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uninspired
11/04/08

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Isn't this the ad agency where employees were prosecuted for overbilling the government? Keeping track of time is not their strong point.
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gladys_kravitz
11/04/08

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Shit like that wouldn't happen at Sterling Cooper.
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jakeyoungblood
11/04/08

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Why election day isn't a national holiday is beyond me...
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bytememehard
11/04/08

@jakeyoungblood: It is a holiday -- just not in the US
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Zorica
11/04/08

@jakeyoungblood: Because children already get the day off from school, for goodness sake. If you gave people the day off as well then single mothers might, for one sliver of a day, not remember that they are expected to suffer twice as much as the childless or their stay-at-home peers. If we find ways to make life a little less punishing for single moms, and for parents in general, people might start having good childhoods. And then there would be no more denial-steeped audience for escapist entertainment that subliminally sells unnecessary consumerism and so there would be no more good TV and no more economy and we'd all have to pass the time reading stories on sad, young, literary blogs written by people who imagine that true sadness, if they could only afford it, would feel like living inside a poem about lovesongs.
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bytememehard
11/04/08

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What in the world is the Mather with them?
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Larry Fine
11/04/08

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Rock the vote!

On your fucking lunch hour!

Or clean out your cubicle drone!
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RuralJuor
11/04/08

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That's nothing. My company just installed a fucking time clock, like one from the '50s. And we're ostensibly on salary, too.

And then one of our accountants just asked if I voted, and I said yes, and he said, "If you voted for Obama, I hope you lose!" And then he laughed.

True story.
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Smitros
11/04/08

@RuralJuor:
With any luck they haven't safeguarded your clock against the time-honored institution of the buddy punch.

At any rate, my sympathies.
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StonedAndDethroned
11/04/08

@RuralJuor: OMG do you work in hell, too? What floor are you on? I'm on -732.
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VoxPopuli
11/04/08

@RuralJuor: A McCain supporter who's an obnoxious ass? No way!

But seriously, that does suck. Ignore the haters - they get mean when things don't appear to be going their way.

*knocks on every wooden surface in the house and throws salt wildly over both shoulders*
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