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Texas students shut down highway and march 7 miles to vote in gerrymandered district

February 22, 2008 11:37pm

damn, just noticed I misspelled sight...

Texas students shut down highway and march 7 miles to vote in gerrymandered district

February 22, 2008 11:34pm

This is a beautiful site!
Placing a polling place 7 miles away from a college campus is ridiculous, I'm sure the school has more than enough locations that could have served as polling places, and though #2 may drive 30 miles to work each day, you have to realize not all students have cars and getting around can be difficult. Though they may have caused traffic delays, it is important that they draw attention to this injustice.
Frankly, I'm just proud to see so many young people taking an interest in defending their voting rights.

Please translate this unusual page from a book

January 22, 2008 1:14pm

did anybody else get 10√ 305?

Florida school board approves McDonald's report-cards and school-bus audio ads

January 19, 2008 10:50am

Jennifer Government anyone?

Surprising origins of a face drawing

January 3, 2008 9:08pm

Am I the only one that thinks the face is wearing a blindfold?

How Circuit City Committed Suicide

January 1, 2008 11:26pm

WillyC brings up a very good point, the importance of quality in a TV salesperson is huge. BestBuy realizes this which is why they have their Magnolia sales team which specializes in home theater sales (They're paid pretty well compared to other sales people too). Circuit City is especially lacking in this area because of the layoffs, and their new training system cuts out a great deal information in exchange for a faster trainee period.

How Circuit City Committed Suicide

December 30, 2007 12:04pm

Also, another reason why there has been a huge decline in the availability of knowledgeable sales people is because of a change made to their training program, now rather than being broken down into 6 departments each with it's own specialized training, the store is broken up into 2 general departments. Also, most of the older higher paid associates were the biggest source of training for new associates in terms of sales strategy, and (here's the big part) customer service skills. You would be surprised at how much worse customers get treated in new stores compared to how they were treated in the past. I had employees and managers that would pride themselves in their ability to take an angry upset customer and help them so that they would walk away with a smile, this doesn't happen with new management.

How Circuit City Committed Suicide

December 30, 2007 11:57am

I worked at Circuit City for a couple of years, the layoffs were a horrible plan.
To get back on a couple of points that have been brought up, The Reverend asked about shrink rates, at our location and a couple of others that i know of, the amount of internal shrink went up after the older higher paid employees were laid off because the people they hired as replacements were all immature high school aged kids (As opposed to the older employees, most in their mid to late forties).
As far as age discrimination goes, many of my old co-workers have actually brought up a class action suit against Circuit City (in the state of California). And it does seem like a pretty valid claim, all of the employees fired from my location were older.

Strange, rare nocturnal animal caught on video

December 10, 2007 10:48pm

Haha, I was about to post the same thing. Gotta love the huge ears on them

Official 1898 baseball document filled with foul language

December 4, 2007 1:09pm

Wow, for some reason I never thought people used such "revolting terms" way back then. This is awesome!

no!no! Shaver Removes Hair By Burning It

October 30, 2007 7:38pm

sorry, meant to say hair

no!no! Shaver Removes Hair By Burning It

October 30, 2007 7:37pm

doesn't burning hell smell horrible though?

Man placed on sex offenders register for sex with bike

October 29, 2007 4:46pm

Sure...laugh if you will, but this is finally a step in the right direction for the sexual liberation of inanimate objects. Though this bicycle has received its justice, countless mattresses and sofa cushions across the world suffer in silence.

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