Bluegrass Bouncy

[notaDUmmie]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025824899

KentuckyWoman (485 posts)

I fired a client I've had for 20 yrs this week ( a 1%er)

Look, I expect a certain amount of "let um eat cake" from the wealthier clients. Pretty much all of them are offended by being expected to pay anyone for anything. They all have this disgusting sense of entitlement. But there comes a point when someone is just so putrid it's embarrassing to be in any way associated with them.

He's the last of my 1%er clients to be fired within the last 5 years and done after he spouted off about how great China is that they don't let pesky things like human rights or the environment get in the way of building high speed rail. He'd love it if we could be them and the undeserving masses of America could be slaves living in squalor while he could speed past at 300 mph in luxury comfort. The rant was breathtaking in it's boldness. He didn't make any effort at all to even so much as phrase his hatred of the non-1% in any sort of palatable terms. The man is clearly in full love and worship of of "Communist China".

I am posting this because I want everyone to understand that the outsourcing of decent American jobs to slave labor countries is not just about rich people's greed for more profit. There is so much more to that dynamic than money and a callous disregard for other humans. For many of them, there is a perverse joy that comes from seeing their servant's suffering.

When we fight for economic justice we have to keep this in mind. Our parents and grandparents in the early days of unionization fought hard for worker rights that are being dismantled. Not just to push wages down but to retrain the younger workers not to ask too much. Not to expect too much.... to just be grateful some 1% cares enough to be abusive to them kind of twisted thinking.

That is much of our battle. To make sure all workers everywhere understand their value and expect to be treated fairly and with respect.

What probably happened...Ms. Bluegrass was spouting off to a paying client about how Mitch McConnell stole the election from Alison Grimes, and how sick she is of the 1% stealing elections and running the country into the ground, and her client decided he wanted to take his business elsewhere.

[Mary Ann]

I fired a client I've had for 20 yrs this week ( a 1%er)



Look, I expect a certain amount of "let um eat cake" from the wealthier clients. Pretty much all of them are offended by being expected to pay anyone for anything. They all have this disgusting sense of entitlement. But there comes a point when someone is just so putrid it's embarrassing to be in any way associated with them.

He's the last of my 1%er clients to be fired within the last 5 years and done after he spouted off about how great China is that they don't let pesky things like human rights or the environment get in the way of building high speed rail. He'd love it if we could be them and the undeserving masses of America could be slaves living in squalor while he could speed past at 300 mph in luxury comfort. The rant was breathtaking in it's boldness. He didn't make any effort at all to even so much as phrase his hatred of the non-1% in any sort of palatable terms. The man is clearly in full love and worship of of "Communist China".

I am posting this because I want everyone to understand that the outsourcing of decent American jobs to slave labor countries is not just about rich people's greed for more profit. There is so much more to that dynamic than money and a callous disregard for other humans. For many of them, there is a perverse joy that comes from seeing their servant's suffering.

When we fight for economic justice we have to keep this in mind. Our parents and grandparents in the early days of unionization fought hard for worker rights that are being dismantled. Not just to push wages down but to retrain the younger workers not to ask too much. Not to expect too much.... to just be grateful some 1% cares enough to be abusive to them kind of twisted thinking.

That is much of our battle. To make sure all workers everywhere understand their value and expect to be treated fairly and with respect.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025824899

Yeah, sure you did, Dummy.

[Mary Ann]

You beat me by two minutes. :-( Hopefully someone will delete the dupe.

[notaDUmmie]

You beat me by two minutes. :-( Hopefully someone will delete the dupe.

GMTA!!

[Big Dog]

The truth:

KentuckyWoman works in a Louisville whorehouse. Her regular Saturday night thing, a Teamster from Cleveland, got tired of her scabby, flabby  old ass and asked for some fresh trim- and he wanted Asian.

She said that she's a union hooker, and has seniority, so he had to honor that.

The john told her to **** off. She threw an ashtray at him, so he left and went to a Chinese handjob shop instead.  Her pimp beat the shit out of her for driving away business.

She tells that story as "firing a 1%er client" for "outsourcing to China".

[notaDUmmie]

The truth:

KentuckyWoman works in a Louisville whorehouse. Her regular Saturday night thing, a Teamster from Cleveland, got tired of her scabby, flabby  old ass and asked for some fresh trim- and he wanted Asian.

She said that she's a union hooker, and has seniority, so he had to honor that.

The john told her to **** off. She threw an ashtray at him, so he left and went to a Chinese handjob shop instead.  Her pimp beat the shit out of her for driving away business.

She tells that story as "firing a 1%er client" for "outsourcing to China".

Classic! 

[BannedFromDU]

You beat me by two minutes. :-( Hopefully someone will delete the dupe.

     Both of you fine newbies deserve ^5s for bringing this steaming pile of projection and falsity over.

     That said, here are posts of kentucky"woman" in which she betrays some sort of ongoing emotional problem with rich people:

KentuckyWoman (486 posts)

The heart and mind of a 1%er. It ain't pretty.
If you get close enough to an actual 1%er it may take a little time to see the putrid swill that has replaced the human soul. I've spent years working closely with them and it's not for the faint of heart.

Oh sure, there's quite a few "good ones" .... but let's face it, if the majority of 1%ers were all Warren Buffets and George Clooneys we would never have needed Unions in the first place or "occupy" anything.

This is a group that overall not only wants all the candy for themselves but actually ENJOYS the idea that everyone else is starving to death, desperate and crawling to them begging for a scrap of bread.

All my life we've been trying to legislate these parasites into playing fair. You cannot legislate this. It's like fighting roaches in an apartment building. Get them out of one apartment and they just go to another. They will figure out some other way to suck off the labor of workers.

The absolute only way to get anything for workers is to bond as a mass and demand it. Washington DC won't do it. Your state won't do it. YOU and YOUR NEIGHBORS and YOUR COUNTRYMEN have to do it. One giant mass **** YOU is about all that will create change.

Don't buy their slave made shit.
Don't shop at their slave labor stores.
Don't feed the beast by taking on debt.
If you are stuck working for a slave labor type employer give them only a fair work for whatever they pay you and do everything you can to get out of that situation.

Consume less and buy fair labor made goods from sources that treat workers fairly.

Talk it, walk it, live it. Loudly or quietly I don't care but only as a mass are we going to make any change.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025578350

KentuckyWoman (486 posts)

1%er mentality. - This is war.
In the 70's my Dad got fired from the best job he ever had. The company let go the last 4 people they hired and blamed it on the quotas. Dad begged to keep his job. He had 6 kids at home. He was told to go paint his face black and come back.

Black people were his enemy he was told. But the truth was the company could hire 4 black men for a fraction of what they paid a white man. It's the reason why the 1%ers allowed those laws to get passed in the first place. So they could cut labor costs and blame someone else (Uncle Sam).

In the 80's about everyone knew was either working for a large manufacturing company or a small time supplier. Factories were closing almost every day it seemed. Unions were blamed. "Lazy workers" were told to grab a bootstrap and go to college.... The 1%ers got a twofer out of this deal. Not only did they force down wages for everyone but they also sucked huge amounts of wealth out of people trying to pay for college.

In the 90's they killed off pensions and benefits. They blamed their own "greedy lazy workers". They dangled 401K and IRA in our faces. "look see you will get to keep this money even after you die" they said. And so they shifted the cost of supporting used up workers to the individual. Then they bought off the government and got the regulations killed off. And they laughed all the way to the bank.

We were getting wise to them. Finally..... just about the time 9-11-2001 showed up. Now it is full on open season on workers. Every week there's another group to blame for our troubles. We've covered everyone from unions to gays to the Arabs to the Mexicans to the blacks and even the lily white soccer moms. And while we squabble over the little bits they allow us to split between us, the 1% walks away with the lions share.

And as if all this were not enough now they think they can dictate what medical care the women who work for them can receive, or who can marry whom, or what I am permitted to say on the internet from my home computer to my own family and friends, or even whether or not I eat bacon and donuts for breakfast.

We are at war. The Reaganites types who still believe "he with the most toys wins" are the enemies of the rest of us. I don't know how we beat them but if we do not I firmly believe it will be the end of the USA in any form we know it.

We somehow, someway, need to figure out how to quit squabbling with each other over the scraps, and remember who the real enemy is.

I post this now because the run up to November is full on. Work to get real progressives in office. Work to get the Democrats who think bedding down with the 1% is somehow needed to stop doing so.

Thank you for reading.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025201610

KentuckyWoman (486 posts)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!! %*%*^% !!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!
This has been a public service announcement on behalf of myself and anyone else who is sick to effing death of the idiotic One Percenter "job creators" who think corporations are people my friend and they built that all by their little lonesome without any help from the moocher employees who don't deserve even the least shred of respect let alone a fair wage in exchange for work rendered.

Tomorrow I might feel differently but today I hope every single one of you 1%er jerks who feel that way get your comeupance times 1000 in this world and in the next.

****ers.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023960236


So, manifestly, we are dealing with a mentally ill woman. Yet there is also this:

KentuckyWoman (486 posts)
4. Out of business.

The US government let the elite who own every damn thing take the jobs to slave labor countries rather than honor the fair compensation packages American workers fought, bled and died for.

There is not one single foreign label in my closet. When it has come to repairs getting elastic etc made in USA has been quite a challenge. Thank God for Google. It has taken some work but so far I can say no textiles in my house are foreign.

My things are getting so old, and fixed so many times that replacements are becoming necessary. The shoes have proved to be the most difficult - but so far so good.


Support Union American workers.

Which stands alongside this:

KentuckyWoman (486 posts)
50. My income at the moment is almost zero. But that was my choice. Tue Jan 28, 2014, 09:55 PM

in 2008 my corporate employer in Cincinnati said 30% pay cut to keep your job. I was a key person in a big department and told corporate to go suck it. And I mean I said, in front of 200 workers in the meeting, "If you think I'm going to do twice as much work for 30% less money so CEO (said his name) and Stockholders (named 5 names) who own 92% of the stock can shovel more profit into their own pockets then you can go suck it."

And I left the meeting, went to my desk, gather my crap and walked out. Shocked the daylights out of every co-worker and supervisor who knew me. I'm not a rablerouser.

Took a job with a small accounting office back in eastern Kentucky for the same money as the pay cut job in the city. Live in the house my grandpa built with his own hands in a super small town where everybody knows everybody's business.... which is good and bad.

Eventually I told that employer to go get bent as well because of abuse of lower level employees. Same type deal, owners offended by the idea a hard working employee wants a share of the wealth they help create.

So it's no just you. It's everywhere.

But then there is this:

KentuckyWoman (486 posts)
57. I am a business owner. Thu Sep 25, 2014, 05:07 AM



Your example is someone generated 40 mil in profits and got to keep 4. Not 40 mil in SALES but profits. So you tell me what do you think is so fair about working your ass off and 90% of the wealth you create goes to someone else.

That's horseshit. I own my business. We gross 4-6 mil a year have an open wage policy. Part of the profits go back into the business but most go back to employees. Even at this low level I can promise you no one who works for me is idiotic enough to sit by and put up with me sitting on my butt taking 90% of the fruits of their labor. Anyone who can generate 40 mil in pure PROFIT is going to tell an employer to put up or go get bent. As well they should and proves my point exactly.

     All of which goes to prove the CC/CU adage from WAY back:

DUMMIES LIE. ALL THE TIME, THEY LIE.

[BannedFromDU]

The truth:

KentuckyWoman works in a Louisville whorehouse. Her regular Saturday night thing, a Teamster from Cleveland, got tired of her scabby, flabby  old ass and asked for some fresh trim- and he wanted Asian.

She said that she's a union hooker, and has seniority, so he had to honor that.

The john told her to **** off. She threw an ashtray at him, so he left and went to a Chinese handjob shop instead.  Her pimp beat the shit out of her for driving away business.

She tells that story as "firing a 1%er client" for "outsourcing to China".

     Pay attention, folks This is how you do it.

     

[Big Dog]

KentuckyWoman (486 posts)
50. My income at the moment is almost zero. But that was my choice. Tue Jan 28, 2014, 09:55 PM

in 2008 my corporate employer in Cincinnati said 30% pay cut to keep your job. I was a key person in a big department and told corporate to go suck it. And I mean I said, in front of 200 workers in the meeting, "If you think I'm going to do twice as much work for 30% less money so CEO (said his name) and Stockholders (named 5 names) who own 92% of the stock can shovel more profit into their own pockets then you can go suck it."

And I left the meeting, went to my desk, gather my crap and walked out. Shocked the daylights out of every co-worker and supervisor who knew me. I'm not a rablerouser.

Took a job with a small accounting office back in eastern Kentucky for the same money as the pay cut job in the city. Live in the house my grandpa built with his own hands in a super small town where everybody knows everybody's business.... which is good and bad.

I think this was the plot for a spinoff series from Justified. FX was going to call it Unbalanced.

[BannedFromDU]

I think this was the plot for a spinoff series from Justified. FX was going to call it Unbalanced.

     As evil as Boyd Crowder, as ugly as Mags. I like it.

[Big Dog]

     Pay attention, folks This is how you do it.

     

Thank you. Thank you very much.

[BattleHymn]

Why are so many primitives so lousy about appropriate apostrophe use? 

[Zathras]

The truth:

KentuckyWoman works in a Louisville whorehouse. Her regular Saturday night thing, a Teamster from Cleveland, got tired of her scabby, flabby  old ass and asked for some fresh trim- and he wanted Asian.

She said that she's a union hooker, and has seniority, so he had to honor that.

The john told her to **** off. She threw an ashtray at him, so he left and went to a Chinese handjob shop instead.  Her pimp beat the shit out of her for driving away business.

She tells that story as "firing a 1%er client" for "outsourcing to China".

You need to get out of my head Big Dog. That was the exact conclusion I came to when I read this over at CU.

KentuckyWoman (486 posts)
57. I am a business owner. Thu Sep 25, 2014, 05:07 AM

Your example is someone generated 40 mil in profits and got to keep 4. Not 40 mil in SALES but profits. So you tell me what do you think is so fair about working your ass off and 90% of the wealth you create goes to someone else.

That's horseshit. I own my business. We gross 4-6 mil a year have an open wage policy. Part of the profits go back into the business but most go back to employees. Even at this low level I can promise you no one who works for me is idiotic enough to sit by and put up with me sitting on my butt taking 90% of the fruits of their labor. Anyone who can generate 40 mil in pure PROFIT is going to tell an employer to put up or go get bent. As well they should and proves my point exactly.

If this is true (which I highly doubt), why the **** are you posting on a website with members who advocate the government to do exactly that, taking 90%-100% of a person's hard earned wages from the job they do?

[USA4ME]

She's trying to present herself as someone who's "in sympathy with the working class" and she big and strong enough to "fire" clients, as if that's possible. Getting away from that quack would be the best thing anyone could possibly do in order to advance their life and livelihood.

.

[BannedFromDU]

She's trying to present herself as someone who's "in sympathy with the working class" and she big and strong enough to "fire" clients, as if that's possible. Getting away from that quack would be the best thing anyone could possibly do in order to advance their life and livelihood.

.

     She is doing something called lying. She isn't a "business owner," and if she is, her "business" is used to pee out of, not to generate cash or profits.

[USA4ME]

     She is doing something called lying. She isn't a "business owner," and if she is, her "business" is used to pee out of, not to generate cash or profits.

Oh, no doubt. I was simply pointing out what she hoped to accomplish with her lies; board creed. Look at all the dolts over there who don't dare question her on the claims or her semantics.

.

[BannedFromDU]

Oh, no doubt. I was simply pointing out what she hoped to accomplish with her lies; board creed. Look at all the dolts over there who don't dare question her on the claims or her semantics.

.

     They never do. The following would work well on DU:

     

Dumbass Dave McDumberson (1,559 posts)

Got into a Fight With a Giant Freeper Today, Had to Kill Him

So I was walking around today, spreading progressive cheer, when this enormous freepwad showed up in his Hummer and started pushing people around. Now,
I go about 5'6", and this asshole was almost ten feet tall, no joke. He thought he could do whatever he wanted, and all of the sudden all of the people
around me were like, dude, you're our leader, so do something. So I just happened to have my sling with me. While I admit this giant freeper got in a blow or two,
I exploited his Republican oafishness by putting a stone in my sling and knocking it right off his enormous ugly head. Knocked his 'No Fat Chicks' trucker hat
right off. And then he died. Someone brought over his Hummer keys, thinking I'd want it as a prize, but I said no, disassemble that, sell it for parts, and use
the proceeds to buy weed for my people.

I did keep his Truck Nutz, though.

Let that be a lesson to all of you ten foot tall Republicans. The tide is turning! You're all toast!

[USA4ME]

     They never do. The following would work well on DU:

I like it. Very David and Goliath. 

.

[franksolich]

The mineral-headed Minnesota Moses chimes in, to boast of his nobility:

BKH70041 (557 posts)    Sun Nov 16, 2014, 12:31 PM

3. How do you "fire" a client?

To have someone work for you that's also a client isn't something you hear about often, though it can happen. Do you mean you decided to no longer have him as a client anymore?

MineralMan (68,747 posts)    Sun Nov 16, 2014, 01:29 PM

23. It's easy. You just refuse to take on any more work from them.

I've done it a number of times, usually before I even accept the first job. I research all of my clients before contracting with them for projects. I've said, "Sorry, no thanks." many times.

MineralMan (68,747 posts)    Sun Nov 16, 2014, 02:22 PM

43. I don't have to say "I'm sorry." You're right.

But, I don't say "I'm all booked up," because I'm not. I've turned down contracts when I really needed the money. Normally, clients I turn down don't actually ask me why. If they, do, I'll tell them why. I suspect that most of them already know.
 
I write the content of complete new websites for small to mid-sized businesses. I work with a single web designer most of the time. If I refuse the job, he refuses the job. In fact, he relies on my to do the research on potential clients and trusts me to get it right. Here are some typical clients with whom I will not work:
 
Pornography websites
Right Wing or even Republican political websites
Bogus alternative medical websites
Websites for any business that uses predatory marketing tactics
Websites for businesses owned by people who have multiple court judgments against them. I pay the $25 for a search
Websites that are in an illegal business
Payday lenders
Aggressive mortgage brokers
Religious websites (I'm an atheist and won't write that stuff)
Websites for any business that exploits anyone, from customers to employees (I research this carefully on a range of websites)
Websites for any business that makes me feel icky somehow
Websites for anyone who I meet and who looks like he or she will be a PITA to work with.
Other websites I simply don't want to write

I don't have to turn down many contracts, but there have been a number of them over time.

[Mike220]

     As evil as Boyd Crowder, as ugly as Mags. I like it.

And as brainless as Dewey Crowe. Can't forget that.

[98ZJUSMC]

That was bad.

I am posting this because I want everyone to understand that the outsourcing of decent American jobs to slave labor countries is not just about rich people's greed for more profit. I took great pains to make it up.

after he spouted off about how great China is that they don't let pesky things like human rights or the environment get in the way of building high speed rail.

Yeeesh....even the Monopoly guy doesn't talk like that.  What a bunch of rehashed, talking point horseshit.  Yeah right.....almost zero income and you're cutting clients?

[BannedFromDU]

That was bad.


Yeeesh....even the Monopoly guy doesn't talk like that.  What a bunch of rehashed, talking point horseshit.

[98ZJUSMC]

So, manifestly, we are dealing with a mentally ill woman.

I'm thinking DNC® rabble rouser/Warren operative .  486 posts. Lot's of worked in Fauxchohantus talking gibberish.  Almost 9 months difference in posts, stirring up the Ant Farm, with the same bullshit.

[USA4ME]

Heather Kube

58. I actually need employers more then anyone might ever need me. I'm an artist. I have like no people skills. All my relationships have been abusive. I've been in therapy since I was 15. But I don't think it has been successful because I'm now back with an abusive boyfriend. I'm in seminary now, but all these people are so ****ed up. So always I depend on people just being kind to me. I wish we had a program like they do in Canada where artists get a stipend every month. I need an apartment and a stipend. I'll never be able to have my own apartment, but I know how to use sex to get what I want, so I'll like never be homeless, but I'm going to be 34 soon. So yeah. I need employers and lovers.

Cool!

.

[Chris_]

I wish we had a program like they do in Canada where artists get a stipend every month.

You'd still complain it wasn't enough.