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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Wed Dec 21, 2022, 10:00 AM Dec 2022

Way back when I was employed in a factory where there were "foremen" and "supervisors" and

"assistant" everything's, we had a saying that summed up management's attitude about "promotions": ( with faux enthusiasm ) "We won't increase your pay,---but we'll call you 'Colonel'!" ( or, "Assistant Whatever" )

Today, MAGA Republicans are telling McCarthy: "We won't let you make any decisions, but we'll call you 'Speaker'!"

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Way back when I was employed in a factory where there were "foremen" and "supervisors" and (Original Post) Atticus Dec 2022 OP
That happens everywhere! True Blue American Dec 2022 #1
-Especially- in a place where the inmates run the asylum ck4829 Dec 2022 #3
Reminded me of: Floyd R. Turbo Dec 2022 #2
Woody was from Lebanon, Ohio. True Blue American Dec 2022 #4
Harrelson is from Midland, Texas. Boyd is from Hanover, Indiana. Floyd R. Turbo Dec 2022 #6
Woody grew up in Lebanon went to school there. True Blue American Dec 2022 #7
Didn't know that! Floyd R. Turbo Dec 2022 #8
I knew little about Lebanon True Blue American Dec 2022 #9
Was there about sixty years ago when I worked for Look magazine. Floyd R. Turbo Dec 2022 #10
It is not much of an antique town True Blue American Dec 2022 #11
Ahh yes, the infamous "title"... No fist in the glove, no $$, but a nice name.. mitch96 Dec 2022 #5

True Blue American

(17,982 posts)
4. Woody was from Lebanon, Ohio.
Wed Dec 21, 2022, 10:35 AM
Dec 2022

My Son will enjoy that.

My Son spent years refusing Management because that was the only plant having a Union for Engineers because he would have to leave the Union.

His quote!” I am an engineer designing and building machines, I do not want to be a paper pusher! Besides , that raise would not begin to cover my over time!”

Bush had just changed the rules on overtime so management did not get over time.

True Blue American

(17,982 posts)
9. I knew little about Lebanon
Wed Dec 21, 2022, 02:12 PM
Dec 2022

Until my Son and daughter built a house there. Halfway between their jobs in different ways.

The Golden Lamb is there, Historic, so many Presidents stayed there. They have a scenic railway.. My Son took me down to see all the different Engines. To my surprise the camp cars my Grandfather lived in with his crew as they built tunnels and kept the DT& I running, hauling Henry Fords cars. I had visited those cars so many times when he was close.

mitch96

(13,885 posts)
5. Ahh yes, the infamous "title"... No fist in the glove, no $$, but a nice name..
Wed Dec 21, 2022, 11:10 AM
Dec 2022

I did that once.. What a joke...
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