to break out in a panel room.  As it was my husband had to do cpr on the dude and when he turned over the dude to the paramedics he had to go help with the smoke inhalation folks. 

I wasn't to happy to have to go Pee for the Man today simply because I got a barely speaking English Asian lady as a lab tech and the woman couldn't do her job.  A pee test should take no more then 10 minutes tops.....evne if you can't pee!  Drink a few glasses of water fast and turn the faucet on!  The woman didn't understand what I was talkign about listing my medications so I wouldn't get dinged and refused too!  Then she wanted the whole dayum cup filled.  You know how many pee tests I have taken in my life time for various medical reasons and for employeement?  Not to mention I am the daughter of a Clinic/ER nurse!  You only need about less then half to fill the plastic wide vials to send off!  I knew I dind't have enough urine in me to fill the whole cup but she wanted a full cup!  I told her this and said okay.....and dropped me off in a waiting room with 1 small lil cup of water and said wait.  The bitch left me in the room for 20 mother fucking minutes while she dinked around in the room across from me.  I say dinked because I could see her fucking ass.  She was snacking on food, drinking a soda, and reading a mother fucking magazine.    Needless to say Niassa lost her temper.  And my sugars were out of wack all weekend for some reason and I was irritable as hell about having to make an extra stop for hubby to fill his truck up already.  So when I saw what she was doing and she told me to sit down and wait after the first time I told her I was ready and she blew me off I went the fuck off on her lazy dinky ass! 

Told her if she couldn't do her job then get the fuck out of the medical feild.  Better yet if she doesn't have enough to do in a doctor's office with a waiting room full of ppl out there then get her ass to a hospital.  And next time she blows someone off so she can fucking eat and drink a soda while reading a magazing  she better dayum well hope it isn't me again.  Not to mention she best learn to speak english clearly enough to understand what the hell someone is saying because if she fucks me over because she didn't list my medications I would have her sorry ass job not to mention her license.  Needless to say the Nurse Manager of the Office heard me going off and came and finished the test for me all the while apologizing.  I dont' know what was said to the lady but I know the Nurse Manager wasn't happy that I ended up going the hell off and being kept waiting while she read a dayum magazine sipping on a soda stuffing her fucking mouth.  I finally got out of the doctor's office at 10:30.  I got into the lab at 9:30 because I got to the office at 9:15!

I dropped off the employer sheet to the job site and told the manager what happened.  She took down a list of my medications to be on the safe side so she could let the corp health office know jsut in case the Nurse Manager fuckered up also.  And she is also going to suggest they use a different doctor's office to start doing the pee tests! 

On top of peeing for the man I might suggest that companies start testing for stupidity!:D

Okay this was an odd post I know.  I got to talking about why pee test were important and all that crap and ended up in a rant.  But you all will get over it:P

I woke up with a start at 11:11 pm...dammit.  Now while some people would make a wish, beings the numerals matched...the only thing I wished was that I didn't have to go to work.  Oh shit...I AM LATE FOR WORK.  I immediately jumped out of bed, started hopping on one leg as my jeans were struggling to pull up my legs.  I would not be bothering with the required work uniform of scrubs and a mercy tee tonight.  Hell, I am already late...at this point it doesn't really matter anymore, just as long as I show.  I hear the scream from my cell phone...literally.  That is what my ringtone is...a womans' bloodcurdling scream...just in time for the season of Halloween.  I run to the phone, and say..."this is Nichole"..."I know I am late...I overslept...I am on my way...".  Fabulous.  I finished dressing and ran out of the bathroom from quickly brushing my hair.  I looked at Robert and said, what happened to my alarm.  He looked at me kind of stupidly and said," I forgot and reset it for the morning".  I was running through the apartment saying "shit", over and over, trying to find everything I would need.  I ran out of the door, and told Rob to lock up.  I sped to work, and was clocking in at aproximately 11:31 pm... 20 minutes to work from crawling out of bed.  Not bad.  I can only hope that my boss doesn't feel the need to write me up for this.  SHIT. 

I came in...my coworker is here by herself, the 3-11 staff had no problem leaving her in a 5 floor facility alone.  I am beginning to wonder about the people I work with.  *shakes head*  I don't know anymore.  I know that I would have NEVER left a co-worker alone in a facility this big...

Anyway, that is my moment of rushing for the day.

I need to actually accomplish something now...beings I was late for work and all...Have a good night everbody.

nic