Next message: Ron Rogers: "Re: lv-ab: your risk, not mine"
Andina
Congrats on your agreement with Defender. I always liked them better
than West.
Roger
wrote:
>So true Roger.
>
>I have both a small manufacturing business and a restaurant/bar.
>In the manufacturing business your figure of 1/6 is my experience too.
>The dead heads don't want to work, they show up when they feel like it,
>they cheat on their attendance times, some steal, they have no pride in
>their work. Somewhere along the line in the last 40 years the government
>unemployment assistance and socialist like support organizations have
>developed an attitude that they have a right to be supported. I deplore the
>degradation of the entrepreneurship attitude that was the foundation of this
>country.
>
>And when it comes to bar tenders and waitresses, cooks etc., the percentage
>is far worse. I'm lucky to get one good employee in 10 to 15 I've employed.
>The dilemma is that their ability is inversely proportional to their good
>looks. One girl we have at the moment, quit school to become a beauty
>queen. She is gucking fourgeous but DDUUUUMMMBBB! She literally can't
>count, can't add or subtract, won't make the effort to greet customers,
>won't restock, won't clean, ugh! But she fills the bar with ogling guys -
>talk about a rock and a soft place.
>
>Sorry, I'll get of my soap box.
>
>On the positive side, we've come to an arrangement with Defender for
>marketing our marine products after our West Marine marketing contract
>expired and prospects looked dim for a while.
>
>Regards,
>
>Andina Marie Foster,
>
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "RLESLIE" <>
>Cc: <>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 11:50 AM
>Subject: Re: lv-ab: your risk, not mine
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>>Judy,
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>>>Doesn't society have some obligation to care for those unable to
>>>care for themselves? Those who can barely afford basic living cannot
>>>
>>>
>afford
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>>>to pay any form of insurance.
>>>
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>>>
>>Aren't you talking about two different things: 1) those that truly can
>>not help themselves 2) Those who choose not to help themselves and
>>live in poverty
>>
>>I own a small manufacturing business and have found that I must usually
>>go though 5-6 bad employees to find one good one. For the vast majority
>>(but not all), poverty is a conscious choice.
>>
>>Roger
>>
>>SNIP
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>>
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