Hurricane Sandy helped tipped the election to Obama. The media’s fawning coverage was enough to get the President re-elected. Chris Matthews in a rare moment of honesty admitted the storm helped Obama.
Katrina killed Bush’s Presidency, while Sandy saved Obama’s. Republicans need to realize most of the American public are low information voters. They vote on slogans and images, not on policies. We need to emulate Progressives and their tactics.
Chris Matthews is the Charles Johnson of cable news. He’s has a nervous breakdown and should be in a mental institute.
Tags: Chris Matthews
If Christie hadn’t slobbered all over the Chair the storm may have hurt more than just those that took the brunt of it’s damage. It could have Hurt the COTUS even more.
Chrissy boy is insane..like obama doing his job??? That’s crazy talk unless he means doing his job in destroying this country.
How utterly callous does one have to be to be happy about a storm that effected millions of people??? What has obama done to help those people? Nothing. FEMA pulled out the day after the elections how very special! Oh yeah obama cares. Plus to Chrissy boy it seems to be all about skin color…lets over-look everything else…
Hello,
wish you all a nice weekend
@ Lily:
Come now…everything is fine in those areas. Obama said so himself! FEMA is responding to requests within 15 minutes!
//
@ ferb123:
Why aren’t out enjoying your 5 million dollars you won Tuesday night?
@ lobo91:
Oh yes I forgot that comrade obama has everything under control.
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To be fair, he did apologize.
I don’t believe a word of the apology but……….
Lily wrote:
If you keep spreading unfounded rumors, Santa Obama won’t give you anything for Christmas.
@ eaglesoars:
How many times has he said something outrageous and then did an apology? One time I get it…more than one time says to me he can say any outrageous thing and just say “I’m sorry!” the next day.
Lily wrote:
Standard procedure at MSNBC.
lobo91 wrote:
You forget I live in Louisiana he will not give anything to us even if a Cat.5 hurricane hit us, a oil spill occurs, an unusual earthquake happens and 1000 tornadoes hit us all at once…he would say WOW see what Global Warming does in red states. Then he would precede to shut down more oil leases and more contracts (if there are any left for building of aircraft). Santa Claus will not even give us a rock of coal..because you know coal is evil. As far as Santa Claus is concerned we don’t exsist.
Lily wrote:
Actually, I don’t remember him apologizing for anything else -- could be wrong.
I have noticed his latest gig is calling people ‘pigs’.
Lily wrote:
Oh, indeed you DO!
As a “Don’t fuck with me’ object lesson.
@ eaglesoars:
If I remember correctly this is the second in at least two weeks he has had to say “he is sorry”…I could be wrong..but if I remember correctly he said something else too.
@ Lily:
He’ll give you a free* Obamacare card.
*”Free” refers only to the card. Actual medical care not included.
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh yes…he has indeed proven that and I imagine it will only be worse the next four years for any red state in the south.
Added for clarity
lobo91 wrote:
That would mean he would have to acknowledge us as a state…we don’t exsist any longer. But we might be reported to the U.N. on some trump up human violations….this would not surprise me.
Lily wrote:
I think I know what you’re remembering -- mgmt apologized -- lemme find the link
lobo91 wrote:
Well, medical care is included if you can find a doctor who is still practicing and taking new patients. Otherwise, yeah, you are pretty well screwed.
AZfederalist wrote:
I’m sure there’s a plan to round up a few thousand “doctors” from Pakistan to take care of that.
eaglesoars wrote:
Awww yes he refused to apologize but mangement did….so really it is the second time he said something offensive and got away with it…
Matthews best moment was towards the end of Wet’s last term when he agreed with most and wished ‘he would just go away.’ He will once again become somewhat sensible in about 3 and 3/4 years.
Lily wrote:
Is this what you’re remembering?
MSNBC President Apologizes For Matthews Calling Koch Brothers ‘Pigs’ But Won’t Force Him To
@ song_and_dance_man:
I think old age and drinking and brain damage has already occurred.
lobo91 wrote:
Too costly. They will come from the south.
@ eaglesoars:
Yep, yep, yep. That was it. Thanks!
OT and drive by post -- I think someone here is keeping track of layoffs “post election”. My cousin (by marriage) just called and there is a large layoff happening at the Port of Houston. He will be one of them. I think he will be OK, but wanted to work another 5-8 years before he retired. Hubby said it was in the Houston Chronicle (www.chron.com), but a quick search didn’t find it.
@ Dolphin:
Companies all over the place are laying-off people….if Mitt would have won there would have been a boom in hiring.
This is just sickening.
Dolphin wrote:
Hi Dolphin -- someone at the blaze is tracking I believe..
Very sorry about your cousin. Is this a union job?
@ eaglesoars:
Weasel Zippers too…or he is reporting from The Blaze…
Later all. Gotta go…might be back.
The guy who was subbing for Yawn Vannity brought up a good point: perhaps the Republicans deserve to go the way of the Whigs…the obvious next question would be: Who would take their place?
Lily wrote:
I don’t know what I’m going to do now. I’ve just been rendered completely unemployable, since the only field I was likely to find a job in is going to be hardest hit.
@ Dolphin:
Proposed big business layoffs.
Welch Allyn 275
Stryker 5%
Boston Scientific 1500
Medtronic 1000
Smith & Nephew -- 770 layoffs
Abbott Labs -- 700 layoffs
Covidien -- 595 layoffs
Kinetic Concepts -- 427 layoffs
St. Jude Medical -- 300 layoffs
Hill Rom -- 200 layoffs
And this is just from the AHA kicking in and doesn’t include the smaller and small businesses that will be affected. The numbers when taxes are raised next year and when we get to the so called Fiscal Cliff looks very bad for the economy.
lobo91 wrote:
bad times rock our comfort zone. I came to NM with nothing having lost everything. But after 7 years in a new industry I’m back on my feet. I make nowhere near what I used to make in data, but I have a new home and the boy is in college. It was a tough climb, but it’s working out. Sometimes, even late it life, we have to rebuild our future.
Macker wrote:
The Golden Dawn?
Gyrofascism, with Dolmades and Spanokopita for all!
@ lobo91:
I don’t know what your expertise is, but there are several large companies hiring here in Houston. Schlumberger, Exxon, Anadarka, Baker Hughes. Crane is building multiple new warehouses.
@ eaglesoars:
I don’t know for sure, but I don’t think so, he is more of the engineering type vs. dock worker.
@ lobo91:
I don’t know what you’re physical condition is but is there any chance you could get into a trade training pgm -- plumbing, electrician, etc.
Believe it or not -- locksmithing! I’ve needed one 3 times in the past year.
Dolphin wrote:
One thing I noticed reading thru the layoff lists -- whenever the info was given in the listing, it was always the ‘knowledge’ workers that are being layed off.
Macker wrote:
Who knows? But a bit of total discomfort for those who trust in Gov. in the next umpteen years when the Gov can’t deliver might wake up a whole new party.
@ Dolphin:
I’m not in a position to relocate, since I’m stuck with an underwater VA mortgage. You can’t do a short sale on a VA loan.
@ lobo91:
what about something like a gunsmith -- you know guns, right?
@ eaglesoars:
32 years of military service has pretty much put an end to any ideas like that.
@ eaglesoars:
Higher $$ workers -- IMHO.
eaglesoars wrote:
I know several gunsmiths. They’re doing about as well as I am in this economy.
Dolphin wrote:
good point.
eaglesoars wrote:
I also suspect that I’m going to start having problems with my hands soon, too. The rest of my joints are already shot, so that’s probably next.
Kind of makes fine work like that a problem.
lobo91 wrote:
WHOA!! Thank you for your service lobo.
I’m gonna keep thinking, tho.
@ lobo91:
When I became unemployed with extremely poor prospects of getting employed in my own field, I decided to switch fields completely to pharmacy, as that field has less than 1% unemployment here in Finland. Also, with large number of people retiring, the amount of people graduating barely can fill the opening jobs. Of course I am able to do this, because of the program that pays two out of the three years this education takes (third year I need to find my own funding, but family helps, as well as the paid training included in the studies). Anyway, my point is, you could research options for switching fields to something that has better prospects even during hard times and if there’s for example ways to get training on the side of working… or something. Anyway, I wish you all the best for finding job (also I wish the same for rest of you who are unemployed on these forums).
@ eaglesoars:
If I hadn’t been screwed out of my active duty retirement, it wouldn’t be an issue. Once I start drawing it, I’ll be fine.
But since I was deliberately forced off of active duty 93 days prior to qualifying, I have to wait another 7 years before I’ll get anything.
Meanwhile, I can’t even get an inteview for a job paying half what I was making, because they see what I used to make.
The Osprey wrote:
you get my vote!
i loves me some spanokopita!
Laura Ingraham, subbing for O’Reilly, is going to have a report on the layoffs after the commercial break.
@ lobo91:
Just trying help
Neighbor works for Anadarka and is actively recruiting me. They are desperate. I only have 4 more years where I am at to get full retirement benefits when I turn 62. I told neighbor that after 4 years I might consider making the move to Anadarka.
@ Purre:
i switched from management to medical (RN)
it can be done.
@ coldwarrior:
How is Mrs. CW?
I’m not even gonna ask about this morning.
eaglesoars wrote:
ahhhh…the pain begins.
its gonna be harder on the producers at first, then the gimme gimme’s are gonna get hit hard when there is no fedfunds left.
lobo91 wrote:
Wow, I cannot believe how much our situations are mirrored. I can’t relocate due to child custody issues. My disability prevents me from any physical jobs. There are no jobs to be had in my area. The ones I’m qualified for I don’t have experience, the ones I have experience for I’m not qualified. Plus I think there may be some age discrimination going on. (No one wants to hire a 42 year old for a entry level position.)
eaglesoars wrote:
she is resting comfortably on the couch at home with a medicinal glass of Chianti.
the funeral mass this morning was, well….it was tough.
@ coldwarrior:
).
Yeah. There’s lot of career switchers among my coursemates. I am also not the oldest, by far. Oldest I have met is about 50, I think, though most are 19 year old women (I am not complaining -- on the contrary
lobo91 wrote:
Another similarity. If they hadn’t forced me out when they did I was 15 days from the Klinton era early separation payout.
@ The Osprey:
Had to Google that and now my mouth is watering. Sounds yummy!
coldwarrior wrote:
You should see some of the comments on the earlier threads -- there’s a lot of bitterness -- justified IMO -- and few of us care any longer about ‘the less fortunate’. They deserve to get what they voted for.
fuck ‘em
@ Mars:
Try it at almost 52.
@ Mars:
Where are you at? General is OK.
coldwarrior wrote:
At HOME!! ALREADY!!
Cheers, Mrs CW!
After a foreclosure, a divorce and bankruptcy in two short years I relocated to NM. Although I left high paying jobs I found a new homestead, a steady job(from which I will retire from) and success for my son who is now in college.
It was a hard transition, but it’s working out. This is what I meant up there where I said, hard times rock our comfort zone. It can be done, but with the transition comes humbling that we may not be able to live in the same place economically that we were formally accustomed to.
I got my degree through GI Bill and Vocational rehab back in 2007. It has done me no good at all. I have my doubts I’m going to be able to convince voc rehab to help me get a paralegal certification.
I already tried to apply for the expanded benefits through VA voc rehab and was rejected because I wasn’t collecting unemployment.
eaglesoars wrote:
That clown she had on was from the Economic Policy Institute, which is a far-left labor think tank.
Mars wrote:
I had no GI Bill benefits, because of when I joined, so I have a pile of student loan debt for my useless degrees.
Purre wrote:
i was 41 when i started the course, there were two who were in their 50′s.
most were mid 20′s females in the rn course which is nice for the scenery.
lobo91 wrote:
I didn’t mind that part -- I found it odd she had no rep from the other end of the political spectrum. I think that gets laid at a producer’s feet.
Chris Matthews is a raging alcoholic.
eaglesoars wrote:
fuck ‘em.
everyone will have pain now. give the people what they want!
lobo91 wrote:
I managed to do it. I work in a healthcare field, processing claims. Wish me well!
@ lobo91:
quick question -- can you rent out your house (which might allow you to relocate)? Or even a room (which would bring some money in)?
@ eaglesoars:
O’Reilly tends to do that when he’s there, too. It’s frequently him and two liberals.
lobo91 wrote:
I probably still will be.
Dolphin wrote:
Montana. There is nothing here. Especially if your skills are in Psychology and computers.
I could work a 7 dollar an hour job at a group home. Unfortunately my psychiatrist is pretty sure it would do me in in less than 6 months.
Speranza wrote:
I don’t think so. He’s diabetic, which would make alcoholism a bit dicey.
Macker wrote:
I do. Hopefully all the plans to block the worst parts of O care keep it from taking full effect for all eternity.
Macker wrote:
There’s an idea -- and that can be done from home, right?
lobo91 wrote:
Oh I’ve got those two. Ran out of GI Bill before I was done. So now I have 28,000 to pay off when I start getting income.
eaglesoars wrote:
It would cost me a fortune to get this place in a condition where someone would want to rent it.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Under my divorce agreement if either of us leave the area we essentially give up our rights.
You guys are old. Should we rename this blog to the Geezerocracy?
eaglesoars wrote:
my ex made 4-5k a MONTH doing that.
@ lobo91:
guns’n stuff type of job
eaglesoars wrote:
nope.
i can have someone booze up 24-7 and still keep his sugars in line.
high insulin into the vein 24/7
@ Mars:
I used up my one year deferment when I was unemployed prior to going to Kuwait. Now that I’m back and unemployed again, I have to make payments, despite having no income.
I could stop paying (and my yet), but if I ever do find another job, they’ll just garnish my wages.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
get off my lawn you!!!!
@ eaglesoars:
I am going through our budget this weekend. Already cutting loose step-son and his car insurance (several reasons, but #1 can no longer afford to carry him, #2 -- he voted for the -0-, time for a reality check, #3 he is almost 24yo.and relying on others to still carry him. Hubby is not going to like that I am considering cancelling the EZ tag (tolls) for him to get back and forth to work -- that is almost $80/month.
Just had to plunk out $5000 for a new AC/heat unit for the house. I can live very frugal, but I won’t tolerate sacrifices unless everyone is on board. I will walk away for self preservation. May sound cold, but facts are cold and uncaring.
coldwarrior wrote:
A MONTH!!!
jeeze!
Dolphin wrote:
object lesson #1
I LOVE IT!!!
make him PAY!!!!
@ coldwarrior:
phlebotomist is another option. Quick training.
F/T employee status would include benefits too.
http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-phlebotomist/l-colorado+springs,+co
coldwarrior wrote:
It’s never to late to start anew. Who in their right mind would leave a job and then get into a new field at 47. *raises hand*
coldwarrior wrote:
crimeny. What does that do to your body/how long can you keep that up?
Calo wrote:
we are also SCREAMING for those cats
eaglesoars wrote:
how tight do you want the sugar level monitoring? $$$
Macker wrote:
Hey, that’s great. Good to see you found a job.
@ Calo:
Not for me it isn’t.
Trust me.
//Wouldn’t make it through the first day of training
@ Mars:
Sorry, can’t help you there. Will keep my ears open though.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
i got sent from an econ/stats/main line job in management in a field i worked in since i was 22 and went in a total different direction at 40.
it felt great to pull it off.
Calo wrote:
That one’s actually interesting. Although I have no outside sales experience.
I’ll look into it, anyway. Thanks.
Mars wrote:
Messy divorces suck. My divorce was lean and clean. We were friends before and after and we are still friends.
coldwarrior wrote:
That works for me! I was one of the bitter people this morning, trying to reconcile being a Christian with ennabling the Democratic party to encourage dependency. I appreciated people’s feedback. I’ll help out people going through catastrophes but I’m no longer going to contribute to charities that don’t encourage people working ultimately towards self sufficiency.
Along those lines, my liberal aunt and her home near the beach survived Sandy with only a power loss. My dad asked her if she had flood insurance. Of course not-she “can’t afford it”. She does go to Europe every year and just redid her kitchen, complete with stainless steel appliances and granite countertops. If her house had flooded, she would have expected the family to help her out. Would have had a nasty shock when she called us…
lobo91 wrote:
Yeah, but processing healthcare claims -- that might be do-able.
I seem to remember something about processing mortgage applications from home too -- altho that may have changed in the past 2 yrs.
@ lobo91:
What??? You just stick people with a little ole needle and the nedle attached to the tubing goes into a lab tube.
No muss, no fuss.
It isn’t a dirty job at all. Just some blood you never touch.
@ lobo91:
Sales techniques can be taught lot more easily than expertise and knowledge in the products. That’s why for example biotech companies hire biochemists and other biotech experts into sales jobs.
eaglesoars wrote:
A lot of Houston and New Orleans dock jobs ARE union. International Longshoreman’s Union. One thing about their union is is they allowed non-union part-timers to work at the docks. Great for students who were needed during the middle of the night. I made some money as a college student years ago tying up ships in New Orleans.
Calo wrote:
Not a chance.
@ livefreeor die:
teach a man to fish….
Calo wrote:
just like bleeding a brake line
lobo91 wrote:
after the fist couple o gross outs medicine gets pretty routine
@ coldwarrior:
I hate needles.
coldwarrior wrote:
“Throw his ass overboard and watch him learn how to swim.”
by Dolphin.
heh
lobo91 wrote:
Through my originator I can defer up to three years for no job, then I can defer for low income. My next deferment is low income starting in about 3 months. I guess the rules are different state to state.
Dolphin wrote:
I still haven’t been replaced at Schlumberger (field location, not Sugar Land). The problem they have is finding QUALIFIED people.
coldwarrior wrote:
I know the feeling. Getting along in a new field is satisfying when for all those former years we were trained for something else, and then BAM, here we are in the new.
lobo91 wrote:
You can get desensitized quickly. I’ve done it. BUT -- with your hands, might not be a good choice.
coldwarrior wrote:
and he drinks all day in a boat.
eaglesoars wrote:
That too.
Calo wrote:
I tried that. Couldn’t do it or donate plasma due to my being in Germany during mad cow. I was in a restricted group. They can’t risk the possibility I might infect someone. (Though they still haven’t found a single trace of Kreutzfeld Jacob in my blood.)
@ coldwarrior:
Well to be honest, my objective is not to make him pay (literally), it really is self preservation. The “side” affect is the bonus.
lobo91 wrote:
you aint gettin stuck with em
The petroleum landman biz pays quite well. Here are some examples of what a newbee makes. Hot areas now are PA, OH, ND, OK, CO, WY and TX.
@ Mars:
I completely forgot about that. I’m in the same category.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
BAM!!!
or on the beach!
Mars wrote:
mad cow exposure does not effect one’s ability to perform ANY medical job.
huckfunn wrote:
lemme guess -- all fracking states, yes?
coldwarrior wrote:
ANd then he drives his car off a bridge, lets a woman drown, and becomes Senator for life.
Oh wait-I’m muddling themes.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
and now i am getting sucked right back into management…
i dont know how i feel about that
@ Peter:
Not sure I understand your post -- please explain a little.
livefreeor die wrote:
that’s from drinking ‘sex on the beach’ or sea breezes….
lobo91 wrote:
Many times I have taken an inmate to medical to get blood drawn, and have to witness the incredulous. A grown man, that has been in the system for years, tatted from neck to ankle that cannot look at a needle going into his elbow fold.
hewwo?
eaglesoars wrote:
The only state to ban fracing so far is Vermont to the best of my knowledge. I think NY has a moratorium.
eaglesoars wrote:
mather frackers!
@ livefreeor die:
@ coldwarrior:
I’m sure the Senator-for-Death is enjoying himself…until he has to go drown in the 1968 Oldsmobile, driving off that Chappaquiddick replica bridge!
So…
Any good new Petraeus theories out there?
@ coldwarrior:
Correct, it doesn’t.
@ Macker:
Every hour on the hour!
coldwarrior wrote:
It did at the company I asked at.
Mars wrote:
heh
@ livefreeor die:
That’s if the Demons ran Hell! Which they do for real. The Toasters, on the other hand…happens only once per day. “Mercy,” you understand.
[Plunks down 10,000 Quatloos to The Osprey]
livefreeor die wrote:
No, but I just heard a bad one. Mrs. Funn said the FBI was first alerted to some hanky-panky when they saw repeated emails from Petraeus with references to “under the desk”. Seriously.
Delving deep into the family historical archives I have come upon a rather strange and bewildering message from Grandpa Gibson from 1832…”That Obama fella is TOTALLY full of shit and is not to be trusted!”…Hmmm, I can only assume from this discovery that Grandpa Gibson had great foresight or a Ouija Board that actually worked!
coldwarrior wrote:
Wyoming has oil shale and natural gas work going on. MT has the same ability, but our previous (with the help of our new) governor has managed to put rules and allow lawsuits by his enviro friends, to make sure nothing will every happen.
coldwarrior wrote:
What if you had to milk them?
@ song_and_dance_man:
whoops Cruetzfeld Jakob.
Mars wrote:
you cant donate.
coldwarrior wrote:
Vermont, the only state to ban fracing, and of course they know so much about oil & gas. Here are all of the wells that have been drilled in Vermont. Total historical oil and gas production from Vermont = squat.
@ Mars:
Another healthcare job always in demand -- though more training time needed than a phlebotomist.
radiologist tech
gibsonz wrote:
my wife wept at you message from yesterday about your wife. really brought home how lucky we are.
thanks for sharing.
I hate to say if but Dr K is off the rails
He’s saying the young are usually liberal and become more conservative as they get older and acquire a mortgage and 2 kids.
Guess what? They’re not going to be able to afford a mortgage and they probably won’t be getting married at the rate they are now because they’ll have POS jobs -- so forget the kids too
coldwarrior wrote:
I don’t know about the medical field, but I have resisted the calls for my advancement into management for one reason. There is no chance for OT pay.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
MOOOO!!!!!
huckfunn wrote:
yeah, but they’re good at milk, cheese and maple syrup!
Their major gas producer is Bernie Sanders
Calo wrote:
our techs have all the OT they can eat
eaglesoars wrote:
That right, but they’ll still have the 2 kids while camped out in Mom & Dad’s basement. Ain’t life grand?
@ eaglesoars:
No, they’ll want a subsidized mortgage that they can just up and refuse to pay eventually or get it reduced and they’ll have the spouse and kids anyway because they want to and it just feels right. Who cares if they can really afford it…somoeone else will pay…wheeeeeee!
eaglesoars wrote:
Frac Bernie Sanders.
livefreeor die wrote:
None that I know of other than he decided to board the first life boat off a sinking ship.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Cue the Celine Dion…
@ song_and_dance_man:
Heh, it’s the same in the medical field.
I was thinking tonight that Obama is probably going to graft the rest of the country into giving more to the teachers union.
livefreeor die wrote:
Can’t remember who to credit for this but…….
If something can’t continue -- it won’t.
Or to quote Mark Steyn
There’s nothing holding the joint up.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
our hospital system is reorganizing and looking for efficiency experts. i just came out of ups/fedex and already have the advanced degrees and results to back me up.
i would make far more doing that than working OT. but….i hate rolling back into what i just left.
livefreeor die wrote:
Exactly
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Life boat. That’s not something woman should be called. Though as far as I remember news did not say anything about the gender… hmm…
*Invents crackpot theory about Michelle finding Barry and Petraeus together on the night of Benghazi attack.*
huckfunn wrote:
Sounds like when Berkeley passed a resolution making the city a nuclear-free zone.
I’m pretty sure it’s a polar bear-free zone, too.
Former Spook writes.
huckfunn wrote:
It will be OK for some whose ambition is to get out of the basement. For those fine folk who worked hard and have leeches, not so much.
lobo91 wrote:
there will be no riots…..this is scary
New York officials reportedly consider closed prison for displaced Sandy victims
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/09/new-york-officials-reportedly-consider-closed-prison-for-displaced-sandy/?test=latestnews#ixzz2BmiWdblw
@ Purre:
by the way purre, i always admired that avatar of yours.
some days we NEED to be that penguin!
mawskrat wrote:
a potato for you , comrade, now enter the gulag.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
then they raised their kids poorly.
MAKE THEM PAY!
Calo wrote:
I’ve actually really thought about that. but, I can’t afford the training and I’m not sure Voc rehab would approve it. I think I’m pushing my luck with asking for Paralegal.
@ coldwarrior:
I took a job as an ‘efficiency expert’ for a short time with UPS. It was at the Soto Hub in LA. I reported mis-routing and bad sorting. It was boring, but paid well. After the problems were fixed my consulting was done and it was on to the next trivial thing.
Good evening…
song_and_dance_man wrote:
I would LOVE that kind of job. Systems analysis -- yum!!
@ doriangrey:
Hola!
Ok, so I’m looking for a job as a professional beer taster…
livefreeor die wrote:
Hola to you to…
song_and_dance_man wrote:
i used to go to buildings in the fedex system that were underperforming. i was at one time said to be the most hated man in the field at that company.
then i got to stay at my home base, make it run great and just before i got vested, stock, 4 weeks vaca and an expense account….
the highest paid manager is the first to go. i agree.
i learned a lot and can take that knowledge and make a ton with it later in the medical field. no knowledge should be wasted.
doriangrey wrote:
uc davis has a beer meister course dont they?
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh boulder puckey… Knowledge was invent solely to be wasted… Information just wants to be free doncha know…
doriangrey wrote:
ha!
i told mrs coldwarrior about what you said about the xc90′s frame…she isnt on the fence any more!
hey CW -- I’m on an ‘as needed’ pain med = #3 tablet of acetaminophen-codeine
How much codeine am I actually taking? Put it this way -- I ain’t driving and I didn’t need the warning labels to tell me ‘no booze’.
doriangrey wrote:
info comes from the proper application of knowledge.
I’m going to call it a night and try to catch up on my sleep.
Wow, this week was bad…
@ Mars:
Keep pushing your luck Mars. The squeaky wheel always gets the oil or in Dorian’s case, the beer.
Guiliani on Greta -- “This isn’t about an affair”
sic ‘em Rudy!
eaglesoars wrote:
Me too.
I’ve been trying like hell to get a job here in town as a software tester. I’m pissed that I keep missing out. (Oh I forgot earlier I didn’t just have one interview. The software company has given me two interviews. And I got one at Mental Health. So four interviews total. KENCO was the other one.)
@ Purre:
That he maned up to an affair was the right thing to do. That it would have disqualified him in this day and age may have been insignificant. Sad, but true.
I think he bailed for reasons he can only answer, but if you ask me, ti was to dis-associate himself from what is coming in regards to a lapse in this admins NS.
coldwarrior wrote:
Think about that for a couple of seconds… Would you really want to drink a beer brewed by somebody who got their degree in beer brewing in Sacramento?
@ doriangrey:
.
I once had a nice talk over a dinner with woman who worked in the quality control of the brewery. The dinner was in the evening of the day when friend of mine defended his PhD thesis successfully and was held to the honor of his opponent (old traditions and all). Anyway, she had been there as well to watch the event and over the dinner she commented that it was strange for her to drink her first alcohol that late in the day. After all, taste of the product can be tested only one way
eaglesoars wrote:
tylenol 3
30mg.
pretty standard stuff
be far more careful of the amount of acetaminophen you are taking in those pills
doriangrey wrote:
Long Live hemp!
doriangrey wrote:
Is that your Alfred Hitchock imitation?
Calo wrote:
The job that I most wanted was also the one that vocational testing showed I was the most qualified for.
Vocational testing, lol. The guy running my test was not happy or amused. (He was about 70 and not wanting to retire.)
Mars wrote:
Have you asked for an audition? Seriously.
I was always team lead so I got final say on new hires. Everybody got a problem to solve/analyze. 30 mins plus interview.
@ eaglesoars:
30 mg of codeine.
It’s the Tylenol and alcohol that don’t mix if that’s your question.
@ song_and_dance_man:
To be more serious, yeah, I agree with you. I just felt a bit cheeky this early in the morning (it is 5:14 here).
doriangrey wrote:
if it were you? no.
i am not a hop head.
but
there are plenty of hop heads who would love what you make.
Calo wrote:
Doesn’t matter what the ‘don’t mix’ combo is -- no way would I add booze to this mix -- I’d fall down the stairs.
coldwarrior wrote:
Show her this…
eaglesoars wrote:
Yeah, I’ve tried that. They are too hung up on the fact I don’t have any programming experience. Though I do have a lot of experience with software in almost every imaginable situation.
I have training in hardware, software, networking (not too good at that though), education, lecturing, auditing, disability case work, emotionally disabled youth wrangling/teaching, low level management.
I’ve had a headache for 6 days now. Really considering a doctors visit. Known I had migraines for 20 or more years now, just never bothered to talk to a doctor. Might be time.
eaglesoars wrote:
it was contract work and only lasted a few months.
The things that were not reported, because I wasn’t hired to do that, was the theft and total disregard for how the packages were handled.
Rodan wrote:
We’re gonna need more rope…
@ Mars:
for.
I’d hate to see what vocational testing said I should do.
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh hey, that reminds me, can you shoot me a email with your bacon Martini receipt in it?
@ doriangrey:
Mars wrote:
That’s very short-sighted. I can teach someone to write code -- maybe not great code -- but servicable.
Can’t teach ‘em how to think.
doriangrey wrote:
she is now a bigger fan and reading that doc on her laptop
coldwarrior wrote:
ROTFLMAO… Just wait till they legalize pot in California… Then I think I will start brewing Pothead Beer… BWAHAHAHAHAH….
doriangrey wrote:
nope.
it still isnt right.
doriangrey wrote:
why laugh.
sounds like a winner
coldwarrior wrote:
Because I am anti-pot… BWAHAHAHAH….
coldwarrior wrote:
Well, hurry up and perfect it, I need Sunday…
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Was it the packages that were being stolen? Seems to me if there’s enough of that, the business suffers. I thought the tracking systems were fairly good
??
@ Mars:
6 day headache? You spend a lot of time indoors? Check for carbon monoxide from furnace…
Well, it took 4 years to hit 25,000 page views on my blog, and it’s taken 4 months to go from 25,000 to 50,000. Hmmm, maybe if I do something right here I can turn this into a paying gig…
eaglesoars wrote:
Lol, that’s my primary skill.
I don’t know. I wish I had kept up my fiction writing. I found a great site online that specializes in flash fiction. If I didn’t have so much rust on my brain I could be pumping out e-novellas that sell for 99 cents each. Not huge money but it does add up. They’ve got a pretty solid customer base. From what I read I actually get the entire profit because they profit by their per click advertising.
Problem is not a single thing I write anymore gets past my inner critic. (Except for the things I write here, and most of them are stream of consciousness type writings.)
Daffy Duck wrote:
No one else is having the problem. But, I think I’ll grab one of my dads carbon monoxide detectors and see what happens.
Main problem seems to be the air pressure. Also having bad light sensitivity.
On another topic… I would love to have this sort of t-shirt. Maybe I should go and have one printed.
doriangrey wrote:
We should join forces and market a beer called Skid Row.
doriangrey wrote:
I’m thinking of maybe taking part of my tax return and buying webspace and a domain. Starting my own cigar review site with click through advertising. Just see what happens. Not sure if it will work out though.
I know I’ve got a couple companies that would advertise with me.
@ doriangrey:
You will probably soon need a ban stick!
Start practicing how to bid your viewers Adeiu.
doriangrey wrote:
this one is obviously not trained or ready yet for a sekret
Mars wrote:
Scrub it off with more writing. It would take me a while to start writing code I would want anyone to see again, but you won’t get there w/o the simple act of doing it.
May I ask what the website is? I might try my hand at it.
Mars wrote:
You got to dazzle them with the first. It’s not that I want the job, it’s more that you need for this job. But put forward with more subtle language.
Rodan wrote:
Now that was funny
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Pretty sure I did. Both interviews were first interviews though. About a year apart.
http://onebiteauthor.com/series-planner/
I may have some of the facts wrong, it’s been a couple weeks since I read the site.
eaglesoars wrote:
@ Mars:
Well, CO is the first thing that crossed my mind. Low level ppm may affect you, but not anyone else. If headache stays withyou whether home or away, then you should probably get Dr advice. If head clears when you’re outside or away from home, then CO is possible culprit.
I’ve actually had my interview skills tested through vocational testing, training, etc.
Not only did they say my resume and interview skills were perfect, they actually turned the interview class over to me to instruct.
eaglesoars wrote:
Exactly.
And they’re always talking about training the next set of ‘em to run up college debt and never get a job in that field.
Screw it.
Daffy Duck wrote:
Yeah, it has stayed with me on several trips around town this week. And the sunlight was about crippling. Glad I wasn’t driving.
eaglesoars wrote:
More complicated. If a package loses its tagging it’s hauled off and stored for reclamation. These unclaimed items were stuffed into trailers. I have no idea what happened to them, but I do know there were weekly raffles where unclaimed merchandise, items that were lost in the mix, were given to the workers based on this weekly draw. And I suspect the workers were in on the gaming. I never saw anyone tear off a tag, but I did see many items being shuffled to this place.
That as least was my experience with a short lived gig with UPS.
1389AD wrote:
The last corporation I worked for had to ‘downsize’ -- but they didn’t actually eliminate any positions. First they got rid of all the consultants -- which left us seriously short-handed -- then layed most of the higher-paid employees (i was one of 2 that survived -- I was the only one with the business AND the systems knowledge) -- and they filled those positions with low-wage employees -- almost all entry level and/or foreign H1/B1 people. I was working 70 hrs/wk just training people.
The institutional knowledge that was wiped out was incredible.
Mars wrote:
Thanks!
Mars wrote:
check your blood pressure
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Wow. Remind me to never send an uninsured pkg.
father_of_10 wrote:
I have. Absolutely perfect. Has been for a couple years now. (Which is weird considering my weight.)
eaglesoars wrote:
Heh. I was wondering if insured and/or declared value packages were more likely to “loose” their tags.
But, I am a cynic.
@ Daffy Duck:
Because nothing says “steal me” like a price tag, and nothing says “smash me with a forktruck” like multiple FRAGILE stickers.
Daffy Duck wrote:
It certainly seems as tho’ the system is badly incentive-ized, doesn’t it?
coldwarrior wrote:
I am 59 and am looking for a job selling cars.
sleepy. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
nite eaglesoars.
sleep well.
Tried selling cars. Didn’t work. I would however, like a job selling cigars. (at least till my state and the FDA get done banning them).
@ 1389AD:
1389,
You have been in retail for how long now?
Two years, I think.
Have you thought about applying elsewhere for a management position in the retail industry?
It seems to be an easier transition to make than car sales.