I have a question. Why aren't you people working? or if you do work, how do you have all this free time to sit around and read this stuff and then afford to go out any buy 1,000 pounds of rice to last you for six months? Do you all sell books on y2K survival and gun rights? Just checking as maybe I need to join the kooksrus corporation and get rich.

-- Marie Thibdeaux (Marie.Thibedeaux@cajun.net), January 05, 2000

Answers

I'm sorry, I don't reply to people who misspell their own name twice.

-- Yvette (Thibodeaux@Lafayette.LA), January 05, 2000.

I'm an office temp. I sit at a desk and answer the phone, which rings on average twice an hour. I get paid to do this.

What a great country!

-- Slackmaster (slackin@work.always), January 05, 2000.

Go for it. King of Spain!

-- YourBigChanceIs Here (MariesWaiting@mudpit.com), January 05, 2000.

Because many of the posters here are high school students!

Seriously, a lot of these folks work at home and spend their breaks surfing the net. Sometimes that's the only contact they have with other people.

Can we eat, now?

-- (arf-arf@bow-wow.com), January 05, 2000.

Yvette,

That is quite possibly the funniest thing I've read on this forum to date!

sharp wit there...

mark

-- mark (anvilmark@yahoo.com), January 05, 2000.

Actually we are all Y2K programmers that have done absolutely nothing for the past year except bilking companies out of billions of dollars. We sit around surfing the net while we bill out at $150/hour. We tell everyone that we are changing code, but actually sit here and post on the web.

-- Code Monkey (Codemonkey@programmer.com), January 05, 2000.

Marie, some of us are no doubt unemployed, retired, and disabled.

Me, I'm only on **v*a*c*a*t*i*o*n** !!! (yay!!!)

Your name reminds me of an old joke my father told me decades ago.

An American mutt visiting Paris met two French poodles. Eager to make acquaintence with them, he asked their names.

The first poodle responded, "My name is Mimi...M I M I." The second poodle replied, "My name is Fifi...F I F I."

"Oh," said the mutt. "My name is Fido...P H Y D E A U X."

No offense intended, Marie Thibdeaux. I hope you enjoy the evening!

-- Jim Young (jyoung@famvid.com), January 05, 2000.

Marie, I have a question...how would you know about people sitting around doing nothing but reading this stuff, if you yourself weren't sitting around reading this stuff? Just an observation...I detect a lot of envy, judgementalism, and hostility in your post. For the record, I am disabled and housebound.

Maybe you should think before you type...no reason to hurt people with harsh words when they haven't tried to hurt you in any way. If this is what you have to do for fun and games I would say that you are already in the kooksrus club.

Thank you.

-- Dee (T1Colt556@aol.com), January 05, 2000.

We know you bill us at $150/hr. We monitor your internet usage. We will be seeing you all in court. To think that we wont see lawsuits over this silliness.

-- Marie Antoinette (Yvette@ive.ning.net), January 05, 2000.

Dear Marie, If you have a husband who watches the TV all evening, every evening,there is plenty of time to enjoy the Forum.

-- Not jumping to conclusions (here@globalnet.co.uk), January 05, 2000.

To answer your question, Marie:

When I started this position back in October of 1999, my supervisor informed me that "as long as your work gets done, I don't care what you do with the rest of your time."

One of my main duties was to do payroll and timekeeping for our department. They have not trained me on the current software, because they are waiting on the upgrade/replacement that will make it Y2K compliant(that should be in by March 2000 - no joke, swear this is the truth). No need to train me on a system they are no longer capable of using.

As a result, my work takes me about 10 minutes a day to do, and will continue to be this way at least until March(unless by that time TSHTF). Payroll/timekeeping for this department is manual/rapidly going into the toilet right now, being done by the person who had this duty before I showed up.

I got a pay raise by taking this job as well, and got away from a bunch of total idiots in the process.

There is a God!

Peace,

Don

-- Shimoda (enlighten@me.com), January 05, 2000.

hey...Iwasserious.

-- Slackmaster (slackin@work.always), January 05, 2000.

Im in Europe and the time is 6 to 9 hours earlyer in the states

-- voynik (voynik@aol.com), January 05, 2000.

I guess people don't retire where you come from, either, huh?

-- Liz (lizpavek@hotmail.com), January 05, 2000.

"Why aren't you people working?"

Ha ha Marie. You fell for it. You said people! Actually you and I are the only "people" here. All of the rest are simply outputs of a corrupted old ELIZA program. There was a hard drive crash at MIT and an old copy of ELIZA became crosslinked with the collected works of Marvin (remember the robot in Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy?) The output from this mutated program is Greenspun's forums.

-- Ken Seger (kenseger@earthlink.net), January 05, 2000.

Marie,

I'm really curious as to why that's your business. Nice that everyone answered so politely.

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), January 05, 2000.

Marie, Actually, I like the Kook's posts, most are pretty funny. You could do worse than joining Kooksrus corp.

Trying to remain polite in spite of the desire not to,

Frank

p.s. The real question is who's BUYING the books on y2K survival and gun rights that we all write??

p.p.s. Also, it's more like 500lb. beans, 500llb. rice, man does not live on rice alone!

F

-- Someone (ChimingIn@twocents.com), January 06, 2000.

Yeah, that damn rice was so expensive that I actually couldn't afford to trade in my Rolls Royce for the newest model, which I usually do every year. It's a bitch being a GI.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), January 06, 2000.

You only have 500lbs of rice!?!?!!!!.... :-)

-- Netghost (ng@no.yr), January 06, 2000.