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More Than 300 Virginia Government "Workers" Resign Rather Than Obey Governor Youngkin's Directive To, You Know, Return to Work

This is one way to do it.

I'm not actually against the idea of working from home... if people work productively from home. I don't know if there have yet been any studies demonstrating whether they do or they don't. Anecdotally, I've heard that they don't, but I don't think we know that yet with rigor.

(What I'd really like to know is: What if we extended the workday to nine hours (or ten) and worked four days instead of five? What impact would that have?)

But I do know if your boss says you have to actually show up for work, then you have to show up for work.

A lot of leftwing government workers decided that they don't have to do that and apparently they think depriving the government of the dubious value of their "service" is a major blow.

Hundreds of Virginia state employees have resigned in the last two months since Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced a new telework policy.

The new policy pushes employees back into the office in the wake of coronavirus-related workplace closures that prompted work-from-home opportunities

Many state employees chose to resign over losing the flexibility and benefits that working from home affords.

Over 300 state employees have resigned since the policy was announced, WRIC-TV reported.

The return to office plan, initially announced on May 5, requires employees who wish to remain working from their homes to undergo an extensive approval process that includes a signature from Youngkin's own chief of staff.

...

The resignations include 183 from the Virginia Department of Transportation, 28 of which specifically cited telework opportunities as their reason to leave.

Oh no, not the gold-standard workers of the DMV.


The Virginia Department of Health had 78 resignations, while 37 employees resigned from the Virginia Employment Commission, seven resigned from Virginia's Department of Housing and Community Development and six resigned from Virginia's Department of Emergency Management, per the report.

I'm sure the people quitting were real go-getters and motivated self-starters.

5 You quit. No unemployment for you either.

LOLGF.
Posted by: Sponge

Here's another blow against government workers: Arizona will only require teachers to be enrolled in college, not graduated from it, before starting teaching.

That opens up the pool of workers and therefore weakens the union monopoly.

Educators in Arizona's public school system will only need to be enrolled in college to begin teaching in a classroom after Gov. Doug Ducey signed legislation last week meant to help these schools recruit future educators as the state continues to face a teacher shortage.

The legislation, S.B. 1159, will expand training pathways for future teachers and help give children a high-quality education, Ducey said in a written news release on Tuesday.

"For the past eight years, we have made it a priority to give our kids a high-quality education, and this legislation builds on those actions," Ducey said. "S.B. 1159 will ensure that more Arizonans have the opportunity to pursue a career in education and help get our kids caught up."

However, the change has sparked a mixed reaction among educators.

No duh, really?

Marisol Garcia, President of the Arizona Educators Association, told AZ Family that educators need to have some experience before teaching students in a classroom.

"It's going to allow people to do on the job training, and that's where it's scary," she said.

Every guild shrieks about the mere possibility of reducing licensure requirements to enter their trade, because the more people who are allowed to work in their field, the less they can use their monopoly guild leverage to drive up their salaries to unreasonable levels and protect their worst "workers" from being fired as they should be.

Posted by: Ace at 03:59 PM




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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

2 SPONGE!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 12, 2022 02:59 PM (RkC6l)

3 A lot of leftwing government workers decided that they don't have to do that and apparently they think depriving the government of the dubious value of their "service" is a major blow.

Really not seeing a downside here.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 12, 2022 02:59 PM (/NCI4)

4 399991!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 02:59 PM (yQpMk)

5 You quit. No unemployment for you either.

LOLGF.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)

6 Hola p

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 12, 2022 03:00 PM (NyN8V)

7 Nicely done, Sponge. Nicely done.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 12, 2022 03:00 PM (RkC6l)

8 1 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)


Yay!

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 12, 2022 03:00 PM (DRSnL)

9 I surfed the HQ as much from work as I did from home. I just had to be sneakier about it to get pas the firewall.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 03:01 PM (yQpMk)

10 When I worked at Life Fitness we got the option to work 4 10s in the summer. It was GLORIOUS.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 12, 2022 03:01 PM (MGB5H)

11 Oh no, not the gold-standard workers of the DMV.

this *could* signal the end of the Republic.


Posted by: kallisto at July 12, 2022 03:01 PM (dCxaZ)

12 78 from the Dept of Health

Guess their COVID grifting days of doing nothing at home were over.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2022 03:01 PM (6Aray)

13 Well it's a good start. Now they have time to go to bodegas and buy chips.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:01 PM (F63C3)

14 Choices, its all about choices.

I've always been told that stoopid people win stoopid stuff.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at July 12, 2022 03:02 PM (k+G9U)

15 (What I'd really like to know is: What if we extended the workday to nine hours (or ten) and worked four days instead of five? What impact would that have?)

i work a 9-9-9-9-8 / 9-9-9-9 schedule, so i get every other friday off. depending upon my mood, it's either annoying or awesome.

Posted by: kulak anachronda at July 12, 2022 03:02 PM (oY6Yp)

16 I'm sure the people quitting were real go-getters and motivated self-starters.

It's uncommon for people to self-select for Darwinian elimination, but sometimes we get lucky.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 12, 2022 03:02 PM (/NCI4)

17 good

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 12, 2022 03:02 PM (89T5c)

18
Yay!
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 12, 2022 03:00 PM (DRSnL)



Winning.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)

19 Well it's a good start. Now they have time to go to bodegas and buy chips.

Or write cowboy poetry

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2022 03:02 PM (6Aray)

20 Nicely done, Sponge. Nicely done.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 12, 2022 03:00 PM (RkC6l)



*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)

21 The NERVE some people have, actually having to you know, demand you, well, work for a living. Bastards!

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:02 PM (F63C3)

22 Let's see how conservative Youngkin is, don't replace any of them.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 12, 2022 03:02 PM (qH6FZ)

23 Wow, those guys worked hard at not working.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2022 03:02 PM (Msys3)

24 Talking Saturday at work the expensive remodeling of a office building floor barely 12 people are there now.
Letting people work at home many are not coming back

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (A3bNj)

25 gonna go out on a limb and figure asking the racial makeup of the quitters is


VERBOTEN !!

Posted by: REDACTED at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (us2H3)

26 Many state employees chose to resign over losing the flexibility and benefits that working from home affords.

Over 300 state employees have resigned since the policy was announced, WRIC-TV reported.


I wonder where they plan on working???

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (pL94Z)

27 According to the trajectory of my front porch "rain-o-meter", we are getting 3/4" of rain per hour right now and the radar makes it look like it will do this until 5PM.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (yQpMk)

28 In Virginia, 18.5% of the workforce are employed by the government — either at the state, local, or federal level

I can't find a break down of federal versus state/local but I'm guessing you could halve that number and make everyone else's lives better.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (ESjRY)

29 If they quit or resign, they're not supposed to be eligible for unemployment insurance. Wonder if some of these clowns have other work lined up. Or can they slip onto the welfare rolls?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (txdEq)

30 Now they have time to go to bodegas and buy chips.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:01 PM (F63C3)



You EXPECT chips if you're doing it right.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)

31 Judge shopping and the covid angle.

Posted by: Crystal Ball Says at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (oTZbj)

32 Congrats SPONGE!

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (F63C3)

33 My company wants to force me back too and I've already said that I'm quitting if they do. I enjoy my part-time job, but frankly, my life and my priorities have changed. I homeschool my kids now and help at the local homeschool co-op. I already work part time in the office and part time at home. Ten more hours in the office is enough to break the bank for me.

Posted by: molloaggie at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (sMrk8)

34 It's perfect that the great majority of quitters were DMV.

Most of that stuff is done online in PA anyway.

I doubt any Virginia morons will miss those "workers"

Posted by: kallisto at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (dCxaZ)

35 Talk about self identifying and self terminating dead wood.

I salute you Gov.

Imagine if Trump was successful in relocating agencies out of DC. 20% staff reduction, minimum.

Posted by: WisRich at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (G0vdT)

36 For the love of all that's holy, newly shitcanned parasites... check your EBT balance ***BEFORE*** you head out for a pack of blunts tonight!!!!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (6FeV1)

37
It sounded like these Low-Level employees simply quit.

Why do they use the word "resign?"

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (6saF9)

38 Meh. I wonder how many are 60+ and decided to retire.

Posted by: golfman at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (hOMhY)

39 They don't want to come to work cause they would have to put on pants and wouldn't be able to pleasure themselves to the faces of Liz Cheney and Benny Thompson in the middle of the afternoon.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (MGB5H)

40 Buh bye than

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2022 03:04 PM (g2WCg)

41 According to the trajectory of my front porch "rain-o-meter", we are getting 3/4" of rain per hour right now and the radar makes it look like it will do this until 5PM.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (yQpMk)



You can send it down here whenever.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

42 Come on now, "working from home" is a joke. I don't care what anyone says, or whatever corrupt bullshit studies are done, it's still a joke. There's no way anyone is as productive in their homes as they would be at work. I know this for sure because I do both. "Working" from home is basically doing some work while I otherwise take the day off. Why do you think all these workers are fighting so hard to avoid returning to work? Maybe maybe maybe somebody has a certain type of job that is so isolated and specific that they can be as productive at home as at work, but that's the rare exception to the rule.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 12, 2022 03:04 PM (iFTx/)

43 When I worked at Life Fitness we got the option to work 4 10s in the summer. It was GLORIOUS.
Posted by: BruceWayne

Yeah, after my wife died I did the same for a few years so I could be home with the kids more. The bosses were very cool about it.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2022 03:04 PM (Msys3)

44 Excellent. Less pensions to pay out and things will become more efficient.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 03:04 PM (MkYsY)

45 A good start.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 12, 2022 03:04 PM (U3uv2)

46 Congrats SPONGE!
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (F63C3)



*takes a bow*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

47
According to the trajectory of my front porch "rain-o-meter", we are getting 3/4" of rain per hour right now and the radar makes it look like it will do this until 5PM.
Posted by: G'rump


A cup?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 12, 2022 03:04 PM (6saF9)

48 I went through the working at home biz for uncle sam. Hated it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 12, 2022 03:05 PM (BFigT)

49 $3 for a bag of chips, outrageous! ( Seinfeld reference)

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2022 03:05 PM (g2WCg)

50 Can we just send the women home?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 12, 2022 03:05 PM (44ww/)

51 Or can they slip onto the welfare rolls?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (txdEq)


they can work under the table and also collect so there's that

Posted by: kallisto at July 12, 2022 03:05 PM (dCxaZ)

52 Good. I hope those idiots who resigned find out they're barely qualified to say, "Want fries with that?"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 12, 2022 03:05 PM (5pTK/)

53 gonna go out on a limb and figure asking the racial makeup of the quitters is


VERBOTEN !!
Posted by: REDACTED at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (us2H3)

Bunch of basic white bitches still trying to get that perfect smoky eye and trashy latina lip-liner down.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 03:05 PM (6FeV1)

54 I've been back in the office since April 2020. My "work from home" period was less than a month.

Earlier this year I hand to call the help desk for an online govt application I was submitting information to. All I got was a message that they couldn't answer the phone because they were working from home, so send an email.

They couldn't answer the phone, because they were working from home. Wish I had thought of that.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 12, 2022 03:05 PM (Y5qcH)

55 I'm sure the people quitting were real go-getters and motivated self-starters.


We can be fairly certain that they fall on the "Breakfast Taco" side of the productivity scale.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2022 03:05 PM (guGkK)

56 My husband worked for the feds as a programmer. He was much more productive at home than he ever was at work. A project that would have taken months took him weeks. His boss let him work from home from then on until he retired.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 12, 2022 03:05 PM (nxdel)

57 You EXPECT chips if you're doing it right.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM

Yep, Money for nothing and your chicks for free. Speaking of I heard that song last night on Cirrus XM. I am almost certain they edited out, "that little faggot got his own jet airplane/millionaire etc. part of the song. I am 95% sure unless I missed it but I heard it from the start.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:06 PM (F63C3)

58 Pretty much any day my husband is "working from home" he's actually golfing.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 12, 2022 03:06 PM (DRSnL)

59 $3 for a bag of chips, outrageous! ( Seinfeld reference)

Thanks to Biden-flation I'm paying $4+ for bread so actually doesn't seem that crazy

Posted by: 18-1 at July 12, 2022 03:06 PM (ESjRY)

60 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

This is crossing the streams, and I don't think it's a good idea.

In fact I don't think we will survive it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 12, 2022 03:06 PM (XIJ/X)

61 I do suspect that many jobs that have been done at the office can be done at home just as productively, although it is difficult to get people to focus on the job at home.

I also suspect that the reason businesses want people at work has nothing to do with the productivity, but rather wanting to control what, when, and how workers do their jobs. You cannot compel someone at home to pay attention to or even attend a meeting, for example if they are at home (yeah, their picture is there, are they really at their computer?).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:06 PM (Ivdso)

62 They're not worried. They can always get lucrative gigs delivering sandwiches for GrubHub.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2022 03:07 PM (guGkK)

63 Maj. wife has worked from home since the plandemic started, she says she is much more productive and less stressed. She would never go back to the office.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 03:07 PM (MkYsY)

64 They don't want to come to work cause they would have to put on pants and wouldn't be able to pleasure themselves to the faces of Liz Cheney and Benny Thompson in the middle of the afternoon.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM

Sorry, not to correct you, but it's Liz Chinney.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:07 PM (F63C3)

65 A cup?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 12, 2022 03:04 PM (6saF9)


Nah. I have a valley that shoots the water off the roof onto the front steps. I can judge the rate by which step the water lands on. 3/4" per hour lands on the bottom step. 1" per hour goes completely off the bottom step.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 03:07 PM (yQpMk)

66 > things will become more efficient.

Heh. In government?

The people going back to work are probably the ones I see at the DMV who are always eating and chatting with someone instead of working. It's just as likely things will slow down more and some of the people quitting are the only ones who know how to do processes A-Z.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2022 03:07 PM (kDGvA)

67 A project that would have taken months took him weeks. His boss let him work from home from then on until he retired.

when I went to the office on Saturdays I was twice as productive.

Posted by: kallisto at July 12, 2022 03:08 PM (dCxaZ)

68 Most of that stuff is done online in PA anyway.

I doubt any Virginia morons will miss those "workers"


For some reason, Hispanics comprise most of the people who go into the DMV office.

Why do you think all these workers are fighting so hard to avoid returning to work?

It's certainly true that remote work identifies the self-motivated pretty quickly. There are many who prefer it because it eliminates the commute, which can be hours in DC.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 12, 2022 03:08 PM (/NCI4)

69 An employer changed the conditions of employment and a few employees decided to seek new jobs. Meh, I'm not going to complain about either side.

My current job allows telework two days a week, down from the three prior to the pandemic (I joined in Nov 2020 when it was full-time telework) and we've been more productive since working from home. If I was told to go back into the office full-time, I'd resign as well. The cost and aggravation of three hours in NoVA traffic isn't worth the pay.

I'm sure that there are plenty of employees shirking off at home. I'm also pretty sure that they shirked off at work as well. And while there are managers who want people back in the office, there are plenty who just want their little empires back under heel.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at July 12, 2022 03:08 PM (wmDcS)

70
This is crossing the streams, and I don't think it's a good idea.

In fact I don't think we will survive it!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 12, 2022 03:06 PM (XIJ/X)



AND a quote in the post......

Either I need to play the lottery or y'all need to start running.....FAR away.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)

71 I bet the amount of work done at home/ remotely varies wildly.

The amount of work done at work varies quite a bit, you know.

Sometimes it's other people stopping by, sometimes it's the phone, sometimes it's a buzzer and you have to get up and answer the door.

Sometimes, it's ennui and laziness, as it is literally now for literally me. (so, so bored)

So, uh, you gotta compare results, not just one side.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at July 12, 2022 03:08 PM (l8gTz)

72
How much "training" does it take to be a teacher??

After living through 13 years of school as a student, you kinda get a good idea of what a teacher does all day.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 12, 2022 03:08 PM (6saF9)

73 The fair Jessica told me I am no longer allowed to spank it to Liz Cheney...so Bennie Thompson it is.

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at July 12, 2022 03:08 PM (ESjRY)

74 New commentaters are allowed to comment here with only on-the-commenting training.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2022 03:08 PM (a3Q+t)

75 There are about 22K VA state gov't workers eligible for telework. 300 is a little over 1% of that group. That doesn't sound like some mass exodus to me.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp, Ultra Dark MAGA at July 12, 2022 03:08 PM (rWFyW)

76 I've been back in the office since April 2020. My "work from home" period was less than a month.


Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 12, 2022 03:05 PM (Y5qcH)

Our business hasn't closed a day except Christmas, throughout.

Posted by: golfman at July 12, 2022 03:08 PM (hOMhY)

77
It's like "training" someone to be a parent.

Our "training" for parentage is, get this, our childhood!

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 12, 2022 03:09 PM (6saF9)

78 Imagine quitting a job you where don't actually do anything - like most government jobs. I suspect most of these people were already working other jobs in any case.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 12, 2022 03:09 PM (oWBc3)

79 I work at home and have for decades, writing and I used to do a lot of illustration work as well. It takes a disciplined mind and focus to do it, and not a lot of people have that trained, or some even that capacity. It took me a while to get onto a schedule and stay on it 6 days a week, and to shut out distractions whenever possible.

When I wrote my books, I shut off the wireless on my laptop, and would note where I needed research, for later. Having it available is very distracting. These are skills people have to learn and I question how many do or can, to work from home effectively.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:09 PM (Ivdso)

80 300 government employees. Thats about $60 million a year in wages saved. Well done VA!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2022 03:09 PM (anj39)

81 I don't think I'm apt to work from home, in fact I don't particularly want my 'clients' to know where my home is. Some are not happy with the 'service' we provide them.

Posted by: Eromero at July 12, 2022 03:09 PM (0OP+5)

82 >>>I'm sure that there are plenty of employees shirking off at home. I'm also pretty sure that they shirked off at work as well.

probably.

Posted by: ace at July 12, 2022 03:09 PM (B3oWe)

83 Sorry, not to correct you, but it's Liz Chinney.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:07 PM (F63C3)

Liz Chinney-Chinney.

Because double.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 03:09 PM (6FeV1)

84
A cup?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 12, 2022 03:04 PM (6saF9)



With or without 2 girls?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)

85 Is it the principle of the thing? Just checking.

Posted by: Holy Crap at July 12, 2022 03:09 PM (glGDV)

86 I work from de casa of de David French, yes-yes?

Posted by: The Paolo at July 12, 2022 03:09 PM (B3oWe)

87 Brought up Saturday in this work conversation he mentioned the possibility people double dipping paychecks working at home.
My guess seeing people at work addicted to phones a good percentage probably fk off lots of hours.

Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2022 03:10 PM (2JoB8)

88 I have a sneaking suspicion that at least some of these people are the type who were bitter and angry that a non-leftist is in charge, and were likely to quit anyway.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:10 PM (Ivdso)

89 Money for nothin and your chips for free.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:10 PM (F63C3)

90 How much of gov work-at-home is actual work, versus keeping track of other people's work?

Posted by: davidt at July 12, 2022 03:10 PM (oTZbj)

91 A project that would have taken months took him weeks. His boss let him work from home from then on until he retired.

when I went to the office on Saturdays I was twice as productive.


Yup. For a short while, I worked in a cubicle farm, and found it nearly impossible to concentrate, what with all the boneheads yammering about their kid's soccer game, or whatever. I'm MUCH more efficient at home, where it's quiet.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 12, 2022 03:10 PM (/NCI4)

92 75 There are about 22K VA state gov't workers eligible for telework. 300 is a little over 1% of that group. That doesn't sound like some mass exodus to me.
Posted by: MaureenTheTemp, Ultra Dark MAGA at July 12, 2022 03:08 PM (rWFyW)

It's small enough number that I could believe that they have other means (such as being married) and leaving was not so much about a protest as their preference.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 03:10 PM (b2nrj)

93 I've worked from home for over a decade. I am more productive at home because I tend to talk to people more when I go to work. A lot of people in my company work from home.

However, if I was working in an office prior to the pandemic, I would would go back to work if required.

I wonder how many of the people who quit are covid Karens who are still terrified of the vid.

OK, on to read the post.

Posted by: chique l'African ViQueen of Greenland, the Merciless, open to talks with the Great MAGA King at July 12, 2022 03:10 PM (quyoM)

94 But the porn purchases ore on their own computers.

Posted by: Holy Crap at July 12, 2022 03:10 PM (glGDV)

95 Being a teacher is easy, being a good teacher is damn hard.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 12, 2022 03:10 PM (oWBc3)

96 My job requires me to be able to train my co-workers on anything I learn and vice versa.

It generally works out ok.

We should actually ban teaching degrees (outside of spec ed type ones) and just require a degree in the subject.

Want to teach math? Get a Math BS. Want to teach English? Get an English BA...etc.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 12, 2022 03:11 PM (ESjRY)

97 Because double.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 03:09 PM (6FeV1)

Double, but not doable.

Posted by: 496 at July 12, 2022 03:11 PM (VJsqe)

98
Nah. I have a valley that shoots the water off the roof onto the front steps. I can judge the rate by which step the water lands on. 3/4" per hour lands on the bottom step. 1" per hour goes completely off the bottom step.
Posted by: G'rump


Sounds very Rube Goldberg-ish.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 12, 2022 03:11 PM (6saF9)

99 Marisol Garcia, President of the Arizona Educators Association, told AZ Family that educators need to have some experience before teaching students in a classroom.

Well heck. Hire freshmen...they were just in the public schools a few months ago. And they can still date the kids.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2022 03:11 PM (anj39)

100 But the porn purchases ore on their own computers.
Posted by: Holy Crap at July 12, 2022 03:10 PM (glGDV)



Wit. Somebody buys pr0n?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2022 03:11 PM (guGkK)

101 when I went to the office on Saturdays I was twice as productive.

I assume it's because no one else was there. That's what my husband bitched about the most. Constant interruptions at work. He got very little done. At home, he closed the office/bedroom door and did what needed to be done in half the time.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 12, 2022 03:11 PM (nxdel)

102 49 $3 for a bag of chips, outrageous! ( Seinfeld reference)

no chips for you!

Posted by: jose alba the chip nazi at July 12, 2022 03:11 PM (oY6Yp)

103 IIRC, there was a survey of workers which showed that they'd be willing to go back into the office, if the commute wasn't so long. Basically the problem isn't working in an office, but the way in which everything is consolidated into globoheadquarters downtown where it takes an hour in traffic to get there, plus another thirty minutes to park and walk to the office, and that's on a good day.

Spread out most of these organizations into distributed offices and you'd get a lot less push-back from workers.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at July 12, 2022 03:12 PM (wmDcS)

104 Trump's economy lured many on the sidelines (moms and older people) into the job market. The money was too good to pass up. Now with the strain of inflation, people are learning how to belt-tighten and live within their means. They're saying, maybe I can live simply and not work hard to have it frittered away on belongings I don't need. And others (those moms) are saying, I'd rather teach my children at home instead of having them go to a garbage public school and risk their mental health and safety.
So ... they're making the best choices for them. Maybe they don't want to be a whore for work when they have other priorities?

Posted by: Coki at July 12, 2022 03:12 PM (iE/oP)

105 I used to argue that having people have to come in to work instead of collecting welfare, even if they did nothing but watch TV, was better than just sending checks because most of these people did work, just off the books, and they would have to make a choice.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 03:12 PM (yQpMk)

106 Wit. Somebody buys pr0n?

Yeah, why not just hire your own hookers?

Posted by: Hunter Biden at July 12, 2022 03:12 PM (ESjRY)

107 Being a teacher is easy, being a good teacher is damn hard.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 12, 2022 03:10 PM (oWBc3)



Same as vascular surgeons.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2022 03:12 PM (guGkK)

108 I'm not actually against the idea of working from home... if people work productively from home. I don't know if there have yet been any studies demonstrating whether they do or they don't. Anecdotally, I've heard that they don't, but I don't think we know that yet with rigor.

Says the guy who works from home.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 12, 2022 03:12 PM (AutJR)

109 I'm not actually against the idea of working from home... if people work productively from home.
........

Jeffrey Toobin produced a lot of DNA.

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2022 03:12 PM (v0R5T)

110 Less than 1 percent is adequate to scream about when you promote abortion.

Posted by: Holy Crap at July 12, 2022 03:12 PM (glGDV)

111 A cup?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 12, 2022 03:04 PM


This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Debra "I tell Biden what to do" Messing at July 12, 2022 03:12 PM (a3Q+t)

112 Finding a no show job isn't as easy as it looks.

Posted by: Michelle Obama at July 12, 2022 03:12 PM (dTFZY)

113 I love being at home. I *hate* doing my day job from home. I would much rather be at work.

People who don't want to work would rather be at home.

However I will say that I wouldn't want to be forced into close quarters with others especially during a scamdemic, and I *do* understand that reasoning for working from home. At least during a scamdemic.

Posted by: ... at July 12, 2022 03:13 PM (NG0lD)

114 when I went to the office on Saturdays I was twice as productive.

Same here.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at July 12, 2022 03:13 PM (wmDcS)

115 You work from home, don't you, ace?

Posted by: m at July 12, 2022 03:13 PM (GkGYg)

116 Yeah. Pr0n is big big big.

Posted by: Holy Crap at July 12, 2022 03:13 PM (glGDV)

117 You work from home, don't you, ace?
Posted by: m at July 12, 2022 03:13 PM (GkGYg)



It's not work if you're doing what you love, right Ace?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:13 PM (Zz0t1)

118 Maj. Wife has calculated a savings of $9500.00 in fuel for the time she's been tele-working. 852 days so far.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 03:13 PM (MkYsY)

119 There are about 22K VA state gov't workers eligible for telework. 300 is a little over 1% of that group. That doesn't sound like some mass exodus to me.

That's not the point. It's that Youngkin let them go. McAulliffe would have kissed their asses and told them "of course you can work from home as long as you like".

Youngkin has now let the VA employees know that there's a new sheriff in town.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 12, 2022 03:13 PM (/NCI4)

120 If they make $100 a week that's $12,000 a month or
$144,000 a year. Now, what were they really making?

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2022 03:14 PM (Q9YUL)

121 We should actually ban teaching degrees (outside of spec ed type ones) and just require a degree in the subject.

Want to teach math? Get a Math BS. Want to teach English? Get an English BA...etc.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 12, 2022 03:11 PM (ESjRY)

Basically. Maybe perhaps one or 2 pedagogy classes. But maybe not even that. Stay at home homeschooling moms are turning out well educated kids without that.

Posted by: chique l'African ViQueen of Greenland, the Merciless, open to talks with the Great MAGA King at July 12, 2022 03:14 PM (quyoM)

122 My bachelor's degree was in Math Education. I would have been better prepared if they would haxe trade all my education classes for another semester of student teaching. Honestly, only 2 of those classes were worth anything (special education and my methods of teaching math class, which was taught by a math professor not a Ed professor)

Posted by: aivanther at July 12, 2022 03:14 PM (tzAg7)

123 Building corporate offices in big cities costs the companies a lot of money.

The argument is that you have to be in the city to higher people.

Why are people near the city? because that's where the jobs are.

It is a stupid cycle.

Posted by: 18-1en at July 12, 2022 03:14 PM (ESjRY)

124 It's small enough number that I could believe that they have other means (such as being married) and leaving was not so much about a protest as their preference.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead!

Yep. The media is wailing about the cruelty of Youngkin the Heartless forcing all of the poor, oppressed VA state workers to fly from the horror of their jobs. I mean, I know the press is biased, but it's just silly.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp, Ultra Dark MAGA at July 12, 2022 03:14 PM (rWFyW)

125 Yeah, why not HAVE DAD hire your hookers?
Posted by: Hunter Biden at July 12, 2022 03:12 PM (ESjRY)

FIFY

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 12, 2022 03:14 PM (MGB5H)

126 Says the guy who works from home.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 12, 2022 03:12 PM (AutJR)

That 12:30 to 3:00 shift is a beast.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 03:14 PM (6FeV1)

127 So I see the Kangaroo Kongress is accusing Trump of something called a "Siren Call". Let me tell you something. I like Donald Trump, but I saw the movie Sirens with the Elle MacPherson full frontal scene and


Nevermind. lost my train of thought.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 12, 2022 03:14 PM (cupoy)

128 115 You work from home, don't you, ace?
Posted by: m at July 12, 2022 03:13 PM (GkGYg)

It says HQ right up at the top. I always assumed ace worked at the global HQ offices.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 12, 2022 03:14 PM (Y5qcH)

129 Like Elon Musk said,

Either come in to work or find some other place not to work.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2022 03:15 PM (Q9YUL)

130 Tonight's Mega Millions jackpot annuity is $440 million.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2022 03:15 PM (6Aray)

131 120 If they make $100 a week that's $12,000 a month or
$144,000 a year. Now, what were they really making?
Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2022 03:14 PM (Q9YUL

I see why math is not allowed on the blog, LOL.

Posted by: chique l'African ViQueen of Greenland, the Merciless, open to talks with the Great MAGA King at July 12, 2022 03:15 PM (quyoM)

132 Being a teacher is easy, being a good teacher is damn hard.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 12, 2022 03:10 PM (oWBc3)


Same as vascular surgeons.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2022 03:12 PM (guGkK)



*nods*

Posted by: Jose Alba at July 12, 2022 03:15 PM (yQpMk)

133 If they make $100 a week that's $12,000 a month or
$144,000 a year. Now, what were they really making?
Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2022 03:14 PM (Q9YUL)



This is what happens when you attend economics taught by AOC.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:15 PM (Zz0t1)

134 Somebody buys pr0n?

SOMEBODY is keeping those Onlyfans Girls in boob jobs and lip collegen

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:15 PM (Ivdso)

135 "The resignations include 183 from the Virginia Department of Transportation, 28 of which specifically cited telework opportunities as their reason to leave."

So only a tiny fraction of state employees quit, and only a small fraction of those who did quit can be directly tied to return to the office policies? Seems like a nothingburger they're attempting to spin into an attack.

Posted by: Xander Crews at July 12, 2022 03:15 PM (MpOGS)

136 "It's going to allow people to do on the job training, and that's where it's scary,"

but shutting down schools completely, or masking kids and forcing experimental jabs on kids (when they are at zero covid risk) ... those things are not at all scary ... full pay and extended vacations .. teachers loved that. Permanent damage to the kids ... "who cares, I'm on vacay for a year".

Posted by: illiniwek at July 12, 2022 03:15 PM (Cus5s)

137 They need to add a Spanish course to get an Ed.D.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: Dr. Jill Biden at July 12, 2022 03:16 PM (PiwSw)

138 I do suspect that many jobs that have been done at the office can be done at home just as productively, although it is difficult to get people to focus on the job at home.


I have daily quantifiable outputs that are easily checked and measured. Doesn't matter if it's in the office or at home. It has to get done. And I can do it in either place. One requires no driving and one requires 480 miles a week for three days a week.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2022 03:16 PM (pL94Z)

139 If they quit or resign, they're not supposed to be eligible for unemployment insurance. Wonder if some of these clowns have other work lined up. Or can they slip onto the welfare rolls?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 12, 2022 03:03 PM (txdEq)


While I'm sure there are some state to state differences, anyone can apply for UE, and the employer is given a chance to challenge the filing.

No challenge, and UE is usually granted. Now, for a private employer, an excess of unchallenged UEs will cause their UE insurance rates to rise. It's a substantial cost even with very few granted claims.

But this is gubmint we're talking about here; they DGAF about UE insurance rates, I'm betting. Hell, they might even be exempt. Wouldn't surprise me at all.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 12, 2022 03:16 PM (JOtiF)

140 Meanwhile, in New York, a state judge has struck down Gov. Kathy Hochul's new COVID 19 regulations as unconstitutional.

“Involuntary detention is a severe deprivation of individual liberty, far more egregious than other health safety measures, such as requiring mask-wearing at certain venues,'' he wrote. “Involuntary quarantine may have far-reaching consequences such as loss of income (or employment) and isolation from family.”

The case was brought by Sen. George Borrello of Chautauqua County as well as Assembly members Chris Tague of Schoharie and Michael Lawler of Rockland County. The defendants included Gov. Kathy Hochul, New York Commissioner of Health Mary T. Bassett and her agency, and the state's Public Health and Health Planning Council.

The Times Union article doesn't give the name of the case.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 12, 2022 03:16 PM (lf83v)

141 119
That's not the point. It's that Youngkin let them go. McAulliffe would have kissed their asses and told them "of course you can work from home as long as you like".

Youngkin has now let the VA employees know that there's a new sheriff in town.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 12, 2022 03:13 PM (/NCI4)

There's not much pressure unless they had done something more organized and public. This just sounds like people resigning as a personal choice.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 03:16 PM (b2nrj)

142 I would have been better prepared if they would haxe trade all my education classes for another semester of student teaching.


Is this some eubonics I missed or are you Latin?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)

143 That's not the point. It's that Youngkin let them go. McAulliffe would have kissed their asses and told them "of course you can work from home as long as you like".

Youngkin has now let the VA employees know that there's a new sheriff in town.
Posted by: Archimedes

Agreed - and the vast majority of them want to keep their jobs in spite of the calamity of having to show up in person. The wailing of the press over this is just insane.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp, Ultra Dark MAGA at July 12, 2022 03:17 PM (rWFyW)

144 So, what do we have to do to get these kind of mass resignations at the FBI, CIA, DOJ, BATF, IRS, and such ?

Posted by: And Away We Go at July 12, 2022 03:17 PM (dI4uN)

145 I always assumed ace worked at the global intergalactic HQ offices.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 12, 2022 03:14 PM


Hello? Ghost of Endor?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2022 03:17 PM (a3Q+t)

146 Meanwhile what 60k National Guard losing benefits for not getting the science experiment jab...

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2022 03:17 PM (g2WCg)

147 I always assumed ace worked at the global HQ offices.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 12, 2022 03:14 PM (Y5qcH)

He has the entire top floor. And key-card access only, which is why when he breaks the blog it takes hours to get it fixed...nobody can attract his attention and tell him to put the gerbils back!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 12, 2022 03:17 PM (XIJ/X)

148 Yep. The media is wailing about the cruelty of Youngkin the Heartless forcing all of the poor, oppressed VA state workers to fly from the horror of their jobs.

Stop! I already said I supported Youngkin.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 12, 2022 03:17 PM (/NCI4)

149 'm sure that there are plenty of employees shirking off at home. I'
--------

Raises hand.

Posted by: Toobin at July 12, 2022 03:17 PM (kU4M5)

150 I love being at home. I *hate* doing my day job from home. I would much rather be at work.

Posted by: ... at July 12, 2022 03:13 PM (NG0lD)


Same. I worked from home for two weeks after husband came down with the 'rona. I couldn't wait to go back.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 12, 2022 03:17 PM (DRSnL)

151 "Marisol Garcia, President of the Arizona Educators Association, told AZ Family that educators need to have some experience before teaching students in a classroom"

Yes, because teaching trans-gender theology and LGBT whatever takes a lot of experience. GFY

Posted by: Marcus T at July 12, 2022 03:18 PM (VpIIl)

152 "It's going to allow people to do on the job training, and that's where it's scary," she said.

--------

If you have experience in putting a condom on a cucumber, you're qualified and good to go ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 12, 2022 03:18 PM (0yNxl)

153 Maj. Wife has calculated a savings of $9500.00 in fuel for the time she's been tele-working. 852 days so far.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 03:13 PM (MkYsY)

And you pissed it all away on food and electricity.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 12, 2022 03:18 PM (qH6FZ)

154 Tonight's Mega Millions jackpot annuity is $440 million.
_____________________________________________

A mere bag of shells.

Posted by: Ukraine at July 12, 2022 03:18 PM (lf83v)

155 I include "thinking about working" in my definition of "working".

Posted by: Weasel at July 12, 2022 03:18 PM (0IeYL)

156 SOMEBODY is keeping those Onlyfans Girls in boob jobs and lip collegen

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:15 PM (Ivdso)

I know I am going to regret this question, but...what is "Onlyfans?" I have seen it mentioned, and I assume it is chicks taking their clothes off, and more, for money.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 12, 2022 03:18 PM (XIJ/X)

157 You quit. No unemployment for you either.

LOLGF.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)
.......

Gee. I sure hope their EBT cards work.

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2022 03:18 PM (v0R5T)

158 Pron is only free because someone is paying for it. Think about it.

Posted by: ... at July 12, 2022 03:18 PM (kU4M5)

159 If they make $100 a week that's $12,000 a month or $144,000 a year.


WTF did I just read?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2022 03:19 PM (pL94Z)

160 There's not much pressure unless they had done something more organized and public. This just sounds like people resigning as a personal choice.

But again, his predecessor would have caved. It's a start, and the smarter ones will take note of what he did, and think hard about challenging him.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 12, 2022 03:19 PM (/NCI4)

161 I need an office to keep my focus at least pretending to work. In my business the harder you work the more work they give you. Fortunately there is a standard workload. I've always been able to do it in less than half the time . When I worked from home when Covid first began I played tennis everyday. I'm sure my employer wouldn't like that even if I got the work done,

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 12, 2022 03:19 PM (2xpha)

162 Surfing busty lesbian pron at home is good work if you can get it.

Posted by: davidt at July 12, 2022 03:20 PM (oTZbj)

163 I know I am going to regret this question, but...what is "Onlyfans?" I have seen it mentioned, and I assume it is chicks taking their clothes off, and more, for money.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 12, 2022 03:18 PM (XIJ/X)
----
This clearly needs to be investigated!

Posted by: Weasel at July 12, 2022 03:20 PM (0IeYL)

164 A lot of government workers are just waking up to the fact that furiously masterbating like a zoo monkey to pr0nhub 8 hours a day doesn't count as "work" just because they are logged into their remote work portal.

"This is like slavery!!!"

-- Union Rep, Remote Masterbators, Local 269

Can't wait for the inevitable court cases by people who quit rather than work.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 12, 2022 03:20 PM (1QxHi)

165 >>>I know I am going to regret this question, but...what is "Onlyfans?" I have seen it mentioned, and I assume it is chicks taking their clothes off, and more, for money.

that's it. I think maybe they do a little more than that but i'm not sure.

Posted by: ace at July 12, 2022 03:20 PM (B3oWe)

166 I know I am going to regret this question, but...what is "Onlyfans?"

As I understand it, that's where all the Instagram ho's went when IG said no more blatant nudity. Nudie pics and vids by mostly womens, but it has a subscription.

I remember a few months ago they claimed that OF was going to go non-nude too but that was reversed pretty quickly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:20 PM (Ivdso)

167 Tonight's Mega Millions jackpot annuity is $440 million.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2022 03:15 PM (6Aray)


I told husband if we ever won the lottery the only thing different about our lives would be that our asses would be parked on a nicer couch.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 12, 2022 03:20 PM (DRSnL)

168 Is a colossal math error a Barrel-worthy offense?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 12, 2022 03:20 PM (PiwSw)

169 Kinda hard for DOT workers to pave roads while at home.

Posted by: Archer at July 12, 2022 03:20 PM (gmo/4)

170 I have always worked from home.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 12, 2022 03:20 PM (/XrKb)

171 Maybe they all learned to code.

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 12, 2022 03:20 PM (zL564)

172 Don't really know but I guess OnlyFans is like a subscription to " exclusive content"

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2022 03:20 PM (g2WCg)

173 I'm calling BS on the outer space pic

you can see Tony Manero's reflection on one of the stars

Posted by: REDACTED at July 12, 2022 03:21 PM (us2H3)

174 My company has had us working from home since the Kung Flu madness. It's all IT and can be 99% done from home. One thing that did change was because we can now hire from anywhere in the country, we have greatly reduced our H-1B hires which has been a huge change for us.

Posted by: Tennessee Jed at July 12, 2022 03:21 PM (PY/t0)

175 159 If they make $100 a week that's $12,000 a month or $144,000 a year.


WTF did I just read?


how many weeks are there in a month on your planet?

Posted by: kulak anachronda at July 12, 2022 03:21 PM (oY6Yp)

176 Gonna go out on a limb and say most if not all of the 300 people who resigned were already retirement eligible and decided to jump ship very publicly as a "political" gesture.


Good riddance.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 12, 2022 03:21 PM (bVYXr)

177 I told husband if we ever won the lottery the only thing different about our lives would be that our asses would be parked on a nicer couch.

Bunch of more land and a bunch more weapons.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 12, 2022 03:21 PM (89T5c)

178 Surfing busty lesbian pron at home is good work if you can get it.
Posted by: davidt at July 12, 2022 03:20 PM (oTZbj)

I can get a camera easy enough, but i don't think i know two busty lesbians who can surf....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 03:21 PM (6FeV1)

179
I know I am going to regret this question, but...what is "Onlyfans?" I have seen it mentioned, and I assume it is chicks taking their clothes off, and more, for money.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 12, 2022 03:18 PM (XIJ/X)

I believe that's correct. Something like those livestreams where people give money to the person providing entertainment on the other side. Like a mukbang but chicks stripping.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 03:21 PM (b2nrj)

180 He has the entire top floor. And key-card access only, which is why when he breaks the blog it takes hours to get it fixed...nobody can attract his attention and tell him to put the gerbils back!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 12, 2022 03:17 PM


Perhaps you and the other CoBs could gently bring up some ideas for small improvements to the blog software.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2022 03:21 PM (a3Q+t)

181 My company is having a hell of a time getting people back in the office after two years of curve flattening. Our big campus is practically empty. And the C-suite are getting tired of paying for space no-one is using. We're all expected to go in one day a week -- that's the "draconian" mandate. And they're still getting pushback.

Now, I can sympathize with HR a bit, after two years of triangulating policy through a fog of regional and national mandates. But the idea that your employer can't have a reasonable expectation that you show up for work -- this is a "new normal" I cannot fathom. Nor is it a policy up with which companies should put.

Posted by: red speck at July 12, 2022 03:22 PM (gS3OW)

182 Listen here sonny...in my day if we wanted to see a woman naked we had to burn their city and kill all their men first!

You don't know how easy you moderns have it!

Posted by: Some Mongol at July 12, 2022 03:22 PM (ESjRY)

183 I can work from home every day if I want to. I don't. I'd rather go into the office where I can be more productive. Also, as I'm in an executive position, it's good to have some actual supervision of the other employees. As my grandmother used to say, "when the cat's away, the mice will play." And finally, if the company is requiring certain workers to come to the office, as their boss I can hardly not do the same myself.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 12, 2022 03:22 PM (iFTx/)

184 And people say there are no feel-good stories any more!!

Posted by: Kevin Luntz-McCarthy at July 12, 2022 03:22 PM (+jVfi)

185 Well it's a good start. Now they have time to go to bodegas and buy chips.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:01 PM (F63C3)
~~~~~

I think you mean BOWgadays.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 12, 2022 03:22 PM (VhE0u)

186 163 I know I am going to regret this question, but...what is "Onlyfans?" I have seen it mentioned, and I assume it is chicks taking their clothes off, and more, for money.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 12, 2022 03:18 PM (XIJ/X)


I want to know what dumbass is falling for this BS

I dunno, I dunno

yeah right

Posted by: REDACTED at July 12, 2022 03:22 PM (us2H3)

187 Marisol Garcia, President of the Arizona Educators Association, told AZ Family that educators need to have some experience before teaching students in a classroom.


Successful business person cannot teach economics? I expected as much from a schlub like Garcia.


Posted by: Archer at July 12, 2022 03:22 PM (gmo/4)

188
If you work from home, never, and I do mean NEVER, buy a laptop with a built in web camera.

Posted by: Jeffrey 'Toobie' Toobin at July 12, 2022 03:23 PM (bShU8)

189 165 >>>I know I am going to regret this question, but...what is "Onlyfans?" I have seen it mentioned, and I assume it is chicks taking their clothes off, and more, for money.

that's it. I think maybe they do a little more than that but i'm not sure.
Posted by: ace at July 12, 2022 03:20 PM (B3oWe)

You can see Yanet Garcia modelling undies on Instagram. I'm guessing you can see more of Yanet on OnlyFans.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 12, 2022 03:23 PM (eGTCV)

190 It says HQ right up at the top. I always assumed ace worked at the global HQ offices.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 12, 2022 03:14 PM (Y5qcH)

Corporate Office in Zanzibar.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 12, 2022 03:23 PM (U3uv2)

191 They can always get a job working for Kamala. I'm hearing there are lots of openings.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2022 03:23 PM (NpAcC)

192 Nominally my company requires the clot shot to go into the office and they've made going in voluntary but suggested.

So...I'm working from home.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 12, 2022 03:23 PM (ESjRY)

193 they make $100 a week that's $12,000 a month or $144,000 a year

Is Sarah back on the blog?

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 12, 2022 03:23 PM (MGB5H)

194 I include "thinking about working" in my definition of "working".
Posted by: Weasel at July 12, 2022 03:18 PM


This man. He gets it, at least when it comes to billing.

Posted by: Big Law at July 12, 2022 03:23 PM (a3Q+t)

195 Prior to covid a lot of employees at the facility I worked at wanted the feds to allow working from home... even if only one or two days a week. There was much bitching and moaning about it. Command wasn't really interested as the General was of the opinion work is someplace you go, not something you do. Or whatever.

So, then along comes covid and everyone is sent home.

And.... the bitching and moaning started up about having to do telecons, zoom meetings, check-ins and the like. Then you'd hear pissing and moaning about the spouse also working at home, the kids at home, etc.

I came to the understanding that a lot of people on the government's dime are shiftless fucks and don't work under any circumstances.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 12, 2022 03:24 PM (BFigT)

196
I assume it's because no one else was there. That's what my husband bitched about the most. Constant interruptions at work.

Yes, constant interruptions. I felt like a kindergarten teacher.

Posted by: kallisto at July 12, 2022 03:24 PM (dCxaZ)

197 These 300 workers were only first level workers, so average salary for them was probably only $140K to $160K per year.

You know. Entry level folks. No great loss.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 12, 2022 03:24 PM (1QxHi)

198 FWIW I prefer working in an office environment to working from home. I get far too distracted at home.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 12, 2022 03:24 PM (eGTCV)

199 I know I am going to regret this question, but...what is "Onlyfans?" I have seen it mentioned, and I assume it is chicks taking their clothes off, and more, for money.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 12, 2022 03:18 PM (XIJ/X)

They do that?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 12, 2022 03:24 PM (U3uv2)

200 How in the hell does the DMV work from home??

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 12, 2022 03:24 PM (ptqGC)

201 I do work very effectively from home. (Not today, because I'm sick, but in general.) I'd rather be in the office where I can go chat with coworkers (about work) rather than having to schedule a teams meeting, but they are all at home themselves. I don't see the point of driving to work just to join teams meetings from the desk in my office instead of the desk in my house.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at July 12, 2022 03:24 PM (8548M)

202 I work from home full-time, and have for most of the last ten years. Prior to that, I worked both 5-8's and 4-10's. I never had a problem with any of these arrangements, but I know others who did. What it boils down to is, if you're going to be productive and useful, the work schedule or method isn't really going to hurt, and if you're a useless sack of shit, the work schedule or method isn't going to change that.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 12, 2022 03:25 PM (lNHqD)

203 191 They can always get a job working for Kamala. I'm hearing there are lots of openings.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2022 03:23 PM (NpAcC)

just don't let them put you in the rear

Posted by: REDACTED at July 12, 2022 03:25 PM (us2H3)

204 VA has 712,000 public sector employees.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 12, 2022 03:25 PM (2xpha)

205 "he mentioned the possibility people double dipping paychecks working at home."

Well, if one job will pay you full-time but won't give you enough work to actually fill those hours...

I was exactly as productive at home as I am in the office, because the computers I had to work with at either place were crap.

I thought that maybe things were so slow to upload and open and save and process because my home internet is worse than the office Internet, but then I went back into the office and was told by the ITS guys that my computer was too old for them to service and I needed to get a new one.

Now I'm back to being so efficient that I have hours in the day where I have nothing to do.... 'scuse me... where I have to find "other duties as assigned" to occupy the time.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 12, 2022 03:25 PM (t71/Y)

206 Given the incredible and almost unavoidable amount of free porn on the internet, I cannot understand anyone paying for it. Its like paying for deluxe oxygen or something. I try to avoid porn because of Jesus' words on the Sermon on the Mount but its difficult to never bump into it on the internet.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:25 PM (Ivdso)

207 I know I am going to regret this question, but...what is "Onlyfans?" I have seen it mentioned, and I assume it is chicks taking their clothes off, and more, for money.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 12, 2022 03:18 PM (XIJ/X)
----
This clearly needs to be investigated!
Posted by: Weasel at July 12, 2022 03:20 PM (0IeYL)
***

OK.
I'll bite the bullet and give up my time to check this out.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2022 03:25 PM (anj39)

208 Tonight's Mega Millions jackpot annuity is $440 million.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2022 03:15 PM (6Aray)

I told husband if we ever won the lottery the only thing different about our lives would be that our asses would be parked on a nicer couch.
Posted by: Jordan61


If I were to win, I wouldn't tell anyone, but there would be signs. Like the Ford F-650 in the driveway.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2022 03:25 PM (pL94Z)

209 I wander into the office a few days a week for a few hours each to make sure my name is still on my office door. Sometimes it's only me and maybe an Admin or two on the floor.

Posted by: Weasel at July 12, 2022 03:25 PM (0IeYL)

210 Now, next action: none. Do not hire new people to fill those positions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2022 03:25 PM (WWh8n)

211 Marisol Garcia, President of the Arizona Educators Teachers' Association, told AZ Family that educators need to have some experience before teaching students in a classroom.
_____________

First, FIFY.

Second, how can you get experience teaching students in a classroom before ... you know ... teach students in a classroom?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 12, 2022 03:26 PM (mxvMh)

212 FWIW I prefer working in an office environment to working from home. I get far too distracted at home.

Different strokes for different folks, but the bottom line is that the boss decides. Don't like it? Polish up your CV.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 12, 2022 03:26 PM (/NCI4)

213 Remember when DeWayne Craddock forcibly retired 11 government workers in Virginia back in 2019?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 12, 2022 03:26 PM (QRdjz)

214 I was the first person at the company to get to work from home. I was careful to do a good job as I wanted others to get the same chance. When Wuflu hit, they'd figured out how to do this. If I had to go to the office, I would retire. It's an hour and a half each way. They don't pay me enough to put up with that.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 12, 2022 03:26 PM (5HBd1)

215 These descriptions of OnlyFans are fake news. I've been assured that women will not sell sex or otherwise debase themselves for money.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 12, 2022 03:26 PM (iFTx/)

216 OK.
I'll bite the bullet and give up my time to check this out.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2022 03:25 PM (anj39)

For science! You're going to need a government grant.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 12, 2022 03:26 PM (U3uv2)

217 Yep. The media is wailing about the cruelty of Youngkin the Heartless forcing all of the poor, oppressed VA state workers to fly from the horror of their jobs.

Stop! I already said I supported Youngkin.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 12, 2022 03:17 PM (/NCI4)



You had me at cruelty.

Posted by: Jose Alba at July 12, 2022 03:26 PM (yQpMk)

218 I'm sure that there are plenty of employees shirking off at home. I'm also pretty sure that they shirked off at work as well.

probably.
==
To be honest, I shirked off every where and every chance I could get. I'm shirking off right now.

Posted by: Jeff Toobin at July 12, 2022 03:26 PM (0dxEl)

219 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 12, 2022 03:18 PM

===

I want to know what dumbass is falling for this BS
I dunno, I dunno
yeah right
Posted by: REDACTED at July 12, 2022 03:22 PM


Dude. CBD is as pure as the driven snow. Just ask bluebell.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2022 03:26 PM (a3Q+t)

220 Our big campus is practically empty. And the C-suite are getting tired of paying for space no-one is using.

Posted by: red speck at July 12, 2022 03:22 PM (gS3OW)

This^^^

Businesses are figuring it out. The crash is coming.

Posted by: golfman at July 12, 2022 03:26 PM (hOMhY)

221 dammit

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 03:26 PM (yQpMk)

222 Secondary teachers should have a degree in their subject, not just a teaching degree. I earned my teaching certification in conjunction with my BA.

It upsets me that English teachers under, say, 40, don't know basic grammar, let alone how to teach it. They haven't read most of the classics, so they don't understand allusions.

Students don't need me to teach them (shudder) Young Adult Fiction; they need me to teach them how to understand and appreciate texts prior to 1940.

Student-teaching with a mentor teacher is a must.

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at July 12, 2022 03:26 PM (REJkJ)

223 probably only $140K to $160K per year.

You know. Entry level folks. No great loss.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 12, 2022 03:24 PM (1QxHi)

That's like... $5.3 billion a week!!!!

Posted by: HordeMath at July 12, 2022 03:26 PM (6FeV1)

224 How in the hell does the DMV work from home??

My guess is that for every person doing the driving tests and talking to people at the window, there are five in the back doing paperwork.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:26 PM (Ivdso)

225 When I worked at home I had to be available to teleconference or chat room consult by 7am ET.
4am my time.
I worked from 4am to noon.
Glad to be done with that.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 12, 2022 03:26 PM (jTmQV)

226 The claim: There is no difference between women and men.

The counter claim: As an attractive woman you can make $$$ by just taking your clothes off.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 12, 2022 03:26 PM (ESjRY)

227 OK.
I'll bite the bullet and give up my time to check this out.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2022 03:25 PM (anj39)

Check out Yanet Garcia on IG and then OnlyFans. I'm asking for a friend.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 12, 2022 03:27 PM (eGTCV)

228 I'm still trying to decide on soft or crispy shell for my tacos.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 12, 2022 03:27 PM (ptqGC)

229 I'm still wondering where are all the stories of the teachers with their mad awesome teaching skillz and how they quit teaching to online tutor and are now stacking greenbacks like Scrooge McDuck.

Cause they told us they were so full of vital skills
Cause they told us online teaching works
Cause they told us they care about the kids so much and just want to teach as many as they can

Was that all lies?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 12, 2022 03:27 PM (Tjx6M)

230 Should have played a ticket, $440 M might have taken a vacation

Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2022 03:27 PM (2JoB8)

231 Tonight's Mega Millions jackpot annuity is $440 million.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2022 03:15 PM (6Aray)

What would I do with post-taxes MM jackpot?

Disappear, right before the balloons go up.

Posted by: Thrawn at July 12, 2022 03:27 PM (Rl7KJ)

232 If I were to win, I wouldn't tell anyone, but there would be signs. Like the Ford F-650 in the driveway.

I think people around me would notice the moving truck, then the odd lack of activity.

Posted by: And Away We Go at July 12, 2022 03:27 PM (dI4uN)

233 Depends on the person. By working from home I'm not cutting out as early as possible to avoid the hour and a half commute home. It's easier to take care of things you have to do as opposed to having to leave the office and go back to it. Slackers are going to slack no matter what if they have no productivity standards to be graded on.

Posted by: Happy at July 12, 2022 03:27 PM (zDTN3)

234
Indie comic start-up "Rippaverse" broke $1M in its first day, and that's with leftist twitter shitting on it all day and calling the creator an "Uncle Tom."

The leftist cocksucking website for shitheads, Reddit, even went as far as banning the Rippaverse launch video for "hate speech."

They aren't leftists. They are Fascists. They are corporate-government boot lickers.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 12, 2022 03:28 PM (6saF9)

235 228 I'm still trying to decide on soft or crispy shell for my tacos.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 12, 2022 03:27 PM (ptqGC)

Your breakfast tacos ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 12, 2022 03:28 PM (bs+z0)

236 I'm never working from an office again, I can pretty much guarantee you that. But it's easier to say that with an unusual skill set + a track record of making money.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at July 12, 2022 03:28 PM (wsx8x)

237 180 He has the entire top floor. And key-card access only, which is why when he breaks the blog it takes hours to get it fixed...nobody can attract his attention and tell him to put the gerbils back!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 12, 2022 03:17 PM

Perhaps you and the other CoBs could gently bring up some ideas for small improvements to the blog software.


during pride month?

Posted by: kulak anachronda at July 12, 2022 03:28 PM (oY6Yp)

238 This Yanet Garcia girl is quite lovely, but I wouldn't pay a subscription fee to see her skim off the swimsuit.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:28 PM (Ivdso)

239 Educators in Arizona's public school system will only need to be enrolled in college to begin teaching in a classroom after Gov. Doug Ducey signed legislation last week meant to help these schools recruit future educators as the state continues to face a teacher shortage.
++++
Good start. Next, get rid of the college requirement. Then make an education degree a low-preference choice. Then develop real-world equivalency standards and standardized testing for teacher candidates. Then make an education degree a disqualifying condition altogether. Then get rid of credentialing entirely, replacing it with the work experience and standardized testing requirements.

It's a good start, but we still have so much more to do.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2022 03:28 PM (WWh8n)

240 How in the hell does the DMV work from home??

Department of Transportation isn't the same as DMV. My guess is that most of these positions are analytical positions of some sort, writing and analyzing proposed regulations, data analysis, and the like.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at July 12, 2022 03:28 PM (wmDcS)

241 OnlyFans is the Zoom Meeting of Strip Clubs.

Posted by: HordeMath at July 12, 2022 03:28 PM (6FeV1)

242 200 How in the hell does the DMV work from home??

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 12, 2022 03:24 PM (ptqGC)


you can log on to the company server from home.

Or in this case the government server

Posted by: kallisto at July 12, 2022 03:28 PM (dCxaZ)

243 nobody can attract his attention and tell him to put the gerbils back!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 12, 2022 03:17 PM



I know how that goes.

Posted by: Richard Gere at July 12, 2022 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

244 Gotta have time for Lubin' the Toobin!
How that slime still, oh wait, it's CNN. NM, you'd have to have standards.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:29 PM (F63C3)

245 Sockoff

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 03:29 PM (6FeV1)

246 How is there a teacher shortage?

Home schooling has more than doubled in Arizona since 2020.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 12, 2022 03:29 PM (6Q97a)

247 OK.
I'll bite the bullet and give up my time to check this out.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2022 03:25 PM


For best results, the investigative work will occur post-scratching and post-coffee, correct?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2022 03:29 PM (a3Q+t)

248 >>> 181 My company is having a hell of a time getting people back in the office after two years of curve flattening. Our big campus is practically empty. And the C-suite are getting tired of paying for space no-one is using. We're all expected to go in one day a week -- that's the "draconian" mandate. And they're still getting pushback.

Now, I can sympathize with HR a bit, after two years of triangulating policy through a fog of regional and national mandates. But the idea that your employer can't have a reasonable expectation that you show up for work -- this is a "new normal" I cannot fathom. Nor is it a policy up with which companies should put.
Posted by: red speck at July 12, 2022 03:22 PM (gS3OW)

I would have agreed pre-woofloo, but since the HR and execs of most of the Laptop Class employers are some of the worst pushers of the cooties murder-death-kill panic and vaxx mandates (not to mention the entire leftist package), they can go fck themselves. Also I'm not sure how much it matters; I think we're all going to have much bigger problems in a few months.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 12, 2022 03:29 PM (llON8)

249 On the job training ...is bad?

Also, what sort of education do you need to teach sixth graders? Wouldn't a 12th grade education cut it?

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at July 12, 2022 03:29 PM (+DS2f)

250 On the job training is scary?

Talk about being disconnected from the real world. How much training is done...well...on the job?

Posted by: Cow Demon - Free Sri Lanka! at July 12, 2022 03:29 PM (CdZ4i)

251 I'm still trying to decide on soft or crispy shell for my tacos.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 12, 2022 03:27 PM (ptqGC)

Your breakfast tacos ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 12, 2022 03:28 PM (bs+z0)

I've already had breakfast and lunch tacos. Now I'm planning dinner tacos.

Go large or go home on Taco Tuesday.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 12, 2022 03:29 PM (ptqGC)

252 The counter claim: As an attractive woman you can make $$$ by just taking your clothes off.

Supposedly dudes do it too, but I doubt its nearly as lucrative or wide spread. The number of women who'd pay to see pictures of nude dudes and homosexuals cannot equal the number of normal guys who would pay to see naked womens.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:29 PM (Ivdso)

253 Much less people on the road should reduce our gas taxes right? LOL I crack myself up.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 03:30 PM (MkYsY)

254 As a *sigh* Virginia DMV employee, I have to regretfully inform you that those people quitting are VDOT, not DMV. In some states, DMV is a part of the state DOT, but not in Virginia.

FWIW, no one I know has any problem with going back. The only reason I'm not looking forward to it is the motherfuckin' gas prices

Posted by: radar at July 12, 2022 03:30 PM (aCYZU)

255 I try to avoid porn because of Jesus' words on the Sermon on the Mount but its difficult to never bump into it on the internet.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:25 PM (Ivdso)


Blessed are the ... tease makers?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 03:30 PM (yQpMk)

256 I'll wager the vast majority of these workers who quit? Are Women.

Why? Childcare. When telecommuting you don't have to pay for childcare, which is rapidly getting more and more expensive. Add in that you are not tied to a really stringent schedule, and suddenly you can take your kids to school... or the Doctor, without it being a huge issue.

As a full time single parent with twins... and MALE... when one of my kids got sick my bosses were pretty NON supportive... but when I was working out of the house? suddenly a non issue.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 12, 2022 03:30 PM (oHd/0)

257 how can you get experience teaching students in a classroom before ... you know ... teach students in a classroom?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 12, 2022 03:26 PM (mxvMh)

I have infinite faith in the ability of unionized employees to create bullshit jobs, one of which is being a teaching supervisor. He sits in the back of the room and dozes (at full pay) while the new teacher teaches kids their multiplication tables. You know...really complex stuff.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 12, 2022 03:30 PM (XIJ/X)

258
I told husband if we ever won the lottery the only thing different about our lives would be that our asses would be parked on a nicer couch.
Posted by: Jordan61
-------

I recollect a Georgia couple that won the lotto. Their plans? 'To buy a double-wide, and move to Alabama'. A lot of fun was made of that, but my feelings were; 'Good. They know exactly what they want, and it's not extravagant. More power to them'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. ,etc. at July 12, 2022 03:30 PM (c8iAR)

259 wtf is "driven snow" anywhos ??

I've plowed and shoveled a lot of snow

but never driven

Posted by: REDACTED at July 12, 2022 03:30 PM (us2H3)

260 This is what happens when you attend economics taught by AOC.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
-------------------

Ha!

Duh, 3x1=3, 3x10=30

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2022 03:30 PM (Q9YUL)

261 Tonight's Mega Millions jackpot annuity is $440 million.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2022 03:15 PM (6Aray)


Lots of acres with a house smack dab in the middle of it and signs all around trespassers will be shot.


Posted by: Archer at July 12, 2022 03:30 PM (gmo/4)

262 VA has 712,000 public sector employees.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 12, 2022 03:25 PM


A huge part of our problem, nearly 8% of an entire States population is employed in the "public sector".

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 12, 2022 03:30 PM (bVYXr)

263 I'm still trying to decide on soft or crispy shell for my tacos.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 12, 2022 03:27 PM (ptqGC)

Your breakfast tacos ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 12, 2022 03:28 PM

Have the Doc. McJill special. Take the taco, put your foot in it and insert it in your mouth. While singing, eye, eyyee,, eye eye,,

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:31 PM (F63C3)

264 but...what is "Onlyfans?"
=
You know Uber right?

People with cars, in search of people looking for rides and vice versa?

Only Fans is to strippers what Uber is to rides
Strippers find those who want to see them strip. The money changes hands electronically.

Posted by: Stripper Pathology abounds as a result at July 12, 2022 03:31 PM (bKcw5)

265 Aren't there're 150000 stste workers I'm VA
Ace seems to want us to bieve that 300 resigning means something

Posted by: Paul at July 12, 2022 03:31 PM (BEtBb)

266 Sounds like fake new to me. If only 38 out of 283 people quit in one department, that is about 15% quitting because of the WFH changed.

15% of 300 people who quit recently is only 45 people. Who cares.

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at July 12, 2022 03:31 PM (B4cCI)

267 246 How is there a teacher shortage?

Home schooling has more than doubled in Arizona since 2020.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 12, 2022 03:29 PM (6Q97a)

Typically there are more people trying to get public school teaching jobs than are public teaching jobs available, on account of unions driving up compensation.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 03:31 PM (b2nrj)

268 Blessed are the ... tease makers?

Great line

But no, the part about you're committing adultery if you look at a woman with lust in your heart; the bit everyone quotes Carter mentioning.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:31 PM (Ivdso)

269 I think if I won the lottery (which is a mathematical impossibility since I don't play), I would get the upgrade to the highest Platinum airline membership and fly First Class and get Priority Boarding and access to all those First Class lounges. If I ever fly again, and if I win the lottery...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 12, 2022 03:31 PM (PiwSw)

270 wtf is "driven snow" anywhos ??

I've plowed and shoveled a lot of snow

but never driven
Posted by: REDACTED at July 12, 2022 03:30 PM

Wind driven.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:31 PM (F63C3)

271 I'm still trying to decide on soft or crispy shell for my tacos.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 12, 2022 03:27 PM


Put a tortilla inside the shell. Embrace the power, the majesty of and.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2022 03:31 PM (a3Q+t)

272 206 Given the incredible and almost unavoidable amount of free porn on the internet, I cannot understand anyone paying for it. Its like paying for deluxe oxygen or something.

you can have my perri-air when you pry it out of my cold, dead lungs.

Posted by: president scroob at July 12, 2022 03:31 PM (oY6Yp)

273 Much less people on the road should reduce our gas taxes right? LOL I crack myself up.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 03:30 PM (MkYsY)
++++
Increase. Much of the cost of the road system is fixed. With fewer motorists using the roads, the cost per passenger mile increases.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2022 03:31 PM (WWh8n)

274 When I think of the DMV, I'm thinking of the sullen wymyn with ridiculously long fingernails who work in ours.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 12, 2022 03:32 PM (ptqGC)

275 My employer started at-home work March 2020. I told my boss he could expect the same amount of work out me at home as he got when I was in the office.


Seriously, my group's productivity has not suffered. We are engineers, so we don't necessarily need to be chained to our desks.

Posted by: butch at July 12, 2022 03:32 PM (rAE97)

276 Tonight's Mega Millions jackpot annuity is $440 million.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2022 03:15 PM (6Aray)


Lots of acres with a house smack dab in the middle of it and signs all around trespassers will be shot.
==
You could also afford arty and maybe some anti air . . .

Posted by: Defense in depth at July 12, 2022 03:32 PM (bKcw5)

277 wtf is "driven snow" anywhos ??

Driven by the wind, presumably. Untouched by the ground or other contaminants.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:32 PM (Ivdso)

278 I think whether working from home is productive depends to a great extent on how busy you are and how much work you have to do. If you are super busy, you will probably be productive and no commute means more time to work.

Posted by: chique l'African ViQueen of Greenland, the Merciless, open to talks with the Great MAGA King at July 12, 2022 03:32 PM (quyoM)

279 262 VA has 712,000 public sector employees.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 12, 2022 03:25 PM


A huge part of our problem, nearly 8% of an entire States population is employed in the "public sector".
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 12, 2022 03:30 PM (bVYXr)

Something like 30% of gdp is government spending, so it checks out.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 03:32 PM (b2nrj)

280 Check out my OnlyFans channel people.

Posted by: Tiara Mack The Twerking Senator at July 12, 2022 03:33 PM (MkYsY)

281 an unusual skill set + a track record of making money.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at July 12, 2022 03:28 PM (wsx8x)

Are you on OnlyFans?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 12, 2022 03:33 PM (XIJ/X)

282 There's an important difference between a job that lets you "work from home" one day a week here and there, where everyone understands that you have errands to run (or a round of golf to get in), that you'll answer the phone/Slack/Teams or whatever, but not to expect much actual productivity that day. Wink wink, nudge nudge...and on the other hand are jobs where you're fully remote with maybe the option to come to the office if you want. If you're not actually doing your job and just sitting around eating cheetos and stroking your schween all day, it's going to be noticed lol, since fucking off one day here and there is a lot different from just not doing any work, day in and day out.

Posted by: ballistic at July 12, 2022 03:33 PM (oXNqT)

283 I wonder what our new Honduran tortilla vendor friends thought of DOCTOR Jill's comment.

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2022 03:33 PM (v0R5T)

284 Oh, and those who telecommute?

Unless you are a programmer, you are pretty much pushing paper, NOT creating an actual product.

Famers don't get to telecommute. Nor do those working an assembly line.

In other words, these folks are either support, or just moving wealth around, not actually CREATING wealth.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 12, 2022 03:33 PM (oHd/0)

285 Tonight's Mega Millions jackpot annuity is $440 million.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2022 03:15 PM (6Aray)

What would I do with post-taxes MM jackpot?

I'd buy a 10 million dollar car.

Posted by: FARVA at July 12, 2022 03:33 PM (z9V4B)

286 Put a tortilla inside the shell. Embrace the power, the majesty of and.

"Put a thin layer of refried beans on a tortilla, wrap the taco shell with it and charge twice as much!"
--Taco Bell

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:33 PM (Ivdso)

287 This busty bikini blonde on a boat would like to try her hand at uncredentialed teaching, but Arizona doesn't any ocean:
https://is.gd/PPEm9F

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2022 03:33 PM (WWh8n)

288 How's about instead of requiring teachers to be enrolled in kollej, from here on we only hire people who have NEVER been to kollej... and demonstrate some other way, an aptitude for the role. Like, you know, actual life skills and experience.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2022 03:33 PM (YV6PJ)

289 He sits in the back of the room and dozes (at full pay) while the new teacher teaches kids their multiplication tables. You know...really complex stuff.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 12, 2022 03:30 PM (XIJ/X)

Teaches what now?

Posted by: An Innumerate Eleventh-grader at July 12, 2022 03:33 PM (PiwSw)

290 I'm still trying to decide on soft or crispy shell for my tacos.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 12, 2022 03:27 PM (ptqGC)

Both!
I slob some refried beens on a soft tortilla, and wrap that around the crispy tortilla.
Works as a scatter shield for when your taco shell breaks up.

Posted by: Roland THTG at July 12, 2022 03:34 PM (j40lz)

291 "I wonder where they plan on working???"

Those workers aren't "quitting", they are "retiring" with fully ben-nies...

State of VA will still feel their sucking teeth on their tit FOREVER...

Posted by: Scott_T at July 12, 2022 03:34 PM (2waQ7)

292 Starbucks blues. Coffee schmucks are closing stores in crime ridden blue states. Seattle; Los Angeles; Philadelphia; Washington, DC, and Portland, Oregon. They will be closed by the end of July. LOLGF.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:34 PM (F63C3)

293 If you are super busy, you will probably be productive and no commute means more time to work.

I think the right kind of person can definitely be more productive and effective at home, although its inevitable they'll have to go into the office every so often.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:34 PM (Ivdso)

294 In other words, these folks are either support, or just moving wealth around, not actually CREATING wealth.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 12, 2022 03:33 PM (oHd/0)

Yeah this is a pretty typical historical criticism of merchants.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 03:34 PM (b2nrj)

295 240 How in the hell does the DMV work from home??

Department of Transportation isn't the same as DMV. My guess is that most of these positions are analytical positions of some sort, writing and analyzing proposed regulations, data analysis, and the like.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at July 12, 2022 03:28 PM (wmDcS)

-----------

You are correct. analysts, IT, legal, legislative are who was home. Maybe 20% of their employees

Posted by: radar at July 12, 2022 03:34 PM (aCYZU)

296 Aren't there're 150000 stste workers I'm VA
Ace seems to want us to bieve that 300 resigning means something
Posted by: Paul


Baby steps!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 12, 2022 03:34 PM (hOUT3)

297 Tonight's Mega Millions jackpot annuity is $440 million.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2022 03:15 PM (6Aray)

Maybe you'll win a fill up and a week's worth of groceries.

Posted by: golfman at July 12, 2022 03:35 PM (hOMhY)

298 If I won $440 million in the lottery, I'd buy 220 million more lottery tickets and try to double it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 12, 2022 03:35 PM (6Q97a)

299 My employer started at-home work March 2020. I told my boss he could expect the same amount of work out me at home as he got when I was in the office.

Seriously, my group's productivity has not suffered. We are engineers, so we don't necessarily need to be chained to our desks.
Posted by: butch at July 12, 2022 03:32 PM (rAE97)
____________

The key is whether an employee has a tangible work product. If so, then WFH is viable. If not, not.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 12, 2022 03:35 PM (mxvMh)

300 But no, the part about you're committing adultery if you look at a woman with lust in your heart; the bit everyone quotes Carter mentioning.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:31 PM (Ivdso)

Well... being Un Married... guess I'm in the clear! /smile

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 12, 2022 03:35 PM (oHd/0)

301 Both!
I slob some refried beens on a soft tortilla, and wrap that around the crispy tortilla.
Works as a scatter shield for when your taco shell breaks up.
Posted by: Roland THTG at July 12, 2022 03:34 PM

This! It's called a taco bravo. Really good too. Not to be confused with the dirty Sanchez.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:35 PM (F63C3)

302
For science! You're going to need a government grant.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 12, 2022 03:26 PM (U3uv2)


Excellent idea.
DARPA will likely cover it.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2022 03:35 PM (anj39)

303 Coffee schmucks are closing stores in crime ridden blue states.

Plus, they're getting their twin fins handed to them by Dutch Brothers, who has much better coffee and service, by all accounts.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:35 PM (Ivdso)

304 There's an important difference between a job that lets you "work from home" one day a week here and there, where everyone understands that you have errands to run (or a round of golf to get in), that you'll answer the phone/Slack/Teams or whatever, but not to expect much actual productivity that day. Wink wink, nudge nudge...and on the other hand are jobs where you're fully remote with maybe the option to come to the office if you want. If you're not actually doing your job and just sitting around eating cheetos and stroking your schween all day, it's going to be noticed lol, since fucking off one day here and there is a lot different from just not doing any work, day in and day out.
Posted by: ballistic

Or you can be brown and queer and send an email to 275 people saying that you won't be doing your work cause "reasons" and then cry when you are fired DuRiNg PrIdE MoNtH

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 12, 2022 03:36 PM (MGB5H)

305 > I would get the upgrade to the highest Platinum airline membership

Depending on just how much it was, I'd go for either a private jet or a fractional private jet.

No TSA bullshit. Plane leaves when you want. No Karening flight attendants (you could even hire cute ones if you wanted to).

Posted by: Rex Morgan, MD at July 12, 2022 03:36 PM (bW8dp)

306 287 This busty bikini blonde on a boat would like to try her hand at uncredentialed teaching, but Arizona doesn't any ocean:
https://is.gd/PPEm9F
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Nice tan.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 03:36 PM (MkYsY)

307 Is it true that one can ask an "OnlyFans" performer to, say, make tacos in the buff? There might be an audience for that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 12, 2022 03:36 PM (BFigT)

308 This busty bikini blonde on a boat would like to try her hand at uncredentialed teaching, but Arizona doesn't any ocean:
https://is.gd/PPEm9F
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2022 03:33 PM (WWh8n)

If she's needing a body of water, she can get in my bathtub.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2022 03:36 PM (HCJnI)

309 My employer started at-home work March 2020. I told my boss he could expect the same amount of work out me at home as he got when I was in the office.

Seriously, my group's productivity has not suffered. We are engineers, so we don't necessarily need to be chained to our desks.

Posted by: butch at July 12, 2022 03:32 PM (rAE97)
---------
My wife and I were both employed software Engineers when we escaped California nearly a decade ago. We were allowed to telecommute afterward, and were far more productive at home -- primarily owing to not having to waste so much time in idiotic meetings, generally with worthless management.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 12, 2022 03:36 PM (Pm49o)

310
Plus, they're getting their twin fins handed to them by Dutch Brothers, who has much better coffee and service, by all accounts.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:35 PM (Ivdso)



We're getting those closer here, but there's Coffee 151's around and they blow Starfucks out of the water and have a line around the building most of the day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

311 This busty bikini blonde on a boat would like to try her hand at uncredentialed teaching, but Arizona doesn't any ocean:
https://is.gd/PPEm9F

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2022 03:33 PM (WWh8n)

Ah. Life on the ocean waves...bouncy boat boobies!

Posted by: Archer at July 12, 2022 03:36 PM (gmo/4)

312 For best results, the investigative work will occur post-scratching and post-coffee, correct?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2022 03:29 PM (a3Q+t)


Right you are.
I do my best investigations using lotions and scotch.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2022 03:36 PM (anj39)

313 More Than 300 Virginia Government "Workers" Resign Rather Than Obey Governor Youngkin's Directive To, You Know, Return to Work

Does the phrase "like a boss" apply here?

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornistan at July 12, 2022 03:36 PM (4+Doy)

314 Oh no, not the gold-standard workers of the DMV.

Funniest thing I have read all day.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at July 12, 2022 03:37 PM (QdLxG)

315 >>> 284 Oh, and those who telecommute?

Unless you are a programmer, you are pretty much pushing paper, NOT creating an actual product.

Farmers don't get to telecommute. Nor do those working an assembly line.

In other words, these folks are either support, or just moving wealth around, not actually CREATING wealth.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 12, 2022 03:33 PM (oHd/0)

This is why I moved to a place where I could have more than a postage-stamp lot.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 12, 2022 03:37 PM (llON8)

316 You don't know how easy you moderns have it!

Posted by: Some Mongol




All of recorded history is just the tale of men on the hunt for trim.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 12, 2022 03:37 PM (1QxHi)

317 This busty bikini blonde on a boat would like to try her hand at uncredentialed teaching

Very 70s looking young lady

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:37 PM (Ivdso)

318 What would I do with post-taxes MM jackpot?

I'd buy a 10 million dollar car.
Posted by: FARVA at July 12, 2022 03:33 PM (z9V4B)


I'd still pull you over.

Posted by: Ramathorne at July 12, 2022 03:37 PM (DRSnL)

319 287 This busty bikini blonde on a boat would like to try her hand at uncredentialed teaching, but Arizona doesn't any ocean:
https://is.gd/PPEm9F
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Nice tan.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 03:36 PM

She was with me on the boat that day during the tragic gun overboard mishap. 11,000 lakes here, can't remember which one. I did make sure to it bumpy waves on the way back to shore. True story.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:38 PM (F63C3)

320
This is why I moved to a place where I could have more than a postage-stamp lot.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 12, 2022 03:37 PM (llON8



God willing before the end of next year........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

321 Yeah this is a pretty typical historical criticism of merchants.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 03:34 PM (b2nrj)

Banks, Insurance... most phone support. Lots of jobs that help yet don't create actual Product.

Most merchants have to be there... can't phone into stock shelves in a grocery story.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 12, 2022 03:38 PM (oHd/0)

322 Maybe some of those people found out they don't like their jobs or the people they work, just some.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 12, 2022 03:38 PM (eGTCV)

323 I was perusing Amazon Prime Days and came across this wonder:

The Instapot coffee maker. It's a combination of a Keurig and a Nespresso. Uses both type of pods, and takes up less real estate on the countertop than my Keurig.

I'm pondering the purchase.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 12, 2022 03:38 PM (ptqGC)

324 primarily owing to not having to waste so much time in idiotic meetings, generally with worthless management.

But we have MBAs!

Posted by: Worthless Managemeny Guild at July 12, 2022 03:39 PM (QdLxG)

325 This busty bikini blonde on a boat would like to try her hand at uncredentialed teaching, but Arizona doesn't any ocean

Is that a caesarian scar?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 03:39 PM (yQpMk)

326 I HATE working from home.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 12, 2022 03:39 PM (diceA)

327 you could even hire cute ones if you wanted to).

Posted by: Rex Morgan, MD at July 12, 2022 03:36 PM (bW8dp)

Huh.... What would she do when not attending flight?.... but imagine hiring a cute female butler. Not a maid. A butler. A valet, with a not silent t. But attractive. And female.


That would be classy AF.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 03:39 PM (6FeV1)

328 >>> 298 If I won $440 million in the lottery, I'd buy 220 million more lottery tickets and try to double it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 12, 2022 03:35 PM (6Q97a)

The IRS probably took the other $220M so that's a pretty big gamble.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 12, 2022 03:39 PM (llON8)

329 Should have played a ticket, $440 M might have taken a vacation
Posted by: Skip

Its not too late !

Posted by: JT at July 12, 2022 03:39 PM (T4tVD)

330 The other thing is, for those of us who work on the phone, they can check to see how many calls you take. Every time I would go to the office, it would take half the day to get my desk set back up to take calls.

The other thing I've noticed is that people aren't willing to put their life on hold for the job. If they want to do something with the family, they do. Same with doctor's appointments and such.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 12, 2022 03:39 PM (5HBd1)

331 We were allowed to telecommute afterward, and were far more productive at home -- primarily owing to not having to waste so much time in idiotic meetings, generally with worthless management.
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 12, 2022 03:36 PM


* interrupt while you're clearly focused *

What percentage are you complete?
When will you be done?

Posted by: Your Project Manager at July 12, 2022 03:39 PM (a3Q+t)

332 This busty bikini blonde on a boat would like to try her hand at uncredentialed teaching, but Arizona doesn't any ocean

Is that a caesarian scar?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 03:39 PM

Sorry about that.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:40 PM (F63C3)

333
Well, bye

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2022 03:40 PM (/U27+)

334 321 Yeah this is a pretty typical historical criticism of merchants.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 03:34 PM (b2nrj)

Banks, Insurance... most phone support. Lots of jobs that help yet don't create actual Product.

Most merchants have to be there... can't phone into stock shelves in a grocery story.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 12, 2022 03:38 PM (oHd/0)

Merchants traditionally just moved the stuff around(from places with low prices to places with high prices), or as they became wealthier, planned such operations. Some finance activity is still that but there's a fair amount of hooking up the people looking to run a business with the people looking to invest in a business. Doesn't create things but does act as a kind of efficiency multiplier.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 03:40 PM (b2nrj)

335 The IRS probably took the other $220M so that's a pretty big gamble.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 12, 2022 03:39 PM (llON
++++
Heh. It's absurd that lottery or other gambling winnings are taxed at all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2022 03:40 PM (WWh8n)

336 Some years ago California was shocked that an elementary school had Sasha Grey reading to a class of students.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2022 03:40 PM (Q9YUL)

337 332 This busty bikini blonde on a boat would like to try her hand at uncredentialed teaching, but Arizona doesn't any ocean

Is that a caesarian scar?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 03:39 PM

Sorry about that.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:40 PM (F63C3)

So, an actual MILF then.

Posted by: Roy at July 12, 2022 03:40 PM (uyVwD)

338 My wife and I were both employed software Engineers when we escaped California nearly a decade ago. We were allowed to telecommute afterward, and were far more productive at home -- primarily owing to not having to waste so much time in idiotic meetings, generally with worthless management.
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 12, 2022 03:36 PM (Pm49o)
____________

Plus, no cow-orkers dropping in to chat about the ball game, no United Way crap, and no birthday celebrations, baby showers, Girl Scout cookies, or any other of the other crap that secretaries LOVE to gin up.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 12, 2022 03:40 PM (mxvMh)

339 The IRS probably took the other $220M so that's a pretty big gamble.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 12, 2022 03:39 PM (llON

.....

Let it ride!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 12, 2022 03:40 PM (6Q97a)

340 My wife has been 100% work from home for the last 7 years. 5 years at her current job.

Her current employer is a software company and they are 100% WFM with thousands of employees across the world, but they have metrics and standards everyone must adhere, and they will let you go if you don't perform. Seems to work really well for the company. So successful, they have closed most physical offices.

But they aren't government employees, and they aren't unionized.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at July 12, 2022 03:40 PM (Xso4I)

341
There's no better aroma in the house than coffee made with a "percolator."

Also, the "sounds" are nice, too. It's rhythmic and comforting.


Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 12, 2022 03:41 PM (6saF9)

342 This busty bikini blonde on a boat would like to try her hand at uncredentialed teaching, but Arizona doesn't any ocean:
https://is.gd/PPEm9F
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Nice tan.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 03:36 PM (MkYsY)

--------

Nice teeth.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 12, 2022 03:41 PM (Pm49o)

343 We really do have a cultural problem that I think is going to take a long time to correct.

People really got used to just staying in home in their pajamas and answering a few emails and calling that "work".

Basically everyone with a college degree thought technology had somehow made it where they didn't have to work anymore.

Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 03:41 PM (xE+Du)

344 37 employees resigned from the Virginia Employment Commission? LOL!!!

A year or so ago, my son's girlfriend was trying to get some kind of unemployment form for tax purposes, and my wife, who has worked in tax preparation for many years, tried to help her get the info. Almost every office in the state was shut down due to the pandemic. The main contact number led to a byzantine series of transfers that, literally, took you back to the original number. You could send emails to designated departmental employees to outline your problem, in which case (assuming they responded at all), you had to set up an appointment at one of the very few offices which opened - for appointments only - a few hours a day (and not every day, either). The girl finally got an appointment, months after she first initiated contact, and did ultimately resolve her issue.

So, where were all the employees? There were only a handful who were designated to take calls, and even fewer who met with the public. I never heard that any of them were on leave.

Posted by: Paco at July 12, 2022 03:42 PM (njExo)

345 140 Meanwhile, in New York, a state judge has struck down Gov. Kathy Hochul's new COVID 19 regulations as unconstitutional.

“Involuntary detention is a severe deprivation of individual liberty, far more egregious than other health safety measures, such as requiring mask-wearing at certain venues,'' he wrote. “Involuntary quarantine may have far-reaching consequences such as loss of income (or employment) and isolation from family.”

The case was brought by Sen. George Borrello of Chautauqua County as well as Assembly members Chris Tague of Schoharie and Michael Lawler of Rockland County. The defendants included Gov. Kathy Hochul, New York Commissioner of Health Mary T. Bassett and her agency, and the state's Public Health and Health Planning Council.

The Times Union article doesn't give the name of the case.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 12, 2022 03:16 PM (lf83v)
This Mary T. Bassett looks kinda cheery for a bassett.

Posted by: Eromero at July 12, 2022 03:42 PM (0OP+5)

346 * interrupt while you're clearly focused *

What percentage are you complete?
When will you be done?
Posted by: Your Project Manager at July 12, 2022 03:39 PM (a3Q+t)


Yeah, my supervisor did that when I was at home, too. She would just call and ask me instead of coming into my office and asking me. And heaven forbid I was in the bathroom or something and didn't answer the phone.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 12, 2022 03:42 PM (DRSnL)

347 >>Nice teeth.
Posted by: ShainS -

She must not be European.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 03:42 PM (MkYsY)

348 There's no better aroma in the house than coffee made with a "percolator."

I keep reading that a French press percolator gives the best possible coffee experience.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:43 PM (Ivdso)

349 Federal employees, whatever you do, PLEASE don't resign en mass after my next election. Please!

Posted by: Br'er Trump after election in 2024 at July 12, 2022 03:43 PM (JCZqz)

350 >>> 320
==
God willing before the end of next year........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

If you're looking at anything out this way I can offer temporary climate-controlled storage if needed, although I should warn you that items may accumulate cat hairs.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 12, 2022 03:43 PM (llON8)

351 Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 12, 2022 03:16 PM

Good. GFY Hockaloogie.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:43 PM (F63C3)

352 What have we here? The 1/6 committee posted a text message between Lindell and Kremer that proves Trump's actual reason for the march to the Capitol.

"This stays only between us, we are having a second stage at the Supreme Court again after the ellipse. POTUS is going to have us march there/the Capitol.

It cannot get out about the second stage because people will try and set up another and Sabotage it. It can also not get out about the march because I will be in trouble with the national park service and all the agencies but POTUS is going to just call for it 'unexpectedly'"

https://bit.ly/3o3Ht7f

Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2022 03:43 PM (kDGvA)

353 I tell ya I'm much more productive at home than in the office. No distractions here.

Posted by: Tuna at July 12, 2022 03:43 PM (gLRfa)

354 People really got used to just staying in home in their pajamas and answering a few emails and calling that "work".

Basically everyone with a college degree thought technology had somehow made it where they didn't have to work anymore.
Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 03:41 PM (xE+Du)

The other side effect of this is: even getting your ass out of the house and moving around an office is some sort of activity. How much of the increase of disease, death and depression is from people just going completely sedentary?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 12, 2022 03:43 PM (diceA)

355 primarily owing to not having to waste so much time in idiotic meetings, generally with worthless management.
_____________

But how are you going to learn about TQM Six Sigma Re-engineering the latest management fad adopted by managers with double-digit IQs?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 12, 2022 03:43 PM (mxvMh)

356 This busty bikini blonde on a boat would like to try her hand at uncredentialed teaching, but Arizona doesn't any ocean:
https://is.gd/PPEm9F
Posted by: Joe Mannix
.........

I hesitate to comment until Fen weighs in.

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2022 03:44 PM (v0R5T)

357 Some work can be done just as well from home as from an office, customer service phones for one, but others have to have onsite requirements.

HOWEVER

Since the penalty of not wanting to work from home initially was getting fired and the penalty of not getting the shot was being fired without UI, and now the penalty for NOT going into the office is getting fired,

Screw the Governor, screw the agencies and screw everyone. The social contract says I have to do stuff at the penalty of being fired and then I can be fired for doing just that when they change their minds.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 12, 2022 03:44 PM (xhaym)

358 Federal employees, whatever you do, PLEASE don't resign en mass after my next election. Please!
Posted by: Br'er Trump
___

They know Trump is not going to fire them.

"Drain the swamp" my ass.

Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 03:44 PM (xE+Du)

359 Nice teeth.
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 12, 2022 03:41 PM (Pm49o)

She has teeth??

Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2022 03:44 PM (HCJnI)

360 Nice teeth.
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 12, 2022 03:41 PM

Let me go look....again.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:44 PM (F63C3)

361 There's no better aroma in the house than coffee made with a "percolator."

Way too much setup and cleanup time. K-cup FTW!

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 03:44 PM (MkYsY)

362 Plus, no cow-orkers dropping in to chat about the ball game, no United Way crap, and no birthday celebrations, baby showers, Girl Scout cookies, or any other of the other crap that secretaries LOVE to gin up.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 12, 2022 03:40 PM (mxvMh)

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Yes, was going to mention that, but too lazy as I'm pecking on my phone's keyboard while driving.

Plus, I was pretty sure you'd have my back, Jay. ;-)

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 12, 2022 03:44 PM (XyJbh)

363 I was perusing Amazon Prime Days and came across this wonder:

The Instapot coffee maker. It's a combination of a Keurig and a Nespresso. Uses both type of pods, and takes up less real estate on the countertop than my Keurig.

I'm pondering the purchase.
Posted by: Jane D'oh


Wife got a Ninja Coffee Bar. I don't know what all it does.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2022 03:44 PM (pL94Z)

364 353 I tell ya I'm much more productive at home than in the office. No distractions here.
Posted by: Tuna at July 12, 2022 03:43 PM (gLRfa)

For me it is exactly the opposite. It is odd. I can engage completely at work and focus completely on it, at home... yeah.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 12, 2022 03:44 PM (diceA)

365 > There's no better aroma in the house than coffee made with a "percolator."

Fresh baked cookies, fresh baked bread, and slow cooked pot roast all smell amazing.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2022 03:45 PM (kDGvA)

366 I work almost completely from home with occasional foray into the local office or the one near Portland.

Being IT, I have lots of work to keep me busy and that doesn't require me to drive to an office. Except for senior people all work spaces are by reservation so there is no "home sweet cube" to go to just a sterile cube.

I spent a big part of my life commuting and unless forced to by circumstances I'm not going to do it again.

Posted by: Beartooth at July 12, 2022 03:45 PM (u9Awk)

367 Nice teeth.
Posted by: ShainS -

She must not be European.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 03:42 PM


Definitely not British.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 12, 2022 03:45 PM (bVYXr)

368 Oh no, not the gold-standard workers of the DMV.
***
That comment is gold!

Posted by: LASue at July 12, 2022 03:45 PM (Ed8Zd)

369 Wife got a Ninja Coffee Bar. I don't know what all it does.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2022 03:44 PM

Sneaks up on your other appliances when you're not home.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:45 PM (F63C3)

370 This busty bikini blonde on a boat would like to try her hand at uncredentialed teaching, but Arizona doesn't any ocean:
https://is.gd/PPEm9F
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Nice tan.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 03:36 PM (MkYsY)

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Nice teeth.
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 12, 2022 03:41 PM


Skips leg day.

Posted by: The GAINZZZ Thread at July 12, 2022 03:45 PM (a3Q+t)

371 They know Trump is not going to fire them.

"He CaNt FiRe AnyOnE!!!!"
--derpity doo

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:46 PM (Ivdso)

372 287 This busty bikini blonde on a boat would like to try her hand at uncredentialed teaching, but Arizona doesn't any ocean:
https://is.gd/PPEm9F

Lake Havasu has enough boating for her I'm sure....

Posted by: Scott_T at July 12, 2022 03:46 PM (2waQ7)

373
If you're looking at anything out this way I can offer temporary climate-controlled storage if needed, although I should warn you that items may accumulate cat hairs.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 12, 2022 03:43 PM (llON8 )



I will keep that in mind. As long as I'm not sneezing all day when I get it back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

374 If I won the lottery, I'd send you all* a crisp new $5 bill.






*offer limited to first 10 respondents.

Posted by: Weasel at July 12, 2022 03:46 PM (0IeYL)

375 *peeks in*

Meh, laptop-class thread.

*wanders off*

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 12, 2022 03:46 PM (SAphm)

376 Wife got a Ninja Coffee Bar. I don't know what all it does.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2022 03:44 PM

Sneaks up on your other appliances when you're not home.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:45 PM (F63C3)

Lol

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 12, 2022 03:46 PM (ptqGC)

377 This statuesque, and poised young lady seeing the hills is set off against a really impressive set of headlights

https://tinyurl.com/cbfkh5rs

Posted by: Kindltot at July 12, 2022 03:46 PM (xhaym)

378 The Instapot coffee maker. It's a combination of a Keurig and a Nespresso. Uses both type of pods, and takes up less real estate on the countertop than my Keurig.


whoa! off I go! thanks Jane!

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 12, 2022 03:47 PM (w0NJk)

379 Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2022 03:43 PM (kDGvA)

So, suddenly protesting outside the Supreme Court is an Act of Insurrection?

/looks at current protests...

Uhhhhh... may wanna rethink that...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 12, 2022 03:47 PM (oHd/0)

380 *offer limited to first 10 respondents.
Posted by: Weasel at July 12, 2022 03:46 PM (0IeYL)

WeaselBucks!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 12, 2022 03:47 PM (diceA)

381 I tell ya I'm much more productive at home than in the office. No distractions here.
Posted by: Tuna at July 12, 2022 03:43 PM (gLRfa)

For me it is exactly the opposite. It is odd. I can engage completely at work and focus completely on it, at home... yeah.

__
I feel like the people that say they are more productive at home are:

1) lying (90%)
2) just didn't really do much anyway and their job is easily outsourced or eliminated.

I don't know how anyone that has a family gets things done at home, my family is CONSTANTLY coming into my office and I'm having to put out fires.

Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 03:47 PM (xE+Du)

382
Wife got a Ninja Coffee Bar. I don't know what all it does.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2022 03:44 PM (pL94Z)



I've got a Ninja coffee something. You put a filter in, then coffee, then put your cup under it and press a button. It makes coffee.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

383
I keep reading that a French press percolator gives the best possible coffee experience.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:43 PM


stanley pour-thru over a campfire FTW

Posted by: AltonJackson, Tacos Con Todo at July 12, 2022 03:47 PM (ENBF0)

384 For me it is exactly the opposite. It is odd. I can engage completely at work and focus completely on it, at home... yeah.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 12, 2022 03:44 PM (diceA)

Yep- no laundry at the office, no dusting to do, no vacuuming, no grocery shopping, no dog to walk, no workmen at the door, no cocktail at 3:00... For me it's not even close.

Posted by: LASue at July 12, 2022 03:47 PM (Ed8Zd)

385 So, suddenly protesting outside the Supreme Court is an Act of Insurrection?

I mean, assuming any of that is valid to begin with it adds up to a bunch of meh.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:47 PM (Ivdso)

386 Studies say reading AoSHQ during work hours reduces productivity up to 95%.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 12, 2022 03:48 PM (qH6FZ)

387 The Instapot coffee maker. It's a combination of a Keurig and a Nespresso. Uses both type of pods, and takes up less real estate on the countertop than my Keurig.


whoa! off I go! thanks Jane!
Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 12, 2022 03:47 PM (w0NJk)

I'm seriously thinking of getting it, and giving our Keurig to my husband for his office.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 12, 2022 03:48 PM (ptqGC)

388 I work four nines and half-day Fridays. This is at least four me an ideal schedule: I don't think I could manage a consistent 10-hour workday, and it keeps me honest all work week.

Posted by: mea culpa at July 12, 2022 03:48 PM (nhwBI)

389 Marisol Garcia,
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A unique taco.

Posted by: Jill Biden at July 12, 2022 03:48 PM (krQz2)

390 "I'm not actually against the idea of working from home... if people work productively from home."

Nobody ever asks about the productivity of bosses and executives at golf courses, junkets, 'conferences,' strip clubs, restaurants, etc.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at July 12, 2022 03:48 PM (qpX6U)

391 I don't get the appeal of working at home, other than avoiding a long commute. I used to do it and still do it on occasion but find to hard to focus and start getting a little crazy cooped up in the house all day. It would be even worse in an apartment. I prefer to pretend to work a the office than at home.

Posted by: Dr Jill at July 12, 2022 03:48 PM (MxEKc)

392 The other side effect of this is: even getting your ass out of the house and moving around an office is some sort of activity. How much of the increase of disease, death and depression is from people just going completely sedentary?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 12, 2022 03:43 PM (diceA)


E.M. Forster (yep, the guy that wrote A Passage to India) wrote a fantastic dystopian short story The Machine Stops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 12, 2022 03:48 PM (PiwSw)

393 This statuesque, and poised young lady seeing the hills is set off against a really impressive set of headlights

https://tinyurl.com/cbfkh5rs
Posted by: Kindltot at July 12, 2022 03:46 PM (xhaym)



The 1956 "Wives of Businessmen" calendar. I remember my grandfather had that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)

394 I organize a weekly baseball practice on Friday mornings, attended by the self-employed, unemployed, consultants, those with flexible schedules, etc.

One time a guy was waiting to hit while he was on a conference call. He'd muted his microphone, but periodically between the batter's hits would unmute it and say, "Uh huh. Good point." then mute it again.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 12, 2022 03:48 PM (mxvMh)

395 377 This statuesque, and poised young lady seeing the hills is set off against a really impressive set of headlights

https://tinyurl.com/cbfkh5rs
Posted by: Kindltot at July 12, 2022 03:46 PM (xhaym)

Was transferring family slides over to digital... pain, have to do it one by one, but only way to preserve a couple generations worth of pictures (thousands).

That pic reminds me of a Pic of my Mom on their honeymoon.... except the car was a Chevy...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 12, 2022 03:49 PM (oHd/0)

396 I really like my Aeropress coffee maker. One cup only but delicious.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 12, 2022 03:49 PM (eGTCV)

397 358 Federal employees, whatever you do, PLEASE don't resign en mass after my next election. Please!
Posted by: Br'er Trump
___

They know Trump is not going to fire them.

"Drain the swamp" my ass.
Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 03:44 PM (xE+Du)

He was literally gunning up to do that by trying to recategorize them. But since when have criticisms of Trump had to do anything with reality?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 03:49 PM (b2nrj)

398 This statuesque, and poised young lady seeing the hills is set off against a really impressive set of headlights
==
I like a good headline. I don't click on the links, I just imagine what is there. Is that wrong? Is that frowned upon? Should I not have done that?

Posted by: I'm just axing? at July 12, 2022 03:49 PM (s3Q8N)

399 Government is just another name for calling y'all a bunch of taco benders.

"the White House offices of intergovernmental affairs, legislative affairs and public liaison" all had a look at Jill Biden's taco speech and gave it their approval.

https://bit.ly/3P4QokO

Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2022 03:49 PM (kDGvA)

400 CBS: Insurrection! REEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 12, 2022 03:49 PM (diceA)

401 French Press is just cowboy coffee a little neater.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 03:49 PM (yQpMk)

402 Studies say reading AoSHQ during work hours reduces productivity up to 95%.
Posted by: lowandslow at July 12, 2022 03:48 PM (qH6FZ)
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As my make-up hours into the evening can attest.

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2022 03:49 PM (krQz2)

403 Let me go look....again.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:44 PM (F63C3)

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LOL! Ever since Johnny Depp's hilarious, Brooklynite (?) artist friend kept saying that at the trial about Amber Heard, I crack-up every time thinking about it.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 12, 2022 03:50 PM (XyJbh)

404 I worked at home as a consultant for about ten years, and very much liked it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 12, 2022 03:50 PM (mxvMh)

405 We're trying something new in our office this summer (since it's pretty quiet in the office). Some of us work from home every Friday. It's actually nice because I can take care of some household chores *and* get productive work done. I can also work on some projects that require solitude, such as recording videos.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 12, 2022 03:50 PM (YIVH2)

406 Teachers may have a point about on-the-job training. After all, how many of the teachers were properly trained on providing distance learning prior to the shutdowns?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 12, 2022 03:51 PM (CAJOC)

407 He was literally gunning up to do that by trying to recategorize them. But since when have criticisms of Trump had to do anything with reality?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
__

Trump was always "going to do" a lot of big things but never seem to get around to them.

He couldn't even fire Fauci AFTER he lost the election and had nothing to lose.

Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 03:51 PM (xE+Du)

408 Cowboy coffee is best...if you don't mind grounds in your teeth.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 03:51 PM (MkYsY)

409 If I won the lottery, I'd send you all* a crisp new $5 bill.
*offer limited to first 10 respondents.
Posted by: Weasel at July 12, 2022 03:46 PM


What about those who contribute and/or comment on the Gub Thread?

In particular, those who try to turn the wicked from their wickedness, and exhort them to return to the path of St. JMB?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2022 03:51 PM (a3Q+t)

410 I have ammo at the UPS story, and the rain continues to fall so I am hesitating.

I have become such a pussy.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 03:51 PM (yQpMk)

411 stanley pour-thru over a campfire

Everything tastes better when camping in the mountains.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:51 PM (Ivdso)

412 Heh, you think you can do my job, go right ahead. And at this place, if someone quit, I doubt they'd hire a replacement. We are working way understaffed in all departments.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 12, 2022 03:51 PM (5HBd1)

413 Studies say reading AoSHQ during work hours reduces productivity up to 95%.
Posted by: lowandslow at July 12, 2022 03:48 PM (qH6FZ)
........

My boss must be a Moron cuz I just got a raise.

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2022 03:51 PM (v0R5T)

414 I guess I'll buy a ticket. Darn it.

Posted by: Eromero at July 12, 2022 03:51 PM (0OP+5)

415 Ace said: "What I'd really like to know is: What if we extended the workday to nine hours (or ten) and worked four days instead of five? What impact would that have?"

We had something similar to that at the federal agency where I worked. In fact, I once worked out a deal where I was able to work 40 hours a week over four days, and took every Monday off (I commuted from Richmond to Washington, D.C., and the daily trip was getting to be a grind). I liked it, and obviously I'm not the most objective judge, but, in my opinion, my productivity didn't decline, and my bosses didn't have a problem with it, so I deem it a success. I did this for about two years, until we finally moved to Northern Virginia.

I retired before the pandemic, and eventually, the agency went to 100% remote working. Most accounts that I've heard from my ex-colleagues indicate that it generally worked pretty well.

Posted by: Paco at July 12, 2022 03:51 PM (njExo)

416 CBS: Insurrection! REEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 12, 2022 03:49 PM

What's this all about? I am not seeing anything on this.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:52 PM (F63C3)

417
This busty bikini blonde on a boat would like to try her hand at uncredentialed teaching, but Arizona doesn't any ocean:

_________

I'd want to take a nap and she'd be pestering me with questions about the effect of comonomer distribution on transverse direction tear strength in linear-low density polyethylene.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2022 03:52 PM (/U27+)

418 Meh, laptop-class thread.

*wanders off*
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 12, 2022 03:46 PM

Yes it is. For some reason you think laptop workers don't count. Well I spent a lot of years doing blue collar work; oil refinery, surveying, cement plant, union laborer, etc in broiling summers and sub zero winters and I was always, always more wiped out at the end of the day doing laptop work.

Posted by: Beartooth at July 12, 2022 03:52 PM (u9Awk)

419 stanley pour-thru over a campfire FTW
Posted by: AltonJackson

All metal FTW!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2022 03:52 PM (pL94Z)

420 I have ammo at the UPS story, and the rain continues to fall so I am hesitating.

I have become such a pussy.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
___

Why not have it delivered to your home?

Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 03:53 PM (xE+Du)

421 If I must attend a meeting, please let it be a Zoom meeting. It will take less of my net time and resources, and like all meetings, it will accomplish the same result as a face-to-face: nothing good.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at July 12, 2022 03:53 PM (qpX6U)

422 Trump was always "going to do" a lot of big things but never seem to get around to them.

He couldn't even fire Fauci AFTER he lost the election and had nothing to lose.
Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 03:51 PM (xE+Du)
---
I like DeSantis, but just for you, if he ever gets elected, I'll point out all the stuff he didn't get done and all the mistakes he makes.

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2022 03:53 PM (krQz2)

423 Is that a caesarian scar?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 03:39 PM

Sorry about that.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:40 PM (F63C3)

So, an actual MILF then.
Posted by: Roy at July 12, 2022 03:40 PM (uyVwD)

That's why she is smiling. The ex has the kid this weekend.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2022 03:53 PM (anj39)

424 This statuesque, and poised young lady seeing the hills is set off against a really impressive set of headlights

Is it wrong that I'm way more interested in the car than the girl?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:53 PM (Ivdso)

425 The 8-hour workday is based on the Adamson Act from 1916. It's outdated horseshit that doesn't apply to all industries and occupations.

Posted by: Gran at July 12, 2022 03:53 PM (GM3/s)

426 I have ammo at the UPS story, and the rain continues to fall so I am hesitating.

I have become such a pussy.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 03:51 PM

Hey, you're just keeping your powder dry!

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:53 PM (F63C3)

427 407
Trump was always "going to do" a lot of big things but never seem to get around to them.

He couldn't even fire Fauci AFTER he lost the election and had nothing to lose.
Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 03:51 PM (xE+Du)

https://tinyurl.com/474bwvnx

We'd be seeing the court cases and/or firings at this point. It's really the only non-legislative approach short of a coup the Presidency has access too.

Unless you're quoting your guy as actually going to do something else, It's fair for me to assume he's not and you're full of shit.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 03:54 PM (b2nrj)

428 Why not have it delivered to your home?

Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 03:53 PM (xE+Du)



Sometimes I am not here to sign for it.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 03:54 PM (yQpMk)

429 My boss must be a Moron cuz I just got a raise.
Posted by: wth at July 12, 2022 03:51 PM (v0R5T)
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Do we have the same boss?

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2022 03:54 PM (krQz2)

430 362 Plus, no cow-orkers dropping in to chat about the ball game, no United Way crap, and no birthday celebrations, baby showers, Girl Scout cookies, or any other of the other crap that secretaries LOVE to gin up.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 12, 2022 03:40 PM (mxvMh)

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I always said "Nope" on the United Way donations. They give to planned parenthood.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 12, 2022 03:54 PM (DcKNO)

431 What's this all about? I am not seeing anything on this.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:52 PM (F63C3)

The TV is the breakroom is locked on CBS, so I am seeing more of the J6 Star Chamber.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 12, 2022 03:54 PM (diceA)

432 I've worked 4 10s in call centers. After working this split shift, I'm not sure I want to do 8 hours straight.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 12, 2022 03:54 PM (5HBd1)

433 426 I have ammo at the UPS story, and the rain continues to fall so I am hesitating.

I have become such a pussy.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 03:51 PM

Hey, you're just keeping your powder dry!
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 03:53 PM (F63C3)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 12, 2022 03:54 PM (diceA)

434 Ace said: "What I'd really like to know is: What if we extended the workday to nine hours (or ten) and worked four days instead of five? What impact would that have?"



Move to a very small town where businesses roll up the sidewalks at 9:00 pm on Friday and don't open them until Monday morning.

Now. Roll up the sidewalks Thursday evening.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2022 03:54 PM (pL94Z)

435 And the girl scouts are goofier than shit. They love climate change, the green new deal and other social justice bullshit.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 12, 2022 03:54 PM (DcKNO)

436 All dem aliens are gonna need jobz.

Posted by: DaveA at July 12, 2022 03:55 PM (FhXTo)

437 That's why she is smiling. The ex has the kid this weekend.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2022 03:53 PM (anj39)

He got tired of her shit?

Posted by: lowandslow at July 12, 2022 03:55 PM (qH6FZ)

438 I retired before the pandemic, and eventually, the agency went to 100% remote working. Most accounts that I've heard from my ex-colleagues indicate that it generally worked pretty well.
Posted by: Paco
___


Because they get to work less, so people like it?

Try getting ANYTHING done with the IRS right now, it was bad before but now it's like some USSR agency because they are still playing the Covid card and not in the office.

People like working from home because we are wired to be lazy. Me included.

Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 03:55 PM (xE+Du)

439 I worked for the Oregon Department of Treasury a while and every single week the women there came up with a reason to have a big pot luck banquet thing with piles of food and deserts and deserts and deserts and deserts and wondered why they became human beanbag chairs.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:55 PM (Ivdso)

440 All dem aliens are gonna need jobz.
Posted by: DaveA at July 12, 2022 03:55 PM (FhXTo)



They took our jerbs!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 03:55 PM (yQpMk)

441 Move to a very small town where businesses roll up the sidewalks at 9:00 pm on Friday
==
Or just move to Pittsburgh.

Posted by: I'm just axing? at July 12, 2022 03:56 PM (Q4Tc4)

442 409 If I won the lottery, I'd send you all* a crisp new $5 bill.
*offer limited to first 10 respondents.
Posted by: Weasel at July 12, 2022 03:46 PM

What about those who contribute and/or comment on the Gub Thread?

In particular, those who try to turn the wicked from their wickedness, and exhort them to return to the path of St. JMB?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2022 03:51 PM (a3Q+t)
If I happen to win, anybody on the gubthread who asks for one will get a GMB special.

Posted by: Eromero at July 12, 2022 03:56 PM (0OP+5)

443 Odds of winning either PowerBall or Mega Million, last time I did the math, were both around 300 million to 1. At the current jackpot, its not a bad bet.

Posted by: And Away We Go at July 12, 2022 03:56 PM (dI4uN)

444 I always said "Nope" on the United Way donations. They give to planned parenthood.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 12, 2022 03:54 PM (DcKNO)

Check CharityNavigator for the CEO's salary. Non-profitin' is very lucrative for some.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 12, 2022 03:56 PM (PiwSw)

445 "I always said "Nope" on the United Way donations. They give to planned parenthood."

UW money goes to their huge staff of high-paid executives.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at July 12, 2022 03:56 PM (qpX6U)

446 Afternoon.

Posted by: Robert isn't a taco but could really go for one right now at July 12, 2022 03:56 PM (iOwH1)

447 377 This statuesque, and poised young lady seeing the hills is set off against a really impressive set of headlights

https://tinyurl.com/cbfkh5rs
Posted by: Kindltot


I bet she's wearing a nice pair of stiletto's too.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 03:57 PM (MkYsY)

448 Sometimes I am not here to sign for it.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
___

I just hate having a middleman with a UPS store. I know someone that owns one, they are "nosey" about what gets shipped.

BTW, where do you like to order your ammo online? I need some good recommendations. I'll pay a little more for better reputation, not looking for bottom dollar.

Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 03:57 PM (xE+Du)

449
UW money goes to their huge staff of high-paid executives.
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at July 12, 2022 03:56 PM (qpX6U)



As it is with most charities.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2022 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)

450 "People like working from home because we are wired to be lazy. Me included."

I liked it because NO INTERRUPTIONS.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at July 12, 2022 03:57 PM (qpX6U)

451 What a great start.

Posted by: Broken Apple at July 12, 2022 03:58 PM (qlZNp)

452 Yes?

Posted by: Dr Jill's Sloppy Taco at July 12, 2022 03:58 PM (OCZ4p)

453 Jack Butler at National Review:

Who Is Tom Bombadil?

https://tinyurl.com/5x52w8de

Nerds! To me!

Posted by: Robert isn't a taco but could really go for one right now at July 12, 2022 03:58 PM (iOwH1)

454 And the girl scouts are goofier than shit. They love climate change, the green new deal and other social justice bullshit.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 12, 2022 03:54 PM (DcKNO)
.........

But the Thin Mints are pretty good.

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2022 03:58 PM (v0R5T)

455 I like DeSantis, but just for you, if he ever gets elected, I'll point out all the stuff he didn't get done and all the mistakes he makes.

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2022 03:53 PM (krQz2)


Oh, I can name a Ron DeSantis failure right now.

Has he deported every last FL demorat to Gitmo?

I rest my case. The man is USELESS

Posted by: kallisto at July 12, 2022 03:58 PM (dCxaZ)

456 "I always said "Nope" on the United Way donations. They give to planned parenthood."

UW money goes to their huge staff of high-paid executives.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at July 12, 2022 03:56 PM (qpX6U)
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I swear there are kickbacks of some sort to your "local representatives". Just the *push* that UW gets in some organizations was enough to turn me off.

And it's that way with *any* UW rep wherever you work.

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2022 03:58 PM (krQz2)

457 When I was at the call center I did a ten hour, four day shift.

It fucking sucked.

Posted by: Robert isn't a taco but could really go for one right now at July 12, 2022 03:59 PM (iOwH1)

458 Has he deported every last FL demorat to Gitmo?

I rest my case. The man is USELESS
Posted by: kallisto at July 12, 2022 03:58 PM (dCxaZ)
---
Somehow, if we persevere, we will make the perfect the enemy of the good!

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2022 03:59 PM (krQz2)

459 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:55 PM (Ivdso)

I quickly learned not to sample from the work potlucks.

*eesh*

Posted by: kallisto at July 12, 2022 04:00 PM (dCxaZ)

460 UW money goes to their huge staff of high-paid executives.


As it is with most charities.

____

Non-profits and charities are the biggest scam.

My wife worked for a non-profit and it was just a fiefdom for insiders to raid the place.


Plus they are almost always full of the most liberal people you will ever meet.

Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 04:00 PM (xE+Du)

461 455 I like DeSantis, but just for you, if he ever gets elected, I'll point out all the stuff he didn't get done and all the mistakes he makes.

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2022 03:53 PM (krQz2)

Oh, I can name a Ron DeSantis failure right now.

Has he deported every last FL demorat to Gitmo?

I rest my case. The man is USELESS
Posted by: kallisto at July 12, 2022 03:58 PM (dCxaZ)

I'd say he doesn't have the authority to do that but I've been assured that's irrelevant by his supporters.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 04:00 PM (b2nrj)

462 UPS leaves ammo on our front porch. BIG block letters on the carton too. AMMUNITION PLEASE STEAL ME.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 04:00 PM (MkYsY)

463 459 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2022 03:55 PM (Ivdso)

I quickly learned not to sample from the work potlucks.

*eesh*
Posted by: kallisto at July 12, 2022 04:00


Look you make one batch of taco meat that gives the office the sqirts....

Posted by: Dr Jill's Sloppy Taco at July 12, 2022 04:01 PM (OCZ4p)

464 UPS leaves ammo on our front porch. BIG block letters on the carton too. AMMUNITION PLEASE STEAL ME.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 04:00 PM (MkYsY)

WFHers FTW.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 12, 2022 04:01 PM (U3uv2)

465 If I happen to win, anybody on the gubthread who asks for one will get a GMB special.
Posted by: Eromero at July 12, 2022 03:56 PM


One of the many reasons you're a good man!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2022 04:01 PM (a3Q+t)

466 Your not electing Saints, everyday humans and they all make mistakes.

Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2022 04:02 PM (2JoB8)

467 Teachers may have a point about on-the-job training. After all, how many of the teachers were properly trained on providing distance learning prior to the shutdowns?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 12, 2022 03:51 PM (CAJOC)
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Very, very few. In higher ed, it's a well-known secret that most professors have never learned how to teach. It's OJT all the way.

Part of my job when we went on lockdown in March 2020 was to teach the faculty how to use the tools we had available (Zoom, Panopto, and Canvas).

There ARE distinct skills that will make a distance course effective. It takes patience and practice to master them, like any skill.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 12, 2022 04:02 PM (YIVH2)

468 "I swear there are kickbacks of some sort to your "local representatives". Just the *push* that UW gets in some organizations was enough to turn me off. And it's that way with *any* UW rep
wherever you work."

When UW fired that asshole Aramony, I told the local reps I'd do his job for one-sixth his compensation. They said oh no, we need rich executives in order to schmooze and cajole rich people in their rich habitats and haunts.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at July 12, 2022 04:02 PM (qpX6U)

469 Oh, I can name a Ron DeSantis failure right now.

Has he deported every last FL demorat to Gitmo?

I rest my case. The man is USELESS
Posted by: kallisto at July 12, 2022 03:58 PM (dCxaZ)

We must be willing to accept minority status until we achieve nothing less than perfection.

Perfection!

Posted by: Robert isn't a taco but could really go for one right now at July 12, 2022 04:02 PM (iOwH1)

470 Univision usually slobbers Dem knob, but they reported on Jill's taco gaffe. They even showed some of the memes.

https://bit.ly/3nVfeaY

Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2022 04:02 PM (kDGvA)

471
usually, you can "ear-mark" your UW donation if you're forced to participate

back when I was forced to donate to UW, I found a charity what trained service dogs and gave them a one-time donation

Posted by: AltonJackson, Tacos Con Todo at July 12, 2022 04:02 PM (ENBF0)

472 Unfortunately, Department of Transportation is not DMV or at least not just DMV. I think most states have DMV under a Department of Public Safety type agency. The DOT workers leaving probably do hurt. Our state DOT underpays so much compared to contractors that they can't keep anybody. They pay engineering firms to do almost everything, even things that can be done in house for cheaper (e.g., safety workers, ROW acquisition agents, some surverying) because they can't get budget to pay workers decently, but they can get money for projects. So engineering firms have workers that work DOT jobs full time, but DOT pays three times what it would cost to keep them on salary, and the workers get double the compensation and the engineering firm keeps roughly what it would have cost DOT to put the workers on salary in the first place.

Posted by: johnson85 at July 12, 2022 04:02 PM (JuHk4)

473 Credit to AZ Gov. Ducey for signing the new school vouchers bill, but he could do more to expand the pool of educators. The best way he could do that is to hire teachers from among non-credentialed people with considerable real-world work experience in relevant fields.

For example, who do you think would do a better job teaching social sciences, a credentialed teacher with a fresh B.A. in education, or an attorney with a B.A. and a J.D. and 20 years experience as a practicing lawyer?

Posted by: Rusty Trawler at July 12, 2022 04:03 PM (1gif2)

474 Try getting ANYTHING done with the IRS right now, it was bad before but now it's like some USSR agency because they are still playing the Covid card and not in the office.
______________
I sent a hefty check to the IRS in April last year. In late June I got a nasty letter that I hadn't paid, and was given three days to come up with the bucks. (The letter was dated 1 June, but it arrived on 18 June, and demanded payment by 21 June).

I presumed my check had gone astray, so I stopped payment and wrote another one. Six weeks later I got another nasty letter that my original check had not been honored by the bank, so I was back in the soup. Six weeks after THAT, the IRS had deposited my second check, and then sent me a check for the same amount. Then they realized that they hadn't been paid twice, but only once, and now - having sent me a check for the same amount - hadn't been paid at all.

So this whole f-up resulted from their failing to deposit a check for A MONTH AND A HALF. Government efficiency in action.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 12, 2022 04:03 PM (mxvMh)

475 I stand by my taco salad recipe.

Posted by: Dr Jill's Sloppy Taco at July 12, 2022 04:03 PM (OCZ4p)

476 My wife and I were both employed software Engineers when we escaped California nearly a decade ago. We were allowed to telecommute afterward, and were far more productive at home -- primarily owing to not having to waste so much time in idiotic meetings, generally with worthless management.

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

Same here. I do my best coding at home in the evening
primarily because meetings keep interrupting my focus. I think if companies ditched Outlook (it is way to easy to set up meeting and invite everyone you know) their productivity would skyrocket.

I like the old way where meetings were very hard to schedule.

I swear there is a class of employees, mostly middle managers, that judge their productivity by how many meetings they call.

Posted by: stuckInCalifornia at July 12, 2022 04:03 PM (7BGok)

477 People like working from home because we are wired to be lazy. Me included.
Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 03:55 PM (xE+Du)


Working in your very own cubical and commuting with all the other lemmings is also a pain.

I lied my head off in 2020 and said I had dial-up, until they started enforcing masks on everyone but the managers. Working from home at least let me look out my window, and to be honest, I am really lucky that I have roses and crap like that to look at.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 12, 2022 04:03 PM (xhaym)

478 From what has just come to my notice, that *guy's guy*, Elliot Page...has a boyfriend.

Xe identifies as a guy who wants a guy to fuck "him"?

Whoa! That's just too much guy for me.

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2022 04:04 PM (krQz2)

479 For example, who do you think would do a better job teaching social sciences, a credentialed teacher with a fresh B.A. in education, or an attorney with a B.A. and a J.D. and 20 years experience as a practicing lawyer?
Posted by: Rusty Trawler at July 12, 2022 04:03 PM (1gif2)
_____________
If I were to apply to teach high school chemistry, I'd have to undertake teacher training to do so. The *cough* years I spent teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level counting for nada.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 12, 2022 04:04 PM (mxvMh)

480 454 And the girl scouts are goofier than shit. They love climate change, the green new deal and other social justice bullshit.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 12, 2022 03:54 PM (DcKNO)
.........

But the Thin Mints are pretty good.


but are they sustainable?

Posted by: kulak anachronda at July 12, 2022 04:04 PM (oY6Yp)

481 Wanna see my Charro impression? Cooochie coochie!

Posted by: Dr Jill's Sloppy Taco at July 12, 2022 04:05 PM (OCZ4p)

482 Your not electing Saints
Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2022 04:02 PM


Once in a while, you are.

Posted by: Mittens Romney at July 12, 2022 04:05 PM (a3Q+t)

483 For example, who do you think would do a better job teaching social sciences, a credentialed teacher with a fresh B.A. in education, or an attorney with a B.A. and a J.D. and 20 years experience as a practicing lawyer?
Posted by: Rusty Trawler at July 12, 2022 04:03 PM (1gif2)

Let's think about this for a second.

Which one is more likely to get caught pumping the 12 year olds?

Posted by: Teachers Union Rep at July 12, 2022 04:05 PM (iOwH1)

484 BTW, where do you like to order your ammo online? I need some good recommendations. I'll pay a little more for better reputation, not looking for bottom dollar.
Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 03:57 PM (xE+Du)



Both of these cases are remans. One is 5.7x28 subsonic from Detroit Ammunition and the other is subsonic 300blk from Freedom Flash Ammunition.

Detroit is the only people I have found that make SS 5.7 at all.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 04:05 PM (yQpMk)

485 Government efficiency in action.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 12, 2022 04:03 PM (mxvMh)

Genocide and theft, the only things governments excel at.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 12, 2022 04:05 PM (U3uv2)

486 Univision usually slobbers Dem knob, but they reported on Jill's taco gaffe. They even showed some of the memes.

https://bit.ly/3nVfeaY
Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2022 04:02 PM (kDGvA)
---
They got the memo or were in on the morning call.

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2022 04:05 PM (krQz2)

487 Odds of winning either PowerBall or Mega Million, last time I did the math, were both around 300 million to 1. At the current jackpot, its not a bad bet.
Posted by: And Away We Go


What's funny? Is someone always wins it though. Always.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2022 04:05 PM (pL94Z)

488 SGammo.com is my favorite vendor though.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 04:06 PM (yQpMk)

489 Same here. I do my best coding at home in the evening
primarily because meetings keep interrupting my focus. I think if companies ditched Outlook (it is way to easy to set up meeting and invite everyone you know) their productivity would skyrocket.

I like the old way where meetings were very hard to schedule.

I swear there is a class of employees, mostly middle managers, that judge their productivity by how many meetings they call.
Posted by: stuckInCalifornia at July 12, 2022 04:03 PM (7BGok)
_________________
My favorite: you show up for a meeting and everyone looks around and says, "Whose meeting is this?" You know you're in for a time-wasting circle jerk.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 12, 2022 04:06 PM (mxvMh)

490 I like DeSantis, but just for you, if he ever gets elected, I'll point out all the stuff he didn't get done and all the mistakes he makes.
-

I expect nothing less.

I'm not a fan of the cult of personality.

Remember every time Dubya got criticized, we circled the wagons? Absolutely done with that shit.

If Trump is our nominee, he's got my support full stop. But I was not happy with his performance as President.

We bagged on Obama day and night for things like Solyndra or Cash for Clunkers and Trump did FAR worse with the Covid bullshit.

Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 04:06 PM (xE+Du)

491 470 Univision usually slobbers Dem knob, but they reported on Jill's taco gaffe. They even showed some of the memes.


I had to read that twice before I realized you DID NOT say they slobbered on Jill's taco.

I'm ashamed of myself.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 12, 2022 04:06 PM (eGTCV)

492 Looks like Cheny has dropped another J6 bombshell. Apparently Trump to contact one of the witnesses of this shitshow, which may be witness tampering.


Utter BS charge but If the asshole vermin on this committee cannot get Trump on any valid charge they will get him on process like they got some of his associates. I wonder if Cheney will ever have the nerve to go face her constituents again. She is despicable.

Posted by: Ripley at July 12, 2022 04:07 PM (MxEKc)

493 If Trump is our nominee, he's got my support full stop. But I was not happy with his performance as President.

Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 04:06 PM (xE+Du)

Consider that DeSantis presently has failed to fire much of the federal bureaucracy. Why should we expect him to do so as President, when his authority to do so is largely unchanged?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 04:07 PM (b2nrj)

494 SGammo.com is my favorite vendor though.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 04:06 PM (yQpMk)

Seconded. Never a bad experience.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 12, 2022 04:08 PM (U3uv2)

495 480 454 And the girl scouts are goofier than shit. They love climate change, the green new deal and other social justice bullshit.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 12, 2022 03:54 PM (DcKNO)
.........

But the Thin Mints are pretty good.

but are they sustainable?
Posted by: kulak anachronda at July 12, 2022 04:04 PM (oY6Yp)

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

It's just a tiny, little wafer...

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 12, 2022 04:08 PM (CAJOC)

496 RACISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST PIGS .....

Starbucks is planning to close 16 locations across various cities, citing safety concerns.

“After careful consideration, we are closing some stores in locations that have experienced a high volume of challenging incidents that make it unsafe to continue to operate,” a spokesperson told CNN Business in an email.

The stores are in Seattle; Los Angeles; Philadelphia; Washington, DC, and Portland, Oregon. They will be closed by the end of July.

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at July 12, 2022 04:08 PM (X++p7)

497 A degree in education is, not surprisingly, a BS degree, not a BA.

However, knowledge of content is not the same as the capability of teaching.

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at July 12, 2022 04:08 PM (REJkJ)

498 If I were to apply to teach high school chemistry, I'd have to undertake teacher training to do so. The *cough* years I spent teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level counting for nada.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 12, 2022 04:04 PM


But can you do cool demos, like putting a small amount of H2 and O2 in a flask, and lighting a toothpick in a Bunsen, blowing it out, and inserting the glowing end into the flask to demonstrate the production of oxidene?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2022 04:09 PM (a3Q+t)

499 “After careful consideration, we are closing some stores in locations that have experienced a high volume of challenging incidents that make it unsafe to continue to operate,” a spokesperson told CNN Business in an email.

The stores are in Seattle; Los Angeles; Philadelphia; Washington, DC, and Portland, Oregon. They will be closed by the end of July.
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at July 12, 2022 04:08 PM (X++p7)

"Challenging incidents"?

Like someone having a hard time working the Frappuccino machine?

Oh! They mean crime!

Why didn't they just say crime?

Posted by: Robert isn't a taco but could really go for one right now at July 12, 2022 04:10 PM (iOwH1)

500 I thought the main draw of 5.7x28 was velocity. What’s the SS bullet weight?

Posted by: WisMike at July 12, 2022 04:10 PM (nIRE6)

501 So this whole f-up resulted from their failing to deposit a check for A MONTH AND A HALF. Government efficiency in action.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

They are horrible. When the fist freebie checks went out I received one for dad who had been dead for almost a year. I tried phone calls, email. Nadda. Finally had to go down to the local IRS office with the check and death certificate. I made sure to get a receipt.

Posted by: Infidel at July 12, 2022 04:10 PM (mn1Pi)

502 482 Your not electing Saints
Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2022 04:02 PM

Once in a while, you are.


word, brother

Posted by: harry reid at July 12, 2022 04:10 PM (oY6Yp)

503 RACISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST PIGS .....

Starbucks is planning to close 16 locations across various cities, citing safety concerns.

“After careful consideration, we are closing some stores in locations that have experienced a high volume of challenging incidents that make it unsafe to continue to operate,” a spokesperson told CNN Business in an email.

The stores are in Seattle; Los Angeles; Philadelphia; Washington, DC, and Portland, Oregon. They will be closed by the end of July.
Posted by: Ferd Berfall

Wish they'd close the one here.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 12, 2022 04:10 PM (MGB5H)

504 Naomi Wolf: The CCP Has Infiltrated The American Health System, Covid Injections Produced By CCP

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 04:11 PM (MkYsY)

505 I like Girl Scouts.

Posted by: Joey Fingerbang at July 12, 2022 04:11 PM (v0R5T)

506 Of those 300 state employees who resigned, how many of them will be missed for their contribution toward the workload?

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at July 12, 2022 04:11 PM (K58O6)

507 > BTW, where do you like to order your ammo online? I need some good recommendations. I'll pay a little more for better reputation, not looking for bottom dollar.

AmmoSeek has a vendor reputation column. So far I've not had any issues buying through them from people with a good reputation and many votes.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2022 04:11 PM (kDGvA)

508 Odds of winning either PowerBall or Mega Million, last time I did the math, were both around 300 million to 1. At the current jackpot, its not a bad bet.

Posted by: And Away We Go



So you're saying there's a chance?

Posted by: Hands at July 12, 2022 04:11 PM (786Ro)

509 496 RACISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST PIGS .....

Starbucks is planning to close 16 locations across various cities, citing safety concerns.

“After careful consideration, we are closing some stores in locations that have experienced a high volume of challenging incidents that make it unsafe to continue to operate,” a spokesperson told CNN Business in an email.

The stores are in Seattle; Los Angeles; Philadelphia; Washington, DC, and Portland, Oregon. They will be closed by the end of July.
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at July 12, 2022 04:08 PM (X++p


I'm sure there is plenty of overlap either the stores what let drug addicts use ther bathrooms for turning tricks and shooting galleries. Nor much on paying customers I guess.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 12, 2022 04:11 PM (OCZ4p)

510 If Trump is our nominee, he's got my support full stop. But I was not happy with his performance as President.

We bagged on Obama day and night for things like Solyndra or Cash for Clunkers and Trump did FAR worse with the Covid bullshit.
Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 04:06 PM (xE+Du)
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I've never been completely happy with Trump. But I don't look at what he didn't/couldn't get done. I look at what he *did* get done.

My vote for him was as *thin* if he would nominate just *one* more originalist to the SCOTUS than Hillary Clinton would have, then that vote paid off. And just the chance of that earned my vote.

Because we came awful close to losing self-determination in NFIB v. Sebelius, when we were a single justice away from the idea that Congress could *compel* the commercial activity, made nearly *universal* and *absolute* under Wickard v. Filburn, in order to regulate it.

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2022 04:11 PM (krQz2)

511 I thought the main draw of 5.7x28 was velocity. What’s the SS bullet weight?
Posted by: WisMike at July 12, 2022 04:10 PM (nIRE6)



These are reloaded with M193 ball so 55gr. Probably downloaded a bit too to stay at around 1000fps but I have not had any cycling problems with them yet.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 04:12 PM (yQpMk)

512 Consider that DeSantis presently has failed to fire much of the federal bureaucracy. Why should we expect him to do so as President, when his authority to do so is largely unchanged?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

How does a state governor fire federal workers?

Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 04:12 PM (xE+Du)

513 How much Oil, NG, and Coal powered electricity is being used for this January 6 farce??? What is the carbon footprint ????

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at July 12, 2022 04:12 PM (X++p7)

514 I like Girl Scouts.
Posted by: Joey Fingerbang at July 12, 2022 04:11 PM (v0R5T)
++++
I thought brownies were more your speed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2022 04:12 PM (WWh8n)

515 But the Thin Mints are pretty good.
Posted by: wth at July 12, 2022 03:58 PM (v0R5T)

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Cannot argue the point so I will not.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 12, 2022 04:13 PM (DcKNO)

516 Simone Biles is having quite the few days, first Pedo Peter sniffed her head and then the stewardess on the plane gave her children's coloring book.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 12, 2022 04:13 PM (MGB5H)

517 "I don't know how anyone /that has a family/ gets things done at home"

Well, ~there's~ your problem.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 12, 2022 04:13 PM (t71/Y)

518 Here's the deal that I saw in Washington during COVID and this past year.

Many federal employees were going to retire in 2020 or 2021, then COVID came. They decided not to retire because they could sit on their ass at home and still get full pay and boost their high three basis.

Their plan was to stay on the payroll during the COVID and then retire once the Return to Work order came.

I suspect the State of Virginia had the same situation.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 12, 2022 04:13 PM (lf83v)

519 Arizona doesn't any ocean:

Yup, all beach no ocean; but, more shoreline than California.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 12, 2022 04:13 PM (1sMXw)

520 But the Thin Mints are pretty good.
Posted by: wth at July 12, 2022 03:58 PM (v0R5T)
++++
Hydrox are to Oreos as ???? are to Thin Mints

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2022 04:13 PM (WWh8n)

521 I thought the main draw of 5.7x28 was velocity.
Posted by: WisMike at July 12, 2022 04:10 PM (nIRE6)


I like the complete absence of recoil and the 50rd mag in a light package.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2022 04:13 PM (yQpMk)

522
It's like when school districts wanted teachers to resume in-class teaching. The news had nothing but blubbering females wailing that the kids would die if they came in contact with each other. Nah, nobody is fooled.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2022 04:14 PM (/U27+)

523 > Of those 300 state employees who resigned, how many of them will be missed for their contribution toward the workload?

If the answer is more than one, that's a devastating loss. Plenty of government offices have just one or two people who make the place somewhat functional.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2022 04:14 PM (kDGvA)

524 I worked a lot more the couple of times I have worked from home for extended periods. I have workaholic tendencies to an extent and with the computer right there, I could always walk over and get some more done. I rolled all that commute time into the workday.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 12, 2022 04:14 PM (KFhLj)

525 512 Consider that DeSantis presently has failed to fire much of the federal bureaucracy. Why should we expect him to do so as President, when his authority to do so is largely unchanged?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

How does a state governor fire federal workers?

Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 04:12 PM (xE+Du)

Same way he would as President, duh.

Now do you grasp what you sound like? The proper path to fix this lies through the legislature restoring the authority of the President to fire executive branch employees, as unlikely as that is.

DeSantis wouldn't unilaterally be able to fund the wall as President either, believe it or not.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 04:14 PM (b2nrj)

526 I ordered the breakfast tacos but they told me they stopped serving after siesta.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 12, 2022 04:14 PM (0ocXn)

527

Simone Biles. What a feckless kunt.

Posted by: Apu He/Him/Fuck/You at July 12, 2022 04:14 PM (cxp5A)

528 they all make mistakes.
Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2022 04:02 PM (2JoB

If I ever have my way, this will literally be true, and the mistake will be "having run for office under the old regime," and that will carry a penalty that will make several generations of people shudder when they recollect it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2022 04:14 PM (Zhwz2)

529 I work from home. Doing otherwise would be a nightmare. I work 12 hour days with 7 on and 7 off in a row. We do this because we need 24x7 coverage for what I do. (Emergency related, potential for loss of life in situations.) Between work and the commute it would put me in dire straits.

The only difference between working at home and not is in my downtime between calls. At the office I twiddle my thumbs. At home I read Ace and dick around on Twitter.

Posted by: Colonel32 at July 12, 2022 04:14 PM (sEhpX)

530 Consider that DeSantis presently has failed to fire much of the federal bureaucracy. Why should we expect him to do so as President, when his authority to do so is largely unchanged?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

How does a state governor fire federal workers?

Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 04:12 PM


Hoping that was snark, but you never know.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 12, 2022 04:15 PM (bVYXr)

531 My vote for him was as *thin* if he would nominate just *one* more originalist to the SCOTUS than Hillary Clinton would have, then that vote paid off. And just the chance of that earned my vote.

Because we came awful close to losing self-determination in NFIB v. Sebelius, when we were a single justice away from the idea that Congress could *compel* the commercial activity, made nearly *universal* and *absolute* under Wickard v. Filburn, in order to regulate it.
Posted by: Axeman
==
You can't reason Blago into a position his wife nagged him out off.

Posted by: but its your time at July 12, 2022 04:15 PM (OupZL)

532 Consider that DeSantis presently has failed to fire much of the federal bureaucracy. Why should we expect him to do so as President, when his authority to do so is largely unchanged?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 04:07 PM (b2nrj)

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Am I missing something?

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 12, 2022 04:15 PM (DcKNO)

533 Lol....in Des Moines, IA. Just pulled up behind a car at red light. It has Julian Castro 2020 bumper sticker on it. How embarrassing.

PS....don't AoSHQ and drive.

Posted by: Grimmy at July 12, 2022 04:15 PM (g02KG)

534 Credit to AZ Gov. Ducey for signing the new school vouchers bill, but he could do more to expand the pool of educators. The best way he could do that is to hire teachers from among non-credentialed people with considerable real-world work experience in relevant fields.
Posted by: Rusty Trawler at July 12, 2022 04:03 PM (1gif2)


Allow online lecture courses in schools with a local teacher acting as a proctor for the class:
AZ could have AP or honors history, economics, mathematics, Geology, whatever they could get from anyone in the country or wherever in the world to set the lesson plan and lecture by internet, and have the home room teacher run the classroom and grade the testing.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 12, 2022 04:15 PM (xhaym)

535 I watched all the jobs move to China and India and after watching 5 layoffs where they always said "we're stronger now", I went back to school to become an RN.
No telework no matter how hard I tried to convince my nurse manager.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 12, 2022 04:15 PM (1sMXw)

536 BTW, where do you like to order your ammo online? I need some good recommendations. I'll pay a little more for better reputation, not looking for bottom dollar.
Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 03:57 PM (xE+Du)

I'm very happy with SG Ammo

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 12, 2022 04:15 PM (xcxpd)

537 516 Simone Biles is having quite the few days, first Pedo Peter sniffed her head and then the stewardess on the plane gave her children's coloring book.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 12, 2022 04:13 PM (MGB5H)

Jeebus thats so sad.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 12, 2022 04:15 PM (OCZ4p)

538 503 Starbucks is planning to close 16 locations across various cities, citing safety concerns.
Posted by: Ferd Berfall

Wish they'd close the one here.


you only have one? there are three in my little neck of the lack-of-woods.

Posted by: kulak anachronda at July 12, 2022 04:15 PM (oY6Yp)

539 But the Thin Mints are pretty good.

but are they sustainable?
Posted by: kulak anachronda at July 12, 2022 04:04 PM

Serving size is one sleeve so not very.

Seriously I quit buying them. Try a mint creme Oreo. They kill thin mints. As a former Boy Scout it kills me to have to have written them off as another chafe in the gear of woke inc. I won't give them a nickel now.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 12, 2022 04:16 PM (F63C3)

540 I remember when the United Way crap started in the early 90s, our department head tried to bribe us by declaring that if there was a 100% "voluntary" donation participation of all employees in the apartment, everybody would earn an extra paid day off.

I disagreed philosophically but didn't want to piss off my co-workers, however one person who most had already hated (an uncooperative non-team player female Asian) DID refuse. I had some grudging respect for her after that ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 12, 2022 04:16 PM (tn/bQ)

541 Am I missing something?

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 12, 2022 04:15 PM (DcKNO)


To save our democracy we must install a dictator.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 12, 2022 04:16 PM (xhaym)

542 An armed Queens man shot dead by cops after threatening to kill Gov. Kathy Hochul was clearly mentally ill and had grown increasingly unhinged in recent years, neighbors told The Post on Sunday.

Raul Hardy, 60, was killed in a hail of about 100 NYPD bullets Saturday after he threatened to "blow up" the world and "change the government" by assassinating Hochul - and then opened fire on cops.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 04:16 PM (MkYsY)

543 But the Thin Mints are pretty good.

Posted by: kulak anachronda at July 12, 2022 04:04 PM (oY6Yp)
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They keep you thin--says right in the name!

Posted by: Joepedo at July 12, 2022 04:16 PM (krQz2)

544 Starbucks is planning to close 16 locations across various cities, citing safety concerns.


It's not like anyone will notice.
There are five within a mile of my house. And I'm rural.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2022 04:16 PM (anj39)

545 Lol....in Des Moines, IA. Just pulled up behind a car at red light. It has Julian Castro 2020 bumper sticker on it. How embarrassing.

PS....don't AoSHQ and drive.

Posted by: Grimmy at July 12, 2022 04:15 PM (g02KG)

I finally saw a Brandon 2020 sticker the other day. Woman driving.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 12, 2022 04:16 PM (U3uv2)

546 532 Consider that DeSantis presently has failed to fire much of the federal bureaucracy. Why should we expect him to do so as President, when his authority to do so is largely unchanged?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 04:07 PM (b2nrj)

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Am I missing something?
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 12, 2022 04:15 PM (DcKNO)

The President has about as much authority to fire most of the federal bureaucracy as any state governor has to fire most of the federal bureaucracy, which is to say none. This is because in the distant past we replaced the Spoils System with "professional" bureaucrats who are supposed to be apolitical.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 04:16 PM (b2nrj)

547 It's like when school districts wanted teachers to resume in-class teaching. The news had nothing but blubbering females wailing that the kids would die if they came in contact with each other. Nah, nobody is fooled.
_______________

It was the blubbery teachers that were worried that their life choices of diet and lack of exercise made them vulnerable to death if Covid infected kids (we were told it can be transmitted from asymptomatics) came in contact with them.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 12, 2022 04:16 PM (fs1hN)

548 My vote for him was as *thin* if he would nominate just *one* more originalist to the SCOTUS than Hillary Clinton would have, then that vote paid off. And just the chance of that earned my vote.

Because we came awful close to losing self-determination in NFIB v. Sebelius, when we were a single justice away from the idea that Congress could *compel* the commercial activity, made nearly *universal* and *absolute* under Wickard v. Filburn, in order to regulate it.
Posted by: Axeman
___

Absolutely, and Trump did deliver.

I went from being an enthusiastic Trump supporter to souring on him, but my vote was never in question versus the alternative.

Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 04:17 PM (xE+Du)

549 The proper path to fix this lies through the legislature restoring the authority of the President to fire executive branch employees, as unlikely as that is.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 04:14 PM (b2nrj)

Personally I think Congress overstepped it's authority and the President has the inherent authority under the Constitution to fire anyone in the Executive Branch, from cabinet secretaries to the pencil pushing shitbag nobody who files the food stamp paperwork at the local HHS office.

Posted by: Robert isn't a taco but could really go for one right now at July 12, 2022 04:17 PM (iOwH1)

550 541 Am I missing something?

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 12, 2022 04:15 PM (DcKNO)

To save our democracy we must install a dictator.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 12, 2022 04:16 PM (xhaym)

Yeah that pretty much gets to the actual truth of the matter. System is too screwed up to fix it by normal means.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 04:17 PM (b2nrj)

551 Put a new record on, Blago. The old one's grooves are wearing thin.

Posted by: ... at July 12, 2022 04:17 PM (8S+13)

552 I have a latte for Lesgeau Brandon.

Lesgeau Brandon.

Posted by: Starbucks Barrista at July 12, 2022 04:17 PM (lf83v)

553

I went from being an enthusiastic Trump supporter to souring on him,
==
Like I said . . .

Posted by: but its your time at July 12, 2022 04:18 PM (OupZL)

554 The President has about as much authority to fire most of the federal bureaucracy as any state governor has to fire most of the federal bureaucracy, which is to say none. This is because in the distant past we replaced the Spoils System with "professional" bureaucrats who are supposed to be apolitical.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
___

Trump could have fired Fauci.

Trump asked Comey to stay on immediately after the election. He also kept on Christopher Wray.

I'm not blaming every bad federal worker on Trump, but he barely lifted a finger on this front.

Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 04:18 PM (xE+Du)

555 Starbucks is planning to close 16 locations across various cities, citing safety concerns.
Posted by: Ferd Berfall

Wish they'd close the one here.

you only have one? there are three in my little neck of the lack-of-woods.
Posted by: kulak anachronda

Yup! Thankfully just the one. Unfortunately its also the only coffee 'shop' on the north side of town. I dont go there but it's annoying.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 12, 2022 04:18 PM (MGB5H)

556 No, morons ABSOLUTELY DO NOT get more work done from home. There are some exceptions, sure, (somebody answering calls/tech tickets can work just fine from home as long as they're putting out the same amount) but on average productivity drops SHARPLY.

The people that claim that they 'get more work done from home' are the same people that rabidly object to any actual oversight being applied to how much they are actually producing.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 12, 2022 04:18 PM (AjL/0)

557 549 The proper path to fix this lies through the legislature restoring the authority of the President to fire executive branch employees, as unlikely as that is.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 04:14 PM (b2nrj)

Personally I think Congress overstepped it's authority and the President has the inherent authority under the Constitution to fire anyone in the Executive Branch, from cabinet secretaries to the pencil pushing shitbag nobody who files the food stamp paperwork at the local HHS office.
Posted by: Robert isn't a taco but could really go for one right now at July 12, 2022 04:17 PM (iOwH1)

President can't pay them without Congress. I get the Constitutional argument you're trying to make, but I'm not really sure that it's actually there. Worth a shot trying to end run around it or try to get a court to overturn the laws but it's not exactly a rock-solid case.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 04:18 PM (b2nrj)

558 Every jackass I saw on the road with a Biden/Harris sticker was not only an older bitter looking white woman with farmer's market earrings they were also the shitstains who were driving the limit in the fast lane.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 12, 2022 04:18 PM (DcKNO)

559 I like the complete absence of recoil and the 50rd mag in a light package.

Great. Now I’m jonesing for a new caliber.

Posted by: WisMike at July 12, 2022 04:19 PM (nIRE6)

560 Abe's obituaries on media NOOD

Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2022 04:19 PM (2JoB8)

561 Simone Biles is having quite the few days, first Pedo Peter sniffed her head and then the stewardess on the plane gave her children's coloring book.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 12, 2022 04:13 PM (MGB5H)

Jeebus thats so sad.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

Yes i was so broken up for her. /s Just thought it was hilarious.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 12, 2022 04:19 PM (MGB5H)

562 I've been using LAXammo for budget boolots. Quick shipping and never had a bad round. Very quick shipping on the west coast.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 12, 2022 04:19 PM (MkYsY)

563 Yeah that pretty much gets to the actual truth of the matter. System is too screwed up to fix it by normal means.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 04:17 PM (b2nrj)

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That isn't incorrect. Unfortunately.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 12, 2022 04:20 PM (DcKNO)

564 Am I missing something?

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 12, 2022 04:15 PM (DcKNO)

To save our democracy we must install a dictator.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 12, 2022 04:16 PM (xhaym)

My moment has arrived!

I promise to only kill the people that need killing.

Posted by: Robert isn't a taco but could really go for one right now at July 12, 2022 04:20 PM (iOwH1)

565 Nood.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2022 04:20 PM (a3Q+t)

566 Simone Biles is having quite the few days, first Pedo Peter sniffed her head and then the stewardess on the plane gave her children's coloring book.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 12, 2022 04:13 PM (MGB5H)

Jeebus thats so sad.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 12, 2022 04:15 PM (OCZ4p)

---------

Same thing happens to Robert "Miguelito 'Breakfast Taco's Loveless" Reich frequently.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 12, 2022 04:20 PM (tn/bQ)

567 Trump could have fired Fauci.

Trump asked Comey to stay on immediately after the election. He also kept on Christopher Wray.

I'm not blaming every bad federal worker on Trump, but he barely lifted a finger on this front.
Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2022 04:18 PM (xE+Du)

Comey is fair, I think from back and forth people have said that Fauci he couldn't, though he could've minimized his profile (not sure about Fauci's particulars). The rank and file of the bureaucracy though? No, and it's a serious problem. It's unfair to say that Trump wasn't working to try and do something about that.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 04:20 PM (b2nrj)

568 Consider that DeSantis presently has failed to fire much of the federal bureaucracy. Why should we expect him to do so as President, when his authority to do so is largely unchanged?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

I find it hard to believe you expect a State Governor to fire Federal employees.
But, please, don't let me stand in your way.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 12, 2022 04:20 PM (1sMXw)

569 I used to work 9-9-9-4 so I could drive back home for the weekend. I put 650 miles a week doing that.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 12, 2022 04:21 PM (4enNW)

570 Every jackass I saw on the road with a Biden/Harris sticker was not only an older bitter looking white woman with farmer's market earrings they were also the shitstains who were driving the limit in the fast lane.
==
WELL I NEVER! We drive in the "fast" lane to keep the speed down and save fuel, reducing harmful emissions and SAVING THE PLANET!!!!!!!

You should be thankful for the work we are doing!

Posted by: Constance Eulalia Prettyman, (dont call me Connie) at July 12, 2022 04:22 PM (YeVRO)

571 My favorite: you show up for a meeting and everyone looks around and says, "Whose meeting is this?" You know you're in for a time-wasting circle jerk.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 12, 2022 04:06 PM (mxvMh)


Great opportunities present themselves when responsibility is neglected: in this situation you claim the meeting and start a quick roundtable on beanie babies or replacing the water cooler, or phone etiquette.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 12, 2022 04:22 PM (xhaym)

572 Starbucks is creating espresso desserts.

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2022 04:22 PM (krQz2)

573 568 Consider that DeSantis presently has failed to fire much of the federal bureaucracy. Why should we expect him to do so as President, when his authority to do so is largely unchanged?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

I find it hard to believe you expect a State Governor to fire Federal employees.
But, please, don't let me stand in your way.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 12, 2022 04:20 PM (1sMXw)

I don't. It's attempting to make a point that asking the President to do something he doesn't have the authority to do makes about as much sense.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 04:22 PM (b2nrj)

574 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 04:16 PM (b2nrj)

If we ever do find ourselves marching into the camps, you're going to be the guy talking the entire way about how this is simply how the rules work, and the rules are inescapable.

Posted by: And Away We Go at July 12, 2022 04:23 PM (dI4uN)

575 572 Starbucks is creating espresso desserts.

like tiramisu?

Posted by: kulak anachronda at July 12, 2022 04:24 PM (oY6Yp)

576 If we ever do find ourselves marching into the camps, you're going to be the guy talking the entire way about how this is simply how the rules work, and the rules are inescapable.
==
Any German will tell you, it is impossible to drive without a license. Impossible!

Posted by: Chermans at July 12, 2022 04:25 PM (YeVRO)

577 574 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 04:16 PM (b2nrj)

If we ever do find ourselves marching into the camps, you're going to be the guy talking the entire way about how this is simply how the rules work, and the rules are inescapable.
Posted by: And Away We Go at July 12, 2022 04:23 PM (dI4uN)

Read a bit man, I said a coup would work. I said a dictator would work(and is the real solution). Trump sticks by the rules, but we're not comparing him to any candidate saying they'll do otherwise.

Don't lean to heavily on inventing positions for people you're talking to.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 04:26 PM (b2nrj)

578 The social conformity of the Germans and the Japanese are close to par. How in the world did the EYETALIANS get involved in that mix?

Posted by: Something something fascism at July 12, 2022 04:27 PM (YeVRO)

579 If the answer is more than one, that's a devastating loss. Plenty of government offices have just one or two people who make the place somewhat functional.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2022 04:14 PM (kDGvA)


Rule of thumb: the square root of the number of workers in a team do half the work.

in an office of 100, 10 do half the work. When they get pissed off and walk, the office collapses

Posted by: Kindltot at July 12, 2022 04:27 PM (xhaym)

580 How in the world did the EYETALIANS get involved in that mix?

Honestly ? Because before everything went tits up, El Duce was one of the most popular celebs the world had ever seen.

Posted by: And Away We Go at July 12, 2022 04:29 PM (dI4uN)

581 574 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 04:16 PM (b2nrj)

If we ever do find ourselves marching into the camps, you're going to be the guy talking the entire way about how this is simply how the rules work, and the rules are inescapable.
Posted by: And Away We Go at July 12, 2022 04:23 PM (dI4uN)

Explaining that the rules are broken is an indictment of the rules, not a defense of the system. Criticizing the guy who promotes overthrowing the system as rulesbound is really dumb. My nic is a rather obvious reference too.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2022 04:29 PM (b2nrj)

582 Starbucks is closing stores in crimeridden shithole areas? I'm confused, I thought their business model was to provide shooting galleries and free water to bums-n-addicts..

Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 12, 2022 04:41 PM (Iyk8m)

583 Criticizing the guy who promotes overthrowing the system as rulesbound is really dumb.

Except we're all criticizing Trump for not doing what he promised. And you constantly say "the rules wouldn't let him". Then either Trump needs to shut up, or break the rules. And you need to stop defending the guy that won't break the rules.

Posted by: And Away We Go at July 12, 2022 04:43 PM (dI4uN)

584 Simone Biles is having quite the few days, first Pedo Peter sniffed her head and then the stewardess on the plane gave her children's coloring book.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 12, 2022 04:13 PM (MGB5H)

What would happen if someone snapped at the old creep?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 12, 2022 04:49 PM (VdGjU)

585 Tonight's Mega Millions jackpot annuity is $440 million.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2022
*
I told husband if we ever won the lottery the only thing different about our lives would be that our asses would be parked on a nicer couch.
Posted by: Jordan61
*
If I were to win, I wouldn't tell anyone, but there would be signs. Like the Ford F-650 in the driveway.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2022


***
If I won the lottery, that squealing noise you'd hear would be my tires as I launched the Buick toward a nicer climate.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 12, 2022 04:50 PM (txdEq)

586 My experience with people working from home has ranged from being ghosted at their leisure or getting nothing but excuses for not doing stuff.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at July 12, 2022 05:15 PM (904YQ)

587 Seriously, how often are female service members having sex that they are so freaked out about not being able to get an abortion past 15 weeks?

Posted by: william ferrin at July 12, 2022 05:47 PM (NAVA/)

588 Let them go to the Employment agency or sell pencils on Broadway

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 12, 2022 06:31 PM (wGqjj)

589 I have three work-from-home government jobs, two of which I've outsourced to Indian contractors for less than 25% of my pay. And then I work the one other job.

They aren't the kind of jobs that require constant interaction with people (it's mostly research). I have to show up for Zoom meetings and such, and sometimes there are scheduling conflicts because of that but those are pretty easily dealt with (not feeling good, etc.)

It's free money. What's not to love?

I think I can add a fourth job, depending on the need to Zoom in so I have one of my Indians researching that for me.

I make more than the President.

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The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
News/Chat