Yeah, you get treated far worse. :mad:
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Yeah, you get treated far worse. :mad:
What? You get a 12% discount because you're a county librarian?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
And one subsidy is per address, so you add your "worthless sister" to your gummint discounted plan, while your live-in partner can get another gummint plan? No fucking wonder we're broke.
Well, excuse me if I harp on you for posting about buying new video games and taking family Disney vacations, okay? :rolleyes:
No wonder you hate the poor barristas :-DQuote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
I suppose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Illusions
You also can't just take an order for "eggs". Asking how they're to be prepared isn't talking back, you know.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
It wouldn't be a big problem if you didn't have to pay to receive texts as well. Cellphones are awesome, but damn me the US sucks at them :bulb:Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
I WANT MY EGGS!!! EGGS!!! EEEEGGGSSS!!! Asshole :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
You're making to many jumps to form your conclusions.Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
Many, I dare risk to say most, companies offer discounts to their employees for using a certain wireless provider. This doesn't come out of the company's fund. If anything it increases advertising and revenue for the wireless carrier. My county has agreements with Tmobile and AT&T. Thus I get a 12% discount for working for the county.
Your second sentence doesn't make any sense. All 5 of my phones are on a family plan, the entire point of a family plan is to spread the phones across your family :bulb: Its totally unrelated to the safelink wireless program.
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Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
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Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
Just trying to figure out this PAYG and Safelink, and what you mean by government funded phones.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
If your employer is the gummint, that means you work for tax payers. Just like shareholders can tell their board they don't like VIPs using corporate jets or writing off certain perks like Country Club memberships, you don't think tax payers might say this cell phone subsidy is possibly being abused....by people like you?
PAYG stands for pay as you go, thats how Safelink phones are preloaded. They give you a set number of minutes, or air time at the beginning of each month, you use those air time units to pay as you use the service. This is different from prepaid phones, in the sense that prepaid phones have you pay a set figure each day that you use any part of their service.
The government phone is the safelink phone, which is a PAYG service.
I work for other tax payers just as much as I work for myself. The fact that Brandy qualifies for the safelink program has no connection to my job, or the fact that I have a seperate phone plan with a different company.
I have a pay-as-you-go cell phone (Tracfone) but the minutes used aren't counted monthly, since I bought a 6 month package. ie if I don't buy more minutes after 6 months, I lose the phone # and have to buy another 'registration fee' in addition to air time. Still really cheap, though, compared to other big name provider packages.
I'm still not understanding why Brandy needs a subsidy for her phone. Put another way, why does your sister use your tax-payer discount plan instead of Brandy?
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Someone else please tell me they understand how business discounts work :sour:Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
If you get a raise that's taking advantage of the tax-payers, too.
That's okay, the taxpayers used to pay for me to fly all over the world. :)
I'm asking why Brandy needs a subsidy for her phone, when you already get a state employee discount on your primary phone for 5 people?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
I'm not asking why your county tried to get a discount for their employees. (That's a thread for a different day about bargaining powers from large groups.) :bored:
She was. She was polite to the point of being "offensive".Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
The 'customer' yelled at her unreasonably and her reaction ... to follow company guidelines and repeat the question her business asked her to ask. I'd have no objection to having her in my company.
If your company tolerated people being yelled at then more shame you. Doesn't mean everyone does. If there's one thing I won't accept its people swearing or otherwise abusing my colleagues, they don't deserve that. Shame your manager didn't think the same apparently.Quote:
I actually have worked as a waitress, and there is no way in hell "talking back" to a customer like that would have ever been tolerated.
For 9 months after returning to the UK, when I was 17-18 after finishing school but before starting uni I was living in a small town and worked on the checkout of that towns only shop, a 'Co-Op Late Shop' and between 5-10pm I was the only person normally on the till. I served bottles of alcohol etc to all the local townsfolk. I hadn't grown up in that town, getting the job before even moving there but after a month or two I got to know everyone.
One day a local drunk (regular customer) came in to get his bottle of whisky as normal as well as a few apples. I (following company policy) offered him his receipt as he walked out and he blew up at me screaming that he didn't want his receipt, that it was a waste of paper etc, etc, etc ... now the store's till automatically printed them and I was under instructions to always offer it if someone went to walk out without. He screamed at me for a minute or two and I was gobsmacked and stunned at the time. After venting for a moment or two he lobbed his apples he'd just bought at me. I was just able to avoid the apples and was still in shock until the next woman in the queue asked if I was OK and I went back to work as normal. After that I served him again a few days later, I waited deliberately for him to move a few steps away before calling out loudly with all the politeness and sweetness I could force into my voice: "excuse me sir, here's your receipt". If looks could kill ... but it was totally worth it and everyone there laughed and applauded that response after he left :). Previously I had just asked if they wanted a receipt just out of habit because I was told to, that man I always made sure to because he threw apples at me ... and I challenge anyone to say it was the wrong reaction.
To be fair, I used to get a 15% discount when SunCom was around, for being a city employee. I wouldn't have even known if it wasn't for hte fact that I happened to go in with my uniform on once. I don't think the city itself bargains for this; I think it is the business itself trying to entice/keep certain customers. Government employees have a steady paycheck, and are likely to actually pay their bills, so they give an incentive to get you to stay, or even maybe upgrade your plan.
Hubby gets a discount too because of his company; I don't know if there was a "bargaining" situation there. Again I think it is because it is a large corporation, so they are just trying to bring in more customers by offering discounts, then hoping said employee would go back and tell his coworkers, maybe getting more customers that way.
That has nothing to do with government subsidized phones though. I certainly hope there is no one that really does need a phone, on a wait list because a kid is playing on a cell phone. :(
Yeah, I'm not questioning business giving discounts, or even government employees using them........I just want to know how/why Brandy (or her son) can qualify for a "government phone" when OG can obviously afford to provide that for them. If there's a subsidy for that, it seems meant for truly cash-strapped people who couldn't keep in touch with their young children any other way.
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Because they aren't married, hence she can take advantage of as many programs as she wishes.
There used to be rules regarding people who are living together, especially if they have a child in common, but I guess that isn't the case anymore. But I'm guessing they only claim the other two kids in that instance. If she were to try and use the youngest for welfare, it would be fraud since she live with the father of the child. Well, it least it used to be in my state. So everything is legal.
See, when the French do something, they do it with such panache. :)Quote:
Thieves use breasts to distract victim
Police in France are looking for two attractive female thieves who bared their breasts at a man at a cashpoint to distract him before stealing his money.
The women in their 20s exposed themselves to the victim as he punched his pin code into an ATM machine in Paris.
As he stared at one, the other then withdrew 300 euros from his account before the pair fled with the money.
The incident was captured on CCTV at the cash machine on Paris’s Left Bank, but the women could not be identified, a French police spokesman said.
“We would advise anyone withdrawing cash from a machine to focus on what they are doing and not allow themselves to be distracted, however attractive the view,” the spokesman added.
This image:
http://images.4chan.org/gif/src/1282192525183.gif
I just realized that that is the Scientology building I walk by everyday going to classes in Austin.
Just got a friend request from someone on Facebook that I haven't talked to in years......and her nickname is also Lolli......had a brief moment of "how the hell did lolli from the CC find my full name?!?!?!?! And who is our "mutual friend"?!?!?!?"
http://forum.malazanempire.com/index...howtopic=19399
Looks like "no" still means "yes" :bulb:
Interesting counterpoint: http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dai...nd_jezebel.php
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Federal agents are seeking to hire Ebonics translators to help interpret wiretapped conversations involving targets of undercover drug investigations.
Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Michael Sanders said the agency recently sent memos asking companies that provide it translation services to help it find nine translators in the Southeast who are fluent in Ebonics.
Ebonics, which is also known as African American Vernacular English, has been described by the man who coined the term as the combination of English vocabulary with African language structure.
Sanders says he's not certain whether it's the first time the agency has sought to hire Ebonics experts, but that some DEA divisions have agents who help translate it.
can't really blame them...
photo of the brilliant sidewalkQuote:
In Doraville, this is what the federal stimulus looks like: Wet cement, poured to build a sidewalk along Central Avenue near the Doraville MARTA station. It's a project paid for with 160,000 federal dollars.
And to Tom Hart, a former Doraville city council member, the project is a civic punch line.
"What is the point of putting a sidewalk in, if the entire sidewalk is lined with a telephone pole right in the center?" Hart asks, gesturing at telephone poles that poke out of the middle of the gleaming new sidewalk.
"I mean, it's not (Americans with Disabilities Act) compatible. It's hardly pedestrian compatible. Like if two people -- if you and I were walking down here side by side, you'd have to wait for one person to get past the pole, then the other person to get past the pole," said Hart.
An aide to Doraville's mayor, Luke Howe, says there's an explanation. The city couldn't afford to move the telephone poles. Nor did it have time to widen the sidewalk onto the adjacent private property -- lest the stimulus money disappear. So the poles and the sidewalk stayed put.
"So we didn't have any choice but to go through the poles," said Howe.
Doraville officials say the problem is fixable though. As soon as the federal stimulus money is spent, they say they can remove a portion of the curb they just built -- and rebuild the sidewalk around the poles.
Tom Hart says that only adds to the civic punch line.
"They got some stimulus money. And as the guy told me, 'well, if we did it wrong, we'll tear it out and do it over again. We've got plenty of stimulus money.'" Hart doesn't identify the city official who told him that.
Howe says the fix-up is no big deal. "We'll have to knock out that curb. But we'll just swing it out and it's something that should only take a day."
Doraville officials say the sidewalk and the federal funding make sense. The design, and the obstructive poles, are an unimportant and temporary hiccup, they say.
There are plans to build a high-rise on the location of the Hotel Pennsylvania in NYC. That means yet another piece of history lost and in my eyes a big mess up of the NYC skyline. :down:
Let alone the fact its stupid, the fact that a sidewalk costs $160k seems to be half the problem to me too :rolleyes:
Nogling...Nice to see you! :)
Ok, As to the poor bitch in the coffee shop...I think I can speak with a little authority here! I have worked in the service industries longer than most here have been alive! p The customer is ALWAYS right! I don't fucking care how loud she yells or whatever...she is ALWAYS right! At least that's what those of us who started out in the late 70's were taught!
Fuck that, if a customer is rude that's his own problem. Swearing at/ insulting/ shouting at staff is a reason to get kicked out, if you ask me. At least it was when I was a bartender. Feel free to take your business to a competitor, we don't want people like that anyway. Plus, they scare away other customers.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/h...-1225912257329
http://resources1.news.com.au/images...ssian-race.jpg
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MORE than 500 people rode inflatable sex dolls down river rapids at the eighth annual instalment of a bizarre but popular Russian race, The St Petersburg Times reported.
The competitors - and their odd props - spent three minutes hurtling down the Vuoksa River's Losevo Rapids in the Bubble Baba Challenge.
The word "baba" is Russian for "peasant woman," but is also a crude term with sexual connotations, the English-language news website reported.
Men and women both took part in the challenge - with a separate heat for women-only racers.
The race was won by St. Petersburg man Vladislav Pavlenko who rode his doll, dubbed "Vanilla Pelotki," to the finish in two minutes and 47 seconds.
The event was dreamed up by organiser Dmitry Bulawinov who conceived the idea as a joke at a party where the men got drunk and the women failed to show up.
The event was first held in 2003.
Participants must be over 16 years old and are tested for alcohol.
The competition's charter allows the replacement of the rubber doll with an inflatable animal or a rubber penis of an equivalent
The Fox Theatre seems to be getting a lot of negative publicity out of thisQuote:
The man who has lived in Atlanta’s Fox Theatre for more than 30 years as its caretaker may soon have to find a new place to live.
Joe Patten’s original lease with the Fox allowed him to live there rent-free for life.
But Monday, the theater’s board of directors voted to terminate Patten’s original lease and offered him a new one that would allow the 83-year-old to stay as an “at will” tenant. That means either party could terminate the lease at any time.
The man credited with saving the Fox from demolition, and then a fire, said he has no plans of signing the new lease.
“Well, I mean, I made a serious mistake in saving this building on my part. It wasn’t worth it,” he said.
Patten said he hopes the board will reverse its decision.
Without signing the new lease, he has 90 days to leave the Fox.
The Fox Theatre issued a statement on Monday that said, "Atlanta Landmarks Inc. has offered Joe a new occupancy agreement to remain in his apartment. The full board has authorized the Executive Committee to negotiate this agreement. The Fox’s generosity is consistent in this agreement and he will continue to be able to live at the Fox rent free, and the Fox will continue to pay the majority of his utilities as we have for the last 31 years. It appears that Joe has been misinformed by his advisors. To be clear - Joe is welcome to live here as long as he is able."
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/24833040/detail.html
Go to the link and watch the video of the news broadcast. He's a perv, etc (before the self-righteous outrage starts), but my WTF moment here is actually why the fuck is the guy trolling dollar stores looking for kiddies to flash?Quote:
Katrice Forbes still can’t believe what happened in a Dollar General store last Thursday.
Store surveillance video captured a man exposing himself to Forbes’ 10-year-old daughter in the rear of the store. The store is located near the Cobb-Douglas County line.
Channel 2 Action News reporter Ross Cavitt obtained the video from the Douglas County's Sheriff Office. Investigators said the man seen on tape is believed to have exposed himself to young children on several occasions.
“We’ve had a couple of calls. We believe this has happened several times and we’re going to find this guy,” the Sheriff’s Office said.
By releasing the video, the Sheriff’s Office hopes someone will recognize the man so deputies can get him off the streets.
“We’re looking for this guy diligently as we speak” the Sheriff’s Office said.
There are two squirrels taking turns humping each other in my backyard. They've been at it this whole week.
Does it make you horny baby? [/austin powers voice]
Fuck that.Quote:
Originally Posted by oldmunchkin
"The customer is always the customer" (more meaning than is obvious) and "there is no point arguing with a customer, you can never win the argument but only lose the customer" are the best 2 expressions I've heard regarding service. If someone starts abusing a member of staff then they are no longer to be welcomed and therefore are no longer a customer. A customer may be right, but she is not a customer anymore the moment she became abusive.
Agreed 100% which is why I would never work in retail again, you never know which customer is going to be a nutjob. At least in wholesale you already know which ones are the nutjobs and can formulate a method for dealing them - fight nutjobs with nutjobs is our motto. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
For almost 60 years there has been a theatre in Amsterdam with the name Nieuwe de la Mar (the New de la Mar). Two years ago that theatre was torn down alongside a bunch of buildings around it to make place for a much bigger theatre with multiple stages. Today I happened to see a brochure with the programming of the new place, and it turns out the new theatre will go by the name De la Mar. So that means the actual new De la Mar will - other than the old theatre not have the word 'New' in its name.
Lusting after carrots? A baby carrot is far too small, and a non-baby carrot is too skinny.Quote:
Baby carrot farmers are launching a campaign that pitches the little, orange, crunchy snacks as daring, fun and naughty - just like junk food.
A group of 50 producers hopes the 'Eat 'Em Like Junk Food' effort starting next week will double the $1 billion market in two or three years.
The goal is to get people to think of baby carrots as a brand they can get excited about - not just a plain, old vegetable. A website, www.babycarrots.com, features metal music and deep male voices chanting "Baby. Carrots. Extreme." On social networking site Twitter, the campaign's account suggests people eat them "like there's no tomorrow (maybe there won't be...)"
"This campaign is about turning baby carrots into a brand," said Jeff Dunn, CEO of Bolthouse Farms, the nation's top baby carrot producer with 50 percent of the market, and the most to gain if the market grows. "We think ultimately long-term here we're going to turn it into a very vital brand in the mind of consumers."
The plan begins in Cincinnati and Syracuse, N.Y., and will take at least a year to go national.
But carrot eaters around the country will get a taste of baby carrots' attempt at attitude with Scarrots next month. The Halloween version of baby carrots will come in spooky packaging and have glow-in-the-dark temporary tattoos, ideal for giving out to trick-or-treaters, Dunn said.
The marketing campaign by Crispin Porter + Bogusky, known for its edgy advertising of Burger King and Old Navy, will cost about $25 million.
Television ads depict futuristic scientists studying crunch, a woman lusting after carrots and carrot sports featuring a young man who launches off a snowy mountain top in a grocery cart and catches in his mouth a carrot shot by a gun below. There are also billboards with messages like "Our crunch can beat up your crunch" and carrot vending machines in schools.
Stores will carry new packaging in crinkly, festive bags reminiscent of chip bags with designs that mimic the ads. There's a bright green one with a hip red bunny wearing sunglasses, and dark, futuristic packaging with bright orange lines coming out of a carrot.
The carrot group and its agency studied other campaigns - such as the "Drink Milk" effort" - and decided to push further with baby carrots, beyond marketing the benefits of the vegetables.
"You didn't need to talk about any of the health benefits. Everyone knows carrots are good for you," said Tiffany Rolfe, vice president and group creative director at Crispin, Porter + Bogusky. "Our goal was to separate it from being a vegetable as much as possible, to create a new category for carrots."
Sales of baby carrots - which are, in fact, not babies at all but rather small, peeled carrot shapes cut from larger ones - have fallen in the mid-single digits in the past two years as people spend less in the down economy, Dunn said. That includes buying bigger carrots and cutting them up themselves to save money.
Baby carrots were introduced in the mid- to late 1980s, created for their convenience of being an easy snack. Sales grew quickly in the first 10 to 15 years, but the growth tapered off, Dunn said.
For now the campaign will roll out gradually and focus on marketing. But Dunn, a former president and chief operating officer of Coca-Cola North America, said new variations could be developed, including baby carrots with ranch flavoring.
"How high is up?" he said of the market's potential. "That's the real question, what's possible here? We put it out there, and we'll learn and evolve."
Now if someone puts out a commercial with women lusting after cucumbers I'll believe it.
Seems like a good thing to me - anything to wean der kiddiewinkles off nasty junk snacks.
Carrots are 100x tastier than chocs and chips and shit, and 1000x better for you.
P'ticularly fresh 'n cold, chopped into slices, and with a freshly made tzatziki dip. Mmm mm.