Clink.. Clink... My Two Cents

A good link for the weekend,


This website is an effort to dispell all of those "nasty rumors" about the Walmart Chain,
Here are a couple of the Pearls from the site.

Competitive Wages
"Wal-Mart’s average full-time hourly wage nationally is $9.68 an hour, higher in urban areas. For example: Chicago, $10.69; Austin, TX, $10.69; Washington D.C./Baltimore, $10.08; Atlanta, $10.80; and in Los Angeles, $9.99."

Ok all here is the break down, The average wage is.
387.20 / week
1548.00 / month
19,360.00 / year assuming 50 weeks work

Average full time hourly wage, so if the store general managerand other managers makes >16 dollars an hour then all of the grunt worker make significantly less than 9.68. Hmm averaging, No mention to the amount of senority either. Hey Wal Mart how much does someone applying for a new full time job make? Let not f' around with stats here!!
What if you do not work full time? What is the average then?

Playing with averages is a stupid way of presenting this information. When my sister, neighbor and I would fight over what to do when we got home from school we would write a list of what was available. Such as...

Basketball
Football
Soccer
House
Dolls
School

So my 12 year old sister, me @ 9, neighbor @ 6. We would rate what we wanted to do on a 1-10 basis

it would look like this three numbers based on our votes in this order Me- Neighbor- Sister

Basketball 8-6-0
Football 10-6-0
Soccer 7-6-0
House 4-7-2
Dolls 4-7-10
School 5-4-10


Damn it, Dolls again, You see I learned this lesson very very young. Averaging data means you play with dolls. If you want to play with dolls, work at WalMart



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Headlines (quotes) of the Day, oh what a world we live in

"Christian groups however have taken exception to the tolerance pledge on the foundation's Web site, which asks people to respect the sexual identity of others along with their abilities, beliefs, culture and race.

"Their inclusion of the reference to 'sexual identity" within their 'tolerance pledge' is not only unnecessary, but it crosses a moral line," James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, said in a statement released Thursday.

This is a must read, love for all men, tolerance let the man without sin cast the first stone, no tolerence for those "homosexuals" though, Complete bs ignorance.

#2

"It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in the world."

Hey GW end Tyranny in the United States and I will then believe in you.

#3

Internet "phishing" scams are becoming more difficult to detect as criminals develop new ways to trick consumers into revealing passwords, bank account numbers and other sensitive information, security experts say.

Just wondering this one thing, how did the word Phishing originate? It mildy bothers me that one of my favorite bands is being associated with such sinister activities.

Why can't it be Meatloafing Scams, You've been NSYNCed, Whatever you do do not me caught in a Celion Dion incident.

Spam is a perfect term, when you open your inbox and find 200 messagaes for you you get a similar feeling to when you open your cupboard to find Spam as the only thing in there to eat.

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The Atlanta Falcons, I have liked them since 1984 when their star player was Gerald Riggs, Steve Bartkowski. Back before ESPN (we did not have cable) Back when the Evening Observer (small town NY with headlines such as "boy who's house burns down has goat stolen" in the heart of Buffalo Bills country) Would only show the box scores. I had to find out what the players looked like by colecting the Topps football cards. Which at one point I traded a Jerry Rice rookie card for about 10 falcons cards to finish the team.

Why the Falcons, I wish the story was better but, at this time the Bills were absolutely awful, 2-14, I loved football we had to listen to the games on the radio because they never ever sold out. I think it was this season when I asked my grandpa, Is it possible that if the other team does a really bad penalty that they can take points AWAY from the other team. Because the Bills were getting destroyed by everyone.
So one day at Hills (department store) I was angry, I asked Mom for a quarter, went to the gumball machine that had the football helmets in said whatever helmet comes out of here will be my new favorite team. Out comes the Atlanta Falcons I did not know who the heck was on the team but they had to be better then who the Bills had.
Come to find out they had only gone 4-12 that season, I never met another Falcons fan until freshman year 1992 after they changed to Black Helmets and drafted Deion Sanders and Andre Rison and had MC Hammer singing 2-legit 2 quit on the sidelines.

They are playing in the NFC championship on Sunday. Keep your fingers crossed.

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