Archive for January, 2009:
You Can’t Fire Me! I’m Drunk!
This story comes to us from beautiful Lima, Peru. A land of beauty, intrigue, and unique laws…
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s top court has ruled that workers cannot be fired for being drunk on the job, a decision that was criticized by the government on Wednesday for setting a dangerous precedent.
The Constitutional Tribunal ordered that Pablo Cayo be given his job back as a janitor for the municipality of Chorrillos, which fired him for being intoxicated at work.
The firing was excessive because even though Cayo was drunk, he did not offend or hurt anybody, Fernando Calle, one of the justices, said on Wednesday.
Calle said the court would not revise its decision, despite complaints from the government.
“It’s not a good idea to relax rules at workplaces,” said Labor Minister Jorge Villasante.
Celso Becerra, the administrative chief of Chorrillos, a suburb of Lima, denounced the ruling.
“We’ve fired four workers for showing up drunk, and two of them were drivers,” he said. “How can we allow a drunk to work who might run somebody over?”
(Reporting by Marco Aquino; Writing by Terry Wade; Editing by Dana Ford)
That’s Why You Don’t Chop Things Backwards With Kitanas I Guess
I Imagine It Is Tough To Do Both…
Walking And talking that is…
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Why is his Mom letting him do this?
If you get it right you get a lap dance…
Deep Thoughts Thursday #21
I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don’t want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then, when somebody comes up, act like they just woke up and go, “What was THAT?!”
Gives New Meaning To Turd Burglar…
Addtionally, based on the bathtub being the recycle bin for the whole house, I can see how they’d get confused on what goes in the toilet as well.
Tags: toilet
Question #23
In his book Sex, Drugs, and Coco Puffs, Chuck Klosterman has twenty-three questions he asks “everybody I meet in order to decide if I can really love them.”
Some of the questions are very funny, some are very dumb. I like them all and want to know your answer; mine are in the comments section. So here they are, one at time (in reverse order).
23. Consider this possibility:
a. Think about deceased TV star John Ritter.
b. Now, pretend Ritter had never become famous. Pretend he was never affected by the trappings of fame, and try to imagine what his personality would have been like.
c. Now, imagine that this person—the unfamous John Ritter—is a character in a situation comedy.
d. Now, you are also a character in this sitcom, and the unfamous John Ritter character is your sitcom father.
e. However, this sitcom is actually your real life. In other words, you are living inside a sitcom: Everything about our life is a construction, featuring the unfamous John Ritter playing himself (in the role of your TV father). But this is not a sitcom. This is your real life.
How would you feel about this?
Only The Best In The Big Sky State
School bus stops at liquor store
By The Associated Press – 01/09/09
BILLINGS (AP) — A school bus driver who stopped at a liquor store while on her morning route in mid-December allegedly asked a middle school student to hide her purchase before police boarded the bus, district superintendent Jack Copps said.
Copps said someone spotted the bus at the liquor store on Dec. 12 and called authorities. No students were on the bus at the time, he said.
By the time officers caught up with the bus, the driver had picked up some middle school students and allegedly asked one student to hide a paper bag with bottles of alcohol near the back of the bus, Copps said.
‘‘You can’t make things like this up,’’ Copps said. ‘‘If we were trying to think of something that could be one of the strangest things that could possibly happen in the school district, this is it.’’
Copps said it does not appear the driver had been drinking. The incident is still being investigated and no charges had been filed Wednesday.
Copps said the school immediately notified its bus contractor, First Student, that the woman was not to transport any of the district’s students. She quit her job earlier this week.
Tags: bus
Deep Thoughts Thursday #20
I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, “I helped skin Bob.”
