Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for May 14, 2013

Translation:“You’re about to be screwed but don’t expect a kiss.And BTW my drinks are comped.”

Thank you Prof for your American to English translation. I sure my friends across the pond will appreciate it. It was as they say Spot on.

Well, I didn’t get the comped, hard to keep up with all the new slang on the other side of the Atlantic, so thanks Prof d’anglais.

@cabalonrye… ‘comped’ is a shortened term for ‘complimented’, a derivative of ‘complimentary’ in this case. Meaning Rita’s drinks are free. Forever.

That poor kid is about to enter the worst deal of his short life. Unless one of the guys can rescue him before the deal is done.

This is why the worker must own the means of production.

read the first sentence, drop to the last one…I get it, corporate inflections on a kid’s business….life is too short to read all what’s in between, now move along

Swimming with sharks, or swimming with leeches?This looks like a compromise, swimming with lampreys.

New WD blog post. Thinking about adding a new face….

And in exchange, you get this attractive MMM logo to apply to all merchandise and promotional materials.

Take a hike, sister.

A few slices short of a loaf.

…so that’s how it works.

that’s kind of like these “electric companies” that set themselves up to collect money for the real electric company. One day I received letter saying my town was changing to this middle man company, but the old electric company still owned the wires, transformers, did the service, took the emergency outage calls…..

Could be worse. Could be a franchise. Where he pays her for the stand, has to buy the lemonade and cups from her at a price she dictates and so on.