But with less time travel. Or more time travel. We’re not sure yet. 

The Onion Ninjas strike again!

You might be surprised. The food and bev business is pretty tight knit. I’ve seen places helping each other out with everything from lending a box of straws, to loaning out their chef, to buying restaurant equipment and product they didn’t need so we could get a dishwasher paid after the owner skipped town with the…

More like directly under my nose...

I’m not crying, you’re crying. 

I tried to come up with a smarmy comment about this and failed.  At least I tried. : P

Someone else was. Nearby.

Actually yes it has

::shrug:: I pay a fraction of what PG&E customers pay for electricity to my municipal utilities district, and it comes with lots of other excellent services a private company would never provide, soooooo... I know it's the hip new thing for trolls to say "socialism" when they mean something else, but come on.

The pessimist in me says invest in  Yeti coolers and a lot of ice. 

They're proving their facilities aren't adequate. Unfortunately, people won't realize it proves their execs are incredibly overpaid and highly incompetent. 

And you will probably receive the notice of a new, emergency rate increase sometime around November 1. After all, think of all the lost revenue they’ll have!

And they’ll have excellent exit payouts when they are forced to resign in disgrace only to be replaced by a higher paid successor who will negotiate even higher guaranteed bonuses.

Awesome. God bless America private energy companies. If they aren’t cutting corners to cause massive wildfires they’re just flat out shutting down power to paying customers in fear of killing dozens of people from their shitty service. Fear not exec’s will still make bonus

PG&E is late stage capitalism at its worst.

Right, its when ordinary day to day life is impacted people start asking questions. No power, no refrigeration, no work to go to, no TV to distract you, “well this sucks”.

This is the kind of stuff that will feel apocalypse-y to people, at least if they’ve managed to avoid the natural disasters on steroids that have been happening.

they are cocktails, so it’s like a shot of a cocktail. I don’t like it one bit.

fun  idea but seems like it’d be too strong...maybe a cocktail of some sort would be better....

And this article doesn’t even mention the part where he goes on a tangent about the DNC’s email server that got hacked being in Ukraine and asking to get to the bottom of that.