President Joe Biden - Kamala Harris Administration

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Orangeburst said:
Only rationale I can think of...

No way Biden or Harris could win again IMO, The scale of fraud would be off the charts, but who knows.

Wonder who is in the bullpen for them
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Good question. No way Joe runs again. If he can actually make it to the end of his term no doubt he will retire at that point. How they handle Kamala is key.
 
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RavinDave said:
Good question. No way Joe runs again. If he can actually make it to the end of his term no doubt he will retire at that point. How they handle Kamala is key.
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I imagine they'll try to push her out an open window at some point. With the level of intelligence in this administration, they'll make it a first floor window.
 
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RavinDave said:
Well my son is coming to work for me soon, with a degree in computer science. I am sure he’d rather drive a keyboard than a forklift so I still got a spot open there.
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If u dont mind me asking, surely there is more to it than finding a position? Be close to Pops or whatever
 
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Orangeburst said:
If u dont mind me asking, surely there is more to it than finding a position? Be close to Pops or whatever
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I think being close to Pops has some appeal. I think it’s also the growth of the business and keeping it in the family. Myself I’ve refrained from trying to steer him one way or another but I have no doubt his mother has given him some encouragement in that direction.
 
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RavinDave said:
I think being close to Pops has some appeal. I think it’s also the growth of the business and keeping it in the family. Myself I’ve refrained from trying to steer him one way or another but I have no doubt his mother has given him some encouragement in that direction.
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I have had the best year ever in my professional career and been truly blessed. Getting to sell rotational equipment beyond air compressors, which over the past 30 years has become so "commodity".

Frankly I want to do this another few years, but the demands are becoming increasingly intolerable because the exit of experienced inside help, deliveries, etc. We just lost an inside engineer who was our best and did CAD, quotes, etc and a 30 year career guy, who went inside before I took his position is retiring by the end of year.

It just seems that with everything going on, 2022 is going to be so rough personally and nationally. I hope I am wrong, but if a recession hits...
 
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Orangeburst said:
I have had the best year ever in my professional career and been truly blessed. Getting to sell rotational equipment beyond air compressors, which over the past 30 years has become so "commodity".

Frankly I want to do this another few years, but the demands are becoming increasingly intolerable because the exit of experienced inside help, deliveries, etc. We just lost an inside engineer who was our best and did CAD, quotes, etc and a 30 year career guy, who went inside before I took his position is retiring by the end of year.

It just seems that with everything going on, 2022 is going to be so rough personally and nationally. I hope I am wrong, but if a recession hits...
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I expect we will be in a recession sooner than later though I also expect the Idiots in Charge will try to spin it as the way to salvation.

Hang in there. Rough seas ahead!
 
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RavinDave said:
I guess it depends how you define it. All those Ivy League law grads in the Admin can’t be all stupid, they’re just arrogant and brainwashed.
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My long lost company that I spent 35 years with decided that the ignorant idiots that worked their way up through the ranks were too stupid to run the company. They decided to hire a few dozen Harvard MBA's and disperse them around the globe to show us dumb ass's how a company should be run. Let's just say that other than enriching some Harvard grads, it didn't work out too well.
 
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VolStrom said:
My long lost company that I spent 35 years with decided that the ignorant idiots that worked their way up through the ranks were too stupid to run the company. They decided to hire a few dozen Harvard MBA's and disperse them around the globe to show us dumb ass's how a company should be run. Let's just say that other than enriching some Harvard grads, it didn't work out too well.
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I hear you. In my case for 20 years in the world’s largest chemical company where being German and/or having a PhD was the ticket, I found myself having a new boss from Germany every 4 years and each time the age difference increased by 4 years. Couple that with a number of startups the last couple years in places like China and Saudi Arabia and I took that parachute when I turned 55. Could have broke both legs but luckily stayed on my feet and at 67 am not ready to hang it up just yet.
 
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VolStrom said:
My long lost company that I spent 35 years with decided that the ignorant idiots that worked their way up through the ranks were too stupid to run the company. They decided to hire a few dozen Harvard MBA's and disperse them around the globe to show us dumb ass's how a company should be run. Let's just say that other than enriching some Harvard grads, it didn't work out too well.
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I saw it in 2003 when I worked for Ingersoll-Rand. I showed my Regional Manager an artcile in USA Today about IR setting up shop in Bermuda for tax purposes. On top of Clinton's Sec of Labor giving a speech to the factory giving a speech to the workers at the plant in Davidson about the benefits of NAFTA, circa 1995 or so. Writing was on the wall even back then.


Funny enough in 1997 or so. one of my customers as a newbie salesman, Prestolite, who just purchased a large capital project, closed the doors for a move to Mexico
 
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Vol423 said:
Also, keep in mind that the purchase of gift cards from a retailer (because they don't have stuff on the shelves to sell) doesn't count as revenues. Gift cards are a liability to the company that sold them until the gift card is redeemed for actual goods.
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Just do like Walmart does with their gift cards and let them decay over time. That $100 gift card will turn into $89 and some change by March...
 
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StarRaider said:
Bayer AG? I really don't know which one is the largest.
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The German chemical industry was so far ahead of the rest of the world prior to WW-2 that after IG Farben was broken up the 3 biggest entities that were spun from that (BASF, Bayer and Hoechst) were still in the top 5 globally at that time. For awhile in the 60s, 70s & 80s both DuPont and Dow Chemical (I worked for Dow for 3 years as a fresh UT grad) were at or near the top, and Monsanto and Union Carbide (Carbide largely through the plundering of Farben's assets) weren't far behind, but by the mid-90's or so, BASF had pulled out in front and has remained there ever since.
 
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