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PostPosted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:18 pm 
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http://www.newser.com/story/115595/scott-walker-gives-donor-jerry-deschanes-son-an-81000-a-year-job.html

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(Newser) – Don’t you hate those overpaid public employees? Why, just look at Brian Deschane. He’s racked up two drunk driving convictions, has little experience, and no college degree, yet Scott Walker’s administration is paying him $81,500 a year, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. How did he get the job? Well, it probably didn’t hurt that dad Jerry Deschane is a longtime lobbyist for the Wisconsin Builders Association, and that the group’s PAC was one of Walker’s top five campaign donors—ringing up $121,652 in donations.

But the elder Deschane says he’s sure that’s not why his son was hired. “He got the position himself,” he says. OK, he admits, he may have mentioned Brian to Walker’s chief of staff a few times. “I put in good words for every one of my children in their jobs,” he says. To be fair, the younger Deschane must be a great worker; in two months on the job he’s already earned a promotion and a 26% raise.

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Either that family's money has more pull than they are letting on, or Brian Deschane has some mad blow-job skills.

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There's many employees in the private industry like this too. Haven't you seen American Psycho?


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The private sector can do whatever they want, but when you are spending tax payer money they need to be above board with how they employ people.

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Killuas wrote:
The private sector can do whatever they want, but when you are spending tax payer money they need to be above board with how they employ people.
How do you know they weren't?

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Private vs public. Nice partisan fluff piece tho. But the people that buy these idiotic articles are already only going to accept one viewpoint.

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Khross wrote:
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The private sector can do whatever they want, but when you are spending tax payer money they need to be above board with how they employ people.
How do you know they weren't?


Because unless you are the underdog, a minority who is blind and deaf and otherwise disabled with no arms and no legs who went to college as a single parent to five kids living in a shoebox, then you can't possibly have gotten the job fairly. White guys with connections and no sob story don't just get good jobs handed to them without cheating and immorality involved. DUH!

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I can only recollect one job (my current) that I didn't get through a connection.


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I didn't get my current job through a connection.


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I didn't get my current job through a connection.


Then it must have been blowjobs.

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Gross.


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Gross.


I bet it was. But you hung in there and got the job. Good for you, man. Go whitey.

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LadyKate wrote:
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Gross.


I bet it was. But you hung in there and got the job. Good for you, man. Go whitey.

:mrgreen: :lol: You've been in quite the silly mood lately.

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Yeah, it's nice to feel silly again. :D

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Now, speaking of blowjobs, do you know why they call it a blowjob? So it'll sound like it has kind of a work ethic attached to it; make you feel like you did something useful for the economy. As long as I'm being a complete pig up here, let me ask you guys a question. Let me ask, let me ask one question of the men: are you ever able to watch a woman eating a banana and not think about a blowjob? Huh? I can't do it! And I know why: I'm a sick evil ****. I accept that, but I can't do it. Eating a banana, eating a pickle, licking on an ice-cream cone. I'm saying to myself, "look at the tongue on her! Wooowww!" So you women be careful when your standing in front of that Hägen Daz, 'cause, god-dammit we're watching, hah, and, god-dammit we're thinking.

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LadyKate wrote:
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Gross.


I bet it was. But you hung in there and got the job. Good for you, man. Go whitey.


Damn, you slammed him harder than a shithouse door.

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I thought the whole idea of creating and maintaining connections was to gather information and possibly a job through them. Why else do you have to be very nice to sometimes not very nice people?

I have to admit, my first job was the only one I got without connections. After that, it was the contacts that got me new ones... ;)


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The whole idea of creating and maintaining connections is if you plan on being unemployed soon or a lot or already are.


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I have gotten jobs through connections, but most of the time it was more filling in applications and interviewing cold.

But then the last time I looked for a new job and not a promotion or transfer was in 1988. Things have changed a bit. I'm not saying there wasn't corruption, nepotism and favoritism back then, just that in bad times it becomes a lot more evident.

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The whole idea of creating and maintaining connections is if you plan on being unemployed soon or a lot or already are.


Then you're doing it wrong. You should always be on top of the rumors and possible buy outs and things, there should always be enough contacts to warrent your next move up should there ever be a breeze going the wrong way.

Contacts are used to move up the food chain, and only very rarely, to save you from being eaten.


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Lydiaa wrote:
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The whole idea of creating and maintaining connections is if you plan on being unemployed soon or a lot or already are.


Then you're doing it wrong. You should always be on top of the rumors and possible buy outs and things, there should always be enough contacts to warrent your next move up should there ever be a breeze going the wrong way.

Contacts are used to move up the food chain, and only very rarely, to save you from being eaten.


My company can't be bought out. Also based on the product I'm working on I have job security for another 3 or 4 years at least.


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Mergers are happening to the biggest companies in the world, look at wyeth and pfizer. but I digress...
If you have the ambition, then you should know, moving between companies are the best way to move up... it's the only way you can skip bottle necks in promotions.

You may have job security, but if you're still in the same position in 3-4 years time, you're doing it wrong.


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Lydiaa wrote:
Mergers are happening to the biggest companies in the world, look at wyeth and pfizer. but I digress...
If you have the ambition, then you should know, moving between companies are the best way to move up... it's the only way you can skip bottle necks in promotions.

You may have job security, but if you're still in the same position in 3-4 years time, you're doing it wrong.


I like where I live, I like my job, and it pays really well for my age and has good benefits. I'm not doing anything wrong.


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Not saying you are, just saying how you could do better.

I've learnt that no matter how good you are, there's always better.

edit. If thats where your ambitions lay of course. If you're content where you are, then just keep a few of the good ones around as friends. Nothing beats being happy and content in a job.


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Lydiaa wrote:
Not saying you are, just saying how you could do better.

I've learnt that no matter how good you are, there's always better.


Maybe. But it would take a ton of effort to find a place that lets me work from home 2 or 3 days a week with similar pay and health benefits.


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