ADP: The Nation Lost a Full 100,000 Manufacturing Jobs In November

It picked up some jobs in leisure and hospitality, which this account points out usually represents people picking up 2nd jobs moonlighting as bartenders or the like.

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The ADP jobs report came in below expectations. I read it as really bad. We lost 100k manufacturing jobs. The only increase was leisure and hospitality. This often means people picking up 2nd jobs..

Beege Wellborn writes:

Another batch of information the Fed takes into account when determining rate increases is the unemployment rate and the ratio of job openings to job seekers, which, to their minds, has been too high (running about 2-1). Their target rate is 1.2 job openings for every job seeker. A report that also dropped this morning -- the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey or JOLTS -- provides that snapshot for them. The JOLTS came in on a downward slide, as well, and has people raising warning flags about the Fed being overly aggressive. Job openings sank by 353,000 and "quits" (people who leave their job for a better opportunity) hit lows not seen in the past year, even as hiring dries up.

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1 Greatest Prezzy Ever!!!

Posted by: rd at December 01, 2022 05:21 PM (Z32m1)

2 yeo

Posted by: op man at December 01, 2022 05:21 PM (us2H3)

3 Well that's just farzrohr.

Posted by: fd at December 01, 2022 05:22 PM (sn5EN)

4 Don't worry.

It will get Worse.

Posted by: rd at December 01, 2022 05:22 PM (Z32m1)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 05:23 PM (Zz0t1)

6 I nooded

Posted by: rd at December 01, 2022 05:23 PM (Z32m1)

7 We've got Hillbilly Elegy. Now someone needs to write Nursing Home Elegy.

Posted by: Brando at December 01, 2022 05:23 PM (49U+Y)

8 Greatest. President. Ever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 05:23 PM (Zz0t1)

9 We're becoming a service/slave economy.

Oh well.

At least we'll be entertained by our betters.

Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 05:23 PM (/P0vp)

10 It's on purpose.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 01, 2022 05:23 PM (Qy7kP)

11 well as long as govt bureaucrats are all ok it doesn't matter apparently

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 01, 2022 05:23 PM (w0NJk)

12 It picked up some jobs in leisure and hospitality, which this account points out usually represents people picking up 2nd jobs moonlighting as bartenders or the like.

Seasonal hires. Bell ringer, extra cashier, etc

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 01, 2022 05:24 PM (cP/Ah)

13 The ADP jobs report came in below expectations. I read it as really bad. We lost 100k manufacturing jobs. The only increase was leisure and hospitality. This often means people picking up 2nd jobs..

wasn't it just a couple of days ago that biden was touting how many manufacturing jobs had been created on his watch?

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at December 01, 2022 05:24 PM (v3pYe)

14 Winter of Death is back on the menu!

Posted by: Max Power at December 01, 2022 05:24 PM (Hucnr)

15 Another milestone of the Sundowner administration

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 01, 2022 05:24 PM (xhxe8)

16 Unexpectedly, I presume.

Posted by: bluebell at December 01, 2022 05:24 PM (pTb/Z)

17 I yearn for the day they announce Joe Biden is mort. He's a pimple on the anus of history and should be popped.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 05:24 PM (Zz0t1)

18
The Nation Lost a Full 100,000 Manufacturing Jobs In November

You lose. We win.

Posted by: CCP at December 01, 2022 05:25 PM (enJYY)

19 "The ADP jobs report came in below expectations."

It was Thanksgiving. It snowed. Things will pick up next month. Promise.

Posted by: The Experts at December 01, 2022 05:25 PM (sn5EN)

20 Related: this was the worst Thanksgiving day weekend in terms of absolute earnings since 1994 for Hollywood. And if you factor in inflation, its far, far worse.

Couldn't happen to a more deserving batch of child diddling scum

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 01, 2022 05:25 PM (cP/Ah)

21 Saved or created

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 01, 2022 05:25 PM (63Dwl)

22 Presidunce Pudding Pants to the rescue!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 01, 2022 05:25 PM (yb11p)

23 I yearn for the day they announce Joe Biden is mort. He's a pimple on the anus of history and should be popped.
Posted by: Sponge
___

Got even bigger pimples and boils ready to take his place.

Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 05:25 PM (/P0vp)

24 Sundowner will come out soon and tell everyone his administration has started 200,000 new jobs a month

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 01, 2022 05:26 PM (xhxe8)

25 Any man who can go 3000ft down into a mine can learn to eat bugs.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at December 01, 2022 05:26 PM (tA1/w)

26 Raise your hand if you'd like to shove that cone up his ass.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2022 05:26 PM (Q4IgG)

27 Yellin blabs about unemployment going down under Biden ... not sure that is even true, but labor participation rate has gone up.

When people give up or accept free money from BigGov, they are no longer "unemployed", they are just bums, or "independently wealthy".

Bannon's war room on rumble discusses some of the massive trade deficit with China, as we help them grow their military in the face of the abuses to humans and "the planet".

https://tinyurl.com/4cj2rddy

Posted by: illiniwek at December 01, 2022 05:26 PM (Cus5s)

28 Raise your hand if you'd like to shove that cone up his ass.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2022 05:26 PM (Q4IgG)

Why waste a perfectly good cone

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 01, 2022 05:26 PM (dO/0d)

29
Seasonal hires. Bell ringer, extra cashier, etc
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 01, 2022 05:24 PM (cP/Ah)

And Amazon is LAYING OFF 10,000.......during the peak seasonal hire season.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 05:26 PM (Zz0t1)

30
Chocolate and Chip? Yeah, I "saved" those two turkeys' jobs!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 01, 2022 05:27 PM (pNxlR)

31 It's gonna get worse

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 01, 2022 05:27 PM (XvPQV)

32 Didn't I just hear our Cabbage Patch Spokeslesbian say that we were +700k thanks to Joltin' Joe?

Posted by: garrett at December 01, 2022 05:27 PM (HF1PR)

33 The money amount of "Black Friday" sales was really good but the number of actual items purchased was much lower than normal.

In other words: people bought less, but inflation made it all cost much more.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 01, 2022 05:27 PM (cP/Ah)

34 Marcus Lafayette!

Posted by: Archer at December 01, 2022 05:27 PM (gmo/4)

35 wasn't it just a couple of days ago that biden was touting how many manufacturing jobs had been created on his watch?
Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at December 01, 2022 05:24 PM (v3pYe)

Its not a watch, it is a tracking device that sets off the alarms if he tries to leave the home.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2022 05:27 PM (xhaym)

36 You know? F. Joe Biden has a point. Our economy is bad. Most of the world? Their Economies are FUCKED.

How much of Europe has energy? No Electricity? No heat? How many businesses will be open and producing goods if they have electricity, no natural gas, no raw materials?

Posted by: rd at December 01, 2022 05:27 PM (Z32m1)

37 "The ADP jobs report came in below expectations."

It was Thanksgiving. It snowed. Things will pick up next month. Promise.
Posted by: The Experts at December 01, 2022 05:25 PM (sn5EN)

Flat tire, the suit needed cleaning, ran out of gas, earthequake, tsunami.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at December 01, 2022 05:27 PM (AiZBA)

38 Raise your hand if you'd like to shove that cone up his ass.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2022 05:26 PM (Q4IgG)

Why waste a perfectly good cone
Posted by: Nevergiveup
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also I ain't going anywhere near that disgusting pervert's ass

Posted by: screaming in digital at December 01, 2022 05:27 PM (IdLgA)

39 What happened to 'Saved OR Created'?

That was some nice shine they put on those turd numbers Obama had.

Posted by: garrett at December 01, 2022 05:27 PM (HF1PR)

40
The only increase was leisure and hospitality.

It's a little known fact but 99.99% of billionaires in the USA made their start up money changing soiled bedclothes.

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at December 01, 2022 05:28 PM (enJYY)

41 Old and Busted: Funployment

New Hotness: Fumpster FunDiving

Posted by: 18-1 at December 01, 2022 05:28 PM (ESjRY)

42 And Amazon is LAYING OFF 10,000.......during the peak seasonal hire season.

Someone with their qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 01, 2022 05:28 PM (cP/Ah)

43 On the bright side, gas prices are going down as the economy collapses.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 01, 2022 05:28 PM (yQpMk)

44 ---
also I ain't going anywhere near that disgusting pervert's ass
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 01, 2022 05:27 PM (IdLgA)

You get in there and you'll find my mudbug collection!

Posted by: Joey Fingerstick McShitpants at December 01, 2022 05:28 PM (Zz0t1)

45 And the Military is going down the jonney crapper because of wokeness. No surprise to those of us still in

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 01, 2022 05:29 PM (dO/0d)

46 Manufacturing jobs are gross. They pollute and those brutish blue-collar workers drive big pickup trucks. This country needs more modern jobs in HR, consulting, and web design, for careerist women like us!

Posted by: Suburban White Women at December 01, 2022 05:29 PM (wmDcS)

47 Do voters care about the economy anymore?

Voters or the people sending in all those mail in ballots?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 01, 2022 05:29 PM (ESjRY)

48 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 01, 2022 05:29 PM (T4tVD)

49 >>The money amount of "Black Friday" sales was really good but the number of actual items purchased was much lower than normal.

Also. There is good evidence that people put off purchases in previous months to try and save whatever they could during the annual sales event. Nullifying a lot of the potential in those numbers.

Posted by: garrett at December 01, 2022 05:29 PM (HF1PR)

50 "And Amazon is LAYING OFF 10,000"

Maybe they can get a job at Twitter. No? Facebook then?

Posted by: The Experts at December 01, 2022 05:29 PM (sn5EN)

51
Someone with their qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 01, 2022 05:28 PM (cP/Ah)

Janine! Sorry about the whole bugeye thing......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (Zz0t1)

52 Drove by the closed Lane plant in Tupelo on Monday. So sad for all those employees just thrown out, like corporate garbage. I’m thinking most of them didn’t vote for this.

Posted by: EveR at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (MUpk6)

53 I think next year is when it all hits the fan

BRACE BRACE BRACE

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (cP/Ah)

54 What's about quits in place?

I gave up. Imma get my SS while it's there.

Posted by: Golfman at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (OR12a)

55 >>"And Amazon is LAYING OFF 10,000"

Learn To Coal

Posted by: garrett at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (HF1PR)

56 Out: Jobs in manufacturing

In: Erotic massage handies

Posted by: 18-1 at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (ESjRY)

57 It is going to get worse. I gotta say, if this is a "media bust", where the entire sector has big job losses, I won't lose any sleep.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (uz3Px)

58 The money amount of "Black Friday" sales was really good but the number of actual items purchased was much lower than normal.

That's why they extended it a week.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (Zz0t1)

59 The money amount of "Black Friday" sales was really good but the number of actual items purchased was much lower than normal.

In other words: people bought less, but inflation made it all cost much more.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

A lot of the Black Friday items I have bought every year were just flat out missing this year.

Posted by: rd at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (Z32m1)

60 via wsj --

Senate Passes Measure Blocking Railroad Strike

Lawmakers voted, 80-15, to pass a bill preventing a nationwide strike by railroad workers after rejecting a proposal to give them expanded paid sick leave. President Biden is prepared to sign the bill.

So now they are forcing employees to keep working.

May we live in interesting times.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (JOtiF)

61 also I ain't going anywhere near that disgusting pervert's ass
Posted by: screaming in digital

LOL !!!

Posted by: JT at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (T4tVD)

62 Someone with their qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 01, 2022 05:28 PM (cP/Ah)

Janine! Sorry about the whole bugeye thing......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (Zz0t1)

Type something will ya? We're paying for this.

Posted by: Archer at December 01, 2022 05:31 PM (gmo/4)

63 Anyone else think kenya west might be a plant?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 01, 2022 05:31 PM (dO/0d)

64 Amazon previously said they'd be putting a boatload of money into robots at their warehouses and fulfillment centers. Displacing thousands of workers. Not sure when this was taking effect, but I'd say the layoffs are a prelude to it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2022 05:31 PM (Q4IgG)

65 And the Military is going down the jonney crapper because of wokeness. No surprise to those of us still in
Posted by: Nevergiveup
___

"According to a recent survey done by the Reagan National Defense Forum, a majority of Americans see the US military as too politicized. Half of Americans are worried that the military is too woke. Conservatives point to the emphasis on “wokeness” in the military, while the left claim that the “far-right” or “extremist” individuals in the military decreases their confidence in the military."

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=134244

Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 05:31 PM (/P0vp)

66 "I think next year is when it all hits the fan
BRACE BRACE BRACE
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor "

I've been braced for years. It just never seems to happen.
They say it can't go on, but it does.

Posted by: fd at December 01, 2022 05:31 PM (sn5EN)

67 The money amount of "Black Friday" sales was really good but the number of actual items purchased was much lower than normal.

That's why they extended it a week.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (Zz0t1)

They started a week or two early too.

Posted by: rd at December 01, 2022 05:31 PM (Z32m1)

68 > And Amazon is LAYING OFF 10,000.......during the peak seasonal hire season.

NYTimes reports the layoffs are going to hit corporate and tech positions.
https://nyti.ms/3uiGALq

Amazon's seasonal hires are drivers and warehouse workers.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 01, 2022 05:31 PM (eyxn4)

69 Lawmakers voted, 80-15, to pass a bill preventing a nationwide strike by railroad workers after rejecting a proposal to give them expanded paid sick leave. President Biden is prepared to sign the bill.

So now they are forcing employees to keep working.

May we live in interesting times.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (JOtiF)

I wonder if anyone in the Army can drive a train?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 01, 2022 05:32 PM (dO/0d)

70 So now they are forcing employees to keep working.

May we live in interesting times.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (JOtiF)

I can hope that the railroad workers strike anyways, and force the Biden admin to crack down. It won't happen, but I can dream.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 01, 2022 05:32 PM (wmDcS)

71 Once there is no diesel available, somebody is going to have to pick the cotton.

Posted by: fd at December 01, 2022 05:32 PM (sn5EN)

72 Lawmakers voted, 80-15, to pass a bill preventing a nationwide strike by railroad workers after rejecting a proposal to give them expanded paid sick leave. President Biden is prepared to sign the bill.

So now they are forcing employees to keep working.
___

Good luck with that.

I hope they strike.

Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 05:32 PM (/P0vp)

73 The peoples voted for this and they're gonna get it gooder and harder

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 01, 2022 05:32 PM (3+cVz)

74 Leisure and hospitality , the holidays. The always pick up around that time.

Posted by: runner at December 01, 2022 05:32 PM (CJyOE)

75 "ADP: The Nation Lost a Full 100,000 Manufacturing Jobs In November"

Not to worry, we will make it up in volume.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 01, 2022 05:32 PM (uNylN)

76 I work for a billion dollar revenue generating company, we had our Global Town Hall the other day, they were effusively talking up the coming Global Recession, which means very large and very deep cuts are coming.

I hope I'm the first to get laid off, but unfortunately I won't be.

So, bummer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 01, 2022 05:32 PM (up/3i)

77 >>President 'Lunch Pail Joe' Biden is prepared to sign the bill.

Those Union Dues didn't buy them shit, now did they?

Posted by: garrett at December 01, 2022 05:33 PM (HF1PR)

78 I can hope that the railroad workers strike anyways, and force the Biden admin to crack down. It won't happen, but I can dream.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile
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Hooah.

Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 05:33 PM (/P0vp)

79 Everybody by an EV!!!

Potato Joe - Look at him go.

Posted by: Archer at December 01, 2022 05:33 PM (gmo/4)

80 Lawmakers voted, 80-15, to pass a bill preventing a nationwide strike by railroad workers after rejecting a proposal to give them expanded paid sick leave. President Biden is prepared to sign the bill.

So now they are forcing employees to keep working.

May we live in interesting times.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (JOtiF)

IOW didn't have the balls to do what Reagan did to the ATC's.

Posted by: Golfman at December 01, 2022 05:33 PM (OR12a)

81 Oddly enough, our sleepy little town has seen a major increase and expansion of manufacturing jobs this year.

Easily 1,000 jobs stretching from sport boat manufacturing to forklift manufacturing.

Lumber mill just added a good number of jobs as well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 01, 2022 05:33 PM (uLr+K)

82 Anyone else think kenya west might be a plant?

When they offered him the blue or red pill? He took them all.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 01, 2022 05:33 PM (cP/Ah)

83 We're going on strike....no your not! What could go wrong?

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 01, 2022 05:33 PM (/6GbT)

84 Awwwww. My live feed otter cam is showing Joey floating on his back, fluffing his cheeks and sucking his paw.

Enjoy the little things in life.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 01, 2022 05:33 PM (diVr5)

85 Do voters care about the economy anymore?

the choices seem to be
No, they don't
No their votes weren't actually counted so who knows how they felt
No, they are waiting for it to burn down.

What do you think fits best?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2022 05:33 PM (xhaym)

86 Leisure and hospitality , the holidays. The always pick up around that time.
Posted by: runner
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Not this time.

Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 05:34 PM (/P0vp)

87 Creepy Joe got brain freeze from the waffle cone and it never went away.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 01, 2022 05:34 PM (geVLo)

88 Not in the manufacturing business anymore, I'm in the "keep my husband out of the morgue, jail, and/or psych ward" business. What does that count as? Oh, and he's "retired," even though the military doesn't count him as such.

Posted by: pookysgirl, suffering under inflation at December 01, 2022 05:34 PM (XKZwp)

89 Do voters care about the economy anymore?

the choices seem to be
No, they don't
No their votes weren't actually counted so who knows how they felt
No, they are waiting for it to burn down.

What do you think fits best?
___

All of the above.

Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 05:34 PM (/P0vp)

90 Check out the big brain on this idiot:

People are gonna joke about Kanye. People are gonna blame his mental health. But the truth is that he’s normalizing Nazism for a whole lot of people. I know that word is overused but folks will be googling Hitler tonight. It’s so incredibly dangerous.
https://bit.ly/3H3pJE3

He really seems to think someone googling "Hitler" is going to become a Nazi.

I think it's far more likely for someone that doesn't know who Hitler is and googles it for this to happen: They'll hit a wiki page, scan the page for a minute, and decide it's some boring history crap.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 01, 2022 05:34 PM (eyxn4)

91 This is a too-small sample size really to judge, but the railroad families I do know have been cutting anything they can, even more than I have. I have wondered all fall if the railroad folks will take the chance on striking anyway.

Posted by: Catherine at December 01, 2022 05:35 PM (ZSsrh)

92 "Raise your hand if you'd like to shove that cone up his ass.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2022 05:26 PM (Q4IgG)

It would probably fall out.

Posted by: pawn at December 01, 2022 05:35 PM (wsHtO)

93 Got some smooth jazz Christmas music in the background. I hate jazz

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 01, 2022 05:35 PM (/6GbT)

94 the choices seem to be
No, they don't
No their votes weren't actually counted so who knows how they felt
No, they are waiting for it to burn down.

What do you think fits best?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2022 05:33 PM (xhaym)

Mostly 1 and 3. For the suburban white-collar voters, especially women, progressivism is a luxury good which they aren't willing to give up.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 01, 2022 05:35 PM (wmDcS)

95 Not this time.

===

First paragraph in ace's post. That I read.

Posted by: runner at December 01, 2022 05:35 PM (CJyOE)

96 Lawmakers voted, 80-15, to pass a bill preventing a nationwide strike by railroad workers after rejecting a proposal to give them expanded paid sick leave. President Biden is prepared to sign the bill.
So now they are forcing employees to keep working.
May we live in interesting times.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (JOtiF)

I see a lot of breakdowns in the future.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2022 05:35 PM (xhaym)

97 "It picked up some jobs in leisure and hospitality..."

Sounds like some of those dreamers that crossed the border this year found work!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 01, 2022 05:35 PM (F5ekr)

98 So now they are forcing employees to keep working.

-
Bold move Cotton, let’s see if it pays off.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 01, 2022 05:35 PM (FVME7)

99 Awwwww. My live feed otter cam is showing Joey floating on his back, fluffing his cheeks and sucking his paw.

Get the Resident out of the pool right this instant!!

-- DOKTOR Jill

Posted by: Archer at December 01, 2022 05:36 PM (gmo/4)

100 We made it to December, got that going for us...

Posted by: Zeera 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted! at December 01, 2022 05:36 PM (KqkX0)

101 Lawmakers voted, 80-15, to pass a bill preventing a nationwide strike by railroad workers after rejecting a proposal to give them expanded paid sick leave. President Biden is prepared to sign the bill.

So now they are forcing employees to keep working.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (JOtiF)

They had to, you don't want to wander the hellscape that would result by not having a single thing get shipped out or wind up on a shelf.

I get it, build your own railroad! But this was nation hostage taking for the benefit of a union. But it should be a warning to Congress. Certain businesses can obtain oligarchy status and when Unions get ahold of their operations - the country will suffer.

Posted by: Boswell at December 01, 2022 05:36 PM (+Cgut)

102 So they're gonna make it against the law to not report for work?

OK.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 01, 2022 05:36 PM (uLr+K)

103
It picked up some jobs in leisure and hospitality, which this account points out usually represents people picking up 2nd jobs moonlighting as bartenders or the like.

Learn to shake. And stir.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 01, 2022 05:36 PM (63Dwl)

104 Next up from Rick Lowry at National Review; "How Losing Your Job is Trump's Fault, Not China" and a special bonus article for subscribers by David French, "Remember, Jesus was Unemployed Too".

Posted by: Marcus T at December 01, 2022 05:36 PM (Y45pj)

105 >>I hate jazz

For you.
Blakey and The Messengers : Moanin'

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Cv9NSR-2DwM

Posted by: garrett at December 01, 2022 05:37 PM (HF1PR)

106 The clusterfuck of the last few years is exactly what I should have expected when I retired. Best laid plans ......

Posted by: polynikes at December 01, 2022 05:37 PM (SSrWI)

107 Headline News is about to be hit with a big round of layoffs. HLN hasn't been Headline News for decades now, instead it just runs old Forensic Files episodes and has a round robin of short-lived magazine "investigative" shows that never last long.

I think honestly that going back to the old original headline news format would serve them well but it was too facts-focused basic info to work well for CNN's all-opinion, all-bias format.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 01, 2022 05:37 PM (cP/Ah)

108 102 So they're gonna make it against the law to not report for work?

OK.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 01, 2022 05:36 PM (uLr+K)
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Turn those trains back on!

Posted by: Weasel at December 01, 2022 05:37 PM (4jEJr)

109 “Joe Biden blew it. He had the opportunity to prove his labor-friendly pedigree to millions of workers by simply asking Congress for legislation to end the threat of a national strike on terms more favorable to workers. Sadly, he could not bring himself to advocate for a lousy handful of sick days. The Democrats and Republicans are both pawns of big business and the corporations,” Sawyer was quoted as saying in the RWU statement.

https://tinyurl.com/3n463kc9

Sounds like there's gonna be a strike or a slowdown.

Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 05:38 PM (/P0vp)

110 "Beege Wellborn writes:"

Anybody who thinks 'Beege' is a real name, raise your blarn.

Posted by: gp's Calculus of Altruistic Impact at December 01, 2022 05:38 PM (24fqN)

111 Anyone else think kenya west might be a plant?

-
Loco weed?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 01, 2022 05:38 PM (FVME7)

112
I've converted to zero home heating oil usage and I feel sorry for those who can't. Except those who voted for this shit. Put on a sweater, some long underwear, two pairs of socks, two shirts, a balaclava, a top hat, and reconsider the choices you've made in life.

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at December 01, 2022 05:39 PM (enJYY)

113 Do voters care about the economy anymore?

No, it doesn't matter as long as Stalin is doing the counting.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at December 01, 2022 05:39 PM (tA1/w)

114 there is that economic theory about deflation that says that everyone will hold off from making purchases in a deflationary economy because the prices will be better later and everyone likes a deal.

I think there is a real issue with people earning in an inflationary economy who decide to stop working because what is the point if the value of what you earn by working hard gets wiped away by inflation and you can't afford nearly as much.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2022 05:39 PM (xhaym)

115 I hate jazz

I don't understand this mentality one bit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 05:39 PM (Zz0t1)

116 Certain businesses can obtain oligarchy status and when Unions get ahold of their operations - the country will suffer.
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Oh well.

I'm not a fan of unions, but I'll be damned if I side with the junta.

Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 05:39 PM (/P0vp)

117 >>> I think next year is when it all hits the fan

BRACE BRACE BRACE
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (cP/Ah)

EJECT EJECT EJECT

Posted by: banana Dream at December 01, 2022 05:40 PM (hwaFC)

118 "Loco weed?"

Datura is the OG version of flakka.

Posted by: gp's Calculus of Altruistic Impact at December 01, 2022 05:40 PM (24fqN)

119 From the "when you think they couldn't screw it up any worse" dept.

Air Marshalls are being pulled off flights and are being sent to the border.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 01, 2022 05:40 PM (beoeW)

120 I think there is a real issue with people earning in an inflationary economy who decide to stop working because what is the point if the value of what you earn by working hard gets wiped away by inflation and you can't afford nearly as much.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2022 05:39 PM (xhaym)

That is 2022. Entitlements get inflated. Regular job wages do not. So, it pays to quit and take the free money more and more as inflation goes higher and higher.

Posted by: Nova local at December 01, 2022 05:40 PM (exHjb)

121 IOW didn't have the balls to do what Reagan did to the ATC's.
Posted by: Golfman at December 01, 2022 05:33 PM (OR12a)

Uhhh? Railroad Workers are not Federal Employees?

Fire them all! That will get the trains rolling on time!

Posted by: rd at December 01, 2022 05:40 PM (Z32m1)

122 Great pick, garrett.

Posted by: pawn at December 01, 2022 05:41 PM (wsHtO)

123 120 I think there is a real issue with people earning in an inflationary economy who decide to stop working because what is the point if the value of what you earn by working hard gets wiped away by inflation and you can't afford nearly as much.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2022 05:39 PM (xhaym)

That is 2022. Entitlements get inflated. Regular job wages do not. So, it pays to quit and take the free money more and more as inflation goes higher and higher.
Posted by: Nova local at December 01, 2022 05:40 PM (exHjb)

And as less people work, goods and services get scarcer, causing prices to increase!

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 01, 2022 05:41 PM (eYoxG)

124 @106

>>The clusterfuck of the last few years is exactly what I should have expected when I retired. Best laid plans ......

You have to understand, Trumps plans and policies were providing overwhelming peace and prosperity to the common folk in the US and were giving people around the world the crazy idea that governments should be organized around the proposition that the health and happiness of it's citizens is paramount.

The Globalist, Deep State and Masterminds literally, and in unison said, F**K. THAT. SH*T.!!!

And they set about f**king sh*t up, and here we are tapping dancing on the edge of a razor blade.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 01, 2022 05:42 PM (up/3i)

125 102 So they're gonna make it against the law to not report for work?

that's just crazy talk.

Posted by: ayn rand at December 01, 2022 05:42 PM (v3pYe)

126 Senate Passes Measure Blocking Railroad Strike

Lawmakers voted, 80-15, to pass a bill preventing a nationwide strike by railroad workers after rejecting a proposal to give them expanded paid sick leave. President Biden is prepared to sign the bill.

So now they are forcing employees to keep working.

May we live in interesting times.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (JOtiF)

Even if they're forced to work, look for drastic slowdowns.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 01, 2022 05:42 PM (BdMk6)

127 Appeals court vacates order appointing Trump Mar-a-Lago search warrant watchdog

Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 01, 2022 05:42 PM (dO/0d)

128 Even if they're forced to work, look for drastic slowdowns.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons
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Yep.

Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 05:43 PM (/P0vp)

129 Gref: "Magic 8-Ball, how many of the railroad workers unions will not endorse Joe because of this if he runs in 2024?"

Magic 8-Ball: "Zero"

Posted by: Gref at December 01, 2022 05:43 PM (AMIL/)

130 Love that Tune and LP.

Blakey was so influential and brought up so many amazing young talented musicians.

He drives absolutely everything going on without stepping on anyone's toes and often pushes them in a way other drummer/leaders just couldn't do. Not in the moment, like Art was able to.

Posted by: garrett at December 01, 2022 05:43 PM (HF1PR)

131 I always thought it'd be fun to drive a train. How hard can it be? You don't have to steer!

Posted by: Weasel at December 01, 2022 05:43 PM (4jEJr)

132 That is 2022. Entitlements get inflated. Regular job wages do not. So, it pays to quit and take the free money more and more as inflation goes higher and higher.
Posted by: Nova local at December 01, 2022 05:40 PM (exHjb)

And as less people work, goods and services get scarcer, causing prices to increase!
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 01, 2022 05:41 PM (eYoxG)

That is how it spirals out of control...

Posted by: Nova local at December 01, 2022 05:43 PM (exHjb)

133 Clown. World.

Posted by: Catherine at December 01, 2022 05:43 PM (ZSsrh)

134 That is how it spirals out of control...
___

*Smiles coldly*

Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 05:44 PM (/P0vp)

135 From the "when you think they couldn't screw it up any worse" dept.

Air Marshalls are being pulled off flights and are being sent to the border.
Posted by: Ben Had
__________________

When was the last time the Air Marshals or TSA actually stopped a Hijacker? Besides in a Wesley Snipes Film?

Their best efforts are to save any hijacker from being beaten or killed by the actual passengers.

Posted by: rd at December 01, 2022 05:44 PM (Z32m1)

136 Even if they're forced to work, look for drastic slowdowns.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 01, 2022 05:42 PM (BdMk6)

The railroads already have trouble with trains being decoupled when they are sidetracked in cities, I wonder what will happen when that happens ever day.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2022 05:44 PM (xhaym)

137 Lawmakers voted, 80-15

..

Moar uniparty. Not quite North Korean numbers but getting closer.

Did you vote?

Posted by: Symphony of Destruction at December 01, 2022 05:44 PM (bzIRf)

138 From the "when you think they couldn't screw it up any worse" dept.

Air Marshalls are being pulled off flights and are being sent to the border.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 01, 2022 05:40 PM (beoeW)

---------

There's a shortage of babysitters to look after the UnAccompanied Minors until the Junta can fly them to their ultimate sex trafficking handlers and destinations.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 01, 2022 05:44 PM (+ZErW)

139 125 102 So they're gonna make it against the law to not report for work?

that's just crazy talk.
Posted by: ayn rand at December 01, 2022 05:42 PM (v3pYe)
---
*arches eyebrow*

Posted by: Zombie Mussolini at December 01, 2022 05:44 PM (F5ekr)

140 Hey Ben Had.

Good thing I don't fly anymore.

Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 05:44 PM (/P0vp)

141 ADP doesn't always match what the Gov. "finds" in regard to job numbers

Posted by: It's me donna at December 01, 2022 05:44 PM (bs+z0)

142 RR Workers have one of the most desirable jobs in the country. They retire like Kings.

Posted by: polynikes at December 01, 2022 05:45 PM (SSrWI)

143 "You don't have to steer!"

No steering wheel?

So where's the turn signal stalk at?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 01, 2022 05:45 PM (uLr+K)

144 Senate Passes Measure Blocking Railroad Strike

Lawmakers voted, 80-15, to pass a bill preventing a nationwide strike by railroad workers after rejecting a proposal to give them expanded paid sick leave. President Biden is prepared to sign the bill.

So now they are forcing employees to keep working.

May we live in interesting times.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 01, 2022 05:30 PM (JOtiF)

Even if they're forced to work, look for drastic slowdowns.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 01, 2022 05:42 PM

Even the unions that voted to accept the deal are gonna say a big FVCK YOU to biden and the democrats who passed this mess. Sick outs, slow downs and other mayhem will ensue. Railroad traffic is fvcked for the foreseeable future.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 01, 2022 05:45 PM (uNylN)

145 "When was the last time the Air Marshals or TSA actually stopped a Hijacker? Besides in a Wesley Snipes Film? "

You haven't flown on the last year or so- have you? I've been on so many flights where there are incidents, I was starting to think that was the in-flight entertainment.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 01, 2022 05:46 PM (Y45pj)

146 >>I always thought it'd be fun to drive a train. How hard can it be? You don't have to steer!

My old man and I got to see a train wreck on / into the Clark Fork River a few years back.

Train cars all over the place. in the river, across the hillside. Lumber, too. More 2 x 4's that you could even imagine. Just floating downstream.

Posted by: garrett at December 01, 2022 05:46 PM (HF1PR)

147 I wonder if anyone in the Army can drive a train?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 01, 2022 05:32 PM (dO/0d)

Driving that train, high on cocaine, Corporal Jones, you'd better watch your speed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2022 05:46 PM (tkR6S)

148 RR Workers have one of the most desirable jobs in the country. They retire like Kings.

Things must have changed. My grandpa worked for Union Pacific 60 years and all he got was a gold watch and a modest pension.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 01, 2022 05:46 PM (cP/Ah)

149 This ten minute video will fast-track you to your railworking career:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZsUILszERs

Posted by: gp's Calculus of Altruistic Impact at December 01, 2022 05:46 PM (24fqN)

150 I'm not a fan of unions, but I'll be damned if I side with the junta.
Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 05:39 PM (/P0vp)

I understand the sentiment - but they aren't striking to uphold the freedoms of the United States, SMH. Its more money and benefits - in other words - "you don't get to eat - so pay me more - wait, is that all? - you still don't get to eat." And on and on.

You can't have a union hold the entire nation hostage or a shirt with shoes will cost $250K and union bosses will live at Martha's Vinyard and you and I will live in a ditch.

Posted by: Boswell at December 01, 2022 05:46 PM (+Cgut)

151 It looks like Parlor has said no to being bought by Ye.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 01, 2022 05:47 PM (hwaFC)

152 17 I yearn for the day they announce Joe Biden is mort. He's a pimple on the anus of history and should be popped.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 05:24 PM (Zz0t1)
----
It won't be puss that issues forth and you may not like it.

Posted by: Ciampino -- Robots are the future of movies at December 01, 2022 05:47 PM (qfLjt)

153 I wonder if anyone in the Army can drive a train?
Posted by: Nevergiveup
___

Yes.

Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 05:47 PM (/P0vp)

154 RR Workers have one of the most desirable jobs in the country. They retire like Kings.

Posted by: polynikes at December 01, 2022 05:45 PM

My nephew works for the railroad. He has a huge house, two boats and many very nice trucks and cars. He hasn't hit 40 yet and is set for life.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 01, 2022 05:47 PM (uNylN)

155
RR Workers have one of the most desirable jobs in the country. They retire like Kings.

Posted by: polynikes at December 01, 2022 05:45 PM

Unless their pensions are adjusted for inflation, at current rates, those pensions become worthless in five years or less. Math IS required.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 01, 2022 05:47 PM (enJYY)

156 Of course Kanye West ia a plant, I'm guessing some kind of ambulatory ficus.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2022 05:47 PM (Mu3lv)

157 Guess I'll go buy some toilet paper tomorrow.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 01, 2022 05:47 PM (BdMk6)

158 Being an engineer on a train is easy and no work until suddenly you have to be an expert to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 01, 2022 05:47 PM (cP/Ah)

159 According to super Elitist George Will (who was insufferable, along with his equally-or-even-more-awful pal Karl Rove), all we need to do is continue to bring in illegal immigrants so they can pay taxes and pay into social security. Because Americans aren't reproducing fast enough and ...Trump is a poopy head, and Trump is awful and let me mock Trump and blah blah blah. (We walked out.).

Posted by: LASue at December 01, 2022 05:47 PM (Ed8Zd)

160 @151
After today's news I can't see anyone wanting to be linked to him.

Posted by: Zombie Mussolini at December 01, 2022 05:48 PM (F5ekr)

161 we could lose a bazillion jobs and the their base will still vote for them..coz muh abortions. this is where we are as a country.

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 01, 2022 05:48 PM (mnUzy)

162 "The economy's strong as hell."

In other news, I got a call today from my son, whose company had been going gangbusters for over a year, hiring and signing new contracts. He just got laid off, as the company shrinks to a manageable size for a recession.

Posted by: red speck at December 01, 2022 05:48 PM (gS3OW)

163 Or parler. Whatever the f' these social apps are calling themselves these days.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 01, 2022 05:48 PM (hwaFC)

164 >> I wonder if anyone in the Army can drive a train?

From the rumors I hear, most of the daughters of the Generals can pull a train.

Posted by: garrett at December 01, 2022 05:48 PM (HF1PR)

165 If the train had an internet connection, I think I could do my regular office job and drive a train at the same time.

Posted by: Weasel at December 01, 2022 05:48 PM (4jEJr)

166 Things must have changed. My grandpa worked for Union Pacific 60 years and all he got was a gold watch and a modest pension.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 01, 2022 05:46 PM (cP/Ah)

Things have changed.

Posted by: polynikes at December 01, 2022 05:48 PM (SSrWI)

167 I wonder if anyone in the Army can drive a train?
Posted by: Nevergiveup
___

Yes.
Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 05:47 PM (/P0vp)

Can Army Dentists? I could use a new hobby

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 01, 2022 05:48 PM (dO/0d)

168 So now they are forcing employees to keep working.

-
Bold move Cotton, let’s see if it pays off.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 01, 2022 05:35 PM (FVME7)

So what page of Atlas Shrugged are we on right now?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 01, 2022 05:49 PM (eoQWY)

169 Even the unions that voted to accept the deal are gonna say a big FVCK YOU to biden and the democrats who passed this mess

..

80 Dems in the senate?

Posted by: Symphony of Destruction at December 01, 2022 05:49 PM (bzIRf)

170 Kayne talking about Hitler and his fans looking up about Hitler will be the first time they have learned about Hitler and NAZI'S instead of the infinite number of Genders and Pronouns SAD but true state of our Public Schools

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 01, 2022 05:49 PM (dKiJG)

171
I understand the sentiment - but they aren't striking to uphold the freedoms of the United States, SMH. Its more money and benefits - in other words - "you don't get to eat - so pay me more - wait, is that all? - you still don't get to eat." And on and on.
___

I know why they're striking, Boswell. I'm not an idiot, contrary to what some may think here.

I just don't care anymore.

Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 05:49 PM (/P0vp)

172 If the railroad workers were schmart they'd strike. Tell the junta to shove it.

But the leadership isn't.

It'd be a hardship for sure, but maybe rattle some cages.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2022 05:49 PM (Q4IgG)

173 17 I yearn for the day they announce Joe Biden is mort. He's a pimple on the anus of history and should be popped.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 05:24 PM (Zz0t1)

That will put Commie-La behind The Resolute. Might even be worse than present.

Posted by: Fox2! at December 01, 2022 05:49 PM (i9tuZ)

174 Trump's going to have a lot of messes to clean up when he's re-inaugurated.

Posted by: Brock at December 01, 2022 05:50 PM (OpX6M)

175 >> If the train had an internet connection, I think I could do my regular office job and drive a train at the same time.

Just get a monkey. Let him drive while you work from home, like Sarah.

Posted by: garrett at December 01, 2022 05:50 PM (HF1PR)

176 13...wasn't it just a couple of days ago that biden was touting how many manufacturing jobs had been created on his watch?
Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at December 01, 2022 05:24 PM (v3pYe)

I thought so, too. For October, wasnt it?
Or was he thinking October 2020?

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at December 01, 2022 05:50 PM (Rbu5d)

177 ADP doesn't always match what the Gov. "finds" in regard to job numbers
Posted by: It's me donna at December 01, 2022 05:44 PM (bs+z0)

I mean, what would the company that handles a majority of the payroll for companies know anyway.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 05:50 PM (Zz0t1)

178 Yeah I am pretty opposed to strikes (or unions) among any industry that the nation requires to survive on. You don't get to have that kind of leverage, I don't care how many books you read by Marx.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 01, 2022 05:50 PM (cP/Ah)

179 150 they legally can’t strike and should all be fired.

Posted by: Piper at December 01, 2022 05:50 PM (ZdaMQ)

180 WABASH CANONBALL

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=6NRiHjq0OyE

Posted by: garrett at December 01, 2022 05:51 PM (HF1PR)

181 >>> Of course Kanye West ia a plant, I'm guessing some kind of ambulatory ficus.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2022 05:47 PM (Mu3lv)

Ya know, I'm actually seeing a lot of utility in that.

Posted by: Weinstein at December 01, 2022 05:51 PM (hwaFC)

182 149 This ten minute video will fast-track you to your railworking career:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZsUILszERs
Posted by: gp's Calculus of Altruistic Impact at December 01, 2022 05:46 PM (24fqN

There's no fast-tracking unless you know someone in the railroad that can juice you in.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 01, 2022 05:51 PM (BdMk6)

183 81 million ballots though.

C'mon man

Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at December 01, 2022 05:51 PM (JFF+s)

184 I mean, what would the company that handles a majority of the payroll for companies know anyway.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 05:50 PM (Zz0t1)

I agree.. They should be right but lately they have seemed to be lower than the gov. numbers.. Surprise !

Posted by: It's me donna at December 01, 2022 05:51 PM (bs+z0)

185 I noticed an ad in the local flyer for a journeyman electrician. $20-25 an hour but good benefits. There is a reason that housing is cheap here and many rentals need repairs.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 01, 2022 05:52 PM (uz3Px)

186 you haven't flown on the last year or so- have you? I've been on so many flights where there are incidents, I was starting to think that was the in-flight entertainment.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 01, 2022 05:46 PM (Y45pj)
==============
No, I have not. How many were resolved by Sky Marshals, and not either by Flight Attendants or Passengers?

I don't think duct taping passengers to their seats is Sky Cop SOP.

Overall? People are losing their shit for stupid reasons more and more. Really Stupid Reasons.

Posted by: rd at December 01, 2022 05:52 PM (Z32m1)

187 So germany is out of the World Cup? I guess Hitler and Kanye are sad tonight?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 01, 2022 05:52 PM (dO/0d)

188 I don't generally like the modern version of unions.

And I certainly don't like this administration.

Can they both lose?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 01, 2022 05:52 PM (uLr+K)

189 Joe just rewarded himself with another ice cream cone and loaded his Depends.

Posted by: steevy at December 01, 2022 05:52 PM (yezA1)

190 187 So germany is out of the World Cup? I guess Hitler and Kanye are sad tonight?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 01, 2022 05:52 PM (dO/0d)

lol.

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 01, 2022 05:53 PM (mnUzy)

191 165 If the train had an internet connection, I think I could do my regular office job and drive a train at the same time.
Posted by: Weasel at December 01, 2022 05:48 PM (4jEJr)

----
"How many trains have you operated, Lieutenant?

Gorman: "Thirty eight... simulated."

Vasquez: "How many real trains?"

Gorman: "Uh, two. Including this one."

Posted by: Zombie Mussolini at December 01, 2022 05:53 PM (F5ekr)

192 This enconomy is en FUEGO! Just like a dumpster fire.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 01, 2022 05:53 PM (ynpvh)

193 People are losing their shit for stupid reasons more and more. Really Stupid Reasons.
Posted by: rd at December 01, 2022 05:52 PM (Z32m1)

Yeah they should just sit back and enjoy the good food and service? LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 01, 2022 05:53 PM (dO/0d)

194 Saw the new Indy trailer, the CGI elements are jarring but from the trailer it looks like it's in line with the first film.

Intrigued.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 01, 2022 05:53 PM (up/3i)

195 43 On the bright side, gas prices are going down as the economy collapses.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 01, 2022 05:28 PM (yQpMk)

One station near me is actually under $3.00 a gallon. And not just $2.999

Posted by: Fox2! at December 01, 2022 05:54 PM (i9tuZ)

196 I know why they're striking, Boswell. I'm not an idiot, contrary to what some may think here.

I just don't care anymore.
Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 05:49 PM (/P0vp)

I understand the anger - I'd never insult you and say you have no right to be angered by what is happening - you have every right to be angry.

But the RR union bosses are not really the best folks to be given the leeway as beneficiaries of our righteous anger. They are just as grubby as the Punchy admin. They really do deserve each other. Its you and me, SMH and Boswell that suffers from these antics.

Posted by: Boswell at December 01, 2022 05:54 PM (+Cgut)

197 There was a time when unions were useful and valuable; some companies, many even were abusing and mistreating employees horrendously. There had to be something to counter that and change the balance. But for a good 40+ years they have been a caustic, destructive force that is destroying our economy and nation.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 01, 2022 05:55 PM (cP/Ah)

198 Ilhan Omar posted on Twitter saying the Respect for Marriage Act would “protect marriages like mine”. Some wise ass added a Twitter fact check tag to her post saying “The Respect for Marriage Act does not protect marriages between brothers and sisters”. LMAO.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 01, 2022 05:55 PM (zm+d5)

199 187 So germany is out of the World Cup? I guess Hitler and Kanye are sad tonight?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 01, 2022 05:52 PM (dO/0d)

lol.
Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 01, 2022 05:53 PM (mnUzy)

They can get back to chopping wood for heating this winter.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 01, 2022 05:56 PM (eoQWY)

200 190 187 So germany is out of the World Cup? I guess Hitler and Kanye are sad tonight?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 01, 2022 05:52 PM (dO/0d)

lol.

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 01, 2022 05:53 PM (mnUzy)

But Hitler was a vegetarian that passed laws on animal welfare. The Volkswagen and Autobahn were his babies.
Then again that's like talking about a serial killer and interviewing his parents and neighbors who say, "He was a nice guy".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 01, 2022 05:56 PM (ynpvh)

201 Ilhan Omar posted on Twitter saying the Respect for Marriage Act would “protect marriages like mine”. Some wise ass added a Twitter fact check tag to her post saying “The Respect for Marriage Act does not protect marriages between brothers and sisters”. LMAO.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 01, 2022 05:55 PM (zm+d5)

That's hysterical.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 05:56 PM (Zz0t1)

202 195 43 On the bright side, gas prices are going down as the economy collapses.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 01, 2022 05:28 PM (yQpMk)

One station near me is actually under $3.00 a gallon. And not just $2.999
Posted by: Fox2! at December 01, 2022 05:54 PM (i9tuZ)

It's about $5.23/gallon here. Maybe I'll see it go below $5 soon!

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 01, 2022 05:56 PM (mnUzy)

203 They are not covered by the NLRB. They have their own special rules under the National Railway act. Nuances include suing in federal court for grievances.

Posted by: Piper at December 01, 2022 05:57 PM (ZdaMQ)

204 Then again that's like talking about a serial killer and interviewing his parents and neighbors who say, "He was a nice guy".
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 01, 2022 05:56 PM (ynpvh)

Excitable boy.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 05:57 PM (Zz0t1)

205 Just get a monkey.

*********

Once upon a time
There was an engineer
Who drove a locomotive
Both far and near
Accompanied by a monkey
Who would sit on a stool
Copying everything
The engineer would do...

Posted by: Muldoon at December 01, 2022 05:57 PM (ykeLU)

206 Ilhan Omar posted on Twitter saying the Respect for Marriage Act would “protect marriages like mine”

Brother Fuckers?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 01, 2022 05:57 PM (dO/0d)

207
One station near me is actually under $3.00 a gallon. And not just $2.999
Posted by: Fox2! at December 01, 2022 05:54 PM (i9tuZ)

I paid $2.69 on my way out to NETx last weekend.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 05:58 PM (Zz0t1)

208 198 Ilhan Omar posted on Twitter saying the Respect for Marriage Act would “protect marriages like mine”. Some wise ass added a Twitter fact check tag to her post saying “The Respect for Marriage Act does not protect marriages between brothers and sisters”. LMAO.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 01, 2022 05:55 PM (zm+d5)

Why would she even say that? Is she in a same sex marriage? stupid incentous bint.

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 01, 2022 05:58 PM (mnUzy)

209 On the bright side, gas prices are going down as the economy collapses.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 01, 2022 05:28 PM (yQpMk)

Ya until Iran tests the Nuke over the persian gulf LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 01, 2022 05:58 PM (dO/0d)

210 Gas here is about 2.99 for premium and 2.76 for regular

Posted by: Weinstein at December 01, 2022 05:58 PM (hwaFC)

211 I paid $1.94 a gallon for 30 gallons today with my Kroger fuel points. I remember one time during Trump's presidency paying 89 cents with the points.

Posted by: fd at December 01, 2022 05:58 PM (sn5EN)

212 Then again that's like talking about a serial killer and interviewing his parents and neighbors who say, "He was a nice guy".
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 01, 2022 05:56 PM (ynpvh)

Excitable boy.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 05:57 PM (Zz0t1)

Only a lad...

Oingo Boingo

Posted by: Oldcat at December 01, 2022 05:59 PM (eoQWY)

213 Ok bye bye weiny

Posted by: banana Dream at December 01, 2022 05:59 PM (hwaFC)

214 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 01, 2022 05:55 PM (cP/Ah)

It would have self corrected though I agree something was needed to speed it up. My problem is unions were always a tool of the domestic commies and criminal organizations.

Hershey was the prime example of what unions ultimately would be.

Posted by: polynikes at December 01, 2022 05:59 PM (SSrWI)

215 197 >>There was a time when unions were useful and valuable...

Just like most legislation, unions should have a sunset clause built-in. At some point, their whole purpose for being becomes getting more free stuff for slothful, overpaid employees.

Posted by: red speck at December 01, 2022 06:00 PM (gS3OW)

216 197 I could tell you some stories! I represented a very large company in labor negotiations globally for my career before Covid. I love labor relations, I loved my job, it was challenging. I miss it, but not the travel.

Posted by: Piper at December 01, 2022 06:00 PM (ZdaMQ)

217 We lost 100k manufacturing jobs.

Would have been worse had it not been for the seasonal ballot harvesters.

Posted by: t-bird at December 01, 2022 06:00 PM (dNNCD)

218 all this talk about gas will bring joeX back with another sock.

Cut it out!! You...people!!

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at December 01, 2022 06:01 PM (1DgE4)

219 On the bright side, gas prices are going down as the economy collapses.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 01, 2022 05:28 PM (yQpMk)

One station near me is actually under $3.00 a gallon. And not just $2.999

Posted by: Fox2! at December 01, 2022 05:54 PM

It was $2.35 this morning in Sherman Texas.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 01, 2022 06:01 PM (uNylN)

220 >>> I paid $1.94 a gallon for 30 gallons today with my Kroger fuel points. I remember one time during Trump's presidency paying 89 cents with the points.
Posted by: fd at December 01, 2022 05:58 PM (sn5EN)

When I started driving gas was around .45/gal except when there were price wars it would go down below a quarter/gal.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 01, 2022 06:01 PM (hwaFC)

221 When was the last time the Air Marshals or TSA actually stopped a Hijacker?

--

My bro was an Air Marshal for a number of years. His job mostly entailed transporting prisoners/criminals back to their respective countries of origin. I don't think he was ever placed on a flight specifically to thwart hijackers.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 01, 2022 06:01 PM (sVtYq)

222 217 We lost 100k manufacturing jobs.

Would have been worse had it not been for the seasonal ballot harvesters.

Posted by: t-bird at December 01, 2022 06:00 PM (dNNCD)

They'll be busy in GA soon.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 01, 2022 06:01 PM (ynpvh)

223 Excitable boy.....
Posted by: Sponge

*******

Well, he took little Suzie to the junior prom...

Posted by: Muldoon at December 01, 2022 06:01 PM (ykeLU)

224 He made a cage of her bones.....excitable boy, excitable boy......

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 01, 2022 06:02 PM (PWvcU)

225 I'm waiting for the farmers to create a national union, and then run the world (didn't Joseph do that in Egypt, kinda?) ha ... it would never be allowed.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 01, 2022 06:02 PM (Cus5s)

226 Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to headline a conference held by one of the foremost anti-Israel groups in the country, a move that is being interpreted as a shot at Israel's newly elected government led by incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Blinken on Wednesday announced that he will serve as the headline speaker at the annual conference for J Street, which as recently as last month trashed Netanyahu

Any Jew who votes democratic is a JUDENRAT

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 01, 2022 06:02 PM (dO/0d)

227 208 her husband is a white guy. Interracial marriage, as if that was even something anyone cared about along with gay marriage.

Posted by: Piper at December 01, 2022 06:02 PM (ZdaMQ)

228 We're going on a road trip... minor, like 30 miles, to get some gas station sausage. Kid all y'all want. Supposed to be pretty good.

We'll see.

And fuck the price of gas. I'm going to burn it. Because I refuse to be a prisoner.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2022 06:02 PM (Q4IgG)

229 Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 05:49 PM (/P0vp)"

Guy asked me the other day "what I did when I was in". I told him I traded my cell mate for cigarettes and fashioned shivs out of utensils to pass the time. *awkward silence*. He was from 25/3 and thought I was his 1Sgt. All us white people look the same, I guess.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 01, 2022 06:02 PM (Y45pj)

230 220
When I started driving gas was around .45/gal except when there were price wars it would go down below a quarter/gal.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 01, 2022 06:01 PM (hwaFC)
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Was that around the time the Banana Splits first aired on TV?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 01, 2022 06:03 PM (F5ekr)

231 > My bro was an Air Marshal for a number of years. His job mostly entailed transporting prisoners/criminals back to their respective countries of origin. I don't think he was ever placed on a flight specifically to thwart hijackers.

I've heard their shooting qualification standards are extremely high.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 01, 2022 06:03 PM (eyxn4)

232 My little city (Kingston) is split down the middle by railroad tracks. A number of years ago residents complained about trains stopping so workers on train could get coffee at local Dunkin donuts. Unfortunately this action blocked several or all of the 6 crossings in city. The workers were told to not stop anymore. In retaliation they complied with the letter of the law with 6 whistles before every crossing all day and night. One guy still does it. Given what just occurred I think we are going to see and hear a repeat of such actions, if not an outright strike

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 01, 2022 06:03 PM (mP+mW)

233
Would have been worse had it not been for the seasonal ballot harvesters.

Posted by: t-bird at December 01, 2022 06:00 PM

Who need to be quickly added to the 'endangered species' list.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 01, 2022 06:03 PM (enJYY)

234 "We're going on a road trip... minor, like 30 miles, to get some gas station sausage"

Stripling?

Posted by: fd at December 01, 2022 06:03 PM (sn5EN)

235 Why would she even say that? Is she in a same sex marriage? stupid incentous bint.
Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch

Interracial marriage. Because they are whipping up hysteria about white supremacists coming for your interracial marriage. As if.

Posted by: April--dash my lace wigs! at December 01, 2022 06:04 PM (OX9vb)

236 Reposted from thread below:

have a prayer request

A conservative as well as faithful Christian has asked me to speak to our township committee tonight urging them to officially recognize Christmas as a significant religious and cultural holiday. he was bothered that Diwali was recognized two years in a row but Christmas wasn't. So please pray for peace upon all people attending. I have a feeling the leftists are not going to like it.

P.S The Mayor thinks all people who were at Jan 6th were Insurrectionists and seems to tacitly endorse the idea that a lot of Trump voters are white supremacists. She is a white leftist.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 01, 2022 06:04 PM (vH/6k)

237 From the "when you think they couldn't screw it up any worse" dept.

Air Marshalls are being pulled off flights and are being sent to the border.
Posted by: Ben Had

Are illegals arriving by trebuchet ?

Posted by: JT at December 01, 2022 06:04 PM (T4tVD)

238
Was that around the time the Banana Splits first aired on TV?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 01, 2022 06:03 PM (F5ekr)

There was TV back then?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 06:04 PM (Zz0t1)

239 227 208 her husband is a white guy. Interracial marriage, as if that was even something anyone cared about along with gay marriage.

Posted by: Piper at December 01, 2022 06:02 PM (ZdaMQ)

I'm in an interracial marriage. I don't think anyone even cares. why on earth does the senate think they need to pass this - more virtue signalling on their part?

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 01, 2022 06:04 PM (mnUzy)

240 Biden’s Gender Fluid “Pup Handler” DOE Employee Sam Brinton Hosted “Spanking Seminar” at Kink Conference Weeks After Luggage Theft

What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 01, 2022 06:05 PM (dO/0d)

241 197 There was a time when unions were useful and valuable; some companies, many even were abusing and mistreating employees horrendously. There had to be something to counter that and change the balance. But for a good 40+ years they have been a caustic, destructive force that is destroying our economy and nation.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 01, 2022 05:55 PM (cP/Ah)

If you go down a list of US unions and when they were founded, the fighting bad working conditions doesn't seem terribly plausible. It seems more like they are created when a group of workers is ascendant or strong, much like professional associations.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 01, 2022 06:05 PM (eYoxG)

242 She is a white leftist.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 01, 2022 06:04 PM (vH/6k)

AWFL. THOT. PAWG.

There are many acronyms.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 06:05 PM (Zz0t1)

243 "There was TV back then?"

Hand cranked.

Posted by: fd at December 01, 2022 06:05 PM (sn5EN)

244 True Story

My Nephew was working out just getting done with his work out and he see's an older man struggling so he goes over and Helps the man with the weights, They start talking My Nephew tells him he's playing Soccer and Captain of the team at the Local College and he's Graduated working on his Masters and he's looking for a job, at the End of the work out the Old Guy says hold on a sec and Call's his Broker, tell Broker about my Nephew and he's looking for a Job, Broker also happens to have Graduated from the Same College, Broker takes his Resume and punches it up. Then They submit his resume to the Firm and just so happens a New Branch is opening up right near my house and were looking for people and got the Interview and Follow up,

Thought my Nephew was pulling my Chain with some 4Chan

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 01, 2022 06:07 PM (dKiJG)

245 "Biden’s Gender Fluid “Pup Handler” DOE Employee Sam Brinton Hosted “Spanking Seminar” at Kink Conference Weeks After Luggage Theft

What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Your safe word is "harder"?

Posted by: fd at December 01, 2022 06:07 PM (sn5EN)

246 Biden’s Gender Fluid “Pup Handler” DOE Employee Sam Brinton Hosted “Spanking Seminar” at Kink Conference Weeks After Luggage Theft

What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 01, 2022 06:05 PM (dO/0d)

I thought I read where he was no longer with the admin as of a month or so ago.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 06:07 PM (Zz0t1)

247 >>> I paid $1.94 a gallon for 30 gallons today with my Kroger fuel points. I remember one time during Trump's presidency paying 89 cents with the points.
Posted by: fd at December 01, 2022 05:58 PM (sn5EN)

When I started driving gas was around .45/gal except when there were price wars it would go down below a quarter/gal.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 01, 2022 06:01 PM (hwaFC)

I remember seeing nineteen cents a gallon sometime in the early seventies in a gas war.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 01, 2022 06:07 PM (eoQWY)

248 Big locomotive right on time, big locomotive coming down the line.
Big locomotive No. 99, left the engineer with a worried mind.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 01, 2022 06:07 PM (ZLI7S)

249 All us white people look the same, I guess.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 01, 2022 06:02 PM (Y45pj)

Haha, we kinda do. I challenge you to attend a 10-year-old girls' soccer game and and differentiate between six blond girls with ponytails.

Posted by: April--dash my lace wigs! at December 01, 2022 06:07 PM (OX9vb)

250 Guy asked me the other day "what I did when I was in". I told him I traded my cell mate for cigarettes and fashioned shivs out of utensils to pass the time. *awkward silence*. He was from 25/3 and thought I was his 1Sgt. All us white people look the same, I guess.
Posted by: Marcus T
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lol

Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 06:07 PM (/P0vp)

251 Wasn’t there a lawsuit about flags along these lines? That all flags were allowed to be flown in front of some building except one representing Christianity and this was ruled as discrimination? I want to say it was a state building.

Posted by: Piper at December 01, 2022 06:07 PM (ZdaMQ)

252 I know a lot of guys in the trades who busted their asses for 30 years or more with great pay and ended with great pensions, all conservative. Union dues went to Democrats, they didn't give a shit.

Posted by: dartist at December 01, 2022 06:08 PM (9X/y4)

253
Thought my Nephew was pulling my Chain with some 4Chan
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 01, 2022 06:07 PM (dKiJG)

Especially written like that......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 06:08 PM (Zz0t1)

254 I’ve been screaming from the rooftops that the Fed was being too aggressive on rates and would do more harm than good. Too early for me to take a “victory” lap?

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 01, 2022 06:09 PM (9Gwt7)

255 246 suspended, not fired.

Posted by: Piper at December 01, 2022 06:09 PM (ZdaMQ)

256 And the Senate just voted that Rail Road workers have to continue with a contract with ONE sick day a year... on call for weeks... and a raise locked in for 5 years... which does not even come close to inflation.

Yeah... on the side of the workers.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 01, 2022 06:09 PM (oHd/0)

257 I know a lot of guys in the trades who busted their asses for 30 years or more with great pay and ended with great pensions, all conservative. Union dues went to Democrats, they didn't give a shit.
Posted by: dartist
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Hub gets invites all the time to join some electrical union.
He's not interested.

Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 06:09 PM (/P0vp)

258 255 246 suspended, not fired.
Posted by: Piper at December 01, 2022 06:09 PM (ZdaMQ)
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Those would be difficult pumps to fill.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 01, 2022 06:10 PM (F5ekr)

259 Wasn’t there a lawsuit about flags along these lines? That all flags were allowed to be flown in front of some building except one representing Christianity and this was ruled as discrimination? I want to say it was a state building.
Posted by: Piper at December 01, 2022 06:07 PM (ZdaMQ)

IIRC that was bah-stun.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at December 01, 2022 06:10 PM (1DgE4)

260 And the Senate just voted that Rail Road workers have to continue with a contract with ONE sick day a year... on call for weeks... and a raise locked in for 5 years... which does not even come close to inflation.

Yeah... on the side of the workers.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 01, 2022 06:09 PM (oHd/0)

Yet they'll still vote Dem across the board for the rest of their fucking lives.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 06:10 PM (Zz0t1)

261 AWFL. THOT. PAWG.

There are many acronyms.

Not any I'm going to call her. She is a married Lesbian so I don't think she's a THOT and I don't know what a PANG ? Is

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 01, 2022 06:10 PM (vH/6k)

262 I remember seeing nineteen cents a gallon sometime in the early seventies in a gas war.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 01, 2022 06:07 PM (eoQWY

I remember putting in a dollar or so to get me around for the week.

Posted by: polynikes at December 01, 2022 06:10 PM (SSrWI)

263 Things must have changed. My grandpa worked for Union Pacific 60 years and all he got was a gold watch and a modest pension.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 01, 2022 05:46 PM (cP/Ah)

My grandpa worked for the New York Central and then the Penn Central after they merged for 40 + years and that is what he got too.

Posted by: Archer at December 01, 2022 06:11 PM (gmo/4)

264 > I know a lot of guys in the trades who busted their asses for 30 years or more with great pay and ended with great pensions, all conservative.

I know a couple of retired electricians and a carpenter who did well financially, but their bodies are broken, chronic back pain.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 01, 2022 06:11 PM (eyxn4)

265 Their target rate is 1.2 job openings for every job seeker.

This statement jumps out at me as to why this is all a Cluster Foxtrot.

A report that also dropped this morning -- the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey or JOLTS -- provides that snapshot for them.

Yet another useless bureaucracy filled with sinecures, rent-seekers and parasites who collects paychecks and occupies offices to create worthless Powerpoint presentations and ArcGiS charts to inform a government that should have zero reason or authority to have their greedy, corrupt and incompetent hands on the levers of private industry, contracts and negotiations.

IT IS NOT THE JOB OF USELESS BUREAUCRATS TO INVENT POLITICAL TARGETS AND FUCK THINGS UP ONE WAY OR THE OTHER TO ACHIEVE THEIR ARBITRARY DESIRES!

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 01, 2022 06:11 PM (ceWUn)

266 254 I’ve been screaming from the rooftops that the Fed was being too aggressive on rates and would do more harm than good. Too early for me to take a “victory” lap?
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 01, 2022 06:09 PM (9Gwt7)

the problem is that the money expansion causing inflation has not been coming from the banks via fractional lending (which interest rates would slow)... its coming from the Fed printing Trillions to cover Fed Gov overspending.

And they won't admit it... so higher interest rates will INCREASE the debt, slow the economy... which will cause these idiots to print more money to give us a 'stimulus'... which will cause more inflation.

Can't fix the problem when you won't admit you ARE the problem.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 01, 2022 06:11 PM (oHd/0)

267 ___

Hub gets invites all the time to join some electrical union.
He's not interested.
Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 06:09 PM (/P0vp)

My uncle is in the IBEW.......from what I can see, and he's in Chitcago, it's not worth it. When he was unemployed, he was still required to pay his dues, attend the meetings to sign in, then they'd 'try' to find him work.

He spent 6 months in Georgia once and was not allowed to turn it down when they offered it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 06:12 PM (Zz0t1)

268 > Not any I'm going to call her. She is a married Lesbian so I don't think she's a THOT and I don't know what a PANG ? Is

PAWG.

It means she's got a nice, thick booty.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 01, 2022 06:12 PM (eyxn4)

269 Hub gets invites all the time to join some electrical union.
He's not interested.
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Up here you can't work if you're not in the union, not so down south I guess. Wouldn't his pay scale go up?

Posted by: dartist at December 01, 2022 06:13 PM (9X/y4)

270 SMH the IBEW is one of the few unions with a little sense. They have an amazing training program where they will fail people out, which is good as you know better than most being bad with electricity is bad. They also are one of the only unions that will cross a picket line, they figured out if they didn’t, someone else got the work. I am not going to be their advocate, but they had brains and were fun to negotiate CBAs.

Posted by: Piper at December 01, 2022 06:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

271 So germany is out of the World Cup? I guess Hitler and Kanye are sad tonight?

Posted by: Nevergiveup

They were stabbed in the back.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 01, 2022 06:13 PM (FVME7)

272
I know a lot of guys in the trades who busted their asses for 30 years or more with great pay and ended with great pensions, all conservative. Union dues went to Democrats, they didn't give a shit.

Posted by: dartist at December 01, 2022 06:08 PM

Yeah, math is involved but take that pension and reduce it from inflation by about 20% of it's value since Joey took office and extrapolate that for a few years. The result? It becomes worthless.

I respect guys in the trades but if they're gonna keep voting for the (D)'s they deserve what they're gonna get. Nothing. 30 years of work for nothing.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 01, 2022 06:13 PM (enJYY)

273
Not any I'm going to call her. She is a married Lesbian so I don't think she's a THOT and I don't know what a PANG ? Is
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 01, 2022 06:10 PM (vH/6k)

Well, married lezbo means not PAWG, which is Phat Ass White Girl......with PHAT meaning Pretty Hot and Tempting, tho not in this case, I'm sure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 06:13 PM (Zz0t1)

274 If your sky is clear, and the sun has set, there is a nice, bright Moon/Jupiter conjunction going on. Beautiful clear sky here, so *very* prominent.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at December 01, 2022 06:14 PM (qlgfj)

275 He spent 6 months in Georgia once and was not allowed to turn it down when they offered it.
Posted by: Sponge
___

That sucks.

Good thing Ex-Ex will never join a union.

Also means no healthcare, but oh well.

Been without it this long.

Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 06:14 PM (/P0vp)

276 So germany is out of the World Cup? I guess Hitler and Kanye are sad tonight?

Posted by: Nevergiveup

They were stabbed in the back.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 01, 2022 06:13 PM (FVME7)

If in 20 years a soccer defender leads Germany to invade FIFA break up the World Cup that suits me fine

Posted by: Oldcat at December 01, 2022 06:14 PM (eoQWY)

277 66...I've been braced for years. It just never seems to happen.
They say it can't go on, but it does.
Posted by: fd at December 01, 2022 05:31 PM (sn5EN)

It is slow, then it will be all of a sudden.
Just like the saying goes .

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at December 01, 2022 06:14 PM (Rbu5d)

278 If heroin addiction and pedophilia are jobs, Antifa is at 100% employment.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at December 01, 2022 06:15 PM (8tkni)

279 contract with ONE sick day a year...

I get no "sick days". I get about 30 days of PTO to use for vacation, sick, or whatever. Many companies don't have specific sick days.

How much PTO does the average rail employee get? I'm sure it's more than one day a year.

Posted by: April--dash my lace wigs! at December 01, 2022 06:15 PM (OX9vb)

280 Posted by: Piper at December 01, 2022 06:13 PM (ZdaMQ)
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Pass.

My husband knows better.

Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 06:15 PM (/P0vp)

281 It is slow, then it will be all of a sudden.
Just like the saying goes .
Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at December 01, 2022 06:14 PM (Rbu5d)

A dead, hollow tree looks fine until one day, it is a pile of broken pieces on the ground.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 01, 2022 06:16 PM (eoQWY)

282 279 contract with ONE sick day a year...

I get no "sick days". I get about 30 days of PTO to use for vacation, sick, or whatever. Many companies don't have specific sick days.

How much PTO does the average rail employee get? I'm sure it's more than one day a year.
Posted by: April--dash my lace wigs! at December 01, 2022 06:15 PM (OX9vb)

Internet says 25-29 days, with more senior ones getting 37-39 of PTO.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 01, 2022 06:16 PM (eYoxG)

283 "lol
Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 06:07 PM (/P0vp)"

👍🏻

Posted by: Marcus T at December 01, 2022 06:17 PM (Y45pj)

284 My uncle is in the IBEW.......from what I can see, and he's in Chitcago, it's not worth it. When he was unemployed, he was still required to pay his dues, attend the meetings to sign in, then they'd 'try' to find him work.
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I've known a ton of IBEW guys that never had trouble getting work unless there was a problem.

Posted by: dartist at December 01, 2022 06:17 PM (9X/y4)

285 Up here you can't work if you're not in the union, not so down south I guess. Wouldn't his pay scale go up?
Posted by: dartist
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Fortunately, you don't have to be union to work down here.

As far as pay, doesn't matter, since he'll never join one.

Posted by: SMH in the USSA at December 01, 2022 06:17 PM (/P0vp)

286 87 Creepy Joe got brain freeze from the waffle cone and it never went away.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 01, 2022 05:34 PM (geVLo)

Gotta have a brain for that to happen, ya know.

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at December 01, 2022 06:17 PM (Rbu5d)

287 >why on earth does the senate think they need to pass this -

They put that language in the bill so any opposition could be painted as racist. The bill, as I heard explained on AFR this afternoon, is really about giving the DOJ openings to attack churches, private schools, Christian businesses for their "supporting, celebrating the gay lifestyle is contrary to my religious beliefs"

Posted by: Fool Otto at December 01, 2022 06:17 PM (DB16e)

288 I had a complaint filed against me by the IBEW when I worked at AT&T. I was in charge of a branch office and we were literally moving our office one floor in the same office building but the IBEW was our union and by union rules only they could move electrical equipment. That included our pcs.

They didn't show on our scheduled move date despite me having the moved scheduled for months so at the end of the day I told everyone to pick up their pc and move it themselves. Had to go before a grievance board to hear about my crime. I laughed and told them to get bent. They were terribly upset.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 01, 2022 06:18 PM (ZLI7S)

289 >>> Was that around the time the Banana Splits first aired on TV?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 01, 2022 06:03 PM (F5ekr)

80s post Carter during the oil glut. I look it up now and some website says it was .95 but I know it was much less than that where I was. I don't think it got over a dollar until I was in college. I remember thinking it would be temporary and would settle back to around fiddy cents. Ha!

Posted by: banana Dream at December 01, 2022 06:18 PM (hwaFC)

290 269 there is no state that requires you to contract out with union hiring halls. You may get picketed for wage and conditions. And Scabby the Rat will most likely pay a visit. But details. There are states that aren’t right to work, but you can hire, in a contracting situation, non union companies.

Also, even in a closed shop, you can be an objector and not pay the portion of your dues that get donated to political parties.

Posted by: Piper at December 01, 2022 06:18 PM (ZdaMQ)

291 Gaylord Perry morte.

RIP

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 01, 2022 06:19 PM (dO/0d)

292 Internet says 25-29 days, with more senior ones getting 37-39 of PTO.
Posted by: Red Turban Somegu

So, about the same as other people.

Posted by: April--dash my lace wigs! at December 01, 2022 06:19 PM (OX9vb)

293 Yahoo Finance

Lamborghini CEO: We are selling ‘more cars than we are able to produce’

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 01, 2022 06:20 PM (iEXgF)

294 Then again that's like talking about a serial killer and interviewing his parents and neighbors who say, "He was a nice guy".
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 01, 2022 05:56 PM (ynpvh)

Excitable boy.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 05:57 PM (Zz0t1)

Only a lad...

Oingo Boingo
Posted by: Oldcat

10-year-old Wisconsin boy shoots his mother because she wouldn't buy him a VR headset

https://fxn.ws/3FkwjET

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 01, 2022 06:20 PM (FVME7)

295 I get no "sick days". I get about 30 days of PTO to use for vacation, sick, or whatever. Many companies don't have specific sick days.

How much PTO does the average rail employee get? I'm sure it's more than one day a year.
Posted by: April--dash my lace wigs! at December 01, 2022 06:15 PM (OX9vb)
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We're moving to a PTO system...Not a huge fan, though I never use all of my vacation/sick leave per year (combined, it's currently 22 vac + 12 sick + 4 personal / year)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 01, 2022 06:20 PM (BpYfr)

296 Gaylord Perry morte.

RIP
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 01, 2022 06:19 PM (dO/0d)

Loading up the ball to pitch past St Peter.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 01, 2022 06:21 PM (eoQWY)

297 Belgium also out of the World Cup. Brusholes hardest hit.

Posted by: East Bay Jay at December 01, 2022 06:21 PM (DePyg)

298 Other than the GDP every number this month is a disaster. Home values will start dropping in a month or two.

I can't wait for the next election where everyone votes on abortion in the middle of a depression.

Posted by: Dave in Fla (there is no path to 270) at December 01, 2022 06:22 PM (WoUnx)

299 293 Yahoo Finance

Lamborghini CEO: We are selling ‘more cars than we are able to produce’

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 01, 2022 06:20 PM (iEXgF)

I will gladly charge you today for a Lamborghini Tuesday?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 01, 2022 06:22 PM (eYoxG)

300 Belgium also out of the World Cup. Brusholes hardest hit.
Posted by: East Bay Jay at December 01, 2022 06:21 PM (DePyg)

Wales is more of a country than Belgium is.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 01, 2022 06:22 PM (eoQWY)

301 Lamborghini CEO: We are selling ‘more cars than we are able to produce’

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman

Don't they call that fraud?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 01, 2022 06:22 PM (FVME7)

302 nood

quickies

Posted by: banana Dream at December 01, 2022 06:22 PM (hwaFC)

303 And because it reflects poorly on the shithead in chief, you idiots cheer it on like it's a fucking football game. Funny how you take his side on the nazi Ukrainians tho... brainwashed Tools.

Posted by: NipsyAtTheJingoAtMyBaby at December 01, 2022 06:23 PM (9e0qH)

304 Other than the GDP every number this month is a disaster. Home values will start dropping in a month or two.

I can't wait for the next election where everyone votes on abortion in the middle of a depression.
Posted by: Dave in Fla (there is no path to 270) at December 01, 2022 06:22 PM (WoUnx)

I'm sure there will be some reason to blame ourselves and not the endemic voter fraud in every city in the country.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 01, 2022 06:23 PM (eoQWY)

305 Nood.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 01, 2022 06:23 PM (uNylN)

306 How much PTO does the average rail employee get? I'm sure it's more than one day a year.

Its complicated. Typically a locomotive engineer or conductor might be put on a 8/3 schedule (work eight, take three off) during those days on call, they have typically within two hours to report to work once they receive the call to do train things. Like a lot of work, sometimes the going is easy, other times its back to back shifts and little down time.

Working a Class 1 railroad is hard on work/life balance but the compensation is good. For these whiners who want more "life" they should take the pay cut and work a regional line.

When the Enemedia talks about the "average rail worker", it is a clue they have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 01, 2022 06:23 PM (ceWUn)

307 @295

>>22 vac + 12 sick + 4 personal / year

JFC, 36 days to screw off, per year???

I've taken a total of 21 days off in the last 6 years.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 01, 2022 06:23 PM (up/3i)

308 I'm pretty much never sick, so I like the general PTO concept. I can use the days whether I'm sick or not. And I never use all my time off, but I can bank it and get it paid out to me if I want to.

Posted by: April--dash my lace wigs! at December 01, 2022 06:24 PM (OX9vb)

309 Supreme Court leaves student loan injunction in place and will hear case in February.
Temporary Injunctions are allowed to stand when the risk of harm to the plaintiff outweighs the harm to the defendant, the plaintiff is likely to prevail on the merits, the plaintiff is likely to suffer irreplaceable injury if the stay is lifted, and my guess is the balancing of the equities analysis has been done below which would be a analysis of the public interest.

So on first blush, if Brandon's crew doesn't articulate any novel persuasive arguments that student loan deal is dead dead dead

Posted by: torabora at December 01, 2022 06:24 PM (Y274z)

310 288: well yes, you violated a contract provision, maybe. Which you can’t do UNLESS the union did not provide the labor required for the job. That is the deal, the company provides the work, you, union, provide the labor. Once the ability to get that union labor is exhausted, for that moment, they give up their right to the work. They do it enough, they give up the right to the work in perpetuity. Conversely, you can’t just give them non-union work without understanding you just gave up work to the union. Managers really struggled with this concept, there is their work and my work but never OUR work.

I would have been a little upset if you said get bent in a grievance meeting because it would have resulted in my having to respond to a labor charge and the NLRB is a pain in the patoot. 😀

Posted by: Piper at December 01, 2022 06:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

311 So on first blush, if Brandon's crew doesn't articulate any novel persuasive arguments that student loan deal is dead dead dead
Posted by: torabora at December 01, 2022 06:24 PM (Y274z)

That's fine, its like throwing Brier Brandon into the briar patch. Now he can re use it next time.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 01, 2022 06:25 PM (eoQWY)

312 by union rules only they could move electrical equipment.
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Had a buddy that worked the conventions at McCormak Place in Chicago. Lightbulbs, unplug and plug in cords were his. Chicago.

Posted by: dartist at December 01, 2022 06:26 PM (9X/y4)

313 132...And as less people work, goods and services get scarcer, causing prices to increase!
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 01, 2022 05:41 PM (eYoxG)

That is how it spirals out of control...
Posted by: Nova local at December 01, 2022 05:43 PM (exHjb)

Slowly, then all of a sudden.

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at December 01, 2022 06:26 PM (Rbu5d)

314 I get no "sick days". I get about 30 days of PTO to use for vacation, sick, or whatever. Many companies don't have specific sick days.

How much PTO does the average rail employee get? I'm sure it's more than one day a year.
Posted by: April
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Also, RRB workers are *not* in the SS program. They have a separate retirement plan, which in some ways is more beneficial than SS. Here are details:
https://tinyurl.com/h45mo2t

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at December 01, 2022 06:29 PM (VG0cN)

315 >>288: well yes, you violated a contract provision, maybe. Which you can’t do UNLESS the union did not provide the labor required for the job.

See the part where I say they didn't show up to do the work despite me having it scheduled for months.

When I told them that we both worked for the same company and we had jobs to do that required our pcs they told they didn't work for the company, they worked for the union.

Sorry, I have a completely different view of the IBEW that you do being forced to work with those entitled clowns for year.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 01, 2022 06:30 PM (ZLI7S)

316 Had a buddy that worked the conventions at McCormak Place in Chicago. Lightbulbs, unplug and plug in cords were his. Chicago.
Posted by: dartist
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I've done conventions/shows at McCormick Place. You are not allowed to so much as plug in an electrical cord w/o a Union guy doing it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at December 01, 2022 06:32 PM (VG0cN)

317 227...as if that was even something anyone cared about along with gay marriage.
Posted by: Piper at December 01, 2022 06:02 PM (ZdaMQ)

Interracial marriage protection was added to the Act

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at December 01, 2022 06:38 PM (Rbu5d)

318 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2022 06:13 PM (Zz0t1)

She's a rather attractive thin woman in her forties except that she sometimes goes in for slightly purple hair.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 01, 2022 06:39 PM (vH/6k)

319 REMAIN CALM!!
ALL IS WELL!!

Posted by: Kevin Bacon getting run over by panicked mob at December 01, 2022 06:40 PM (FCbAQ)

320 239...more virtue signalling on their part?
Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 01, 2022 06:04 PM (mnUzy)

Yes.
Disagree with the act, and you get to be a racist as well as an LGBTLMNOP-phobe .

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at December 01, 2022 06:41 PM (Rbu5d)

321 274 If your sky is clear, and the sun has set, there is a nice, bright Moon/Jupiter conjunction going on. Beautiful clear sky here, so *very* prominent.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at December 01, 2022 06:14 PM (qlgf

I saw that conjunction when I went to close up the hen house. I wanted to look up what planet that is, but forgot..... so thanks for that .

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at December 01, 2022 06:51 PM (Rbu5d)

322 Last month the Dr iw went up 14% the largest monthly increase in 46 years!
The elites iw n the railroads if course they should be able to force men to work including forced overtime work
With all those record profits it sure was lucky that Trump gave them that 2 trillion dollar tax cut or else they would have really got hammered

There are plenty of jobs available working on railroads for those that want them

Posted by: Paul at December 01, 2022 06:57 PM (MaiwW)

323 If your sky is clear, and the sun has set,

===

...you've been for a walk, on a winter's day ....

Posted by: runner at December 01, 2022 07:14 PM (V13WU)

324 "Also, even in a closed shop, you can be an objector and not pay the portion of your dues that get donated to political parties."

Of course you can. If you don't mind your car getting keyed or its tires mysteriously going flat.

Posted by: JQ at December 01, 2022 07:52 PM (o0Fxd)

325 There a something called QAnon?

I only see it referenced by the left.

Posted by: Goatweed at December 01, 2022 08:33 PM (0Q/6W)

326 Reminds me of Barry Soetero chuckling over, "Shovel-ready wasn't so shovel ready..." and this forgotten gem from a 60 Minutes interview:

Steve Kroft:
"You're sitting here, laughing over people loosing their jobs...are you punch drunk?"

Mr Soetero:
"Nah, you just need to have a little gallows humor sometimes..."

Now Barry chuckles over the plight of the plebs in any one of his 4 mansions, in 4 different states. Nice that Mooch is plumping for a 2024 run, gotta put her Jimmy Choo's up on the Resolute desk.

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