Posts by MeanMrMustard

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Lifeguard Lopez fired

by bobld in

jw
friends

he used common sense but was fired.why.

because the company he worked for.

said "you must follow our guidelines or be fired".

MeanMrMustard

MMM -- I didn't read the comments before I posted , and was responding to the OP, but your comments are noted.
re this:

find a Jewish lawyer

REALLY? Does s/he HAVE to be Jewish?
tut, tut!
and this,
Meanwhile, none of this is free - we all pay for it, either by higher insurance rates or paranoid companies with stupid rules (like don't help anyone outside the ropes)
Yeah, okay,, let's let our humanity be determined by RULES .............. NOT!!!
never, not in a million years ... and YOUR comments provide the perfect argument for 'why I am an anarchist'.
L ,,, O ,,,, ***'n ,,,, L
tal

@talesin,

I think you may be conflating "humanity" with "compassion". Part of "humanity" is assessing risk. We do it naturally each day with just about everything we do - and so do the individuals who have to create company policy. The company leaders that make these seemingly nonsensical decisions make them because of their humanity, not in-spite of it.

MMM

46

Lifeguard Lopez fired

by bobld in

jw
friends

he used common sense but was fired.why.

because the company he worked for.

said "you must follow our guidelines or be fired".

MeanMrMustard

@Beks: Thank you for agreeing with me. Nice to talk to you.

MMM

46

Lifeguard Lopez fired

by bobld in

jw
friends

he used common sense but was fired.why.

because the company he worked for.

said "you must follow our guidelines or be fired".

MeanMrMustard

@talesin:

You wrote:

Liability ,, schmiability!!!!
Okay, my job says I'm supposed to SIT HERE, WATCHING PEOPLE, but OH, there's someone drowning! I guess I better just sit here.
COME ON, people!
DOH and DRRR and WHAT WAS THAT COMPANY THINKING???????????
We are taking coporatocracy to a new level. This is just wrong.
argh!
tal

I looked back over the posts, and I didn't see anyone saying that firing the life guard was the right thing to do. I don't really even see how this has anything to do with "corporatocracy". When you say, "WHAT WAS THAT COMPANY THINKING??" - that seems like exactly what people were trying to answer, at least that is what I was trying to answer. What motivation would the company have to make such a decision? They didn't want to get cleaned out by a lawsuit. Why would they have that fear? Because we live in a society that will litigate over retarded things. A kid buys a superman costume and thinks he can fly, jumps off the roof - oops, lawsuit because there wasn't a label on the costume warning against such idiocy. No warning on a McDonalds coffee cup and you get burned? Awesome, find a Jewish lawyer and you have a few million coming your way! Familiy member died in the ER because the doctor tried to save your loved one the best he could with a risky procedure (even though your loved one would die anyway)? Malpractice! Start a lawsuit and get some $$$! Meanwhile, none of this is free - we all pay for it, either by higher insurance rates or paranoid companies with stupid rules (like don't help anyone outside the ropes).

MMM

46

Lifeguard Lopez fired

by bobld in

jw
friends

he used common sense but was fired.why.

because the company he worked for.

said "you must follow our guidelines or be fired".

MeanMrMustard

@Beks:

Well MrM you can read whatever you want to in Wiki, I lived it. Worked for BofA in the Financial District in SF. Suddenly there were more "Financial Advisers" than finances.

Perhaps you should get a Wiki username and edit the ME generation page. In any case, it just seemed like you were trying to pin an attitude like "ME" (greed) on Reagan... perhaps I was mistaken. My fault for reading into your statements.

Look, it's really not hard to figure this stuff out. If you are willing to look. Otherwise, you are all the same as JWs sitting there nodding your heads at the propaganda.

I took a look around and found numerious articles showing that there was a great deal of people getting rich in the 80s. Also, a great deal of money given to chairity too. Perhaps these stats are wrong:

The "decade of greed" turned out to be fairly chairtable.

Alas, we have strayed from the topic. We over-litigate today. It messes up lots of stuff IMHO.

MMM

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Lifeguard Lopez fired

by bobld in

jw
friends

he used common sense but was fired.why.

because the company he worked for.

said "you must follow our guidelines or be fired".

MeanMrMustard

@Beks: so Reagan was responsibly for the ME generation? I thought the ME generation was prior to Reagan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_generation)

MMM

46

Lifeguard Lopez fired

by bobld in

jw
friends

he used common sense but was fired.why.

because the company he worked for.

said "you must follow our guidelines or be fired".

MeanMrMustard

@MrFreeze:

" He didn't leave his area unattended. There was another lifeguard there. "

Exactly. But what would happen, in terms of liability, if he attempts a rescue outside his assigned zone and fails to rescue the individual (the swimmer dies)? My bet is that the family would hire an experienced lawyer and go for a lawsuit... Same situation as that ER doctor refusing to try risky procedures, even when the alternative is the death of the patient.

We over litigate.

MMM

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Was There Ever A Poster Here That Realy Was a Watchtower Spy?

by minimus in

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friends

since some believe that watctower regularly observes this site,did you ever know of a watchtower double agent here?.

MeanMrMustard

I think the one most likely to be a WT spy would be the poster bringing up the topic, thereby deflecting suspicion away from him/her... right minumus?

MMM

46

Lifeguard Lopez fired

by bobld in

jw
friends

he used common sense but was fired.why.

because the company he worked for.

said "you must follow our guidelines or be fired".

MeanMrMustard

I bet you there is a reason for these firings - and I have a sinking feeling its tied to the over-litigating society we live in. A heroic life guard steps away from his/her tower to save a child outside his/her jurisdiction. Meanwhile someone else, simultaneously, within the lifeguard's jurisdiction gets into trouble (nothing serious, but really scary) and lawsuits start-a-flying.

Same reason why some emergency room doctors will let a patient die rather than perform a last-ditch procedure. If the patient dies, out come the lawyers and then everyone suffers.

MMM

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God particle is 'found': Scientists at Cern expected to announce on Wednesday

by cantleave in

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2167188/god-particle-scientists-cern-expected-announce-higgs-boson-particle-discovered-wednesday.html.

scientists 'will say they are 99.99% certain' the particle has been foundleading physicists have been invited to event - sparking speculation that higgs boson particle has been found'god particle' gives particles that make up atoms their mass.

by rob cooper.

MeanMrMustard

@cedars:

If you want to learn more about particle physics check this out: http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=1247

This guy does a good job explaing it. 24 lectures ...

MMM

edit: unfortunately, it is not free :(

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Truth Be Told documentary is finished!!! Just in time to ride the wave of publicity from the verdict.

by discreetslave in

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the documentary is finished.

the private screening to be held in july.. the film has been submitted to 30 film festivals in te us and abroad.

he is taking requests for any other film festivals or venues.. http://www.hereliesthetruth.com/.

MeanMrMustard

The scene with audience sitting while the tiled drop celing moves around behind them gave me the shivers - I hate those damn drop celings and they are in every damn kingdom hall I've ever been in.