Lou Dobbs for President?

Really?  Lou Dobbs?  Gah!!!!

I advise that everyone who likes their life and doesn't want it to get way worse needs to figure out how they can help to keep this from happening.  On the bright side, this guy would actually be accountable for once.  Instead of just spouting off about how everyone else is an idiot, he might have to propose a better idea, and I am NOT talking about building 50 foot high walls on our borders, Mr Dobbs...

Clown.

When News Really Isn't News

Just some quick snark:

I logged onto CNN today to check and make sure I wasn't missing any catastrophic after three hours of meetings in the morning.  Here is what I was met with:

Nicole Richie has pneumonia

Rift over Wal-Mart checkout scuffle

I can't really say I know much about the business of internet news, but really?  A fight at a Wal-Mart and a b-to-c-list celebrity who has a cold?  What's next?  Reporting the biggest loser competitors have athlete's foot? Not that great.  I think my Facebook feed has more insightful topics than this.  That is all.

 

 

How to Spot a Bad Job

As someone who is very recently familiar with working at a terrible place for a terrible person, I have been much more diligent about trying to spot 'TERRIBLE JOBS' by closely reading job descriptions. I recently saw this posting in one of the groups I am a member of on LinkedIn:

SIGNON BONUSES OFFERED!!! $7,000EMPLOYEEREFERRALBONUS!!! FREE 42 INCH HDTV FOR THE FIRST FIVE QUALIFIEDHIRES!!!

Now, the first clue is the endless litany of capital letters. Another hint would be the lack of spaces. We could perhaps attempt to attribute that to the formatting of LinkedIn postings, but it certainly speaks to a lack of detail orientation. Finally, we look past appearances to the meat of the content.

1) Signon bonuses offered

2) $7,000 employee referral bonus

3) Free TV for the first five hires???

This screams a few things to me. One, someone promised the government that some work could get done before having any sort of cohesive plan to staff this project. Two, in this economy if you have to pay a signing bonus and you aren't Google or Apple or Amazon, then your job must really be unattractive. Three, wow, a new TV? Really? Does this company just have some TVs laying around that they want to give away? If so why? Does this not reek of used car salesmanship?

Anyone who responded to this job ad must really not care where they work. If this project is so haphazardly put together that they are throwing money and TVs at the first five people to show up to work, how crazy do you think it will be when you get there! Too crazy, I should think, to have much time left in the evenings to watch your fave program on that big screen tv. Good luck filling those positions.

Stupid, Stupid, Stupid

Quick everyone! Boycott Dunkin Donuts!

Yes that's right, Michelle Malkin says here that Dunkin Donuts is trying to endorse jihad by dressing obvious terrorist Rachel Ray in a scarf while she endorses ice coffee...why didn't the CIA catch this???

Idiots. If I were making an idiot list, it would be like this

1) Michelle Malkin
2) Dunkin Donuts for scrapping the campaign and not releasing a statement like "Shut the FU@# UP."

My faith in the world wanes with every passing second.