Heard on the radio

I was listening to the radio while driving at two different times today and heard two things that I took notice to.

The first thing I heard was on KYW-1060 news radio while on my way home from my final today. There was a news item about a company (maybe of German company) that has instituted a new policy on complaining. What? Someone is actually tired of hearing people complain? Now this is good. The policy basically states that you can complain once about something. However, if you complain a second time and you do not offer a suggestion on how to fix it, your job could be in jeopardy. Now, this isn't just complaining to management, but complaining in general. And it also does not apply to people whose opinions are used to safeguard a company (such as someone who complains to their boss about the company doing something illegal or doing something that is bad for the company). This mainly applies to people who complain for the sake of complaining. You all know who these people are--they are the people that complain non-stop. They complain about what others are doing, the tasks they are doing, the fact that so & so gets the better assignments, the procedure in which things are done, etc. We've all run into these people, some on a daily basis.

I actually like this idea. Not only should it cut down on the constant complainer, but the main thing is that you get in trouble if you don't offer suggestions on how to fix it. This is an important aspect of life. Everyone can complain that something isn't working, but not many people try to fix it. Granted, it usually is easier to just complain & let someone else correct it, but that sucks for the people in charge to be constantly changing these things because people won't shut up. So you get in trouble for complaining if you don't try to fix it--this is a great idea & should be adopted by other companies--how much more productive would a company be if instead of complaining about how dumb cover sheets are on TPS reports, an employee actually comes up with an idea on how to replace the cover sheet but still get the material that's on the sheet incorporated in the TPS report? This is a great policy for corporate America!

The second thing I heard was a commercial on a regular music channel (I might have been listening to country at the time). The commercial was for loans, I believe from Quicken Loans.
The commercial was encouraging people to apply for mortgages & even offered a $500 savings on any mortgage over $400,000! Now that's savings! If that was the end of the commercial, I still might have written about it, but that wasn't it. The last line of the commercial was something like "For the guy who has everything, get a Quicken Loan." The wording might have been different, but that was the basic idea. WTF?!? So for the guy who has everything, why not add on a little bit of debt? Hell, why not get him a few credit cards (maxed out from buying his presents of course) as stocking stuffers? This just goes to show the state of the world we live in. People are encouraged to get debt if you can't think of anything better. Can you imagine the conversation after Christmas when you go back to work?
"Hey, what did your wife get you for Christmas?"
"Since I'm the company president and already have everything I could ever imagine, she decided to treat me like the rest of world and give me some good ol' American debt. What a great wife--she's always thinking. I mean, what else depicts me as an American that having debt? She started me off small, but in a few years, I should be so high in debt that I'll stop answering the phone because it is a creditor calling--this is more American than apple pie!'

Ok, that's a bit extreme, but still. Who gets a loan for someone who has everything? Does a person with everything really need debt? Maybe Bill Gates should be asked--since you have 30-40 billion dollars, how would you feel if your wife got you debt for Christmas? It just seems ridiculous. Maybe I should ask for debt for Christmas--if you get debt when you're rich, then maybe by getting debt I can become rich (just like I'll be surrounded by all these hot girls if I drink a specific beer or soda). I could continue to rant forever, but I think the idea is pretty clear---this just boggles my mind--how is debt a gift at all?

Who knew radio could be so entertaining...

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