What little love I have for that company has now gone away…completely.  Some of you might know that my step-mom, Cindy, passed away last week from cancer.  The memorial for her is Monday evening.  However, upon notifying the company of her wanting funeral leave, D.T. informed her that my step-mom is not covered by the company bereavement policy.  So now, she is, for all intents and purposes, being penalized for attending the memorial Monday evening.

I’m still completely aghast of the callousness of Ameristar, but then again, I shouldn’t even be remotely surprised.  For those of us who are out of there, all the better.  However, for those of you who are still there, you have my complete sympathy.

UPDATE: Well, they gave Lisa the night off…but it isn’t gonna be covered under the bereavement policy all the same.  Fortunately, it’s not gonna cost any money as she has to work Christmas Eve.  I still think it’s a bunch of crap, as it still is an inlaw.  If it SHE had a step parent, it WOULD be covered. 

Jay

Blizzard’s seems to me to be over stepping their bounds in an attempt to kill WoW bot program.  Read more here about how it would be bad for copyright law.  While I couldn’t ever see myself using Glider and I totally understand and share their vehement stand against the issue.. I think they are going to kinda extreme measures here.

Got this from a co-worker at Argosy (and I thought gaming geeks were only at Ameristar).  But, this was too ridiculous to pass up and NOT post it here.  Read some of the comments as well.

http://gizmodo.com/361539/chocolate-master-chief-penis-helmet

I’m not much of one for celebrity gossip and scuttlebutt.. this was funny though.  Lebron James says he was speeding… says he was going over 100 mph.. admits he was doing it and got caught.  Reiterating that he made a mistake and got caught.. then pleads “not guilty”.  Hello!

His whole attitude about it was very “cavalier”..

When James was asked if he will continue traveling at such speed, he said: “I don’t know, maybe at times. It’s not a big deal to me. You’ve just got to abide by the rules that’s all. I made a mistake and I’ll live with it.”

What the heck is that double talk supposed to mean? hahha

This is a little old, but I just read it (on worldnetdaily.com). Happened a couple years ago.  I can believe it.  I wonder if this guy did get some kind of settlement from Best Buy after he was arrested for trying to pay them with $2 bills.

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WTF is it with the large number of stickpeople at work that refuse to do the basic job function of figuring out their prop bets…

Last night, stick just refused to subtract losers from payoffs.. (no, not Joe Cat) would take one guess at a “tough” bet then say “ok pay him”..  or just skip them all together.. and would get disgusted when offered a simple key to figure out the bet themselves with a walkthrough of the bet in question and indignantly still refuse to come up with the final answer.

It’s not just that one.. there a lot of sticks that take one stab at it or mumble and wait till the box or the base tell em.  Nobody is going to get better, nobody is going to learn how to do their damn job if somebody else always gives them the answer.  They don’t practice prop payoffs to get better or heck, to learn them in the first place!

Did the part about being on stick meaning it’s THEIR responsibility to do and know that stuff get skipped in class? Or is the state of our crap pit so low that not caring how you do your job just becoming the norm?

Nobody does anything about it.. nobody else cares.. the supervisors don’t hold anyone to any kind of standards (I’ve benefitted from that too because let’s face it, dealing procedure all the time sucks) but the line has to be drawn somewhere between letting a real dealer just deal and making somebody that refuses to learn to deal to do their job.

FLIPPIN’ LEARN TO DEAL IF YOU ARE GONNA BE ON THE GAME.or at least be willing.

Hey gang, this is baaad news for those of us in the gaming business. As we all know, Wynn is quite the stud when it comes to running a business. However, he’s doing something now that could spell trouble down the road.
http://tinyurl.com/rpwwv

http://tinyurl.com/qbjah

http://tinyurl.com/fpw6t

http://tinyurl.com/q25mk

http://tinyurl.com/rea4k

The stink is, by the law, we can’t do a dang thing about it. We know how cheap the gaming industry can be. It won’t be long before the corporate bean counters see another way to make more profit, and we make less money.

Jay

(edit: I created links – Scott)

Scientology harrasment.. they seem sooo smart. wow.. “you look like a child molester”

This would be funny if it were staged like the hypnotist but unfortunately it’s not.

You can’t make this stuff up… Sylvester Stalones mother’s website selling her rumpology reports.. http://www.jacquelinestallone.com/rumps.html.

She’s got example rear ends… like a Hollywood Gigilo, a Jewish Princess and a Fortune 500 CEO butt among others displayed as if to be some kind of proof.  Not sure what the “examples” are supposed to sell me on.

For only $125 dollars and a picture of my rear end, I’ll get a bunch of stuff.. a special condensed, no frills predictions and descriptions of the signs and markings on my butt.  There’s a few other things I’ll recieve but the best might be number five:

An 8.5″ by 11″ color glossy print of my rear end which I may wish to frame as a family keepsake …. or to give to a friend.

Two of the things she says I’d receive (numbers 3 and 4) aren’t even things.. they are just descriptions of what rumpology is.  I guess that people that are gonna give her $125 and a picture of their ass aren’t gonna understand that though. 

Pretty funny site, you’ve just got to read it for yourself… she continues to profess the legitimacy of the skill or art and the thinking people of the world can get a good laugh out of it.  I guess the only people who lose are the schmucks that actually pay her 125 bucks

FCC regulations prohibit telemarketers from using automated dialers to call cell phone numbers. Automated dialers are standard in the industry, so most telemarketers don’t call consumers on their cell phones without their consent. This regulation isn’t changing in 8 days.. 16 days.. etc..

Pepsi or Coke never made a can with pledge of allegiance or the Empire State building on it, with or without leaving out “Under God” (which by the way, wasn’t even in the original pledge) but was included by an act of congress in 1954; There is no email tracking; Jaleel White didn’t commit suicide, Ashley Flores isn’t missing; Cindy Sheehan’s son wasn’t abandoned by her and raised by her ex-husband; the “Invitation Virus” (olympic torch) is a hoax; Target isn’t (owned by a French company, only support gay-lesbian causes, not contribute to Toys-for-Tots, or not let reservists continue health benefits); no robbers have rendered victims unconscious with ether-laden perfume bottles in mall parking lots or anywhere else; there is no email tracking; Swiffer Wet Jet won’t kill your pet; Andy Rooney never said all those things; Amy Bruce doesn’t have a brain tumor or write that Slow Dance poem, and the American Cancer Society’s not giving money to her because there are still no email “trackers”; and unfortunately since there is not a way to “track” the number of times an email is sent, we aren’t going to get thousands of $$$ from Bill Gates/Microsoft/AOL/Anyone either

But you knew all that didn’t you? =))

At least that thankful and friendly humpback whale story is true! That whale sure is lucky.. must have sent off emails of all the above to everyone in his address book!