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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #285 on: April 18, 2013, 02:12:46 PM »
What native English speaking woodworkers/furniture makers call a dovetail joint we Dutch call a zwaluwstaartverbinding (= ja, one word).. which translates to swallowtail joint (back again). Um, both make the same amount of sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovetail_joint

(Probz possibly pretty useless, not?)  :orly:
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #286 on: April 18, 2013, 04:49:28 PM »
Syntax for running mediation analyses in SPSS (PASW) is available for free online.

Preacher and Hayes (2008) SPSS Macro for Multiple Regression
http://www.comm.ohio-state.edu/ahayes/


Can't you guys even just imagine it?

Forget practicality, or your experience....can you just....imagine?

It's there. It always was.

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #287 on: April 18, 2013, 07:59:31 PM »

I walk with a cane for now and people have complained to corporate about this.

I have been put on indefinite leave for this.  I am out of a job.
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #288 on: April 18, 2013, 08:07:27 PM »

I walk with a cane for now and people have complained to corporate about this.

I have been put on indefinite leave for this.  I am out of a job.
the ADA addresses such instances.  You are on paid leave or this is illegal.
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #289 on: April 18, 2013, 08:09:16 PM »

I walk with a cane for now and people have complained to corporate about this.

I have been put on indefinite leave for this.  I am out of a job.
the ADA addresses such instances.  You are on paid leave or this is illegal.

Yes. I hope they are paying you.
Can't you guys even just imagine it?

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It's there. It always was.

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #290 on: April 18, 2013, 08:27:36 PM »

I walk with a cane for now and people have complained to corporate about this.

I have been put on indefinite leave for this.  I am out of a job.
the ADA addresses such instances.  You are on paid leave or this is illegal.

Well, I have been on the phone for two hours to find out my options.

Yes, since I have been a full time employee for four years, there are benefits beyonnd just being fired. I have talked to three third party company support systems this afternoon to find that they can not do this without my doctors's say, but it will be on hold until I can get my doctor to "sign off" on exactly how unproductive I am.

Honestly, I thought I was doing OK.  My boss told me that they need my brain, not my brauin, but with many other things happening, along with seven people complaining to corporate about having a guy with a a cane helping them load out their TVs blha blah, I am now a corporate concern.

My boss's hand was forced. I am just simply fucked, for now




... until I get better and can lose the acane and stop embarraassing the people who have to see me using a cane.
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Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #291 on: April 18, 2013, 08:29:38 PM »

Never saw this coming ...

 :violin:
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Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #292 on: April 18, 2013, 08:30:36 PM »
 :stop feeling sorry for yourself.  You are not fucked.

There is the law.  And you are a smart man.  Use creative solutions to solve your current problem.
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #293 on: April 18, 2013, 08:31:54 PM »
Good luck, DirtDawg.

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #294 on: April 18, 2013, 08:40:25 PM »


Thanks, but, seriously!!

Can you believe that seven people complained to the corporate offices that there was a man with a cane helping them load out their useless shit to their cars and made a big deal about it?

This is wah has fucked me over.

 My bosses hand was called about using me for my job, when I "clearly could not do my job."


BULLSHIT!!!
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #295 on: April 18, 2013, 08:44:24 PM »
:stop feeling sorry for yourself.  You are not fucked.

There is the law.  And you are a smart man.  Use creative solutions to solve your current problem.

Yes, obviously, and my boss gave me everything I need to do to make this work in my benefit.  I do not feel sorry for myself.


...  I just dread spending hours on the phone in the coming week making this work my way.


I am NOT a phone person.  :yikes:
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Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The end result of life's daily pain and suffering, trials and failures, tears and laughter, readings and listenings is an accumulation of wisdom in its purest form.

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #296 on: April 18, 2013, 09:09:24 PM »
Ugh. Sympathy.

(Surely they've got enough young people who can unload trucks, you do a lot more than cart stuff around...)
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #297 on: April 18, 2013, 11:15:35 PM »

I walk with a cane for now and people have complained to corporate about this.

I have been put on indefinite leave for this.  I am out of a job.

Seriously?!? WTF?!?!?!?

Sue the bastards.
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #298 on: April 19, 2013, 01:21:01 AM »
The latin alphabet is pretty similar to the German:

German alphabet

Latin alphabet

Note that "Latin alphabet" sometimes means any alphabet with Latin letters  ;)

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #299 on: April 19, 2013, 11:16:45 PM »
(To men): Going into a church doesn't make you Christian anymore than going into a man makes you gay.


Can't you guys even just imagine it?

Forget practicality, or your experience....can you just....imagine?

It's there. It always was.