Friday, October 02, 2009

Even if I were gay I wouldn't want to have sex with David Letterman

Re that extortion plot, there's something vaguely weird about it all and even my local newsman looked stunned after the report was over that David Letterman had sex with a number of women staffers. It's as if you found out Ted Koppel was plowing the chicks all these years, this stuff is best left to the old guy on FRINGE. I can't get past the images. There's the images of the Samoan tsunami and then there's this. One affair ok but looks like feminism hasn't impacted Society as much as we thought. Dave doesn't have to go to the Playboy Mansion it seems, he's his own Hef.

workplace trendoids

People who can't finish 16 oz. bottles of Pepsi or Poland Spring and complain two days later that the boss threw out their beverage even though they can't seem to finish off a 1/4-1/2 inch level of the remaining fluid at the end of the day. Finish your beverage and there won't be a problem, this was never an issue for me. People who have lockers at work, isn't that getting a little too into it?

uncool bosses

Bosses who've known you for years and STILL work you to death, who won't ease up and have absolutely no humor. You're not asking to have a few cold ones after work with the guy, you're not even asking to have sex with the guy just be a little human is all. Main problem with the World today, nobody's cool.

people who take hour-long showers

I have a friend who does this and I asked him one day what does he do in there? He says he thinks. So you're there scrubbing your nuts, Ole Socrates and somebody else has to get in there. Nice guy, even the cat is waiting to use the litter box. He recently picked up a second part-time job and I says how's it going? and he says at least it's something. So I'm lazy for holding down only one job?

Stranded

10 comments:

  1. Off Topic, But...
    Obama and his wife Michelle along with Oprah Winfrey's efforts to land the 2016 Olympics for Chicago have failed: The city was eliminated in the first round of voting to determine where the Summer Games will be held. On Friday it was announced that Rio de Janeiro – long thought to be the front-runner – would host the Olympics, the first time any city in South America got the Games. The President and his wife had both lobbied Olympic leaders in Copenhagen to give the global event to their hometown. "I urge you to choose Chicago," the President told members of the International Olympic Committee. "And if you do – if we walk this path together – then I promise you this: The city of Chicago and the United States of America will make the world proud."

    Let me get this straight, in Afghanistan, more American service members died in August than in any month since the war began. His top military commander says that without more troops, we run the risk of losing the war. Iran admits operating a second previously undisclosed nuclear facility. Unemployment stands at 9.7 percent. And what does our dear old president do?? He and his wife and a talk show host fly to Copenhagen to beg for the Olympics to be held in Chicago. What is wrong with this picture?


    The only reason he wanted the Olympics held in Chicago was to put some money in his pockets along with his cronies.


    I feel the loss for the United States, but I am rejoicing over the fact that the panel of leaders for the Olympics were not charmed or fell under the great Obama spell. Not everyone is a fan and I am very content with that.

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  2. Luckily going off topic here is allowed.

    As for Letterman, I don't get it either, its just got to be the celebrity factor.

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  3. Yeah Milli his aura or whatever it is is wearing thin. Beth, if Letterman weren't humping the staff I probably wouldn't be blogging about it but it's so completely unprofessional in this day and age. Leno and Conan and the rest are looking better everyday. No wonder he didn't like Sarah Palin, she's way out of his league.

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  4. Good piece, I really got a charge out of reading it. Keep up the fine work.

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  5. I've got one for workplace trendoids Z.

    Who the hell are these babies that go crying to HR because they didn't show you a shred of respect with regards to your workflow and bring you crap that they need ASAP (thus compromizing your current workflow and the project they're requesting) and so when you get a little blunt with them they cry to HR and you're made out to be the bad guy???

    I hate those people.

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  6. One advantage of being really old is the experience of the changes in the workplace. I knew of a supervisor who hired his line leader women at a local bar, and others who considered their workforce a harem. After a few dozen years, those types were summarily fired..although as Soap
    notes, even the dregs run to HR.
    (HR..used to be Personnel: early on, I went in to complain about some unpaid OT and was told that I could be replaced...they had to that same day...heh)

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  7. Since we got alot of topics juggling here (that's the way I like it) got to add some more to the Letterman mix. Andrea Peyser of the New York Post is one of the few who's got it right and half the time I disagree with her: when his contract comes up again don't renew it, let him go. Many are treating this as the usual "what consenting adults do is nobody's business" but the real issue here is a boss having sex with his subordinates (note the plural, if it were singular can you really put a value judgement on who you can fall in love with?). That's the issue and I happen to agree with feminist theory here, how would you feel if you were a woman working in a place where the boss is having sex with other female workers? It's almost de facto a hostile work environment at least to you and the other thing is Letterman just doesn't get it. He's gotten alot of kudos for addressing the scandal head on and even poking fun at himself but that just further shows he has no shame, no decency. I'm not coming at this from either a puritanical or a privacy angle, the man just has to go, it's that simple.

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  8. I happen to agree with ya there soapie, it's often the worst workers who feel picked on by the boss and complain to HR or the union if they have one. BB good to hear from you again!

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  9. You bring up some very good points and if I wathced his show I would boycott it!

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  10. & I hardly ever speak as a feminist but once in a blue moon they're right. I've only occasionally watched his show in the past but now I have no reason to.

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