Category Archives: Employment Disasters

Pushing Cardboard

Posted on January 28, 2023 by Fec

The tall black kid who fed the printer at work was let go this afternoon, after failing to report after the last break. A few minutes later, someone very important came down to show me how to properly load the … Continue reading →

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Making Boxes

Posted on January 24, 2023 by Fec

I had a scratchy throat last week, and spent the weekend gobbling Sudafed, so that I could return to work. A tall, young black kid showed up around 7, yesterday and took command of loading the printer. I was thrilled, … Continue reading →

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Easy Money

Posted on January 19, 2023 by Fec

The third day at my new job started at 5:00 am and lasted for ten hours. I’ll do it again, tomorrow. The employment agency placed four of of us this week at a locally-owned manufacturer. Two of them failed to … Continue reading →

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Coming Together in Liberty

Posted on January 7, 2023 by Fec

I was in the Liberty Food Lion, yesterday morning, when the power went off. Rather than complain, everybody moved to the registers and got checked out, during the fifteen minutes of emergency power. Meanwhile, North of Liberty on 421, they’re … Continue reading →

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Mike Rowe Can Kiss My Ass

Posted on December 9, 2022 by Fec

Besieged as I have been, these last six weeks, with offers to deliver pizzas or work in a warehouse, I was not amused by Mike Rowe’s latest contention that men have largely given up and spend all day in front … Continue reading →

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I Was a Visual FoxPro Developer

Posted on December 1, 2022 by Fec

Since 1985, I have created and maintained databases on PCs using a succession of products starting with dBase and proceeding over 25 years to Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9. I’ll never forget the day in 2010 when I went to install … Continue reading →

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I’m Qualified to Deliver Pizzas

Posted on November 28, 2022 by Fec

Last night, I spent a couple of hours exploring the different kinds of porn, only to wake up and read a ZH article telling us how we have the world’s oldest nuclear reactors. How could I have possibly forgotten nuclear … Continue reading →

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Battling the Russian False Narrative

Posted on May 11, 2022 by Fec

I got done shipping online orders early this morning and took the opportunity to go to Liberty and mow. I try to go once a month and was encouraged to see my efforts to grow grass were successful. I’d rented … Continue reading →

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Hungary and Serbia Refrain From Poking the Bear

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Fec

Following Russia’s excellent rescue of Donbass, I killed my eight year-old pro-Russian Twitter account and took a month long vacation. We put Darth Beetle in the wind for Mt. Airy, this morning. I told the Slovakians running Thirsty Souls that … Continue reading →

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Lawndale

Posted on August 31, 2019 by Fec

Those few following me on Facebook know that the Wife, with the lease ending on her womens clothing store at Golden Gate, signed a lease on Lawndale, beside the fabulously popular Hop’s Burger Bar. We took possession of the property … Continue reading →

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