Note to Protesters: Get a Job, Get a Life and Get Out of Mine

Renee Taylor, Contributing Author: Like a majority of those who read my writings, I am tiring rapidly with the “Occupy Anything” crowds. Although the real agenda has not been outlined coherently, the signs demanding corporations “give” anybody anything - whether it is a job, health care or otherwise - constitute nothing more than a threat of theft. Webster’s Dictionary defines theft as “taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.” If you didn’t earn it, and if you “take” what doesn’t belong to you, it is theft. Hopefully, I use language elementary enough for the protesters to understand.

In the real world, I began a journey into the working sector. Having spent the better part of the past thirteen years as a small business owner, Obamanonics and paying for things like medical bills and the grocery tab for a growing teenage boy, I had a choice – go protest because no one was giving me anything to improve our quality of life, or get a job to assist my husband in maintaining our household and standard of living. From the bottom up, we worked very hard for all we do have.

Armed with a resume that includes an education in legal administration and private investigations and a work history that includes everything from writer, publicist and manager, what I was able to secure in the depressed economy that is South Arkansas is a manager-trainee at a local fast food restaurant chain for which I worked in high school. Yes, a restaurant with ties to an “evil corporation”. As protesters were blogging demands for free college tuition on the iPad their parents bought, I – with my education and background – am right where I was, thirty some-odd years ago. Thankful for the work, I donned the crew member shirt and began to retrain in the art of making sure customers enjoyed top level service, even including the right size French fries.

What I observed during that first week astounded me as to the changes in the work force over these 13 years, and why our nation has jumped on the fast track to outsourced jobs and unemployable high school graduates. Back in the day, one was expected, even as a 16-year-old burger-flipper, to rise to the challenges and standards of the company one worked for. Fast forward to today and I see my future employees who seem unable to tuck in a shirt, much less come to work with the required name tag on that shirt.

Even more stunning are the middle managers who teach how to cheat the company standards at the expense of customer service and quality. Of course, there were the obligatory “pants on the ground” on the Friday when jeans and high school football t-shirts are allowed in lieu of the standard uniform. Inside, I was screaming for the employees to pull their pants up as nothing can destroy a meal so quickly as to see someone’s underwear while you are being served. Gangsta attire trumped good taste and dress codes that day. The list goes on, but you see my point.

With middle management condoning blatant disregard for company policy, the inmates are running the asylum; and without leadership and teaching these young people how to rise to the occasion, rather than lowering the bar, we have what we have – a nation of reprobates: children having children, where “baby momma” and “baby daddy” have taken the place of husband, wife, father and mother. We are a nation where twenty-somethings camp out in filth-laden parks, demand that more and more be “given” to them rather than doing something productive, like clean up after themselves as if they were respectable citizens worthy of the jobs they demand. Respect the property of others, instead of trashing said property and defying law enforcement’s attempts to maintain order. It’s a good suggestion but one that they would never follow.

There is no work ethic, no basic understanding of economics and the history that made this country the greatest in the world. There is no respect, no consideration and no remorse for bad behavior. There is no shame. There are only filthy mobs of Communist-Marxist-inspired puppets, too ignorant to realize what they really are, and led by community organizers whose sole goal is to overthrow America as we have known her.

If I weren’t starting another work week of two jobs, while my husband works 80+ hours a week, perhaps I’d march with a sign of my own – “get a job, get a life and get out of mine”.
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Renee Taylor is national writer, contributing author to the ARRA News Service, local TEA Party activist, and a licensed private investigator with The Taylor Company, an investigations and research company based in Warren, Bradley County, Arkansas. She is also a Managing Editor at Family Security Matters where she first published this article.

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