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jhnmdahl wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2019 9:17 am The senior partner objected to my idea to just send him 100 sheets of blank paper and call it a day.

Ytmsn wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 3:00 pmKate is.. umm .. Me! Howzatt for conspiracy theories!

There Kate. Now your secret is safe. I just took the fall for you! Am I out of the penalty box now?

Ytmsn wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 3:00 pm There Kate. Now your secret is safe. I just took the fall for you! Am I out of the penalty box now?

sailor55330 wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2019 2:40 pm
So, the home office of my company is in a very liberal geography and I continually hear the bashings of our current government and how terrible things are for them and that it's the worst time ever in this country's history. Keep in mind these are people that are well educated and compensated and professional about most things. They continued to bash the current administration extra hard during one breakfast session for about 20 mins, citing media story after media story--I just listened. They asked my opinion and I said, personally, I think there are a lot of policies that are being proposed/implemented that are good for the country, but sometimes the delivery is lacking. I was told how wrong I was and that I didn't understand, blah, blah, blah.....How could I be so blind and ignorant to the truth. My response to them was, "I'll make you a deal...if you can tell me how YOU personally are worse off because of our current administration, I'll be happy to sit here and take all the bashing you can dish out". I got several generic responses that cited basic headlines and generalities as shared by the news, but when I pressed them for their personal experiences of how they are personally worse now than 3 years ago, not one single person could give an example of my request.

Krob1114 wrote: Mon May 22, 2023 9:48 am

sailor55330 wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2019 2:40 pm
So, the home office of my company is in a very liberal geography and I continually hear the bashings of our current government and how terrible things are for them and that it's the worst time ever in this country's history. Keep in mind these are people that are well educated and compensated and professional about most things. They continued to bash the current administration extra hard during one breakfast session for about 20 mins, citing media story after media story--I just listened. They asked my opinion and I said, personally, I think there are a lot of policies that are being proposed/implemented that are good for the country, but sometimes the delivery is lacking. I was told how wrong I was and that I didn't understand, blah, blah, blah.....How could I be so blind and ignorant to the truth. My response to them was, "I'll make you a deal...if you can tell me how YOU personally are worse off because of our current administration, I'll be happy to sit here and take all the bashing you can dish out". I got several generic responses that cited basic headlines and generalities as shared by the news, but when I pressed them for their personal experiences of how they are personally worse now than 3 years ago, not one single person could give an example of my request.

This story reminds me of my 28 years of working in a casino. No matter how good it is under a conservative administration, I hear nothing but bitching. No matter how bad it is during liberal administration, I hear silence. No one is complaining about Korea shooting off missiles, the invasion of Crimea or the Ukraine, what our allies think of us being weak, Haliburton's contracts, the cost of gas, the cost of food, inflation, shortages, supply chain, the end of the constitution, the threats to democracy, etc. Plus, I'm amazed of how many people without jobs spend so much time gambling large sums of money.

Back on subject of dealing with the public. We had a guy that used to come in and gamble and play really large sums of money. He would berate the dealers, threaten them, and no one liked dealing to him. I thought of it as just part of the job. One day I was dealing blackjack to him, he was playing $10k on two hands. I had a bust card up so he split hands and doubled down. I drew out 20. He cussed me for several minutes about taking $80k from him. I just stopped dealing until he stopped talking. I calmly stated that I worked 2,000 hours a year, my wife worked 2,000 hours a year, and we didn't bring home $80k a year (in the 90's), and you want me to feel sorry for you? From that point on, the guy went out of his way to be nice to me.