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'Potential'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Jan 28, 2005 11:59:52 am PST #1799 of 10002
Allyson - Jan 28, 2005 12:01:39 pm PST #1800 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Thomash - Jan 28, 2005 12:10:26 pm PST #1801 of 10002
I have a plan.
That's it, it's official. I'm now an Arizonan (again). My car is registered and my license is brand new. And get this, it doesn't expire until 2034!
Go Cats!
Lyra Jane - Jan 28, 2005 12:16:12 pm PST #1802 of 10002
Up with the sun
The fun thing about reading the recent whitefont here, as someone who watches ER maybe twice a season, is having it confirmed that it really is a soap -- I missed 99 percent of the arcs mentioned, and the show STILL makes sense when I turn it on. (I am mildly sad to read about some of the deaths, though. They killed Carter's baby with the African woman?)
I don't ask for too much reality on serial TV.
Kathy A - Jan 28, 2005 12:28:40 pm PST #1803 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Allyson's link makes me worried, not because I'm a smoker, but I'm afraid that if they make smoking a legitimate excuse not to hire someone, what will stop them from moving onto the obese? Or the diabetic? Or the asthmatic? Not that they hire too many obese people now anyway, but at least it's not a legally permitted bar to hiring.
Allyson - Jan 28, 2005 12:30:01 pm PST #1804 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I'm an obese smoker. I am so totally screwed.
Vortex - Jan 28, 2005 12:30:41 pm PST #1805 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
the problem is people that you've already hired. for example, I am clinically obese according to some charts. However, I can count on one hand the number of times that I've been to the doctor in the past year. I know skinny people with more health problems than me.
§ ita § - Jan 28, 2005 12:34:22 pm PST #1806 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I know skinny people with more health problems than me.
Pointing fingers is RUDE.
Kathy A - Jan 28, 2005 12:36:12 pm PST #1807 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I know it, Vortex! Out of my coworkers just in my aisle, and not including absences due to families' illinesses (which was quite a few for the past year for everyone else except for me), one slender lady was out for over a month with a back problem, my boss has a chronic heart condition, and another was out for a few weeks with migraines. But, if the average person took a look at everyone in the aisle, they would most likely pick me out as the highest absentee due to illness just because of my weight. Instead, I was the only one out of the group to lose sick/vacation days at the end of the year because I ddn't take them all.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 28, 2005 12:37:15 pm PST #1808 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Have they factored the costs of retaliatory workplace arson into these "forcing employees to quit smoking will save money" scenarios?