Do you really want what you say you do?

I work at a bike shop, yet we are a corporation, therefor, we abide to what corporate wants. Customer Service is a huge factor. We pledge 100% satisfaction, and sometimes it seems to be 1000% satisfaction. Here a re a couple examples from just my store.

Example 1:
Customer buys a bike for 1300 bucks, rides it for a year. Never once was the bike taken care of. He began bringing the bike to us after buying from another store. WE fix the bike for free, he rides it, doesn't take care of it, then brings it back for us to fix again expressing his gross discontent for the product our company sold him. We fix it, it comes back, etc. This goes on for about 3 months. Not once did the bike ever come to us showing any signs of the customer fulfilling his obligation of regular maintenance.
Long story short, he cries, calls the District Manager, and gets a full refund a year later.
This pissed everyone I work with off, seeing how this guy totally took advantage of us, and did it smugly.

Example 2:
Cutomer buys both a road bike and mountain bike from Performance. After 3 years of owning these bikes, the customer writes a 5 page letter to our corporate office and complains of how his bikes rust too easily, and therefor are defective products.
I don't care what bike you own, if you payed $10-10,000, you leave it outside, it will rust.
But this customer was rewarded for his own negligence. He recieved at no cost, two bikes to replace the ones he bought, each costing 3 times the cost of the original bikes.

Now, where am I going with this? I work in a shop full of people (not all) who are open about a vision of a Socialist America.

Yet, all these people are deeply disgusted with how these customers were rewarded despite our deepest efforts to help them with their problems.

Now, how does re-distribution of wealth work? Just like what my co-workers are upset about. Performance spread their wealth to the others who wanted expensive stuff, but just couldn't afford to do it honestly.

In a socialized America, which sadly I see more and more people craving, the dishonest, the trash of society will be empowered.

Socialism may sound wonderful to some, but I know that the act of it is something no one can logically accept. Sadly, many minds are distorted, and I know why. I go to college in California. Every class I have had this semester has attacked conservatism in an "artful" manner, in order to influence students.

So now when I see people taking advantage of our "customer satisfaction", I shut them dow, hard, if its not legit. I have a reputation now at work for being tough on returns.
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"Oh, your computer doesn't work? Let me show you that it really does...NO REFUND!!"

Basically I'm just sick of people who take advantage of things, ruining it for others. Thats ultimatley why there can never be a perfect world, these people will always be around.

Why Do We Believe What We Do?

I could write on this topic infinitley, one thought leads to another and to another, and it could go forever, to spare you and my fingers I am going to attempt to present the basis of my thoughts as quickly and direct as possible and hopefully let your own mind take it from there.

Why do we beleive what we do?

We are products of our enviroment and our ideas are formed from what we experience in life; in the enviroment which we exist.

We have free will and reach a point in life where we can choose an enviroment to exist within; such as work, school, sports, friends and social ativities.

As we have the free will to choose our enviroment we also have the same will to absorb beliefs and opnions discriminatley.

Yet, we are limited to absorb only which is present in the enviroment we chose to be in.

Right and wrong is deciphered through which we choose to absorb.

We are limited to absorb what is within the enviroment we chose.

We choose our enviroment.

We choose right and wrong.

Right and wrong is not as clear cut s black and white.

We do not choose blck and white, they already exist, they are immortal.

Right and wrong is not.

As we journey through life and disagree with others, lets remember that as we have chosen what is right and wrong, they have to.

Arguments are futile, we can not change anothers enviroment which they chose, which creates their beliefs.

But one can be a part of anothers enviroment and provide a part of your own enviroment to be shared.

If you let another persons enviroment affect your own too much, then it is your fault, because we you chose on your own.

...ok, I lost myself, my mind is going in too many different directions now to interpret through text.

Ummmm, hopefully this was somewhat interesting, but I don't care, my mind is stimulated.

By the way my "A" button doesn't work well.

And finally as I write this watching American History X, remind me to write a blog on it.

Oh finally finally, it is extremely difficult to articulate my thought in such a primitive form as writing...

Why Obama Won

Because his opponent looked just like Cotton Hill...Hank's father from King of the Hill.

RACISM

For some reason this topic has been on my mind recently, not sure why exactly but it's popped it's ugly head out and instead of beating it down like we all do to ugly things, I've been trying to find it's beauty, or perhaps, it's reality.

NO, I am not saying racism is beautiful, instead I am saying that many things often protrayed to be racist are in fact acts of human compassion which are misinterpreted.

Racism is often defined by society as an act of prejudice, favoritism, hate, dislike, contempt, etc. against a race other than one's own.

If I were to tell a Mexican that I don't have time to fix his bike right now, then tell a white guy mintues later that I will do the same job on the spot, then I am guilty of racism. Or am I?

If life was so clear cut, black and white, good and evil, sweet and sour, Linkin Park and good music, then yes, I would be racist.

But, what many fail to see when judging a person on an act they see as racism, is the inner connections between the people.

It is human nature to help others whom we can relate with. Although for me, being white is not something I find I relate with other people, however being American is. I also relate to other people who share my interests, others who go to my school, people who like the same music, etc.

When at work, am I more willing to work a little harder, or to do something I don't really want to do in order to help a person I relate with? YES. (or a hot girl, a curse of all men)

Is that wrong? I don't think so, everyone is this way. If a common bond is formed between two people, than most good people will be compassionate and help to the best of their abilities this other person who is in need.

How doe this apply to racism? Because things often construed to be racist aren't.

My boss, Yasser is an immigrant to America. He is a great American and I am proud to work for him. Yet sometimes, he will take a job in to be done before others. It is commonly from a hispanic person, and sometimes I end up doing the work despite having a full workload already.

Now, I could construe this to be racist giving preferential treatment to someone because they are hispanic.

But it's so far from racism.

The reason Yasser repeatedly will take in work on the spot from other hispanics is because he is a good person. He understands a strangers plight having been through it himself, and will selflessly do what he can to help a person whom he can relate to.

Many can judge these actions as a form of racism, I judge it as an act of compassion.

The more we can relate to someone else, the more we are willing to help them, it's human nature. It may be because we share the same religion, or we came from the same country, or perhap we shared a school. It doesn't matter. Fact is, most people are good.

So in conclusion, is the world full of racists, are we all racist to some extent, or are we just humans doing the best we know how?