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« Reply #25 on: March 07, 2015, 03:50:31 PM »

So wait you buy separate pepperoni and cheese? This purchase makes even less sense. Where is the cheap and convenience factor? You're buying a box of CB pizza and then making a different pizza.


Seriously, just buy some decent pizza dough from the bakery/deli section of the grocery store, and some decent tomato sauce to go with the cheese and toppings.

Why do you need to use the preservative- and filler-laden Chef Boyardee crap? There's a reason it's marketed to children -- no one over the age of 12 isn't aware of how horrible it is. Except, apparently, the Browns.
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Indy Texas
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« Reply #26 on: March 07, 2015, 11:14:05 PM »

I am really going to have to be disciplined with my attendance in this new job.  I will get no vacation or sick days until October 1 and even then I will have only 1 sick day to use before the end of the year and about 1 day (9 hours) of vacation time to use before December 31.  (I don't know if my vacation hours will reset on January 1 or April 1, 2016).  This will be a big change for me, but I believe I can be disciplined and focused.  This is going to involve me using my off hours wisely and take care of my health so I don't have the urge to call in sick period.  I should be fine, though.  I want to do everything I can to keep this job, so I'm not going to call in.

Start walking. No Braum's. No cheat days. No "can't refuse a family dinner" BS.
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Indy Texas
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« Reply #27 on: March 09, 2015, 08:27:49 PM »

I've seen the treasonous decal in Vermont, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, generally on rusted old Ford Ranger pickup trucks. So if they're seen in New England (the literal anti-Dixie) then they definitely exist in Oklahoma. Rats should all be hung IMO.

Might some of those people be using it more as a general symbol of rebellion akin to a Jolly Roger or an anarchist 'A' symbol? I can see how someone in rural New England who is completely divorced from the historical weight and racial implications of the rebel flag might view it in that way.
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« Reply #28 on: March 10, 2015, 04:14:51 AM »

If your point is that exclusionary groups are going to foster a less-than-ideal mindset in regards to "out" groups, I guess that's not entirely deniable. It's also going to foster a sense of in-group loyalty that I view as, in many ways, constructive--granting people a smaller, more palpable community than their larger university that they can work to actively build and support.

I think you're overlooking the fact that power dynamics do exist. If you have an in-group that not only seeks to maintain a certain level of privilege above the out-groups, and does so in practice, then, yes, that is a problem.

You say exclusion comes not from race or socioeconomic class, but from that standard trope about being "a good fit." That's the same argument that any overwhelmingly white, male organization will use to justify enforcing homogeneity.

My freshman year of college, I lived in a dorm that fraternities tended to recruit very heavily from, and every semester the various chapters would post rush events on communal bulletin boards and sometimes slip fliers under your door or in your mailbox. The events in question tended to be things like skeet shooting, cigar smokers and going to the driving range. In other words, things that upscale white men tend to enjoy, and things that people who do not come from such a background are going to be unfamiliar with, uncomfortable with and probably avoid. Being from Yankee-and-immigrant stock, I've never felt comfortable around firearms; I also eschew golf and abhor anything involving tobacco; I'm also rather contrarian in general, so that was an avenue that I did not pursue in college.

This might not be a huge problem in and of itself, but when you create a system where membership in said organization can give you substantial advantage in things like getting a job after graduation, you've created a hurdle that can only be cleared by passing through a filter whose criteria is conveniently correlated with being...an affluent white male.
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« Reply #29 on: March 10, 2015, 09:40:42 PM »

Anyway, I am down to 12 days until my new career begins. 

What have you been doing to prepare for your new career?


I've spent some time researching the different cuts of meats, as well as extensive time reading the Team Member Handbook.

How long will your new member education period last? Have they assigned you a "big" yet?

The handbook doesn't specify the new member education period.  Nor, have I heard who I'll be placed under other than the meat manager.  I haven't heard anything from them since March 3 and that was just to get the handbook.

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