Saturday 3 November 2007

Being Controlled

After watching a show on tv yesterday with people calling in with their comments on many topics it all came to light that we are being controlled as a nation by the powers of politician, MP's and managers of companies.
They employ people who constantly need to justify their existence and come up with ideas that are supposed to make all out lives better.
For instance, the show wanted to know if the UK was still a Christian nation or should we change things to help other intergrate into our society.
Apparently 99.99% of Muslims are not offended by Christmas so who decided we should change things within our schools to adapt to Muslim children.
Our story of Mary and Joseph ( i played Joseph in junior school) should not be killed off,i would love to know who is accountable for these decisions as they never come to light do they??
I work for a large UK based airline and we see the same controlling behaviour, individuals have made decisions that have cost the airline millions of pounds and it has been a bad decision but they either crawl under a stone and keep their heads down or disappear from the airline with a two million pound handshake.
If we take a free passenger paper priced at 40p and get caught with it we are sacked for stealing,where is the justice in all this.
Our pension fund has a massive hole in it in the Billions of pounds but the company seem to be able to buy new aircraft worth a fortune and never think of the staff who will be surviving on a pittance when they retire.
CEO's come and go as they are not really attracted to the job for passionate reasons, they are attracted by the great salary, the bonuses, and after two years a few million in the bank, free first class travel and a guaranteed million pound pension and the wonder why moral is low in cabin services and the crews who see this on a daily basis and work tirelessly for the the benefit of our customers and try to promote our company and make it profitable, but we never see the profits.
My only wish is to have a huge win on the lottery so i can retire and have a life, win a substantial amount on the premium bonds so i can pay off the mortgage and not have to worry about that.
The mortgage is another story, we bought this property in 1997 and it was a 3 way mortgage with a good friend, he waited 3 years for house prices to sore and then left, we owed him one third of the equity of the house which at the time he got £30,000, ( borrowed from parents and now all paid back) and if it was now we would owe him about £70,000.
We all had seperate endowment mortgages worth £36,666 each so our mortgage is £110,000 so we are £36,666 short when endowment matures minimum, they are not doing so well so we are short on our own policies as well as his which he took with him when hge left along with his £30,000 cash.
To sum up, we need to sell and move before 2017 as otherwise we will have to pay all the above, if we sell and take the equity to buy a new place with a smaller mortgage maybe back up north to our homeland we would be better off, no mortgage, a bit on the bank and a better quality of life.
Airlines managers and other managers should read this and realise how lucky you are in your leafy surburban mansions with a few cars on the drive and millions in the bank!!!!!!
I would really consider myself as a controlling person when i come to think about it, as a small child i would do any chore if i decided myself to do it, if i was told to do it i would not do it.
I was the same when i was looking for a job, my parents would say, " should you not be out looking for a job" as i was about to go out and do exactly that so i would say " not today" and stay in. If they had said nothing i would have gone but i would NOT be told.
As i have matured i try and anticipate what people will ask and expect of me and just do it before they tell me then i am ok. I suppose sometimes i forget and get irritated by them when they remind me i need to do something.
I do not go into an immature strop but become angry with myself by allowing myself to be told to do something when i should have done it without being asked.
WOW i confused myself with that one!!!!

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