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I wrote to John James requesting he provide me five things he's accomplished since becoming a congressman.

You don't know ****. I worked along side government employees for 11 years. Most of them work hard and very few of them are getting wealthy. Why all the hate? Why are you celebrating the loss of jobs? You sound like an asshole.

We ran into some guy that does Tigers radio while waiting to get in to the park this morning.

Cults were a lot harder to join when you needed to drink some poison Kool Aid and show up on a farm in Ohio, not spend a couple hours on Youtube and listen to a Joe Rogan episode.

Governments are not intended to run like businesses. Governments exist to provide services that are essential but not profitable. Governments are also responsible for the social welfare of its residents. Democratic governments do not exist to enrich billionaires. Having two really ****ty business people, both of whom having inherited their money from their fathers, or stolen from their partners, is a horrible way to run a government

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Guess how your daughter's asthma treatment was developed and funded. I'll wait. If you had no one else in your life that cared that you were struggling, that speaks volumes.

Management styles and methods are all over the map in big businesses. Some places are a bitch to work for, some aren't. But it's certainly NOT unusual for management in an organization to not understand who is providing the value added in their org. At one point UM spent a 7 figure consulting contract with the firm that used to be Arthur Anderson. They came around and did survey and time studies. A lot of people got their task time audited. The conclusion they came up with was to centralize purchasing across the all the research departments (with lower cost clerks of course). A couple of hundred people were given notice they would be let go. Of course the faculty was asleep at the wheel all the time this was going on or they probably could have saved a lot of trauma. In any case, once the plan was announced, all the people that knew better informed TPTB that commissioned the study that department purchasers were basically all specialists in various arcane technologies and supply chains and if you tried to centralize purchasing, what you would end up with would be faculty members (the most expensive employees in the org) spending all their time hand-holding purchasers who had no clue what they were trying to buy. Plan was called off, money was wasted, but it did grease the skids for at least one high ranking administrator's exit. Stupid episode but indicative of the fact that you even if you pay a lot of money supposedly to analyze what your org is doing, it's no substitute for management that understands its org in the first place.

But seriously you and all your fellow ****ing idiots could use some education on how hard working and thankless the jobs a supermajority of federal employees are. **** you and anybody parroting this line.

I don't know if anybody posted this yesterday. I forgot to and was running errands. That was a massive failure on my part and I am sorry. “Lo, the Winter's passed, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear on the Earth, the time for the singing of birds has come. And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

Didn't you choose to leave here, but lied about it and then came crawling back?

People aren't choosing to leave. And finding an available job where you want to work is very difficult. People spend months looking for a job while trying to stay afloat, they work hard at their job and then they get fired. And then some asshole celebrates their loss.

I notice really slipshod audio, and other things happening when I watch cycling races on Peacock. I get the feeling that somebody with connections got their kid to job as an unpaid intern and they don’t know what they’re doing. Last year for an eight day race, for the first seven days, they had an obvious misspelling on the opening graphics of one of the two major announcers for the first seven days and it’s like nobody cared enough to change it and I’m sure it was mentioned to them. There’s a lot of slave ship stuff going on with these big companies and they don’t care.

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And they often blame people who a, took the time and initiative to become educated and get a government job (often for less money), b, have benefits that they wish they had and think if they don't have them nobody should, and c, are people of color, women, or members of other groups.

The rest of the workforce is treated like this but his example is from the 90s. Asshattery.

DOGE is such a scam. It’s so obvious how this will play out. Trillions of dollars in government jobs will be eliminated and outsourced to the private sector. They will end up paying out even more money and costing far more than they claimed to have saved by eliminating government waste. Elon and Trump will hand select which organizations get these no bid deals. In many cases, brand new companies will be formed by Trumps pals and gifted a multi billion dollar industry just like Putin did with his oligarch pals.

Dan Dickerson announcing Tiger baseball on a brisk late-October evening.

Post any march or protest info here.

I'm also asking my Congress Critter (Paid for by Newport News Shipbuilding) for a 5 point bullet summary of what he's done for residents not in that tiny area of his district

1-800-Dodgers

Keith looking good on the stretch there. That's encouraging.

they might get a sellout !

Tiger 3b coaches in mid-season form I see.

Umpire just assaulted Jace.

Mize gets the K!

I think you may have jinxed it. We're probably getting a blizzard in 2-3 weeks.

Only the US has been dumb enough to fall for this so far.

I think that number (b) point is an especial sore point for them. They may or may not be aware how much less government employees make than people int he private sector do, but when they hear anything about health benefits or 403(b) plan participation for taxpayer-funded government employees, those red hats see red.

There is "shrinking" government then there's willy nilly cutting things you don't like. The decisions should not be done by one person, who has not been vetted and does not answer to the branch that actually controls the purse strings. Our friend from Indiana has no clue how government works or anything at all about the constitution. Neither do most of the clowns currently in charge of the executive branch

what a nice guy

It's not personal with you because it's not happening to you. And I do not believe shrinking the government is the goal of the people in charge.

no one here has had real workforce jobs except magalolic so if you all could just let the one with experience talk that would be nice

It's getting to the point where I'm upset that I didn't read about Musk dying of a ketamine overdose when i wake up in the morning.

0% true. Youre a multi time proven and admitted liar.

That is the reason that they give for doing it, but in my experience it usually results in somebody getting layed off. In the last case, the one who got laid off was the manager who told us to do it.

It's typical MAGA. They have had bad experiences in their lives, so they want others to have to suffer too.

I personally haven't experienced that, but I appreciate your experience. Given your own personal experiences, and how you likely felt when you received that email, why do you take so much joy in others receiving that email in this instance?

"Lol." **** off. Troll.

It’s so insulting. So many hard working, non partisan people for no other reason than having federal jobs.

For as much as these guys talk about running their government like a business, I've never seen an email like that at all in my professional career. Probably because it would be terrible for business to send an email like that

The Tiger production teams, both radio and video have been really sub par in recent years. There is just no excuse on the radio - what you're hearing is just proof that who ever is producing the feed is NOT even LISTENING to it, which means either they are slackers, incompetents, or the producer is also being tasked to run one of the hot dogs stands around his production duties.

Somebody let the Tigers get hot!

how good would the wings be if they had signed ANYONE OTHER THAN TARASENKO AND GUSTAFFSON THIS YEAR?

And women. A lot of the people being fired are women.

F*ck cancer.

I've been on a weird kick lately. Probably starting a few months back starting with a James McBride interview at the National Book Fair in the fall. Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, Five Carat Soul, The Good Lord Bird, I still want to read Miracle at St Anna when it becomes available at my local library or on Libby. Meanwhile thanks to a recent history podcast I occasionally follow I've started The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution.