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  WOW-crazy day at work. Congrats to me???

  by TweetieBird in

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  sharing my wild day at work today because it is 1am and i can't sleep.. i am an assistant manager at an apartment community.

  the manager has been a complete nightmare (bipolar and incompetent) so the last 10 months have been challenging to say the least.

  got to work this morning and our regional was already there which was a little strange but half expected due to something that happened last week.

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  So in 1984 I had a job as an assistant apt manager to supplement my income (I'd just gotten out of a second run at college and entry level accounting jobs didn't pay much). About a month into it, the owners got in a fight over management, two of the five owners had their own mgmt companies and one succeeding in talking the other partners into giving him the building. The other guy pulled the crew off the property in retaliation. The last thing the old manager did, on Sunday morning, was hand me a coffee can full of keys and tell me I was in charge. I ended up quiting the entry level job, and stayed in property management until I was pushed into retirement in 2009. On the whole it worked out pretty well.

  I'm surprised your manager's contract doesn't specify that they have to get off the property if they are no longer employed there. I hope they don't cause too much trouble. Where are you? I'm in Washington state. If you want advice or just to swap war stories PM me.
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  A Handy Guide to Woo and Assorted Superstitions

  by cofty in

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  2. beliefs

  it's interesting how superstitious people point the finger and laugh at other people's superstitions.. the only honest thing is to reject all of them.

  here is a handy checklist to see if you have missed any.

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  What's interesting about acupuncture is that it seems to work for somethings (pain management, addiction treatment for example). What isn't known is how it works. Placebo effect would explain a lot but not everything. Interference with nerve signals or release of neurotransmitters could explain how it works in pain control. Here's a link to an NIH abstract of an article about it.

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18227322
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  A Handy Guide to Woo and Assorted Superstitions

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's interesting how superstitious people point the finger and laugh at other people's superstitions.. the only honest thing is to reject all of them.

  here is a handy checklist to see if you have missed any.

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  I see you did not include hexagonal water. Does this mean I should join my in laws in the MLM they keep trying to recruit me into?
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  It's been a bad week.

  by JeffT in

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  my mother fell halloween night.

  spent the next five days in the hospital, we've got her back at home now and i think things are settling down.

  i'm way behind on my sleep and a couple of writing projects, hopefully i will get back to normal life soon..

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  My mother fell Halloween night. Spent the next five days in the hospital, we've got her back at home now and I think things are settling down. I'm way behind on my sleep and a couple of writing projects, hopefully I will get back to normal life soon.
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  Are YOU Paying More or Less or the Same $$$ For Insurance Since Obamacare?

  by minimus in

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  just curious.

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  Just got new rate sheet from my insurer. My current policy willl no longer exist after 1/1/14 because its not ACA compliant. Replacement will be about three hundred a month more for one that is not as good, or about six hundred more for one roughly equal.
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  Do You Still Wear "Meeting" Clothes?

  by minimus in

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  i have dozens of suits.

  i still buy them .

  i wear ties sometimes too.

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  Like everybody else in my AA group I wear whatever to the meeting, jeans T-shirt. Sweatshirt if its cold.

  Oh, you meant the KH Hall didn't you? No.
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  New church looks like...

  by JeffT in

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  2. friends

  ...well, from god's perspective its a bit interesting.. .

  http://gawker.com/christian-science-church-looks-like-a-giant-dick-from-s-1454084292.

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  ...well, from God's perspective its a bit interesting.

  http://gawker.com/christian-science-church-looks-like-a-giant-dick-from-s-1454084292
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  Next chapter is up on my blog

  by JeffT in

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  enjoy.

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  I keep forgetting I don't have a signature block on this forum.

  http://pathologicallyintellectual.blogspot.com/
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  Are JW's using different terminology for "congregation discipline"?

  by booker-t in

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  i have been out for over 20 years now and sometimes i run into a young jws on the street and the language seems to be "greek" to me.

  i have a hard time understanding what they are talking about.

  when i was in(90s) they had 4 catergories for congregation discipline.

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  I think the legal department has been rewriting the rules about this. Our letter included a line to the effect that we'd call a lawyer if they said anything to malign our character our Christian beliefs. I imagine this is a fairly common occurance, so they had to start watching what they said.
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  Next chapter is up on my blog

  by JeffT in

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  enjoy.

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  enjoy