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    Talentless Workers Getting Left Behind

    Drugs + Hookers= Thriving Ad Industry
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    Image of fileunder fileunder
    06/24/09

    In reply to Talentless Workers Getting Left Behind
    I'm so bad off, I couldn't even read those WSJ articles you linked to.

    (Really! Subscription? Over.)
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    06/24/09

    In reply to Talentless Workers Getting Left Behind
    Pretty soon the gub'ment is just going to start setting out piles of bricks and paying people to move them from one place to another just to keep people from rioting.
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    Image of ms.conniving ms.conniving
    06/24/09

    In reply to Talentless Workers Getting Left Behind
    My gf was fired in highschool for forgetting to give a fork to customers who ordered gravy at A&W. She was recently fired for cutting and pasting a company overview from Wikipedia and trying to pass it off as her own work. I would consider that level of stupidity a skill.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    06/24/09

    @ms.conniving: Did I misread this, or did you just call your girlfriend stupid?
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    Image of ms.conniving ms.conniving
    06/25/09

    @Perhaps Not: Yes. I did call my girlfriend stupid. A beautiful girl but not a very bright bulb.


    @jobsworth: A&W policy was fork for gravy, so that people could eat their fries with dignity.

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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    06/25/09

    @ms.conniving: Huh. Good luck with that, then.
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    Image of sweetpickles sweetpickles
    06/24/09

    In reply to Talentless Workers Getting Left Behind
    The good 'ol days. When you got paid in hamburgers to dress up like fries.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    06/24/09

    @sweetpickles:


    Now they would gladly pay you tomorrow to dress up like a hamburger today.

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    Image of forwardmotion forwardmotion
    06/24/09

    In reply to Talentless Workers Getting Left Behind
    I would argue from the general state of things that many talentless employees still HAVE their jobs.
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    Image of El Matardillo El Matardillo
    06/24/09

    @forwardmotion: I see you've been to the Microsoft HR department.
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    06/24/09

    In reply to Talentless Workers Getting Left Behind
    "Would you like me with that?"
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    06/24/09

    @MisterHippity: Oh wait ... this isn't an Open Caption post, is it? Sorry.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    06/24/09

    @MisterHippity: I just assume your life is an Open Caption contest, Hippity.
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    Image of Social Crimer Social Crimer
    06/24/09

    In reply to Talentless Workers Getting Left Behind
    The more pressing concern here is: who is this guy and why is he wearing my sixth-grade Halloween costume?
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    Image of dado dado
    06/24/09

    In reply to Talentless Workers Getting Left Behind
    Earning money is a full time job, I don't need the aggravation; I'm a lazy slob.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    06/24/09

    @dado: your avatar should know though that beer and weed aren't free.
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    Image of dado dado
    06/24/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: Gas, grass, or ass, nobody rides for free.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    06/24/09

    @dado: and isn't poor Anchower always breaking a bone or injuring himself?
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    Image of dado dado
    06/24/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: Either that or the Ford Festiva is harshing his mellow.
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    Image of kneetoe kneetoe
    06/24/09

    In reply to Talentless Workers Getting Left Behind
    After a hard day's work, that guy must be really fried.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    06/24/09

    @kneetoe: although I think ketchup smeared all over that guy would send the wrong message to the children.
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    Image of blix blix
    06/24/09

    @kneetoe: He's under the constant threat of being assaulted.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    06/24/09

    @blix: especially by that very frightened looking German Shepherd.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    06/15/09

    In reply to Drugs + Hookers= Thriving Ad Industry
    Most of the partners at my agency have put in a few years in Amsterdam, and we'd love to merge with a Dutch agency. For the tax benefits, of course...
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    06/15/09

    @BadUncle:


    Heh heh.


    You said "merge".

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    Image of Hey_mikey Hey_mikey
    06/15/09

    In reply to Drugs + Hookers= Thriving Ad Industry
    You, or rather, I'd, pay hookers only because I could get a much hotter woman with money than with charm. Also - she'd be more likely to do whatever activity interested me...
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/15/09

    @Hey_mikey: But mikey, you seem so charming. I don't believe this for a minute.
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    Image of tigolbitties tigolbitties
    06/15/09

    In reply to Drugs + Hookers= Thriving Ad Industry
    can someone please tell me the draw of hookers? i just don't understand... who wants to dip into what (probably) countless people have already dipped into? i feel that's like getting the last remains of a keg... it's been tapped and everyone's already enjoyed the good stuff.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/15/09

    @tigolbitties: Yeah, where is beloved Gawker commentor/whoremonger Eddie the Dane these days?
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    06/15/09

    @tigolbitties: It's illicit, that's what.
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    Image of nellicat nellicat
    06/15/09

    @daveyjonesisdead: It's illicit and it's guaranteed to happen. Plus the old "you don't pay them for the sex, you pay them to leave afterward" line.
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    Image of WilliamMarkFelt WilliamMarkFelt
    06/15/09

    @tigolbitties:


    Sometimes you just gotta have a beer, even if it's the dregs from the keg. Sometimes it's just better than no beer at all. Of course, that's just from what I read, and from what I hear from friends. I of course have never paid for an Amsterdam hooker..ah hem....

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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    06/15/09

    In reply to Drugs + Hookers= Thriving Ad Industry
    And convenient parking.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    06/15/09

    In reply to Drugs + Hookers= Thriving Ad Industry
    I once saw two separate women with black eyes in one day in Amsterdam.


    Never saw that anywhere else, and I'm typing this post from West Fucking Virginia.

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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    06/15/09

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: Yeah, well in WV you'll be lucky to see two people in one day at all.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/15/09

    In reply to Drugs + Hookers= Thriving Ad Industry
    Not working nearly so well for Las Vegas.
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