Minimum Wage Slave Badly Hurt Saving Hasselhoff Placard

[N2NH]

Why? You're making $7.25/hr if you're lucky enough not to work in a red state (where they have laws against that kind of thing). So you nearly get killed doing what?

this:


For the second summer in a row, '80s relic David Hasselhoff has starred in a deliberately cheesy advertisement for Cumberland Farms' Farmhouse Blend iced coffee. Last summer, the kitsch-nostalgia campaign was so wildly successful that according to the Boston Globe, the 600-plus in-store cardboard cutouts and pole signs of the Hoff were all stolen, later making social-media cameos at weddings, concerts, and even in a canoe.

New England's Hasselhoff rage was so fervent that WHDH, Boston's local NBC affiliate, quoted one Cumby's customer, Greg Mandel, as comparing the Hoff's popularity to “I don’t know, it’s just like Germany."

While Cumberland Farms adored the attention, they also told the television station that the Massachusetts-based convenience company did not condone theft, saying, "The Hoff is there for all to enjoy."

So when Cumberland Farms revived the Full Contact agency campaign again this year, they anticipated the second-run curios might again become scavenger-hunt spoils and doubled the print run to 1200 pieces. What they didn't anticipate was how frantically the locals still might want these souvenirs—or what measures their own employees might have to go to protect them.

The AP reports that early this morning in Shelton, Connecticut, a 36-year-old Cumberland Farms clerk witnessed a man steal two David Hasselhoff ads from the store and put them into his SUV. The employee tried to stop the thief, but "police say the worker was struck and dragged by the SUV and landed on his head."

Holy sh*t.

Yah, like the man said, "Holy sh*t!" And they say dogs are loyal. More about this crap here...

>> LINK << (http://gawker.com/man-critically-injured-trying-to-rescue-a-stolen-david-1174454344)

[N2CHX]

Well, that was pretty stupid.

[K9CCH]

Well, that was pretty stupid.


People are getting more stupid by the day. I'm convinced someone spilled a whole barrel of stupid into the water supply.

[N2CHX]

People are getting more stupid by the day. I'm convinced someone spilled a whole barrel of stupid into the water supply.

I always thought I was the stupid one, then I realized that people put down my thoughts and ideas because they just didn't get it and it wasn't me or my thoughts or ideas that were stupid. It took me many years to figure out that I wasn't the stupid one. People really are stupid and the vast majority of people annoy the shit out of me.

[K9CCH]

People really are stupid and the vast majority of people annoy the shit out of me.


You should try my job on for size for about 40 hours......

[N2CHX]

You should try my job on for size for about 40 hours......

Oh, I understand... Part of my job is performance and electrical testing of high-end circuit boards before they leave the factory floor. You know how many electrolytic capacitors I've had explode in my face now, because the inspectors who are supposed to catch this sort of thing before it gets anywhere near me, missed it? Each piece goes through several inspections and somehow at least 10 boards a week have a backwards cap on them, among other things quite obviously wrong.

[N2NH]

You should try my job on for size for about 40 hours......

I did a similar job for about 8 years. I sympathize. Dealing with the public is bad enough. Dealing with them when everything is going wrong is the pits.

[K9CCH]

I did a similar job for about 8 years. I sympathize. Dealing with the public is bad enough. Dealing with them when everything is going wrong is the pits.


I don't mind dealing with them when everything is going wrong, its when nothing is going wrong thats the problem. Case in point, and this is a true story from last week.

Me: "Police Department."
Caller: "Is WalMart open?"
M: "I'm not sure sir, this is the Police Department and there is no Walmart in our City."
C: "Well how do I find out."
M: "Perhaps you should try calling Walmart."
C: "Well how do I do that?"


True story. Verbatim.

[KG4CGC]

Oh, I understand... Part of my job is performance and electrical testing of high-end circuit boards before they leave the factory floor. You know how many electrolytic capacitors I've had explode in my face now, because the inspectors who are supposed to catch this sort of thing before it gets anywhere near me, missed it? Each piece goes through several inspections and somehow at least 10 boards a week have a backwards cap on them, among other things quite obviously wrong.

Putting caps in a board backwards is a fireable offense in my book. Hell, they fire cashiers at the Ingle's now is they don't ask your for your Ingle's card.

[n2ize]

Fortunately there are a lot of smart people out there to compensate for the stupid ones.

[NA4BH]

Who wouldn't try to save the Hoff?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVGFGmoltDs

[N2NH]

I don't mind dealing with them when everything is going wrong, its when nothing is going wrong thats the problem. Case in point, and this is a true story from last week.

Me: "Police Department."
Caller: "Is WalMart open?"
M: "I'm not sure sir, this is the Police Department and there is no Walmart in our City."
C: "Well how do I find out."
M: "Perhaps you should try calling Walmart."
C: "Well how do I do that?"


True story. Verbatim.

Wow. Well, looks about right for who I see in the aisles at Walmart. Always a freakshow. Worse than being on the "A" train at 2AM. :lol:

[kb2vxa]

"...the inspectors who are supposed to catch this sort of thing before it gets anywhere near me, missed it?"
Oh dear me, do you EVER have the wrong attitude! That's what you're there for, if not for them you wouldn't have a job! Now take a deep breath, relax, and give thanks for stupid people.

My last job was QA/QC electrical inspector and one line of filters had a perplexing problem, they tested good in process and final BUT about 75% came flying back from the customer, some with big chunks blown out of the epoxy case. All the red tags said was "unknown electrical problem" and except for the physically damaged ones they still tested good. WTF do they pass testing and blow up when installed? Something is wrong with the test but WHAT? I studied the schematic and noticed they were tested as series resonant circuits... resonant... hmmm. Experimenting with different frequencies I found one that separated sheep from goats, examining the goats I saw wiring errors; EUREKA! With the new test frequency I found every mis-wired unit in process, sent them back to assembly and by the time they got to final they were 100%, return rate zero, and my next check reflected a nice raise. That was my epiphany, I was a VIP even if I wasn't management with a fancy title. You too Kel and anyone else in a similar position, stupid people pay your salary.

Now if I were a micromum wage jerk in a Cum Farm and someone ran off with David Hassleme cutouts cluttering up the place I'd help him, maybe he's give me a tip, who knows?

[K9CCH]

Fortunately there are a lot of smart people out there to compensate for the stupid ones.


Please, tell me where. Because from my perspective, society is riding a speeding "stupid" bus to hell and there ain't no stopping it.

[K9CCH]

Wow. Well, looks about right for who I see in the aisles at Walmart. Always a freakshow. Worse than being on the "A" train at 2AM. :lol:


My favorite is when the power goes out...

Me: "Police Department."
Caller: "Yes, my power is out."
M: "Ok, how can I help you."
C: "I don't have any power, do you know who I call."
M: "No I dont."
C: "Why not?"
M: "Because we are the police departement, not your electric provider."
C: "Well do you know who I call?"
M: "Who do you make your electric bill payment out to every month?"
C: "<electric company name>"
M: "Well perhaps you should call them."
C: "You can't do that for me?"
M: "No I cannot."
C: Click.


This is why I hate people.

[N2NH]

My favorite is when the power goes out...

Me: "Police Department."
Caller: "Yes, my power is out."
M: "Ok, how can I help you."
C: "I don't have any power, do you know who I call."
M: "No I dont."
C: "Why not?"
M: "Because we are the police departement, not your electric provider."
C: "Well do you know who I call?"
M: "Who do you make your electric bill payment out to every month?"
C: "<electric company name>"
M: "Well perhaps you should call them."
C: "You can't do that for me?"
M: "No I cannot."
C: Click.


This is why I hate people.

Occupational hazard when you have to do public service work. They either hate you or they think you can do anything. I had a student who used to park on the sidewalk next to the building vents. A real health hazard. When I told her she had to move it, she threatened to knee my crotch. A cup took care of that problem and I kept the cuffs ready. We had a lot of head cases like that. The ones that hate you most are the ones that are first to run to you for help when something goes wrong. She lost her laptop one day. Guess who she came to?

:lol:

[wa6mhz]

One time some assembler put a TO-3 case transistor in backwards or something, and when I plugged it in, it truly SHOT OFF THE BOARD, like a Bullet; whizzed past my neck and imbedded in the wall behind me!

[W3WN]

Please, tell me where. Because from my perspective, society is riding a speeding "stupid" bus to hell and there ain't no stopping it.Ah. I see the problem.

The smart ones won't ever call you except for a true emergency. It's the stupid ones who constantly pester you because... well...

So your sample size is skewed because you are not seeing a true sampling of the actual population; your sample size is distorted by tilting significantly towards the lower end of the Bell curve.

[KG4CGC]

I don't mind dealing with them when everything is going wrong, its when nothing is going wrong thats the problem. Case in point, and this is a true story from last week.

Me: "Police Department."
Caller: "Is WalMart open?"
M: "I'm not sure sir, this is the Police Department and there is no Walmart in our City."
C: "Well how do I find out."
M: "Perhaps you should try calling Walmart."
C: "Well how do I do that?"


True story. Verbatim.
Lost Amish?

[K9CCH]

Ah. I see the problem.

The smart ones won't ever call you except for a true emergency. It's the stupid ones who constantly pester you because... well...

So your sample size is skewed because you are not seeing a true sampling of the actual population; your sample size is distorted by tilting significantly towards the lower end of the Bell curve.



Im going to print this and put it on my wall...

[KG4CGC]

Im going to print this and put it on my wall...

In the meantime, did you ever figure out what those penis things are that are buried in the sand?

[kb2vxa]

Flesh Gordon discovered them on Porno Mondo, it's a Penisaurus.