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#1 Aug 17 2006 at 8:59 AM Rating: Excellent
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The Associated Press wrote:
Getting money advice from a bankrupt airline wasn't the thing that most offended some soon-to-be laid-off Northwest Airlines Corp. employees. It was the dumpster-diving tips.
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Earlier this month, it sent workers in Bismarck, N.D.; Bozeman, Mont.; and Austin, Texas, a handbook with tips for handling their layoffs. It included 101 money-saving ideas such as, "Don't be shy about pulling something you like out of the trash."

Other tips included using old newspapers for cat litter, asking friends and family for hand-me-down clothes and asking a doctor for free prescription drug samples.
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"How condescending to tell people to move to a cheaper place to live and if you go on a date to take a walk in the woods. Give me a break," said Bobby De Pace, president of the International Association of Machinists district that includes Northwest. "This is one of the worst things about how they treat their employees in the worst of times."
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Suggestions on the money-saving idea list included giving homemade cards and gifts, asking doctors for prescription drug samples, borrowing a dress for "a big night out" and giving children hand-me-down toys and clothes.
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I once took an art class where the teacher said the best advice he could give us as aspiring artists was that galleries generally had their openings on Tuesdays so, if we planned right, we could eat at least one night a week even if it was on cheese and crackers.
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#2 Aug 17 2006 at 9:03 AM Rating: Decent
I once took an art class where the teacher said "All things being equal, fat people use more soap." Your class sounds better.
#3 Aug 17 2006 at 9:19 AM Rating: Good
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I've told Joph about this before, but when you're poor, there is a definite shift in your mentality. When I was in college and I had no job, there was a group of us that depended on the girl with the part-time to get from A to B, pay for gas, pick up the coffe tab, etc. Rationale was we let her stay at the house if she needed to (it was closer to campus), then she could pick up cash items.

When I got a job, that shit flew right out the window. Smiley: laugh
#4 Aug 17 2006 at 9:23 AM Rating: Decent
I remember getting really pissed at a roommate for eating my last package of ramen noodles Smiley: laugh
#5 Aug 17 2006 at 12:44 PM Rating: Decent
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NW going bankrupt makes me all sorts of happy. When the pilots went on strike in '98, they caused my bride and I to be stranded 2k miles from our wedding reception. While she cried on the sidewalk, I walked alongside the pilots holding signs and calmly told each one what I thought about missing my own wedding party.

NW had the highest paid pilots in the US, but they went on strike for more benefits. Being told how to scrounge is exactly what they(the pilots at least) deserve.
#6 Aug 17 2006 at 12:57 PM Rating: Default
Hello Mossholder, Maybe just maybe you want to try to read the article seeing as no airline pilots were being fired, the people who are being fired/laid off are probaly haveing that done so that the pilots can keep there pay and benefits. Next time try reading the article, just try it you never know you might like it...
#7 Aug 17 2006 at 1:00 PM Rating: Decent
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Well damn. I have to read stuff too?

Jumping to conclusions is alot more fun if that's the case.
#8 Aug 17 2006 at 1:02 PM Rating: Decent
Seeing as I've already gotten nailed for a rate down...Oh wait let me cry for a bit, Yeah you might want to try reading the articles first. Trust me it would probally take less time than it did to rate me down.
#9 Aug 17 2006 at 1:05 PM Rating: Decent
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Jumping to conclusions is alot more fun if that's the case.


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#10 Aug 17 2006 at 1:20 PM Rating: Decent
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Rate-button pushing on people that make valid points (you in this case) isn't something that I do, so point a finger at someone else.

NW is going bankrupt, groundworkers are getting tossed first, stewards next, and nobody is mentioning the pilots since they already know that the greedy bastards will strike before their union will accept any cuts.

The pilots do deserve to get passed a "how to scrounge" booklet and a boot in the aSS. They just are going to be last in line unfortunately.
#11 Aug 17 2006 at 1:22 PM Rating: Decent
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Another one for Neph's list.
#12 Aug 17 2006 at 1:28 PM Rating: Decent
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Damn... 0/3
#13 Aug 17 2006 at 2:16 PM Rating: Good
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I've found that one can subsist fairly well on recyclable containers, when one lives with alcoholics. Two or three trips a week nets me a carton of eggs, loaf of bread, some mac and cheese and a good deal of exercise.
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#14 Aug 17 2006 at 6:37 PM Rating: Good
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Professor CrescentFresh wrote:
I once took an art class where the teacher said "All things being equal, fat people use more soap."

And yet they stink twice as much. I guess life's just funny that way.


#15 Aug 18 2006 at 12:27 AM Rating: Good
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Wait just a minute here. Paying pilots less is, in my view, never an acceptable alternative. That's what stewardesses' (and medical crew members) payroll is for. After all, the gate attendants can always hand out Slim Jims and a Full Throttle as they check boarding passes, but that **** ain't goin' nowhere if Mr. Pee-loh-tay isn't steering the machine.

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