This thread is totally random

I have absolutely no motivation to work today.

I have so much that I need to get done and I'm struggling to do anything.

This is what happens when we have to work everyday during our holiday break and get no chance to recuperate.

This is why PTO is important, but my company did away with that.
 
UNCatTech said:
I have absolutely no motivation to work today.

I have so much that I need to get done and I'm struggling to do anything.

This is what happens when we have to work everyday during our holiday break and get no chance to recuperate.

This is why PTO is important, but my company did away with that.
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"We weren't meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements."
 
donbosco said:
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This is actually a pretty good college story with some local legend mixed in. And while I can’t stand blue cheese, I know some aficionados who say Clemson’s is really, really good.

www.clemson.edu

History of Clemson Blue Cheese

Clemson University is a leading public research institution located in Upstate South Carolina. Here, researchers create solutions that change the world.
www.clemson.edu
 
That's fine but the amount of clemson bullshit up here in buncombe and overall in #WNC (throw in Georgia, Tennessee, and VaTech) is pretty vomit-inducing.
 
donbosco said:
That's fine but the amount of clemson bullshit up here in buncombe and overall in #WNC (throw in Georgia, Tennessee, and VaTech) is pretty vomit-inducing.
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My favorite Clemson story: My uncle (a Japanese translator during WW2, undergrad Duke and PhD Penn) taught at Clemson for many years and was Dean of Students when he "retired." Clemson hired a new President and this new guy called a meeting of all department heads on his first day of work. First words out of the new President's mouth where how disappointed he was that letters of resignation from everyone attending the meeting were not sitting on his desk his first day. He said he wanted a free hand to build his team with whom he wanted and that some letters would be accepted and some rejected. Some of the attendees suggested that he really didn't understand how tenure worked. He dismissed that comment as irrelevant and that the concept of tenure was holding Clemson back from being the best it could be. My uncle, who over 65, was summarily fired and told to clean out his desk and depart the campus. The subsequent settlement my uncle received was in seven figures and he used a significant portion of it to make things better at the small college that was in my and his home town. About a year or two later, this same President was fired by Clemson because of his collusion on some athletic inproprieties.
 
05C40 said:
My favorite Clemson story: My uncle (a Japanese translator during WW2, undergrad Duke and PhD Penn) taught at Clemson for many years and was Dean of Students when he "retired." Clemson hired a new President and this new guy called a meeting of all department heads on his first day of work. First words out of the new President's mouth where how disappointed he was that letters of resignation from everyone attending the meeting were not sitting on his desk his first day. He said he wanted a free hand to build his team with whom he wanted and that some letters would be accepted and some rejected. Some of the attendees suggested that he really didn't understand how tenure worked. He dismissed that comment as irrelevant and that the concept of tenure was holding Clemson back from being the best it could be. My uncle, who over 65, was summarily fired and told to clean out his desk and depart the campus. The subsequent settlement my uncle received was in seven figures and he used a significant portion of it to make things better at the small college that was in my and his home town. About a year or two later, this same President was fired by Clemson because of his collusion on some athletic inproprieties.
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I find that uplifting in many ways.
 
donbosco said:
I find that uplifting in many ways.
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After he parted ways with Clemson, for the next phase of his life, he decided to attend law school at USC Columbia. After graduation, he came back to Clemson looking for work. The first place he applied was full of his former students. They immediately hired him, on the condition that they be allowed to add his name to the firm's name. He complained that he was only a first-year lawyer and that wasn't appropriate. They assured him this was purely a marketing decision.

So he started his practice and focused on elder law and estates and trust law. I kidded him about how reassuring it must be for his clients to have him, a "mature" gentleman, rather than some young kid, handling their affairs. He laughed and assured me that he was the only lawyer in town who still made house calls and that was important because his clients really didn't get out much anymore. And the fact that he made these calls in a 1930's era Rolls Royce, that he had restored over many years, did nothing to deter these "older" clients from thinking they were getting "the best." He finally retired in his mid-nineties, and true to his fears, passed away a few years later.
 
05C40 said:
My favorite Clemson story: My uncle (a Japanese translator during WW2, undergrad Duke and PhD Penn) taught at Clemson for many years and was Dean of Students when he "retired." Clemson hired a new President and this new guy called a meeting of all department heads on his first day of work. First words out of the new President's mouth where how disappointed he was that letters of resignation from everyone attending the meeting were not sitting on his desk his first day. He said he wanted a free hand to build his team with whom he wanted and that some letters would be accepted and some rejected. Some of the attendees suggested that he really didn't understand how tenure worked. He dismissed that comment as irrelevant and that the concept of tenure was holding Clemson back from being the best it could be. My uncle, who over 65, was summarily fired and told to clean out his desk and depart the campus. The subsequent settlement my uncle received was in seven figures and he used a significant portion of it to make things better at the small college that was in my and his home town. About a year or two later, this same President was fired by Clemson because of his collusion on some athletic inproprieties.
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I too have a favorite Clemson story. My father graduated from Clemson in 1953. The trips from Clemson to Columbia for the South Carolina game required you to run the gauntlet going through Columbia to get to the Stadium. Along every street, and at every street corner, were Gamecock fans shouting variations on “Go to hell Clemson.”
One year some students from the engineering school came up with a way to fight back. They built a bazooka. They went to the dairy farm and filled bags with cow shit. When they got to Columbia they loaded the bazooka with one of the bags. The first group of Gamecock fans they came to were shouting at them. They aimed the bazooka and fired. From there to the stadium there were dozens of South Carolina fans covered in cow shit.
 
donbosco said:
That's fine but the amount of clemson bullshit up here in buncombe and overall in #WNC (throw in Georgia, Tennessee, and VaTech) is pretty vomit-inducing.
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Back in 2017, I was very surprised to find a 6 pack of UNC national championship coke bottles at a cracker barrel in South Carolina mixed in with all of the Clemson and USC stuff.
 
lawtig02 said:
This is actually a pretty good college story with some local legend mixed in. And while I can’t stand blue cheese, I know some aficionados who say Clemson’s is really, really good.

www.clemson.edu

History of Clemson Blue Cheese

Clemson University is a leading public research institution located in Upstate South Carolina. Here, researchers create solutions that change the world.
www.clemson.edu
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Blue cheese is AWESOME!

There was a day that Roquefort dressing cost extra on an iceberg salad. It was SPECIAL!

Way back when……when UNC beat Kansas for the national title in Kansas City in 1957…..Frank McGuire invited EVERYONE to supper…..and told them to order the Roquefort dressing…..25 cents extra.

UNC’s AD refused to pay for the Roquefort dressing. Years later, Coaches Smith and Guthridge made sure Coach McGuire was reimbursed.
 
Zoo_View said:
Any relation to the Orange County Hogans/Basnights?
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Bushy was a Cook and only ‘handled’ Rameses at the games evidently. Here’s a 1952 DTH interview with him..FYI, a couple of click will blow it up and make it more readable.

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