On 8/5/2016 8:53 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2016-08-05 8:56 AM, Sky wrote:
>> On 8/5/2016 4:53 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> On Fri, 5 Aug 2016 00:26:00 -0400, Cheryl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 7/26/2016 3:48 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> She'd get dressed, drive to work, only to have them tell her that she
>>>>>> wasn't needed that day. When she tried to call ahead of time to
>>>>>> see if
>>>>>> she was needed, they told her that she wasn't allowed to call
>>>>>> them. Or
>>>>>> on the few occasions that she did work, they'd tell her that she
>>>>>> had to
>>>>>> stay late but wouldn't allow her to call and tell us this. This of
>>>>>> course left her dad and I wondering where she was. The only thing we
>>>>>> could do was drive there and see if her car was outside. He did call
>>>>>> once to see if she was still there and she got in trouble for him
>>>>>> calling.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm sorry Julie but I find this very hard to believe.
>>>>
>>>> I think everybody does. But it's not worth engaging her. Let her
>>>> have her fantasies. That's how businesses work on Planet Bove.
>>>
>>> How could that be a fantasy? I am thinking back to the job that I had in
>>> high school. It was for an inventory company. We never knew how long our
>>> shifts might be. Sometimes they were 12 hours if you counted travel
>>> time. We could never use the phone while working. Only after we were
>>> done, only if there was time and there usually wasn't and only if we
>>> found a pay phone. No cell phones in those days.
>>
>> With nary a doubt, bove's spoiled daughter has her own cell/smart phone
>> and could have used it to "phone home". Heh, what teenager does not
>> have one these days?! Bove has been caught in another fallacy yet
>> again. Bove's job 40-years ago has no bearing whatsoever with today's
>> technology and cannot compare. Deee-bunked!
>
>
> There is a possibility that there is an element of truth to Bove's side
> of the story. I am thinking that the apple did not fall far from the
> tree and that the kid was lying to her about why she had to go out. She
> was telling her trusting mother that she was going to work and would
> then go out and party with her friends. She had a ready made excuse for
> not coming back with money.

The possibility is only too true! BTDT (oh! the stories I could tell!)

Sky

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