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  1. cheri1122

    So this guy is going back to Cleveland to basketball

    I don't think raising ticket prices [even for King James] would be well received, seeing as how they just managed to renew the "Sin Tax" [?!] to pay for more toys for the really really rich people who own the stadium. That's a sin right there, in my book - the people who go to the games should...
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    What do you read?

    Only one blog ever kept me interested for a long time: Boobs, injuries, & Dr Pepper. The author [a woman named Crystal McKee, though she calls herself 'McKnob, and the explanation is hilarious] is quite remarkable, as a wife, mother, and a writer - I've never known anyone as genuinely funny in...
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    Truck Stop Restaurants

    Re: Forget I bothered We wish you luck. I've been a server, from restaurants to cocktails to banquets/catering, so I can absolutely understand your frustration. It's how I feel about 4 wheelers who don't think when they cut in front of me & hit the brakes, or just keep trying to squeeeeze past...
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    Does Your Dispatcher Speak English?

    Just one: pantomime. :rolleyes:
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    Does Your Dispatcher Speak English?

    Most factory work is of the repetitive kind, and simply showing what needs done is sufficient. Those who don't speak English learn to catch visual cues about what's happening [the buzzer means break time is starting or over], and there are usually some with enough English to help with the sticky...
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    GPS Microsoft Kills Off Streets & Trips, MapPoint

    Love S&T and Garmin, too, for different tasks. Also love "The Next Exit", the book I use nearly every day, for quick reference and sudden needs [like a craving for a Wendy's salad]. I'm better at low tech, so it works fine for finding just about any & everything I might be looking for on the...
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    Does Your Dispatcher Speak English?

    Personal insult, totally uncalled for. BTW: if pointless boring anecdotes are off limits, some people should have been notified about 25,000 posts ago.
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    Free at last, Free at last!

    I thought it was a horrible story, with a happy ending. There was one photo of the elephant, I swear he was smiling! :)
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    DOT Physicals

    Just to clarify: hypertension is not "the early form" of high blood pressure, it is high blood pressure. Hyper=high, tension= pressure. Medical abbreviation: HTN.
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    Does Your Dispatcher Speak English?

    The EEOC press release cited in the OP states that all the fired workers had received satisfactory performance ratings on annual evaluations. I think it's a common sense approach to differentiate between when it matters, and when it doesn't. I personally think it matters for truck drivers...
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    Do cargo vans even have any sort of future in expediting?

    Easy peasy: the wrong carrier is the one that makes you mad more than happy, and the right carrier is the one that doesn't. You notice the commonality: they're both going to make you mad at some point, lol. :p
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    Do cargo vans even have any sort of future in expediting?

    Except this one: I find it hard to drive while dessicated. ;)
  13. cheri1122

    Why do people post thread after thread blaming the American people?

    That the "govt dictated that people be allowed to buy houses they couldn't afford, thus dooming them to default from the outset" is NOT "pretty easy to understand" at all. Govt promoting homeownership in "uderserved" populations, certainly - and I read the CRA that directed banks to make more...
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    Does Your Dispatcher Speak English?

    It seems to me that if you work in a plastics factory and receive satisfactory job performance reviews, the inability to speak English "fluently" is not required. Though one wonders why language impaired people were hired to begin with, firing them later is unreasonable, IMO. If you work in...
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    Truck Stop Restaurants

    I have a very simple request too: can you please share a website that is frequented by waitstaff/servers, so that a truckdriver may share some of our disappointment with your peers? Most of us here have more class than to actually do it, but there's one in every crowd....
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    The Global Warming Hoax.

    Perhaps you could take your own advice, and read exactly what I said. I didn't say you are passive, I said the "passive aggressive tactic". Calling it "current vogue psychobabble" says you don't know what it means, so do yourself a favor and look it up. Slamming one person [Acquitted] by...
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    Do cargo vans even have any sort of future in expediting?

    When they're up to their eyeballs in lawsuits over the cans of worms they already regulate..... Oh, and I live in one of those cans, too: the one where I have to log. While Turtle's description may be true of some loggers, I know how it feels to live in a van, and I prefer the limitations of...
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    DOT Physicals

    I think you mean Certified Physician's Assistant, which is not the same as a Nurse Practitioner, unless they can also prescribe meds. But it's trying not to prescribe meds that make NPs the best, IMO. I don't have hypertension, but I'm curious: when you do, do the docs just automatically write a...
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