A similar story to Kodak's.... I hope she ends up ok...

I've been encouraging her to look for another
situation - she's honest, hard-working, and
bright, so there has to be a job for her
someplace.

One would hope... :) As long as they don't count age and experience
against her....

There is that. Supposedly there's an Age
Discrimination in Employment Act, but who
knows whether it is getting undermined the
way many social measures have been.

We grew up learning how to live on fairly little, and didn't change much from that... ;)

Understood. I've seen much of the spectrum and can
revert to the one end without pain. Some people,
though, cannot.

We've noticed that... particularly with people that had overextended themselves in the "good" years....

One of the wisdoms is that you are
supposed to insure against the seven
lean years. I of course don't figure to
last another seven years, so there.

What has impressed me about the more socialistic
or totalitarian economies is that - strangely -
the people at the very low end of the spectrum
are given meaning that those higher up may not
have. Give your rubbish collector a spiffy hat
and jacket and tell him he's a valued member of
society, and you've saved one person. Capitalist
societies have so far been not so great at that.

They did come up with fancy titles like sanitation engineer, and such...
not that I think that really changed much.... ;)

It has always amazed me at how people of lower
job status can be induced to do their work
cheerfully and well, though with the real or
imagined influx of low-status immigrants putting
pressure on that class, the relative tranquility
is being upended. A couple weeks from now I have
tickets to hear Gidon Kremer (whom I last saw in
the green room at Symphony Hall at least 25 years
ago) play the Moshe Weinberg violin concerto,
but Lilli informs me that Mondays and Tuesdays
there are anti-immigrant demonstrations in front
of the Opera House where the concert is being
held; these are estimated at having 10000 to
20000 participants. She said, rather laconically,
that that might increase our time getting to the
concert hall.

A master of my House before Roger Rosenblatt
was this guy Gordon Fair, professor of sanitary
engineering. The students called him Sanity Fair
behind his back. There was a day when sanitation
was a proper subject for advanced study; and with
the current explosion in quantity and mephiticness
of society's wastes, it likely will so become
again soon.

A clever shopper can do well at the lesser
stores, even perhaps Tops. What Wegmans does
is take the uncertainty out, but I still think
at a not insubstantial monetary cost.

Dunno... places like TOPS also pretend to greatness, and often charge accordingly, but what they have on offer falls short....

Instead of a "how the mighty hath fallen"
situation, it's more of a Yertle situation.
And so bankruptcy.

I was going to say, just because we can do
it doesn't mean others can. I have a friend
who is by no means dumb - Smith undergrad, two
master's degrees - who is continually astonished
when I can cook reasonably tasty dishes without
consulting lots of references. She's flummoxed
by such simplicities as "pint's a pound the world
around" even without the revision for accuracy
"pint's a pound the world around except when it
isn't," which would cause too much tsouris
altogether.

True... it can be a bit astonishing how little some have managed to assimulate over the years, despite being reasonably intelligent... :)
Of course, they'd have issues with even the better stores, and be easily taken in by the traps... ;0

But the traps are generally of higher quality
at the better stores. I have seen such at Wegmans.

Latest wundernews is that my California doc has
failed to call in my refills to the Massachusetts
pharmacy. This points to a possibility of two
weeks without the essential lifegiving meds. H'm.

Oh dear.... Has that been properly resolved yet... that is not at all
good...

Yes, finally, and I shall not have to survive
Germany without high blood pressure pills (I had
a backup plan in the form of my Berlin friend
Hans-Erich, who though he's just a psychiatrist and
semi-retired at that, still can write prescriptions.

Is it a brain issue...? They should check that, too... Also there's
some less common things that lurk in the back of the eye to cause problems... I know Daddy ended up with something like that....

I'm not ready for the neurologist yet but
am reading oliver Sacks books.

Any insights gleaned there....?

I think, mind I say I think, that the strange
capitalizations and misspellings and such arise
from some new quirks of this keyboard rather than
my brain (the k key, for example, sometimes takes
several hits before anything registers).

Making a partridge do double duty
categories: soup, main, game, plain, historical value only
servings: 2 to 4

1 partridge
water
1 ts salt
1 sm onion
noodles or rice
s, p
butter

Place partridge in kettle with 2 qt cold water,
salt, and onion. Slowly brtag water to a boil,
then simmer until bird is tender. Remove the
partridge from the stock and add desired
quantity of cooked noodles or rice (to the stock).

Cut bird to servtog pieces, season with salt and
pepper, and fry slowly in butter for 30 min.
Remember, the butter will burn so if you plan to
hurry the process use a vegetable shortening or
mixture of butter and shortening.

Mrs. Lncy Jaiuinet, Green Bay, WI
Bakersfield Californian, 2/2/1966
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Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 05-30-18 05:38 <=-

A similar story to Kodak's.... I hope she ends up ok...

I've been encouraging her to look for another
situation - she's honest, hard-working, and
bright, so there has to be a job for her
someplace.

One would hope... :) As long as they don't count age and experience
against her....

There is that. Supposedly there's an Age
Discrimination in Employment Act, but who
knows whether it is getting undermined the
way many social measures have been.

I know that Act exists.... It didn't stop Kodak from laying off people
just before they'd reach their full retirement benefits... or countless
other companies from not even acknowledging applications/resumes... And
to fight it in the courts, the burden of proof is on the employee or
applicant to prove that the major (or in some cases, only) reason for
the layoff or non-hire was the age... the companies bring up all sorts
of other things that counted in their decision, and get away with it...

We grew up learning how to live on fairly little, and didn't change
much from that... ;)

Understood. I've seen much of the spectrum and can
revert to the one end without pain. Some people,
though, cannot.

We've noticed that... particularly with people that had overextended themselves in the "good" years....

One of the wisdoms is that you are
supposed to insure against the seven
lean years. I of course don't figure to
last another seven years, so there.

You could be surprised.... ;)

What has impressed me about the more socialistic
or totalitarian economies is that - strangely -
the people at the very low end of the spectrum
are given meaning that those higher up may not
have. Give your rubbish collector a spiffy hat
and jacket and tell him he's a valued member of
society, and you've saved one person. Capitalist
societies have so far been not so great at that.

They did come up with fancy titles like sanitation engineer, and such...
not that I think that really changed much.... ;)

It has always amazed me at how people of lower
job status can be induced to do their work
cheerfully and well, though with the real or
imagined influx of low-status immigrants putting
pressure on that class, the relative tranquility
is being upended.

For some, just having a job is satisfaction in itself... no matter the
job status...

A couple weeks from now I have tickets to hear
Gidon Kremer (whom I last saw in the green room at
Symphony Hall at least 25 years ago) play the Moshe
Weinberg violin concerto, but Lilli informs me that
Mondays and Tuesdays there are anti-immigrant
demonstrations in front of the Opera House where
the concert is being held; these are estimated at
having 10000 to 20000 participants. She said,
rather laconically, that that might increase our
time getting to the concert hall.

That it might... one might well leave plenty of extra time to allow for
such... ;)

A master of my House before Roger Rosenblatt
was this guy Gordon Fair, professor of sanitary
engineering. The students called him Sanity Fair
behind his back. There was a day when sanitation
was a proper subject for advanced study; and with
the current explosion in quantity and mephiticness
of society's wastes, it likely will so become
again soon.

True....

I was going to say, just because we can do
it doesn't mean others can. I have a friend
who is by no means dumb - Smith undergrad, two
master's degrees - who is continually astonished
when I can cook reasonably tasty dishes without
consulting lots of references. She's flummoxed
by such simplicities as "pint's a pound the world
around" even without the revision for accuracy
"pint's a pound the world around except when it
isn't," which would cause too much tsouris
altogether.

True... it can be a bit astonishing how little some have managed to assimulate over the years, despite being reasonably intelligent... :)
Of course, they'd have issues with even the better stores, and be easily taken in by the traps... ;0

But the traps are generally of higher quality
at the better stores. I have seen such at Wegmans.

I suppose... and some of them might not be sprung just because they are
higher priced, and so not be bought...

Latest wundernews is that my California doc has
failed to call in my refills to the Massachusetts
pharmacy. This points to a possibility of two
weeks without the essential lifegiving meds. H'm.

Oh dear.... Has that been properly resolved yet... that is not at all good...

Yes, finally, and I shall not have to survive
Germany without high blood pressure pills (I had
a backup plan in the form of my Berlin friend
Hans-Erich, who though he's just a psychiatrist and
semi-retired at that, still can write prescriptions).

Good that you had a backup plan... :) And even better that it got
resolved before you had to leave.... :)

Is it a brain issue...? They should check that, too... Also there's
some less common things that lurk in the back of the eye to cause problems... I know Daddy ended up with something like that....

I'm not ready for the neurologist yet but
am reading oliver Sacks books.

Any insights gleaned there....?

I think, mind I say I think, that the strange
capitalizations and misspellings and such arise
from some new quirks of this keyboard rather than
my brain (the k key, for example, sometimes takes
several hits before anything registers).

Hopefully that is all it is... :)

ttyl neb

... A signature always reveals a man's character & sometimes his name.

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