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for Fuck’s sake…

1) John Mackey is an ass.
2) John Mackey is not Whole Foods.
3) Boycotting Whole Foods wlll hurt lots of people who work there who aren’t John Mackey and who don’t agree with his position on healthcare reform and frankly, think he’s an ass.

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dear abby

I always seem to end up here.
Why can’t boundaries be a place to begin the conversation?
Use I statements. Keep telling yourself that nobody else can hurt your feelings unless you let them. The truth is, that only works if you don’t let anyone else in.
Solitude is apt to shed its charms [...]

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Word to your god

Apparently, there exists an inverse correlation between the sharpness of my snarkometer and the ambient temperature.
During my ride home from work today, I spotted two men in suits.
I looked at them a little more closely, wondering why they were dressed so formally in this heat. As soon as I figured it out (teh Mormoms, [...]

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harsh realizations

-It’s 4:51 AM and I can’t sleep.  Corporate douchenozzlery is keeping me up at night, why?  Ugh.
-I have to go to work in approximately two hours and display some kind of enthusiasm for indoctrinating two new hires into my company culture.  The thought of it is making me a bit ill.
-For working women, there is [...]

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communication, fail

In the course of my half-assed search for a job outside the retail sector, I came across this posting. Although the fail has been highlighted, the rest of the post is exactly how I found it.

On top of the abject grammar failure, the rest of the qualifications seem disturbingly banal. “Time management: managing [...]

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