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Today is Friday, April 10, 2009 and I am preparing a fruit salad to welcome the day. I am using fresh, plump strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and some freshly chopped nuts. My eye falls on a article about a proposed new show on the Fox network. The premise is so twisted and demented that ...POP...my berries will have to wait.



The producers of the show have decided that a reality show that depicts the pain and suffering of a person who loses his or her job has all the earmarks of a sure-fire hit. Unbelievably, each episode will feature a company with about 20 employees that needs to cut costs in these troubled times. Normally, it is the boss who decides who must be laid off, but in this sick version of reality, it is the employees who will give the ax to a fellow worker. What is more shocking and unbelievable is that the producers have found companies willing to open their books and allow all employees to see how much everyone is earning. Empowered with this knowledge(which can't be legal) the employees will then fire someone.



Why not just find an arena, line up some workers and feed one of them to the lions. That's the way it used to be and given the current economic crisis a few lions are probably more cost effective.



For some added angst and drama, the producers could force the fired worker to eat some worms along with his pink slip.



One thing's for sure....there are definitely more fruits out there in televison land than are in my bowl.