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Wisdom. Drink it up... it's rare these days. Great comments, BMWRacer.

It may sound like a real cock thing to do, but the fact is this is a tough economy, and it's hard to be as follow-up'ey with everyone as I would like. Example... last job I posted, I got FIVE HUNDRED applications. It took me 2 weeks just to sort through them all. I ended up narrowing it down to about 10 people. Some I knew when they left I wasn't going to hire them, some I was unsure about. Some I liked. Of course, in the meantime I have a few HUNDRED people emailing asking about the jobs. Luckily I learned not to put the phone number or company name out there or I'd be getting hundreds of calls. The realities of the current market preclude me from being as interactive with everyone as I would like. I make a point of not telling people "I will call you next week", but I will say something like "we'll let you know", which to me is non-committal and means something like "If we want you for the job or to come back in, we'll let you know". I would avoid calling and not leaving a message. It bothers me when people do that.... also, don't assume that because they didn't answer, they don't know you called. Most phone systems will show who is calling, and my business phone system shows caller ID even for blocked calls (some folks dont know about this and assume their call is anonymous). Calling 2x a day seems a bit desperate and would probably turn them off if they know you're doing it, and they may well know. As with women - act like you don't care that much and you'll have the best chance. Leave a polite message asking to know the status of the job so you can attend to other opportunities, etc.

A few thoughts... 1) I agree, that car isn't totaled. Not even close. 2) Regarding the reserve... the insurance will value the car on it's merits, not on what the reserve was. However, the reserve would set an upper limit, because it would be very hard for a car owner to argue that the reserve is less than he should be paid, since it would have sold for that price. It doesn't mean the insurance will pay out the reserve, though, they will still pay what the market value of the car is. In this way, IMO the reserve hurts. It sets an upper limit on what they will pay, but does nothing to increase what would be paid. 3) The talk about 'every panel will have to be disassembled to be repainted' is giong to be a very hard thing to get the insurance to pay for. They are responsible for putting the car back to pre-accident condition. If the car had 15 year old or 20 year old paint, it is going to be very hard to argue that a full body-off paint job is required to produce the same pre-accident condition of a 15-20 year old factory paint job. 4) That car is a fixer-uppers dream come true. There is a lot of motivation to do a quick fix-it job though) not that the owner would, but who knows where the car will end up. When this car resurfaces, it would be a very good idea to know how it was fixed exactly.

Anyone saying the father overreacted probably hasn't been in that sort of situation. The adrenaline is pumping, and we are all animals at heart... instinct kicks in and when you and your families lives have been threatened, you just want to make the threat go away by any means necessary. Soldiers and police are trained in these matters. They experience extreme violence and danger on a daily basis, and they get tons of training, and they STILL often overreact, especially when their lives are put in extreme danger, AND the lives of their loved ones. And yet we take a guy who has no training, and wasn't just hearing bullets whiz overhead in a warzone he chose to be in, but rather sees his WIFE and his 4 KIDS tied up and told they will all be murdered... and IN HIS OWN HOME. The guy didn't ask for this to happen. He didn't go out looking to hurt someone - the horrible scenario was thrust upon him and he resorted to his animal instincts and he took out the threat. It's easy to say he should have stopped, but when someone is trying to hurt you and your loved ones, instinct doesn't work that way. The father is a hero and it's a travesty that he is in jail. The judge is clueless about human nature to suggest the father should have stopped. The justice system failed this man twice... first by putting him away for protecting his family, and second for having a guy with FIFTY convictions out on the street and able to pose a threat to the guy in the first place.

Do minorities commit crimes disproportionately to their % of the population? Yep. So it's no surprise more of them are in jail. Avoiding jail is easy. All you have to do is not commit crimes. Actually you just need to avoid bad crimes... parking tickets don't land you in jail. Driving gang members on a hit that kills 2 people does. As it should.

equally disgusting to the Ramsey parents treating their kid like a doll and putting her in pageants. 100% chance of having a fucked up kid as a result.

Not at all. But if you think the story is all just made up to make Eric look bad, you're definitely naive. Simple to check if he has a business license - he doesn't. Simple to check if a permit was pulled - it wasn't. Not much else to say. What his neighbors do is irrelevant.

not really, but whatever floats your boat, I guess. I just call em like I see em. You do too. No harm no foul.

There is some comedy gold RE: Pantera over on f-chat as well. When I first was observing his posts, I figured he was a 13 year old kid. He would engage in the most idiotic arguments ever - like, whether a turbocharged Countach would outrun a POS Sledgehammer and which would handle better. His posts made your brain hurt. He's either the dumbest motherfucker the car forums have ever seen, or a comedy genius and we're all part of his act. I think it's the former, but I still can't reconcile someone being that dumb but still able to operate a keyboard.

It's pretty obvious that my comments are based on the article as written. Eric is quoted in the article acknowledging that there were legal/contractual issues and that is why the venue was moved. Therefore, for you to suggest I am passing judgement too early, and then to pass judgement on my post, is frankly just silly. And if you do not have a permit to use the home for a wedding - guess what - IT'S ILLEGAL. Not by my law, but by the law of where he resides. It doesn't matter if it's "VERY GODDAMN LEGAL" because like you said, WHEN PROPER PERMITS ARE OBTAINED. So guess what - no permits, not goddamn legal. You talk about facts - are you saying the article is wrong and Eric did have a proper permit? Then why move the reception? Are you saying it wasn't moved? He says it was in the article. Are you saying the quotes attributed to him were not his words? That's a bold claim - any proof? I don't know what you mean about "whats fair is fair". If his neighbors are breaking the law and bothering Eric, then I feel bad for him about that, and I hope he gets satisfaction through the legal system for that. But it doesn't mean he can also break the law. Neighbors can be dicks - and his neighbors may very well be dicks. But if your neighbor does burnouts up and down the street all night long, it doesn't give you a free pass to break the law yourself.

You can take trash outta the hood... but....

Your points are irrelevant. Who cares who his neighbors are? Who cares what they do? Who cares whether someone has been there in person? Those are all have nothing to do with the facts reported in the article... which are -The home is zoned RESIDENTIAL, *NOT* commercial -Using the home commercially is against the law -Two couples were screwed and had their wedding shifted That is the point of the article. Your retort about his neighbors and their "shenanigans" is irrelevant. The facts above are what matters. Unless you are suggesting that his neighbors 'do stuff' (whatever that may be) and therefore Eric should be allowed to break the law because fair is fair? That would be a dumb argument though. I have built my own wealth... I don't flash it around on the internet and I didn't make it by screwing anyone over, I've never been investigated by the government, I've never been bankrupt, and I've never had to pay huge fines for breaking the law. I just manufacture medical devices that help people live longer, so what do I know. Are you Eric? Or just one of his many nutswingers?

Amazing how tightly the grip of some is on Eric's nutsack that they will make so many excuses for the man. no, he was not runnign a legitimate wedding business, it was not licensed. The neighbors and bureaucrats are not the problem, unless you think that expecting someone running a business to, ya know, have a business license is "having it out for them". He lives in a very upscale 'hood in Vegas. If I owned the house next door, and i was rich and just wanted to enjoy my life, I'd be pretty pissed too if every weekend hundreds of people were showing up and disturbing me. I'd put a stop to it too.

I had a similar thing happen, but I was not the employer in this case (I just worked there and discovered the theft). They called the police who sent a detective in, and the employee was sat down with his manager and the CEO, then told that they had evidence of him stealing, and that he was terminated as of right then. The employee denied everything and said he wanted a lawyer. He got one. The lawyer negotiated a deal with the company whereby the employee avoided being charged with a crime provided he entered into a binding agreement to pay the money back in full. In his case, it was over $100k of theft. If it is for a small amount of money, I would probably fire the person and tell them why, as long as I was SURE I had concrete proof. Also, going forward, it is a terrible idea to have any employee be in a position where they, personally, can affect their income. Whether it's letting them write checks and sign them, or ordering stuff without a sign-off, or submitting their own sales reports that affect commission. There should *always* be checks and balances in place. An owner should never be too busy to sign every single check or at least get a report with all the checks listed. Always have bank statements sent to your home, never the office. Always have at least two people involved in anything that affects money going out. Almost all stories I have seen of employees stealing, it is a single person who was able to game the system to their benefit.

Those who say "he did his time, his debt is paid" - would you say the same if he molested a little girl? And don't say "that's different" - it doesn't matter. Either a person's debt is paid when they do their time, or it is not. I happen to think that it's not paid when you finish your time. Doing time is your punishment for your actions, but it doesn't mean you have atoned for what you did, only that you have been punished for your actions. If I run over someone's kid, and I do 5 years to punish me, that doesn't mean I've made the family whole. Vick is a shitbag who deserves to burn in hell. The NFL are shitbags for giving him the right to play again. What message does that send to kids who look up to this sack of shit? That you can torture helpless animals and do a couple years and go back to making millions? I hope nobody signs him and he winds up broke and selling his ass to make ends meet. He's a douche.