One of our favorite days of the year at The Asylum. The day we congratulate our newest citizens and ourselves for underwriting the cost of the citizenship application for our staff and for tutoring the applicants to ensure that they pass the test. The citizenship test isn’t that hard. But if your English is shaky or if you haven’t been to school in a long time – it can be very scary.
We are very pleased with ourselves because we had enough money to help immediate family members too. We have about 1,000 employees. About 250 are not citizens. And we don’t call them “employees” anymore. The Chief People Officer has decided to call the workers “team members”. Goddess save me from jargon of all varieties.
Later in the day a local dog rescue group brought some dogs by for show and tell. One of the staff really wanted a dog. But, I think the $300 – $400 dollar adoption fee may have been a little steep for him. According to the Asylum rules, I couldn’t buy him a dog. But, he deserves a little dog.
Big event of the day. I ate some of my bean crop. I had them with tomatoes, pepper, and olive oil. Outstanding.
And now the stock market will be closed for two entire days. Thank You!