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luthervol said:
How in the world did I start ****? I posted a take my wife has that was related to the discussion. I don't care who agrees or disagrees with her take. There were about 5 nut jobs that tried to turn it into some type of debate about Ripken. My flaw was in responding to any of them. They had completely missed the point, and that is what is soooooooooo typical.
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Actually I believe you started the Ripken discussion then brought your wife into the fray. Like Deeble said, you picked this hill to die on, now die like a man instead of the White Guilt Socialist Progressive that you are.
 
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McDad said:
Thanks for finally getting to the most accurate answer. Could have saved some bandwidth by doing it earlier, but as as Freak's buying. ;)

One kid in my high school class was honored with perfect attendance from K through 12. He and I were in school together for 13 years. I, on the other hand, made liberal and judicious use of my sick days.
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Interesting. I had one of those in my class too and we only had about 100 students in the graduating class. That’s insane when you really think about. 13 years and not one day out. I say that, I’ve almost never been sick in my career but back in school I’d miss from time to time. Senior year I didn’t even show up until 2nd or 3rd period many days.
 
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McDad said:
What I am sharing in no way is an attempt to speak for NurseGoodVol. But health care workers tend to be very skeptical of health care emphasis being pushed from a top-down approach especially if that push is seen to be political rather than efficacious.
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Every time science has a conflict with politics, politics seem to win.
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
Actually I believe you started the Ripken discussion then brought your wife into the fray. Like Deeble said, you picked this hill to die on, now die like a man instead of the White Guilt Socialist Progressive that you are.
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Actually, I didn't.
But seeing how consistently wrong you guys are does give me a sense of satisfaction.
 
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hUTch2002 said:
Interesting. I had one of those in my class too and we only had about 100 students in the graduating class. That’s insane when you really think about. 13 years and not one day out. I say that, I’ve almost never been sick in my career but back in school I’d miss from time to time. Senior year I didn’t even show up until 2nd or 3rd period many days.
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I probably worked for 20 years and missed 3 or 4 days for being sick. My last few years weren't as generous. When a company treats someone well they get treated well back. American companies haven't figured this out yet and probably never will.
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
Actually I believe you started the Ripken discussion then brought your wife into the fray. Like Deeble said, you picked this hill to die on, now die like a man instead of the White Guilt Socialist Progressive that you are.
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For your easy reference, I'll provide my original post and the first 3 responses to it.............
luthervol said:
My wife has always made fun of the hoopla over Cal Ripken's consecutive games played.
She views it as the most selfish accomplishment in all of sports.
Her view is that there is no way that there were not days when he was a little sick or injured to the point where the backup would have been much better for the team.
She views going to work sick the same way. If you do not have a replacement that can step in during your absence, someone is not running the organization very effectively.
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NorthDallas40 said:
Sounds like we would all give your wife the same advice we give you. Butt out and mind your own damn business and don’t worry about how other people run their own lives.
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hog88 said:
Different mindset back when men were men and women respected that.
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allvol123 said:
What organizations has she run?
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VolStrom said:
I probably worked for 20 years and missed 3 or 4 days for being sick. My last few years weren't as generous. When a company treats someone well they get treated well back. American companies haven't figured this out yet and probably never will.
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Until I got sick last year and missed about 10 days I probably haven't missed 10 days in the last 20 years.
 
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luthervol said:
For your easy reference, I'll provide my original post and the first 3 responses to it.............
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Do you think this is helping? We all thought your wife’s opinion was stupid on Ripken when you first threw her under the bus to deflect a little heat from your own usual dumbassery and really didn’t need you to point it out. 🤷‍♂️
 
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VolStrom said:
I probably worked for 20 years and missed 3 or 4 days for being sick. My last few years weren't as generous. When a company treats someone well they get treated well back. American companies haven't figured this out yet and probably never will.
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American companies love to suppress pay to the point people are forced to leave to get good pay increases and they often have such poor leadership that employees are constantly turning over. About 6 years into my career I was making about 48K at a company and they weren’t paying me enough for the work I was doing, especially under an inept boss. In 6 years they had taken me from 35K to 48K and that included a couple promotions. Anyway, I had asked to be given a raise to 55K, which was a highly unusual request for the conservative company but it was fair. As it turned out I had another company reach out to me at the same time. While my current company ultimately was going to do the 55K, by the time they decided it I accepted an offer for 65K at the other company. The new job required a ton of travel and my old boss constantly wanted me to come back so after a year and a half I finally relented and went back to the original company for 75K. The morons could’ve paid me 55K and I’d have been happy but instead wound up paying me 75K a little more than a year later because they were too greedy.
 
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hUTch2002 said:
American companies love to suppress pay to the point people are forced to leave to get good pay increases and they often have such poor leadership that employees are constantly turning over. About 6 years into my career I was making about 48K at a company and they weren’t paying me enough for the work I was doing, especially under an inept boss. In 6 years they had taken me from 35K to 48K and that included a couple promotions. Anyway, I had asked to be given a raise to 55K, which was a highly unusual request for the conservative company but it was fair. As it turned out I had another company reach out to me at the same time. While my current company ultimately was going to do the 55K, by the time they decided it I accepted an offer for 65K at the other company. The new job required a ton of travel and my old boss constantly wanted me to come back so after a year and a half I finally relented and went back to the original company for 75K. The morons could’ve paid me 55K and I’d have been happy but instead wound up paying me 75K a little more than a year later because they were too greedy.
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They dont ever see the value an individual brings until they are gone.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Great to see that the CDC thinks we may "turn the corner" on the pandemic by July, even seeing a "sharp decline" in cases...

7 day average, U.S. cases/day:
Jan 8: 259,614
May 4: 48,003
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Speaking of the CDC, where did they get the idea they could extend the national eviction moratorium?

Federal judge rules national eviction moratorium exceeds the CDC's authority (nbcnews.com)


I mean, I understand the overall problem, but that far exceeds any authority they would have.
 
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