Dummy "fizzgig"'s husband fired over the telephone

[Skul]

And it goes a little something like this:

Not that kind of pipe, ya stinkbug! 

[Big Dog]

Not that kind of pipe, ya stinkbug! 

Oops, my bad.

Here she is:

[GOBUCKS]

I wish, vesta dear.  Twenty-five bucks?

Once more I recall North Carolina billboards in the late 1970s advertising cigarettes for $2.12 a carton.

[JohnnyReb]

There must be a loop hole in Obama's cigarette tax.....Presently I was paying close to $40 a carton for name brand cigs. Before my heart attack 15 years ago I was smoking the hell outta HAV-A-TAMPA JEWEL cigars....and I inhaled. Recently a fellow offered me a filtered cigar telling me they were real cheap by the carton. Just to be mannerly, I smoked it expecting it to be "trash" off the warehouse floor in India or something. Well, it reminded me of the HAV-A-TAMPA JEWELs I used to smoke. I was surprised.

Long story short, I am now smoking the blooming things. Half as many of them as I did cigarettes and at $8.90 a carton. I have cut my tobacco habit cost to about 1/4 or less of what it was.

[Tucker]

Maybe fizzy smokes a pipe.


No, wait a minute.

And plays a flute.

[Tucker]

They just bought the cottage in the woods this summer.

I'll give em 50 cents on the dollar.

[Skul]

Oops, my bad.

Here she is:

That's pretty close. Now, go find one that shaved her head.

No, don't forget I said that.

[dutch508]

It is almost as bad as that clown "Sniffa" who capitalized every "L".

Yeah... that was a tad odd.

[I_B_Perky]

Yeah... that was a tad odd.

Even more odd was his living arrangements. I seem to recall he left his wife for the girl that was living with them.

[Tucker]

Even more odd was his living arrangements. I seem to recall he left his wife for the girl that was living with them.

BiBaby.

[67 Rover]

Sheesh, $75 in savings? That's pocket lint! You have to be a special kind of idiot to consider that savings.  Guess you really can't expect much more than that out of professional victims though.  Just for full disclosure... I'm a huge proponent of the cushion system.  I hate having to balance a checkbook so having a rough idea of the monthly output and staying well below that makes the accounts grow.  It's really not rocket science. You'd think the smartest people in the room would have enough financial knowledge to not dance around the red hole month to month but I guess that's really asking too much.

You give them too much credit, keep in mind these are the same people who claim that raising the debt ceiling will not increase the debt.

[landofconfusion80]

You give them too much credit, keep in mind these are the same people who claim that raising the debt ceiling will not increase the debt.

Don't get me started on the debt ceiling....too late.  My wife's supposedly intelligent college professor uncle had quite the discussion with me awhile ago about just that very thing.  When pressed on how exactly we're supposed to pay for all of these government programs, he simply said "raise taxes and borrow more money."  The stupidity was far too much to bear and the conversation quickly died. 

[Freeper]

You give them too much credit, keep in mind these are the same people who claim that raising the debt ceiling will not increase the debt.

That is true actually, raising the limit doesn't raise the debt, it's the spending that raises the debt.  It does make it possible and very likely the debt will increase though.

[Freeper]

Don't get me started on the debt ceiling....too late.  My wife's supposedly intelligent college professor uncle had quite the discussion with me awhile ago about just that very thing.  When pressed on how exactly we're supposed to pay for all of these government programs, he simply said "raise taxes and borrow more money."  The stupidity was far too much to bear and the conversation quickly died.

It's like using your MasterCard to pay your visa bill, then turning around and paying your MasterCard with your visa, eventually the interest will make it so both cards are maxed out and you can't pay either. Only in this case MasterCard and visa won't let you simply raise your credit limit.

[Celtic Rose]

You give them too much credit, keep in mind these are the same people who claim that raising the debt ceiling will not increase the debt.

I should try that line with my credit card company.  "Please raise my credit limit, after all, just because I have more credit available doesn't mean that I'll rack up more debt"  

[Skul]

Lets go back to fizzy's original post for just a minute.

Fri Nov 22, 2013, 03:06 PM
 fizzgig (18,874 posts)

my husband lost his job this week

 they called him on monday and fired him over the phone. they haven't given him a reason yet, but i'm sure they will when he goes to pick up his last check. he suspects a couple of things it could be, but they aren't very good reasons. >snip<

they called him on monday and fired him over the phone.

Can't blame them for that.

they haven't given him a reason yet

I'll bet they did.

i'm sure they will when he goes to pick up his last check

He knows, so do you.

he suspects a couple of things it could be

Can we say drugs, yet?

they aren't very good reasons

Oh, no, of course not. 

[Tucker]

That is true actually, raising the limit doesn't raise the debt, it's the spending that raises the debt.  It does make it possible and very likely the debt will increase though.

As Bela Pelosi said, we don't have a spending problem, we have a revenue problem.

[diesel driver]

As Bela Pelosi said, we don't have a spending problem, we have a revenue problem.

Popeye Pelosi also said every dollar spent on an EBT card generated $2 something in economic growth.   

In that case, we ALL need to be on food stamps, and the economy will be booming, right?   

[Tucker]

Popeye Pelosi also said every dollar spent on an EBT card generated $2 something in economic growth.   

In that case, we ALL need to be on food stamps, and the economy will be booming, right?   

I never avowed that anything that came from her mouth was valid.

[Aristotelian]

As Bela Pelosi said, we don't have a spending problem, we have a revenue problem.

In part she's right. That the government has been able to screw such heavy taxes out of those who make a genuine contribution to the economy has merely encouraged it to spend and created the dependency culture which is strangling the modern West. I don't think that that's what she meant, somehow.

[Mr Mannn]

I think the husband, like so many at DU has serious sanity issues. I've met a number of young men at one of my old churches who had brain damage brought on by drug abuses in the past.

So this guy manages to hold a job and comes home to a nekid wife who shaved off all her hair.
"I'm FREEEEEE!" She screams. "Come my husband. Lets twist our wrinkled bodies together, and writhe about in mad passion!"

Trigger: Flashback to a really bad trip from the 70's. Husband runs screaming from the house. He stumbles into work the next morning, disheveled, stinky, drooling. All he does is mutter, "No hair. No Hair! Flabby, wrinkled flesh with no hair!"

It's no wonder he ended up fired.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Can we say drugs, yet?

I'm suspecting it's more like either a 'tude issue or they're worried about him going nuts, in which case most employers will lie and say it's because of workload, a big order not materializing, have to cut personnel for a cash crunch, or some other bullshit story to keep from setting him off...of course, that's better for him, because if he isn't fired for cause, he'll qualify for unemployment.