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Offline franksolich

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Manny was sad last evening
« on: February 27, 2015, 08:47:30 AM »
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Oh my.

When my good pal Manny's sad, so too is franksolich.

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MannyGoldstein (30,781 posts)    Thu Feb 26, 2015, 10:57 PM

I felt sad this evening
 
I was talking to a co-worker, a very smart woman, who will be giving up her car because she can't afford a repair bill.

As I left the office for the day, I saw the cleaning crew at work. They make even much less. How do they get by?

I make a pretty good income. Not 1%, but better than most. I suppose that I could praise myself for having worked hard and for making shrewd career choices, but that would largely be mythological bull@#$&. The fact is that I just showed up on this planet and got lucky. Born in a wealthy country with no serious handicaps, and I learn some things pretty quickly.

I wish we lived in a world, in a country, where we all helped each other out a little more, and where the lucky didn't habitually prey on the unlucky.

Where everyone can make a living and live a decent life.

Update: Incidentally, that was the goal of the Democratic Party back when I was a kid.

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yeoman6987 (5,485 posts)    Thu Feb 26, 2015, 11:04 PM

1. Anyway you can pay her repairs
 
and have her make small payments back to you? I have done that before and it helps a great deal. Heck even 5 dollars a month will allow her to keep the car. We are all in this together.

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Old and In the Way (37,034 posts)    Thu Feb 26, 2015, 11:14 PM

5. That sucks Manny.
 
Maybe you could volunteer a salary reduction to help these folks out....or at least embarass management to raise their wages. You are so awesumely populat on DU, I have to think you are an influencer of local public opinion at your place of work. SeriouLy, a progressive that gets 150 recs when you slam Democrats on every post ought to motivate workers at your place of work to follow your lead...so what's stopping you?

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Skittles (98,425 posts)    Fri Feb 27, 2015, 01:13 AM

34. can coworkers get together and chip in? Are there payment plan offers?

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Control-Z (9,989 posts)    Fri Feb 27, 2015, 01:38 AM

38. Instead of being sad for her
 
why don't you gift her the repairs. You can afford it. Tell her to pay it forward when she can. You'll have a friend for life. 

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boston bean (21,981 posts)    Fri Feb 27, 2015, 07:25 AM

52. I was hoping the update would have been.... oh I organized
 
something at work and helped this woman out.
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Re: Manny was sad last evening
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2015, 08:58:09 AM »
Franksolich's good friend Manny bit off more than he could chew with that one.

To summarize: Manny was sad about a prole's need, but he took no action to help her. Some of the other primitives gave Manny a wedgie about feeling sad, but doing nothing.*

Manny's waiting for King Putt to declare free cars and maintenance to be a basic human right, and to giver her a 2015 Obamamobile.


*Be careful, mole operators. It may turn into a mole trap. DUmmies believe that government is the solution, not private charity or assistance.
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Re: Manny was sad last evening
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2015, 10:04:41 AM »
Quote from: Big Dog on February 27, 2015, 08:58:09 AM
Franksolich's good friend Manny bit off more than he could chew with that one.

To summarize: Manny was sad about a prole's need, but he took no action to help her. Some of the other primitives gave Manny a wedgie about feeling sad, but doing nothing.*

Manny's waiting for King Putt to declare free cars and maintenance to be a basic human right, and to giver her a 2015 Obamamobile.


*Be careful, mole operators. It may turn into a mole trap. DUmmies believe that government is the solution, not private charity or assistance.
They do that in Great Britain so it's coming here soon enough.
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Re: Manny was sad last evening
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2015, 10:13:14 AM »
Dear Manny,

You are an idiot.

Sincerely yours.

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Re: Manny was sad last evening
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2015, 11:17:59 AM »
Quote from: Big Dog on February 27, 2015, 08:58:09 AM
Franksolich's good friend Manny bit off more than he could chew with that one.

To summarize: Manny was sad about a prole's need, but he took no action to help her.

To Manny and all true Progs, that's the government's job...as long as they make someone richer than him pay for it.
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Re: Manny was sad last evening
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2015, 05:18:05 PM »
Manny's purpose was to simply remind the DUmp that he's wealthier and smarter than they are, but he set off a contest among the DUmmies to see who's the richest and most charitable.

One rich and charitable bouncy spinner doesn't know the difference between straights and straits:
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Fri Feb 27, 2015, 04:32 AM
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45. Agreed

I have done so in the past in the early morning hours at the gas station. More than once I have put $10.00 into someone else's tank on my credit card that seemed in bad straights.


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Fri Feb 27, 2015, 08:38 AM
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56. it will make you feel good.

a lady I work with had her electricty shut off a couple of weeks ago. I loaned her the money to have it turned back on.


The DUmp is boiling over with charitable bouncies:
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Fri Feb 27, 2015, 07:56 AM
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54. My approach

I've given loans to people who desperately needed them. One was for car repairs and snow tires, another for first and last months' rent. I knew how tight their circumstances were, so after a month I declared Jubilee on both.


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5. That sucks Manny.

Maybe you could volunteer a salary reduction to help these folks out....or at least embarass management to raise their wages. You are so awesumely populat on DU, I have to think you are an influencer of local public opinion at your place of work.


DUmmy Manny tries to back his way out:
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Fri Feb 27, 2015, 12:14 PM
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71. I offered her a loan this morning

Then she went to HR and complained that I was being creepy and obviously wanted "something" in return.
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Re: Manny was sad last evening
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2015, 05:23:06 PM »
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MannyGoldstein (30,781 posts)    Thu Feb 26, 2015, 10:57 PM

I felt sad this evening
 
I was talking to a co-worker, a very smart woman, who will be giving up her car because she can't afford a repair bill.

As I left the office for the day, I saw the cleaning crew at work. They make even much less. How do they get by?
I make a pretty good income. Not 1%, but better than most. I suppose that I could praise myself for having worked hard and for making shrewd career choices, but that would largely be mythological bull@#$&. The fact is that I just showed up on this planet and got lucky. Born in a wealthy country with no serious handicaps, and I learn some things pretty quickly.

I wish we lived in a world, in a country, where we all helped each other out a little more, and where the lucky didn't habitually prey on the unlucky.

Where everyone can make a living and live a decent life.

Update: Incidentally, that was the goal of the Democratic Party back when I was a kid.

Wow, you didn't offer them any of your wages? why not?
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Re: Manny was sad last evening
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2015, 05:32:48 PM »
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71. I offered her a loan this morning

Then she went to HR and complained that I was being creepy and obviously wanted "something" in return.

Sounds like she may be one of the Ku Klux Klams on the Island of damned souls.
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Re: Manny was sad last evening
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2015, 05:34:06 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on February 27, 2015, 05:18:05 PM
DUmmy Manny tries to back his way out:

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MannyGoldstein (30,789 posts)    Fri Feb 27, 2015, 12:14 PM

71. I offered her a loan this morning

Then she went to HR and complained that I was being creepy and obviously wanted "something" in return.

Actually, I believe that.

What with the women's-libbers discouraging men from being gallant, telling other women they have to mistrust the motives of men, this sounds utterly credible to me.  I believe Manny; I've seen it before.
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Re: Manny was sad last evening
« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2015, 06:19:57 PM »
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71. I offered her a loan this morning

Then she went to HR and complained that I was being creepy and obviously wanted "something" in return.

Hmmm... I'm thinking any one of three things happened here:

1. Manny attached strings to the loan. I'll leave it to the reader's imagination to think of the strings
2. Manny has creeped her out so many times she would walk the streets before taking his money
3. Lady mentioned her car was broke, it was going to cost x amount to fix, and she was going to buy a new car cause it wasn't worth it and Manny spun a bouncy

Take your pick.
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Re: Manny was sad last evening
« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2015, 06:43:19 PM »
Manny is a liberal. So no he will never give to another in need. He worships at the feet of an all providing govt. So it never crossed his mind to be charitable and...GIVE.

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71. I offered her a loan this morning

Then she went to HR and complained that I was being creepy and obviously wanted "something" in return.
I agree with my fellow cavers. Manny told the truth here.

shamed into action, Manny WAS creepy. He offered a loan, not a gift. Being a liberal, he did expect "something in exchange."

Now this gal can sue Manny's rich a$$, and get her new car.
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Re: Manny was sad last evening
« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2015, 07:42:50 PM »
Manny admits his bouncy was a bouncy:

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83. I was joking

I need to make that clearer!

But things do work out like that, more than occasionally. I've seen some crazy stuff.
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