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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: jobs
« on: March 01, 2019, 04:13:05 PM »
More on dude#2!
So, I went to the store and picked up some $6 reading glasses to leave at work and $10 worth of lottery tickets.
The VP was there when I got back. He said and did a bunch of totally normal stuff for the next several hours. BUT THEN, as I was getting ready to leave, he told me that he wanted to share something with me. I'd learned earlier that he was a wrestling coach and has a son who is a star wrestler. He then told me that he'd taken his son to Nationals as a 14 year old and felt terrible because his son lost immediately. His reaction was to write a letter to his son. The letter is what he wanted to share with me. So, I sat there as he read verbatim this 3/4 page, single spaced, deeply personal letter about winning and losing and trying and getting back up and learning life lessons. As he's reading it, I'm like, "Oh crap. How am I supposed to respond to this? Is my response going to sound phony? What's going on here!?" Luckily, he kept right on talking after reading and the conversation flowed naturally.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: jobs
« on: March 01, 2019, 04:09:54 PM »
Haha. Also, VP = dude#2.
This is a German girl who seems maybe a tad shy of being fully proficient at speaking English. We introduced ourselves and then she just marched me straight to the VP's office and told me I could sit in there and wait if I wanted. I was like "Maybe I'll go find the bathroom and check out the gym. Or even leave and come back in an hour." She said okay and then turned around and walked off.
German girl is now my boss. I have to move into a room with her and some other girl. This will probably be a good time to do some more posting to this thread.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: jobs
« on: March 01, 2019, 03:59:12 PM »
At this point, I just feel bad. Poor dumb bastard.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: jobs
« on: March 01, 2019, 03:52:31 PM »
Oh, God. dude#2 just finished training and came back in totally elated to have that task off his plate.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: jobs
« on: March 01, 2019, 03:50:52 PM »
dude#2 talks A LOT. And it's not like interesting conversation or even conversation at all. He just always wants you to reassure him that he did the right thing or be totally exasperated with bullshit along with him or whatever. rough ridin' annoying. He just moved into the same room as me and German girl this week. A few days ago, she asks me how I'm coping with the extra noise. I said fine. She replied that I wouldn't have to deal with it much longer and winked.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: jobs
« on: March 01, 2019, 03:50:19 PM »I don’t even know where to start, but how did German girl come to be Dude #2’s boss?
I'll have to give some thought to how to answer. It's a long, long story.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: jobs
« on: March 01, 2019, 03:42:30 PM »Wait, so using letters as initial rank, Dude 2 started as A, Dude 1 as B, you and German girl as C1 and C2. Now B is gone and both A and C1 work for C2 but A is getting slowly pushed out?
Yep
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Other Trump/White House investigations
« on: March 01, 2019, 03:39:15 PM »7310
Essentially Flyertalk / Re: jobs
« on: March 01, 2019, 03:36:41 PM »
At this moment, dude#2 is training someone on how to do something he's been doing. Over the past few months, they've been assigning all his work to other people, telling him that he'll be working on something else. I think it's so they can get rid of him and that he may not completely realize what's happening.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: jobs
« on: March 01, 2019, 03:27:37 PM »
When I started my current job, this German girl and I reported to dude#1 who reported to dude#2. dude#1 left. Now, dude#2 and I both report to German girl. Super awkward. I'm pretty certain that dude#2's days are numbered.
I don't even know where to begin with all this. AMA.
I don't even know where to begin with all this. AMA.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Thread for Democratic Socialists/AOC watch with 24/7 AOC updates
« on: March 01, 2019, 03:19:10 PM »
We'll get there one day.
WC has a big heart and should probably be a lib. The resentful, angry old man stuff doesn't suit his affable personality IMO.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: top musical artist by decade (plus runner up)
« on: March 01, 2019, 03:03:06 PM »
I already know who clams will put on my list.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Thread for Democratic Socialists/AOC watch with 24/7 AOC updates
« on: March 01, 2019, 03:00:49 PM »
I don't think it even matters that AOC is pompous given that she is a fraud bootstrapper.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Korean Peace Process
« on: March 01, 2019, 02:51:41 PM »7316
The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Thread for Democratic Socialists/AOC watch with 24/7 AOC updates
« on: March 01, 2019, 02:46:25 PM »
Oh, no. I feel like she will be seen as having made a big mistake with this. 
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1101581808699928576
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1101581808699928576
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Thread for Democratic Socialists/AOC watch with 24/7 AOC updates
« on: March 01, 2019, 01:39:35 PM »Says the man who sits at work all day to copy and paste Trump crap in the Pit 24/7/365. Her whole mission is to make everything "fair" for people. To tax the rich, free school, etc. She's not a bootstrapper, she's a con artist that wants to go after people who made their own way and hand out crap for free to the less motivated.
Ah. I think I get it now. Fraud bootstrapping is what's objectionable. Actual bootstrapping and bragging about it is okay.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Thread for Democratic Socialists/AOC watch with 24/7 AOC updates
« on: March 01, 2019, 01:25:26 PM »She went to a top college while working a side job. I'd assume about 100% of congress people did the same. She's just louder about it.
Ah. So, when one pulls oneself up by one's bootstraps, one must remain humble about it.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Thread for Democratic Socialists/AOC watch with 24/7 AOC updates
« on: March 01, 2019, 01:19:37 PM »
Did she not pull herself up by her bootstraps in a way that pubs find acceptable?
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: pos 'pubs being complete pieces of crap
« on: March 01, 2019, 12:50:56 PM »
What in the eff is going on at this thing? I totally want to go. Would be a riot.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1101551292734947331
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1101551292734947331
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Crooked FBI CIA Swamp, Strzok, Ohrs, Robbie R, McCabe ??? (BigO) Brennan
« on: March 01, 2019, 12:29:36 PM »7322
The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Thread for Democratic Socialists/AOC watch with 24/7 AOC updates
« on: March 01, 2019, 10:23:47 AM »7323
The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Thread for Democratic Socialists/AOC watch with 24/7 AOC updates
« on: March 01, 2019, 10:20:00 AM »economists have supported carbon taxes, basically since forever, though.
They sure started talking about it an awful lot lately, huh?
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Manhattan International Airport Master Thread
« on: March 01, 2019, 10:16:29 AM »Do you feel checking bags is being attacked right now, Chum? Jesus.
Checking bags is always being attacked, WC08. Jesus.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Manhattan International Airport Master Thread
« on: March 01, 2019, 10:09:17 AM »
Here's another consideration. You can have 3-4 suitcases, a bunch of carry-on bags, a stroller, only two people with the physical ability to carry much of anything, and other, smaller people who need to be constantly monitored so that they don't go off and do stupid crap.