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Mary Burke: I wasn't technically 'fired' from my family's company

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Posted by Fred 2014-10-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 When your brother and father "eliminate your job" due to poor performance? You're fired

Posted by Frank G 2014-10-31 09:08|| 2014-10-31 09:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Depends on the meaning of what 'is' is. And it wasn't sex. Right Bill?

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-10-31 10:26|| 2014-10-31 10:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Sometimes you hire relatives just to keep tabs on them so they don't do something stupid and hurt themselves or others.

When that doesn't work, you ship them to Europe.

When that doesn't work, you get them an appointment job in government (perhaps as a state Secretary of Commerce).

When that doesn't work, you get him/her elected to the governance of the local Country Club. Least damage to others possible (except for maybe the caddies and greens).

Some relatives can't help themselves and still try to create havoc for others by running for School Boards or possibly the governorship of some Midwestern state.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2014-10-31 10:51|| 2014-10-31 10:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Some family members just need shipped to the dark side of the moon and left there.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-10-31 11:47|| 2014-10-31 11:47|| Front Page Top

#5
The mainstream media, playing frantic catch-up on a story they evidently didn’t bother to investigate for months — even as Burke routinely cited her Trek experience as a raison d’etre of her campaign — is finally asking questions.

That might prove to be a bigger story than Burke's firing.

Posted by Pappy 2014-10-31 12:27|| 2014-10-31 12:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Having had court side seats at several businesses organized under the dysfunctional family business model, the father and the brother probably heard the adage "shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in 2 generations"- founding father starts with nothing, works his/ her/ their arses off to build a successful business that then gets handed down to the idiot son/ daughter who runs it into the ground and ends up where the founder started once they find actual hard work and talent are involved. Shuffle her off to government where here talent is more suited.

Posted by Capsu78 2014-10-31 13:25|| 2014-10-31 13:25|| Front Page Top

#7 ...or as Bobcat used to say "... I lost my job. Well I didn't really lose it, it's just that when I went back someone else was doing it".

Posted by Capsu78 2014-10-31 13:28|| 2014-10-31 13:28|| Front Page Top

#8 "And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire..."

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-10-31 16:25|| 2014-10-31 16:25|| Front Page Top

#9 She left to spend more time with her family - at home rather than at work.

I hope she kept her stapler.

Posted by SteveS 2014-10-31 23:04|| 2014-10-31 23:04|| Front Page Top

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