Monday Mood [DOT 21/10/24]

21/10/24 MegMegMcGee 22

Hope everyone had a great weekend. After only living here for 27 years I finally went up into the top of the Washington Monument. Is cool, probably wouldn’t do it again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ummmmmm

That’s sad

Seven dead after gangway collapses at Gullah Geechee event in Georgia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10/20/georgia-sapelo-gullah-geechee-collapse

And the walls didn’t fall down around her like they would if Trump set foot in a church

Harris marks birthday with church visit after Trump’s crude rhetoric at rally
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/20/kamala-harris-campaigns-trump-arnold-palmer

Christ put a hair net on!

Trump thrusts McDonald’s into the political arena in final days of campaign

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/20/politics/mcdonalds-donald-trump-pennsylvania/index.html

This cracked me up

Enjoy your Monday!

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22 Comments

  1. I have gone to the top of the Washington Monument. Yes. It was 2003 and security-theater hysteria was in full swing. With me was a sister and her six-year-old son, who is one of my godchildren. So we lined up and my little nephew was pulled aside for special screening. A quota’s a quota, I guess, and judging who we were by sight, no six-year-old and his mother and uncle were going to question the whims of the barely literate hack serving his time.

    We eventually got up to the top and it was fab. I’d been to DC often enough that I knew what we were looking at. So, I led my sister and nephew from window to window, N/E/S/W, and explained what we were looking at. The entire crowd eventually followed along with me and when we were done some guy tried to tip me $20. I thanked him but refused, because I think it’s illegal to accept money on federal property? Did you act as a tour guide for your group? Maybe afterward you retreated to a tavern and they bought you drinx? Unfortunately on this trip room and board were on me and there were no tavern excursions.

  4. The AP generally avoids headlines like “Trump kicks off a Pennsylvania rally by talking about Arnold Palmer’s genitalia” because they know a lot of local outlets would prefer something a lot tamer.

    A lot of them will just run the AP feed straight on their websites or even put it into their print editions, and they’ll catch flack from readers. But someone at AP made the right call, better than most of the prestige media which tried to obscure what he was rambling about.

    It’s been run that way by local outlets in York PA, Madison County IN, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Oskaloosa IA….

    • Did I ever tell you (all) that I had a gay friend who joined a dating website. This was before Grindr. He was probably in his late 30s. The stories he had. A good one was he gave his truthful age in his profile and a guy somehow contacted him and they met up. The guy said he was “middle-aged.” My friend asked him, “How old are you really?” He admitted he was 68. My friend said, “so, to be middle-aged, you expect to live to be 136?” All’s well that ends well. They became buddies, and there were no hard feelings (no pun intended).

  6. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/who-is-gerald-oconnor-ceo-allegedly-abandoned-workers-who-drowned-after-demanding-they-meet-deadlines-during-hurricane-helene/ar-AA1sym4b

    Motherfucker. You’d think this was an extreme thing… not really. During one really bad snowstorm, management said we can go early if we used vacation for it otherwise we had to stay… as management left. I was one of those that stayed because I didn’t have the vacation time remaining so it sucked to be me (it was one of the more scary commutes home.)

    • The execs who want everyone in the office are almost never in the office that many hours. They’re playing golf, schmoozing at long lunches, delivering TED talks, travelling to Aspen and Davos….

      Modern “disruptor” CEOs lead completely chaotic schedules, and what they want is to be able to change plans at the last second to meet with random employees and be guaranteed they’ll be there without needing to plan ahead.

      The flippant lack of planning gets sold by consultants with terms like “nimble” and “agile” but it really just means lazy, unfocused, self centered and incompetent leadership.

  8. On the subject of awful workplaces…

    Tyson Foods under investigation again for alleged child labor violations

    https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2024/10/16/tyson-foods-under-investigation-again-for-child-labor-violations

    Recently unsealed court documents contain allegations that have triggered a federal investigation into whether Tyson Foods Inc., one of its subsidiaries or its contractors may have employed minors as young as 11 and 13 in its food processing operations in Arkansas. And that those minors could be working overnight shifts and in hazardous conditions, such as on a “kill floor”.

    This is a good time to bring up that 11 year olds are bad employees and there is little serious economic argument for hiring them, especially with the threat of federal sanctions looming. But a lot of corporations are terribly managed, so this is what you get.

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