I rarely allow vacations during the holiday weeks because no one wants to work. So usually it's first request in gets the time off. Being a 24/7 business holidays can be a trifle scarey. I always get the last minute requests to have the holiday week off. I can rarely grant it at the last minute.

Due to the fact several employees have been turned down apparently I have rained bad karma down upon their heads because my denial has beseiged their families with deaths.

My sympathies go out to my employees who have lost their fathers, brothers, sisters, grandparents, brother and sisters in laws over the past holiday week. By the time the new year rolls in Detroit should damn near be a ghost town.

We do require a death notice by the funeral home to collect the three days pay. Obviously one funeral home in Detroit made a hell of a lot of money last week. They must be the best one of course.

I think as Christmas draws closer I should stop by and pay my respects. What I do find odd, out of all these deaths...no one ever loses their mother. Seem odd to you?