I cannot tolerate incompetence. I blame the "people at the top" for the incompetence of the low-level employees. Many companies do not train their people. In the 1950s and 1960s, we got paid on-the-job training. Now, the colleges have tricked people into believing that they will learn a trade, and competently handle a new job. This is definitely not true. It's never been true for teachers. I trained as a teacher, and cried every night. I'm told that most beginning teachers cry every night for their first THREE YEARS on the job. I quit - I could not handle public school teaching, which is probably one of the most difficult and stressful occupations anyone could have. The kids are great, but I did not have the opportunity to give them a decent education. Too many interruptions, too much paperwork, and class size getting bigger every year. Some school districts I taught in even had incompetent textbooks! The math book I was assigned to teach from was ridiculous. The principal also required me to teach my 8th graders eighth grade spelling words, even though many of the students did not even spell at 5th grade level.

A therapist told me that therapists go to work after college, and don't know a whole lot about how to do counseling.

Every day now, I wake up happy and pleasant. Then, I encounter something that enrages me. Today, it was that my phone quit. Suffice it to say that the battery type was wrong. Never mind that it'd been working fine for a year. The company told me that it would only use NIMH batteries. I went to a hardware store later in the day. I bought what they told me were NIMH. Dumb me -- I trusted that they knew what t hey were doing. Not! I did not read the package. The package says nowhere on it that they are NIMH. So I called the store and said they were likely not NIMH -- did they know if it said that somewhere on the package? She said, "I just googled it and they are." Google? They are the authorities????? no. I have contacted Energizer. It'll take several days to get response. I think I've found a source at a battery company. I have to make special trip there, and meanwhile my phone still does not work.

I can't tolerate this incompetence and predatory companies. What's going on?? This country is falling apart, because the filthy rich people at the top are preying on everyone else -- their underlings AND their customers. These are usually companies we can't do without -- the phone company, etc. One company overcharged me by $169.50 yesterday. I had to block my credit card and get a new card in a week to 10 days. On and on and on and on. They tried to call the phone number that was presently kaput. I had left them my cell number, but they paid no attention to the rest of m message.