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Entry: Shocker: Bonuses Will Be Down In 2008
posted by blndebnker
May 15, 2008 12:41PM
@Cluzo - Ahhh. No see mine was up. By a lot. Hence the disappointment about this coming year. :( Who knows though. Still got 7 months to turn it around... right??
Entry: Shocker: Bonuses Will Be Down In 2008
posted by blndebnker
May 15, 2008 12:46PM
@Cluzo - Exaaaactly. Either way I'm toasting to it tonight ha.
Entry: Shocker: Bonuses Will Be Down In 2008
posted by blndebnker
May 15, 2008 1:09PM
@12:47pm - They just pay me to look pretty anyway so I'm allowed to post all day long.
Entry: Shocker: Bonuses Will Be Down In 2008
posted by blndebnker
May 15, 2008 1:19PM
@1:13pm - Actually I don't think I've mentioned it before. And besides, I was joking. I'm really a heffer.
Entry: Shocker: Bonuses Will Be Down In 2008
posted by blndebnker
May 15, 2008 1:25PM
@ Genius - You guys still have Facebook? They yanked that from us forever ago. Color me jealous.
Entry: Shocker: Bonuses Will Be Down In 2008
posted by blndebnker
May 15, 2008 2:09PM
@1:25pm - Thanks for the spelling tip. I like to spell fonetikally for kicks sometimes.
@1:46pm - I'm sorry that my banter doesn't amuse you.
@1:55pm - Good luck with that.
Entry: Fake Writer's Take On Banking
posted by blndebnker
May 15, 2008 3:40PM
"Backdoor surprise"
Brill, Bess. Just brill.
Entry: Older Guy Declares War On Millennials
posted by blndebnker
May 15, 2008 3:56PM
@1:45pm - Made my whole afternoon.
@3:41pm - We may not have had Vietnam but we have come of age during the new age of terrorism, widespread nuclear development, etc. in addition to what girl said about the ridiculous amount of pressure for everything from getting grades to keeping up with/outshining the Joneses. I'm not saying we necessarily have it harder than the generations before us, but that doesn't mean we're a bunch of whiny slackers either.
Entry: Older Guy Declares War On Millennials
posted by blndebnker
May 15, 2008 4:01PM
@3:57pm - Haha. See that's a valid gripe.
Entry: Older Guy Declares War On Millennials
posted by blndebnker
May 15, 2008 4:13PM
@4:03pm - No actually it isn't. I will admit that I don't literally sit up worrying about it. But I do remember being a kid when Oklahoma City got bombed and thinking it was literally the end of the world. Or when 9/11 happened and it felt like it we were going to go to nuclear war. So I'd have to say, you're wrong.
Make no mistake, I am extremely fortunate and blessed to be where I am. But I've also worked my ass off to get here so I resent the implication that my entire generation had everything handed to it without having to work for anything.
And not for nothing, but isn't it the hope and duty of every generation that the one to come after it would be a little better off? That's what my parents always told me.
Entry: Older Guy Declares War On Millennials
posted by blndebnker
May 15, 2008 4:24PM
@4:08, 4:13, etc - Girl is right. I was doing the same thing and I actually took them in the 7th grade along with another 20+ kids in my class that year. At 10, I had 4+ hours of homework. The pressures to be the best and the brightest start a lot earlier these days. My sister's 4 month old is on the 3 year waitlist to get into the most "academically prestigious" PRESCHOOL in her town. Mock it if you like but to a child/adolescent, that's a lot of pressure.
Entry: Older Guy Declares War On Millennials
posted by blndebnker
May 15, 2008 4:38PM
@Lowly - Hahaha. It's entirely possible. I def know a few of those.
Entry: Older Guy Declares War On Millennials
posted by blndebnker
May 15, 2008 4:53PM
@ Girl - You're welcome and my sentiments exactly. They're just jealous because they are getting old.
Entry: Older Guy Declares War On Millennials
posted by blndebnker
May 15, 2008 4:56PM
@ Girl - You're welcome and my sentiments exactly. They're just jealous because they are getting old.
Entry: Older Guy Declares War On Millennials
posted by blndebnker
May 15, 2008 5:06PM
@5:00pm - Oh my God people can we lighten up a little? It's Thursday and it's almost happy hour. Take a joke!
Entry: Older Guy Declares War On Millennials
posted by blndebnker
May 15, 2008 5:22PM
haha great minds think alike Girl.
Entry: Older Guy Declares War On Millennials
posted by blndebnker
May 15, 2008 5:26PM
@Cluzo - Not sure where we're off to yet. What's good? Girl, any suggestions?
Entry: Fake Writer's Take On Banking
posted by blndebnker
May 15, 2008 5:38PM
@5:33pm - Actually I think it's "Those who can't do, teach."
Entry: Shocker: Bonuses Will Be Down In 2008
posted by blndebnker
May 15, 2008 12:26PM
@Cluzo - Wait do you mean you were better or worse than flat?