2016 Postmortem

Buckeye_Democrat

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8. Almost all of my managers in factories around here...

Tue Dec 20, 2016, 12:35 AM

Dec 2016

... didn't have a bachelor's degree (unlike me working under them).

One thing they all seemed to have in common was a total lack of guilt about their higher pay for mostly sitting on their butts in air conditioned offices as they supposedly made "important decisions."

They were all corporations. I'd like to think if they were privately owned, then maybe the owner(s) would actually see how their money was being wasted on those people.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that they were overwhelmingly Republican too.

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Almost all of my managers in factories around here... Buckeye_Democrat Dec 2016 #8

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