In fact, according to my new Ham-Based Metric® that’s half a smoked shoulder, easily!
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I put mayo on my burgers WITH ketchup and mustard; now what?
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Thank you!
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Wait! You forgot your beer!
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I’m ok with this.
Wait! Yellow mustard or Grey Poupon?
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You’re putting a lot of faith in the word of law enforcement. You know, the guys who routinely and severely exaggerate the value of drug busts to inflate their stats and make themselves look good.
Also, she hasn’t been charged yet, so it’s not clear if the police are actually planning to take any further action on this
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Wew. We good. You can come sit at my picnic table with your burger and watch everyone argue. I have beer and ham from work to share.
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What, you don’t like Dijon mustard?
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I do like it actually. I’m pretty agnostic when it comes to condiments. But ketchup and Grey Poupon seemed a strange flavor combination. But you know there are enough condiments in this world that it’s pretty silly to get angry over. Like arguing about someone getting fired when no one has confirmed details and a lot of assumptions and bias.
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Fair point; I’d never put GP on a burger, it’s more for cooking with, IMO.
All the mundane and trivial stuff that some people get so angry over has me convinced our species isn’t as advanced as we’d desperately like to believe…
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But would not the dollar figure be directly related to the ham consumed. (Does the loss manager just slapped his own head and say: $9200!) They take the average ham-salami consumed per week, lets say, and multiply appropriately. There are not adding damages or opportunity cost or inflation or fluctuating costs of ham over the decade (Good God). They take that average and multiplying by the number of weeks worked. They would use the retail, not the wholesale cost (which I think makes sense, in any case). Sure, theyd probably take a higher rather than lower estimate. (But they almost have to, given that they have no evidence, only her confession.)
Thats why I used the dollar figure (and years worked). Its the only figure that is exact (if erroneous, but thats a different issue). The ham figure means almost nothing: “3-5”? slices? are “slices” slices or chunks? ham off the bone can come off in pretty big slices. salami “occasionally”? a whole salami? how occasionally?
I just dont see how you “inflate” the dollar figure without correspondingly inflating the ham slice figure. Why are they seemingly inconsistent? Unless they seriously have problems with multiplication and division.
Sure, if they are throwing stuff out, it should certainly be allowed to be taken home (because its invariably being thrown away not for health reasons but for fastidious ‘freshness date’ reasons). As to the Kafkaesqueness, shes apparently been violating company policy since day 1. I mean, she shouldve been reprimanded day 1, and this wouldnt be a thing. I dont think this shouldve made the papers; but the papers what offenses are newsworthy.
As for this particular case, we very much need to know: the exact dollar figure she was taking a day, was it against company policy, did she know it was against policy, did she hide what she did, when she was a trainee did other coworkers teach her this was accepted, did she ever receive any warnings previous to this.
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That would be my preference as well.
It’s true. As species, the rest of the animals must look at us like the couple that drunk argues on the lawn at 2am.
[Slides the cooler over]
Help yourself. Magic cooler. Just think of a drink and open the lid. Enjoy.
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No, ‘we’ don’t.
If I never find out all the relevant deets to this nonessential story, my everyday life still won’t be impacted in the slightest.
In the scheme of things, one deli worker being fired for cause (no matter how petty) isn’t even a drop in the bucket of all my Actual Concerns.
There’s no debate prize to be won, here; no accolades awarded for “being right.”
It’s just another bit of flotsam and jetsam drifting about in the ether of internet conversations.
Too easy; frozen Sangria:
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Excellent choice. Make that two of those magic cooler.
I brought some marshmallow as well. Can use the internet rage to make smores.
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Wouldn’t that adversely affect the taste, though?
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Good point. Bitter rage and salty tears don’t make for the best flavors.
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Not for anything sweet; but they might make some decent sauerkraut, though…
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Wow, that really is the essence of sauerkraut. Well done.
Now I’m thinking about where I can get some good homemade sauerkraut…
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Weirdly, growing up vegetarian (mostly), I never understood mustard, yellow or otherwise. I didn’t get why people used this stuff. It wasn’t until I started eating meat and putting it on bratwurst and hot dogs that I realized: it enhances meat by cutting through the fat. Now I love mustard, my all time fave being spicy Polish mustard.
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