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(Mediaite) Hero Chicago Board of Trade tries to help Occupy Chicago protesters: They dump a bunch of McDonalds applications on them   (mediaite.com) divider line 655
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2011-11-07 05:44:34 PM
OWS are incredibly misguided, but they are on the right path. CBT are voracious capitalists who make Alex P. Keaton look like Charles Grey.

Asshole move, guys. Guide them, don't incite them.
 
2011-11-07 05:54:42 PM
but but but...it's beneath them to work at such a job!

The OWS idiots really just need to lower their expectations and standard of living to include a job that actually fits their intelligence, work ethic and skills.

I guess they are having more fun standing around whining though.
 
2011-11-07 06:07:40 PM
sinschild: but but but...it's beneath them to work at such a job!

The OWS idiots really just need to lower their expectations and standard of living to include a job that actually fits their intelligence, work ethic and skills.

I guess they are having more fun standing around whining though.


This is what right-wingers actually believe.
 
2011-11-07 06:09:23 PM
sinschild: The OWS idiots really just need to lower their expectations and standard of living to include a job that actually fits their intelligence, work ethic and skills.

Let me ask you this... Do you want America to decline in a rapid fashion, economically? If so, great! We'll keep doing what we're doing. If not, why not?
 
2011-11-07 06:09:26 PM
that's a good plan. Incite them. That worked so well in the past.


something something, let them eat cake, something
 
2011-11-07 06:39:06 PM
a 21st century "let them eat cake?" how could that possibly backfire?
 
2011-11-07 07:13:01 PM
McCake for all
 
2011-11-07 07:19:03 PM
I'm sure a minimal wage job at McDonalds will pay back 40k in student loans in no time. Within one or two hundred years they'll be completely debt free.
 
dwg
2011-11-07 08:00:30 PM
Hey, someone's gotta pick up the trash. We can't all be rich playboys. The unfortunate part is that we don't respect each other to understand that.
 
2011-11-07 08:18:02 PM
Who the fark ever said the OWS protestors are all unemployed? I am fully employed and am 100% against this ridiculous upward wealth redistribution the country has gone through the past thirty years.

What kind of dickhead do you have to be to
A: think that everyone in the OWS protests is out of work and
B: be okay with taxpayer money being used to bail out corporations and banks with no oversight and no repercussions for the assholes who tanked our economy in the first place?

Seriously, what the fark exactly do you stand for?
 
2011-11-07 08:28:15 PM
FlashHarry: a 21st century "let them eat cake?" how could that possibly backfire?

Let them work at... McDonalds.
 
2011-11-07 08:30:54 PM
No class warfare here citizen, move along, nothing to see.
 
2011-11-07 08:36:15 PM
i.imgur.com
 
2011-11-07 08:41:08 PM
idiotflashback.files.wordpress.com
 
2011-11-07 08:55:02 PM
It's probably a good thing I'm not at that protest. I'd quickly encourage actions in response that are not recommended from a legal perspective. You know, to return the favor by giving them a gift from me.
 
2011-11-07 09:03:18 PM
200 years from now, students of history are going to be completely mystified why the mob took to pelting bankers with hamburger buns as they were being frog marched to their execution in the public square....
 
2011-11-07 09:07:51 PM
Nadie_AZ: [i.imgur.com image 502x338] (calls you entitle for not wanting to flip burgers after college)
Honest question - who is that in the pic?

/if I know who it is I might get it
 
2011-11-07 09:23:57 PM
jim32rr: McCake McJobs for all

FTFY?
 
2011-11-07 09:31:40 PM
Weaver95: 200 years from now, students of history are going to be completely mystified why the mob took to pelting bankers with hamburger buns as they were being frog marched to their execution in the public square....

If only the Un had stepped in.
 
2011-11-07 09:40:42 PM
It would have been more convincing if they just dumped photocopies of a piece of cake.
 
2011-11-07 09:41:35 PM
Shostie: Weaver95: 200 years from now, students of history are going to be completely mystified why the mob took to pelting bankers with hamburger buns as they were being frog marched to their execution in the public square....

If only the Un had stepped in.


The Un was too busy un-naziing the world at the time.
 
2011-11-07 09:41:43 PM
Conveniently, there's a McDonalds right there at Jackson & LaSalle.

/farking drummers and senior citizens decided to "occupy" (realistically: block traffic) the intersection this morning. No idea why I didn't see any police wheeling them into paddy wagons from my office window.
 
2011-11-07 09:42:16 PM
sinschild: but but but...it's beneath them to work at such a job!
.


No, it's a job that doesn't pay a living wage.
 
2011-11-07 09:42:16 PM
God what a dumb move - it really shows they have a tin ear. I'm naturally disinclined to agree with the OWS people, but I'm slowly coming around to (some) of it. OWS needs to keep the class level higher than these jerks, and eventually they will win people over. Its already starting to happen.
 
2011-11-07 09:42:23 PM
Wrap the applications around half-bricks and start lobbing.
 
2011-11-07 09:42:54 PM
Let them eat Big Macs?
 
2011-11-07 09:43:16 PM
Do they think this helps their image? The more I hear about actions like the CBT, the more I get angry at them. And I wasn't really angry before.

"Yeah, you're right, OWS....and?"
 
2011-11-07 09:43:33 PM
How about paying McDonald's workers a living wage? How about paying everyone a living wage? About the only people who can afford to work at McDonald's are students, people with disabilities, and people in welfare to work programs.
 
2011-11-07 09:43:36 PM
Isn't that littering?
 
2011-11-07 09:43:46 PM
I, for one, am not a cake eater.
 
2011-11-07 09:44:06 PM
What most people that haven't worked in fast food don't know, is that it is hard, infuriating, and has a very low effort to pay ratio. If we could somehow only have teenagers and failures working in fast food, this country would be a better place.
 
2011-11-07 09:44:13 PM
I don't think CBT understands the situation very well. These aren't people who are out of work because they refuse to work at McDonald's. They are students with little better to do than complain about their student loans. Work doesn't even cross their mind.

They treat homeless people with scorn and ire because OWS is not about homelessness and poverty. It's about not "getting theirs" and being pissed about it.
 
2011-11-07 09:44:22 PM
I know more than a few traders down at the Board. Only a few make the real money.. They make their trades anywhere.. The majority are only one or two bad trades away from joining the mob below.. A bigger bunch of dicks, I never met. One of the many reasons I quit the East Bank Club seven years ago. Thankfully with anger management therapy I did not kill anyone before I left.
 
2011-11-07 09:44:27 PM
Stoutpants: I'm sure a minimal wage job at McDonalds will pay back 40k in student loans in no time. Within one or two hundred years they'll be completely debt free.

And don't forget how those loans baloon in a few short years with the predatory rates most students are given without any idea of how they're compunded until it's far too late.

But yeah, earning sub $20k a year for college grads is totally the answer to the top 1% manipulating government to perpetuate this horseshiat asshats.
 
2011-11-07 09:44:32 PM
Hero tag?

Are you farking serious?
 
2011-11-07 09:45:14 PM
Hester Prynne: How about paying McDonald's workers a living wage? How about paying everyone a living wage? About the only people who can afford to work at McDonald's are students, people with disabilities, and people in welfare to work programs.

Inflation.
 
2011-11-07 09:45:19 PM
AdolfOliverPanties: Who the fark ever said the OWS protestors are all unemployed? I am fully employed and am 100% against this ridiculous upward wealth redistribution the country has gone through the past thirty years.

What kind of dickhead do you have to be to
A: think that everyone in the OWS protests is out of work and
B: be okay with taxpayer money being used to bail out corporations and banks with no oversight and no repercussions for the assholes who tanked our economy in the first place?

Seriously, what the fark exactly do you stand for?


doing whatever their masters tell them
 
2011-11-07 09:45:27 PM
Thats funny because usually people with an education are told they are "overqualified" for these types of jobs.
 
2011-11-07 09:46:13 PM
Warlordtrooper: Thats funny because usually people with an education are told they are "overqualified" for these types of jobs.

Sadly, very true.
 
2011-11-07 09:46:36 PM
The Angry Hand of God: Isn't that littering?

Don't they arrest people sometimes for littering? I mean, if not having a permit gets you arrested, I don't see why littering shouldn't be an arrestable offense as well.
 
2011-11-07 09:46:44 PM
itazurakko: Nadie_AZ: [i.imgur.com image 502x338] (calls you entitle for not wanting to flip burgers after college)
Honest question - who is that in the pic?

/if I know who it is I might get it


It's a stock photo of two (assumably) successful white boomers at what appears to be a vacation location.

The text is the dialogue most people are facing with their entitled grand/parents.

They are supposed to represent the stereotypical Boomers.
 
2011-11-07 09:46:53 PM
Young Rory Calhoun: Shostie: Weaver95: 200 years from now, students of history are going to be completely mystified why the mob took to pelting bankers with hamburger buns as they were being frog marched to their execution in the public square....

If only the Un had stepped in.

The Un was too busy un-naziing the world at the time.


I love you guys

/Good thing the Un defeated the tyranical rein of Charlie Chaplin
 
2011-11-07 09:47:11 PM
1%: "My son funked out of 5 top-tier schools before I just bought his stupid lazy ass a degree."

99%: "My son worked his way through with the help of student loans."

1%: "Tough break. I hear McDonalds is hiring. Mine is a top CEO now. Nobody helped him get where he is, he did it all on his own!"
 
2011-11-07 09:47:41 PM
upload.wikimedia.org


"Let them make shakes."
 
2011-11-07 09:47:49 PM
Occupy Wal Mart!
 
2011-11-07 09:47:54 PM
The Angry Hand of God: Isn't that littering?

It's a jobs program.
affordable jobs.
Jobs nonetheless.
Project mayhem has begun.
 
2011-11-07 09:47:54 PM
Great_Milenko: sinschild: but but but...it's beneath them to work at such a job!
.

No, it's a job that doesn't pay a living wage.



No, it's a job that doesn't pay a wage that will support they lifestyle they want to have. It does pay a living wage.
 
2011-11-07 09:48:18 PM
The Angry Hand of God: Isn't that littering?

Not if they fill out the application and apply.
 
2011-11-07 09:48:43 PM
The OWS people should respond by getting the Chicago police to do a drug raid on the Board of Trade. The CBT would be out of business for a week.

Q. Why can't you get a cellphone call through in the Loop at 2 p.m.?
A: The traders are all on the phone to their dealers.
 
2011-11-07 09:48:45 PM
Hester Prynne: How about paying McDonald's workers a living wage? How about paying everyone a living wage? About the only people who can afford to work at McDonald's are students, people with disabilities, and people in welfare to work programs.

Well, McDonald's work program does pay better than Burger King's "Out of the Hood" program.
 
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