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Holy crap I just got a call from our legal office thanking me for helping the executives understand the concept of liability and accountability? Wow, maybe it was just a very short sighted view of a bigger problem? Our head lead person said she was going to write a letter of commendation to my supervisor for proper articulation of a serious issue and potentially saving my employer a good big of risk. Now I feel all warm and fuzzy inside! Who knew this MBA thing was going to pay off! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I've given this lots of hard thought.....much contemplation and even more chin rubbing.....I have come to a conclusion to which I have given little regard to. I would motor boat here clam and proclaim to be her Persian god. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

You are talking to a Six Sigma Black Belt..... thank god i didn't have to do a project on this. Jus a simple cost evaluation of OT vs a day in court. And the guys now have OT for working on saturdays at events around the country. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Bingo Kelp! Yeah well they can be total assholes and know full well that these young guys and gals won't walk. But on the same time these guys or gals won't be working any Saturday any time soon....not in their contract....and since a good number are Fed employees...good luck firing them! But in the civilian world, yes these guys and gals in the long run could be let go. Thus they are now being held hostage. If they work they will work for free and may keep their jobs in the future. But if they don't the odds they may get let go is higher. Now I don't know about you but the IRS isn't happy and I'm sure black mail and coercion isn't very nice either. As for me, I was able to convince my executives that it was in their best interest to have these guys on the clock for OT due to potential liability suits which may come up if they get hurt on the job. Spend $1 today and save $100 tomorrow. It wasn't easy but it's what we middle managers have to do to keep peace in the world I guess? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Apparently you have never been in a bar with an engineering chick and her gaggle of 12 engineering dudes when one of three things happen. 1) The bartender just ignores her and helps out all the pretty finance girls rocking the starched white shirts and the little pencil skirts. 2) She thinking she is all that and a bag of chips hits on a finance guy and he tells her that he is very sorry but that he is not gay and likes women....way too much...but appreciates the compliment. 3) Her gaggle of guys discover what attractive women really look like and start working their horrible pick up lines on all the cute girls in a bar. Hey baby you want to play with my over clocked Ti calculator! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Aint nothing wrong with being a keept man. Sadly I can't walk from my condo. The bank has me by the balls according to the people I have spoken with. thus i would like a lower tax rate. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

DrewEckhardt As always thank you for the very thought out response and thank you so much for the link. I will look at it later this evening. I concur, anything over 45 hours and any one worth their creative salt is burned out. And yes Blackberries count as work. Thus why VW had passed a mandate that no one shall utilize their BlackBerries past a given hour of the evening. So far from what I have been told it was very successful. However with respect to the OT vs. Comp Time vs. doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.....if you ask me the gene is out of the bottle. Once executives understand that they can get people to work for free based on fear of losing their job....why should they ever pay anyone ever again? Most people don't realize this but in a for profit organization, free labor is against the law and last I knew the IRS was not very happy about the fact that the company was making out like a bandit with respect to free labor and not having to pay any form of tax on that labor! In my opinion....it's not only illegal but it is also unethical. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

That bitch don't love me no mo! Says my thighs are getting thick! And I'm like bitch I sexy thick that way and they all like no I like my partner to be all skinny. So hard to find me a good partner in dis here world! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

God knows I need a jump. I just spent two hours with our executives who all make over $150k (they are not that well paid executives) explaining why young folks who make under $100k do not wish to be paid with "time off" and would appreciate being compensated with overtime pay instead. And that unless they start issuing over time compensation that the number and quality of what they will get for volunteers for jobs will be less than adequate to meet their needs. In the end I was asked to develop a six sigma type argument for OT over comp time.....my head hurts... Speaking to a friend who works for one of the larger banks he stated; companies dont have to pay you more.. you work for them.. and they dont work for u.. take the time off to be productive My rebuttal was; This is the US not China, we are not communists. Replace company with "state" and you got it about right. "The state doesn't have to pay you more or at all, you work for the in betterment of the state. If you don't like it find a new state. Work for free an use your free time to contemplate the greatness of the state." I 99.99% sure that's what Carl Marx's view of society was all about. Work for others and not for yourself. And well we all know how communism went down. Sorry, I'm a capitalist, I work because I get paid. Not because it gives me a warm and fuzzy inside. But with this slow crashing economy, can't believe full employment isn't predicted till 2020, it's just nuts. Can't wait till things improve. But once the executives get it into their skull that they can get people to do work for free ( which by the way is illegal ) they will never pay again. After all why pay for anything when you once had it for free? ..... What are your thoughts? Is this the new normal? Be happy you have a job and yes we will ask you to work harder and harder and not compinsate you accordingly and if you say shit you will be out the door? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Hey I live where I work. If I find a job in a dull square state where the women are corn feed......I may walk....maybe. But it is what it is. Property tax is $5.5k for a condo and well that sucks! But at least I have cute girls from NYC to talk to! I just have to land me one. And with her income + my income I'll have lots of fuck you money! Just have to find a cute one that doesn't want to have kids. Got a better chance of meeting Jesus! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

janitor ? What do you do again? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

AMEN TO THAT! Federal + state had me at a little over 30% This sucks! But I guess I'm not rich enough to pay lower taxes? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Put down your lunch this is too funny! http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2012/04/11/foreclosure-frenzy-bank-of-america-sues-bank-of-america/ Stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

OK listen he just has a wide stance! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I don't get it, is it a trickel on economics thing? I mean who would say no to more money in their pocket at the expense of those who have too much money in their pockets? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Can i get a FUCKING A FUCKING MEN! ANY ONE? Even our GOP friends will have to agree with this one? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

It's cool bro! No worries! If are ever in N-NJ, drop me a line and first round of beer is on me! Now to get Cherry 2000 to bring us that beer! Just don't get her wet! You know what this reminds me of...ever see that Futurama episode where Fry fall in love with an android? But back on topic shall we? She is hot and as stated in the Bro Code http://www.amazon.com/dp/143911000X/ref=asc_df_143911000X1972205?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=asn&creative=395093&creativeASIN=143911000X&hvpos=1o1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=95722402627400412&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt= "If she is hot she shall be forgiven." In this case she is hot and we will forgive her for having fake B(.)(.)BIES! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Yeah but well...these real dolls can't cool or bring a brother a sandwitch and a beer! But when they can......well it's going to be a very sad day for the ladies of the world. Yes we men love you and all but...well....how shall I put it... She brings a brother a beer and a sandwich and giggles! And never asks us if she looks fat or spends hours yacking about how her BFF is a total bitch blab la bla while we are watching Ugly Americans! But back on track, I'm sure she is a very nice person not to mention she is hot so I'm 100% fine with her winning if she has already won. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

seems premature to declare this period worse than the 70s with a misery index over 20. Oh no this one sucks! SUCKS big donkey dick. I just got my MBA and everything we learned in macro and micro economics class ended with..."WEll that's how it was, but this time it's much much worse!" Yeah this one is bad! In fact one of my economics professors was calling this the blind depression. He was 100% sure that the number of unemployed was at 25% but that we were no longer counting them due to our new fuzzy math. That aside, you guys need to know the difference between causation and correlation. I highly doubt that there is a direct cause and effect relationship between increasing taxes on the top 10% and the severity and length of recessions. In the bad old days under Regan taxes for the top 10% were well over 50% THUS companies worked other ways to compensate people via providing them company homes and cars. Now this was a very good idea and here is why...as long as you worked for the in betterment of the company you got to keep these nice things. Also overall the customer got better return on their investment! Think about it, would you as an investor rather see greater return on your investment (be it capital or other) or would you rather a good portion of what would have gone to you go to compensate others? I'll give you a hint, we want to pay these guys as little as possible such that we as consumers get the most from our efforts. And there are two ways to do this. One we outsource these high paid jobs to SEA.....wouldn't that be fun to watch! Fight in the street.....yeah right! OR a tax code that forces companies to take care of their customers. Your call really. I for one want more for my money and less in the CEO's pockets. But that's just me I'm a capitalist and a greedy SOB. And those fighting for CEO's to hold more of their money...well I would dare say you boys and girls are socialists. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

http://www.amazon.com/Life-Universe-Everything-Hitchhikers-Trilogy/product-reviews/0345391829 Very good book! Look she is hot, what is to argue? Let's do the math shall we? Long leggs? CHECK! Flat belly? CHECK! Perky boobies? CHECK! Amazing ass? CHECK! Will she look good standing next to me...ah hell yeah! So who cares! She is hot, and I'm ok with it! And in the end it's not about what's on the inside that counts it's all about how hot she is! And let's face it she is hot! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I graduated in 2002 which was a horrible year for engineers. I was going into Sales with Johnson Controls, which if you ask me is a great company. But well Enron fell and they decided to hire all of those very talented sales engineers from Enron rather than hiring new folks. Which I can understand. But if I ever see a job for JCI again in the international sales division I'll be there like a packer at the bon fire when a AFF student brings free beer. Yeah an engineer at the right place at the right time can make very good money. That's true. But I live and die by the averages. Work 25 years and make $200k? Ok that's nice! But have you seen what the finance guys make in bonuses over the past 10 years or so? Let alone their average income? Even in this down economy a person who is smart enough to be an engineer working for a finance house can and will do very well as a financial engineer. Now that is not to saying it's a bad career field. Heck it's kept me employed over the past decade or so and the pay is ok if you can find a roomy or get married to someone who makes equal pay as you. But it's not 3 series money. It's more or less Carola money. And kids today are not happy with Carola money. They have spent half of their lives living in a recession and are well aware of the value of money with respect to happiness. And if they are smart enough to be engineers or a scientist and are driven, have a personality, can hold a converstaion and have the connections odds are they will walk right past the STEM fields and right into financial engineering. And honestly can you blame them? The field though noble is suffering from a great deal of bad perception and an anemic compensation not to mention...engineering school is hard as hell! None of your professors speak any English and a good majority of your student body is in need of a good bath! Especially in the state schools. If we as a nation are to have a viable engineering and science community the system needs to be changed from the top down. Though having more women join the field is a welcomed improvement. But business leaders really need to realize that they need to bump of their compensation packages in order to lure more outgoing people into the field. And I'm sorry national average $45k starting is just not worth the time energy expenditure needed to be an engineer or scientists. The Time Value of Money is just not there. So what does the future hold for STEM? Take it from a guy who is working his ass off trying to sell it to the next generation...it does not look very good at the moment. I have parents of kids tell me point blank that their child though well spoken and very intelligent will not be going to an engineering school because they want their child to be one of those who work in a nice high rise office and who's yearly bonus is equal to what their parents made last year. And honestly can you blame them? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

so.....4 months ago China and India didn't need as much oil as they do this month? OK! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Yeah so what gives? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Please please please! there are many good reasons why any girl should go into engineering! 1)Ladies, when there are 52 dicks and only 2 chicks....the other 5 chicks may be men we are not sure. You can simply pick two of the 52 men you think are your type and have them fight to the death to see who will be worthy of taking you out on any given Friday! As such you will never have a boring Friday night. 2)Ladies, affirmative actions. Need I say more? No? Well it is affirmative that there is no need for any action with respect to you shaving your legs EVER! See when you have 2 chicks and 52 dicks. Yeah the other girl may have shaved her legs...but so what! Not like the guys are going to talk those other....ahh...well we think they are girls but no one has asked. And none of these guys are well dressed enough to be gay. So you will still have a date this friday! 3) Home work, just farm it out to the 12 (one for each subject matter) or so guys who walk at least 2 feet behind you everywhere you go! 4) HR, as in Human Resources. Yeah sure there may be a million and one qualified male engineers but well every office in every division of every company needs one girl in a middle management position to qualify for government help/financing/high fives. And well since there are only 1 of you....the other 3 girls/things who were in your class got married out west in some sort of Indian three way sun rise ceremony and the one girl who shaved her legs skipped out and now works in finance......you have a 99.99999% chance of landing a killer gig within about 4 hours of graduation. (The above is satire, if you took it seriously, you obviously must be one of those engineering IT types who has no sense of humor and writes large posts about how much you hated Space Balls.) Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

My fed + my NJ state was at almost 30% not fun. But yes I agree this is just for show and there is very little if any go to it. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!