Never Say " Never "

I've never been a litigious person, though God knows I've been given reason to be, particularly considering the plethora of absolutely absurd lawsuits won every day in this Land of the Free by everyone from: 1) imprisoned murderers who didn't get their meals hot enough to suit them to, 2) drive-through morons who don't have enough active brain matter to realize freshly ordered coffee will very likely be served hot to, 3) some dim-bulb woman who won a ridiculous sum of money when a pop bottle burst open in a store, resulting in her 'suffering from nightmares' that murderous, giant pop bottles were chasing her down grocery aisles. .

But when it comes the to MASSIVE corporation I worked laudably hard and well for... this human meat grinder of an 'employer' is a whole different story. They are so huge and make such vast profits that they've apparently grown accustomed - and now consider it standard protocol - to stomp all over the rights of both the employees in their hire AND the people who pay them so handsomely for "services rendered." After pounding "ethics" into new hires and sending them forth believing their employer to be, wonder of wonders, truly mindful of both the law AND their ethical and moral responsibilities to employees and consumers alike, then, once newbies are thus indoctrinated, they think nothing of requiring employees to break the law or otherwise be penalized/punished for being "out of compliance" with their company 'bible', i.e., their electronic procedural handbook (which, as such, can be changed in the blink of an eye in the event that an employee who abides by it gets sued and/or criminally charged). "Don't worry", concerned employees' supervisors assure us," [insert employer's name here] will cover you" if breaking the law on the employer's behalf lands you in legal no-man's land. Yeah, right... "cover" us with their blanket denial that we were ever told to do what we most certainly were directed and required to do if we wished to remain employees in good standing. And even if they did 'cover us'... we would still have been guilty of violating the law and would have to live with that, despite the fact that our employer demanded that we do so. As David must have thought of Goliath, what chance has the 'little' guy got?

That is just one of many transgressions... several of which are ongoing and happen to be impacting every aspect of my life and well-being at the moment. Having always been a huge subscriber to the "Come, let us reason together" philosophy, I've spent the last 18 months making every concession and co-operating in every possible way - to the point of being walked all over and treated like an ignorant child - in the name of hoped-for mutual respect and decency. My employer, however, could care less. I am one little person amidst throngs of employees, all of whom my employer assumes have been cowed via well-veneered, nevertheless intimidating measures... utilized even as the employer purports itself to be a veritable enlightened rose among corporate thorns. Never has Byron's assertion that "power corrupts, and whole power corrupts wholly" been more apropros. Regardless of how employee-and-consumer-friendly my employer claims to be, its turnover rate is absolutely ungodly - and I've seen uniformed patrol officers summoned on more than one occasion to the scene of "friendly" terminations, voluntary or otherwise, of once dedicated personnel.

Very soon now, my employer seems hell-bent on unknowingly letting a morally, ethically, and legally reprehensible genie of its own making out of the bottle. At this moment, though it's been made very clear to them well in advance and they've been accorded every opportunity to make things right and avoid this travesty, they apparently don't hear the train whistle blaring and could care less that their standing in the locomotive's path. But, regardless of how minuscule and unimportant my employer deems us to be... this time Goliath's downfall will be a lawsuit that will air out many dirty closets in their keep. I could care less if or how much money is awarded to me... which is one of the many areas in which monopolizing, vastly wealthy entities such as the one in question render themselves so crucially vulnerable. When you grow comfortable in the habit of unjustly and with impunity taking everything away from other human beings, and they still come out swinging, it's likely that you left in their possession one very vital thing... a bottom-line position of being wholly in the right and armed with the might of truth. I have all the time in the world, a wellspring of patience, and evidence and truths on many fronts... all on my side. I'm extremely lenient about where I draw lines in the sand... and patient about accidental trespasses. Seems, though, we're well beyond all that now - Goliath is goin' down. Legally.... and with MUCH fanfare.