Tuesday's musing

It was a hectic workday that involved a management meeting which quickly turned into a fiasco with tempers flaring, voices becoming louder and unspoken power struggles happening right in front of other staff members.  I swear, sometimes I think I work with a bunch of crybabies.  Grown men acting so childish.  Men in authority who secretly resent each other's positions playing out their silly little political games.  <sigh>  I held my tongue, sat quietly and observed, and made an unseen exit back to my office.  I don't imagine my absence was noticed.  It was unproductive, unprofessional and a total waste of time.  Ugh.

No time for a quote
No mood for a poem
I'm tired, I'm crabby
I'll blog in the morn.

5:51:57 PM     

Ireland's Dirty Laundry

"Over a period of 150 years, an estimated 30,000 women were imprisoned by the Catholic Church and forced to work without pay."   I've never heard this story reported before.  Evidently it is yet another of the Catholic Church's dark secrets.    via....The Presurfer

Cork, Ireland, Jan. 26.....from ABC News

A sudden spate of TV exposés, docudramas and a major motion picture have brought to light one of the most shocking episodes in the history of the Catholic Church in Ireland — the existence of the now-notorious "Magdalene laundries," a sanctified form of slavery.

Operated by the Sisters of the Magdalene Order, the laundries were virtual slave labor camps for generations of young girls thought to be unfit to live in Irish society.

Girls who had become pregnant, even from rape, girls who were illegitimate, or orphaned, or just plain simple-minded, girls who were too pretty and therefore in "moral danger" all ran the risk of being locked up and put to work, without pay, in profit-making, convent laundries, to "wash away their sins."       FULL STORY

5:16:01 PM