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by Helen Tue Jul 8th, 2014 at 11:23:21 AM EST
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keep to the Fen Causeway
I work for a relatively independent branch of the state railway, which already suffered through a number of company "restructurings" (for example in 2007) which invariably meant a reduction of the workforce and denial of investment. In the last two years, our main problem was that we lacked certain certifications (no funds or manpower to do the paperwork), and the resulting loss of some customers pushed us into the red. So – as we finally learnt from various unofficial sources a few weeks ago – the top management saw us as good candidates for lay-offs in the next "restructuring", until some of our in-company customers told that we are needed and have no alternative (at least not anywhere near our price level). So as "compromise" it was decided that our profile shall be streamlined and the workforce reduced accordingly.
That hit us heavier than expected. We were invited to an "informative meeting". Well that lasted a single minute. Then the top management guy told that now they want to meet every single of us eye-to-eye for at most ten minutes. Almost half of us received their dismissal in those 'meetings' and were told to quit work the very next day. I wasn't among them, and it was horrible to feel relieved sitting next to the fired soon-to-be-ex-colleagues. Oh, and how surprised the management guys were that instead of going home in single file, the whole group sat through the hours and waited until everyone finished. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Of course, you realise that this isn't over, don't you?
Once a company starts cutting into operational effectiveness, there's only one outcome keep to the Fen Causeway
Have you read Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections? It's partly in praise of railway engineers.
Glad you got through, but the whole story is chilling.
STOP SAYING WORDS. Dear God, just stop. It's like a dog ate a copy of Atlas Shrugged and the conservative welfare circuit vowed to print whatever ended up on the lawn the next day.
I saw the next four, but couldn't quite believe my eyes. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys. Back to basics for Futbol. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
Dante was not the problem, he played a fine match. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
The scrollbar was needed pic.twitter.com/9GgPceJ79H— #GrimmieNewSingle (@xdanic33) julio 8, 2014
The scrollbar was needed pic.twitter.com/9GgPceJ79H
heh. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Yet, that's a possibility when a host team is being pulled up by most referees. Like with financial markets, the gap between reality and the image was increasingly bemusing.
Brazil was without strategic options for this flow of the game. They still have to think about a win after the fast 0-1, and then suddenly they were thorn between finishing a game without yet more embarrassment and scoring a consolation goal.
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
It's pretty crazy here right now, for a semi-final win. But it only lasted an hour, perhaps because it's still raining.
I'm also satisfied that ZDF went into the favelas, and reported from there even 15 minutes before first kick.
the Bread and Circuses are almost over; then we return to what governments have passed while no one was looking. For example, the new German EEG.
But i don't wish to take away from Herr Klose. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
*Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
But I think the germans lifted the gas a bit after the 5th. Don't get hurt, don't get booked. keep to the Fen Causeway
Personally I think 500-1 is positively scrooge like keep to the Fen Causeway
Why do Brazil and Germany never play one another? - SBNation.com
No two nations have done as much World Cupping as today's semi-finalists, Brazil and Germany. This edition's hosts are the only side to play at all twenty competitions; the Germans have missed only two. Brazil have won it five times and played 102 matches in the process; while their European opponents have only lifted the trophy on a mere three occasions, they've actually played 104 games at the finals. And yet, when they meet later today in Belo Horizonte, it will be only the second time they've met at a World Cup. [...] Perhaps that's why Oliver Kahn spilled the ball so limply in the 2002 final. He was completely overwhelmed by the awkwardness of the situation.
[...] Perhaps that's why Oliver Kahn spilled the ball so limply in the 2002 final. He was completely overwhelmed by the awkwardness of the situation.
A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
Still waiting.
What's the next stage? Sticking giant electrodes into tar sands that are powered by nuclear reactors?
Total May Use Atomic Power At Oil-Sand Project (WSJ, behind subscription wall) PARIS -- French oil giant Total SA, amid rising oil and natural-gas prices, is considering building a nuclear power plant to extract ultraheavy oil from the vast oil-sand fields of western Canada.
PARIS -- French oil giant Total SA, amid rising oil and natural-gas prices, is considering building a nuclear power plant to extract ultraheavy oil from the vast oil-sand fields of western Canada.
I won't even bother adding the ™
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