In news:rec.food.cooking, "J. Clarke" > posted on
Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:28:16 -0400 the following:

> The thing is, Dameus, to you anything other than lazing about and
> smoking weed sucks. Maybe you want to be paid to do that.

I don't want to be paid to do anything. It's just that people seem so
addicted to money that I doubt I could convince anyone to work for free. I
would, but then I would be laughed at because I don't love money as much
as other people do. And even if I work for free, people love money so
much that they would still want me to give them some for a hamburger.

Damaeus
--
"Marijuana inflames the erotic impulses and leads to revolting sex
crimes"
-Daily Mirror (1924)

In news:rec.food.cooking, brooklyn1 > posted on
Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:14:29 -0400 the following:

> Damaeus wrote:
>
> > I promote the rights of the lowly hourly wage earners.
>
> That doesn't include you, batty boy. LOL

I'm on vacation. I'm just not getting paid for it. Other people take
vacations and get paid for it. Why can't I take one without getting paid?

Damaeus
--
The Poop that Took a Pee

Chapter 1

Douglas had to poop. His butt was all stinky because he had to
poop so badly.
There was a gross woman named Rebecca who was sunbathing all naked
and she was fat.
Douglas walked up to her and said, "I need to poop."
"Okay," Rebeccal replied. "I like poop."
Douglas squatted down over the fat, sunbathing lady and went poop.
The poop sat there on Rebecca's boobs looking like a weiner.

Chapter 2

DamnAnus wrote:
>"J. Clarke" wrote:
>>
>> The first step to success is to recognize what parts of your life you
>> personally have screwed up so that you can start unscrewing them.
>
>the rules can become so screwed up that the rules are what need unscrewing,

You choose to be screwed... your butt's been screwed so often that
it's way too late for your butt to be unscrewed... your ass has been
seriously cross threaded... DamnAnus has been internally buttress
threaded... so he can't escape, or leak! LOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttress_thread

In article >,
Damaeus > wrote:

> Usually a motivating boss made me mad and made me want to go
> home, just because, by being the boss, he felt like he needed to come by
> and tell me what to do, even though I already had it in my mental plan for
> the day.
> Damaeus

Sounds like you had serious communication problems.


--
Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://web.me.com/barbschaller
Updated 4-11-2010

On 4/19/2010 10:01 AM, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> In >,
> > wrote:
>
>> Usually a motivating boss made me mad and made me want to go
>> home, just because, by being the boss, he felt like he needed to come by
>> and tell me what to do, even though I already had it in my mental plan for
>> the day.
>> Damaeus
>
> Sounds like you had serious communication problems.

First, he doesn't understand the concept of "motivating boss" and
confuses it with "micromanaging boss".

Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> DamnAnus wrote:
>
>> Usually a motivating boss made me mad and made me want to go
>> home, just because, by being the boss, he felt like he needed to come by
>> and tell me what to do, even though I already had it in my mental plan for
>> the day.
>
>Sounds like you had serious communication problems.

He has a serious problem with authority.

DamnAnus never would have made it through boot camp... he would have
told and begged.

In article >,
"J. Clarke" > wrote:

> On 4/19/2010 10:01 AM, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> > In >,
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> Usually a motivating boss made me mad and made me want to go
> >> home, just because, by being the boss, he felt like he needed to come by
> >> and tell me what to do, even though I already had it in my mental plan for
> >> the day.
> >> Damaeus
> >
> > Sounds like you had serious communication problems.
>
> First, he doesn't understand the concept of "motivating boss" and
> confuses it with "micromanaging boss".

Second, he has a problem with "authority figures".

Third, I suspect that he knew he was supposed to do it (in his mental
plan, he says), but that both he and his boss "knew" that it was going
to be like his current job, existing only as a vague plan in his mind.
At the end of the shift, without the reminder from the boss, it just
"wouldn't have happened". He could have claimed any of a million
excuses, but once the boss explicitly told him to do it, they wouldn't
work.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

gloria.p wrote:

> An associate problem is that many think there's only ONE WAY to do a job
> and that's their way. Even if the employee has devised/discovered a
> faster, cheaper, easier way to do exactly the same task and get exactly
> the same result, it's WRONG and must be stopped. That often happens
> because the manager is not smart enough to figure out how the better way
> works. (Don't ask me how I know that.)


One of my former bosses was a complete idiot. I don't know how he ever
got into management, other than being a toady. He was clueless. He was
always very negative. No matter how hard you worked and how much you
completed, he would always look for something negative. It was even
worse that he was inclined to take a negative view of any suggestions
made. It seemed pointless to even try to suggest something because while
you are trying to explain the method and the procedures you could see
the gears grinding in his head as he looked for the disadvantages.

I learned to use that to my advantage. I discovered that if I suggested
the opposite of what I wanted he would take a contrary stand, so I ended
up getting what I wanted. The best incident was one where I screwed up
once while working an afternoon shift. I had made a really bad decision
and I knew that the weasel I was working with would rat me out. When I
got back to the office at the end of the shift I left a note for the
boss, explaining what had happened and how I screwed up. The next day I
showed up for work early and went to the boss's office to explain it in
person. It worked like a charm. Since I had said that I screwed up, it
was his nature to disagree and that there was nothing to worry about.

When I had to go in for my annual evaluation he brought up that incident
and said that he should have raked me over the coals for that one. I
agreed, saying that it was really bad judgment. Once again, he could not
help but to take the opposite view and disagree and told me not to worry
about it. :-)

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:45:59 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:

> gloria.p wrote:
>> blake murphy wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> i think the problem with some managers is that they think they could
>>> do every subordinate's job *better* than they can. it leads to a
>>> lot of micro-management second-guessing and resentment on the part
>>> of said subordinates.
>
>> An associate problem is that many think there's only ONE WAY to do a
>> job and that's their way. Even if the employee has
>> devised/discovered a faster, cheaper, easier way to do exactly the
>> same task and get exactly the same result, it's WRONG and must be
>> stopped. That often happens because the manager is not smart enough
>> to figure out how the better way works. (Don't ask me how I know
>> that.)
>
> I don't understand how it can be we all worked for the same person
> at one time or another. Maybe they move a lot.
>
> nancy

<snort>

your pal,
blake

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:53:11 -0700, Mark Thorson wrote:

> Damaeus wrote:
>>
>> In news:rec.food.cooking, George Leppla > posted
>> on Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:49:07 -0500 the following:
>>
>>> Are you going to carry all of that around for eternity?
>>
>> Nah, the only reason I even post here is because I haven't found all my
>> key holes yet. Compared to what I'll be doing later, this is the most
>> boring kind of Hell there is. Cooking? Washing dishes? Posting messages
>> on the internet? Boooorrrriiiinnnngggg. But getting ****ed off is good
>> for you. It reveals a lot if you're self-observant.
>
> I seldom say this, but you need Scientology.

<snort>

might be tough to save up the e-meter fees if you're not working, though.

your pal,
blake

blake murphy wrote:
>
> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:53:11 -0700, Mark Thorson wrote:
>
> > I seldom say this, but you need Scientology.
>
> <snort>
>
> might be tough to save up the e-meter fees if you're not working, though.

If you go on staff, the auditing sessions are free.

In news:rec.food.cooking, brooklyn1 > posted on
Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:26:30 -0400 the following:

> You choose to be screwed... your butt's been screwed so often that
> it's way too late for your butt to be unscrewed... your ass has been
> seriously cross threaded... DamnAnus has been internally buttress
> threaded... so he can't escape, or leak! LOL

Do you realize what extremely bad taste it is to laugh at your own humor?
I mean, really... Try to be funny if you want to, but ending your post in
"LOL" just makes you look like a really bad comedian who laughs at his own
jokes out of the fear nobody else will think it's funny. You know... like
a laugh track in a sitcom. "Okay, laugh at this because it's funny."

Damaeus
--
"Marijuana inflames the erotic impulses and leads to revolting sex
crimes"
-Daily Mirror (1924)

In news:rec.food.cooking, Melba's Jammin' >
posted on Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:01:02 -0500 the following:

> In article >,
> Damaeus > wrote:
>
> > Usually a motivating boss made me mad and made me want to go home,
> > just because, by being the boss, he felt like he needed to come by and
> > tell me what to do, even though I already had it in my mental plan for
> > the day.
>
> Sounds like you had serious communication problems.

How?

Damaeus
--
"Marijuana inflames the erotic impulses and leads to revolting sex
crimes"
-Daily Mirror (1924)

In news:rec.food.cooking, "J. Clarke" > posted on
Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:09:04 -0400 the following:

> On 4/19/2010 10:01 AM, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> > In >,
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> Usually a motivating boss made me mad and made me want to go
> >> home, just because, by being the boss, he felt like he needed to come by
> >> and tell me what to do, even though I already had it in my mental plan for
> >> the day.
> >> Damaeus
> >
> > Sounds like you had serious communication problems.
>
> First, he doesn't understand the concept of "motivating boss" and
> confuses it with "micromanaging boss".

I don't think I've ever had a motivating boss. What do they do?

Damaeus
--
"Marijuana inflames the erotic impulses and leads to revolting sex
crimes"
-Daily Mirror (1924)

In news:rec.food.cooking, Dan Abel > posted on Mon, 19 Apr
2010 09:22:48 -0700 the following:

> Second, he has a problem with "authority figures".

Depends on the authority and how it's executed.

> Third, I suspect that he knew he was supposed to do it (in his mental
> plan, he says), but that both he and his boss "knew" that it was going
> to be like his current job, existing only as a vague plan in his mind.
> At the end of the shift, without the reminder from the boss, it just
> "wouldn't have happened".

Stack of false assumptions noted and discarded.

> He could have claimed any of a million excuses, but once the boss
> explicitly told him to do it, they wouldn't work.

WTF. You're definitely not talking about me.

Damaeus
--
"Marijuana inflames the erotic impulses and leads to revolting sex
crimes"
-Daily Mirror (1924)

In news:rec.food.cooking, Mark Thorson > posted on Sat,
17 Apr 2010 14:53:11 -0700 the following:

> I seldom say this, but you need Scientology.

No thanks. I don't do religion. I also don't believe we were planted
here by aliens.

Damaeus
--
"Marijuana inflames the erotic impulses and leads to revolting sex
crimes"
-Daily Mirror (1924)

On 4/19/2010 4:58 PM, Damaeus wrote:
> In news:rec.food.cooking, "J. > posted on
> Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:09:04 -0400 the following:
>
>> On 4/19/2010 10:01 AM, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>>> In >,
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Usually a motivating boss made me mad and made me want to go
>>>> home, just because, by being the boss, he felt like he needed to come by
>>>> and tell me what to do, even though I already had it in my mental plan for
>>>> the day.
>>>> Damaeus
>>>
>>> Sounds like you had serious communication problems.
>>
>> First, he doesn't understand the concept of "motivating boss" and
>> confuses it with "micromanaging boss".
>
> I don't think I've ever had a motivating boss. What do they do?

Make you want to work.

"J. Clarke" > wrote in message ...
| On 4/19/2010 4:58 PM, Damaeus wrote:
| > In news:rec.food.cooking, "J. > posted on
| > Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:09:04 -0400 the following:
| >
| >> On 4/19/2010 10:01 AM, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
| >>> In >,
| >>> > wrote:
| >>>
| >>>> Usually a motivating boss made me mad and made me want to go
| >>>> home, just because, by being the boss, he felt like he needed to come by
| >>>> and tell me what to do, even though I already had it in my mental plan for
| >>>> the day.
| >>>> Damaeus
| >>>
| >>> Sounds like you had serious communication problems.
| >>
| >> First, he doesn't understand the concept of "motivating boss" and
| >> confuses it with "micromanaging boss".
| >
| > I don't think I've ever had a motivating boss. What do they do?
|
| Make you want to work.

Make you want to think.

In news:rec.food.cooking, "J. Clarke" > posted on
Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:59:18 -0400 the following:

> On 4/19/2010 4:58 PM, Damaeus wrote:
> > In news:rec.food.cooking, "J. > posted
> > on Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:09:04 -0400 the following:
> >
> > > On 4/19/2010 10:01 AM, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> > > > In >,
> > > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Usually a motivating boss made me mad and made me want to go
> > > > > home, just because, by being the boss, he felt like he needed to
> > > > > come by and tell me what to do, even though I already had it in
> > > > > my mental plan for the day.
> > > >
> > > > Sounds like you had serious communication problems.
> > >
> > > First, he doesn't understand the concept of "motivating boss" and
> > > confuses it with "micromanaging boss".
> >
> > I don't think I've ever had a motivating boss. What do they do?
>
> Make you want to work.

I already wanted to work. I didn't need any extra motivation. That's why
someone who thought I needed to be motivated made me sick. For example,
when I worked for Wal-Mart, the management found it necessary to engage us
all in some dreadful experience called "The Wal-Mart Cheer". It wasn't
something you could just refrain from doing out of your own sense of
dignity. It was mandatory. If you were seen not expressing the Wal-Mart
Cheer, you risked being written up by management. Whatever made the
managers of those places think that we need to be humiliated by being
forced to dance like puppets just to keep our jobs? That didn't make me
want to work. It made me want to throw up and go home, or do anything but
continue to stand there and look like an idiot just to keep my job. I
felt like I was dressed in tights and a tutu, and expected to dance like a
ballerina just to keep from being fired.

And yet... those jobs still need to be done by someone. Is it okay that
the many hundreds of thousands of workers expected to do the Wal-Mart
Cheer every morning are humiliated by their confinement to a job, just
because they haven't learned how to be an accountant or a doctor?

Damaeus
--
"Marijuana inflames the erotic impulses and leads to revolting sex
crimes"
-Daily Mirror (1924)

In article >,
Damaeus > wrote:

> In news:rec.food.cooking, Melba's Jammin' >
> posted on Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:01:02 -0500 the following:
>
> > In article >,
> > Damaeus > wrote:
> >
> > > Usually a motivating boss made me mad and made me want to go home,
> > > just because, by being the boss, he felt like he needed to come by and
> > > tell me what to do, even though I already had it in my mental plan for
> > > the day.
> >
> > Sounds like you had serious communication problems.
>
> How?
>
> Damaeus

When you came in you could've told him what your plan for the day was
and ask if there was anything else he wanted you to pay attention to.
He can't read your mental plan.

--
Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://web.me.com/barbschaller
Updated 4-11-2010

In article >,
"J. Clarke" > wrote:

> On 4/19/2010 10:01 AM, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> > In >,
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> Usually a motivating boss made me mad and made me want to go
> >> home, just because, by being the boss, he felt like he needed to come by
> >> and tell me what to do, even though I already had it in my mental plan for
> >> the day.
> >> Damaeus
> >
> > Sounds like you had serious communication problems.
>
> First, he doesn't understand the concept of "motivating boss" and
> confuses it with "micromanaging boss".

:-)


--
Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://web.me.com/barbschaller
Updated 4-11-2010

On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:59:18 -0400, J. Clarke wrote:

> On 4/19/2010 4:58 PM, Damaeus wrote:
>> In news:rec.food.cooking, "J. > posted on
>> Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:09:04 -0400 the following:
>>
>>> On 4/19/2010 10:01 AM, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>>>> In >,
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Usually a motivating boss made me mad and made me want to go
>>>>> home, just because, by being the boss, he felt like he needed to come by
>>>>> and tell me what to do, even though I already had it in my mental plan for
>>>>> the day.
>>>>> Damaeus
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like you had serious communication problems.
>>>
>>> First, he doesn't understand the concept of "motivating boss" and
>>> confuses it with "micromanaging boss".
>>
>> I don't think I've ever had a motivating boss. What do they do?
>
> Make you want to work.

i've had bosses i'd crawl over broken glass for and bosses i wouldn't cross
the street for. mutual trust and respect, i think, and being candid made
the difference.

your pal,
blake

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:19:31 -0400, blake murphy
> wrote:

>On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:59:18 -0400, J. Clarke wrote:
>
>> On 4/19/2010 4:58 PM, Damaeus wrote:
>>> In news:rec.food.cooking, "J. > posted on
>>> Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:09:04 -0400 the following:
>>>
>>>> On 4/19/2010 10:01 AM, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>>>>> In >,
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Usually a motivating boss made me mad and made me want to go
>>>>>> home, just because, by being the boss, he felt like he needed to come by
>>>>>> and tell me what to do, even though I already had it in my mental plan for
>>>>>> the day.
>>>>>> Damaeus
>>>>>
>>>>> Sounds like you had serious communication problems.
>>>>
>>>> First, he doesn't understand the concept of "motivating boss" and
>>>> confuses it with "micromanaging boss".
>>>
>>> I don't think I've ever had a motivating boss. What do they do?
>>
>> Make you want to work.
>
>i've had bosses i'd crawl over broken glass for.

Crawl... don't you mean slither?

"blake murphy" > wrote
>>>
>>> I don't think I've ever had a motivating boss. What do they do?
>>
>> Make you want to work.
>
> i've had bosses i'd crawl over broken glass for and bosses i wouldn't
> cross
> the street for. mutual trust and respect, i think, and being candid made
> the difference.
>
> your pal,
> blake

I've had them too. How is a boss chosen? Often, he is a person that knows
the job well, has been loyal to the company and is made the boss even though
he has no idea how to supervise and manage people. If he has been beaten up
by his bosses over the years, he may think that is what you are supposed to
do. You may be the best at doing your job, but that does not mean you are
good at getting others to do their jobs well. Very often, supervising is
the same as being a parent.

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
> I've had them too. How is a boss chosen? Often, he is a person that knows
> the job well, has been loyal to the company and is made the boss even though
> he has no idea how to supervise and manage people. If he has been beaten up
> by his bosses over the years, he may think that is what you are supposed to
> do. You may be the best at doing your job, but that does not mean you are
> good at getting others to do their jobs well. Very often, supervising is
> the same as being a parent.

Every manager should read the book THE TECHNIQUE
OF HANDLING PEOPLE by the Lairds.

There were two editions, 1943 and 1954. You can hunt
for them he

http://used.addall.com/

This is probably the best book ever written on
being a manager. It's a fairly short book, so
you can read it in an afternoon.

It was popular in its time, and copies are
widely available cheaply.

In article >,
"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote:

> I've had them too. How is a boss chosen? Often, he is a person that knows
> the job well, has been loyal to the company and is made the boss even though
> he has no idea how to supervise and manage people.

The Peter Principle in action.

--
Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://web.me.com/barbschaller
Updated 4-11-2010

"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
...
> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>
>> I've had them too. How is a boss chosen? Often, he is a person that
>> knows
>> the job well, has been loyal to the company and is made the boss even
>> though
>> he has no idea how to supervise and manage people. If he has been beaten
>> up
>> by his bosses over the years, he may think that is what you are supposed
>> to
>> do. You may be the best at doing your job, but that does not mean you
>> are
>> good at getting others to do their jobs well. Very often, supervising is
>> the same as being a parent.
>
> Every manager should read the book THE TECHNIQUE
> OF HANDLING PEOPLE by the Lairds.
>
> There were two editions, 1943 and 1954. You can hunt
> for them he
>
> http://used.addall.com/
>
> This is probably the best book ever written on
> being a manager. It's a fairly short book, so
> you can read it in an afternoon.
>
> It was popular in its time, and copies are
> widely available cheaply.

Thanks, I'll probably get a couple of copies as I know people that should
read it. One simple thing I've tried to teach is to treat others the way
you expect to be treated. Respect goes a long way.

In news:rec.food.cooking, Melba's Jammin' >
posted on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:17:47 -0500 the following:

> In article >,
> Damaeus > wrote:
>
> > In news:rec.food.cooking, Melba's Jammin' >
> > posted on Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:01:02 -0500 the following:
> >
> > > In article >,
> > > Damaeus > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Usually a motivating boss made me mad and made me want to go home,
> > > > just because, by being the boss, he felt like he needed to come by and
> > > > tell me what to do, even though I already had it in my mental plan for
> > > > the day.
> > >
> > > Sounds like you had serious communication problems.
> >
> > How?
>
> When you came in you could've told him what your plan for the day was
> and ask if there was anything else he wanted you to pay attention to.
> He can't read your mental plan.

Oh, I thought that would have been taken as brown-nosing. I don't mind
having some degree of respect for a boss, but I don't suck his ass just
because he's the boss. If he doesn't care to ask me what my plans are for
the day, why should I bother to tell him? He might think I'm wanting to
judge him for some sign of approval or disapproval. If he trusts me
enough to do my job that he hired me to take care of a department, why
should he be so interested in hearing about the details of what I plan if
he hasn't specifically asked me? If I've got it in my mind to do
something, and I start working on it without telling him and it doesn't go
quite as well as I planned, then I won't have to promise him rainbows and
end up delivering disasters. I avoid crushing his hopes, and if I
accomplish something before he catches me in the middle of doing something
and questions it, he'll get lots of surprises that builds his trust in me
more.

Damaeus
--
THE POOP THAT TOOK A PEE

Chapter 1

Douglas had to poop. His butt was all stinky because he had to
poop so badly.
There was a gross woman named Rebecca who was sunbathing all naked
and she was fat.
Douglas walked up to her and said, "I need to poop."
"Okay," Rebecca replied. "I like poop."
Douglas squatted down over the fat, sunbathing lady and went poop.
The poop sat there on Rebecca's boobs looking like a weiner.

Chapter 2

-- South Park: "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs"

On 4/20/2010 9:36 AM, Damaeus wrote:
> In news:rec.food.cooking, "J. > posted on
> Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:59:18 -0400 the following:
>
>> On 4/19/2010 4:58 PM, Damaeus wrote:
>>> In news:rec.food.cooking, "J. > posted
>>> on Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:09:04 -0400 the following:
>>>
>>>> On 4/19/2010 10:01 AM, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>>>>> In >,
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Usually a motivating boss made me mad and made me want to go
>>>>>> home, just because, by being the boss, he felt like he needed to
>>>>>> come by and tell me what to do, even though I already had it in
>>>>>> my mental plan for the day.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sounds like you had serious communication problems.
>>>>
>>>> First, he doesn't understand the concept of "motivating boss" and
>>>> confuses it with "micromanaging boss".
>>>
>>> I don't think I've ever had a motivating boss. What do they do?
>>
>> Make you want to work.
>
> I already wanted to work. I didn't need any extra motivation.

Then a motivating boss would have used you as an example.

> That's why
> someone who thought I needed to be motivated made me sick.

Why do you object to someone wanting you to be in the state that you
claim you were already in?

> For example,
> when I worked for Wal-Mart, the management found it necessary to engage us
> all in some dreadful experience called "The Wal-Mart Cheer". It wasn't
> something you could just refrain from doing out of your own sense of
> dignity. It was mandatory. If you were seen not expressing the Wal-Mart
> Cheer, you risked being written up by management. Whatever made the
> managers of those places think that we need to be humiliated by being
> forced to dance like puppets just to keep our jobs? That didn't make me
> want to work. It made me want to throw up and go home, or do anything but
> continue to stand there and look like an idiot just to keep my job. I
> felt like I was dressed in tights and a tutu, and expected to dance like a
> ballerina just to keep from being fired.

Were you required to dance, or just to cheer? If everybody is doing it
why does your doing it "humiliate" you?

> And yet... those jobs still need to be done by someone. Is it okay that
> the many hundreds of thousands of workers expected to do the Wal-Mart
> Cheer every morning are humiliated by their confinement to a job, just
> because they haven't learned how to be an accountant or a doctor?

I guess that all the Japanese who have to do calisthenics before work
are also "humiliated".

You seem far to easily humiliated. A hitch in the Marines would have
done you a world of good.

J. Clarke wrote:

> You seem far to easily humiliated. A hitch in the Marines would have
> done you a world of good.
>
oh hell, a hitch in the Girl Scouts would have done a world of good....

"J. Clarke" > wrote
>> when I worked for Wal-Mart, the management found it necessary to engage
>> us
>> all in some dreadful experience called "The Wal-Mart Cheer". It wasn't
>> something you could just refrain from doing out of your own sense of
>> dignity. It was mandatory.
>
> Were you required to dance, or just to cheer? If everybody is doing it
> why does your doing it "humiliate" you?
>

I'd have a difficult time doing some dumb cheer too. I'm not an outwardly
exuberant personality and doing a cheer or acting like the idiots on game
shows is kind of silly to me. I have no problems speaking to an audience
of any size, but I'm not going to jump up and down, clap and cheer. Not
enough booze in the world to make me either.

"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
...
>
> "J. Clarke" > wrote
>>> when I worked for Wal-Mart, the management found it necessary to engage
>>> us
>>> all in some dreadful experience called "The Wal-Mart Cheer". It wasn't
>>> something you could just refrain from doing out of your own sense of
>>> dignity. It was mandatory.
>>
>> Were you required to dance, or just to cheer? If everybody is doing it
>> why does your doing it "humiliate" you?
>>
>
> I'd have a difficult time doing some dumb cheer too. I'm not an outwardly
> exuberant personality and doing a cheer or acting like the idiots on game
> shows is kind of silly to me. I have no problems speaking to an audience
> of any size, but I'm not going to jump up and down, clap and cheer. Not
> enough booze in the world to make me either.

Yeah, Ed, but you are (kinda) smart, and you don't have that chip on your
shoulder (the size of Alaska) like dameous has. And you'd (probably) never
need to get a job at WallyMart, either.


>

"Damaeus" > wrote in message
...
>
> Oh, I thought that would have been taken as brown-nosing. I don't mind
> having some degree of respect for a boss, but I don't suck his ass just
> because he's the boss. If he doesn't care to ask me what my plans are for
> the day, why should I bother to tell him? He might think I'm wanting to
> judge him for some sign of approval or disapproval. If he trusts me
> enough to do my job that he hired me to take care of a department, why
> should he be so interested in hearing about the details of what I plan if
> he hasn't specifically asked me? If I've got it in my mind to do
> something, and I start working on it without telling him and it doesn't go
> quite as well as I planned, then I won't have to promise him rainbows and
> end up delivering disasters. I avoid crushing his hopes, and if I
> accomplish something before he catches me in the middle of doing something
> and questions it, he'll get lots of surprises that builds his trust in me
> more.
>
>

Doesn't that huge stick hurt? No, that one. Yeah, that one the size of a
Redwood tree that you have stuck up your BUTT. Doesn't it hurt, or has it
been there so long that you kinda like it?

In news:rec.food.cooking, "J. Clarke" > posted on
Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:57:13 -0400 the following:

> On 4/20/2010 9:36 AM, Damaeus wrote:
>
> > Whatever made the managers of those places think that we need to be
> > humiliated by being forced to dance like puppets just to keep our
> > jobs? That didn't make me want to work. It made me want to throw up
> > and go home, or do anything but continue to stand there and look like
> > an idiot just to keep my job. I felt like I was dressed in tights and
> > a tutu, and expected to dance like a ballerina just to keep from being
> > fired.
>
> Were you required to dance, or just to cheer? If everybody is doing it
> why does your doing it "humiliate" you?

If everybody was scooting their naked buttholes around a carpet store, I
wouldn't do that without feeling humiliation.

Damaeus
--
"Marijuana inflames the erotic impulses and leads to revolting sex
crimes"
-Daily Mirror (1924)

In news:rec.food.cooking, " Joe" > posted on Thu, 22 Apr 2010
09:29:14 -0400 the following:

> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
> ...
>
> > I'd have a difficult time doing some dumb cheer too. I'm not an
> > outwardly exuberant personality and doing a cheer or acting like the
> > idiots on game shows is kind of silly to me. I have no problems
> > speaking to an audience of any size, but I'm not going to jump up and
> > down, clap and cheer. Not enough booze in the world to make me
> > either.
>
> Yeah, Ed, but you are (kinda) smart, and you don't have that chip on
> your shoulder (the size of Alaska) like dameous has.

I don't have a chip on my shoulder. You just assume I do since I don't
love the work/wage game as much as you do.

> And you'd (probably) never need to get a job at WallyMart, either.

Oh, please. I was 18, and worked there until I was 24. -.- I wouldn't go
back to Wal-Mart.

I don't think cheering is very "intelligent", myself. It's gorilla-like
behavior. I was never a cheerer, nor an enthusiastic applauser. At first
I would half-heartedly clap my hands in the presence of others to avoid
looking like a complete alien, but my heart wasn't in it.

Damaeus
--
"Marijuana inflames the erotic impulses and leads to revolting sex
crimes"
-Daily Mirror (1924)

In news:rec.food.cooking, " Joe" > posted on Thu, 22 Apr 2010
09:32:37 -0400 the following:

> "Damaeus" > wrote in message
> ...
>
> > I avoid crushing his hopes, and if I accomplish something before he
> > catches me in the middle of doing something and questions it, he'll get
> > lots of surprises that builds his trust in me more.
>
> Doesn't that huge stick hurt? No, that one. Yeah, that one the size of a
> Redwood tree that you have stuck up your BUTT. Doesn't it hurt, or has it
> been there so long that you kinda like it?

I don't understand the question, nor how it relates to my post, but that
isn't really too surprising in this group.

Damaeus
--
"Marijuana inflames the erotic impulses and leads to revolting sex
crimes"
-Daily Mirror (1924)

Damnanus spat:
>
>If everybody was scooting their naked buttholes around a carpet store, I
>wouldn't do that without feeling humiliation.

You wouldn't, you wave your anus around 24/7.

"Damaeus" > wrote in message
...
| In news:rec.food.cooking, " Joe" > posted on Thu, 22 Apr 2010
| 09:32:37 -0400 the following:
|
| > "Damaeus" > wrote in message
| > ...
| >
| > > I avoid crushing his hopes, and if I accomplish something before he
| > > catches me in the middle of doing something and questions it, he'll get
| > > lots of surprises that builds his trust in me more.
| >
| > Doesn't that huge stick hurt? No, that one. Yeah, that one the size of a
| > Redwood tree that you have stuck up your BUTT. Doesn't it hurt, or has it
| > been there so long that you kinda like it?
|
| I don't understand the question, nor how it relates to my post, but that
| isn't really too surprising in this group.

True. You ought to acknowledge our inferiority and go away. Try Urban
Legends or Vampires.floof.floof or something else to give you your needed
intellectual challenge. Don't worry about us, we will somehow survive your
absence. But it has been a pleasure.

pavane

On 4/25/2010 5:52 PM, Damaeus wrote:
> In news:rec.food.cooking, "J. > posted on
> Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:57:13 -0400 the following:
>
>> On 4/20/2010 9:36 AM, Damaeus wrote:
>>
>>> Whatever made the managers of those places think that we need to be
>>> humiliated by being forced to dance like puppets just to keep our
>>> jobs? That didn't make me want to work. It made me want to throw up
>>> and go home, or do anything but continue to stand there and look like
>>> an idiot just to keep my job. I felt like I was dressed in tights and
>>> a tutu, and expected to dance like a ballerina just to keep from being
>>> fired.
>>
>> Were you required to dance, or just to cheer? If everybody is doing it
>> why does your doing it "humiliate" you?
>
> If everybody was scooting their naked buttholes around a carpet store, I
> wouldn't do that without feeling humiliation.

Well then I suggest you never, ever, EVER fall in love with a dominatrix.

On 4/25/2010 5:56 PM, Damaeus wrote:
> In news:rec.food.cooking, " > posted on Thu, 22 Apr 2010
> 09:29:14 -0400 the following:
>
>> "Ed > wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>>> I'd have a difficult time doing some dumb cheer too. I'm not an
>>> outwardly exuberant personality and doing a cheer or acting like the
>>> idiots on game shows is kind of silly to me. I have no problems
>>> speaking to an audience of any size, but I'm not going to jump up and
>>> down, clap and cheer. Not enough booze in the world to make me
>>> either.
>>
>> Yeah, Ed, but you are (kinda) smart, and you don't have that chip on
>> your shoulder (the size of Alaska) like dameous has.
>
> I don't have a chip on my shoulder. You just assume I do since I don't
> love the work/wage game as much as you do.
>
>> And you'd (probably) never need to get a job at WallyMart, either.
>
> Oh, please. I was 18, and worked there until I was 24. -.- I wouldn't go
> back to Wal-Mart.
>
> I don't think cheering is very "intelligent", myself. It's gorilla-like
> behavior. I was never a cheerer, nor an enthusiastic applauser. At first
> I would half-heartedly clap my hands in the presence of others to avoid
> looking like a complete alien, but my heart wasn't in it.

Who is happier, you or a gorilla?