[redwitch]

Once upon a time I was a civil service employee. I worked hard, did my job efficiently and effectively. So did my co-workers. However, being the greedy wench I am, I switched to the private sector and became a legal secretary. So, went from a possible career where everyone would assume I was lazy and incompetent to a career in which my employer was the brunt of every possible joke that could imply said employer was, at the very best, a snake and, obviously, I was the ground upon which that snake slithered.

Neither one attitude particularly bothered me nor those with whom I worked. We knew we weren't lazy and incompetent. My bosses knew they were good guys working in a profession that actually did a lot of good. Sometimes, that's what matters most -- that we know we're not as assumed. Basically, I knew the jokes and prevailing attitudes in both fields. I also knew that they weren't true. I think jokes like these are a lot different from bigoted jokes -- we have a choice as to where we work. We don't have a choice about the color of our skin or ethnic background.

A friend would never send me something that would demean me in any way, shape or form nor deliberately make a comment that would hurt me. That someone sent you this says far more about them than it does you or your wife.