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brewens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-11 12:22 AM
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64. Think about retired people that are upset with the protesters.
Not all but some anyway. They think younger people are spoiled whiners that don't want to work. I worked in the beverage industry for 15 years during the 80's and 90's with some real pricks that are retired now. They were semi-retired by the time they were 45 and had worked up to easier jobs. What they did was hang out and bullshit half the day and call anyone with complaints a lazyass.

I know a couple guys still at the same beer warehouse, now owned by a larger company. The jobs a couple of the real assholes had back in the 80's don't exist anymore. Everyone there now works their ass off all the time. You don't have an assistant manager there making big bucks and really only doing a couple hours of work on a good day.

I know a few that were alcoholics that showed up hung over for work on a daily basis. At the mill where they worked now, they wouldn't get or keep any job for long. They managed to make it to a nice retirement under the old system. Now they're the ones dead set against fixing things.
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