March 12, 2014

Top Headline Comments (3-12-2014)
— andy

A journalist finds out what it's like to actually work for a living. Hilarity ensues.

Joke's on him of course. There's no reason to work for a living when you can just have gangster government do your bidding.

Posted by: andy at 02:18 AM | Comments (642)
Post contains 46 words, total size 1 kb.

1 First, thanks Andy.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 12, 2014 02:24 AM (xq1UY)

2 First?

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at March 12, 2014 02:24 AM (kXoT0)

3 Is there an echo in here?

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, Bossy Bitches at March 12, 2014 02:26 AM (kXoT0)

4 Journalist & work. Two words that, with few exceptions, don't belong in the same sentence. And now I must take my leave because, you know, work. Love each other fellow babies.

Posted by: teej-who must be doing pretty much everything wrong at March 12, 2014 02:26 AM (M7Cfv)

5

Morning, ‘rons and ‘ronettes.

 

On one of the day threads – I think it was Monday – one of the ‘rons was asking for prayers while waiting to hear the results of their motherÂ’s biopsy.  Did we ever get a follow up on that?

 

Anyway, hereÂ’s another Betty Grable story.  First, look at this picture, GrableÂ’s most famous photograph and probably the most famous pin-up in the world:

 

http://tinyurl.com/ndljsos

 

In 1973, Grable contracted stomach cancer and had to be admitted to the hospital.  During her first stay, she happened to be walking from her room to the X-ray department when her hospital johnny went loose at the back and flew open.  Grable grabbed at the robe, trying to cover herself as the nursing assistant assured her, “DonÂ’t worry, Miss Grable – nobodyÂ’s looking.”

 

Striking her pose, Grable shot back, “Well, they used to!”

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 02:30 AM (zF6Iw)

6 Having read the journolist's work, I think his new "temp" employer has made a pretty serious error. He's taking notes on them now. Watch for an ex-poe-zay.

Hard to believe that a "journalist" would be so surprised at having to clean the johns and work off the clock. May we suppose that this fellow went straight to the anointed class, and never was a reporter on a city newspaper? 

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 12, 2014 02:34 AM (xq1UY)

7 Hard to believe that a "journalist" would be so surprised at having to clean the johns and work off the clock. May we suppose that this fellow went straight to the anointed class, and never was a reporter on a city newspaper?
Posted by: Stringer Davis

It sure seemed as if he had never worked even a summer burger flipping job in high school.

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2014 02:38 AM (+qyp9)

8 Striking her pose, Grable shot back, “Well, they used to!”
Hope you all have a wonderful day.

MPPP
I had read the Grable was a few months pregnant at the time of this picture.

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2014 02:41 AM (+qyp9)

9

A journalist finds out what it's like to actually work for a living.

 

I couldn't access the comments.  I hope somebody threw it in the asshole's face that his crappy situation was because of his messiah's economy.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 02:43 AM (zF6Iw)

10 "My plunge into poverty happened in an instant. I never saw it coming. Then again, there was no reason to feel particularly vulnerable. Two years ago, I was a political reporter at Politico, and I spent my days covering the back-and-forth of presidential politics. I had access to the White House because of my reporting beat, and I was a regular commentator on MSNBC." Never.Saw it. Coming. Because ratings are arbitrary and everyone knows MSNBC has prescient reporting. Welcome to reality dumbass. Now get back to work.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 12, 2014 02:45 AM (60Vyp)

11 Morning all, off to work!

Posted by: Gmac-Pondering the coming implosion, and hoping its 404care at March 12, 2014 02:46 AM (baiNQ)

12 DAY 492 972 to go (1,045 to Inauguration Day 2017) Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, McCain's, McConnell's, McAuliffe's, Maduro's, MIRV's, Mexifornians, Mugwumps, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, microagressors, minions, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 12, 2014 02:48 AM (olDqf)

13 MPPP
I had read the Grable was a few months pregnant at the time of this picture.

 

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2014 06:41 AM (+qyp9)

 

True.  That's why her back is turned.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 02:49 AM (zF6Iw)

14 Never.Saw it. Coming. Because ratings are arbitrary and everyone knows MSNBC has prescient reporting. Welcome to reality dumbass. Now get back to work. Because bad stuff is only supposed to happen to the Right.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2014 02:50 AM (xorT2)

15 5 Striking her pose, Grable shot back, “Well, they used to!” Hope you all have a wonderful day. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 06:30 AM (zF6Iw) Betty Grable. Sigh. What a sad ending. She meant so much to so many GI's. Especially Stanislaus Gusava.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 12, 2014 02:50 AM (olDqf)

16 What the hell, is Vic on a murder trial?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 12, 2014 02:52 AM (olDqf)

17 Whaat was the Romney joke that eventually got him fired ?

Posted by: votermom at March 12, 2014 02:53 AM (xpOSm)

18 The Democrat scum criminals spewed out more hot gas last night in the Senate than put out in the entire Industrial RevolutionÂ… by orders of magnitude.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 12, 2014 02:54 AM (olDqf)

19 From the boneheads journalists story:

Others on the right, like Andrew BreitbartÂ’s Big Media, mined my personal Twitter account and unearthed a crude Romney joke IÂ’d carelessly retweeted a month before. The Romney campaign cried foul. In less than two weeks I was out of a job.

Those bastards. Nobody on the left has ever done anything like that.

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2014 02:54 AM (+qyp9)

20 "MPPPI had read the Grable was a few months pregnant at the time of this picture"

Honest to god, I first read that as Gabe was a few months pregnant.



Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 12, 2014 02:58 AM (si68n)

21 Who is going to write the article when Joe Williams is trying to sell a treadmill to some really fat white lady and then he tells her that maybe she shouldn't be eating all that cake that rich white folks eat and maybe her behind wouldn't be so big and maybe she wouldn't have to buy a treadmill and instead that money could go to poor black folks like him. And then she says she just wants to buy a treadmill and could she complain to the manager. And then Joe clocks her on the ear with a big right hook normally reserved for his wife. If this has happened already, I apologize for the redundancy.

Posted by: Dr. Manbube at March 12, 2014 02:58 AM (/QjPQ)

22 Bet there's more to the story on how this skid-mark "journalist" lost his job (and couldn't find another good one) beyond just a tasteless Romney joke. The Left doesn't care a whit about that kind of sliming. Witness the treatment of Palin. Those "journos" didn't all lose their jobs..

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 12, 2014 02:58 AM (XvrTA)

23 Maybe the "journalist" could take his fancy hi falutin journalism degree and his vast knowledge on how things should be done, and start up his own mega sports store.

Do it the right way, with high pay, little work and low hours for everyone!!

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2014 03:00 AM (+qyp9)

24 When Corey Booker was 17, he drove to Hawaii. Must have had Professor Pat Peniding's car from "Whacky Races," no?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 12, 2014 03:01 AM (olDqf)

25 Breitbart, still on the case. Heh. Hi, Andrew.

Hey, I missed the part of the article about "What I Learned from The Mistakes I Made." Which tells me that the last mistake on the list is "burned bridges with shoe store."

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 12, 2014 03:01 AM (xq1UY)

26 From the Williams article.

The garbage run came after IÂ’d already pulled my six-hour shift on the sales floor, and done some of my usual closing-shift chores. At the same time, since the other employee on duty was a petite young woman, taking out the garbage was a solo operation.

OMG a six hour shift!  Call the paramedics. How come he didn't complain to the bosses that EO calls for the "petite" woman to be hauling garbage too?
Equal pay for equal work! And vice versa

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2014 03:05 AM (+qyp9)

27

Others on the right, like Andrew BreitbartÂ’s Big Media, mined
my personal Twitter account and unearthed a crude Romney joke IÂ’d
carelessly retweeted a month before. The Romney campaign cried foul. In
less than two weeks I was out of a job.

 

Good.  Hope you get fired again and have to sell your bone marrow for rent money.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 03:05 AM (zF6Iw)

28 I didn't find the journalist's story at all hilarious. It was a sad and desperate story that too many face in this economy. That said, in his particular case, it's difficult to feel sorry for him given what landed him there.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 12, 2014 03:06 AM (DmNpO)

29 Damn 1am here and already 74 degrees Going to be a hot day...may have to hit the beach

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 12, 2014 03:07 AM (FxIhI)

30 I'm not sure how I feel about the Joe Williams story. Has anyone asked him when he stopped beating his wife? That might help me.

Posted by: mugiwara at March 12, 2014 03:08 AM (3a584)

31 29 Damn 1am here and already 74 degrees Going to be a hot day...may have to hit the beach ..... I've had to turn on the ac to sleep for the last few nights.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 12, 2014 03:08 AM (DmNpO)

32 I don't do the Twitter. So I'm not 100% sure. But isn't it all out there for everyone to see when you tweet? He says that like Breitbart was going through his trash bins or something.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 12, 2014 03:09 AM (XvrTA)

33 32. We open the windows and turn on the ceiling fans for airflow otherwise we can't sleep

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 12, 2014 03:10 AM (FxIhI)

34 29 Damn
1am here and already 74 degrees
Going to be a hot day...may have to hit the beach

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 12, 2014 07:07 AM (FxIhI)


Grrrr....

Posted by: Anthony L. at March 12, 2014 03:10 AM (34n6F)

35 Due to all of the hot air expelled out of various orifices at the AGW Senate meeting, we have about two inches of snow this morning in No. Ill.

Thanks guys!!

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2014 03:11 AM (+qyp9)

36 32 I don't do the Twitter. So I'm not 100% sure. But isn't it all out there for everyone to see when you tweet? He says that like Breitbart was going through his trash bins or something. ..... Yes. Anyone who thinks their tweets are somehow only magically visible to friendlies is am idiot.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 12, 2014 03:11 AM (DmNpO)

37 At his age, 50, the guy is lucky he found a job. Regardless, he sounds like a creep. Still making excuses for his bad behavior.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 12, 2014 03:11 AM (r7mtu)

38 I started out brooming in a machine shop 10 hours a day. I think I was making $3.15 an hour. That twat has no idea about busting ass.

Posted by: Roland THTG at March 12, 2014 03:11 AM (qyoyx)

39 Yes. Anyone who thinks their tweets are somehow only magically visible to friendlies is am idiot. So, the left?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2014 03:12 AM (xorT2)

40 OMG What an entitled pussy that reporter is. What a prince, a precious little snowflake. He was in retail at a sporting goods store and was surprised there was no sitting and that he had other duties like cleaning occasional Boo freaking hoo It would be ridiculous to list all the fungo jobs I have had. But I would do any of them any day of the week in order to pay my bills and maintain my independence. What an ass Its a peek into the mind of the FSA

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:12 AM (zOTsN)

41 Having read the journolist's work, I think his new "temp" employer has made a pretty serious error. He's taking notes on them now. Watch for an ex-poe-zay. Hard to believe that a "journalist" would be so surprised at having to clean the johns and work off the clock. May we suppose that this fellow went straight to the anointed class, and never was a reporter on a city newspaper? Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 12, 2014 06:34 AM (xq1UY) He'll now go on a rampage about how the minimum wage needs to be $20 an hour.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 12, 2014 03:12 AM (QR7wx)

42 33 32. We open the windows and turn on the ceiling fans for airflow otherwise we can't sleep .... Even in the Winter when the heat is running, I use the ceiling fan in the bedroom. I can't sleep when the air is still.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 12, 2014 03:13 AM (DmNpO)

43 Just bought a new fogger for cars by meguiers Supposed to make a car smell like new Getting ready to blast it Will give a full report You know, I should do a write-up and send it in for the car thread I have tested so many products and pretty much know what works and what doesn't

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 12, 2014 03:14 AM (aYJgz)

44 Getting fired from his reporter's job, beating his ex-wife and having his wages garnished for child support? He's lucky he got retail. But then surprising no one, he ended up at a non-profit.

Posted by: NCKate at March 12, 2014 03:14 AM (y7PFk)

45 He was in retail at a sporting goods store and was surprised there was no sitting and that he had other duties like cleaning occasional

I worked at a McDonalds in 1970 for $1.10 an hour. I learned 2 lessons there
1. (from the manger) If you got time to lean, you got time to clean.

2. After 3 months, I didn't want to work at a McD's if I could help it.

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2014 03:15 AM (+qyp9)

46 That article read like unintentional satire.  Is anybody supposed to feel sorry to an entitled dickwad who smacked his wife around and makes snarky jokes rather than do actual work and be a standup person?  Only at a trash heap like the Atlantic would anybody feel sympathy for that snotty cocksucker.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 12, 2014 03:15 AM (YbFCe)

47 Anyone watch Justified? They are killing off everyone. I wish people would get over the prison lesbian shtick. I find nothing interesting about loud mouth ugly looking women threatening to beat or cut people up. That's why I hate that Orange is the New Black crap.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 12, 2014 03:16 AM (r7mtu)

48 Yes, NCKate. Did you get the feeling I did, that when the random senior-liberal showed up for a fitting, he felt that Someone Was Watching Over Him? That right there is how the System is supposed to work. He's served his time in Coventry.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 12, 2014 03:17 AM (xq1UY)

49 playing news ketchup Galifianakis: "Why would you get the guy who created the Zune to create your [health care] website? Update: The gambit appears to have worked as intended. According to a tweet from a White House senior communications advisor, the No. 1 referrer to HealthCare.Gov today is the Funny or Die website." http://tinyurl.com/pqc664d As if any of the traffic interested in reading the jokes on potus enrolled for his death panel plan.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 12, 2014 03:17 AM (MhA4j)

50 He never worked "off the clock." I had to read it twice because he wasn't clear (shocking I know.) He didn't get overtime for working over. Don't know of any business that would have a hourly employee work off the clock. Getting caught doing that is a big no-no. Lost all sympathy when he whined about wage theft for having to get there a few minutes early to be ready to go at clock-in time. That's standard for everyone. If you have to get on a ton of safety gear or something related to the job, then I can understand. But being ready to go at clock-in is not stealing your wages. By that theory, the employer should pay you your travel time.

Posted by: Vegetarian and Anti-Vaccine Party at March 12, 2014 03:19 AM (crkWb)

51 Is Journalist and work an oxymoron, morons? Poor bastard....he has no real world job skills and sweat equity is but a pipe dream for such a douchebag as he. Wonder what he paid for that degree in "communications".....

Posted by: IrishEd at March 12, 2014 03:19 AM (D0NZx)

52 it was a series of tweets joking about Ann Romney unzipping Mitts pants to discover he has a small penis or is a dick, about strapping his kids to the roof of the car like his dog, about Romney being a racist on and on and on it wasn't just one thing probably like his pleading guilty to hitting his ex-wife guy is a whiney ass hat

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:20 AM (zOTsN)

53 Wife beating racist goes to work late, cleans the toilet.

I'll alert the media.

No wait, he is the media.

Posted by: forest at March 12, 2014 03:22 AM (stMuz)

54 I'll save my empathy for someone who, best I can tell, has integrity and decency. Like Sharyl Atkisson

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 12, 2014 03:23 AM (XvrTA)

55

I worked at a McDonalds in 1970 for $1.10 an hour. I learned 2 lessons there
1. (from the manger) If you got time to lean, you got time to clean.

 

"Yeah?  Well I ain't gonna scour for a buck ten an hour!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 03:24 AM (zF6Iw)

56 Today's celebrity birthdays: Jane Pierce (FLOTUS #18 ) Loulie Jean Norman (space soprano) Frank Overton (saved by the spores) Jack Kerouac (a wink of the eye and winking stars) Wally Schirra (Mercury-Atlas 8, Gemini 6A, Apollo 7 ) Barbara Feldon (XCIX) Al Jarreau (watch them when dawn is due) Liza Minnelli (4 attempts) Mitt Romney (MA Gov #70) James Taylor (Lord knows when the cold wind blows) Courtney B. Vance (Crazy Ivan!) Aaron Eckhart (http://youtu.be/TbunznqJzxs ) Jake Tapper (45 today)

Posted by: Gran at March 12, 2014 03:24 AM (mw0FO)

57 I feel badly for the journalist-cum-retail-worker's kid(s). And a little bad for him, too, but honestly my eyes rolled clean out of my head at some of his complaints. Has the man really made it to age 50+ without being told that "If you're not five minutes early, you're late"? Does he really not get that the reason managers must pat down/check bags every single time, no matter how ridiculous, is because otherwise people scream "discrimination"?

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 12, 2014 03:24 AM (oXBR7)

58 So has anybody read the comments on that Atlantic story?  What's the general trend?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 03:26 AM (zF6Iw)

59 Yellow Pug you will be "surprised" to learn that there is very little lesbian stuff in the Orange is the New Black book. There is some respect for religion in the book that is missing from the TV show

Posted by: tmitsss at March 12, 2014 03:27 AM (Pa9vP)

60 I do not feel sorry for him AT ALL he got to be middle aged and never had to take out the trash or be on time? ever "indignity" he "endured" he earned he never learned how to hustle? and now he whines about it? and his wife is a meany and the "right wing" picked on him for one joke? he hasn't learned a thing he will get canned again

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:28 AM (zOTsN)

61

Jane Pierce (FLOTUS #18 )

 

Poor woman.  Saw her son killed right in front of her  in a train crash  as they were on their way to Franklin's inauguration.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 03:29 AM (zF6Iw)

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 12, 2014 03:29 AM (XvrTA)

63 Good morning.  Ahh DST.  It's 7:29 and the sun in just up.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 12, 2014 03:29 AM (V70Uh)

64 So has anybody read the comments on that Atlantic story? What's the general trend? Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 07:26 AM (zF6Iw) It's The Atlantic, so I assume 'stupid'

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 12, 2014 03:30 AM (XvrTA)

65

morning all. day one of funemployment. great link at the freebeacon. I'll save the atlantic article after I've had my morning coffee.

 

this oconomy sucks...

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 12, 2014 03:30 AM (3yFC4)

66 Morning all

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2014 03:30 AM (nzKvP)

67 I remember being on my feet all day working at BR when I was 17.  At 50, if it didn't kill me, suicide would beseriously considered.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 12, 2014 03:32 AM (V70Uh)

68 The comments mainly are about minimum wage jobs and how the man is keeping people down. A few disagree. No one seems to be talking about details of the article. BTW, no one seems to have mentioned over there that flooding the country with low wage immigrants will just make the matter worse.

Posted by: Vegetarian and Anti-Vaccine Party at March 12, 2014 03:32 AM (crkWb)

69 I was a car hop and an A and W, worked in an orthopedic shoe store, worked several years at a grocery store and a convenience store, unloaded truck for a clothing store warehouse, all prior to going to college I worked all through college and law school and paid for it myself Who paid for this petty shit that he never had to work, be on time, clean, hustle what a dick

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:32 AM (zOTsN)

70 6 Having read the journolist's work, I think his new "temp" employer has made a pretty serious error. He's taking notes on them now. Watch for an ex-poe-zay.

Hard to believe that a "journalist" would be so surprised at having to clean the johns and work off the clock. May we suppose that this fellow went straight to the anointed class, and never was a reporter on a city newspaper?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 12, 2014 06:34 AM (xq1UY)


Working off the clock? That's illegal, and he wasn't. He was complaining he didn't get overtime. You don't get overtime for working past your shift daily, but you do for every hour past 40.


Other than that, he was  all fucked up. There's a reason these minimum =wage jobs are starter jobs, there to teach you skills like "on time is 10 minutes late". Because those are essential skills even the "flex-40" folks understand. Would he be merely on time for a big interview? No, and he would be prepped and ready to "hit the floor", so to speak. Also, at his old gig, he would be expected to work over 40 hours if need be without overtime as he would be classified as an exempt employee like the store's salaried managers; who are usually routinely expected to work in excess of 40 every week.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 03:32 AM (Nk6GS)

71 So has anybody read the comments on that Atlantic story? What's the general trend?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 07:26 AM (zF6Iw)



They're pretty boring and generally sympathetic to the asswipe with a few exceptions.  Keep in mind it's Teh Atlantic so they aren't going to be very much like we are.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 12, 2014 03:33 AM (YbFCe)

72 I might feel bad for the guy who got fired after being promoted over an old larceny "charge". Was it a conviction, only a charge, or just an arrest? I don't know because of the wife beating racist's sloppy journalism.

Posted by: forest at March 12, 2014 03:34 AM (stMuz)

73 I'm just going to leave this here.
http://t.co/ceTWgf4JcU

Posted by: HR at March 12, 2014 03:36 AM (hO8IJ)

74 It's been a while, but only convictions can be inquired about on job applications.  

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 12, 2014 03:38 AM (V70Uh)

75 I don't know because of the wife beating racist's sloppy journalism.

Posted by: forest at March 12, 2014 07:34 AM (stMuz)

 


The article is very poorly written and apparently in this oconomy The Atlantic has let go all of it's editors.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 12, 2014 03:38 AM (YbFCe)

76 we are taking this obviously biased writers word that the other guy got fired for having a previous larceny charge. Who knows if they guy was lying to him. If he was caught stealing he wouldn't say. And there is a reason they asked the question about theft offenses on the job application. Loss prevention is a huge problem again boo freaking hoo

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:38 AM (zOTsN)

77 I used to shovel shit in old boats on the hudson river during high school to earn some money. I used to have to shower outside with the hose first before my mother even let me inside for my second shower

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2014 03:39 AM (nzKvP)

78 "Obamacare Sinks Alex.  Republicans are Jolly."

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 12, 2014 03:40 AM (V70Uh)

79

Slow morning without Teh Vic.  Think I'll grab another cup of tea.

 

brb.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 03:41 AM (zF6Iw)

80 Five inches of snow, more falling. Manbearpig can bring the massive shovel he uses for bullshit and come and do my driveway. So sick of it. The only small bright spot is at least some melting happened earlier in the week so there's somewhere to put it. Spring, where are you???

Posted by: Gem at March 12, 2014 03:41 AM (zw+pb)

81
Actor Kristian Nairn, who plays Hodor on the series Game of Thrones, has come out as gay. The 38-year-old Northern Irish actor did so in an interview with Game of Thrones fansite WinterIsComing.




As the result of the deeply personal and self revelatory experience of having a movie/TV series to promote....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 12, 2014 03:41 AM (kdS6q)

82 Of course, the manager who spoke to him because he took a 40 minute break, instead of the 30 allowed, gets to be called a "frat boy" yes he has learned so much

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:43 AM (zOTsN)

83 In the article he does say "a larceny charge from his youth."

A couple of problems.  Was it a charge or a conviction?  Big difference.  If the youth was under 18, that conviction should have been expunged. 

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 12, 2014 03:44 AM (V70Uh)

84

President Obama will seek to force businesses to pay millions more in overtime.........

NYT story

Posted by: Case at March 12, 2014 03:46 AM (jhRZ+)

85 Good morning.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 12, 2014 03:47 AM (KuUy9)

86 President Obama will seek to force businesses to pay millions more in overtime......... NYT story Posted by: Case at March 12, 2014 07:46 AM (jhRZ+) obama and de commio: perfect together

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2014 03:48 AM (nzKvP)

87 In the article he does say "a larceny charge from his youth." A couple of problems. Was it a charge or a conviction? Big difference. If the youth was under 18, that conviction should have been expunged. Posted by: Grampa Jimbo I am sure the reporter has a commitment to the truth that would prohibit his tailoring the facts to fit the narrative sure

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:48 AM (zOTsN)

88 >>>>If you have time to lean, you have time to clean<<<<<

The busier you are the faster the shift goes by. Waiting around for a customer to come in and stir things up makes for an interminable day. The windex is your friend.

One of the great things about working at a music store is there is always a guitar that needs tuning or test driving.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at March 12, 2014 03:49 AM (5REbo)

89 If it was fun and easy, it wouldn't be called work.

As a journalist (and a black journalist at that), he never really worked.

That's because it's turned into the InfoTainment Industry and lots and lots of shmooozing goes on so that things can be financed and get done.

This guy was just a cog in the wheel of PR for Politico. A check mark on their list of politically correct actions so they can keep their liberal cred and gain access to certain "types" for interviews. (always good for a politician to be seen in the company of a minority and treating them as an equal)

Then he became a liability and poof he was gone.

Notice he blamed EVERYBODY else except himself for what happened both his firing and the job and it's trials in retail.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 12, 2014 03:49 AM (LSDdO)

90
the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission voted in a measure that bans Tesla from attempting to sell the companyÂ’s line of electric automobiles directly to consumers within the state. If Tesla wants to continue selling automobiles in the state, the company will be forced to sell the cars through traditional franchised dealerships.

Speaking negatively about Governor ChristieÂ’s administration on the official Tesla blog....




Looks like Gov. Sans-A-Belt decided there was no need to involve the legislature is that whole "government" thing.

Christie, a free market conservative -- in the broad sense of the term.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 12, 2014 03:50 AM (kdS6q)

91 My plunge into poverty happened in an instant.

He's lucky Romney only got him fired instead of using his cancer ray. O_O


Oh Bast, he's a "life-long athlete" who thinks moving five bags of garbage and a stack of boxes was "Herculean."   I can feel all those petite old farm wives I grew up with being extremely polite to his face while giving each other the "can you believe this shit?" look.

Posted by: HR at March 12, 2014 03:50 AM (hO8IJ)

92 82 Of course, he still complains about the stereotype that educated, older workers are "harder to manage" and how hard that made his job search. Being significantly late coming back from break two days in a row, and copping an attitude about it is apparently a terrific way to combat that vicious and unfair assumption. All the other older, overqualified workers looking for similar jobs must really want to hug this guy.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 12, 2014 03:51 AM (oXBR7)

93 Joseph Williams: "The story is intended as an illustration of what it is like to work in a low-paid retail environment." THIS: Romney's "good jobs" for Americans. I've read plenty of his woes. Maybe I'll finish, but enough's enough for now. This man has abusive qualities of character. He bites the hand that feeds him, isn't satisfied by divorce but must return to the ex-wife and beat her, I pity any dogs in his path. His own family is not extending their homes for his economic benefit, because they know him all too well. Mr. Williams' exposé illustrates again how much worse things are for Middle and lower-middle class (aka WORKING) Americans since Bill Clinton raided the nation's tax base piggy bank and morality savings account. As for career opportunity? This guy admits his has been due to Affirmative Action paving his way to age 50. "Obtaining work in retail had changed a lot since the 1980s. What used to require a paper application and a schmooze with the manager has turned into an antiseptic online process where human interaction—and the potential for an employment-discrimination complaint—is kept to a minimum. That put me at a distinct disadvantage." He's staying with people he barely knows, sharing their guest bedroom with him? “Think about it, Joey—that’s why there are online applications,” my sister, a veteran human-resources professional, told me. “If you apply online, and you never hear back, they don’t have to tell you why they rejected you and face a discrimination lawsuit.” "I soon realized the only way I’d have a shot in retail is if I dumbed down my job application, met directly with the person in charge before applying, and used my journalism story-telling skills to sell myself, stretching the truth past the breaking point." This "journalist" is a chronic liar. He lied to get a job so that he could burn the employer in The Atlantic. Unrepentant bigot. "My Life as a Retail Worker: Nasty, Brutish, and Poor," published in The Atlantic: it isn't as if Mr. Williams doesn't still have his professional connections intact. After all, Politico and MSNBC! How cruel, throwing the dog back in the pack after treating it like your pet poodle. These bleeding heart liberals need more white guilt. Read on, blah. No. I won't read any more of his drivel. He admitted up front to being fired (let go prior to retirement, not kept on part-time, snipped clean off both network and non-profit teats) and brutalizing his ex-wife. He's not spilling his beans, confessing WHY they let him go without rehiring after a period, or without good references to aid his landing a next job. This man wants the world served up to him on someone else's silver platter. Evidently, his come-uppance pigeons came home to roost, not wanted at home, at work, or with close friends or family. Redistribution: how it goes in real life as a retail worker. Constant pat-downs and searches. So is the company policy to order lunch delivered, or else brown bag it, to avoid the pat-downs? Is this the norm at malls, or just this chain of stores, or his city of crime/theft?

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 12, 2014 03:52 AM (MhA4j)

94 He also misreads the political battlefield for the raising the minimum wage, the big employers don't care - it's the small mom and pop shops that do. 

The big employers want amnesty - so they have an endless supply of guys to replace his whining ass at the drop of a hat.  Preferably, someone whose other option is working 12hr under an equatorial sun for a plate of beans and blanket.

Posted by: Jean at March 12, 2014 03:53 AM (Aqvh6)

95 43 Just bought a new fogger for cars by meguiers  Supposed to make a car smell like new  Getting ready to blast it  Will give a full report  You know, I should do a write-up and send it in for the car thread  I have tested so many products and pretty much know what works and what doesn't  Posted by: Navycopjoe at March ---------- Why does your car stink so bad in the first place? What the hell are you doing in there?

Posted by: shredded chi at March 12, 2014 03:53 AM (0IDyD)

96 59 Yellow Pug you will be "surprised" to learn that there is very little lesbian stuff in the Orange is the New Black book. There is some respect for religion in the book that is missing from the TV show Posted by: tmitsss at March 12, 2014 07:27 AM (Pa9vP) I was referring to the series where there is a hell of a lot of muff diving. And no I wouldn't be "surprised" since that type of behavior is subject to disciplinary charges in prison.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 12, 2014 03:54 AM (r7mtu)

97 HR, that picture is just so dam sad in so many ways.

Posted by: Spring Fling at March 12, 2014 03:54 AM (i7KmQ)

98 We keep hearing Social Security is going to run out, but we never hear about welfare running out. Social Security is something most of us worked for, but welfare is something nobody worked for. Well, we taxpayers worked for it. We just don't get none of it.

Posted by: Erowmero at March 12, 2014 03:55 AM (1gcFZ)

99 yikes on the atlantic piece. want to punch that guy in the nose.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 12, 2014 03:55 AM (3yFC4)

100 I worked at Burger King for two years when I was a teenager. It was kind of fun, except you smelled oily when you left. I was really good on the "cheese board" - making the cheese-containing sandwiches during the lunch rush was like a challenge, to hear the orders over the microphone, keep up, get them right. You learned focus, time-management, keeping track of available resources, team-work. Later, when I was a cashier, I learned people-skills and accounting skills... geez, it was a great first job.

Posted by: Gem at March 12, 2014 03:55 AM (zw+pb)

101 Don't miss this gem:

"I silently prayed no one who knew me would come in during my shift."

Prayed? trying to get a gig on The Blaze Jesus freak

knew me - you were on MSNBC, so you failed stats in college

Posted by: Jean at March 12, 2014 03:55 AM (Aqvh6)

102 Oh Bast, he's a "life-long athlete" who thinks moving five bags of garbage and a stack of boxes was "Herculean." I can feel all those petite old farm wives I grew up with being extremely polite to his face while giving each other the "can you believe this shit?" look. Posted by: HR at March ----------- That was my first thought, HR - and it took him 45 minutes to take out 5 bags & a pile of cardboard??

Posted by: shredded chi at March 12, 2014 03:56 AM (0IDyD)

103 Oh Bast, he's a "life-long athlete" who thinks moving five bags of garbage and a stack of boxes was "Herculean." I can feel all those petite old farm wives I grew up with being extremely polite to his face while giving each other the "can you believe this shit?" look. Posted by: HR I am 5'4" and unloaded truck at a warehouse he is a piece of garbage the fact his own family wouldn't open their doors to him tells you everything

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:56 AM (zOTsN)

104 rich@gmu - do you have my email?

Posted by: Jean at March 12, 2014 03:56 AM (Aqvh6)

105

Rock the bost

[don't rock the boat baybeh]

Rock the boat

you'll tip the boat ovah

Rock the boat

[don't rock the boat baybeh]

Rock the bo-oh-oh-oht

Posted by: that 70's earworm at March 12, 2014 03:58 AM (3ZtZW)

106 And here's where he could have learned something useful but refused:

"Dude," my best friend Jamie said. "After taxes, you're making just enough to get to and from work each day."


Other people need their free shit, Dude.  Get back to work.

Posted by: HR at March 12, 2014 03:58 AM (hO8IJ)

107 On Thursday, the President will direct the Labor Dept. to revamp its regulations to require overtime pay for millions of workers whom many businesses currently classify as "executive" or professional" employees to avoid paying them overtime.-NYT

Posted by: Case at March 12, 2014 03:59 AM (jhRZ+)

108 Re: his family To be completely fair (fairer than necessary) maybe his family lived elsewhere, and he needed to stay close to his kid(s)?

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 12, 2014 03:59 AM (oXBR7)

109 Gosh, I'd like to have some compassion for that journalist forced into working retail by his own poor life choices, but I'm finding I don't give a shit.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 12, 2014 04:00 AM (KuUy9)

110 I worked at Burger King for two years when I was a teenager. It was kind of fun, except you smelled oily when you left. I was really good on the "cheese board" - making the cheese-containing sandwiches during the lunch rush was like a challenge, to hear the orders over the microphone, keep up, get them right. You learned focus, time-management, keeping track of available resources, team-work. Later, when I was a cashier, I learned people-skills and accounting skills... geez, it was a great first job.

Posted by: Gem at March 12, 2014 07:55 AM (zw+pb)


Mee too. If you can't make change on the fly, you ain't no good to anybody.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 04:01 AM (Nk6GS)

111 Pug I was agreeing with you. Hollywood added all that stuff.

Posted by: tmitsss at March 12, 2014 04:01 AM (6jGJ5)

112 Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2014 07:39 AM (nzKvP)

Hoses?

So, you're Bull Conner?

Racist.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 12, 2014 04:02 AM (QFxY5)

113

>>>He lied to get a job so that he could burn the employer in The Atlantic.<<<

 

still shaking my head on that. that article made it into the atlantic.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 12, 2014 04:02 AM (3yFC4)

114 106 Posted by: that 70's earworm at March 12, 2014 07:58 AM (3ZtZW) DC is like a shit on the ocean, We've been sinking with a cargo full of, knee-jerk emotionÂ….

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 12, 2014 04:03 AM (olDqf)

115 Retail is horrible, and the only way to make it any better is to spur economic growth.  When it shifts from being an employer's market to an employee's market, businesses will have to treat their people better, pay more, and give better benefits in order to get people to work for them.  See North Dakota, where you can make over $10.00 an hour flipping burgers, or upwards of 15 working in a WalMart, due to the oil boom luring workers away.  Right now, there's a lot more workers seeking unskilled jobs than there are unskilled jobs, so employers can do whatever they want.  Your only options are to suck it up and work, or go on the dole.  People that go on welfare almost never get off.

Posted by: Cato at March 12, 2014 04:03 AM (J+mig)

116 I go back to Firefox, and I lose my premium membership. Anyone here have a fix for the comment formatting issues?

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 04:03 AM (Nk6GS)

117 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 12, 2014 08:03 AM (olDqf)

The Bard of NYC!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 12, 2014 04:04 AM (QFxY5)

118 Oh Bast, he's a "life-long athlete" who thinks moving five bags of garbage and a stack of boxes was "Herculean." HR, that was one of his lies Mr. Williams admitted fabricating past the point of credibility in order to schmooze the job from interview prior to application. That he is a compulsive liar, and his glee at having sold the lie, Mr. Williams fails to address. When you can't be honest with yourself, you'll never be honest with anyone, let alone the world at large. Don't expect The Atlantic to provide a follow up from a third party reporter, though hardly any investigation would be necessitated, things being hung out to dry as they are, dirty laundry from a lazy turd who can't come clean.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 12, 2014 04:05 AM (MhA4j)

119 >>>105 rich@gmu - do you have my email?

Posted by: Jean at March 12, 2014 07:56 AM (Aqvh6) <<<

 

no i don't. mine is richatuf1 at yahoo dot com. Would be glad to hear from you.

 

Not trying to mar up the thread with my problems horde, sorry. Think I'll go for a walk.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 12, 2014 04:05 AM (3yFC4)

120 Gem, my brother worked at Burger King when we were in high school.  When I picked him up after his shift I would have to ride with my windows rolled down.  The smell was awful.  He was forbidden from leaving his uniform in the the dirty clothes.  He had to strip off and put it directly in the washing machine.  I still can't eat there because of it.    I worked in the produce section of our local grocery store.  It was a much better gig. 

Posted by: no good deed at March 12, 2014 04:05 AM (vBhbc)

121 Please, what is this "good jobs" bullshit? ANY fucking job you can get is a good one. You earn your keep and do with it what you will. An entire culture with an utter lack of self-awareness but an overabundance of "selfless." Fucked we be.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 12, 2014 04:05 AM (olDqf)

122

>>>still shaking my head on that. that article made it into the atlantic.

 

Why? Its just like how people just like him in the 19th century journeyed to various African countries posing as anthropologists, but really just writing harrowing tales of head-shrinking and cannibalism. There should be a Nast cartoon with him in a stewpot surrounded by BK employees or something

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 04:06 AM (3ZtZW)

123 Well gotta pick the wife and older daughter up at LGA Airport today. Can't wait to drive into the city?????

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2014 04:06 AM (nzKvP)

124 117 I go back to Firefox, and I lose my premium membership. Anyone here have a fix for the comment formatting issues? Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 08:03 AM (Nk6GS) I know Google is evil but Chrome works well for me here.

Posted by: Gran at March 12, 2014 04:06 AM (mw0FO)

125

People that go on welfare almost never get off.

 

The older I get, the more appealing that is to me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 04:06 AM (zF6Iw)

126 Has anyone checked tje journo's story out? About how he got where he is? This COULD BE simply a ruse for a story. Yeah, trust, once broken, makes everything you do suspect.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2014 04:07 AM (xorT2)

127 People that go on welfare almost never get off. Posted by: Cato at March 12, 2014 08:03 AM (J+mig) Medicaid doesn't cover Viagra?

Posted by: Gran at March 12, 2014 04:08 AM (mw0FO)

128 I don't particularly want to pile on this journalist dude, but what the hey. The simultaneously self-pitying and self-serving tone was pretty off-putting. And there was this: "My career had been on an upward trajectory for 30 years, and at age 50 I still anticipated a long career." I wonder how his mind interprets the word 'trajectory'. To the moon, Alice! On an upward trajectory!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 12, 2014 04:09 AM (g4TxM)

129 Not trying to mar up the thread with my problems horde, sorry. Think I'll go for a walk.

 

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 12, 2014 08:05 AM (3yFC4)

 

Don't be silly, rich.  I like to think that's part of why we're here.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 04:09 AM (zF6Iw)

130 @126.  After a decade of toiling with minimum wage increases always eating any gains I made within months of my gaining them, I have to admit that giving up and accepting defeat started to sound appealing.  Glad I didn't, I'm starting to build a career now that I finally managed to switch fields into something that isn't a complete dead end...  and sure enough, they're trying to bump the minimum wage up to my new wage level.  Bastards.

Posted by: Cato at March 12, 2014 04:12 AM (J+mig)

131

thanks MP4.

 

>>>Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 08:06 AM (3ZtZW)<<<

 

that made me laugh. needed that. now for that walk.

Posted by: rich@gmu at March 12, 2014 04:13 AM (3yFC4)

132

Is Employer-Based Health Insurance A Barrier To Entrepreneurship?

 

http://is.gd/36PQlc

 

The article argues that people tend to  start businesses after age 65 when their healthcare is covered by medicare and such.

 

The WH is flacking it as a support for Obamacare but I thought the Horde might enjoy chewing it up

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 04:13 AM (3ZtZW)

133

I worked at Burger King for two years when I was a teenager. It was kind of fun, except you smelled oily when you left. I was really good on the "cheese board" - making the cheese-containing sandwiches during the lunch rush was like a challenge, to hear the orders over the microphone, keep up, get them right. You learned focus, time-management, keeping track of available resources, team-work. Later, when I was a cashier, I learned people-skills and accounting skills... geez, it was a great first job.

 

--------------

 

Gem, I had similar experiences at McDonald's as a teen.  It gave me a lot, paid for my car and some of college, and overall was a great thing for me...which is why I'm pissed that the Dems and Statists in the GOP have pissed away the unskilled part time labor market. 

 

Today those jobs just aren't available for teens, or if they are the cultural snobbery of the Left has made such work contemptible to your average 16 year old.

Posted by: @JohnTant at March 12, 2014 04:15 AM (PFy0L)

134 Obama to order overtime pay for professional salaried workers is simply fucking insane.

Posted by: Spring Fling at March 12, 2014 04:15 AM (i7KmQ)

135 If we've grown up in the church or been involved in it for any time, when we go to church services we probably recite the Lord's Prayer. It often happens in a traditional service after the pastoral prayer. I think we often we say it as rote without thinking about it, when this was actually what Jesus was getting away from in presenting it. It is a deeply personal prayer (After all, In the original Aramaic Jesus addresses God the Father as "Dad" or "Daddy") and covers in a short way our relations with God, towards ourself and our neighbors, There was a dear woman in the church I serve-and who died several years ago-who used to say the Lord's prayer every single day first thing in the morning-even before she arose from bed. Both Martin Luther and Dallas Willard-who was a Professor of Philosophy in California and a deeply committed Christian and who died within the past few years-have thought about ways to personalize the Lord's prayer. There are numerous ways to do this, but here's an example if you haven't done it and wish to do so. After you say the traditional words you talk out loud, adding things as you feel they are appropriate. Our Father-(Lord, I want to be a good son or daughter to you, Show me how to love you more and to be more grateful for what you have given me) Who art in heaven (Lord, you are in heaven but you are also around me every day. Thanks for not leaving me, Help me by your Holy Spirit to see you in the people I meet and the sights I see, and the things I say and do. Hallowed be thy name (Show me how to deeply honor and respect you because you are worthy of that). r Thy Kingdom come- (Lord, let your kingdom come in me-that you may reign in me-as we wait to be in your Kingdom in glory and for a new heaven and a new earth. Thy will be done (lLet me do THY will, Jesus, not my own) On earth as it is in heaven-May all people of faith do what is pleasing in your sight Give us this day our daily bread-(I trust you will provide for my sustenance materially as well as spiritually as I spend time with you . And forgive us our trespasses ( I confess my sins, Lord. They are ______._______ and ______), Please forgive me and renovate my life and the lives of others who seek you As we forgive those who trespass against us. (Lord, help me not to be stuck in a spirit of bitterness and anger towards those who have hurt me.) And lead us not into temptation, (Let me not be tempted by circumstances to give up on my faith or do what is displeasing to you.) But deliver us from evil (Surround us with your protection, Lord) And for those who continue-"For thine is the Kingdom and the power and glory forever. Amen " (You are the one who is in control, God. So be it.)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2014 04:15 AM (XyM/Y)

136 I worked 3rd shift at a plant for Friendly's restaurant chains in my summers off from school. There was the regular freezer - which averaged 20 degrees or so. Then there was the "Hardening Room" where I worked, by myself. I believe the temp was -20 or so. This is where the 5 gallon containers of ice cream went to get frozen solid right after being filled so they could then be stacked for shipping. There was enough equipment to keep warm except I could not keep my freaking toes warm. They would go numb every shift.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 12, 2014 04:16 AM (XvrTA)

137 Mee too. If you can't make change on the fly, you ain't no good to anybody. Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 08:01 AM (Nk6GS) ............. Ha! Reminds of an interaction I had with a young college age student working at Caseys the other morning. I was low on cash so I paid for a 1.79 item with a dollar bill, a 50 cent piece and 2 quarters. The kid looks at the 50 cent piece and goes "oh cool, is this like a dollar or something?" I said no its 50 cents. He then then proceeds to put all my money in the drawer and say "have a nice day" I told him he owed me change, and he asked how much did you give me? I replied " I gave you 2 dollars". To which he replied "oh well then how much do I need to give you back?" You owe me 21 cents I said. His reply "Really? Are you sure?". What an idiot. His parents are probably paying boatloads for his education too.

Posted by: Molly k. at March 12, 2014 04:16 AM (f8cHe)

138 Aw, poor widdle journo. Embrace the suck!

Posted by: Corona at March 12, 2014 04:16 AM (fh2Y7)

139 114. that article made it into the atlantic. Posted by: rich@gmu You can imagine the Spiel out of Williams' mouth, bombarding The Atlantic with calls, whining about social injustice. Funny or Die http://tinyurl.com/pqc664d The Atlantic lacked the basic insight of the humorist Galifianakis who "made it in Hollywood despite smelling like Doritos." It burns Obama to be asked, "How does it feel to be the last black president?" The horror of tact in a tactless world.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 12, 2014 04:17 AM (MhA4j)

140 Obama to order overtime pay for professional salaried workers is simply fucking insane. Posted by: Spring Fling at March 12, 2014 08:15 AM (i7KmQ) And how on G-D's Green Earth can that be Constitutional?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2014 04:17 AM (nzKvP)

141 I know Google is evil but Chrome works well for me here.

Posted by: Gran at March 12, 2014 08:06 AM (mw0FO)



Yeah, it worked for me too, but it's missing a few features (RSS feeds in the bookmarks) and add-ons I really like in Firefox - and I figured out the FF 27 resource-hog problem.


This however, makes me ampersandless. That makes me sad.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 04:17 AM (Nk6GS)

142 By the way FOX News probably saved that Kids life who needed the Antibiotics. I don't see MSNBC doing shit like that

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2014 04:18 AM (nzKvP)

143 Remember Stephen Glass and The New Republic? "After the fall," Glass did very well in law school, then found out that all his favorite states had morals clauses on their bar exams. He's a top-tier paralegal now. With a novel, and a movie.

That's the white-upper-class version of selling sport shoes. It is unlikely though that TNR will ever publish his "work" again, unlike this lit fuse.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 12, 2014 04:18 AM (xq1UY)

144 Worked at a Bojangles for about a month while in HS. FAst food is bad, fried chicken the worst. But the cats loved me when I came home.

Posted by: blaster at March 12, 2014 04:18 AM (4+AaH)

145 Obama to order overtime pay for professional salaried workers is simply fucking insane.

 

Posted by: Spring Fling at March 12, 2014 08:15 AM (i7KmQ)

Sure.  But who's going to stop him?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 04:19 AM (zF6Iw)

146 Anyone here have a fix for the comment formatting issues?

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 08:03 AM (Nk6GS)

#twoweeks

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 12, 2014 04:19 AM (QFxY5)

147 I got your ampersands right here. &&&&&&&&

Posted by: blaster at March 12, 2014 04:19 AM (4+AaH)

148 Posted by: Molly k. at March 12, 2014 08:16 AM (f8cHe)



And it is so fucking simple, you count to the next five, ten, and quarter to the next dollar and then count ones and such from there. No math necessary.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 04:20 AM (Nk6GS)

149

Joe Williams  as  Michael Douglas in the remake of "Falling Down."

 

 

"I am  not economically viable."

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 12, 2014 04:20 AM (BAS5M)

150 One line in particular irked me.

He chafed at having to wipe down the exterior glass doors every night, even though "they didn't really need it."

Who the fuck are you, you self-important, arrogant ass? Your vast experience in retail tells you that the doors are clean enough?

Start your own fucking business and decide for yourself when the doors need cleaning. But in the meantime, do your fucking job and shut your trap.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 12, 2014 04:23 AM (QFxY5)

151 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 12, 2014 04:23 AM (PYAXX)

152 so I paid for a 1.79 item with a dollar bill, a 50 cent piece and 2 quarters. The kid looks at the 50 cent piece and goes "oh cool, is this like a dollar or something?"  - Molly k ------------ Well, at least he took it. I'm a fan of dollar coins. I can't tell you how many cashiers think they're fake or foreign currency and refuse to accept them. idiots.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 12, 2014 04:24 AM (0IDyD)

153 @146. I think this would be a problem for the administration. There are plenty of companies who will have standing, and many I am sure willing to fight it in court. Like to see how the DoJ defends prosecution for breaking an executive order.

Posted by: blaster at March 12, 2014 04:25 AM (4+AaH)

154 I would wager that more than 95% of the regular commenters here worked various part time jobs during high school and college, including but not limited to fast food, retail stores, farming, construction, paper delivery, lawn care, or odd jobs. I know I did. (mowed lawns, babysitting, errand boy for construction, orchard work [pruning, thinning, picking, sorting, boxing], Shakey's Pizza, customer service at Woolco, gofer at a steel culvert pipe factory, surgical orderly at a local hospital [mopping floors, shave prepping testicles], phlebotomist, and I probably missed a couple)

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 12, 2014 04:26 AM (g4TxM)

155

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 12, 2014 08:26 AM (g4TxM)

 

Seamus is a Hard Workin' Jamaican

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 04:27 AM (3ZtZW)

156 I told him he owed me change, and he asked how much did you give me? I replied " I gave you 2 dollars". To which he replied "oh well then how much do I need to give you back?" You owe me 21 cents $21 dollars.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2014 04:27 AM (xorT2)

157 then found out that all his favorite states had morals clauses on their bar exams.

I giggled.

Posted by: HR at March 12, 2014 04:27 AM (hO8IJ)

158 Posted by: Ugg Boots at March 12, 2014 08:23 AM (oGrEy) [/] Lessee...&&&&

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 04:28 AM (Nk6GS)

159 Posted by: Ugg Boots at March 12, 2014 08:23 AM (oGrEy) Yay! Ugg Boots worked for me!

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 04:29 AM (Nk6GS)

160 I also worked on and off in my Father's 2 liquor stores. Delivery man was the best job. Made a fortune delivering when the regular delivery guy was off

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2014 04:29 AM (nzKvP)

161 136. Yes, ritual without consciousness is as blaring trumpets or tinkling bells. I agree that the experience with divinity occurs when we reach, when we open our hearts and minds because the spirit is willing. Jesus admonished us to pray in secret, whether privately or within the Mystery of contemplative ritual where two or three are gathered together in His name. 1 Corinthians 13:1-2 "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." Humbling.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 12, 2014 04:30 AM (MhA4j)

162

From the article:

 

Working in retail takes more skill than just selling stuff. Besides the mindless tasks one expects—folding, stacking, sorting, fetching things for customers—I frequently had to tackle a series of housekeeping chores that Stretch never mentioned in our welcome-aboard chat. Performed during the late shift, those chores usually meant I’d have to stay well past the scheduled 9 p.m. quitting time.

 

----------------

 

For fuck's sake.

 

As a 16 year old I worked the closing shift at McDonald's, got up to go to school, lathered, rinsed, and repeated...until the end of the week, when I'd close on Friday and then help open on Saturday.  And if you had a crappy closing crew you'd be there past midnight/1am  even though the store closed at 10.  Plus, if you habitually ran late the store manager or owner would chew your ass.  So yeah, having to stay late to  finish your job duties  is, well, your own goddamned fault.

 

Something tells me if he was a customer and the store wasn't run the way he is complaining it was (eg not tidy, dirty front door, trash, etc...) he'd be bitching about it.  This guy is a professional whiner.

Posted by: @JohnTant at March 12, 2014 04:30 AM (PFy0L)

163 No sympathy for this asshole. I encounter his type all of the time. That's one reason I never ask for help at a store. He has no idea what work is. I wish instead he had to take a job pumping septic tanks or installing HVAC ducts in an attic in the Summer. Maybe insulation installer. He probably wouldn't last two days.

Posted by: freaked at March 12, 2014 04:31 AM (JdEZJ)

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 04:31 AM (3ZtZW)

165 The fuck. 17 inches of snow coming at noon. Blizzard warning in effect. All schools and government offices closed. Areas warned against non-emergency driving. ALL upper management sitting at home. Didn't even bother coming in. And we the workers were ordered in no uncertain terms to come to work and stay at work the whole day or don't bother coming back. Ordered to do this by gutless fucking cowards sitting in their snug homes sipping fucking brandy. THE FUCK??????i

Posted by: Citizen X at March 12, 2014 04:31 AM (7ObY1)

166 Hopefully this isn't a duplicate of something above, but here is a bit more info about our fine reporter who slummed in retail.

http://tinyurl.com/orcgkaf

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 12, 2014 04:32 AM (QFxY5)

167 I've worked fast(ish) food, food service (that would be: sit down restaurant), and call centers. I've even done (very, VERY briefly) door-to-door sales. Now, I can't say I've been required to be searched when I left a store, but I also never worked retail. What I did know- even back then- was that you did what you were asked -without complaint- and did the best job you could or you'd be out on your ear. I couldn't finish reading that steaming mass of entitlement mentality.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 12, 2014 04:32 AM (PYAXX)

168 I would wager that more than 95% of the regular commenters here worked various part time jobs during high school and college, Try grade school. 5th - 8th grade. Had regular customers. Lawn mowing & hand edging in summer, snow shoveling in winter. $3 front, $2 back. Yeah. Get off my lawn.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2014 04:32 AM (xorT2)

169 Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 12, 2014 08:26 AM (g4TxM) Paper route, Burger King, then McDonalds and hospital orderly. Last two at the same time while holding down an honors GPA (3.3) in HS and twice a week meetings and occasional weekends for Sea Cadets. I'll never do that again if I can help it, but I know that I CAN if I need to.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 04:32 AM (Nk6GS)

170

17 inches of snow coming at noon. Blizzard warning in effect. All schools and government offices closed. Areas warned against non-emergency driving.

 

----------

 

Al Gore is in town, is he?

Posted by: @JohnTant at March 12, 2014 04:32 AM (PFy0L)

171 As a teenager...Grocery store cashier, laundry mat cashier, janitor, paper boy, pizza restaurant busboy. Taught me to work hard and appreciate the "good" jobs I've had, and been successful at, since. GFY

Posted by: Blue State Hostage at March 12, 2014 04:33 AM (FgCn/)

172 Posted by: Citizen X at March 12, 2014 08:31 AM (7ObY1) Stage a walk-out. Get at least 30% of the workers to leave. Then, if they *do* follow through with firing you, you can class-action suit them out of business. Heck, if you have deep enough pockets, you can just walk out yourself- other workers not necessary. They literally cannot fire you (at least- they can't in TX, don't know where you are) for refusing to go into work when there is a life-threatening safety issue present (you know- like a blizzard).

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 12, 2014 04:34 AM (PYAXX)

173

I was referring to the series where there is a hell of a lot of muff diving.

 

Go on...

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 12, 2014 04:34 AM (DrWcr)

174
Try grade school. 5th - 8th grade. Had regular customers. Lawn mowing & hand edging in summer, snow shoveling in winter.
$3 front, $2 back.
Posted by: rickb223




"You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!"

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 12, 2014 04:35 AM (kdS6q)

175

Now, I can't say I've been required to be searched when I left a store, but I also never worked retail. 

 

----------

 

I worked retail shortly before graduating college...it was in a suburban shopping mall for a software store.  I was never searched, but then it was that kind of environment.

 

It's not said in the article, but I have an idea which sporting goods store the author is talking about and it's definitely in a place where shrinkage/theft is something to be guarded against. 

Posted by: @JohnTant at March 12, 2014 04:35 AM (PFy0L)

176 Alex Sink rides global warming alarmist to surprise congressional defeat. I'm giggling out loud.

Posted by: Spring Fling at March 12, 2014 04:35 AM (i7KmQ)

177 What I did know- even back then- was that you did what you were asked -without complaint- and did the best job you could or you'd be out on your ear. I couldn't finish reading that steaming mass of entitlement mentality. Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 12, 2014 08:32 AM (PYAXX) [/] They called that....hustle, back in the day. And even then it was a bit of a rare commodity. Today? Show a little hustle and everyone else will wonder if you're blowing the manager or something, you'll move up so fast.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 04:35 AM (Nk6GS)

178 I mowed lawns, cleaned up the lot at a Zippy Mart, worked at a car auction as a driver and flunky...

Posted by: blaster at March 12, 2014 04:37 AM (4+AaH)

179 I worked part time at a doctor's office. My shift ended at 9pm. Times I got out of there at 9? Maybe twice. Cry me a fucking river, whiny toolbag.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 12, 2014 04:37 AM (qBtUE)

180

17 inches of snow coming at noon. Blizzard warning in effect. All schools and government offices closed. Areas warned against non-emergency driving.

 

Seventeen!!!??  Sweet Elvis H. Presley, and here I am complaining about a possible three inches tonight.  Stay safe, Citizen X.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 04:37 AM (zF6Iw)

181 Lt. Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brig.-Gen. Hossein Salami said Tuesday that Iranian military commanders are prepared to attack and destroy the Zionist regime of Israel as soon as they receive such an order. "Today, we can destroy every spot which is under the Zionist regime's control with any volume of firepower (that we want) right from here," Salami said in Tehran. "Islam has given us this wish, capacity and power to destroy the Zionist regime so that our hands will remain on the trigger from 1,400 km. away for the day when such an incident (confrontation with Israel) takes place."
(Fars-Iran)

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 12, 2014 04:37 AM (QFxY5)

182 Wow, looks like Tingles was drunker than usual on air last night. If he wasn't such a vile human being, I'd actually feel sorry for him. Dude clearly has a real problem.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 12, 2014 04:37 AM (7ObY1)

183 Posted by: @JohnTant at March 12, 2014 08:35 AM (PFy0L) Yeah, a lot of times it's also store-by-store. My employer happens to be a niche retail chain. Some of our stores require employees to be searched when they leave (I think one or two require they be searched when they arrive- that's got to be an... interesting... work environment). Most don't. Our warehouse/fulfillment employees ARE required to walk through a metal detector before they leave, and they're patted down if it beeps.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 12, 2014 04:38 AM (PYAXX)

184 Seventeen!!!?? Sweet Elvis H. Presley, and here I am complaining about a possible three inches tonight. Stay safe, Citizen X. We will try! I'm near Buffalo, we're used to it. Office is in near revolt right now. We're staging a work-out. Going to take an e-smoke break instead of answering e-mails.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 12, 2014 04:39 AM (7ObY1)

185 So in 6 months he burned through his life savings, 401k...etc that he earned in a 6 figure job as a journalist?

Posted by: E.T. at March 12, 2014 04:39 AM (uGlk8)

186 how a little hustle and everyone else will wonder if you're blowing the manager or something, you'll move up so fast.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 08:35 AM (Nk6GS)

That's contrary to my experience.  Get too good at something, show too much enthusiasm for it, and that was now your thing forever, and you just made yourself immune to promotion.  The best way to advance in retail is to be all-around good, but not indispensible.  If you're indispensible, you are guaranteed a dead-end job.

Posted by: Cato at March 12, 2014 04:40 AM (J+mig)

187

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 12, 2014 08:35 AM (kdS6q)

 

Luxury.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 04:40 AM (zF6Iw)

188 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 12, 2014 08:35 AM (kdS6q) *** Nicely played.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 12, 2014 04:40 AM (g4TxM)

189 Deportation #s are a total lie. Used to be an illegal caught at the border and turned back didn't caught. Obama counts that. In fact, that's now most official "deportations". The point is so Obama can claim he's deporting more illegals than Bush. It's all a lie. DRUDGE REPORT ‏@DRUDGE_REPORT ADMIT: DHS cooking books on 'deportations'... http://drudge.tw/1iA3u8p

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 12, 2014 04:40 AM (ZPrif)

190 So in 6 months he burned through his life savings, 401k...etc that he earned in a 6 figure job as a journalist? Well, I'm assuming he lost a big chunk in the settlement with his ex-wife. But he was probably living outside his means even before that. Most, unfortunately, do.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 12, 2014 04:41 AM (PYAXX)

191

So in 6 months he burned through his life savings, 401k...etc that he earned in a 6 figure job as a journalist?

 

----------

 

He probably (and rightfully) lost a good chunk of his assets to the wife he was smacking around.  So there's that.

Posted by: @JohnTant at March 12, 2014 04:41 AM (PFy0L)

192 If you're indispensible, you are guaranteed a dead-end job.

You cannot move up if it creates a vacuum behind you.  Always be training your replacement.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 12, 2014 04:42 AM (V70Uh)

193

They called that....hustle, back in the day.

 

Back when Vic figured out how to make bricks without straw.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 04:42 AM (zF6Iw)

194 169. Politico suspended Williams after he told a national TV audience that his own publication [Politico's] a “shitburger” when it comes to diversity and race. Biting the hand that feeds him.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 12, 2014 04:43 AM (MhA4j)

195 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 12, 2014 08:38 AM (PYAXX)

I worked for years for a company that required everyone to go through a metal detector on the way in and out, and a secondary wanding if it beeped.


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 12, 2014 04:43 AM (QFxY5)

196 197 169. Politico suspended Williams after he told a national TV audience that his own publication [Politico's] a “shitburger” when it comes to diversity and race.

Biting the hand that feeds him.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 12, 2014 08:43 AM (MhA4j)

 

Dumbass. 

Posted by: Insomniac at March 12, 2014 04:43 AM (DrWcr)

197 Back when Vic figured out how to make bricks without straw. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 08:42 AM (zF6Iw) *** I just pictured Vic standing triumphantly atop the Pyramids after placing the last brick!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 12, 2014 04:43 AM (g4TxM)

198 Did anyone else notice he lied about the 30 hour thing? Obamacare is the reason employers won't give part timers more than 30 hours. I know cuz corporate gets on my bosses ass when he gives me more than 30

Posted by: bobo at March 12, 2014 04:44 AM (3KeVH)

199 A kid in a school one district over from me just got suspended for wearing an NRA t-shirt to school. Grand Island High School, NY, if anyone is interested in searching it. Just heard it on our local right-leaning AM station.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 12, 2014 04:44 AM (7ObY1)

200

At the bottom of the piece:

 

"This story was produced with support from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project."

 

Anyone click through to the link?  The mission of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project is to work with "unemployed or underemployed journalists."

 

It's so bad out there that fired journalists have their own charity.  And I'm giggling with glee.

Posted by: @JohnTant at March 12, 2014 04:45 AM (PFy0L)

201 And starting an official "deportation" of someone caught at the border actually means they get to stay. Used to be if you got caught at the border you were sent right back to Mexico. Now if you get caught at the border you are officially "deported". That means you are processed through the system and official "deportation" proceeding are brought against you. That takes a while. In the meantime ... you are released into America. You just have to promise to show up to your deportation hearings. As Obama's illegal aunt and uncle showed --- you can stay here for decades if you just ... don't show up to your deportation hearings.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 12, 2014 04:45 AM (ZPrif)

202 Posted by: Cato at March 12, 2014 08:40 AM (J+mig) I think we're talking about the same thing. I don't mean get pigeonholed, I mean hustle. It's graded on a curve - you only have to be noticeably better than your peers in general, and not cause headaches by being late, drunk, hungover, with an attitude, etc.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 04:45 AM (Nk6GS)

203 Politico suspended Williams after he told a national TV audience that his own publication [Politico's] a “shitburger� when it comes to diversity and race. Biting the hand that feeds him. Always bad juju.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2014 04:46 AM (xorT2)

204 Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 08:45 AM (Nk6GS)

Good point, I was just sharing advice in case anyone finds themselves there.

Posted by: Cato at March 12, 2014 04:48 AM (J+mig)

205 Nice job Andy After reading about the reporter. I'll give him this much credit, he didn't sit on his ass for 2 years and suck on the unemployment teat. He didn't whine that the job was beneath him so he wouldn't take it. Gabe hungover this morning on the big GOP win?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2014 04:49 AM (HVff2)

206 I worked in a coal mine when I was a baby. I was a shovel. (Stolen joke)

Posted by: eman at March 12, 2014 04:49 AM (AO9UG)

207 "...late, drunk, hungover, with an attitude..."

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 08:45 AM (Nk6GS)

So, is that a job description for AOSHQ commenter?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 12, 2014 04:51 AM (QFxY5)

208 And that's how Obama can have official "deportation" #s that are even higher than Bush -- all while actually deporting as few people as possible and doing as much as he can to encourage illegal immigration. If you are under-18 at you turn yourself in at the border ... you get to stay thanks to Obama "Dreamers" executive order. You don't even have to bother sneaking in. Just walk up to the border. You get officially processed, official "deportation" proceedings start, you are released into the interior of America, and then Obama's executive order waives your deportation proceedings.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 12, 2014 04:51 AM (ZPrif)

209 Politico White House correspondent Joe Williams, who was suspended by the site for commenting that Mitt Romney felt ?relaxed? in the company of the ?white folks? at Fox and Friends, tweeted in March that ?what?s most irritating is the overlay of blatant racism. that?s the secret sauce in the Politico shitburger,? Gosh, I can't imagine why they let him go.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 12, 2014 04:51 AM (x1L8S)

210 I particularly like how the journalist, in typical lib fashion, and following SCOAMT's example, readily accepts personal responsibility and accountability for what happened to him.  (If this is the complete article, it appears he left off my right wing cat as a source of his troubles)

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 12, 2014 04:52 AM (BZAd3)

211 197 169. Politico suspended Williams after he told a national TV audience that his own publication [Politico's] a “shitburger” when it comes to diversity and race. Biting the hand that feeds him. Posted by: panzernashorn at March 12, 2014 08:43 AM (MhA4j) Funny how he left that out in the piece and let it all fall on the eeeeevil Republican. What a schmuck. I would think he learned something about himself and assuming responsiblity for his actions from his time in purgatory, but from the article, I doubt it.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 04:52 AM (Nk6GS)

212 Posted by: Citizen X at March 12, 2014 08:44 AM (7ObY1) What would "be" news is if an American student could wear an NRA, a US Flag, or Constitution themed T-shirt without being penalized at school by "authorities" for inciting hate crimes. Schools: Guns: zero tolerance. Even using the index finger is getting phased out, preference to flipping the bird when "pointing".

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 12, 2014 04:54 AM (MhA4j)

213 210 "...late, drunk, hungover, with an attitude..." Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 08:45 AM (Nk6GS) So, is that a job description for AOSHQ commenter? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 12, 2014 08:51 AM (QFxY5) I didn't say we were ideal, just that we recognize it. There IS a reason we're here during the workday after all.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 04:54 AM (Nk6GS)

214 Sorry about that formatting. Pixy, you bossy bitch.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 12, 2014 04:56 AM (x1L8S)

215 Greetings and salutations, Horde. Chang and Eng's granddaughter got beat last night. For that, I'm thankful. SNAFU, y'all.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 12, 2014 04:56 AM (0HooB)

216 In reference to the gangster government...


Remember last year when the issue of legal insider trading by politicians came up and caused like two whole waves of outrage (which quietly and quickly died down).

Well, you should know that insider trading by politicians is, while technically illegal by statute, is for all practical purposes, legal.  They did nothing to specifically address Washington insider trading.  So if you are wonder how politicians are able to become millionaires within one or two years of arriving in D.C., you have at least one of a myriad of answers.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 12, 2014 04:56 AM (BZAd3)

217 I'd rather work landscaping in the Florida summers than retail.  Still, this Williams guy comes off as a colossal douche.  Publicly dumping on his employer?  Stoopid. 

Posted by: Insomniac at March 12, 2014 04:57 AM (DrWcr)

218 BTW - If you were convicted of insider trading, you'd spend a decade in jail and pay millions in fines. 

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 12, 2014 04:57 AM (BZAd3)

219 The Malaysian Mystery continues.

The yellow and black deflated lifeboat that had been found off Port Dickson, well its more strange.  The divers who found it let it sink.  And someone has dug up a photo of a raft like the one in picture and its a raft for boats.

Malaysian Civil Aviation Authority told families in Beijing the last voice transmission from the plane was "Okay, good night."  Plane never contacted Vietnam.

Search area it seems is moving into the Andaman Sea.  But last contact info is still confused,muddy, and contradictory.  Early Mar 12th 2014 the commander of Malaysia's Air Force stated, he did not make statements about the aircraft being tracked across Malaysia into the Strait of Malacca. The Air Force does not discount the possibility of an air turn back however, as stated in a press conference on Mar 9th 2014.

http://avherald.com/h?article=4710c69b&opt=0




Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 04:59 AM (23VXG)

220 The infuriating part of the 'GOP = Party of the Rich' mindset is that it's the Dems that are the big-time crony party, and steeped in the rampant theft and corruption that's destroying the country. GOP graft is small-town when the grand majority of gummint spending goes to funding the Dem crime syndicate.

Posted by: --- at March 12, 2014 04:59 AM (ksJYU)

221 Supposed to get 14 -22" here in the next 24 hours according to TWC. Seriously, that's as close as they can get? Â…on another note, if you haven't seen Chris Tingles' live verbal face plant , (I saw it on Hotair last nite) check it out. Â…..excellent tho brief bit of shadentingle.

Posted by: ontherocks at March 12, 2014 05:00 AM (+9Y17)

222 DHS cooking books on 'deportations'... http://drudge.tw/1iA3u8p

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 12, 2014 08:40 AM (ZPrif)


Jut think what the numbers would be like if this administration wasn't transparent!

Posted by: The Toaster at March 12, 2014 05:00 AM (o3MSL)

223 What a whiner.

I felt the journalist was suggesting it changed but his description sounded very familiar. I worked retail 30 years ago. Obviously no cameras but bag checks, no sitting EVER, "undercover" loss prevention employed to check out employees as much as shoppers and I had to do random housekeeping duties which I usually volunteered for ... it broke up the shift. The other big change is the online application process. I know from my son you can't walk into any of those large chains and get a job. For better or worse its all online.

I don't necessarily believe the last bit about what the manager said when he quit. Yes it could be true, there are plenty of asshole managers out there but my experience in those type of jobs was when you resign, managers look up smile, thank you for your employment, giving notice instead of just not showing up and ask you for your name tag back. None of them take it personal.

Posted by: Frank at March 12, 2014 05:01 AM (7Nabg)

224 So if you are wonder how politicians are able to become millionaires within one or two years of arriving in D.C., you have at least one of a myriad of answers.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 12, 2014 08:56 AM (BZAd3)


And for all practical purposes, they get to use their campaign contributions as seed money for the "illegal-for-you-but-legal-for-me" investments.

Posted by: The Toaster at March 12, 2014 05:02 AM (o3MSL)

225 posted by: panzernashorn at March 12, 2014 08:30 AM (MhA4j) Thanks for your thoughts and the posting of the passage from Corinthians, Panzer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2014 05:04 AM (XyM/Y)

226 And for all practical purposes, they get to use their campaign contributions as seed money for the "illegal-for-you-but-legal-for-me" investments.

Posted by: The Toaster at March 12, 2014 09:02 AM (o3MSL)



Exactly why they squeal like piggies when they're primaried.  That's money they'd prefer to feather their nest with.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 12, 2014 05:04 AM (BZAd3)

227 Funny, I was thinking that what happened to him should be happening to all journalist, every day of the week.  It's good to hear the blogging community gave him some of his own medicine.

Posted by: Paladin at March 12, 2014 05:05 AM (LTquJ)

228 214. Williams is a "special" schmuck, the sort who knows full well why he's penalized, but just can't stop himself from shitting on everyone. He's a public health menace. Even his "shitburger" confession slammed himself as the shit between the broadcast lines. Again, given The Atlantic, they went out on a limb because he made their editors feel white guilt for letting Williams down because "social justice" blah; blame society for his own faults. Stupid is as stupid does; as if his article isn't repugnant enough to readers with comprehension skills, Williams' follow up will shit on The Atlantic soon enough. He just can't help himself. Chronic deceitful abuser whose sole professional pleasure derives from pulling the wool over someone's eyes and getting paid for it. Isn't he clever. Not. There is always the straw that finally breaks the camel's back. And Williams just used up his last credible publisher for a deceit hurrah. Someone interested in him further? His indiscreet tweets already burned his employment status. Expose his blog entries if you've the sanitary equipment of separation.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 12, 2014 05:06 AM (MhA4j)

229 "Remember this: If you work for a man, in Heaven's name, work for him. If he pays you wages which supply you bread and butter, work for him; speak well of him; stand by the institution he represents. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage - resign your position, and when you are on the outside, damn to your heart's content, but as long as you are part of the institution do not condemn it." -Elbert Hubbard Douche Williams

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 05:08 AM (Nk6GS)

230 Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 12, 2014 08:56 AM (BZAd3) Eyes shall be opened.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 12, 2014 05:08 AM (MhA4j)

231 Money? Two words : Cattle Futures Worked for me.

Posted by: Hillary at March 12, 2014 05:11 AM (aDwsi)

232 As a former Truck Driver I used to get screwed nearly every week on overtime.  I ran the regional routes from Maine to Philadelphia and I sometimes pulled 16 hour days.  NYC was especially bad for this.  Once I started to get up in hours they told me to stay home multiple days to keep my hours down.  this happened almost every week.  I would get a day or two off during the middle of the week.  Screwed me out of a ton of OT.

Posted by: Registered Voter at March 12, 2014 05:11 AM (MZGhy)

233 223. Posted by: --- at March 12, 2014 08:59 AM (ksJYU) If only "they" were to blame for it all. Goppers are as much the whitened sepulchers holding corruption as Leftists are. Perhaps the GOP applies whitewash more effectively to "our" tastes. Physician, heal thyself.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 12, 2014 05:12 AM (MhA4j)

234 208 After reading about the reporter. I'll give him this much credit, he didn't sit on his ass for 2 years and suck on the unemployment teat. He didn't whine that the job was beneath him so he wouldn't take it

Perhaps you have a point. However I am sure his motives weren't all that pure. He took the job knowing full well he was turn it around to his advantage and write a story about his experience. I'd wouldn't be surprised if he had already pitched the idea before even getting the job. Heck he probably already had an advance for the article before he punched the clock on his first day.

Posted by: Frank at March 12, 2014 05:13 AM (7Nabg)

235

Sure ... the writer is a dick ... but if he was expected to do work "off the clock", as he writes - that's bullshit.

 

Hourly is hourly. And retail clerk is not a salaried position.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 12, 2014 05:15 AM (Hj2M6)

236 -Zero- sympathy for the guy.

Posted by: Hillary at March 12, 2014 05:16 AM (aDwsi)

237 I cleaned Chicken Houses, with a shovel, for $1.50 an hour

Posted by: CSMBigBird at March 12, 2014 05:16 AM (jsWA8)

238 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2014 09:04 AM (XyM/Y) Likewise, much obliged.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 12, 2014 05:16 AM (MhA4j)

239 Dear whiny punk journalist, you had one job.  Suck it up you special snowflake.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 05:17 AM (23VXG)

240 Keep tapping the sympathy meter but the needle just won't move. Oh, and read some of the comments on the article -- none of them, not one, blames Obama for the state of the economy. It's as if Bush were still in office as far as they're concerned.

Posted by: joncelli at March 12, 2014 05:18 AM (RD7QR)

241 Hourly is hourly. And retail clerk is not a salaried position. Posted by: ScoggDog at March 12, 2014 09:15 AM

Another thing I don't buy. Yes other jobs try to screw you over hours but hourly retail?

Posted by: Frank at March 12, 2014 05:19 AM (7Nabg)

242 Hey we're closing at noon due to teh snowmagedden too. They're talking up to 20 inches but looking around I don't believe it

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 05:19 AM (3ZtZW)

243 In other news, and sort of on the topic, most Americans can't afford new cars.

http://t.co/fnHT5pb48A

No mention that is was by design.  People who can go where they want when they want (instead of being tied to "near the bus line") are harder to control.

Posted by: HR at March 12, 2014 05:20 AM (hO8IJ)

244 Sheesh, what a whiner. If he'd had to do half of the stuff I've done on the job, he'd still be in the fetal position.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 12, 2014 05:20 AM (0HooB)

245 Jerry Sandusky's wife: "He is innocent."

Posted by: Spring Fling at March 12, 2014 05:21 AM (i7KmQ)

246 Sadly I couldn't even GET to the good part about his actual work in retail. I couldn't get past how he was so put upon by his insensitive comments about Romney or his glossing over "2nd degree assault" on his wife. I find it laugh out loud HYSTERICAL that the idiot thought his casual hypothesis that Romney looked "stiff" at townhall meetings was because he was only comfortable around his own kind, i.e. white people was even remotely defensible. Based on what?! Just spitballing some ridiculous theory on MSNBC is not "journalism". Do these idiots NOT get that ? Maybe his foray into retail was just the kind of exit from the liberal media echo chamber he needed, though I doubt it.

Posted by: deadrody at March 12, 2014 05:21 AM (aT8Zk)

247 Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 09:08 AM (Nk6GS)

I remember when if you had a job, you expected to work for your pay, and if you weren't willing to do that there was another that was.  And work was doing what you were told was required and trying to do it well.

Vote buying, AA, and the EEOC have screwed up a lot in this country.

Unfortunately, reading this whiners article, I can understand what the CoC wants amnesty.  Juan may not speak English, but if I can find a translator, he will work his ass off (the books).

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 12, 2014 05:22 AM (o3MSL)

248

Frank ... yeah, and my "if" should been an "IF". I'm not sold on his claim either.

 

Mom and Pop sports will ABSOLUTELY try to screw you. Dick's Sporting Goods has got to watch their ass.

 

Them again, I could see a manager trying it.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 12, 2014 05:23 AM (Hj2M6)

249 Neil Young introducing "Pono" music player. I actually snorted loudly.

Posted by: Spring Fling at March 12, 2014 05:24 AM (i7KmQ)

250 Posted by: deadrody at March 12, 2014 09:21 AM (aT8Zk) He spitballed one thing, glossed over another, and flat left out his comment that Politico was a "shitburger". Which one of those do you think Politico couldn't ignore?

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 05:24 AM (Nk6GS)

251 Obtaining work in retail had changed a lot since the 1980s. What used to require a paper application and a schmooze with the manager has turned into an antiseptic online process where human interaction—and the potential for an employment-discrimination complaint—is kept to a minimum. That put me at a distinct disadvantage. Minority grievance monger finds his first "disadvantage". Surprise, surprise, surprise!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 12, 2014 05:25 AM (HsTG8)

252 208. "he didn't sit on his ass for 2 years and suck on the unemployment teat." -- Maybe not "for 2 years". Then again, without investigating, who's to say Williams didn't file for unemployment benefits when his ass hit the curbside? I agree with Frank #238 @ 9:13 "He took the job knowing full well he was to turn it around to his advantage and write a story about his experience." -- THAT much is completely legitimate, not saying what Williams wrote was legitimate. But taking a job in order to write from that perspective "is" investigative journalism. Again, I agree with Frank, a very likely scenario which, btw, would explain how The Atlantic was dragged into sponsoring Williams' social justice agenda for deceit. Hook, line, sinker. Given that they published what they did, however, would reflect their own take on the matter being Williams' own. That's a knock on themselves, another shitburger. "I wouldn't be surprised if he had already pitched the idea before even getting the job. Heck he probably already had an advance for the article before he punched the clock on his first day."

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 12, 2014 05:25 AM (MhA4j)

253 "I knew I had to leave Sporting Goods Inc. when I realized I was turning into the sort-of overeager employee who is way too emotionally invested in a crappy menial job that does its best to devalue him." Oh, it is too rich. Lesson, don't ever like and take pride in your work. Notice how proud he was of his silly, ignorant statement about Romney.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 12, 2014 05:26 AM (A98Xu)

254 No mention that is was by design. People who can go where they want when they want (instead of being tied to "near the bus line") are harder to control.

Posted by: HR at March 12, 2014 09:20 AM (hO8IJ)


And pert of the plan was to destroy thousands of perfectly usable trade-in vehicles suitable for many more miles of service at an affordable price, but noooo, we needs us some high speed rail (very little of which will ever be built, almost none of that that is built will actually be high speed, and much of the government (public) funding will wind up in the pockets of Obama's prog cronies).

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 12, 2014 05:26 AM (o3MSL)

255 I wonder how this guy would feel if he'd spent years in school and OJT to improve his skills at a job he enjoyed only to discover the government was going to transition to a "new economy" that didn't include his field of work? And that, years later, he'd see his former profession well established in foreign countries.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 12, 2014 05:26 AM (0HooB)

256 247 Hey we're closing at noon due to teh snowmagedden too. They're talking up to 20 inches but looking around I don't believe it Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 09:19 AM (3ZtZW) I ihink i's beyond Snowmageddon stage now. It's now Snowmafuckmerunning.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 05:27 AM (Nk6GS)

257 Fuck! I went out and bought a large coffee and got home and tipped it over, spilling all of it on the floor. Big mess and now no coffee. I have a feeling it will only get worse.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 12, 2014 05:27 AM (r7mtu)

258 261 O cmon that never happens sheesh

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 05:27 AM (3ZtZW)

259 Q: What is the difference between a National Socialist and an American Leftist?

A: The National Socialist expects you to die for your country.  The American Leftist nope, they just want you dead.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 05:28 AM (23VXG)

260 Should I have known better than to read anything from the Atlantic? Yes.
I can't believe the amount of whining coming out of a grown man.

Oh the indignity of replacing the toilet paper and taking out the trash. I think it's safe to say his wife is responsible for the cleaning at home.

Posted by: Future Illegal Immigrant at March 12, 2014 05:28 AM (OPg+h)

261 Welcome to the employment world that Democrats created, ass-itch. When I think about how employers are required by the government to pay benefits to anyone who works over 30 hours a week, my blood starts to boil. That just forced them to hold you at 28 hours per week, genius! It keeps hard workers from being able to differentiate themselves by ... working harder. It enrages me that these elitist fucks do that to people on the bottom rung.

Posted by: Phinn at March 12, 2014 05:28 AM (KOGmz)

262 247 Hey we're closing at noon due to teh snowmagedden too. They're talking up to 20 inches but looking around I don't believe it Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 09:19 AM (3ZtZW) We've just been reminded that nobody leaves, or else. It's already snowing hard. Front offices are vacant of course. The gutless wonders sit at home and order us to risk our lives. It's "for the clients." One of the gutless wonders just e-mailed us to tell us they are going to order pizza for the office as compensation for their cowardice. OK, they didn't put it THAT way, but that is exactly what it is. So, we're sitting here wondering who's going to deliver pizza in a blizzard.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 12, 2014 05:29 AM (7ObY1)

263 Minority grievance monger finds his first "disadvantage". Surprise, surprise, surprise!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ at March 12, 2014 09:25 AM (HsTG



The anti-septic hiring process is the rational response to the racial grievance mongers by decoupling the process from "local" managers and making it a corporate process that can be demonstrated in court as being impartial.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 12, 2014 05:29 AM (o3MSL)

264

248 ... I don't know about it being a human rights thing - but if you require me to be at your facility at 7:50 - and I'm hourly - the meter starts at 7:50. Not 8:00.

 

And folks, now you're FINALLY going down the road of why some Middle Class people will never, ever vote GOP. I shit you not.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 12, 2014 05:29 AM (Hj2M6)

265 I think it's safe to say his Ex-wife is was responsible for the cleaning at home. Posted by: Future

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 05:29 AM (aDwsi)

266 No one won he Mega last night. It was after taxes 127 million. Now,it's 145 million.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 12, 2014 05:30 AM (r7mtu)

267 Oh the indignity of replacing the toilet paper and taking out the trash. I think it's safe to say his wife is responsible for the cleaning at home. Posted by: Future Illegal Immigrant at March 12, 2014 09:28 AM (OPg+h) If she knows what's good for her, she does.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 05:30 AM (Nk6GS)

268


>>>Oh the indignity of replacing the toilet paper and taking out the trash.

 

Dude, I did stuff that would've gagged a plumber at my B and N dept manager job. Of course, that job really really sucked ass towards the end.

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 05:31 AM (3ZtZW)

269 Oh the indignity of replacing the toilet paper and taking out the trash. I think it's safe to say his wife is responsible for the cleaning at home.

Posted by: Future Illegal Immigrant at March 12, 2014 09:28 AM (OPg+h)



After he whacks his wife to straighten her out and make the sure the rolls unwind the "right" way!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 12, 2014 05:31 AM (o3MSL)

270 YellowPug, for $145 million you could open your own coffee shop and provide employment to a cadre of Womyn Studies majors where each has $50,000 in debt...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 05:32 AM (23VXG)

271 I do believe I have been "Obama-ed" this morning. Roads were a bit icy, but the stupid cow ahead of me was doing 30 mph on the highway, and then she pulled over, so I tried to pass her, only to have her pull back on the road right in front of me. I narrowly avoided hitting her, so I hit the horn to warn her I was close, since clearly she hadn't looked. So, she stops the car in the lane, gets out, and comes to inform me that I am a stupid f-ing b-, she has four kids in the car and I am putting them in danger and how dare I?


Wow, projection, and completely un-self aware. I couldn't tell by the bumper stickers because they were covered in the snow she didn't bother to clean off her car, but the attitude was a dead giveaway.


I don't think she really appreciated my free advice, however.

Posted by: tcn at March 12, 2014 05:32 AM (3kDQa)

272 Posted by: Hrothgar at March 12, 2014 09:26 AM (o3MSL) Please don't get me going about Cash for Clunkers. And the higher café standards. An all aluminum Ford Fucking F150? Are you shitting me?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2014 05:33 AM (HVff2)

273

>>>We've just been reminded that nobody leaves, or else. It's already snowing hard.

 

We're County. Normally we don't close for anything. I'm in Genesee Valley / Rochester so I'm seeing it too. I wonder how Oswego is doing heh

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 05:33 AM (3ZtZW)

274 I take back my previous comment. I only read half of it when I commented, it got worse.

Posted by: Future Illegal Immigrant at March 12, 2014 05:33 AM (OPg+h)

275 I feel a dump coming on..

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 05:33 AM (aDwsi)

276 I have no doubt that retail sucks, and he does have a point on some of that stuff. But he kinda deserved what he got, being a wife-beating race-baiter and all. When I was 16 and worked at a grocery store, they routinely made us stay to do all the sweeping, mopping and cleaning after we punched out at midnight. We often worked until 1:30 in the morning, and I was still in high school and had to get up by 6:30 at th latest. I'm showing my age, since 16 year old's can't work past, like, 9 pm nowadays. And because supermarkets don't close at midnight anymore. They don't close at all.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 12, 2014 05:34 AM (7ObY1)

277 Hrothgar, so Fiat/GM will soon be dead again?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 05:34 AM (23VXG)

278   YellowPug, for $145 million you could open your own coffee shop and provide employment to a cadre of Womyn Studies majors where each has $50,000 in debt... 

would the angry, hate-filled blow jobs be worth it every time one of them clocked in ten minutes late?

Posted by: Jean at March 12, 2014 05:34 AM (Aqvh6)

279

248 ... I don't know about it being a human rights thing - but if you require me to be at your facility at 7:50 - and I'm hourly - the meter starts at 7:50. Not 8:00.

 


And folks, now you're FINALLY going down the road of why some Middle Class people will never, ever vote GOP. I shit you not.

 

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 12, 2014 09:29 AM (Hj2M6)

 

OK, it must be because I'm an idiot, but I don't understand what comment 2 has to do with comment 1.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 05:35 AM (zF6Iw)

280


>>>So, we're sitting here wondering who's going to deliver pizza in a blizzard.

 

Good Luck!

Posted by: Donner Party at March 12, 2014 05:35 AM (3ZtZW)

281 We're County. Normally we don't close for anything. I'm in Genesee Valley / Rochester so I'm seeing it too. I wonder how Oswego is doing heh Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 09:33 AM (3ZtZW) Niagara County here. Work in northern Erie County. We're supposedly going to get the worst of it.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 12, 2014 05:35 AM (7ObY1)

282 12 months a retail worker.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at March 12, 2014 05:35 AM (iy7de)

283 We've just been reminded that nobody leaves, or else. It's already snowing hard. Front offices are vacant of course. The gutless wonders sit at home and order us to risk our lives. It's "for the clients." That's kinda bossy of them.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2014 05:35 AM (xorT2)

284 Mike save that dump for your next doctor's visit.  He may want to read your future, because witch doctors will be all that is left under 404Care.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 05:36 AM (23VXG)

285 Niagara County here. Work in northern Erie County. We're supposedly going to get the worst of it.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 12, 2014 09:35 AM (7ObY1)


You folks really should get rid of those lakes and put up some mountains.

Posted by: tcn at March 12, 2014 05:36 AM (3kDQa)

286 The Atlantic has been dreck for quite a long time.

I always went to work 30 minutes early. And hung around about that time after closing.... odd, eh?

Posted by: backhoe at March 12, 2014 05:36 AM (ULH4o)

287 Hrothgar, so Fiat/GM will soon be dead again?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 09:34 AM (23VXG)


Who needs cars when you have perfectly good bus and train service that will get you where the government knows you need to go!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 12, 2014 05:36 AM (o3MSL)

288 288 12 months a retail worker.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at March 12, 2014 09:35 AM (iy7de)

 

That's got Oscar award written all over it.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 12, 2014 05:36 AM (DrWcr)

289 Jean, I guess I should have put a /sarc tag on that??? 

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 05:36 AM (23VXG)

290 Please don't get me going about Cash for Clunkers. And the higher café standards. An all aluminum Ford Fucking F150? Are you shitting me? Posted by: Misanthropic ------------- Wait until the Imperial Mandate for 54.5 mpg (one wonders how they came up with that) begins to take effect. All plastic everything.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 05:37 AM (aDwsi)

291 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 09:35 AM (zF6Iw)


You are not alone in that!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 12, 2014 05:37 AM (o3MSL)

292 Who needs cars when you have perfectly good bus and train service that will get you where the government knows you need to go! Posted by: Hrothgar ------------------ Light Rail!

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 05:37 AM (aDwsi)

293 I have already volunteered to clean toilets in Heaven.

Nothing shameful about honest work.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 12, 2014 05:37 AM (V70Uh)

294 That's kinda bossy of them. Heh. I had a sneaking feeling that Greg Gutfeld would have something to say about that on the Five yesterday. And he did.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 12, 2014 05:37 AM (0HooB)

295 Wait until the Imperial Mandate for 54.5 mpg (one wonders how they came up with that) begins to take effect. All plastic everything.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 09:37 AM (aDwsi)

 

Balsa wood chassis.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 12, 2014 05:37 AM (DrWcr)

296 Wait until the Imperial Mandate for 54.5 mpg (one wonders how they came up with that) begins to take effect. All plastic everything.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 09:37 AM (aDwsi)



The computer controlled governor that limits you to 25 mph will make these very safe plastic cars however.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 12, 2014 05:38 AM (o3MSL)

297 299 I have already volunteered to clean toilets in Heaven.

Nothing shameful about honest work.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 12, 2014 09:37 AM (V70Uh)


It's not the same when it's gold dust instead of, you know, crap.

Posted by: tcn at March 12, 2014 05:38 AM (3kDQa)

298 So, we're sitting here wondering who's going to deliver pizza in a blizzard.

Drones to the rescue!

Posted by: Jeff Bezos at March 12, 2014 05:39 AM (Nksua)

299 They could achieve the serious mpg standards if they allowed import of more diesels

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 05:39 AM (3ZtZW)

300 Mike save that dump for your next doctor's visit. He may want to read your future, because witch doctors will be all that is left under 404Care. Posted by: Anna ------------------- Was there yesterday. In point of fact, they should be reading the sample just about now.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 05:39 AM (aDwsi)

301 Might as well up the transfer rate of wealth from 70% to 80%.  Am I right Hrothgar?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 05:39 AM (23VXG)

302 Panzerashorn at March 12, 2014 09:25 AM

One last thought on shop girl/journalist article. Its all very convenient that he "protected" the name of the store and his fellow coworkers. Can't really fact check any part of the story. I am sure he worked retail beyond that who knows what is true.

Posted by: Frank at March 12, 2014 05:39 AM (7Nabg)

303 "Let God raise you up in his presence today." An earlier devotional from "Loving Grace Ministries." The author has a whole series of messages over the days on ministering to the Lord which is a huge theme in Scripture: http://tinyurl.com/otkydra

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2014 05:39 AM (XyM/Y)

304 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 09:39 AM (23VXG)


It all works better when Obama spreads the wealth around!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 12, 2014 05:40 AM (o3MSL)

305 The computer controlled governor that limits you to 25 mph will make these very safe plastic cars however. Posted by: Hrothgar -------------------------- Actually, there will be no 'you'. Everything auto-drive by then.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 05:40 AM (aDwsi)

306 They could achieve the serious mpg standards if they allowed import of more diesels

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 09:39 AM (3ZtZW)



No, the next big thing is "green" wind-up cars with a big honking spring and a crank.  You get toned arms and no emissions.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 12, 2014 05:42 AM (o3MSL)

307 In other news, and sort of on the topic, most Americans can't afford new cars.

http://t.co/fnHT5pb48A

It warms my heart that the DC aristocracy is best able to swing a new car.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 12, 2014 05:43 AM (Nksua)

308 54.5 mpg is doable with Democratic math.

Posted by: Jean at March 12, 2014 05:43 AM (Aqvh6)

309 You are not alone in that!

 

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 12, 2014 09:37 AM (o3MSL)

 

Maybe it means some middle-class people who come in at 8.00 instead of 7.50 are already predisposed to vote Dem and being told "you're supposed to be here at 7.50" prejudices them towards the employer, who presumably, is an eeevill Rethuglican?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 05:43 AM (zF6Iw)

310 If your shift starts and nine, and you know it takes 10 minutes to park, put on the smock/uniform, punch the clock and get to your work station, you better get there ten minutes early or you won't work for me, ever.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 12, 2014 05:44 AM (ZshNr)

311 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 09:43 AM (zF6Iw)

Or the ones that come in at 8:10 and complain about the "man".

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 12, 2014 05:44 AM (o3MSL)

312 No, the next big thing is "green" wind-up cars with a big honking spring and a crank. You get toned arms and no emissions. Posted by: Hrothgar --------------------- I'm thinking pedal-powered Light Rail. Every seat on the rail car will have peddles..., and a guy with a big drum at the back of the car to provide a cadence.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 05:44 AM (aDwsi)

313 This talk of 54mpg.  Two images pop to mind.

The first is a DDB print ad, "Introducing the 74mpg VW Beetle!"  It was the old VW Beetle shape but all this trellis metal framework.  And the driver was a horse jockey.  Then the text of the ad proceeded to take apart other companies claims of high mileage.

The second is more fact and less image.  The 1990-1991 Honda Civic CRX that got 48mpg highway.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 05:45 AM (23VXG)

314

285 ... MP4, you don't need me to reassure you that you're no dunce. You obviously are not. I'd trade my job (engineer) for your job (writing?) in a minute. Except I'd starve as a writer.

 

What I'm saying, as a guy that ascended from White-Trashdom due to good SAT scores, is that a ton of menial jobs screw over their employees in all kind of ways. I worked those jobs. I saw it just like the schmuck that wrote the article.

 

The GOP is seen, by many of those still working those jobs, as a subtle supporter of those practices. And, in some cases, they are.

 

 

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 12, 2014 05:45 AM (Hj2M6)

315 So, this racist ex-wife beater wants me to feel sorry for him since he had to work a real job? And it's sick that people who work retail can take pride in their work? What a POS.

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at March 12, 2014 05:47 AM (R+XDI)

316 Testing & stuff

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at March 12, 2014 05:47 AM (eBNjM)

317 It warms my heart that the DC aristocracy is best able to swing a new car. Posted by: Waterhouse ------------------ Stephen Chu (EPA head. You know, the Imperial agency that sets mpg standards) doesn't own a car. Presumably they send a limo for him.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 05:47 AM (aDwsi)

318 Prayers for safety for our 'rons and 'ettes in the areas expecting a blizzard. I'm not where that is (Western NY for one?) but for people in that area here are some pictures of Western NY in Spring. Yes, indeed it might be a while but Spring will come! Take care of yourselves and God bless http://tinyurl.com/phkqbaf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2014 05:47 AM (XyM/Y)

319 296 Please don't get me going about Cash for Clunkers. And the higher café standards. An all aluminum Ford Fucking F150? Are you shitting me?

Posted by: Misanthropic
-------------

Wait until the Imperial Mandate for 54.5 mpg (one wonders how they came up with that) begins to take effect. All plastic everything.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 09:37 AM (aDwsi)


No, they'll just append an all-electric model to each of their respective product lines. I wonder if they're working on a hybrid/all-electric pickup truck even now. Of course nobody will buy them without a government subsidy.

Posted by: joncelli at March 12, 2014 05:47 AM (RD7QR)

320

So, we're sitting here wondering who's going to deliver pizza in a blizzard.

 

 

Delivery?  Now the minions are whining about  delivery.  Like we are going to spring for the extra $2 delivery charge.  As if.

 

Pansy assess have to go get the pizza we so generously are giving them.

Posted by: Fronf Office Gutless Wonders at March 12, 2014 05:47 AM (BAS5M)

321 Stephen Chu (EPA head. You know, the Imperial agency that sets mpg standards) doesn't own a car. Presumably they send a limo for him.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 09:47 AM (aDwsi)

 

It's OK.  I buy carbon credits.

Posted by: Stephen Chu at March 12, 2014 05:48 AM (DrWcr)

322 The second is more fact and less image. The 1990-1991 Honda Civic CRX that got 48mpg highway.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 09:45 AM (23VXG)


I always thought it would be interesting to completely waive emissions control requirements on 1 liter or smaller engines and see what creative engineering could produce in the way of performance and mileage.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 12, 2014 05:48 AM (o3MSL)

323

a ton of menial jobs screw over their employees in all kind of ways. I worked those jobs. I saw it just like the schmuck that wrote the article.

 

--

 

I started working         at age 12, and even then I understood that being in place, ready to work on the hour was necessary, and not screwing me over.  I never expected my employer to pay me for dressing out or parking.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 12, 2014 05:48 AM (eoeps)

324

>>>No, the next big thing is "green" wind-up cars with a big honking spring and a crank

 

Costs too much to build rewinding stations on our national highways.

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 05:49 AM (3ZtZW)

325 An all aluminum Ford Fucking F150? Are you shitting me? I feel like I'm going to blow a fuse when I hear about shit like this. I have a crappy SUV that has had about $1,000 in repairs this year, and ALL of the break-downs have been in the government-mandated emissions and efficiency parts. The catalytics were clogged. The EGR valve was stuck. The ALUMINUM headers weren't fitting right. (Aluminum fucking WARPS easily!) The God damned computers that control everything ... All so they can squeeze out 1-2 mpg (on paper, when new), to comply with CAFE "regulations." But all of these add-ins have bad designs, add to the cost of repairs, and are not user-serviceable. Everything about them sucks.

Posted by: Phinn at March 12, 2014 05:49 AM (KOGmz)

326 Stephen Chu (EPA head. You know, the Imperial agency that sets mpg standards) doesn't own a car. Presumably they send a limo for him.


Chu wasn't EPA head.  He was DoE.


He did say he didn't own or drive a car while he was head of DoE.  He did own a BMW 3 series before though.


Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 05:50 AM (GQ8sn)

327 Costs too much to build rewinding stations on our national highways.

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 09:49 AM (3ZtZW)


That's why there is a crank and a requirement for personal responsibility to not go further than you can handle.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 12, 2014 05:51 AM (o3MSL)

328 So, when will the world accept that aliens are behind the Malaysian airlines flight disappearence?

Posted by: Giorgio Tsouloukous at March 12, 2014 05:51 AM (Aif/5)

329 334 So, when will the world accept that aliens are behind the Malaysian airlines flight disappearence?

Posted by: Giorgio Tsouloukous at March 12, 2014 09:51 AM (Aif/5)

 

For all we know, that 777 is hidden in your hair.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 12, 2014 05:52 AM (DrWcr)

330 Hrothgar, it would probably be beneficial.

We talk of how the old cars were so overweight.  They were overweight in an important way, recycled tank armor for a body.

Now the cars are still overweight but its because of all the 'needed' equipment stuffed into each body.  Everyone wants, even in trucks, heated seats, TV screens, and fifty cup holders.

The designers and customers should really ask themselves do they really need all these gadgets that can go wrong?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 05:52 AM (23VXG)

331 Building explosion in Manhattan?

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 12, 2014 05:52 AM (BZAd3)

332 Menial jobs have a purpose: to teach you that marketable job skills are worth the effort to gain them.

That gap year I took between HS and college really, really boosted my motivation.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 12, 2014 05:52 AM (V70Uh)

333 Pansy assess have to go get the pizza we so generously are giving them. I should've known!

Posted by: Citizen X at March 12, 2014 05:52 AM (7ObY1)

334 Not-well-known fact. Senator Obama drove a Chrysler 300C (the hemi). Traded it for Ford Fusion hybrid when he realized that it would appear hypocritical to the greenies when running for prezzy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 05:52 AM (aDwsi)

335 334 So, when will the world accept that aliens are behind the Malaysian airlines flight disappearence?

Posted by: Giorgio Tsouloukous at March 12, 2014 09:51 AM (Aif/5)


Dude, shut up or you get the probe again!

Posted by: The Reptoids at March 12, 2014 05:53 AM (RD7QR)

336 ll so they can squeeze out 1-2 mpg (on paper, when new), to comply with CAFE "regulations." But all of these add-ins have bad designs, add to the cost of repairs, and are not user-serviceable. Everything about them sucks.


The CAFE reqs are fleet standards, meaning that the overall average MPG of a company's entire fleet of cars has to average out to whatever target MPG they want.  That's why you still see big ass SUV's with 12 MPG for sale every year.  The company just balances out the books with tiny cars that get 40 MPG, so the "average" is met.


Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 05:53 AM (GQ8sn)

337 276 YellowPug, for $145 million you could open your own coffee shop and provide employment to a cadre of Womyn Studies majors where each has $50,000 in debt... Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 09:32 AM (23VXG) I'd buy a nice house, get 3 rescue dogs, a new car and a new truck, take one last vacation to europe to see some archaeological sites, and invest the rest. On what I make from the investments, I will live on and donate the remainder.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 12, 2014 05:53 AM (r7mtu)

338 All so they can squeeze out 1-2 mpg (on paper, when new), to comply with CAFE "regulations." But all of these add-ins have bad designs, add to the cost of repairs, and are not user-serviceable. Everything about them sucks. Never forget that the same group (of politicians) also approved a Space Shuttle design in which the crew and vehicle were expendable in the first two minutes of flight. Engineering is not their strong point...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 12, 2014 05:53 AM (0HooB)

339 54.5 mpg is doable with Democratic math.

That's the thing, the CAFE calculation is a serious mangling of numbers, with adjustments that would make any climate "scientist" proud, that bears only a passing resemblance to the actual fuel economy of a vehicle.

But it lets legislators preen about saving the planet, which is the important bit.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 12, 2014 05:54 AM (Nksua)

340

334 come on

 

Fact is its all down to static electricity.

See, your dryer builds up static and at a crucial stage *po* goes one of your socks, right? Can't find it.

 

Same thing here. The revolution of the Earth itself built up a critical charge of static and *pop* went the plane.

 

It landed safely in a pile of socks.

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 05:54 AM (3ZtZW)

341 The designers and customers should really ask themselves do they really need all these gadgets that can go wrong?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 09:52 AM (23VXG)



Maybe we should call this new concept the "Folkswagon", you know for basic transportation for the folks?

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 12, 2014 05:54 AM (o3MSL)

342

329 ... and Vashta, that is reasonable.

 

However, while I was doing projects in Automotive, the folks in the paint shop won a TON of back-pay in a suit ... because their supervisor decided it was cool to require people to show up 30 minutes early, off the clock, to don all the PPE, test the guns, and be ready to paint at the start of shift.

 

People pick up on mindset, and it's definitely a GOP mindset to always side with the employer.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 12, 2014 05:54 AM (Hj2M6)

343 Fox: Building in Manhattan go BOOM!.....

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 12, 2014 05:54 AM (bCEmE)

344 Speaking of witch doctors, I see they have been brought in to find the missing flight.

Posted by: Spring Fling at March 12, 2014 05:55 AM (i7KmQ)

345 Oh Bast, he's a "life-long athlete" who thinks moving five bags of garbage and a stack of boxes was "Herculean." I can feel all those petite old farm wives I grew up with being extremely polite to his face while giving each other the "can you believe this shit?" look. Posted by: HR at March 12, 2014 07:50 AM (hO8IJ) "Life-long athlete" chose two store shirts in size 2XL because "they shrink" He's a pus gut, IOW

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 12, 2014 05:55 AM (HsTG8)

346 The journalist working retail? Used "exalted" when he should have used "exulted". Clearly needs more practice.

Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at March 12, 2014 05:56 AM (U82Km)

347 And no extra toppings, either.  You'll get the basic one-topping value special and like it!

Posted by: Front Office Gutless Wonders at March 12, 2014 05:56 AM (BAS5M)

348 We all know people in NYC, any details?

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 12, 2014 05:56 AM (ZshNr)

349 Everyone wants, even in trucks, heated seats, TV screens, and fifty cup holders. The designers and customers should really ask themselves do they really need all these gadgets that can go wrong? Personally, I choose the lower cost and enhanced reliability of simpler vehicles whenever I can. You're right, though--there doesn't seem to be much of a market for that.

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at March 12, 2014 05:56 AM (JQuNB)

350 To snark about Manhattan.  So Willie Wilhelm just in some new polling numbers showing how bad he is tanking?

Hrothgar, there is always the BMW Isetta.  For all the urban hispters...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 05:56 AM (23VXG)

351 Engineering is not their strong point...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 12, 2014 09:53 AM (0HooB)



What does engineering have to do with product safety, durability, maintainability, or utility?

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 12, 2014 05:57 AM (o3MSL)

352 No dump. Appears BenK is constipated.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2014 05:57 AM (xorT2)

353 The greatest thing about the Atlantic article is the comments. Many of them point out how pathetic the writer is, but I found a couple of them that blamed REAGAN for the present economy! HA!!! Why blame BOOOOOOSH? Everything is Reagan's fault. Oh, if we could only go back to the double digit inflation days of Jimmy Carter. Those were the days.

Posted by: Rob Ives at March 12, 2014 05:57 AM (oFu2g)

354 Building near Columbia Univ.....

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 12, 2014 05:57 AM (bCEmE)

355 Waiting for the NYC story to hit Drudge. Usually the first thing to be ruled in/out is Nat gas, so I guess I'm waiting for that determination.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 12, 2014 05:57 AM (ZshNr)

356 Nothing on the major news sites...

Posted by: joncelli at March 12, 2014 05:58 AM (RD7QR)

357 Rep Charles Rangel divides by zero.  Harlem building   explodes and partially collapses.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 12, 2014 05:58 AM (BAS5M)

358 Personally, I choose the lower cost and enhanced reliability of simpler vehicles whenever I can. You're right, though--there doesn't seem to be much of a market for that. Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at March 12, 2014 09:56 AM (JQuNB) I'm with you, man.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 12, 2014 05:59 AM (7ObY1)

359 @NewsBreaker 25s NOW: Fire officials respond to reports of explosion at 116th St. & Park Ave in Upper Manhattan

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 12, 2014 05:59 AM (bCEmE)

360 9 A journalist finds out what it's like to actually work for a living. I couldn't access the comments. I hope somebody threw it in the asshole's face that his crappy situation was because of his messiah's economy. Just got to the party. Yeah I did and I ripped his asshole. Black wife beater whines about working.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 12, 2014 05:59 AM (0FSuD)

361 Hrothgar, there is always the BMW Isetta. For all the urban hispters...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 09:56 AM (23VXG)


I have always thought a coffin needed a plate glass window!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 12, 2014 05:59 AM (o3MSL)

362 Drudge has the Harlem building explosion up, but no real details.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 12, 2014 06:00 AM (7ObY1)

363 Thanks, going to start checking local NYC sites.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 12, 2014 06:00 AM (ZshNr)

364 A large NYC building exploded earlier this morning, the cause of the blast is currently unknown. The building is located on the Upper West Side in Harlem near Third and Sixteenth Streets. Both Police and the FDNY has responded to the three-alarm blaze. Traffic and public transportation has been disrupted and suspended near the New York City “building collapse with fire” incident near Columbia University.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2014 06:00 AM (XyM/Y)

365 Harrison exactly.  Try to find a current year model car with manual windows. 

The door in my GT500 is more fully wired than most older cars.  Power window, power lock, power mirror, speaker in the door, and even wired for light.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 06:00 AM (23VXG)

366 it's on Fox

Posted by: spypeach at March 12, 2014 06:00 AM (10H0T)

367 Twit pic of building: http://tinyurl.com/nby4vbb

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 12, 2014 06:00 AM (bCEmE)

368 Just made the news down here. Got a hunch the budding Should Lib Dicks Take Out Trash for Free discussion is going on hold.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 12, 2014 06:01 AM (Hj2M6)

369 Drudge has the Harlem building explosion up, but no real details.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 12, 2014 10:00 AM (7ObY1)



Location of Al Sharpton?



Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 06:01 AM (GQ8sn)

370 So does Bill Clinton still have his NYC orifice?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 06:01 AM (23VXG)

371 I have always thought a coffin needed a plate glass window! Heh. Me and B'Gal were coming back home the other day when someone in a Smart Car crossed in front of us. B'Gal says, "Oh, look, a baby car! They're so cute when they're that little, aren't they?"

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 12, 2014 06:02 AM (0HooB)

372 Another pic: http://tinyurl.com/npxflrd

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 12, 2014 06:02 AM (bCEmE)

373

>>> I choose the lower cost and enhanced reliability of simpler vehicles whenever I can. You're right, though--there doesn't seem to be much of a market for that.

 

My cousin the paranoid postman was saying the postal vehicles have engines designing from the 70s. I was saying hey cool you're immune to the EMP effects and he kinda did the glaring/glinty thinger

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 06:02 AM (3ZtZW)

374 Hrm. Natural gas. Meth lab. Terrorist own goal. Just brainstorming.

Posted by: joncelli at March 12, 2014 06:02 AM (RD7QR)

375
Posts thread about a journalist complaining about working.  Disappears for four hours.

Andy going meta on us.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 12, 2014 06:02 AM (kdS6q)

376 So, for those interested (which is no one, I'm just in a sharing mood) Day 2 on the new plan was better than Day 1. I'm unofficially (official weigh-in is on Monday) down 4lb already (224.2 Monday morning, 220.2 this morning). I'm actually finding it hard to get *enough* calories; I need to invest in Beef Jerky.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 12, 2014 06:02 AM (PYAXX)

377 Just an Iranian grad student from Columbia making pipe bombs. Nothing criminal about it.

Posted by: DHS at March 12, 2014 06:02 AM (Aif/5)

378 Isn't it something how everything is about the news?


 Except when it has anything to do with how big of a shithead SCOAMT is.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 12, 2014 06:03 AM (BZAd3)

379 They keep saying the explosion was at 114th and Park Ave. Except there is no 114th and Park Ave. It goes from 112th to 115th along Park.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 12, 2014 06:03 AM (7ObY1)

380 385 that plane just crashed

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 06:04 AM (3ZtZW)

381 360 Building near Columbia Univ.....

Ah. Probably just another harmless student experimenting with Molotov cocktails, then. Nothing to see here.

Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at March 12, 2014 06:04 AM (U82Km)

382 Terrorist own goal Achmed's School for Suicide Bombers?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 12, 2014 06:04 AM (PYAXX)

383 Except there is no 114th and Park Ave. It goes from 112th to 115th along Park.

That's what they want you to believe!


Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 06:05 AM (GQ8sn)

384

Vanishing 777s, now magical 124th streets that may not be real.

 

Shit ... it is the Burning Times. I did not count on magic in my prep.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 12, 2014 06:05 AM (Hj2M6)

385

Except there is no 114th and Park Ave. It goes from 112th to 115th along Park.

 

My God!  They took out the whole street!

Posted by: Insomniac at March 12, 2014 06:05 AM (DrWcr)

386 i am not giving up my heated and cooled seats.... >:-|

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at March 12, 2014 06:05 AM (u8GsB)

387 Emergency Transmitter. We should probably leave that on.

Posted by: Wi Tu Low at March 12, 2014 06:06 AM (bitz6)

388 Hrothgar and Backwards Boy, why do you think I specified urban hipsters...

Nothing more croggles my mind than seeing a Fit doing 80mph on the Interstate.  All I can think is - a) You killing the hamsters, B) Your hamster chow bill is going way up, and C) You the driver are an idiot.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 06:06 AM (23VXG)

389 CBS live video feed of fire: http://tinyurl.com/695rqak

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 12, 2014 06:06 AM (bCEmE)

390 392 i am not giving up my heated and cooled seats.... >:-|

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at March 12, 2014 10:05 AM (u8GsB)

 

When they pry them from your cold, dead tush!

Posted by: Insomniac at March 12, 2014 06:06 AM (DrWcr)

391 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 12, 2014 10:02 AM (PYAXX). . I have a wiry teen. At his age I was skinny too. It's harder to lose as you get older so good luck with that, Allen, and eat enough calories. Nobody wants you to pass out.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2014 06:06 AM (XyM/Y)

392 388 Terrorist own goal

Achmed's School for Suicide Bombers?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 12, 2014 10:04 AM (PYAXX)


And you absolutely, positively must not do THIS!

Posted by: Achmed, Allah rest his soul at March 12, 2014 06:06 AM (RD7QR)

393

>>>>Shit ... it is the Burning Times. I did not count on magic in my prep.

 

We kept saying "Release the Kraken!" and laffin' it up - you think no one was listening? You FOOLS!

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 06:06 AM (3ZtZW)

394 Personally, I choose the lower cost and enhanced reliability of simpler vehicles whenever I can. You're right, though--there doesn't seem to be much of a market for that. ---------------------- The average American has been dumbed down to the point where the simplest of mechanical things is beyond their understanding. At the same time, technology is stomping on any possibility of an individual controlling anything without the machinations of black box controllers.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 06:07 AM (aDwsi)

395 Have the speculations about terrorist tea partiers begun yet?

Posted by: katya the designated driver at March 12, 2014 06:07 AM (4Chvm)

396 When they pry them from your cold, dead tush! lol

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at March 12, 2014 06:07 AM (u8GsB)

397 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 09:52 AM (23VXG) It's not just that, although that is part of it; it's also all the "safety" gear and designs they've been mandated to put in: Airbags, side/offset impact protection, "crush zones", etc. A "compact" car like my Cruze is now 3100 lbs when it would be 2300 lbs or less 20 years ago. I would get 55+ MPG with the drivetrain I have now. I submit that all the luxury and convenience stuff became popular and thus mandatory when cars themselves became crappy and performance could no longer matter as they were all slugs - make the driver experience as nice as possible.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 06:07 AM (Nk6GS)

398 Location of Al Sharpton? Posted by: EC My guess would be Palm Beach or Beverly Hills.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 12, 2014 06:07 AM (l3vZN)

399 356 Hrothgar, there is always the BMW Isetta. For all the urban hispters...

And for the soccer moms with larger families, the BMW 600.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_600

Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at March 12, 2014 06:08 AM (U82Km)

400 Oh wow...debris all over the train tracks.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 12, 2014 06:08 AM (bCEmE)

401 You killing the hamsters, Pleez halp!

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 12, 2014 06:08 AM (0HooB)

402 It's rather unsettling-and I'm sorry I have that reaction but I felt bad seeing the picture of the burning building provided by someone whose last name is "Islam".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2014 06:08 AM (XyM/Y)

403 You know the sadist thing about this guy? He's 50 years old and hadn't saved a fucking dime. Not a fucking dime. What did he think the blue fairy, aka the government, was going to pay for his retirement or emergencies? By the time I was 30 I owned a house, a company and about a million dollars of life insurance. AND I had cash in the bank. What did this fucker do with his big salary working for Politico? Had kids, beat his wife, and want to beat he drove a BMW he made payments on? Took vacations, etc.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 12, 2014 06:08 AM (0FSuD)

404 Dear Firefox n00bs, &&&&& You're welcome. (Works fine for me!)

Posted by: Brother Cavil at March 12, 2014 06:08 AM (naUcP)

405 Bigby, its NYC.  I fully expect a river of slime and a giant marshmallow man to ravage the place.

Or a giant Twinkie to fall on Willie Wilhelm.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 06:09 AM (23VXG)

406 What did he think the blue fairy, aka the government, was going to pay for his retirement or emergencies? Let me think about that for a second...yes, yes he probably did.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at March 12, 2014 06:09 AM (naUcP)

407 You know ... if this goes ANYTHING like the predictions, getting screwed out of overtime is going to be the least of our worries.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 12, 2014 06:09 AM (Hj2M6)

408 Have the speculations about terrorist tea partiers begun yet?

 

Posted by: katya the designated driver at March 12, 2014 10:07 AM (4Chvm)

 

They have now!!!

Posted by: Your Orgasmic MFM at March 12, 2014 06:09 AM (zF6Iw)

409 The return of the Freddie's Fashion Mart Bomber?

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2014 06:10 AM (bitz6)

410 Probably a gas line explosion.

Posted by: steevy at March 12, 2014 06:10 AM (zqvg6)

411 You know, I bet there's at least one tea party member in NYC......

Posted by: Brian Ross at March 12, 2014 06:10 AM (Aif/5)

412 My cousin the paranoid postman was saying the postal vehicles have engines designing from the 70s. I was saying hey cool you're immune to the EMP effects and he kinda did the glaring/glinty thinger Posted by: Bigby's ------------------ Tough engines in those Grumman-bodied mail trucks. The Pontiac 'Iron Duke'. Pontiac did a good job on that one.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 06:11 AM (aDwsi)

413 Swamp gas and a weather balloon.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2014 06:11 AM (bitz6)

414 As a pilot I show up at the airplane 90 minutes prior to departure. I am only paid per diem of $1.85/hr during all the preflight preparations. My hourly rate only kicks in when the aircraft leaves the blocks or block time.

Posted by: alf767 at March 12, 2014 06:11 AM (5UnZF)

415 Well that building is pretty much gone. Still no rumors of gas smell or anything else, that I've seen.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 12, 2014 06:12 AM (ZshNr)

416 It's rather unsettling-and I'm sorry I have that reaction but I felt bad seeing the picture of the burning building provided by someone whose last name is "Islam". You feel bad for recognizing a self-admitted enemy? Don't.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 12, 2014 06:12 AM (0HooB)

417 Building explosion and collapse in the area of East 116th Street and Park Avenue.

... Adolf ??

Posted by: Neville Chamberlain at March 12, 2014 06:13 AM (e8kgV)

418 Probably Lutherans with their pot luck bombs.

Posted by: Adam at March 12, 2014 06:14 AM (Aif/5)

419 Fire can't melt steel.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2014 06:14 AM (bitz6)

420 Building explosion and collapse in the area of East 116th Street and Park Avenue. ... Adolf ?? Posted by: Neville ----------------------- Pieces in our time.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 06:14 AM (aDwsi)

421 Probably Al Sharpton again.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2014 06:15 AM (bitz6)

422 386 385 that plane just crashed Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 10:04 AM (3ZtZW) Yep. I thought the same thing.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 12, 2014 06:15 AM (0FSuD)

423 I tried to ask a bunch of drunk Morons last night and got no answer, so I'll ask a bunch of hungover ones this morning: Why are a couple of people saying Jolly was a "deeply flawed" candidate?

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 12, 2014 06:15 AM (gBnkX)

424 Worked many late nights stocking grocery. Three words...Frozen Turkey Bowling.

Posted by: epitome of lurker at March 12, 2014 06:16 AM (iC7wV)

425 The comments at New York CBS local are hilarious.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2014 06:17 AM (bitz6)

426

Why are a couple of people saying Jolly was a "deeply flawed" candidate?

 

----------

 

Divorced in January, taking up with a woman 14 years younger than he, lobbyist, etc.

 

 

Posted by: @JohnTant at March 12, 2014 06:17 AM (PFy0L)

427 Nip - 'Morning Nipper. How's the world of GOPe Tea Party bashing today? Well, I hope.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 06:17 AM (aDwsi)

428 i am not giving up my heated and cooled seats.... >:-|

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at March 12, 2014 10:05 AM (u8GsB)

Same here, but my favorite thing this winter has been the heated steering wheel.  Even though the car is always in the garage, when it is 14 degrees out, clicking on that little option is heaven.  I have worked hard to be able to drive a nice car and I am damned if I will give it up.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, Bossy Bitches at March 12, 2014 06:17 AM (kXoT0)

429 10 year anniversary of Madrid train bombing was yesterday, I hate seeing smoke in NYC, always makes me think the worst.

Posted by: spypeach at March 12, 2014 06:18 AM (10H0T)

430 Frozen Turkey Bowling. Posted by: epitome ---------------- Hmm. Explains the grittiness of that last Butterball.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 06:18 AM (aDwsi)

431 Nip is the troll Nip Slip is a regular.

Posted by: steevy at March 12, 2014 06:18 AM (zqvg6)

432 Hmm. Explains the grittiness of that last Butterball.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 10:18 AM (aDwsi)



I wondered where the flavour comes from.



Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 06:18 AM (GQ8sn)

433 Why are a couple of people saying Jolly was a "deeply flawed" candidate? Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 12, 2014 10:15 AM (gBnkX) Staffer, then lobbyist. Never ran for office before. Recently divorced and dating a woman 14 years younger. Lotsa oppo and bad press potential. Didn't stick, apparently.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 06:19 AM (Nk6GS)

434 The comments at New York CBS local are hilarious.

 

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2014 10:17 AM (bitz6)

 

Let me guess:  "BOOOOSHHH!!!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 06:19 AM (zF6Iw)

435 i am not giving up my heated and cooled seats.... >:-| Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at March 12, 2014 10:05 AM (u8GsB) Same here, but my favorite thing this winter has been the heated steering wheel. Even though the car is always in the garage, when it is 14 degrees out, clicking on that little option is heaven. I have worked hard to be able to drive a nice car and I am damned if I will give it up. Posted by: Sherry McEvil ------------- Okay..., I think that I have identified those responsible for creeping Tech-Overload in vehicles.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 06:19 AM (aDwsi)

436 So the floor wax is also a turkey flavor enhancer...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 06:20 AM (23VXG)

437 So, all the Cobs are asleep?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 12, 2014 06:20 AM (da5Wo)

438

His is a 4th or 5th tier job - some kind of entertainment, like a clown or singing dog.

And those jobs are directly related to how much disposable income the middle class has.


So, he helps elect and promotes TFG who's doing his best to take that disposable income away from the middle class to give to cronies and the FSA.

Hence, no journalist job.

HA-HA-HA-HA-HA. Enjoy your karma, jackass!

 

-

Exactly

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 12, 2014 06:20 AM (eoeps)

439 Obtaining work in retail had changed a lot since the 1980s. What used to require a paper application and a schmooze with the manager has turned into an antiseptic online process where human interaction—and the potential for an employment-discrimination complaint—is kept to a minimum.

That put me at a distinct disadvantage.

Posted by: Broadway Joe at March 12, 2014 06:20 AM (e8kgV)

440 I wondered where the flavour comes from. Posted by: EC ------------------------- It's a floor wax AND a gravy!

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 06:20 AM (aDwsi)

441 I won't buy anything with the high-tech screen in the dash. Those things cost a mint to replace.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 12, 2014 06:21 AM (Hj2M6)

442 Wait -- Virginians?

Posted by: Achmed, Allah rest his soul at March 12, 2014 06:21 AM (RD7QR)

443 Hmm. Explains the grittiness of that last Butterball. Grandma called it "roughage."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 12, 2014 06:22 AM (0HooB)

444 Jolly was a pretty terrible candidate, but in his defense, Obamacare.

Posted by: mugiwara at March 12, 2014 06:22 AM (W7ffl)

445 Third. Tier. Blog.
Going for fourth.

Posted by: Racist Opposittion Party at March 12, 2014 06:22 AM (Cs2tJ)

446 Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 12, 2014 10:12 AM (0HooB) No, I'm sorry that the state of the world is at is is that that's the first thing that comes to mind with Islam. After all, the man who posted the picture is not responsible for his last name and may have no sympathy for radical Islam and may not even be a practicing Muslim.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2014 06:23 AM (XyM/Y)

447 A woman 14 years younger than myself, would still be depressingly middle-aged. No one would raise an eyebrow.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 06:23 AM (aDwsi)

448 Let's hope ObamaCare makes up for the margin of fraud in the close races.

Posted by: joncelli at March 12, 2014 06:23 AM (RD7QR)

449

I won't buy anything with the high-tech screen in the dash. Those things cost a mint to replace.

 

-

 

Same here, and double for the never-lost crap.   I still have my totally unencumbered 1983 CJ,    although it is not my daily driver due to 12 mpg

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 12, 2014 06:23 AM (eoeps)

450 9 A journalist finds out what it's like to actually work for a living.

I couldn't access the comments. I hope somebody threw it in the asshole's face that his crappy situation was because of his messiah's economy.
===========
no.

He's managed to keep his leftist cocoon perfectly intact--it's all Mitt Romney and conservative's fault for pointing out that he is a racist.

when, in fact, he is: He never would have said what he said about Obaaaama--and he would have led the lynch mob against anyone who did.

Posted by: RoyalOil at March 12, 2014 06:23 AM (VjL9S)

451 So, all the Cobs are asleep?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 12, 2014 10:20 AM (da5Wo)



Cobs are all union.  Whaddya expect?



Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 06:24 AM (GQ8sn)

452 Okay..., I think that I have identified those responsible for creeping Tech-Overload in vehicles.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 10:19 AM (aDwsi)


What's your point, Mike?  I absolutely loathe being in traffic behind some person with an an underpowered little car with a stick shift and the damn thing and lurches from stop light to stop light.  Go ten feet, pause and almost stall, go another ten feet pause and almost stall, etc.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, We Be Bossy at March 12, 2014 06:24 AM (kXoT0)

453 Thanks for the answers on Jolly. Not sure I consider some of those "deep" flaws. Some I don't think are flaws at all. It's gonna be pretty tough finding a candidate with a squeaky clean personal life. Here I was thinking these so-called flaws were policy positions.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 12, 2014 06:25 AM (gBnkX)

454 453 A woman 14 years younger than myself, would still be depressingly middle-aged. No one would raise an eyebrow. Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 10:23 AM (aDwsi) 41 dating 27.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 06:25 AM (Nk6GS)

455 Cobs are all union. Whaddya expect? Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 10:24 AM (GQ8sn) Union?!? *spit*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 12, 2014 06:25 AM (da5Wo)

456 Same here, and double for the never-lost crap. I still have my totally unencumbered 1983 CJ, although it is not my daily driver due to 12 mpg Posted by: Vashta ---------------- Buddy of mine just gave up his '95 Cherokee. Bought a Forester. He was telling me about the complications associated with tire rotations on account of the (Government mandated) tire pressure sensors.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 06:25 AM (aDwsi)

457 Union?!? *spit*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 12, 2014 10:25 AM (da5Wo)


No evening time cob is allowed to be re-tasked and post for a daytime cob, and vice versa.



Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 06:26 AM (GQ8sn)

458 Something about this screams inside job.

Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston was robbed of $600,000.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 06:26 AM (23VXG)

459 No evening time cob is allowed to be re-tasked and post for a daytime cob, and vice versa. Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 10:26 AM (GQ8sn) Sounds about right. So who's going to go kick the Ewok out of his drunken stupor?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 12, 2014 06:27 AM (da5Wo)

460 In many ways, this Ought to be the story of Obama

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 12, 2014 06:27 AM (SO2Q8)

461 465 Who has that much cash lying around?

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2014 06:27 AM (bitz6)

462 So, all the Cobs are asleep? Possibly trying to run down the NYC building explosion for a thread.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2014 06:27 AM (xorT2)

463 459 Thanks for the answers on Jolly. Not sure I consider some of those "deep" flaws. Some I don't think are flaws at all. It's gonna be pretty tough finding a candidate with a squeaky clean personal life. Here I was thinking these so-called flaws were policy positions. Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 12, 2014 10:25 AM (gBnkX) They're not deep flaws, but exploitable if you're a Republican with them. If you're a Democrat, they're celebrated.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 06:28 AM (Nk6GS)

464 So, all the Cobs are asleep? -------------- Maybe. I understand that they have to be on-site half an hour before work starts.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 06:28 AM (aDwsi)

465 The buildings destroyed damaged held a piano shop, apartments and a "Church", no name or denomination of the church.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 12, 2014 06:28 AM (ZshNr)

466 Someone got booted and messed up the numbering.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2014 06:28 AM (bitz6)

467 My sister is married to a man who is 11 years her senior. They met when she was 16. He said if he had known that she was that young he would not have dated her. They've been together since 1972. I don't see anything particularly odd about man dating a woman that much younger, although it might raise eyebrows as to why they were involved so soon after a divorce. but com'on a "deeply flawed candiate"?? as if the Democrats had any cause for finger pointing. In addition they'd think any Republican was deeply flawed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2014 06:29 AM (XyM/Y)

468 Boss Moss it seems it was cash, checks, and even credit card info.

http://tinyurl.com/pas9mq4

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 06:29 AM (23VXG)

469 I'd like to see more reporters end up like that one. It would warm the cockles of my cold, black heart. The funny part was when he started getting used to the job and actually began taking it seriously. He sounded like it was somehow wrong to be doing that.

Posted by: rickl at March 12, 2014 06:29 AM (zoehZ)

470 So Jolly is boning a 27 yr old and that's a negative?  We are so screwed..

Posted by: CSMBigBird at March 12, 2014 06:29 AM (jsWA8)

471 Before we have access to the scene or any evidence all we can say is that it is not terrorism related.

Posted by: FBI at March 12, 2014 06:29 AM (qNCxz)

472 Since when is having a girlfriend 14 years younger a problem?     Other than jealousy.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 12, 2014 06:29 AM (eoeps)

473 41 dating 27. Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 10:25 AM (Nk6GS) Which actually is right in the sweet spot (1/2 man's age + 7) so not surprising it wasn't a factor.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 06:30 AM (Nk6GS)

474 Someone got booted and messed up the numbering.

I have an alibi.

Posted by: HR at March 12, 2014 06:30 AM (ZKzrr)

475 "I don't know about it being a human rights thing - but if you require me to be at your facility at 7:50 - and I'm hourly - the meter starts at 7:50. Not 8:00." You are not working 10 minutes early. The point is that you are ready to go when your shift starts. Clocking in at 8:00 and then getting you uniform on isn't acceptable. You don't walk in at 8:00 off the street and then get ready to work. You are ready by 8:00. That's not stealing your time. That is being ready to do what you are being paid to do. I once had to help the local city government upgrade to Windows 95. The IT department was unionized. Actually it was three different unions due to consolidation. I asked them to show up 10 minutes early on the day of roll-out so we could get a jump on things. Shocked looks by all of them. I brought in donuts that morning to soften the blow.

Posted by: Vegetarian and Anti-Vaccine Party at March 12, 2014 06:30 AM (crkWb)

476 Is Jolly's girlfriend hot?  His situation, at its worst, is still better than Al Fucking Sharpton's hooker accessory.

Posted by: grognard at March 12, 2014 06:30 AM (/29Nl)

477 who owns the buildings in ny and sf

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at March 12, 2014 06:31 AM (u8GsB)

478 No, I'm sorry that the state of the world is at is is that that's the first thing that comes to mind with Islam. After all, the man who posted the picture is not responsible for his last name and may have no sympathy for radical Islam and may not even be a practicing Muslim. I admire your willingness to give that guy the benefit of the doubt, but the mere fact that he posted it makes me more than suspicious. Many times, new (-ly brainwashed) converts will insult their former family and change their last name to reflect their newfound "religion." They are not bashful about their hatred of all things non-islam. But you're right in that it's sad these days to see hatred for others being the basis for a "religion." Not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslim.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 12, 2014 06:31 AM (0HooB)

479 So dating a woman 14 years younger is a deep flaw. I'll have to let my husband know.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 12, 2014 06:31 AM (4cA6A)

480 467 465 Who has that much cash lying around?

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2014 10:27 AM (bitz6)

 

Joel Osteen, apparently.  It was donations from the congregation, according to the news report.  I have absolutely no use for Osteen.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 12, 2014 06:31 AM (DrWcr)

481 Thanks for the answers on Jolly. Not sure I consider some of those "deep" flaws. Some I don't think are flaws at all. ----------------------- Heh. Joke that's been posted here before, Why Old Guys Don't Get Hired: ---------------- HR interviewer: "What do you feel is your greatest flaw?" Old Guy : "I'm too honest." HR interviewer: "Oh..., well I don't think that honesty is a flaw." Old Guy: "I don't give a shit what you think."

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 06:31 AM (aDwsi)

482 The funny part was when he started getting used to the job and actually began taking it seriously. He sounded like it was somehow wrong to be doing that.


The whole story can be boiled down to "this job is beneath me".

He can get bent.


Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 06:32 AM (GQ8sn)

483 it's so funny how they always rule out terrorism right away, but anything and everything else is plausible. Why not just say, hey we don't know what the hell caused it, we'll let you know when we actually have some facts.

Posted by: spypeach at March 12, 2014 06:32 AM (10H0T)

484

>>>So Jolly is boning a 27 yr old and that's a negative? We are so screwed..

 

Hellz yes! Its not like he's ghey or something

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 06:32 AM (3ZtZW)

485 So all the 70 years old here feel free to date 42 year olds. ;^) I keed; I keed. Don't do that unless you're divorced or single.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2014 06:32 AM (XyM/Y)

486 This twitter feed has lots of photos from the NYC scene: http://tinyurl.com/oy6x54k

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 12, 2014 06:33 AM (bCEmE)

487 The Party of Ted Kennedy, Sheets Byrd, and that boy loving Harry Reid is saying getting a divorce and dating a younger woman is deeply flawed?

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2014 06:33 AM (bitz6)

488 We still don't know where a Malaysian 777 is or what happened to it.  But in minutes of a mysterious building explosion, its not terrorism.

"I'll buy that for a dollar."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 06:33 AM (23VXG)

489 Very recently divorced - January. So openly dating the girl you cheated with (maybe) during the campaign could be an eyebrow-raiser.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 06:33 AM (Nk6GS)

490 There is just so much stupid in that retail article that you could beat it all day will a clue-by-four and it'll still be spitting out stupid like a slot machine at six.

Notice how he assumes it is racism that motivates the anti-theft policy--not, you know: Actual thefts.

Because _he knows_, he's a journalist.

Posted by: RoyalOil at March 12, 2014 06:34 AM (VjL9S)

491 I guess Mr. Williams did not learn how to handle his finances pre-firing. With the type of salary he indicates he was making, having to shortly after being fired depend on others and the government to support him is criminal. My friend who started as a manager trainee at WalMart and now a soon to be retired millionaire thanks to his job in retail would obviously have a different view than Williams.

Posted by: Rick Enrol at March 12, 2014 06:34 AM (jl269)

492 Getting divorced in January doesn't say how long they were seperated.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at March 12, 2014 06:34 AM (jsWA8)

493 The Party of Ted Kennedy, Sheets Byrd, and that boy loving Harry Reid is saying getting a divorce and dating a younger woman is deeply flawed? Posted by: Boss ------------------- John Edwards, John Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 06:34 AM (aDwsi)

494 I think this article shows that even global economic collapse wouldn't be enough pain to educate the truly stupid.

Posted by: grognard at March 12, 2014 06:35 AM (/29Nl)

495 "Not to mention retail employers these days have their pick of applicants: the Great Recession added countless numbers of desperate workers like me to the annual labor-market influx of college students and high schoolers. According to an Economic Policy Institute report, “In 1968, 48 percent of low-wage workers had a high school degree, compared to 79 percent in 2012.” Likewise, the percentage of people in these jobs who have spent some time in college has skyrocketed, jumping from under 17 percent to more than 45 percent in the same time. All of us are in a race to the bottom of the wage pool."

Bet you a dollar this fuckwit is an amnesty supporter too.

Posted by: Blackford Oakes at March 12, 2014 06:35 AM (KVnkf)

496 So Jolly is boning a 27 yr old and that's a negative? We are so screwed.. Used to be 1/2 + 7. Now with Common Core, 1/2 minus 7. Hmmmm. 51 / 2 = 25.5. 25.5. - 7 = 18.5. Doable. Legal.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2014 06:35 AM (xorT2)

497 Barky gives some tips on how you can make Obossycare premiums affordable. The President responded that “if you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill… it may turn out that, it’s just they haven’t prioritized health care.” He added that if a family member gets sick, the father “will wish he had paid that $300 a month.” He forgot to mention that you could also stop living inside buildings. From HA.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 12, 2014 06:35 AM (ee9LE)

498 Cant read all the comments but morn news referred to another EO by Obama. This one to force employers to pay more overtime. What's up with that?

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at March 12, 2014 06:35 AM (3Uy4y)

499 498 Getting divorced in January doesn't say how long they were seperated.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at March 12, 2014 10:34 AM (jsWA

 

Good point.  I was separated for quite a while before my divorce became final.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 12, 2014 06:35 AM (DrWcr)

500 John Edwards, John Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson. Posted by: Mike Hammer -------------- Ah..., forgot Gary Condit.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 06:36 AM (aDwsi)

501 It was a church connected with Joel Osteen? I don't care for Joel Osteen's theology-as it were-either.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2014 06:36 AM (XyM/Y)

502 The most pathetic thing about this douche is the way he describes the situation with his ex wife. He makes it seem that he is somehow a victim here, because his assaulting his wife was used to make him seem like a bad person. Politics aside, people like this are sniveling cowards, who when they behave badly, instead of owning their bad behavior, look for ways to not take responsibility. He really should go into politics.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2014 06:36 AM (mck3/)

503 15 injured so far...

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 12, 2014 06:36 AM (bCEmE)

504 Jolly is pro life. Major flaw.

Posted by: Hear My Moo at March 12, 2014 06:37 AM (Aif/5)

505 And now the almost regularly scheduled Didem video
http://youtu.be/SAHDfxBY9UI

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 06:37 AM (23VXG)

506 I think this article shows that even global economic collapse wouldn't be enough pain to educate the truly stupid. Posted by: grognard ----------------- It would only serve to indicate too little government spending.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 06:38 AM (aDwsi)

507 Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 12, 2014 10:31 AM (4cA6A) Hopefully your husband is not currently dating a woman 14 years younger than he is. :^)/JK

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2014 06:38 AM (XyM/Y)

508 Fox is saying that it was a building construction site.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at March 12, 2014 06:38 AM (jsWA8)

509 "The first thing I noticed on my first day on the job is that in retail no one sits."

But remember, it's the Republicans who are rich and out-of-touch.

Posted by: Blackford Oakes at March 12, 2014 06:38 AM (KVnkf)

510 We had an explosion here in the old home town that wasn't terrorist. A couple of idiots were trying to get hash oil from MJ using a butane torch.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 12, 2014 06:39 AM (ee9LE)

511 511 And now the almost regularly scheduled Didem video
http://youtu.be/SAHDfxBY9UI

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 10:37 AM (23VXG)

 

 

Aaaaaaand the Morons all head to their bunks... 

Posted by: Insomniac at March 12, 2014 06:39 AM (DrWcr)

512 Very recently divorced - January. So openly dating the girl you cheated with (maybe) during the campaign could be an eyebrow-raiser. Meh. Depends on how long the divorce took/finalized. If proceedings took 2 years, I'd not lift an eyebow if he was dating that soon.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2014 06:39 AM (xorT2)

513 Btw, those asking about Jolly's girlfriend...in 2010 she was named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People In DC".

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 12, 2014 06:39 AM (da5Wo)

514

Nip is the troll Nip Slip is a regular

 

The regular is actually Nip Sip, but I read it as Nip Slip every time. Often gets me googling.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at March 12, 2014 06:39 AM (A0sHn)

515 The President responded that “if you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill… it may turn out that, it’s just they haven’t prioritized health care.” He added that if a family member gets sick, the father “will wish he had paid that $300 a month.”



LOL!  I wonder what Big Cable, Big Phone, and Big Wireless will have to say.  Those three industries are HEAVILY unionized.  What happens when LIV's take his advice to heart and start dumping them en mass?

Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 06:39 AM (GQ8sn)

516 last thing about whiney journo I wonder what his ex wife and Politico think of their characterizations in his article and if they complain about lies, wonder how long he hangs on to his current job

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 06:39 AM (zOTsN)

517 I was separated six months before my divorce from my ex was final. Some states have a mandatory waiting period. His divorce date means nothing.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 12, 2014 06:39 AM (4cA6A)

518 83 In the article he does say "a larceny charge from his youth."

A couple of problems. Was it a charge or a conviction? Big difference. If the youth was under 18, that conviction should have been expunged.
=======
It was a conviction, after 18.

This is in Maryland, recall.

Yeah, I'm going to buy that "whoopsee, plumb forgot I done time for larceny a few years back." excuse.
 

Posted by: RoyalOil at March 12, 2014 06:40 AM (VjL9S)

519 As far as the racial comments he made about Romney, substitute John Kerry for Romney. Very rich, privilege white man who mainly feels comfortable around rich, white people. Right? Chappaquidick Ted didn't hang out with regular black folks, when there weren't camera crews around. He hung around with rich, privileged white people. Well, when he wasn't molesting female waitresses.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2014 06:40 AM (mck3/)

520 514 Fox is saying that it was a building construction site.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at March 12, 2014 10:38 AM (jsWA


Hopefully that means work accident, and not the terrorist kind.

Posted by: joncelli at March 12, 2014 06:40 AM (RD7QR)

521 "The first thing I noticed on my first day on the job is that in retail no one sits." --------------- An object lesson in reality.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 06:40 AM (aDwsi)

522

Btw, those asking about Jolly's girlfriend...in 2010 she was named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People In DC".

 

------------

 

Yeah, but that's on a scale that includes Helen Thomas and Debbie Wasserman-Schulz, so remember...context.

Posted by: @JohnTant at March 12, 2014 06:40 AM (PFy0L)

523

481 ... OK, I will argue this all damned day if needed.

 

If I am hourly working on the line, and the line starts at 8:00, then obviously I have to be on the line at 8:00, and the clock starts at 8:00.

 

However, what time I hit the parking lot is no one's business other than mine ... as long as I'm on the line at 8:00.

 

You start dictating when I hit the parking lot, or the locker room, then yes ... you ARE stealing time.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 12, 2014 06:40 AM (Hj2M6)

524 Fenelon, he is. Me!

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 12, 2014 06:40 AM (4cA6A)

525 I said could be. Obviously didn't work. Of course, these things are generally considered "deep flaws" only for Republicans. Because, hypocrisy or something. Democrats pecadilloes are ignored or celebrated and this wouldn't be considered deep flaws if it were Sink.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 06:41 AM (Nk6GS)

526 If Jolly is pro-life and an observant Christian or Jew then that pretty much automatically makes him "deeply flawed" to the media.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 12, 2014 06:41 AM (ZPrif)

527 477Before we have access to the scene or any evidence all we can say is that it is not terrorism related.

Posted by: FBI at March 12, 2014 10:29 AM (qNCxz)

----

Our intelligence indicates it was the result of a video mocking William Penn.

 

 

Posted by: State Department at March 12, 2014 06:41 AM (SO2Q8)

528 interesting, it wasn't his fault he got fired. it was the Romney campaign and the right wing internet.

Posted by: jeff at March 12, 2014 06:41 AM (LnE5F)

529 The President responded that “if you looked at their cable bill, their
telephone, their cell phone billÂ… it may turn out that, itÂ’s just they
haven’t prioritized health care.”

That sounds like the kind of stuff we used to say five years ago.  "You've got a fucking HDTV in every room to watch your vacation photos, you could afford health insurance."

But no, we needed a law to make health insurance unaffordable for people with better priorities.

Posted by: HR at March 12, 2014 06:42 AM (ZKzrr)

530 "The first thing I noticed on my first day on the job is that in retail no one sits." But remember, it's the Republicans who are rich and out-of-touch. - I suspect he is the kind of asshole who treats shoe clerks etc all. with contempt.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 12, 2014 06:42 AM (ee9LE)

532 I suspect he is the kind of asshole who treats shoe clerks etc all. with contempt.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 12, 2014 10:42 AM (ee9LE)



He became Al Bundy.


Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 06:43 AM (GQ8sn)

533 So cable (sure), telephone and cell phones (wtf?) are luxuries to be sacrificed to pay for massive premium increases?

Posted by: Beagle at March 12, 2014 06:43 AM (sOtz/)

534 Great; So President Obama who will have health insurance for life paid for by us as well as security and who goes on vacation every three weeks it seems will lecture people about getting rid of cable and their cell phone so they can afford Obamacare which they didn't want in the first place.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2014 06:43 AM (XyM/Y)

535 Of course, these things are generally considered "deep flaws" only for Republicans. Because, hypocrisy or something. Democrats pecadilloes are ignored or celebrated and this wouldn't be considered deep flaws if it were Sink.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 10:41 AM (Nk6GS)

 

Hell, Democrat Gerry Studds was banging a 17-year-old male page, and was practically given hero status.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 12, 2014 06:43 AM (DrWcr)

536 EC   LOL

Then he truly deserves the Peg treatment....

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 06:43 AM (23VXG)

537 It sounds to me that Mr Williams just has a bigass chip on his shoulder. Welcome to the real world, cocksucker.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 12, 2014 06:44 AM (4cA6A)

538 I've always wondered why Greg Kelly went from Fox News (National) to Fox affiliate local (NYC). Could of been at his request but seems it's usually the other way around.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 12, 2014 06:44 AM (bCEmE)

539 Meh. Depends on how long the divorce took/finalized. If proceedings took 2 years, I'd not lift an eyebow if he was dating that soon. Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2014 10:39 AM (xorT2) That's why I qualified it with a maybe and a could. I don't know any other details. And the result is the result - he won. So these "deep flaws" aren't really that deep.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 12, 2014 06:44 AM (Nk6GS)

540 Yeah, but that's on a scale that includes Helen Thomas and Debbie Wasserman-Schulz, so remember...context. Posted by: @JohnTant at March 12, 2014 10:40 AM (PFy0L) I looked her up. I wouldn't qualify her as "beautiful". "Really cute"? Absolutely.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 12, 2014 06:44 AM (da5Wo)

541 EC LOL

Then he truly deserves the Peg treatment....

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 10:43 AM (23VXG)



The only thing missing from his story is the part where he eats packets of mustard and ketchup condiments for lunch and weeping silently.



Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 06:45 AM (GQ8sn)

542 I managed a CVS when I was a young man of 28. I know my teen employees stole from me like Vikings on a leisurely cruise of the English coast. I believe a large chunk of this article was his version of fake but true. Just like his resume where he was proud of his ability to lie.

Posted by: Rick Enrol at March 12, 2014 06:45 AM (jl269)

543 Studds! I'd forgotten about Studds... The list is so long.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 06:45 AM (aDwsi)

544 My wife is six months older than I am, so for half the year, "the bad half" as she calls it, she's "officially" a year older than me. 40 when I was still 39, etc. I try to only mention it sparingly.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 12, 2014 06:45 AM (ZshNr)

545

Most likely the news dump will be up right now...

 

But good morning to all of you still living in yesterday from me in Sydney where it is Thursday (only 2 more work days-yes!)

 

I've been busy being my son's personal tour organiser - he's doing a motorbike trip in Vietnam later this year and after watching some terrific videos I feel like going with him!

 

He somehow trusts my opinions - he wanted Cambodia but I mentioned that a couple of Aussie bike riders have been kidnapped in recent times in Cambodia and found murdered  - I suggested Vietnam - which I love visiting

 

As for the missing plane -Aviation Herald has stopped the comments

 

Where is the bloody thing????

 

The poor rellies and friends of those on board must be beside themselves by now...

 

 

 

 

Posted by: aussie at March 12, 2014 06:45 AM (yeSac)

546

Hrm.

 

I've had to take a lot of sick days becoz baby. Turns out there's a policy where if you take 5 occurances of sick time in a 12 month period you start a process of counseling, writing up, etc. eventually leading to terminate.

 

Hmm? OK I'm at 4, sez the boss. Can one use FMLA for a one day caring for the baby thinger? Any HR peoples?

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 06:45 AM (3ZtZW)

547 I looked her up. I wouldn't qualify her as "beautiful". "Really cute"? Absolutely.



You know the rule.


Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 06:45 AM (GQ8sn)

548 David Burge ‏@iowahawkblog Dickheads to battle Dipshits for 'soul of the internet', say this report from Assholes http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ nick-denton-gawker-buzzfeed-soul-of-internet-media Â…

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 12, 2014 06:46 AM (ZPrif)

549 So these "deep flaws" aren't really that deep. Posted by: Buck Farack --------------- Then..., why would the media report them as such? /SARC

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 06:46 AM (aDwsi)

550 502 Used to be 1/2 + 7. Now with Common Core, 1/2 minus 7.

Huh. I figured with Common Core it would be something involving number partners, cube sticks, and showing someone the finger.

Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at March 12, 2014 06:47 AM (U82Km)

551 He somehow trusts my opinions - he wanted Cambodia but I mentioned that a couple of Aussie bike riders have been kidnapped in recent times in Cambodia and found murdered - I suggested Vietnam - which I love visiting



We could ask John Kerry for advice on where to visit for you.  He's got lots of stories of when he was "in country".


Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 06:47 AM (GQ8sn)

552 I was separated six months before my divorce from my ex was final. Some states have a mandatory waiting period.

His divorce date means nothing.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 12, 2014 10:39 AM (4cA6A)


Exactly.  My late husband's divorce was not "final" when we started dating.  It was granted, but, Oklahoma had a six month period before it was final.  She served him with divorce papers when he got off the plane from Viet Nam and, oh, yeah, she got pregnant by another guy while he was humping through the jungle.  She trashed the marriage big time and he was supposed to wait to take a pretty girl out to dinner and a movie?

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, We Be Bossy at March 12, 2014 06:48 AM (kXoT0)

553 EC, think we could pitch this story to Amazon Studios then?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 06:48 AM (23VXG)

554 Btw, those asking about Jolly's girlfriend...in 2010 she was named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People In DC".

 

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 12, 2014 10:39 AM (da5Wo)

 

That's like "Best Dental Work" at Achmed's Bomb School.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 06:48 AM (zF6Iw)

555 The President responded that “if you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill… it may turn out that, it’s just they haven’t prioritized health care.” He added that if a family member gets sick, the father “will wish he had paid that $300 a month.” He forgot to mention that you could also stop living inside buildings. From HA. Posted by: WalrusRex at March 12, 2014 10:35 AM (ee9LE) He forgot to mention, cut back on food. This guy is delusional. He's trying to tell us, now, what to prioritize? While he uses his private screening room, inviting the 1% to watch TV shows? this guy is pure evil

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 12, 2014 06:48 AM (IXrOn)

556 I'm reading this article about the exhumation of The Big Bopper's body. Fascinating, in a morbid sort of way. http://tinyurl.com/mduzeah

Posted by: Citizen X at March 12, 2014 06:49 AM (7ObY1)

557 EC, think we could pitch this story to Amazon Studios then?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 10:48 AM (23VXG)



Did you ever get a response from them for yours?



Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 06:49 AM (GQ8sn)

558 That's like "Best Dental Work" at Achmed's Bomb School. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 12, 2014 10:48 AM (zF6Iw) haha thanks for the laugh

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 12, 2014 06:50 AM (IXrOn)

559 It's not as if Jolly is a Kenyan Communist Catamite or anything.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2014 06:50 AM (bitz6)

560 He forgot to mention, cut back on food.

1) His wife won't.
2) SNAP, baby!

Posted by: HR at March 12, 2014 06:50 AM (ZKzrr)

561 this guy is pure evil

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 12, 2014 10:48 AM (IXrOn)


It's the "we could save more gas if we inflated our tires properly" crap again.



Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 06:50 AM (GQ8sn)

562

Here's Jolly's girlfriend's profile from The Hill...remember, this was in 2010:

 

----------

 

Laura Donahoe may be a small-town girl from central Pennsylvania, but sheÂ’s right at home in the District.

A lobbyist at power firm Van Scoyoc Associates, she loves seeing the Washington intersection of business and politics up close and on the job every day. Only two years out of Susquehanna University, Donahoe is already helping out with a bevy of the firmÂ’s clients.

“I get to see all these worlds and how government affects them,” Donahoe says.

Lobbying in D.C. is a big change from Selinsgrove, a town with a population of approximately 5,000 and just two stoplights. Donahoe compares it to television’s “Friday Night Lights,” where the big weekly social event is the high school football game. She looks like she could be cast on the television show, too: the archetypal girl-next-door, with sandy brown hair and bright green eyes.

Working on K Street has its perks. For example, Donahoe is looking forward to her next business trip to the Florida Keys, where she plans to take some scuba diving lessons.

“I love to be out on the water,” Donahoe says.

A beach-lover and avid sailor, Donahoe is also a fan of the Washington Nationals. For her, heading to the stadium is one of the best ways to meet up with friends and perhaps lobby some congressional staffers, too (no game tickets paid for, of course).

“I see it as a happy hour,” Donahoe says. “You can grab a drink, and there’s entertainment right there.”

She has an ongoing competition with her boss, Van Scoyoc Vice President David Jolly, to see who can catch the most foul balls. Donahoe needs to pick up the pace, though — she has only two so far, while Jolly has 10.

 

---------


She worked for him?

 

Huh.

 

 

Posted by: @JohnTant at March 12, 2014 06:50 AM (PFy0L)

563 Hrm.

I've had to take a lot of sick days becoz baby. Turns out there's a policy where if you take 5 occurances of sick time in a 12 month period you start a process of counseling, writing up, etc. eventually leading to terminate.

Hmm? OK I'm at 4, sez the boss. Can one use FMLA for a one day caring for the baby thinger? Any HR peoples?

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 12, 2014 10:45 AM (3ZtZW)

Not an HR expert, but, taking FMLA days is supposed to have no impact on your job.  You do not have to state what an FMLA day "covered", just that it was an FMLA day.  My work made me get an FMLA for my migraines.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, We Be Bossy at March 12, 2014 06:50 AM (kXoT0)

564 BTW, whiney journo now getting trashed in comments

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 06:51 AM (zOTsN)

565 I looked her up. I wouldn't qualify her as "beautiful". "Really cute"? Absolutely. Ahem. *taps foot while waiting for a link to her pic*

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 12, 2014 06:52 AM (0HooB)

566

557 EC

 

Yes I have heard he is a Vietnam war hero///

 

Is he on twitter perhaps so I can get his sage advice?

Posted by: aussie at March 12, 2014 06:52 AM (yeSac)

567 You know the rule. Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 10:45 AM (GQ8sn) Lol. http://tinyurl.com/off8lw9

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 12, 2014 06:52 AM (da5Wo)

568 Aussie you could retrace the route Top Gear took on motorbikes in Vietnam.  Though suggest skipping buying the large scale three masted galleon.

I know the Malaysian thing is just crazy.  On Jet Photos Forum for this accident the tin foil is out and lots of speculation.  Even the Helios accident has been posited which makes more sense than KAL 007.  But it is all speculation and guesses with no debris.  Pray for the families that the truth will come out.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 06:52 AM (23VXG)

569

Art'Ette ... his comments are predictable.

 

Ask me to pay somebody's insurance, and I sure as hell am going to demand the cut their cell phone and cable first.

 

What I find funny is that he sounds positively Libertarian in that partial quote.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 12, 2014 06:52 AM (Hj2M6)

570 548 I managed a CVS when I was a young man of 28. I know my teen employees stole from me like Vikings on a leisurely cruise of the English coast. I worked as a store detective in my twenties. Hated it with a passion. Not only do you have to deal with the scum of the earth, but I really, really hated having to bust employees. Especially the ones I was friendly with. For them to steal was an insult to me, like I didn't know how to do my job. What they didn't realize was, anyone who kissed my ass was automatically under suspicion. But it was the outside perps that were scary. One perp told me she had a razor blade and AIDS and was going to cut her wrist and spray me with HIV blood.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 12, 2014 06:52 AM (7ObY1)

571 Is he on twitter perhaps so I can get his sage advice?

Posted by: aussie at March 12, 2014 10:52 AM (yeSac)



Tell your son to stay clear of riverbanks!



Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 06:53 AM (GQ8sn)

572 515 "The first thing I noticed on my first day on the job is that in retail no one sits." So, not letting your employees sit on their asses is somehow mean? How exactly are employees supposed to help customers find their products if they're sitting. I would love to see liberals take their investments and invest them in small franchise businesses. Then they can be big, ol' humanitarians to the employees. They can pay a living wage, which in California or NY would have to be more than the 10 or 15 bucks an hour they keep demanding. They can let their employees sit around. They can let their employees have a say in management decisions. In a nutshell, put their money where their mouths are.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2014 06:53 AM (mck3/)

573 Ok, guy who lives in the building next store said they smelled gas last night. He was at work when the explosion happened and is trying to find his wife...reporter asks him to stay there while she has the camera pan around the area and she continues to blather on and on. STUPID BINT! THE GUY IS LOOKING FOR HIS WIFE!

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 12, 2014 06:54 AM (bCEmE)

574 Lol.

http://tinyurl.com/off8lw9

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 12, 2014 10:52 AM (da5Wo)



Nice. 

Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 06:54 AM (GQ8sn)

575 the missing plane -Aviation Herald has stopped the comments Where is the bloody thing???? G'Day Aussie. Aliens or the Rapture and we were left behind.....

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2014 06:55 AM (xorT2)

576 It's the "we could save more gas if we inflated our tires properly" crap again. Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 10:50 AM (GQ8sn) It's worse than that. For some people, tv is their only means of entertainment - they can't afford the lavish vacations, restaurants, theaters that the SCOAMF and his disgusting wife do. Phone? Where people communicate, emergency roadside assistance, wait to hear from job prospects, their wife's going into labor, etc. This is a Venezuelan Dictator.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 12, 2014 06:55 AM (IXrOn)

577 EC, Amazon Studios passed on both.  Still up on Amazon Studios in case someone stumbles across them.  So both ideas are mine again.  First one I will probably just let wither.  Second one has a lot of potential in my mind so who knows.

I should pry myself from this keyboard and go write on the other keyboard.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 12, 2014 06:56 AM (23VXG)

578 You just know the part about his interaction with a former Treasury Dept employee was bullshit.

Posted by: Rick Enrol at March 12, 2014 06:57 AM (jl269)

579 "Yeah, but that's on a scale that includes Helen Thomas and Debbie Wasserman-Schulz, so remember...context." There is a statue of Helen Thomas in Dearborn, Michigan. That's one ugly piece of metal.

Posted by: jwest at March 12, 2014 06:57 AM (u2a4R)

580 For some people, tv is their only means of entertainment

Damn shame the Rethuglikkkans closed all the libraries, ain't it?

Posted by: HR at March 12, 2014 06:57 AM (ZKzrr)

581 The plane is probably between central China and Indonesia, unless it isn't.

Posted by: Beagle at March 12, 2014 06:58 AM (sOtz/)

582 582 Phone? Where people communicate, emergency roadside assistance, wait to hear from job prospects, their wife's going into labor, etc.

Why should they pay for their own phone when they can get an Obamapho?

Posted by: Anachronda, getting his priorities straight at March 12, 2014 06:58 AM (U82Km)

583 I don't think age is an issue at all unless you marry someone much younger for purely physical reasons and then find out later that with a 30 year age difference you have nothing in common, or what often goes along with it-that they married you simply for money.. George Soros is what-in his late 70's or 80's, isn't he and he's married to someone in their 30's. Call me cynical but I cannot believe she's there because George is her soulmate and they both share an interest in the Beatles. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2014 06:58 AM (XyM/Y)

584 585 Do the pigeons like it?

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2014 06:58 AM (bitz6)

585 There is a statue of Helen Thomas in Dearborn, Michigan. -------- Can't be worse than my worn out goat.

Posted by: Ahmed at March 12, 2014 06:58 AM (Aif/5)

586 Yup, I'd hit it. But really, your response time could use some improvement. You're expected to have the link ready in a timely manner. And no sitting down.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 12, 2014 06:58 AM (0HooB)

587

574 Anna Puma

 

Thanks for that - I'll look up the Top Gear trip

 

Looks like motor bike tours are a huge thing in Vietnam and I've really enjoyed researching it - of course this might mean my son is too lazy to do his own research...

 

Still, I'm tempted to join the trip along with his GF ( would she mind if Mummy went along too?)

Posted by: aussie at March 12, 2014 06:58 AM (yeSac)

588

"I was broke, depressed, and living on food stamps. "

And it was all  Mitt Romney's fault! Meannie.

Posted by: Lea at March 12, 2014 06:59 AM (lIU4e)

589 It's worse than that.

For some people, tv is their only means of entertainment - they can't afford the lavish vacations, restaurants, theaters that the SCOAMF and his disgusting wife do.

Phone? Where people communicate, emergency roadside assistance, wait to hear from job prospects, their wife's going into labor, etc.

This is a Venezuelan Dictator.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 12, 2014 10:55 AM (IXrOn)


The whole logic of his message is messed from the ground up.  According to the dems, a person/family should be able to leave a job anytime they want to pursue whatever goals they want without having to worry about their health insurance.  The o-care tiered plans were supposed to be cheap enough to anyone to afford.  Yet here he is, telling people to cut out other expenses he thinks they shouldn't have, to pay for his plan.



Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 06:59 AM (GQ8sn)

590 Jolly sounds a lot like the not-uncommon, dare-I-say_average 42 y/o male in today's America. I guess I'm having a hard time giving a shit about these "flaws" because, minus the lobbyist part and plus one year, that's almost a description of me, so maybe I'm biased.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 12, 2014 06:59 AM (gBnkX)

591 491 So all the 70 years old here feel free to date 42 year olds. ;^) I keed; I keed. Don't do that unless you're divorced or single. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2014 10:32 AM (XyM/Y) If they're rich enough, it can happen. Good luck with that if you don't have a boatload of money. Men are attracted to pretty, young women. Pretty, young women are attracted to money.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2014 07:00 AM (mck3/)

592 Still, I'm tempted to join the trip along with his GF ( would she mind if Mummy went along too?)



*lightbulb*



Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 07:00 AM (GQ8sn)

593

577 EC

 

Swift boats are available?

 

Not that I know what that is...going to Bing right now

Posted by: aussie at March 12, 2014 07:00 AM (yeSac)

594 http://dearbornunderground.blogspot.com/2010/08/hezbollah-owes-us-big-time.html Helen Thomas statue.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2014 07:00 AM (bitz6)

595 Huh,  for some reason I'm reminded of this:

http://bit.ly/1iAEaiH

You don't know what it's like out there! I've *worked* in the private sector. They expect *results*.

Posted by: Emperor Norton II at March 12, 2014 07:01 AM (MlqTY)

596 That story made me cry tears of laughter.

What an utterly entitled douchebag.

Posted by: Vortex Lovera at March 12, 2014 07:01 AM (wtvvX)

597 Men are attracted to pretty, young women. Pretty, young women are attracted to money.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2014 11:00 AM (mck3/)

 

 

Hypergamy in action.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 12, 2014 07:01 AM (DrWcr)

598 Glad for you, backhoe, sounds like a great lady.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 12, 2014 07:02 AM (ZshNr)

599 I just meant that it's not a good idea to date while you're married to someone else. :^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2014 07:02 AM (XyM/Y)

600 You say we have no bananas, we have no bananas today.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2014 07:03 AM (bitz6)

601 No doubt said up-thread, but most people learn about how awful retail and/or food service jobs are when they're in high school or college, amIright?

So this pampered snowflake probably spent his summers doing very important internships, like at his dad's office or a non-profit, or "worked" as an activist.

How does it feel to be one of the "afflicted" in need of your journalistic comfort, buddy?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2014 07:03 AM (aq/zi)

602 Damn shame the Rethuglikkkans closed all the libraries, ain't it? Posted by: HR at March 12, 2014 10:57 AM (ZKzrr) Some people read AND watch TV. As far as libraries, I love the Kindle world of digital. I haven't had to physically visit a library in some time. Many have online access. It's nice. You simply need a membership.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 12, 2014 07:03 AM (IXrOn)

603 Speaking of senses of entitlement, where's my morning content? Slacker cobs.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 12, 2014 07:03 AM (gBnkX)

604 I read the other day that Barky not only asked for but got the new season of Game of Thrones from HBO. So the 're is the elite get cable shows early and the middle class don't get cable at all.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 12, 2014 07:03 AM (ee9LE)

605 Hey Mr. Tally mon, tally me banana....

Posted by: Harry Belefonte at March 12, 2014 07:04 AM (aDwsi)

606 The whole logic of his message is messed from the ground up. According to the dems, a person/family should be able to leave a job anytime they want to pursue whatever goals they want without having to worry about their health insurance. Which would be doable if we had a government whose prime duty was to insure a robust economy.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 12, 2014 07:04 AM (0HooB)

607 Voting records are raising questions amid an investigation into the discovery of a womanÂ’s mummified body in the garage of a foreclosed metro Detroit home.

The body found last Wednesday in Pontiac is that of Pia Farrenkopf — according to her sister, Paula Logan. Authorities investigating the case haven’t released her name, but they have said that the woman apparently died in 2008 at the age of 49.

According to a report in the Detroit Free Press, records show Farrenkopf as voting in the November 2010 gubernatorial election.

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at March 12, 2014 07:04 AM (e8kgV)

608

58  rickb223 

 

Tin foil hats are on sale...

 

Unbelievable really because if you ever have the chance to fly over the Malacca Straits at night it looks like a busy highway - if a plane crashed there it would land on one of the zillion boats and ships there

Posted by: aussie at March 12, 2014 07:04 AM (yeSac)

609

You want Game of Thrones.

 

You'll settle for True Detective.

 

You'll get Girls.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 12, 2014 07:04 AM (DrWcr)

610 EC

Swift boats are available?

Not that I know what that is...going to Bing right now

Posted by: aussie at March 12, 2014 11:00 AM (yeSac)



John Kerry's Purple Heart medal for "injuries sustained in combat" may have been self-inflicted.  He once told a story where he spotted a Vietcong soldier on a riverbank that fled into the jungle when he saw his PT boat approach.  Kerry, being a dumbass, fired an M-79 grenade launcher at close range onto the riverbank causing the shrapnel from the round to ricochet back at him, causing some lacerations.


He got a Purple Heart for that.



Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 07:05 AM (GQ8sn)

611 Daylight come and Winona Ryder goes home.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2014 07:05 AM (bitz6)

612 The body found last Wednesday in Pontiac is that of Pia Farrenkopf — according to her sister, Paula Logan. Authorities investigating the case haven’t released her name, but they have said that the woman apparently died in 2008 at the age of 49. According to a report in the Detroit Free Press, records show Farrenkopf as voting in the November 2010 gubernatorial election. Posted by: Jimmy Carter at March 12, 2014 11:04 AM (e8kgV) That story fascinates me on many levels....now another one.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 12, 2014 07:06 AM (bCEmE)

613 620 Daylight come and Winona Ryder goes home.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 12, 2014 11:05 AM (bitz6)

 

With a few shoplifted items...

Posted by: Insomniac at March 12, 2014 07:06 AM (DrWcr)

614 Also, cracking up at his insistence that he doesn't get overtime and how that is so terrible when he clearly wasn't working over 40 hours a week (if they cut his hours to 30).

Posted by: Lea at March 12, 2014 07:06 AM (lIU4e)

615 Dump up!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2014 07:06 AM (xorT2)

616 Prediction: More green bananas in the produce department

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 12, 2014 07:06 AM (aDwsi)

618 This thread is small ng really stale - what's that stuff NCJ used in the car, again?

Posted by: shredded chi at March 12, 2014 07:08 AM (0IDyD)

619

599 EC

 

Hey I would never ever intrude on my son's personal life - however a motorbike trip to NW Vietnam mmmm I have a motorbike licence....

 

His GF does like me .. I hope! 

 

 

Posted by: aussie at March 12, 2014 07:08 AM (yeSac)

620 The o-care tiered plans were supposed to be cheap enough to anyone to afford. Yet here he is, telling people to cut out other expenses he thinks they shouldn't have, to pay for his plan. Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 10:59 AM (GQ8sn) Yep. Affordable and Care are the two biggest lies. Not only are they out of range for most people, it's not even close in covering the supposed 40 million (or whatever made up number) it is supposed to cover. Billions down the drain for a handful of people that could have been on one of the other social nets.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 12, 2014 07:08 AM (IXrOn)

621 Re: Pia Farrenkopf

Gee, it's a shame we don't have some sort of organization who's actively working to verify states' voter rolls and purge the dead from the lists.
You know, kinda like "True the Vote", or maybe exactly like True the Vote.

Oh that's right, Obama was siccing the full force of the federal government on them in order to prevent them from doing this in 2012.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2014 07:08 AM (aq/zi)

622 That's wonderful, backhoe. That's the big thing-You were bestfriends so that the age difference didn't matter.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2014 07:08 AM (XyM/Y)

623 Unbelievable really because if you ever have the chance to fly over the Malacca Straits at night it looks like a busy highway - if a plane crashed there it would land on one of the zillion boats and ships there That's what has everyone so confused. No place to land. No wreckage. No visuals.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2014 07:10 AM (xorT2)

624 Top. Men. http://tinyurl.com/qhve58n President Barack Obama's nominee to serve as the U.S. surgeon general, a 36-year-old physician who has attracted criticism for his anti-gun advocacy, complained to a newspaper in 1994 that 'society's preoccupation with firearms' comes from 'fiery gun battles' on Saturday morning cartoons.

Posted by: RWC at March 12, 2014 07:10 AM (fWAjv)

625 Speaking of divorces, did whatshisname from SC ever marry? Or, is he still hiking the Appalachian Trail?

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 12, 2014 07:10 AM (r7mtu)

626 568
Here's Jolly's girlfriend's profile from The Hill...remember, this was in 2010:

Her profile reads like a playboy playmates ... just a change a few of words around or not.

Posted by: Frank at March 12, 2014 07:10 AM (7Nabg)

627

619 EC

 

He shot himself then ????

 

Idiot...

 

 

Posted by: aussie at March 12, 2014 07:10 AM (yeSac)

628 Hey I would never ever intrude on my son's personal life - however a motorbike trip to NW Vietnam mmmm I have a motorbike licence....


If you go, they may try their level best to lose you in the jungle.  Then you'd be all alone.


Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 07:11 AM (GQ8sn)

629 612 I read the other day that Barky not only asked for but got the new season of Game of Thrones from HBO.

How the hell does he have time to watch Game of Thrones?

Posted by: Frank at March 12, 2014 07:12 AM (7Nabg)

630 EC

He shot himself then ????

Idiot...

Posted by: aussie at March 12, 2014 11:10 AM (yeSac)



That was his third, so he got to go home!



Posted by: EC at March 12, 2014 07:12 AM (GQ8sn)

631
How the hell does he have time to watch Game of Thrones?

Posted by: Frank at March 12, 2014 11:12 AM (7Nabg)

He must watch it on his ipad while riding shotgun in the golfcart.

Posted by: Blackford Oakes at March 12, 2014 07:16 AM (KVnkf)

632 "I knew I had to leave Sporting Goods Inc. when I realized I was turning into the sort-of overeager employee who is way too emotionally invested in a crappy menial job that does its best to devalue him." Yes, the Sporting Goods, Inc. stores were started with the mission statement that "we will do everything possible to devalue our employees." This is a 50 year old man sounding exactly like a 17 year old slacker high schooler.

Posted by: Jen at March 12, 2014 07:20 AM (JqB3t)

633

@ Jen, that is one that bugged me too. I see too many people, Obama is one of them, devaluing hard work. A job can be crappy, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't do your best and be an 'over eager' employee. It's called work for a reason. (I also loved his anger that you can't sit down on the job. It's retail!)

He also apparently didn't give them 2 weeks notice, if the manager was complaining about having to fill his shift for the next week.

Posted by: Lea at March 12, 2014 07:25 AM (lIU4e)

634 "This is a 50 year old man sounding exactly like a 17 year old slacker high schooler."

Bingo. Love the part where he agonizes about having to stay late to throw trash while his poor store manager's plight of having to clean the entire store to please visiting corporate bigwigs is only mentioned in passing.

Posted by: Blackford Oakes at March 12, 2014 07:29 AM (KVnkf)

635 He also apparently didn't give them 2 weeks notice, if the manager was complaining about having to fill his shift for the next week. Posted by: Lea at March 12, 2014 11:25 AM (lIU4e) Lea, he has written all this in black and white in the Atlantic, who has now published it online for all to see. Very easy for his next employer(after the non profit folds or let's him go, he said it was a temporary position) to read. In addition to the disclosure about the wife beating, the larceny charge, etc. etc. Let's see, do I want to hire Mr. Williams, let's check the internet......

Posted by: Jen at March 12, 2014 07:33 AM (JqB3t)

636 Dumbasses have just launched 20 rockets at Israel in the past hour.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 12, 2014 07:35 AM (r7mtu)

637 In a non-binding resolution, all 150 members of the lower house said “we demand that the government release Jordanian soldier Ahmad Dakamseh from jail.” Dakamseh had opened fire on a group of Israeli schoolgirls as they visited Baqura, a scenic peninsula on the Jordan River near the Israeli border. He killed seven of the girls and wounded five more, as well as a teacher, and was sentenced to life in prison. Oh, yes...let the mass murderer of children free!!!!!

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 12, 2014 07:39 AM (r7mtu)

638 OMG... I'm almost 3/4 through the asshat's "journey" working in a mall store and his experiences largely mirror mine when I was 18 (except for the pat- downs). Yeah, it sucks and probably wont ever do much to boost your ego... But DANG! This guy sounds like he just oozed such condescension and resentment for the company, his co-workers and probably the customers that I would have had "Loss Prevention" on his ass 24/7. Because that's JUST the type of entitled asshole employee who is MOST likely to steal from the store. Justifying it as some sort of "striking a blow for the common man". Oh and as for "wage theft"? Yeah, most of those hard to meet deadlines (like, coming back from fucking lunch on time) are so inflexible because...teenagers and also whatever marginal value you may or may not bring to my organization I sure as shit ain't realizing it whilst you moon over your lost "journalism" career at Sbarro's Pizza. As for Cinderella "trash duty"? Dude! It's (mostly) busting down cardboard! That's fuckin' fun!!! What is WRONG with you? As for keeping the restrooms clean...that just blows but I'm quite sure that you'd be the first to YELP if you happened to stumble across a bathroom, in a sporting goods store, in a mall (when does that happen?! btw)that wasn't maintained according to your exacting imaginary CDC standards. So, in short... Yeah, working retail can be pretty shitty but I'll bet that (scheduling issues aside) Stretch and the rest of your co-workers are probably pretty relieved to be done with you. Think about what a fucking downer it would be to go into work and have to face YOU every day, constantly carping and bitching about how lowly and demeaning this occupation is. You probably have no idea how insulting you were to some (likely) pretty decent kids. No wonder retail businesses are reluctant to hire "older professionals with a college degree". Ain't nobody got time for that!

Posted by: Deety at March 12, 2014 08:36 AM (D8ONs)

639 You know, that story from the "journalist" is just nucking futs. OK, so you got fired for insulting Romney in a racial manner. You got held to the same standard you'd apply to someone who did the same to Obama, or someone else of your race. As for your domestic violence charge messing up your job opportunities, maybe you should have not HIT YOUR F'ING WIFE. Just saying. I'm sorry that you spent 6 months without a job (having big gaps in your employment history like that without being in college is hurtful for your job opportunities), on food stamps and felt depressed. I mean, I feel depressed not having much income (outside of cello gigs) and living at my parents, and I literally just graduated from college. I have my whole life ahead of me, and I still feel bad about myself for not already being out of my parent's house. Join the f'ing club, we're adding new members everyday. And then, you act like it's the end of the world to work retail, and to clean, and take out the garbage. Newsflash! That's what you get when you work a retail or service industry job. Having worked at both Adventure Island and Busch Gardens (theme parks in Tampa), I KNOW it isn't a whole lot of fun to work a job like that (though I worked in Culinary, so no pat downs). The long hours of standing (outside I might add, no A/C, maybe a fan if you were lucky), the constant cleaning, the various threats about stealing and the consequences it would bring (though more on the people who handled money than regarding food), the works. He reminds me of the people who worked there who acted like the job was beneath them, and it showed in how they treated the customers. They were very inattentive, slow-moving, downright rude sometimes. I remember reading about how the guy who founded Wendy's (fast-food burger chain) started out as a dishwasher in a Greek diner, itself started by two Greek guys who began as dishwashers. Everybody starts somewhere, even the author of that article started in retail, and worked his way towards the job he wanted. The bit that got me the most though, was the "overeager employee" line, and about how he found himself taking pleasure in the menial labor he was doing. I'm not saying he should happily work a retail job the rest of his life, but that bit is ridiculous. Part of working a service industry job (janitor, retail, culinary, etc.) is that you're SERVING people. Whether directly (cooking, retail) or indirectly (janitor, plumber), you're doing something for them. It can get grimy, dirty, and nasty. But for me at least, seeing the appreciation from customers after I went the extra mile for them helped keep the heat and humidity at bay, not to mention the mosquitoes. His manager had it right. Joseph Williams has no appreciation for hard work, and it shows.

Posted by: FGCU_James at March 12, 2014 10:05 AM (if2JC)

640 @642 I agree with you: he apparently didn't bother to give two weeks' notice, if his former boss needed to worry about filling his shift. So he was in a really bad place (homeless and unemployed) and couldn't get anyone to hire him. Finally this "Stretch" guy hires him, and he repays this by not giving notice when he finally gets a better job? What a jerk. And yeah, getting all bent out of shape over the loss prevention stuff, which was applied equally to all so wasn't a race-related thing at all. Getting upset that he was feeling pride in his work?!? What a jerk.

Posted by: mr_jack at March 12, 2014 12:12 PM (TMG3G)

641 Good story.  Reminds me of my first job working in a retail job.  The bosses were not bad, it was the customers that sucked.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 13, 2014 02:01 AM (T2V/1)

642 What is going on here?  Is the thread dead?

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 13, 2014 02:44 AM (T2V/1)

Hide Comments | Add Comment | Refresh | Top

Comments are disabled. Post is locked.
435kb generated in CPU 0.1854, elapsed 0.4365 seconds.
64 queries taking 0.3188 seconds, 770 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.

Support





Donate to Ace of Spades HQ!


Contact

Change the At to "@" and the DOT to "."




Intermarkets' Privacy Policy
Support


Donate to Ace of Spades HQ!


Search Thingy



Archives

Monthly Traffic

  • Pages: 100247
  • Files: 484
  • Bytes: 3.3G
  • CPU Time: 187:52
  • Queries: 3861311

Content

  • Posts: 22824
  • Comments: 5953260

Feeds


RSS 2.0 Atom 1.0