There was once a dock worker whose name was Dick,
His employers knew not, Dick had worked out a perfect trick,
Forty five was his speculated age,
He dressed according to his meager wage,
Went home daily with a barrow, security noticed dick was quick.
On other days they noticed many a different kind of trivia,
Told security was selling empty boxes to buy pills, had leukaemia,
Will tell you more when I retire,
Continued with his routine and poorly attire,
His secret, confessed stole a barrow a day, headlines in media.
Moved to Mexico, learnt Spanish, dyed hair black so could blend,
Applied for a job in revenue office, made many a friend,
Managed and learnt to cheat a little,
Hey Dick be careful, don’t fiddle,
Persisted to play his tricky games, predictably caught at the end.
Little one little one why can’t you see
Respect is a gift to you and to me
Respect has you listen when teachers teach
Respect builds respect with each little step
Respect is a gift that builds education
The gift of that knowledge can build a vocation
Yet sometimes kids argue yell and complain
Without listening ears no knowledge, they gain
If you cannot read and if you cannot write
The jobs of tomorrow remain out of sight
If you cannot write no resume written
Employers don’t take the kids that don’t listen
Employers why do you
Believe that your business/company
Take priority over
My personal life
When you'll fire me
Without a moment's notice
I work from nine to five
Not after hours
Or while I'm on vacation
I'm not being paid
To answer your e-mails
Or your phone calls
When I'm off the clock
Cross train employees
Hire enough workers and
Do your own assignments
I hope you get the MEMO!
That's why you lose good
Employees
In our litigious society
folks sue at the drop of a hat
Employees and employers
Students and teachers
Wives and husbands
Even parents and children
~ locked in mortal combat
Who Won
Today as the new president is inaugurated
Another conference is held
It is called the Global Labor Market
When this goes through employers can
temporarily import workers from low-cost countries
Elon Musk can import workers at his plant
In Texas for nine dollars an hour
With this organized labor will cease to exist
To the detriment for us all
All I see is sadness up on people's faces long hours away from family- yet employers say they are family friendly
Whose studio is it?
Johnny Cash? Elvis? Willie?
We made lots of guesses of course.
Not realizing it was our cousin Norris.
Norris is always building one thing or another.
He cannot get along with employers or his brother.
What will he do with it? Someone brave asked us.
Rock and roll bound? Suggested our cousin Gus.
Norris built guitar-shaped studio because he had nothing else to do.
In between jobs again, without a clue.
He still lives at home and he is sixty-two.
Nothing new said his mother. Nothing new.
it's little me
I live in here
growing up I see
a life full of fear
how do I grow
doing this or that
how do I know
when I just fall flat
hello shorty
little blue eyed boy
you'll not make fourty
no mothers joy
the bully to beat
what do I do
join gang on the street
prejudice soon flew
it's little me
I live in here
growing up I see
a life full of fear
now an employers place
how far have I grown
being honest to their face
young tactless I am now known
it's little me
I live in here
growing up I see
a life full of fear
I stumble
I crash
I crumble
I thrash
then destiny's arrival
in the nick of time
she becomes my ALL
life's song now sublime
a couple of additions
more melodies to hear
some chorus renditions
and gone is the fear
it's little me
I live in here
grown up I see
life is not to fear
it's never too late
for something new
a lockdown fate
and a different view
something more
for little me
still not knowing the score
is rhyming insanity
it's little me
I live in here
grown up I see
we must persevere
in the tides of time
little me has now flown
just me and rhyme
in the twilight zone
Ever wonder what happens to suggestions
Dropped in your employers’ slotted box?
They are extracted and read with questions
Seldom answered is somewhat orthodox,
Proposals by the great, “unwashed” masses
Of underlings seeking more remuneration,
Gutsy enough to speak, these lower classes,
Indeed, to want a scheduled, paid vacation!
Imagine a thirty-minute lunch break, I laugh,
Extending the law-provided ten-minute take
Or double pay for overtime? Surely, they jest
For all the silly complaints they love to make.
More work, I say!--simply what you do best
With my feet on my desk, I’m taking a rest!
Written August 9, 2022
My father up and died when I was twelve.
Cold shot.
My mother couldn’t even drive a car.
Did not.
The lessons learned in Catholic school
Hadn’t prepped me for the day
I’d need to put my marbles down
And hear the foreman say,
“Get to work.”
It used to be I longed to hear the words,
“You’re hired.”
And lived in fear I’d ever have to hear,
“You’re fired.”
All my life I’d answered to bosses,
Employers and spouses.
Now I stand an upright man and no one’s tool.
Retired.
But I still like to work.
It’s what I do.
Today I have nothing more to say,
Am only wishing you happy labour day,
To all workers from Nairobi to Homa Bay,
Respect to workers who don't receive a pay,
Yet they volunteer to serve free day by day.
Big up to our beloved journalists,
Salute to designers and all artists,
Who work hard to update our playlists,
Respect to all mentors and sociologists,
Without forgetting poets and therapists.
Respect to engineers and inventors,
Salute to medical workers and doctors,
The entertainment actresses and actors,
Respect to teachers, professors and tutors,
Without forgetting masons and contractors.
What is White Privilege, what exactly does it mean?
It simply refers to situations that the white man has not seen.
This term is not meant to provoke anger in those that are white.
It wasn’t intended to spread hate and start a racial fight.
It doesn’t mean that white people are lazy or even bad.
Nor does it mean that we have been given everything that we’ve ever had.
Not all are racially profiled because of the color of their skin.
Try asking someone who is black, that’s a good place to begin.
There are white people who sue their employers contradicting what you say.
Just because you are white, would you liked to be grouped in with the KKK?
All men are equal in this land of which we trod.
If you still don’t get it, try praying for guidance from God.
not too hot nor cold
sheets are slightly moist ~ just right
for going viral
By
David Kavanagh
Dedicated to the employers of migrant workers,
who pay them so little they have to practice
hot-bedding, to afford a roof over their head, the
proven breeding ground for current coronavirus
outbreak in Ireland getting out of control again.
I think I’ll like my status
Who’s with me?
Facebook’s overrated
Full of fake peeps,
But they live in the real world
two faced boys and girls
Scared reputations will spoil
when employers on the prowl,
Looking for something appalling
to pull you from the pack
interviewed well but falling
through Facebook crap
They all know it’s fake you see
yet an extension of your cv
silly ideas say it reflects facilities
when in fact it isn’t me
A poet so out of line with common
when I come on I mock the book
I mean come on is it cool to log on
acting ideals when we know your look
You must have misunderstood
if you’re judging private and professional
you've a scope which is just no good
illegitimate selfish lies laid by tools
You think there’s proof of the character in the profile
when the picture's photoshopped
I think truth stares back in a false style
which can’t be topped
Facebook tells of the happy side
it’s a whole picture lie
don’t think you can see inside
when half is denied
I'm being totally serious
they take Facebook too serious
if they think they see clear in us
our way from a status
BAMBULL AND BRICE
SPOKE THE ACCOMPLIMENTS
THRU THE AUGUMENTS DECRIBED
IN HER ENHANCING STRUCTURE
THEY MADE COMMUNACATION KEY
THEY WORKED WITHIN THE ETHICAL
FRAMEWORK OF THE EMPLOYERS
COMPANY AND BECAME RESPECTED
DOERS OF WORKS
RECOGNITION FOR THOSE FEATS WERE
THEY WERE BENEATH CONTENTION
AND WORKED THERE WAY INTO CONTENTION
TO BE SET APART FROM THOSE OTHERS
AND VALUED AS CONTENDERS
GAINST THOSE WHO REPRESENTED THE
COMPANY AS BEST
THOSE ACTIONS HAVE
ALREADY ACCURED MAKING
THEM NUMBER ONE CONTENDERS
THEY ARE BEST BENEATH THE BEST
THERE LABOR'S SHALL DETERMINE THEIR
CLAIM TO BE CHAMPION AND BEST
THEY REFLECT THE VALUE AND BELEIFS OF
THIS COMPANY, THEY STAND BEFORE YOU
AS NUMBER ONE CONTENDERS MIGHT THEY
BE BEST THEY SHALL BECOME
DISCLAIMER...... DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE CERTAIN LEVELS
OF CYFISTICATION IS INVOLVED IN MAKING THESE DECISIONS!
WORLD CHAMPIONS
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