09-24-2008, 02:49 AM
Two things Mac--first, I don't disagree with you, but would add, a long-term worker in an automobile manufacturing plant isn't a seasonal employee, but he experiences fluctuations. There are thousands of highly skilled guys that are laid off, rehired, laid off, rehired, in cycles. Their narratives describe life on, and off, the production line. When off, and collecting unemployment, they enjoy a variety of recreational drugs, when back online, they go back to the drugs that are harder to detect. Second, restore your humor! Half what a wrote wasn't serious, it was a cheap setup for a harmless joke at the expense of Microsoft! (where it it notoriously hard to fire people without going through a year of HR paperwork first) Did HP really employ 25,000 extra people? What on earth did they all do?
You're right about the pens. I wish we could go back to better quality pens, too. When banks started having me sign half-million dollar mortgage deals with barely-functioning 39 cent disposable bank-logo pens, that should have been the first warning sign.
You're right about the pens. I wish we could go back to better quality pens, too. When banks started having me sign half-million dollar mortgage deals with barely-functioning 39 cent disposable bank-logo pens, that should have been the first warning sign.