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tk2kewl

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9. you are right my friend

Tue Apr 17, 2012, 12:09 PM

Apr 2012

finding and keeping work is becoming harder than the work itself. and that is just the way these fuckers want it. it is way past time for the people who actually do the work of the world to start taking back what is rightfully theirs.

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If I hear one more rich fuck talk about the dignity of work... [View all] tk2kewl Apr 2012 OP

I would amend this slightly el_bryanto Apr 2012 #1

Hanging a picture doesn't count as swinging a hammer tk2kewl Apr 2012 #5

a lot of workers can't do those things Enrique Apr 2012 #7

that's fine... tk2kewl Apr 2012 #14

those things you added is what I was thinking of Enrique Apr 2012 #21

Hmmmm. Well I guess there's a few questions here el_bryanto Apr 2012 #25

For a moment of digression... tk2kewl Apr 2012 #30

ah yes... takers v. givers tk2kewl Apr 2012 #32

LOL maddiemom Apr 2012 #47

Wow liberalmike27 Apr 2012 #42

no one let r.money finish his statement the whole statement leftyohiolib Apr 2012 #2

and it's really not just the work Enrique Apr 2012 #3

you are right my friend tk2kewl Apr 2012 #9

A cowed worker pscot Apr 2012 #31

The wealthy fuckwads who spew this shit hifiguy Apr 2012 #4

George Carlin was right. Initech Apr 2012 #11

Stewie Griffin got it right hifiguy Apr 2012 #13

99 to 1 tk2kewl Apr 2012 #16

Maybe he is attacking trust fund babies. dkf Apr 2012 #6

Come on, he's "indolent and unproductive" because of his parents. sinkingfeeling Apr 2012 #8

How about pulled items in a warehouse, hedgehog Apr 2012 #10

yep tk2kewl Apr 2012 #20

There are three things you don't want to watch being made - law, sausage and software TrogL Apr 2012 #12

awww come on... tk2kewl Apr 2012 #15

You've obviously never been in an Agile scrum TrogL Apr 2012 #24

been at it for quite a while tk2kewl Apr 2012 #26

A couple of my favorite descriptions of Agile tk2kewl Apr 2012 #27

"...Doesn't just mean doing more work with fewer people" abelenkpe Apr 2012 #28

yep... that one fits perfectly with this thread tk2kewl Apr 2012 #29

+1000 nt abelenkpe Apr 2012 #18

That's being very disrespectful. Baitball Blogger Apr 2012 #17

Not if you're dressed for it pscot Apr 2012 #33

Silly. Only corporate raiding counts as dignified work ecstatic Apr 2012 #19

Post removed Post removed Apr 2012 #22

Romney is a bum on the plush abelenkpe Apr 2012 #23

Well said Fry Pan Jack. tk2kewl Apr 2012 #34

I put myself through college Mz Pip Apr 2012 #35

but those rich kids need to be smart enough to keep the proles down and their bank accounts secret tk2kewl Apr 2012 #36

Add to that how many double or even triple shifts they had to pull as well. n/t Cleita Apr 2012 #37

or 2nd or 3rd job... tk2kewl Apr 2012 #48

How would he lsewpershad Apr 2012 #38

Hey, Ann says she and Mittens lived "on the edge!" Bake Apr 2012 #39

I know what "a donkey on the edge!" looks like, but what is an elephant on the edge? tk2kewl Apr 2012 #40

I think of the movie "Clockwork Orange" when I hear that expression. . . DinahMoeHum Apr 2012 #41

If work is so dignified why did they ship our jobs overseas? McCamy Taylor Apr 2012 #43

They never do low level office work ether. Tabasco_Dave Apr 2012 #44

Most work... Johnny Noshoes Apr 2012 #45

yeah, try being a roofer in over one hundred degree heat newspeak Apr 2012 #52

Hey I totally agree. Johnny Noshoes Apr 2012 #60

These so called "job creators" guitar man Apr 2012 #46

what is dignity anymore... ? handmade34 Apr 2012 #49

nice collection tk2kewl Apr 2012 #51

Even simpler... Javaman Apr 2012 #50

How many of these jokers Glaisne Apr 2012 #53

the list go on... tk2kewl Apr 2012 #54

I did industrial temp work when I was an unemployed Ph.D. Lydia Leftcoast Apr 2012 #55

I attended but did not matriculate from a small naval architecture school... tk2kewl Apr 2012 #56

To them - "dignity of work" is code for "let's bring back slavery". Initech Apr 2012 #57

slavery IS unregulated capitalism taken to it's logical end tk2kewl Apr 2012 #58

I'm ready to bring on the revolution at this point. Initech Apr 2012 #59

There's no dignity in "work" or "jobs". Sisyphus has a job, doing work. saras Apr 2012 #61

Well said! valerief Apr 2012 #62