I am conflicted who I should be rooting for. I think Romeny, but I'm not sure.

OK, I thought it was a typo at first, but I've now seen you call him "Romeny" at least three times. Is that a nickname or something? Does he smell like Hominy?

 

OK, I thought it was a typo at first, but I've now seen you call him "Romeny" at least three times. Is that a nickname or something? Does he smell like Hominy?

I'm just a horrible typist. Romney. see? I can do it. lol Seriously, no, completely accidental.

I'm just a horrible typist. Romney. see? I can do it. lol Seriously, no, completely accidental.

No worries, I just couldn't figure out why it was misspelled the same way so many times. I thought maybe I missed a joke somewhere.

 

I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave

 

The application process took place at a staffing office in a run-down city, the kind where there are boarded-up businesses and broken windows downtown and billboards advertising things like "Foreclosure Fridays!" at a local law firm. Six or seven other people apply for jobs along with me. We answer questions at computers grouped in several stations. Have I ever been to prison? the system asks. No? Well, but have I ever been to prison for assault? Burglary? A felony? A misdemeanor? Raping someone? Murdering anybody? Am I sure? There's no point in lying, the computer warns me, because criminal-background checks are run on employees. Additionally, I have to confirm at the next computer station that I can read, by taking a multiple-choice test in which I'm given pictures of several album covers, including Michael Jackson's Thriller, and asked what the name of the Michael Jackson album is. At yet another set of computers I'm asked about my work history and character. How do I feel about dangerous activities? Would I say I'm not really into them? Or really into them?

 

In the center of the room, a video plays loudly and continuously on a big screen. Even more than you are hurting the company, a voice-over intones as animated people do things like accidentally oversleep, you are hurting yourself when you are late because you will be penalized on a point system, and when you get too many points, you're fired—unless you're late at any point during your first week, in which case you are instantly fired. Also because when you're late or sick you miss the opportunity to maximize your overtime pay. And working more than eight hours is mandatory. Stretching is also mandatory, since you will either be standing still at a conveyor line for most of your minimum 10-hour shift or walking on concrete or metal stairs. And be careful, because you could seriously hurt yourself. And watch out, because some of your coworkers will be the kind of monsters who will file false workers' comp claims. If you know of someone doing this and you tell on him and he gets convicted, you will be rewarded with $500.

I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave

 

Long read, but a good one. I find it hard to believe that a lot of what they do isn't against federal work regulations. Hopefully this exposes some of that.

Long read, but a good one. I find it hard to believe that a lot of what they do isn't against federal work regulations. Hopefully this exposes some of that.

 

The culture is intense, an Amalgamated higher-up acknowledges at the beginning of our training. He's speaking to us from a video, one of several videos—about company policies, sexual harassment, etc.—that we watch while we try to keep our eyes open. We don't want to be so intense, the higher-up says. But our customers demand it. We are surrounded by signs that state our productivity goals. Other signs proclaim that a good customer experience, to which our goal-meeting is essential, is the key to growth, and growth is the key to lower prices, which leads to a better customer experience. There is no room for inefficiencies. The gal conducting our training reminds us again that we cannot miss any days our first week. There are NO exceptions to this policy. She says to take Brian, for example, who's here with us in training today. Brian already went through this training, but then during his first week his lady had a baby, so he missed a day and he had to be fired. Having to start the application process over could cost a brand-new dad like Brian a couple of weeks' worth of work and pay. Okay? Everybody turn around and look at Brian. Welcome back, Brian. Don't end up like Brian.

 

My dad was told pretty much the same thing when they were expecting my birth (no time off, try and you're fired), though he was working as an accountant and not unskilled labor.

This may be the dumbest article I've ever read from McArdle, and that's not a low hurdle.

 

It reminds me of the "well $500k isn't really wealthy; once you subtract your $5k mortgage, your two $1000 car payments, your annual $10k vacation, maxing out your 401(k) and your IRA's, private school tuition, why, you're barely left with a few thousand a month!" type arguments

Not going to bother dredging up the original post in the Republican thread.

 

South Carolina has moved farther down completing an investigation into the supposed "Several hundred dead people" voting in the South Carolina Primary. They didn't analyze every name, but did over 30% at this point, and it's uncertain if they'll do more for funding issues.

 

Zero evidence of systematic voter fraud. 95% of the cases are easily explained. About 10 actual possible issues with "insufficient information" to determine, but no obvious claims of fraud on those 10.

Rush Limbaugh really is a terrible human being:

 

LIMBAUGH: What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex. What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex

 

This is fantastic.

 

“Oral contraception is bad, plain and simple. Why? Because I don’t understand how it works and science scares me.”

 

Women's Health Experts Speak Out from Judd Nelson

The Senate killed the ridiculously terrible Blunt Amendment.

 

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/03/01...tion-amendment/

Rush Limbaugh really is a terrible human being:

 

Man, why does anyone ever call Rush a racist, misogynist asshole??

 

LIMBAUGH: So Miss Fluke, and the rest of you Feminazis, here’s the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex. We want something for it. We want you post the videos online so we can all watch.

The Senate killed the ridiculously terrible Blunt Amendment.

 

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/03/01...tion-amendment/

 

SEBELIUS: There also is no abortification drug that is part of the FDA approved contraception. What the rule for preventive care…

 

MURPHY: Ma’m that is not true…Is the morning after pill or something like that an abortification drug?

 

SEBELIUS: It is a contraceptive drug, not an abortification… It does not interfere with a pregnancy. If the morning pill were taken, and a female were pregnant, the pregnancy is not interrupted. That’s the definition of abortifation.

 

MURPHY: Ma’m that is your interpretation, and I appreciate that’s your interpretation.

 

SEBELIUS: That’s what the scientists and doctors…

 

MURPHY: We’re not talking about scientists. Ma’m we’re not talking about scientists here, we’re talking about religious belief. Ma’m, I’m asking you about a religious belief. In a religious belief, that is a violation of a religious belief.

 

Does anyone here actually want to deny that the GOP has gone bats*** crazy?

Rush Limbaugh really is a terrible human being:

I wish he would die, but only in ways that don't get me banned from the 'buster. These people who have no idea what they are talking about being given such a large stage is simply terrifying. Absolutely nothing he states is based on fact, and then he takes it to the extreme. Fluke should sue the s*** out of him.

Does anyone here actually want to deny that the GOP has gone bats*** crazy?

Urge to murder. Rising.

Sheriff Joe is keeping birtherism alive!

 

PHOENIX — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Thursday he suspects the birth certificate President Obama released last year is a “computer-generated forgery” — and also raised questions about the authenticity of the president’s Selective Service card.

 

“Based on all of the evidence presented and investigated, I cannot in good faith report to you that these documents are authentic,” Sheriff Arpaio said. “My investigators believe that the long-form birth certificate was manufactured electronically and that it did not originate in paper format as claimed by the White House.”

Urge to murder. Rising.

 

It's hard to unpack just how awful that exchange is, and it's only a small subset of the current attacks on contraception and abortion.

Does anyone here actually want to deny that the GOP has gone bats*** crazy?

 

 

 

“You’re setting up a rule that not even Jesus and his apostles could adhere too.”

 

Classic line.

“You’re setting up a rule that not even Jesus and his apostles could adhere too.”

 

Classic line.

 

This is about religious freedom. He's invoking the classic Supreme Court 1st amendment "Jesus Test" to determine the Constitutionality of a law.

Sheriff Joe is keeping birtherism alive!

 

Funny, because I have one of those at home. Straight from a computer at the Cook County Clerk's office. And I was born at Northwestern Memorial Hospital...

 

 

...or was I?

Edited March 1, 201214 yr by CanOfCorn

Funny, because I have one of those at home. Straight from a computer at the Cook County Clerk's office. And I was born at Northwestern Memorial Hospital...

 

 

...or was I?

You f***ing Kenyan.

 

 

 

Maryland passes gay marriage bill

Maryland passes gay marriage bill

But there is gonna be a referrendum in November... sigh. Which probably means it'll be overturned... which probably means it'll get sued, and go down just like Prop 8 and end up being legal anyway... huge waste of everyone's time

Edited March 2, 201214 yr by lostfan

You f***ing Kenyan.

 

That is way funnier with Deng as your avy.

But there is gonna be a referrendum in November... sigh. Which probably means it'll be overturned... which probably means it'll get sued, and go down just like Prop 8 and end up being legal anyway... huge waste of everyone's time

Under the prop 8 standard, assuming the Supremes agree with the Appeals, all that will matter is if you start having gay marriage first. If there is an immediate block, then the Prop 8 ruling wont' apply.