So you got nothing?
I didn’t expect you would.
Sorry, but you don’t strike me as someone I’d take business advice from. You’re an idiot.
I work from 7 in the morning to 8:30 at night, usually. As a salaried employee, I earn no overtime. My employer gets more than eight hours per day from me, constantly. You know nothing and wouldn’t recognize hard work if it bit you. A useless and mediocre person, clamoring for the government to save you from your laziness and stupidity.
Bullshit. Oh, yeah, the Tea Party is racist, huh? Funny, because I, with my background, have never felt any hint of that from any of the Tea Party folks I know.
Why is that? They made a special exception for me, did they? On account of my winning smile?
I absolutely deny and reject your claim. The Tea Party folks favor hard work and self-accountability. “Allowed to attend schools?” Don’t be a fool. There’s no Tea Party platform that would have changed any aspect of my attending schools. That’s utter bullshit from an utter bullshitter.
Get the fuck outta here!
You learn something new every day!
Not that it makes any difference mind you. He’s all kinds of anal retentive for any race. Watching him debate is like watching a pot come to boil.
Nope, as their usual position on the causes of global warming does show.
Yes, that’s luck.
But suppose you had been laid off? Are you saying that no one outside your company knew of your value as a worker? You did nothing to toss out lifelines, network associates?
That’s what I mean by making your own luck. Every year, give or take, I polish up my resume and start looking for work. I go on interviews until I get an offer. Maybe one day I’ll take that offer, but so far, my employer has always at least matched what I’ve been offered and I like it here, so I stay.
But I know, to a reasonable certainty, how long it would take me to find new work if my job vanished. I keep up with colleagues that have moved on to other jobs, so that I have ready contacts if something happened. I have six months’ worth of salary in cash in savings so there’s no need to panic and take something out of desperation.
See? That’s making my own luck. Sure, I could get laid off next month. And when I got a new job because I cultivated a contact, there are people who would shake their heads and marvel at how lucky I was, apparently never making the connection between preparation and the “luck” that follows it.
Self-Accountability? Tea partiers laugh in the face of people like Bricker and they do not notice.
And I would be the first to sing your praises if the spot were not already taken.
Huh, guys, a Hispanic **could **be a white person.
And if she had been rear-ended by a drunk on the way to the interview instead of getting a flat? (in other words, something entirely not her fault?) Well, you simply would have used something else as an example here, correct?
It’s easy and not incorrect to lay blame when someone’s failure is clearly due to something they did. It’s less convenient when the cause is something outside their control. The second-guessing of their life choices and determining where they went wrong becomes a finer and finer art, to a point where in some cases you have to concede that they were left in a no-win situation.
As the illustrious Captain Picard once said, “You can commit no mistake and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.”
I could say that I have managed to make progress also even in a retrograde place like Arizona, but recently the conservatively controlled department of education has come with new rules to target teachers that have an accent. It doesn’t matter how prepared I get or if 90 percent of students have no problems with my voice, it only takes one student with a beef against you to make a complaint. So, besides being reassigned back to IT duties I continue to increase my luck by learming more about internet programming and servers, connections will be there for me, but should I just let the local government keep on taking away what it could had been a big opportunity for me?
Notice that I’m not waiting for a hand out, I’m only saying that it stretches my credulity that you can not see that others can be affected by rules that are coming from groups that you are supporting, they may not be racist, but they are ignorant in the long run.
A lot of people went through 6 months of cash savings and more trying to find new jobs during this recession.
Most jobs are gotten through networking. Even us liberals know that. Stop knocking down straw men of your own making.
If you don’t recognize “luck” as forces outside your control, we don’t even have common ground to communicate. You’ve been looking up so long you haven’t taken a look down to see what’s happening to those who don’t have your circumstances and point of vantage.
I responded to a specific question on a specific point that another poster made. I’d be happy to defend that point, should you care to address it. I doubt you will, because you know full well that the point I was refuting was an absurd one. But rather than than concede the bleedingly obvious fact that, yes, employers often do grant benefits without any union being involved, you’re trying to engage me in some sort of rambling free-form discussion, within which you will no doubt continue to evade and obfuscate. Sorry, pass. Address my point or piss off.
I grant you, good fortune favors the prepared man. But does misfortune avoid the Bricker household just because you are just so darned self reliant? How have you managed to control the universe to withhold incurable illness for so long, enabling you to work those long hours? I would really like to know the that secret of your success, because it has eluded my family. What personal deficiency have I failed to address?
Well, I guess, in my case, it’s may fault, since I chose to pair up with someone who has an illness, but yeah, I’m interested in this as well.
Only 12% of US workers belong to unions, so it looks like most of us are not being locked into buildings despite lacking a union to look out for us.
He says his father came here with nothing. It doesn’t tell me what bricker started with. I suspect his father did pretty well and provided well for him. Perhaps he actually was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.
Not every time.
I’m going to bet you’ve never worked hard in your entire life. I’m going to further bet that your hands are soft and your back is weak.
I’m not saying I’ve dug ditches either, but I’m not the arrogant jerkoff pretending I’m better than everyone else.
You are lucky. Even if you have been smarter and worked harder than everyone around you, ask yourself, how much smarter are you than the average? Top four percent? Top three percent? Is it your opinion that the bottom 97% should have no possibility of a good life? Does everyone need to be as smart as you are to succeed? I bet your father has a strong work ethic. Did he teach that to you? Is it your opinion that people with fathers who aren’t as stellar should have no chance for a good life. Either way, you are where you are due to luck.
That said, you certainly don’t come off as especially smart, but I’ll grant that the delusions you’re working under just make you seem like an idiot.