We're eliminating your job! But first, have a milkshake

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=milkshake

I could teach you, but I'd have to charge.

 

Exactly why I switched out of my economics declaration while in school. No way I could explain the CEOs' fat earnings packages while they lay off everyone in sight.

Now, while I make no money whatsoever, at least I don't drown in hypocrisy.

 

Birdscribe makes an excellent point. It'll be interesting to see how the more insistently self-centered kids of today impact the American economy in the next couple of decades. Will they push America toward a European-style, worker-friendly economy? Or will they be crushed by outside competitors (the non-retiring boomers and skilled immigrants) and conform to corporate precedents that assure us of ever-increasing indices?

 

Last week we were given free fast food sandwich coupons the day after they expired.

It's the thought that counts!

 

I went through four or five rounds of layoffs during the dotcom crash, and our place would buy pizza after everyone got the bad news and those who were shitcanned had been escorted from the building. Those of us who survived the entire time lovingly referred to it as "Layoff pizza."

 

Hella post, Bird.

 

Once our publisher stopped by to give us our paper's awards from the state's press association. He also brought us doughnuts. After he left we opened them up and they were stale. It's gifts like that which really make this job worthwhile!

 

For anyone who knows Cadet, is she a milkshake?

 

Aprapos of nothing, but if you go to urbandictionary.com and put any word in the English language in there, the chances are 90 percent of better that at least one of the definitions will involve a sexual act or organ.

 

My god, you're obsessive. Grow the fuck up.

 

You need your ass kicked. That is all.

 

Repeatedly. Whatever SC doesn't blast to hell, I'll finish.