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The Original Greaser Bob

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  1. I guess if you're Mexican.
  2. I kind of like the procedural aspect of this. Anyway I waited for his mom to leave the house and then I took a syringe and jammed 4 ml of ghost pepper down his throat (you'd think by the way he howled). He didn't spit it back up but the tears spilled and all sorts of guck came out of his nose. He was pissed. After I reminded him that his mom was my daugter and I didn't like him making her sad and the doctor and all of us just wanted him to get better. I asked him if he was going to take it himself tomorrow or if we wanted to "do this again" and he said that he could handle it. I don't buy it. He didn't want to sing our usual "Folsom Prison Blues" with me tonight after his bedtime story, so there is a price to everything.
  3. Circa 1996: Me to daughter: Hey, take this pink medicine. It will help your cough and runny nose. Daughter to me: Okay. My grandson will not take his medicine. Me: Okay, no TV. Him: Okay, whatever. Son of a bitch! I'm pretending this will translate into some sort of positive gumption when he's older, but goddamn. And no, the kid won't eat anything I offer him, so mixing it into anything won't work either. Kids chest sounds like a mixing truck.
  4. It does look the best scenario for a clean do over. Hopefully this time dogs are the ones who evolve and get their shot.
  5. I hope there is a special hell for these haters, and I hope it's somewhere here on earth.
  6. My dad was Army Air Corps. In them rough years, '46, '47 and '48.
  7. Let a transgendered high schooler race in a high school swim meet, fool me once. Let two more race over the course of the next year, we won't get fooled again.
  8. Dude, I'm just trying to psyche myself up. I'm basing this on being on the winning side of a Richardson School District school board election and one state representative election. The school board election was close but it really felt like my little participation did help.
  9. This issue is winnable if everyone harasses their state reps and Sens and gets involved in school board elections and identifies those who are trying to destroy public education.
  10. Can't give enough rep to this post and people actually being spurred to become more involved. I'm inching out of my cowardly fetal position but if all that is happening causes people to grouse and panic less and actually get into the tranches with helping and giving and caring, there will be some kindness and growth under the surface.
  11. World Within a Song, Jeff Tweedy (2023) (audio) Continuing the Wilco readings. I enjoyed the audiobook more, but this has some nice bits. Really a thankyou ode to all the folks he listened to on his headphones growing up, and those to come. It's fun when he hits stuff that you have strong feelings about or memories. Bit's I liked where the CBGB toilet, his thoughts on The Weight on the last waltz, and one great story about meeting a childhood friend. Music and life affirming.
  12. Those are just dudes napping under the bridge. Probably stretching when it got a bit warmer.
  13. All of this is based on not seeing any release doc they may have signed. I don't think they were ever truly employment at will but doesn't matter because they resigned. The release will govern what was actually promised. I think the pinch points are in the garden leave aspects of the agreement. That's where the mischief will likely lie. As to promissory estoppel, that's going to be fact specific. That's where all of us will get screwed in terms of the cost of the lawsuits.
  14. I don't disagree with anything you say troph. I'm just saying that this particular deal was a voluntary deal. Surge it's part of the plan, but swaths of folks are getting RIFed as part of the overall plan. I agree. Let's base opposition on what they do. Enough to be outraged about what they do when they do it. I'm repeating myself. I'll just wait and eat crow at some point within the next year. And me eating crow has nothing to do with the pain administering that this administration revels in.
  15. Taking up a good deal of my time. Find: Diversity Replace: Find: Equity Replace:
  16. Made whole. By that I assume you mean paid out for 8 months while not working? My argument is that these guys are in no different a position than those who remain working and don't retire. Those who keep working are hired under whatever contractual agreement they have - presumably they can only be termed for cause. And a reduction in force for lack of funding or other budget priorities is likely good cause. So made whole under these circumstances means being able to get paid while not working for however long the job exists. The only way I could see these guys arguing that they are owed the full eight months is for their agency to only fire people who resigned. If they terminate people by position or group, including those who didn't resign, I'm not sure what their cause of action would be. I'm not certain that these people will be "made whole" in your terminology, but I don't think it would take much effort for DOGE to finesse this without screwing them. They aren't trading their retirement for a Tesla Annuity. They aren't trading their Thrift Saving Plan for Trump stock. Their resigning with a promise that they will get garden leave for 8 months. In the realm of Trump screw jobs, I just don't see this as super high on the list. Imagine if the worst that was being done to the federal workforce was the offer of slimy exit incentive agreements? And any release language could arguably cut both ways in that it could make the garden leave and related provision much more enforceable but matters outside the agreement waived.
  17. There isn't going to be funding for anyone. Including the people who worked up until government shutdown. I have no beef with any argument that such a move was illegal. I'm just questioning the idea that the folks who accepted this illegal offer are inevitably going to be screwed. Especially in relation to other people who just get RIFed/permanently furloughed.
  18. This president ran on a platform that wanted to destroy the government. The fact that 1/4 of the federal civil servants haven't been fired to date in some completely arbitrary way frankly amazes me. These guys voluntarily resigned. Not for a severance to be paid in a lump sum at some later date, but on the condition of garden leave. When they get fucked, they'll get fucked. We will soon know. I'll save my hysteria for now on the folks that are actually gettng fired. And I worked for 8 years in the federal government so quit being pissy. Whether you or I care about civil service doesn't matter. What matters as that the GOP doesn't care about civil service.
  19. Well, we'll see. They've essentially given their 8-month notice of resignation. They should be suing in a couple of weeks now. CFPB employees about to really be screwed. Let me ask this question. You're company tells you on January 12, 2025 that you can resign effective September 1, 2025 and you don't have to report in. You don't do any work for three months, and get paid not doing it, and on April 12, 2025, you're company does a huge RIF (lack of funding) where everyone in your department is fired, including you. Instead of resigning effective January 12, 2025, you are separated on April 12, 2025. What are your damages? Under what theory? What are the damages of the folks who didn't take the deal and worked January 12, 2025 - April 12, 2025? What theory.
  20. I think they at worse, will stumble through paying these folks for the next eight months. These folks aren't going to accept that "the checks in the mail" for eight months, and the congress will bail the administration out of any problems caused by this. This is essentially eight months of garden leave. These folks aren't just going to sit around for eight months and then ask - oh, about my 16 delinquent pay checks.
  21. I'm still trying to figure out why this is garnering so much outrage, especially relative to the other stuff going on. Although maybe it's just par for the course and the overall weight of everythiiing. However, the employees are going to be able to rely on representations, etc. that were made by their managers on these matters. The idea that they would have no recourse flies in the face of employment law in general, let alone federal employment tribunals.
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