A Billing. Montana bus driver took her kids on an unscheduled field trip when she stopped at a liquor school to load up and then asked a student to help hide a bottle when the cops stopped the bus.
Billings Public Schools Superintendent Jack Copps said that the driver wisely resigned before any administrative action was taken.
Someone called to say that there was a curious sight of a school bus at a liquor store on December 12th.
Well, she was still better than the driver who parked on railroad tracks to threaten the children with a crushing death.
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ken:
“So you spend your life as a hanger-on eh? Thinking that hanging around with the Turd as we lovingly call him at MSNBC makes you a bigger man than you really really really are….”
So Ken, how did you get that gig; making that baby wailing sound at the beginning of “Thin Ice” on Pink Floyd’s “The Wall?”
Er, put in the word “do” somewhere in that question, I’m sure most of you can find the right spot.
Bell,
Never mind that your basic premise (employers can’t ask questions at interviews) is (as usual) false and ill informed, what magic question you think would have prevented this situation?
CEJ:
Thanks.I am trying to work “Moon Shadow” into one of my answers.
ken is freaking me out.
Mespo
I liked your Cat reference; humming that tune may have influenced you to exhibit more patience with these visitors than they deserved.
Kudos on the work you that you do!
ken:
No I ‘ m pretty small potatoes compared to your intellect but, you know, if you’d let me call you by German name, Der Ken, and then spell it backwards it would just about describe your thought patterns.
So you spend your life as a hanger-on eh? Thinking that hanging around with the Turd as we lovingly call him at MSNBC makes you a bigger man than you really really really are….
ken:
You can find their names in Loving v. Virginia, and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas. Maybe you’ve heard of those cases. Most literate people have.
To directly answer your question,I suspect they “got off” as many of them as the law permitted to “get off.” If all of them were convicted they would make your list, or are you the type that thinks everyone who is ever charged is guilty?
mespo: no doubt both member of the “World’s Worst Attorney’s” list. How many wife beaters did they get off? How many embezzlers got to keep their loot?
ken:
I knew and worked with two of them.
Hey Bell, now these far lefty attorneys here think they are reincarnations of the late old great ones! Isn’t that a fart!
bell pepper:
So we went from maybe 1 out of 25 hirings being tainted because someone was biased to a system of not knowing the background of ANYBODY that gets hired.
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Oh very young what will you leave us this time. You’ re only dancing on this earth for a short while.
You see there once was a place south of Maryland and east of the Mississippi stretching all the way down to the Gulf Coast where 100% of all applicants from a particular race were excluded from employment, marrying who they wanted, and even getting an education along with the rest of us. A bunch of wacky, troublesome lawyers like Bernie Cohen, Oliver Hill and Thurgood Marshall got that changed, and I guess we just couldn’t stop doing the right thing which your modern and youthful eyes find so offensive. We’ll just have live with your criticism. Ok?
rcampbell writes “before those rights were enforced, hiring decisions were too often made based on a bias either toward or against an applicant’s race, family affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, religion and a host of other non-employment related factors rather than qualifications”.
So we went from maybe 1 out of 25 hirings being tainted because someone was biased to a system of not knowing the background of ANYBODY that gets hired.
Nice job attorneys; once againg taking a system that worked 96% of the time and turning it into a system that is 100% disfunctional; all for 40% of the lawsuit proceeds.
NICE JOB.
bell
Perhaps you’re too young to remember a time before your dreaded nemesese, lawyers, began defending job applicants’ rights. One assumes you may be at too young an age based on the immaturity of your arguments. However, I do recognize that a developed intellect and maturity can escape some at every age. But I digress.
Before those rights were enforced, hiring decisions were too often made based on a bias either toward or against an applicant’s race, family affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, religion and a host of other non-employment related factors rather than qualifications. Where this system may also result in some bad hires, certainly you’re not suggesting these practices are preferable or produced a better, more equitable result.
bell:
I believe that mindless repetition of a thought is a symptom of serious mental disease. Get checked.
Don’t blame anybody for the fact these misfits are being hired other than the attorneys that are suing employers for digging too deep into prospective employees past habits and lifestyles.
Having driven through The Big Sky state I can’t say I don’t empathize with the driver.
Reading this and every time I go to the liquor store, I think of a story on This American Life. It was a series on Proms and it featured a young woman in a limo repetedly screaming, “Where’s my liquor? Where’s my liquor?” I’ve always loved that story. I have to admit it was pretty classy of the bus driver to ask a kid to hide her liquor!
Since then my memo line always reads, “My Liquor!”
The bottom line is that we are so lawsuit conscious now that in a job interview you can only ask two questions “did you find your way here ok” and “can you please leave the door open behind you”.
Don’t blame anybody for the fact these misfits are being hired other than the attorneys that are suing employers for digging too deep into prospective employees past habits and lifestyles.
The fact is employers cannot ask any questions of prior employers or even the prospective employee her/him self that would have prevented this.
Thanks legal profession.