Exchange between myself and my boss once:

Boss: You know for next week you’re going to have to cut your hair.

Me: Not like yours I hope.
Boss: You can clock out now.

So much for that job.

A long time ago…
The district sales manager tells me I need a haircut.
Ok, I’ll go now an get one.
You’re not going on company time.
My hair grew on company time.
It didn’t ALL grow on company time.
I’m not going to get it ALL cut off.

From 1979 to 2004, the percentage of households in the “middle class” category—those with incomes between $30,000 and $90,000—fell from 47 percent to 39 percent. As fewer workers have access to affordable health care, retirement security, education and training…

NO.

You are lying with statistics, and I won’t have it.

You are making it sound like people are falling out of the middle class. And over a shorter time period, maybe they are. But over the 1979-2004 time period, NO. They’re not.

You’ve omitted that the percentage of people earning less than $30,000 a year has also been shrinking, from about 38% of the population to about 34%. Put that back in, and it looks like this:

. . . . . . 1979 2004
00-30K . . 38% 34%
30-90K . . 47% 39%
> 90K . . . 15% 27%

People are moving upwards. The middle is moving upwards. How is this bad??

I hate to use so much bold and stuff, but I’ve brought this up before in this forum, and you’re still playing the same trick.

Look, in many ways, the lot of the middle class is getting less secure. But find the real data that will make that case. Don’t make a false case out of misleading data just because you’re lazy.

Stop it. Now.

Now wait a minute, you aren’t considering inflation.
Using the inflation calculator on this site:
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi
I found that 30K in 1979 is the equivalent of 89K in 2006. Using that calculator I find that I make approximately the same amount of money (in terms of spending power) that I made in 1979 as a very junior (two years out of school) employee. That is the real cost of salary stagnation. And I’m a skilled IT professional with 30 years of experience.

http://newssophisticate.blogsp…..-more.html

NO.

You are lying with statistics, and I won’t have it.

You are making it sound like people are falling out of the middle class. And over a shorter time period, maybe they are. But over the 1979-2004 time period, NO. They’re not.

You’ve omitted that the percentage of people earning less than $30,000 a year has also been shrinking, from about 38% of the population to about 34%. Put that back in, and it looks like this:

. . . . . . 1979 2004
00-30K . . 38% 34%
30-90K . . 47% 39%
> 90K . . . 15% 27%

People are moving upwards. The middle is moving upwards. How is this bad??

I hate to use so much bold and stuff, but I’ve brought this up before in this forum, and you’re still playing the same trick.

Look, in many ways, the lot of the middle class is getting less secure. But find the real data that will make that case. Don’t make a false case out of misleading data just because you’re lazy.

Stop it. Now.

“The president’s comments came as he tried to calm volatile stock and mortgage markets and reassure the country that the economy is fundamentally strong. Despite mounting concern over the downturn in the housing market, he dismissed proposals advanced by prominent Democrats to grant government-chartered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac more freedom to buy mortgages and mortgage-backed securities. And he ruled out any taxpayer bailout of lenders threatened by the subprime home-loan crisis.”

Clusterfuck working hard calming the markets?

Whadda piece of shit!!

Kind like the wolfman trying to calm children.

Funny stuff.

-GSD

hate2haggle@66:
Fox would be the last one to do it. Some of their former employees might want to add their own stories!

I think that show would be a smash hit. I’d have my popcorn popped and remote handy each night it aired. I’d even get tape it. Would make great reruns, too. Each episode could have 4 or 5 examples of idiotic bosses and we could vote at the end of the show to select the worst, and the worser and the bronze.

Clusterfuck working hard calming the markets?

Whadda piece of shit!!

Bright flash over Nagasaki 62 years ago today.

Those who weren’t evapped & incinerated immediately experienced these- seared flesh, blindness, watching your kids, relatives, mom, dad consumed by the intense heat of the fires then & those that followed…

& later you became one who would need the 1000 Paper Cranes:

Sadako & the 1000 Paper Cranes

-GSD