The more that is dug up, the more I question the moral ethics of the folks that run the detail shop. I know some of it is habit, but still. For example:
The detail shop practices the art of tip pooling for the lads that actually detail the cars. For those of you that aren’t familiar with this term, it is the practice of collecting earned tips and then splitting them up after work is completed. The is more often than not practiced by bartenders and banquet servers. Usually the money all goes into a box or something similiar and then it is split up at the end of the night.
At the detail shop, it doesn’t work quite the same way. Instead, the tips are collected for the ENTIRE year, and then divied up to the guys, I would suppose whether they worked the whole year or not. No good.
If I had to guess, the owner of the shop used to use this as his own personal slush fund. I have no idea how he managed to pay it back at the end of the year tho.
During my span of work, I’ve worked with some seedy characters. I’ve seen things that were bad, but never like this. There are other monetary discrepancies that are just now coming to light over there. Should be interesting to see what happens.
I actually had a real live, honest to goodness post again, but I have to wait until tomorrow to actually post it up. so, for now, instead, I give you….
S T O R M W A T C H!!!!!
Oh yea. I’ve battened down the hatches and secured the kitty in preparations for tonights storm. Actually, I am more concerned for those that are in or near the fire areas. The ground there is saturated still from storms earlier this week, and with the amount of rain they are predicting for tonight, those hillsides are sure to become hillslides. Good luck to all.
While on this particular subject, can anyone tell me why the National weather service really can’t do that great of a job predicting weather? Haven’t they built their weather models on the most sophisticated of machines that money can buy to get them as accurate as possible? That’s why I always thought, but lately it seems like I’d have a better chance at getting a more accurate forecast using the farmers almanac, a coffee can and a few of the young master Joshua’s Japenese Snobo Monkeys.
What? you missed part 1? That’s ok, blogger ate it, so I missed it too. Anyway….
Is there some reason that you aren’t using this browser yet? Have you even tried it? Let me tell you why you should make the switch.
First of all, and this is the most important point, Firefox is not integrated with Windows. That means no hidden .dll’s get installed, no wacky ActiveX scrips will run and it doesn’t use MS Java. Also, it has built in pop up blocking that actually works on ALL pop ups and ad scrips. Very cool.
There is also speed. Firefox is way faster than IE or Netscape. I would have to say that it is even faster than Opera. It may take longer to start, but once it’s running, it’s blazing fast! Especially if you have broadband.
And finally, the coolest thing has got to be tabbed browsing. There are even a few extentions that improve on this and make is super duper way cool.
Compatibility is fine. The only problem is when you come up on a site that hasn’t been tested in anything other than IE. IE’s HTML rendering is fairly loose compared to Firefox, so it interprets things sometimes incorrectly. As far as technology, I haven’t found any problems on sites running CF, ASP or PHP.
Given it’s free, again I ask why haven’t you tried this yet? Give it a go. Just for a week. if you don’t like it, then at least you can say that you tried it first. Go on, download it.
And I try. I encourage. I support. But still it doesn’t help. I guess that there are just some things that require more professional attention than I can give. Well, hopefully the help required will come along soon and everything will be ok.
Otherwise, going blind on West Wing tonight after working a full day, half at the office, the other half at home. finishing touches on the redo for the detail shop database thing I’ve been working on.
I’m still tired. I’m still tired of being tired. So no changes on that front.
And, back to driving; since when is the #2 lane (lane next to the fast lane) the “fuck-with-shit-in-your-car-while-talking-on-your-phone” lane? This is driving me crazy!
I’m going back to West Wing now.
Yes, that’s right. Valentines Day. Woof’nHoo.
Lets all run out and buy flowers and chocolate. Naw. Perhaps not.
This isn’t really a holiday, is it?
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