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(Chicago Daily Observer) Interesting Remember that $300K salary that Michelle Obama had to "work twice as hard to get half as much" for? Her job was so critical that the hospital her husband steered millions to isn't replacing her. The Chicago Way   (cdobs.com) divider line 110
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Norad [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 02:52:01 AM  
What a clunky headline.

 
UsikFark 2009-01-15 03:10:22 AM  
My spin: if you do your job well enough you won't be needed for long in that particular position.

/in before right wing

 
whidbey [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 03:10:53 AM  
Sorry your guy lost subby. Go on. Have a nice rage-on right here in this thread.

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 03:12:47 AM  
Its UNHEARD OF for a company to not replace an employee and instead give their workload to other people! This is an outrageous SHOCK!

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 03:16:49 AM  
heh....just what I thought.

"but is tight lipped about layoffs effecting the First Lady and 15 other senior executives."

 
Benevolent Misanthrope [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 03:20:47 AM  
log_jammin: heh....just what I thought.

"but is tight lipped about layoffs effecting the First Lady and 15 other senior executives."


Precisely. RTFA, you'll see she wasn't the only useless person in an apparently top-heavy organization.

BTW - you'd think with the Presidential salary, book deals, and so forth, that her mom wouldn't have to move in with them. and seriously - doesn't the White House have a farking babysitter on staff?

 
Chariset [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 03:20:59 AM  
log_jammin: Its UNHEARD OF for a company to not replace an employee and instead give their workload to other people! This is an outrageous SHOCK!

But but but... this is such a free and expanding economy! It's not like we're in a recession or anything.

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 03:26:02 AM  
Benevolent Misanthrope: Precisely. RTFA, you'll see she wasn't the only useless person in an apparently top-heavy organization.

I want to argue about this point but "senior executives" are almost always useless.

BTW - you'd think with the Presidential salary, book deals, and so forth, that her mom wouldn't have to move in with them. and seriously - doesn't the White House have a farking babysitter on staff?

im trying to figure out what this has to do with the article.

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 03:27:24 AM  
Chariset: But but but... this is such a free and expanding economy! It's not like we're in a recession or anything.

it's like they're trying to "talk down" the economy by doing this. they hate capitalism.

 
Benevolent Misanthrope [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 03:36:34 AM  
log_jammin: Benevolent Misanthrope: Precisely. RTFA, you'll see she wasn't the only useless person in an apparently top-heavy organization.

I want to argue about this point but "senior executives" are almost always useless.

BTW - you'd think with the Presidential salary, book deals, and so forth, that her mom wouldn't have to move in with them. and seriously - doesn't the White House have a farking babysitter on staff?

im trying to figure out what this has to do with the article.


You must be new to the 'Tubes. BTW means, "by the way" - an indication, in the English language, that what one is about to say takes a departure from the previous topic. Like I did.

Now fark off.

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 03:55:25 AM  
Benevolent Misanthrope: Now fark off.

BTW, usually when someone says "by the way" and takes a departure from the previous topic, the departure is still sorta related to the topic.

 
whidbey [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 04:06:49 AM  
Maybe he's got some inside information that they're paying Obama's mom 300K to watch the kids?

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 04:12:25 AM  
maybe the whitehouse babysitter makes only 150k

 
Sum Dum Gai 2009-01-15 04:21:27 AM  
log_jammin: BTW, usually when someone says "by the way" and takes a departure from the previous topic, the departure is still sorta related to the topic.

By the way, real maple syrup is far superior on pancakes and waffles.

 
Sum Dum Gai 2009-01-15 04:22:40 AM  
Benevolent Misanthrope: Precisely. RTFA, you'll see she wasn't the only useless person in an apparently top-heavy organization.

It sounds like they're slashing jobs at all levels; they're aiming for a 10% reduction in their workforce.

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 04:25:26 AM  
Sum Dum Gai: By the way, real maple syrup is far superior on pancakes and waffles.

on a side note, a waffle isn't just a lumpy dimpled pancake. they are two very different foods.

 
Jensaarai 2009-01-15 04:30:45 AM  
log_jammin: Benevolent Misanthrope: Now fark off.

BTW, usually when someone says "by the way" and takes a departure from the previous topic, the departure is still sorta related to the topic.


BTW, as a side issue, isn't the issue of one of the Obama family's income somewhat related to his question/joke about income related actions/services?

/IDK, My BFF Jill

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 04:33:29 AM  
Jensaarai: BTW, as a side issue, isn't the issue of one of the Obama family's income somewhat related to his question/joke about income related actions/services?

IDK.

/Jill R A HO. LOL!

 
whidbey [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 04:38:03 AM  
Hey guess what came in the mail!

My very own RAR Fark Politics Tab Decoder Ring...:)

Let's put the following through the easy-to-use WISYWYG algorithm generator:


Remove all Republicans: You really think a babysitter is really better for the kids long-term over having the grandmother who watched them over the years they were campaigning?

*DING*

The translation:

Obama has had his eye on the White House years before the election, and now the grandmother thinks she has the audacity to do what trained professionals do so much better. It's a waste of taxpayer resources, and what's more, she's probably going to try and sneak in her own two cents into his socialist policies. You stupid bumbling liberals.

 
ProdigalSigh 2009-01-15 04:39:00 AM  
Hospitals are in a clusterfark right now, like most businesses, they're overstaffed and there are too many BS bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake positions, however unlike most businesses they can't really cut back on their actual labor force as they've been doing that for the last decade or so. Miscellaneous, redundant, and very occasionally worthwhile executive heads are rolling.

This has nothing to do with her and everything to do with the economy. Hospitals are realizing they don't need a marketing division or someone to head up their new "new initiative," but that the healthcare is all they really can or should do.

/happening at my hospitals
//IT, kinda worried
///Not defending Mrs. Obama, just saying

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 04:42:30 AM  
whidbey: *DING*

The translation:

Obama has had his eye on the White House years before the election, and now the grandmother thinks she has the audacity to do what trained professionals do so much better. It's a waste of taxpayer resources, and what's more, she's probably going to try and sneak in her own two cents into his socialist policies. You stupid bumbling liberals.


no. no.no....your RAR decoder ring needs calibrated.

The translation was:Obama has neglected his children for years.

 
Phoenix_M 2009-01-15 04:46:07 AM  
ProdigalSigh: Hospitals are in a clusterfark right now, like most businesses, they're overstaffed and there are too many BS bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake positions, however unlike most businesses they can't really cut back on their actual labor force as they've been doing that for the last decade or so. Miscellaneous, redundant, and very occasionally worthwhile executive heads are rolling.

This has nothing to do with her and everything to do with the economy. Hospitals are realizing they don't need a marketing division or someone to head up their new "new initiative," but that the healthcare is all they really can or should do.

/happening at my hospitals
//IT, kinda worried
///Not defending Mrs. Obama, just saying



ProdigalSigh I have a bridge in San Francisco I'd like to sell you.

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 04:49:09 AM  
Phoenix_M: ProdigalSigh I have a bridge in San Francisco I'd like to sell you.

BTW, did you know the London Bridge is now in Lake Havasu City, AZ? It was brought there piece by piece.

 
kimmymedic [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 04:50:40 AM  
Isn't it sad when the rethkklicans AND the godless librels are both making fun of you?

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 04:53:51 AM  
kimmymedic: Isn't it sad when the rethkklicans AND the godless librels are both making fun of you?

not when it's your goal.

 
kimmymedic [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 04:54:48 AM  
log_jammin: kimmymedic: Isn't it sad when the rethkklicans AND the godless librels are both making fun of you?

not when it's your goal.


No it is sad that it is their goal.
I concede your point though

 
ProdigalSigh 2009-01-15 04:57:09 AM  
Phoenix_M: ProdigalSigh I have a bridge in San Francisco I'd like to sell you.

Talk to a nurse. There's a shortage of nurses these days so they bounce around from place to place because they're generally treated like crap wherever they go. From my hospital group I can count three managers, and two "teams" that have been completely killed, not to mention the halt of all construction. Yes there's money in healthcare, but they've been as crazy with it as the finance market and now that times are tight some of the bloat is going. Not that it's going to get any cheaper mind you, just more confusing.

 
Phoenix_M 2009-01-15 04:57:10 AM  
log_jammin: Phoenix_M: ProdigalSigh I have a bridge in San Francisco I'd like to sell you.

BTW, did you know the London Bridge is now in Lake Havasu City, AZ? It was brought there piece by piece.


Yes, I did know that and I have been there, but I'm smart enough to know Michelle Obama had a fake do nothing job.

/Democrat shiat stinks the same as Republican shiat

 
kimmymedic [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 04:58:31 AM  
log_jammin: kimmymedic: Isn't it sad when the rethkklicans AND the godless librels are both making fun of you?

not when it's your goal.


BTW, On a side note amd unrelated subject: You guys havin a slow night? We are./ yawn

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 05:00:08 AM  
Phoenix_M: but I'm smart enough to know Michelle Obama had a fake do nothing job.

I'm sure her and the 15 other executives that are being let go got away with doing as little as possible.

Its got nothing to do with Democrat or Republican.

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 05:01:46 AM  
kimmymedic: No it is sad that it is their goal.

and I concede to that point.

kimmymedic: You guys havin a slow night? We are./ yawn

you should know that you never EVER talk about how the shifty is going. EVER. Now we're both jinxed.

 
ProdigalSigh 2009-01-15 05:03:54 AM  
Phoenix_M: Yes, I did know that and I have been there, but I'm smart enough to know Michelle Obama had a fake do nothing job.

Oh, if that's your point then yes, probably. But she still could have worked twice as hard to get said job, there's a lot of competition for irrelevant administrative positions. I don't know what her title was or what she was responsible for, my point is that hospitals are "reorganizing" to such a degree that many of those positions are being eliminated, future first lady or not.

 
kimmymedic [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 05:05:22 AM  
The company I work for is going to cut around 1000 salaried jobs this year. Through retirement and combining jobs (They will shift the work load)
Besides very few people who make THAT kind of money do very much work.
I do remember her being criticized during the campaign for the work she did do...
Make up your friggin minds what you want to biatch about. She was a do nothing or you don't like what she did.

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 05:06:31 AM  
"shifty"??

i need some coffee or something...

 
kimmymedic [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 05:06:54 AM  
log_jammin: kimmymedic: No it is sad that it is their goal.

and I concede to that point.

kimmymedic: You guys havin a slow night? We are./ yawn

you should know that you never EVER talk about how the shifty is going. EVER. Now we're both jinxed.

Meh not me Industrial EMS now members. Unless the counties get really busy and call for mutual aid and I show my arse on scene again....

 
Phoenix_M 2009-01-15 05:06:57 AM  
log_jammin: Phoenix_M: but I'm smart enough to know Michelle Obama had a fake do nothing job.

I'm sure her and the 15 other executives that are being let go got away with doing as little as possible.

Its got nothing to do with Democrat or Republican.


In Michelle Obama case and job it does, she had the job because of who her husband was it was a do nothing didn't have to show up job, she would not of been replaced regardless of the current economy. Obama is just as big of a scumbag as Bush.

 
kimmymedic [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 05:08:17 AM  
Don't feel bad I have been typo queen tonight. It was supposed to be remeber not members.

 
0Icky0 2009-01-15 05:08:21 AM  
Benevolent Misanthrope: BTW - you'd think with the Presidential salary, book deals, and so forth, that her mom wouldn't have to move in with them. and seriously - doesn't the White House have a farking babysitter on staff?

Some people have real family values, instead of simply talking about them to the voters and the whores they fark.

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 05:13:30 AM  
Phoenix_M: In Michelle Obama case and job it does, she had the job because of who her husband was it was a do nothing didn't have to show up job, she would not of been replaced regardless of the current economy. Obama is just as big of a scumbag as Bush.

she got the job because he was a state senator? I'm sure it didn't hurt her chances, but i doubt she got it just because of that.

I'm still not following you about how her job makes Obama (or her) a scum bag.

 
myspamhere 2009-01-15 05:13:49 AM  
Any one else get a sense of 'it's not a problem if OUR side does it' from the dems?

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 05:14:29 AM  
kimmymedic: Unless the counties get really busy and call for mutual aid and I show my arse on scene again....

it's going to happen now! JINX!!!

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 05:15:06 AM  
myspamhere: Any one else get a sense of 'it's not a problem if OUR side does it' from the dems?

does what?

 
Phoenix_M 2009-01-15 05:15:48 AM  
log_jammin: Phoenix_M: In Michelle Obama case and job it does, she had the job because of who her husband was it was a do nothing didn't have to show up job, she would not of been replaced regardless of the current economy. Obama is just as big of a scumbag as Bush.

she got the job because he was a state senator? I'm sure it didn't hurt her chances, but i doubt she got it just because of that.

I'm still not following you about how her job makes Obama (or her) a scum bag.


When you're a little older you'll understand.

 
CanisNoir [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 05:18:20 AM  
log_jammin: The translation was:Obama has neglected his children for years.

You're forgetting who uttered the first sentence- it was RAR. Therefore proper translation reads as ...

"As a Black Man, Obama has no sense of responsability to his children and he's just waiting to 'bling' up the White House"

Geesh I thought they worked all the kinks out of those decoder rings.

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 05:19:40 AM  
Phoenix_M: When you're a little older you'll understand.

so thats it? you're not going to even attempt to make your mind numbingly incoherent posts somewhat legible?

 
kimmymedic [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 05:20:34 AM  
Phoenix_M: log_jammin: Phoenix_M: In Michelle Obama case and job it does, she had the job because of who her husband was it was a do nothing didn't have to show up job, she would not of been replaced regardless of the current economy. Obama is just as big of a scumbag as Bush.

she got the job because he was a state senator? I'm sure it didn't hurt her chances, but i doubt she got it just because of that.

I'm still not following you about how her job makes Obama (or her) a scum bag.

When you're a little older you'll understand.


Wow what a well thought out counter point.

 
kimmymedic [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 05:22:13 AM  
CanisNoir: log_jammin: The translation was:Obama has neglected his children for years.

You're forgetting who uttered the first sentence- it was RAR. Therefore proper translation reads as ...

"As a Black Man, Obama has no sense of responsability to his children and he's just waiting to 'bling' up the White House"

Geesh I thought they worked all the kinks out of those decoder rings.


He has to put 20's on the presidential limo first. Priorities man!

 
CanisNoir [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 05:25:23 AM  
kimmymedic: He has to put 20's on the presidential limo first. Priorities man!

Spinners Mutherfarker!

 
CanisNoir [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 05:27:48 AM  
log_jammin: so thats it? you're not going to even attempt to make your mind numbingly incoherent posts somewhat legible?

I think the point he was making was that she got her job because Obama was a poltical up and comer, could siphon money their way and it was purely a Back Scratching thing. She didn't actually *earn* a living at that job, but rather got free money so her hubby would take care of the Hospital.

He went wrong in saying "Obama's just as scummy as Bush" and knowing that in your frog-licked delusional brain, only Hitler himself could be considered as "Scummy as Bush" it's no wonder you didn't quite catch the subtleties.

Your brain fried on "Bush =Normal Political Scum - this does not computer"

 
kimmymedic [TotalFark] 2009-01-15 05:28:00 AM  
I just want to know what kind of bass system he is gonna put in it.

 
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