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Topic Started: Jan 15 2017, 02:22 AM (1,637 Views)
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Jefe... wherever you are, bro, please stay safe.
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Currently at Rolling Hills Casino about to have fish n chips. The seat in my 2018 Freightliner Cascadia (love what they've done with the body and interior) is just great! Can't get the damn steering wheel where I want it so it doesn't screw with my shoulders.

At least there's 8 out of 10 Cats on Youtube. :P
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Jefe... wherever you are, bro, please stay safe.


Dallas is way too far inland to be in the path of any hurricane, no matter how big and powerful. It's the Gulf Coast where you have to worry. Up here though, at the most we'd get nothing but the remnants of a once mighty hurricane, commonly know as thunderstorms

That's the thing about Texas... it's really big.
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I might as well return my car. There's no way I can keep up with the payments if I can't even get someone to give me a damn interview. I'd also applied to a nearby company that sells materials to construction companies (like aggregates and such), for a position as a general laborer.

But apparently I must not even meet the requirements to do ANYTHING because of a lack of experience.

On top of that, I'd checked for all of the job openings working for the state, and of those that aren't too far away, I need a bachelor's degree of one kind or another for any of them.

I wouldn't be surprised if, before too long, going to college becomes legally mandatory (but still at your expense), just like having insurance.
Since my liver is larger than my heart, does that mean I'm designed to drink more and care less?
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it is "snowing" ash in Portland right now
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I'd applied for a yet another job the other day, this time at a sawmill in the town where I grew up. Their ad said they didn't require experience, either.

However, when I handed in my application, the lady said her boss wasn't in, and he'd call the number I'd given once he returned, yet I didn't get a call that day or the day after.

Which makes me think I'm not gonna get called at all, even though it hasn't been that long, because the last time I applied for a job, I heard almost the exact same thing, and that was about a month ago.
Since my liver is larger than my heart, does that mean I'm designed to drink more and care less?
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You should go to a restaurant and apply as a dishwasher. Here's why:

1. It is an entry level position. No education, experience, or qualification required. Like, at all.

2. They do not drug test. I don't care what they tell you. Take it from a guy who smoked his way through a decade waiting tables and tending bar.

3. Turnover is very high in the food service industry, so they are always hiring. Especially the big casual dining chains (Applebee's, Chili's, TGI Friday's, etc)

4. You probably won't just be washing dishes. Very likely you'd be busing tables as well, which means you'd get tipped out, same as the bartenders. Extra cash is always good.

5. Dishwashers also often do prep. And prep guys often transition into cooks. Neither step takes very long, nor requires much training.

6. Seriously, they're not gonna drug test you
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Well, the problem there is that I won't make enough to handle my bills every month, and I seriously doubt that I'd be able to get a second job to help with that problem.
Since my liver is larger than my heart, does that mean I'm designed to drink more and care less?
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So... Puerto Rico is still without power. People don't have clean water. People are dying. It's a full blown humanitarian crisis. And in case we've forgotten, these are Americans we're talking about here. Not that it makes them more important than it it were Haiti, but you would think that, given the fact that Puerto Rico is part of the wealthiest, most powerful country in the world, that we'd have our shit together down there, but we don't. We absolutely don't. It's shameful.

And Donald Trump is whining because the mayor of San Juan was mean to him. God, what a fucking child.

But hey, at least he respects the flag, right?
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What amazes me is the lack of priorities by the POTUS and our country as a whole.

Puerto Rico is in a bad way, and there was a mass shooting at a church last Sunday, but instead of using his pulpit for those (you know, things that matter), he decides to pick a fight with the NFL and a few spoiled athletes who have the audacity to tell their fans what they should or shouldn't like (and frankly, Trump shouldn't have gotten involved with that either; I am not a fan of the government sticking its long, pointy nose into the affairs of a business and making demands of it). It's a wonder people in this country know about either at all.

What aggravates me about it as well is that on the chance the mayor of San Juan is trying to use the situation for politics (and I hope that isn't the case, but some of her arguments were overreaching), he could have simply just reassured her that help was on the way and left it at that.

What does he do instead...? He, being a narcissist so full of himself that he views his own welfare and ego as what is best for the country, sees it instead as a personal challenge and therefore an affront to him... and chooses instead to harp on the mayor and Puerto Rico as a whole, kicking them all while they're down.

He just. Cannot. Help. Himself.

And it only reinforces why I and several other Constitutionalists refused to vote for him: the man has no morals, no character, no guiding principle but "I love me and I want everybody else to love me - and if they don't I'll destroy them".

I wouldn't blame anyone in PR if they feel furious when they find out that Trump spent ten days tweeting about spoiled athletes kneeling on football fields as they struggled to survive and aid from supplies, our military and other means languished in port because the POTUS didn't waive the Jones Act in a timely manner or get things moving to help these people out. This is entirely on him, and once again, he shoots himself in the foot just because he can with that big mouth of his.
Edited by Deadly Aim, Sep 30 2017, 05:49 PM.
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