Nice! At least your big boss listened to you. My “big boss lady” took the manager’s side, even as she admitted the manager was wrong. I walked away from that job a year later for wanting me to teach an upcoming manager for a position they said I wasn’t good enough to promote to. Wasn’t going to take that burn anymore.
@MayKittenGood for you. I suspect your circumstance was an exception. Real leadership these days is rare. Corporate inner circles don’t seem to be much different from gangsters.
well our socieity is run by psychopaths, con men, mobsters and the like. just look at Christie, if he isn’t proof psychos don’t run things, then of course take every single member of Congress. psychos indeed! lol
Reminds me of a poem we learned for traffic safety in junior high: “He was right, dead right, as he sped along / But just as dead as if he’s been dead wrong.”
My 30 year old nephew who inherited a building company recently told me that he was angry with the welfare state. He explained that he couldn’t keep people on the job. They would work long enough to qualify to go back on unemployment , stay there until it ran out then come back to work. This kid was standing in his 3/4 million dollar house telling me that he paid his employees so little that they were better off on welfare, and he thought that THEY should be ashamed of themselves. And, he was serious!!!!
DLee, sounds like he was paying them less tan $400 a month. Nobody gets more than on unemployment .. Not much to live on there, if you count rent/mortgage, food, car, etc. I seriously doubt anyone would rather make that little, when he/she could earn all of $3,400 at minimum wage, which only about $7.50 and hour….
Varnes I have no idea if it’s true or not. I just know that is what my nephew told me. Of course he is a Republican, and what is true inside the bubble may not have any relevance to reality.
Some people think that private industry is more efficient than public occupations… But they both have the same problem: Management. I worked at large convention center as a banquet manager…We were down to about 1500 coffee cups, but in two weeks they had scheduled several very large banquets. We were going to need triple that. We wanted to buy a bunch of new cups, but management said there wasn’t any money in the budget for that. They decided to rent every coffee cup in a 50 mile radius..Because there was “emergency money available.”….so we used that to rent every cup in a 50 mile radius……all of them. Our cups had cost about $1.50 When baught in bulk… When we broke the rentals, we were charged $4.60 per cup, in addition to what we had rented them for….I’m sure that over the 3 month period we rented and broke them, we spent more than 4-5 times what it would have cost us, if we just bought a bunch….Management wanted to look good by keeping to the budget, but because they did, it cost them 4 times as much….Private industry plays games with numbers….
Meh, yeah, the problem is not public or private,….Stuck on stupid and glued on dumb is one of the side effects of people trying to organizing things….They actually think they have everything figured out….and then……“When life looks like easy street, there is danger at your door…” Robert Hunter….
wrwallaceii almost 11 years ago
never a naysayer be…
Bilan almost 11 years ago
The Bearman of the Board?
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr almost 11 years ago
Always, “let the Wookiee win.”.
Superfrog almost 11 years ago
Early use of a casting vote often clarifies the significant issues.
dkendraf almost 11 years ago
Nice! At least your big boss listened to you. My “big boss lady” took the manager’s side, even as she admitted the manager was wrong. I walked away from that job a year later for wanting me to teach an upcoming manager for a position they said I wasn’t good enough to promote to. Wasn’t going to take that burn anymore.
Hunter7 almost 11 years ago
You know better than to poke the bear. Why, why did you poke the bear?Don’t poke the bear.
firedome almost 11 years ago
there should’ve been a “burp” somewhere in the bear’s statement.
jreckard almost 11 years ago
He’s going to get his way, I’ll warren you that.
Destiny23 almost 11 years ago
You can’t blame the bear — rabbits are so delicious!
2578275 almost 11 years ago
@MayKittenGood for you. I suspect your circumstance was an exception. Real leadership these days is rare. Corporate inner circles don’t seem to be much different from gangsters.
Enoki almost 11 years ago
If rabbits don’t work try sheep next time!
Beleck3 almost 11 years ago
well our socieity is run by psychopaths, con men, mobsters and the like. just look at Christie, if he isn’t proof psychos don’t run things, then of course take every single member of Congress. psychos indeed! lol
Littljoe almost 11 years ago
Reminds me of a poem we learned for traffic safety in junior high: “He was right, dead right, as he sped along / But just as dead as if he’s been dead wrong.”
Ray Thomas almost 11 years ago
The way Republicans wish it could be.
puddlesplatt almost 11 years ago
Bear with many hares!
jack fairbanks almost 11 years ago
Looks like there was only one vote for swithching to Charmin
sbchamp almost 11 years ago
SPECTRE meeting‘Thunderball’ ’65
yimhere almost 11 years ago
And so goes the bear market……
Caddy57 almost 11 years ago
Keep on voting until the leader gets what he wants,sounds familiar.
ChessPirate almost 11 years ago
Reminds me of this:Monty Python: 20th Century Vole
Argy.Bargy2 almost 11 years ago
This is the first time I haven’ t liked one of Wiley’s bears…..
Diane Lee Premium Member almost 11 years ago
My 30 year old nephew who inherited a building company recently told me that he was angry with the welfare state. He explained that he couldn’t keep people on the job. They would work long enough to qualify to go back on unemployment , stay there until it ran out then come back to work. This kid was standing in his 3/4 million dollar house telling me that he paid his employees so little that they were better off on welfare, and he thought that THEY should be ashamed of themselves. And, he was serious!!!!
Varnes almost 11 years ago
DLee, sounds like he was paying them less tan $400 a month. Nobody gets more than on unemployment .. Not much to live on there, if you count rent/mortgage, food, car, etc. I seriously doubt anyone would rather make that little, when he/she could earn all of $3,400 at minimum wage, which only about $7.50 and hour….
Diane Lee Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Varnes I have no idea if it’s true or not. I just know that is what my nephew told me. Of course he is a Republican, and what is true inside the bubble may not have any relevance to reality.
jmcenanly almost 11 years ago
Makes you wonder what kind of organization that bear’s running.
Varnes almost 11 years ago
Some people think that private industry is more efficient than public occupations… But they both have the same problem: Management. I worked at large convention center as a banquet manager…We were down to about 1500 coffee cups, but in two weeks they had scheduled several very large banquets. We were going to need triple that. We wanted to buy a bunch of new cups, but management said there wasn’t any money in the budget for that. They decided to rent every coffee cup in a 50 mile radius..Because there was “emergency money available.”….so we used that to rent every cup in a 50 mile radius……all of them. Our cups had cost about $1.50 When baught in bulk… When we broke the rentals, we were charged $4.60 per cup, in addition to what we had rented them for….I’m sure that over the 3 month period we rented and broke them, we spent more than 4-5 times what it would have cost us, if we just bought a bunch….Management wanted to look good by keeping to the budget, but because they did, it cost them 4 times as much….Private industry plays games with numbers….
Aaberon almost 11 years ago
“not promoting them, didn’t want to pay them what they were really, truly worth to the company” yup: you are SO right about that too!!
bmonk almost 11 years ago
Monty Python’s take on this sort of meeting.
dabugger almost 11 years ago
If that is a democracy we hate to see tyranny….always wonder how some ‘leaders’ digested the losers.
Varnes almost 11 years ago
Meh, yeah, the problem is not public or private,….Stuck on stupid and glued on dumb is one of the side effects of people trying to organizing things….They actually think they have everything figured out….and then……“When life looks like easy street, there is danger at your door…” Robert Hunter….