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Just one: pantomime. :rolleyes:

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

I'm not going to try to argue statistics or numbers, but I would argue the facts of who did what to subdue risky subprime mortgages, and to increase low income home ownership. Barney Frank said he tried the first, only to be blocked by Republicans, and that it was Bush who started the movement...

After almost 30,000 fullblown rants [by a different poster] with nary a mention of Midol, the agenda is pretty clear, IMO. As is the passive aggressive tactic of insisting it was just one woman you demeaned, not all of them. BTW: Midol never did anything for me, but if it can cure mindless...

So, a guy writes a rant in response to the numerous rants of another guy, and you respond by demeaning women? Not cool. [Or smart, either.] Not cool at all.

Karen Carpenter's "We've Only Just Begun" was THE most chosen songs for the first couple's dance at weddings for a very long time. The story of her anorexia combined with the myth of Mama Cass Elliot's [a powerful singer with a beautiful voice] death [she died of a heart attack, but the story...