The potted plants around here are made of plastic! Should I worry?

I’m going on vacation for a long time with that $$$ =)

dumbass

Fallout 3 has a thousand flaws and there are barely any mods worth your time. There are far better games to waste it on.

Look around a bit more, be a bit more liberal with the torrents, and you’ll wonder how you ever threw away so much time with the Easy Mac of Fallout when there’s so much restaurant food out there, for free too.

America has a serious problem with executive responsibilty and shareholder rights. Shareholders albeit the owners have been disenfrachised in general and especially in regards to executive compensation. These issues are a major threat to capitalism.
In regards to executive malfeasance and capital punishment in China, Americans still live in a democracy with a functioning court system and trial by our peers. Not perfect but a far cry from fascism and communism.

Fallout 3 is a great game.

On another note, would love to have your contat info where I have some freelance writing jobs that come up from time to time. Could use a good copywriter.

And, like we say in Spain, “que te quiten lo bailao”.

>> “He’s getting paid to do nothing, and has all the free time in the world. Is he spending his time polishing his resume?”

Well, he’s spending his time…, living a life, or something. You have only one, after all.

Management is grossly incompetent in a lot of places; they don’t control their employees; they don’t posses skills in any way commensurate with the financial resources they absorb; many of them are paranoid and irrational latter climbers who negatively affect the companies they run.

It’s a lot like the many, many, people who blame those who took on mortgages they couldn’t afford for the economy woes. This even though greedy ass lenders targeted them — usually the undereducated and ignorant — with slick sales presentations on how it “would all work”.

And why? Because fucking management flat out told people to sell those loans no matter what.

And that isn’t even the real reason why it crippled the financial industry — morons sold and resold the mortgages as guaranteed investments grossly inflating their impact on the economy.

And why? To make the numbers on stock prices go up and up and up (see Enron). These geniuses figured that perception is reality in business … at least for a while. Meanwhile no one in the financial industry was able to figure out what was going on/or stop it.

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There’s a certain mentality the maintains that those who make it “to the top” must always know what they are doing and be really hard working and admirable. In truth the very opposite is very often true — the emperor has no clothes.

Now that the economy is in the shitter, more and more companies are being exposed for having terrible management structures and flimsy ass business strategies that only floated when the economy was in “irrational exuberance” (to paraphrase a recent fallen financial messiah). Now its fat cutting time, and you can thank many of the dangerously under-qualified people you look up to for it.

Sweet, but working from home means you can’t loot the office. Nor will you know when the potted plants disappear–a sure sign the axe will swing in earnest.

On the other hand, you’re not wasting money and time on the commute that you don’t get back anyway.