Comments for Our PDX Network http://ourpdx.net ...news, info, collaboration, conversation... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:32:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 Comment on “Extra! Extra! Read all about it!” by Cosmic Charlie http://ourpdx.net/2008/11/extra-extra-read-all-about-it/#comment-2149 Cosmic Charlie Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:29:52 +0000 http://ourpdx.net/?p=2067#comment-2149 <a href='#comment-2144' rel="nofollow">@Sandra</a> - You can call and complain at the O's complaint office, but it probably won't do much good. Until recently, if the Fooddays piled up she would stop delivering them. However, since there are "complaints" she is being thorough and giving them to everyone who isn't threatening violence. Recently there has been a lot of management upheaval, and it seems they are trying to alienate readers and delivery people alike. They've cut her pay to where it's a couple hundred dollars a month less. They've fired three of her immediate supervisors in the last few months, seemingly as soon as the managers get to an efficient level. Paychecks were late because they sent the money to the wrong person. They would like to get rid of her, because after fifteen years she makes two cents a paper more than a newbie. One would think loyalty would be rewarded for such a thankless job. She does make great tips, because she gets the papers on the porch in a timely fashion. Or she did, until they stopped giving her a list of who tipped and how much. She has to take their word for it now.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2149','Cosmic Charlie'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2149','Cosmic Charlie','<a href=\'#comment-2144\' rel=\"nofollow\">@Sandra<\/a> - You can call and complain at the O\'s complaint office, but it probably won\'t do much good. Until recently, if the Fooddays piled up she would stop delivering them. However, since there are \"complaints\" she is being thorough and giving them to everyone who isn\'t threatening violence. \r\n\r\nRecently there has been a lot of management upheaval, and it seems they are trying to alienate readers and delivery people alike. They\'ve cut her pay to where it\'s a couple hundred dollars a month less. They\'ve fired three of her immediate supervisors in the last few months, seemingly as soon as the managers get to an efficient level. Paychecks were late because they sent the money to the wrong person. \r\n\r\nThey would like to get rid of her, because after fifteen years she makes two cents a paper more than a newbie. One would think loyalty would be rewarded for such a thankless job.\r\n\r\nShe does make great tips, because she gets the papers on the porch in a timely fashion. Or she did, until they stopped giving her a list of who tipped and how much. She has to take their word for it now.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Sandra - You can call and complain at the O’s complaint office, but it probably won’t do much good. Until recently, if the Fooddays piled up she would stop delivering them. However, since there are “complaints” she is being thorough and giving them to everyone who isn’t threatening violence.

Recently there has been a lot of management upheaval, and it seems they are trying to alienate readers and delivery people alike. They’ve cut her pay to where it’s a couple hundred dollars a month less. They’ve fired three of her immediate supervisors in the last few months, seemingly as soon as the managers get to an efficient level. Paychecks were late because they sent the money to the wrong person.

They would like to get rid of her, because after fifteen years she makes two cents a paper more than a newbie. One would think loyalty would be rewarded for such a thankless job.

She does make great tips, because she gets the papers on the porch in a timely fashion. Or she did, until they stopped giving her a list of who tipped and how much. She has to take their word for it now.

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]]> Comment on Reason to Celebrate by djtv (Theressa) http://ourpdx.net/2008/11/reason-to-celebrate/#comment-2147 djtv (Theressa) Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:15:18 +0000 http://ourpdx.net/?p=2073#comment-2147 I'd wondered where Barberama went -- it used to be on NE Broadway.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2147','djtv (Theressa)'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2147','djtv (Theressa)','I\'d wondered where Barberama went -- it used to be on NE Broadway.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I’d wondered where Barberama went — it used to be on NE Broadway.
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]]> Comment on “Extra! Extra! Read all about it!” by Sandra http://ourpdx.net/2008/11/extra-extra-read-all-about-it/#comment-2144 Sandra Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:00:47 +0000 http://ourpdx.net/?p=2067#comment-2144 I've never chased down a delivery person, but I resent the FOODday like I resent the yellowpages. It irks me when items I don't want or need are dumped on my doorstep. The Oregonian suggests ways to reduce yp dumping here: http://tinyurl.com/5dhoqm Oddly enough, they don't tell you how to escape the FOODday ;) Does your friend know of a way to stop delivery?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2144','Sandra'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2144','Sandra','I\'ve never chased down a delivery person, but I resent the FOODday like I resent the yellowpages. It irks me when items I don\'t want or need are dumped on my doorstep. The Oregonian suggests ways to reduce yp dumping here: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5dhoqm\r\nOddly enough, they don\'t tell you how to escape the FOODday ;) Does your friend know of a way to stop delivery?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I’ve never chased down a delivery person, but I resent the FOODday like I resent the yellowpages. It irks me when items I don’t want or need are dumped on my doorstep. The Oregonian suggests ways to reduce yp dumping here: http://tinyurl.com/5dhoqm
Oddly enough, they don’t tell you how to escape the FOODday ;) Does your friend know of a way to stop delivery?
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]]> Comment on “Extra! Extra! Read all about it!” by Da5id http://ourpdx.net/2008/11/extra-extra-read-all-about-it/#comment-2143 Da5id Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:01:32 +0000 http://ourpdx.net/?p=2067#comment-2143 I did that job for about a year. Never in my life have I seen customers expect so much, for so little, so early in the morning. It was one of the most thankless and invasive jobs I've ever done. More power to her!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2143','Da5id'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2143','Da5id','I did that job for about a year. Never in my life have I seen customers expect so much, for so little, so early in the morning.\r\n\r\nIt was one of the most thankless and invasive jobs I\'ve ever done.\r\n\r\nMore power to her!'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I did that job for about a year. Never in my life have I seen customers expect so much, for so little, so early in the morning.

It was one of the most thankless and invasive jobs I’ve ever done.

More power to her!

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]]> Comment on Fall leaf fun! by Matt Y. http://ourpdx.net/2008/11/fall-leaf-fun/#comment-2142 Matt Y. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:32:47 +0000 http://ourpdx.net/?p=2063#comment-2142 Awesome. I need one of those leaf vacuum thingies. All I have is a rake. And my back.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2142','Matt Y.'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2142','Matt Y.','Awesome. I need one of those leaf vacuum thingies. All I have is a rake. And my back.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Awesome. I need one of those leaf vacuum thingies. All I have is a rake. And my back.
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]]> Comment on Click click… uh, click? Gun Buy-Back UPDATE by Chet http://ourpdx.net/2008/11/click-click-uh-click-gun-buy-back-update/#comment-2139 Chet Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:31:21 +0000 http://ourpdx.net/?p=1836#comment-2139 I guess it was a success for the organizers, but not so much for folks like me who waited in the rain and went home without a gift certificate... There's another local turn-in program, at www.OregunSafety.org, that offers gift certificates year-round - and they even pick up the guns from you for disposal.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2139','Chet'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2139','Chet','I guess it was a success for the organizers, but not so much for folks like me who waited in the rain and went home without a gift certificate...\r\n\r\nThere\'s another local turn-in program, at www.OregunSafety.org, that offers gift certificates year-round - and they even pick up the guns from you for disposal.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I guess it was a success for the organizers, but not so much for folks like me who waited in the rain and went home without a gift certificate…

There’s another local turn-in program, at http://www.OregunSafety.org, that offers gift certificates year-round - and they even pick up the guns from you for disposal.

Reply to this comment - http://www.OregunSafety.org, that offers gift certificates year-round - and they even pick up the guns from you for disposal.’); return false;”>Quote
]]> Comment on A house saved? by CamiKaos http://ourpdx.net/2008/11/a-house-saved/#comment-2125 CamiKaos Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:27:57 +0000 http://ourpdx.net/2008/11/a-house-saved/#comment-2125 it would make so much more sense to do it that way, but it also requires a great deal of patience to move a home and then get it ready to be lived in... patience (and time) is something that not all home buyers have. A house in my neighborhood was moved last year, only a few blocks away. It is still being renovated, but I'm sure when it's done it will be truly amazing.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2125','CamiKaos'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2125','CamiKaos','it would make so much more sense to do it that way, but it also requires a great deal of patience to move a home and then get it ready to be lived in... patience (and time) is something that not all home buyers have.\r\n\r\nA house in my neighborhood was moved last year, only a few blocks away. It is still being renovated, but I\'m sure when it\'s done it will be truly amazing.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> it would make so much more sense to do it that way, but it also requires a great deal of patience to move a home and then get it ready to be lived in… patience (and time) is something that not all home buyers have.

A house in my neighborhood was moved last year, only a few blocks away. It is still being renovated, but I’m sure when it’s done it will be truly amazing.

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]]> Comment on Surviving Snowfall by Cosmic Charlie http://ourpdx.net/2008/11/surviving-snowfall/#comment-2123 Cosmic Charlie Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:51:23 +0000 http://ourpdx.net/?p=2045#comment-2123 Organic mesclun? Really? I may have to give Trader Joe's a closer look! PS- It's spelled mescaline.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2123','Cosmic Charlie'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2123','Cosmic Charlie','Organic mesclun? Really? I may have to give Trader Joe\'s a closer look!\r\n\r\nPS- It\'s spelled mescaline.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Organic mesclun? Really? I may have to give Trader Joe’s a closer look!

PS- It’s spelled mescaline.

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]]> Comment on Hark! The Lucas Angels sing… by McAngryPants http://ourpdx.net/2008/11/hark-the-lucas-angels-sing/#comment-2119 McAngryPants Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:58:53 +0000 http://ourpdx.net/?p=2052#comment-2119 I...love...internets: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=323909610753051544 (runtime: 1hr 56min of AWESOME) /me wipes tear from eye<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2119','McAngryPants'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2119','McAngryPants','I...love...internets:\r\nhttp:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=323909610753051544\r\n(runtime: 1hr 56min of AWESOME)\r\n\r\n\/me wipes tear from eye'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I…love…internets:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=323909610753051544
(runtime: 1hr 56min of AWESOME)

/me wipes tear from eye

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]]> Comment on Surviving Snowfall by dieselboi http://ourpdx.net/2008/11/surviving-snowfall/#comment-2115 dieselboi Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:44:55 +0000 http://ourpdx.net/?p=2045#comment-2115 You forgot that the news will do a closeup of a rose or other bush to show JUST how much snow and ice are on it. They will then replay that footage as nauseum for days. Also, don't forget that the blogs will have live blogging of the first snow with photos and experiences because they will think they are the only one who knows. (I am guilty of this.)<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2115','dieselboi'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2115','dieselboi','You forgot that the news will do a closeup of a rose or other bush to show JUST how much snow and ice are on it. They will then replay that footage as nauseum for days.\r\n\r\nAlso, don\'t forget that the blogs will have live blogging of the first snow with photos and experiences because they will think they are the only one who knows. (I am guilty of this.)'); return false;">Quote</a></div> You forgot that the news will do a closeup of a rose or other bush to show JUST how much snow and ice are on it. They will then replay that footage as nauseum for days.

Also, don’t forget that the blogs will have live blogging of the first snow with photos and experiences because they will think they are the only one who knows. (I am guilty of this.)

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