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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (168724)	8/8/2001 1:42:12 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

You'd probably pee in your pants the first time you saw a $300 suit on the other side of the bargaining table. Wrong again, as usual. I'd be wearing it. And I've dealt with people wearing those suits and came away just fine, thank you. It sure is easy to intimidate you. Ask some of the unemployed engineers who hang out on SI whether their lives would be better today had they had a union behind them when their company decided to downsize. Not a problem. The good ones either aren't the ones who get shot, or soon have another job soon. I was laid off once, for 6 weeks, in 35 years. And that actually was a favor. When the dust settled I was significantly better off. Look, flapquak, broken-field running is one life's necessities. You learn to cope with whatever life throws at you or you're roadkill.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (168724)	8/8/2001 1:17:40 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

you saw a $300 suit on the other side of the bargaining table. I missed the significance of that the first time through. So what company do you work for? They're on the edge of bankruptcy, right? Apparently the execs can't afford good suits.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (168724)	8/8/2001 4:45:02 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

*Bill Gates' Eleven Rules* In Bill Gates' book (Business @ The Speed of Thought), he lays out 11 rules that students do not learn in high school or college. He argues that our feel good, politically correct teachings have created a generation of kids with no concept of reality who are set up for failure in the real world. *RULE 1* - Life is not fair; get used to it. *RULE 2* - The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. *RULE 3* - You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school.You won't be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both. *RULE 4* - If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure. *RULE 5* - Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity.Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity. *RULE 6* - If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them. *RULE 7* - Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try "delousing" the closet in your own room. *RULE 8* - Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life. *RULE 9* - Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time. *RULE 10* - Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. *RULE 11* - Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. * * *