Why is it that someone can track me down via LinkedIn, email me, follow up on my voicemails, and then not schedule something that they say they will? Then, when I email them this morning to make sure they got my resume and when we were scheduling our next meeting, I get called with a VP on the phone. No, I'm not trying to make excuses, just explaining things. I'm none too pleased with myself. Mostly because this is a job I want, I can do, and excel at. It was a competitor of a previous company I had worked for, and some of my coworkers lost deals to these guys. It is a small Business Intelligence software firm, and they are looking for 2 direct sales people. I really do hope I am one of them. Hopefully I didn't bomb as bad as I think I did.
Now, I'm agreeing with a Yankee??? Apparently the world is upside down today. I am kind of curious about this revenue sharing in baseball, though. Where is the money that teams like the Yankees and Red Sox have given back to the league in form of a luxury tax? Are teams spending the money on their lineup, or are they hoarding it like the Florida Marlins? In case you need a refresher course, Florida was chastised by MLB and the Players Union to spend some money this past offseason. I think Bob Costas was right, not only does baseball (and every sport) need a salary cap, they need a salary floor as well.
On to hockey...well, kinda. This story sickens me. How could our neighbors to the north do this? Now hear me out on this-I realize that we don't know all the details of this story. But based on that link, are you thinking what I'm thinking-What the Hell??? How does no one know where this guy is? How do you not tell the people that this coach molested? I remember watching stories about this monster, and now he-in theory-could be coaching again, under a different name, right?
Now here is the part that should horrify everyone: Parole board spokeswoman Caroline Douglas said the pardons process does not generally take into account the nature of the crime, even those the public finds particularly upsetting.
"We cannot discriminate based on the crime committed," Douglas said. "Very few people are ineligible for a pardon. Everyone else is eligible no matter their crime. We have to follow the law."
WHAT????? How can you not take into account the nature of the crime? If you don't pay parking tickets, that's pretty much a harmless crime, unless you consider the lack of ticket revenue a crime (I don't). But preying on little kids and using your position as a coach? Really, this isn't that big of a deal? I thought hockey was Canada? How could this slip thru the cracks? We have to be missing a ton of information here, but if they haven't found this guy, then the Mounties need to get on it. Call Dudley freakin' DooRight and go get him and put him back in jail. I don't know if jail in Canada is like jail here in the US, but I know (because I know people) that in a US prison, they deal with child molesters a whole lot differently than drug dealers. There is a pecking order, for certain.
Please, for the sake of kids everywhere, find this guy. Put him back where he belongs, behind bars, not out in the open. The chances of him doing something inappropriate again are extremely high.
Sorry, but that just creases me to no end.
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