Hey, We're Equal Opportunity Beaters

I'm a contractor at the Department of Health and Family Services and I fix computers. Today I went to a guy's desk to help him because he couldn't log onto the network. I was greeted with comments about how the he didn't like contractors and was pissed off at guv Jimmy Doyle for letting state employees go. I showed him my scarlett badge of contractordom.

According to The Guardian, our troops have beaten U.S. contractors.

A group of American security guards in Iraq have alleged they were beaten, stripped and threatened with a snarling dog by US marines when they were detained after an alleged shooting incident outside Falluja last month.

And I thought I had it bad.