Recap: Heavy justice

Job training yesterday was interesting, for the second session we got a lecture (an interactive one, no less) on EEO, which, as I found out, stands for Equal Employment Opportunities.
An entire lecture on diversity, on how people who are different don't get special treatment, but equal treatment, how the person who's chosen for the job has to be, in spite and not because of the differences, the best person for the job.
An entire lecture on how we should appeal to higher authority if we see something happening that shouldn't be happening. Ironically, my entire second session class was of people about my own age, who, as you might imagine, will always have some natural prejudice against authoritative figures

I have nothing against authority, but as I sat there through the hour I wondered if the lecturer realized how many of us consider "appealing to higher levels of authority" as a last resort. It's not merely the fact of losing the comradship of your coworkers/fellow students, or whatever the case may turn out to be, but it's also the fact that unavoidably, the "higher levels of authority" seldom know the problem as intimately as those who live around it. They inevitably, because of their limited time, resource, or whatever, pick the most straight forward route possible and often fail to account in all the details, the subtle factors that contribute to the final outcome, not of just this one case, but of work-relations on the long run. Justice is dealt, eventually, but then usually with a harsher word than what was strictly necessary because justice does not understand, it seems, the importance of careful observation, analysis, or tiptoeing because justice has all the subtility of--dare I say it--an blind elephant in a parlour.
Justice is not graceful, it treads heavily enough that everyone hears of its approach.
But perhaps that is for the best too, for there are enough who would heed the footfalls, large, stomping sounds that they are.

I'm sorry, that's not much of a recap, is it?
Hem. Please deal with it. If not, the exits are located somewhere the form of a little left-poiting arrow near the top left of this browser and/or at the little "x" at the top right. Thank you for visiting. You have a nice day now.

First-

-bottle of Snapple ice tea consumed. Peach flavour. I feel closer to the American culture already. Hem.

[edit 13:04]
Identified the marigold killers as mealy bugs; thanks, Ian.
As that rubbing alcohol is not readily available and that I only have 1 (maybe 2) infected plants, I suppose I'll be following the most basic control procedure: by squishing them.

[edit: 21:37]
Remembered to add, today's the day, I think, that I've set as Adriel Medon's birthday. Happy birthday, Adriel.