The Tariff Questions?

[Chargeride]

From Transilvaainia

A guy got off the train yesterday at sat outside the cafe near me, he was in his sixties, floor length orange trenchcoat with fur edged hood, orange, pink and yellow blotch jumpsuit, safari hat covered in fruit and a helium balloon attached.

He proceeded to place a backpack full of trinkets all over the table in the most gayest performance art while glancing at me for approval.
Eventually I said.
'looking good dude'.
He silently responded with the hand on chest gesture.
Cars stop for the crossing, so he had a continous captive audience.
I looked up and he was gone, he reappeared with fish and chips, I was expecting a dainty consumption, maybe with a knife and fork he had brought.
No, he destroyed the lot with his hands like a starved dog.
He crunched up the paper and burped like a sailor.
I so wanted to film him, but it wouldnt be nice.
Sometimes on my fatbike with my orange helmet I feel like a straight version of him

 

[kevinmccune]

its $18.07/hr here - and still a significant shortage of service industry workers.

a tale of two bosses,one that worked for (whom people dissed) would usually gave me a 25 cent raise if I asked Him,the other whom for some reason seemed to be admired( His brother) when I worked for him and asked" for a 25 cent,raise chuckled and told me"the trouble is there is always some poor hungry bastard who will do it for what you are getting" even told the crew we would probably get a wage reduction when we stopped doing hourly work( scale $4.25- to$4.50 if I remember correctly maybe it was $5 not sure now-this guy let me play foreman and I didn't even get to take a company vehicle home,still had to pickup crew and get everything ready,get this the vehicle generated an extra hour for the company whilst the driver and responsible person got the same amount of time as anyone else,I think the hired guys where payed close to what I was getting, the "Mantra was" truck drivers are a dime a dozen and their is an operator behind every tree both have gone on to their reward now. The boss's second eldest son who is the company prez(and a bit of prick) was having trouble getting workers finally had to start paying a competitive wage. Back in the "post bellum" days a former slave owner was purported as saying"If I had known people would work so cheap,I would have never had slaves" keep in mind this is "Appalachia" redux!

Watch the TED" talk of the "Plutocrats" warning to other "Plutocrats".