And then there are the elitist types that have to use fancy French words like “bureaucrat” when they could just use plain English, like “office worker”.
Wait a minute: CEOs can be pluggers, too. They’re not all Enron cheats, either. Many of them have worked their way up from the front line to the executive HQ…and many still continue to work hard, putting in 10-12 hour days or more trying to make the difficult decisions that the wage earner on the front line depends on for a job.As one who aspires to become the CEO of my own business, I resent the notion that CEO automatically means “white collar,” country clubs, limousines and plush offices…with little or no work actually being done.My dad was a regional marketing manager when his company laid him off. He was a “white collar” worker, and yet, no one else I know worked as hard to support his family, or dedicated himself to his job and his company as my dad. He was as much a member of the “working class” as the delivery truck driver he started out as.
Pelicanator, attacking something that someone says by implying a logical connection to an unrelated idea is ethically reprehensible at best. Please go away and never come back here.
RCMinor, the spelling “labour” is neither prissy, nor elitist, nor quaint, nor irrelevant — it’s the correct spelling in the country where our language originated. The fact that it differs here is a sign of poor education on this side of the Pond over the last four centuries. That said, your second point is dead on.
NebulousRikulau, “bureaucrat” does come from French — just like half of the other words in our language. That no one cued you in to the fact that it is now a part of English, and has a different connotation from the phrase “office worker,” is a failing on the part of one or more of your primary school teachers (as that’s about a fourth-grade vocabulary word). If you’re going to criticize someone’s grasp of the English language, I recommend that you become fluent first.
8ball, people who use “nadsuckers” to describe anyone sane really need to have their computers taken away so they can’t do themselves any more harm.
momzilla, “REAL” Americans don’t hate other people just because they happen to be different (unlike the “Tea Party” members), and do learn something about American history before they try to associate themselves with a historical event whose predicating ideology bears almost no resemblance to their own (again, unlike the “Tea Party” members).
Pelicanator almost 13 years ago
The message is that manual labour (labor) is the only way to earn money, and everyone else should be treated poorly?
psychlady almost 13 years ago
Yeah, and then our taxes go so that congress can fight over stupid stuff while the rest of the world goes down, down, down…
Nebulous Premium Member almost 13 years ago
And then there are the elitist types that have to use fancy French words like “bureaucrat” when they could just use plain English, like “office worker”.
dagwood92 almost 13 years ago
Wait a minute: CEOs can be pluggers, too. They’re not all Enron cheats, either. Many of them have worked their way up from the front line to the executive HQ…and many still continue to work hard, putting in 10-12 hour days or more trying to make the difficult decisions that the wage earner on the front line depends on for a job.As one who aspires to become the CEO of my own business, I resent the notion that CEO automatically means “white collar,” country clubs, limousines and plush offices…with little or no work actually being done.My dad was a regional marketing manager when his company laid him off. He was a “white collar” worker, and yet, no one else I know worked as hard to support his family, or dedicated himself to his job and his company as my dad. He was as much a member of the “working class” as the delivery truck driver he started out as.
tedcoop almost 13 years ago
Pelicanator, attacking something that someone says by implying a logical connection to an unrelated idea is ethically reprehensible at best. Please go away and never come back here.
RCMinor, the spelling “labour” is neither prissy, nor elitist, nor quaint, nor irrelevant — it’s the correct spelling in the country where our language originated. The fact that it differs here is a sign of poor education on this side of the Pond over the last four centuries. That said, your second point is dead on.
NebulousRikulau, “bureaucrat” does come from French — just like half of the other words in our language. That no one cued you in to the fact that it is now a part of English, and has a different connotation from the phrase “office worker,” is a failing on the part of one or more of your primary school teachers (as that’s about a fourth-grade vocabulary word). If you’re going to criticize someone’s grasp of the English language, I recommend that you become fluent first.
8ball, people who use “nadsuckers” to describe anyone sane really need to have their computers taken away so they can’t do themselves any more harm.
momzilla, “REAL” Americans don’t hate other people just because they happen to be different (unlike the “Tea Party” members), and do learn something about American history before they try to associate themselves with a historical event whose predicating ideology bears almost no resemblance to their own (again, unlike the “Tea Party” members).