Fifteen-year-old kid washing trucks in a truck yard, early in my tenure I drove through the wash-bay door with a refrigerated truck. Insurance took care of it, my explanations held water. My boss looked at me and deadpanned “Everyone gets one fuckup. This is yours.”
(...) employers can’t make workers pay for the costs of broken inventory if it would push their pay below the federal minimum wage.
I think it’s an antiquated helmet that’s not meeting more modern stringent standards, not just a bad helmet that fails at its job.
I don’t care about the NFL anymore because the Chargers, but I guess I still reflexively loathe the Raiders, so this pleases me.
Don’t question it, it’s, uh, metric dollars.
More Charles Pierce please. And more Ray Ratto, too.
I’m partial to the classic (by now) “short-fingered vulgarian”.
For reference, I checked his Wiki page and he played for the national team in England, which is kind of an achievement, as competitive as doing so in soccer maybe. Comparatively, a lot of the kickers from Australia who’ve cropped up in the NCAA and NFL recently are just that, high-level athletes who are good players…
For the ignorant Millennials, who should pay more respect to the heroes of yore and their elders generally:
Very good. I always rely on this song as a touchstone, a bedrock principle.
He never broke off from proper grammar though.
+1 deep cut
Could you be any more of a sycophant?
I’m pretty sure I know what you mean. You need to add the seven, that’s the ‘hard’ part, that’s the operation.
(...)— like my math is really good right now.
Meanwhile this catastrophic season, the Lions are 1-6, their lone win coming against the themselves 1-6 Argonauts, and on a last-play-of-the-game missed field goal attempt which earned them a rouge to break the tie, when the returner inadvertently stepped out of bounds. The Lions are on a bye this week, after getting…
Good to see there’s life yet in San Diego for Kevin Acee and Annie Heilbrunn, post-Chargers.