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"It was very hot, intense, over demanding work pace."
Pros – The pay rate is higher than other, comparable low skill jobs.
Cons – The work pace is unreasonable and training is inadequate.
Advice to Senior Management – You need to rethink your lid packaging operation. There are too many manual operations involved.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
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"Very Old Fashioned Company"
Pros – - Compensation
- Benefits (once you become eligible for pension)
Cons – - Not open to change or new ideas. Management acknowledges this and does nothing
- Promotions are questionable, movement up because they like you or you have been with the company for a long time, instead of skills and experience
- People who have been with the company for a long time and wants things how it was long ago
- Silos, no team work with other departments, so bad communication, lots of work to fix something simple, wasted time and effort, complaints of being busy
- HR manager for packaging, needs to improve her people skills since she is suppose to work with people
- Management don't follow their own policies and make exceptions
- They say work life balance but really there is none
Advice to Senior Management – - Move on, the company is no longer a small family company
- Micro managers, trust the people working for you and that they bring new ideas, don't try to make someone exactly like you
- Really reassess the people in management roles because some of them really should not be doing what they were promoted to
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
"Ball Corp"
Pros – The Company truely cares about the employees. Ball Corporations is also the leader in the Packaging and Containers industry and is poised for growth in the future.
Cons – Poor systems that cannot support the size of the business. Executive leadership that is stuck in the past and still thinks they can run a global corporation using the same old methods that they have used for 135 years. They are not progressive or systematic in their thought process.
Advice to Senior Management – It is time to turn the executive leadership team over to some more progressive leaders that can lead this company into the future. Westerlund specifically is holding back the Administration and HR groups.
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"If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
Pros – Many people are long-term (career) employees. They know the company, they are committed to doing a good job, and they work hard. They care about the company and its successes. This is one of the few remaining places where many people work their entire careers.
Ball provides very good benefits for their employees. It emphasizes health and savings for the future. Health care options are reasonable and broad enough to accommodate different needs. Ball pays a significant part of the costs.
Ball still provides a pension plan in addition to 401(k), including match. There is no fixed number of sick days, and my experience is that people do not abuse this. After 5 consecutive days, short-term disability kicks in.
Cons – Long-term employment can engender the "we've always done it this way" mentality. Change is difficult.
Management deficiencies are not addressed in a timely manner. Departments founder while senior management looks the other way.
Growth by acquisition with no defined process for integration has made Ball a corporation of individual entities. There are no common processes, which causes inefficiencies and engenders errors. Each manufacturing plant works differently. None wants to change. There is no standardization, which means there is no common ground and no basis for comparison. Power plays abound.
Old school reigns. Technology is resisted. Attracting and retaining younger, motivated employees is a problem
Advice to Senior Management – Review HR exit interviews -scuttlebutt is they are stuck in a folder and never looked at. Ask HR about the feedback they're getting - and tell them you want the truth. Ask for information from line employees. Review departmental managements' claims. Dig into the details. Look at department trends - turnover, promotions, organization (regular reorganizing, levels of management, direct report numbers). Don't believe the spin.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend


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In rural Mexico, when a young boy's parents are killed, he is raised by a farm worker and the town's barman, who instills a desire of vengeance in him, and as an adult he romances a young woman who is going to marry a rich man to save her father from financial ruin. This 1941 Mexican film classic became an enormous hit and features Jorge Negrete as the first cinematic singing Mariachi. This performance made Negrete - 'el charro cantor' an international Latin film star and launched the appearance of singing mariachis in films.
As for the famous title song, Walt Disney borrowed the melody and added new English lyrics for his film The Three Caballeros (1944). The song has also been covered by Placido Domingo, Julio Ingelsias and even Senator Ted Kennedy, who apparently serenaded Texan voters with it while campaigning for Barack Obama in 2008.


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"Arsenic and Old Lace," written by Joseph Ketterling, debuted on Broadway in January, 1941 – 11 months before the United States entered World War II. Americans embraced this play immediately as it provided comic relief and humorous distraction from the daunting coming war. Its success was not limited to this country, however. By 1942, it also opened in London where theatre goers welcomed the distraction during their post-blitz era.
When you read a summary of this play, two old women who lure lonely men into their home in hopes of sneaking poison into their wine, it may not seem like the humorous distraction that so many people welcomed. However, once you meet the characters and all of their quirkiness, it becomes clear why this play gave so many people a respite in the midst of so many horrors. If nothing else, we hope that you will enjoy your time with us tonight and that you will have a good laugh.


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If you want to know what my five-year professional plan is, ask me what I do on a Sunday afternoon and not what's ticking on my career clock.
By Lindsay J. Westley
I was in a job interview last week that was going well. I was connecting with my interviewers, I'd done my research on the position, and the job sounded like it would be a good fit for my writing skills and desire to mentor undergrads.
Then came the killer question: "Where do you see yourself professionally in five years?"
This question really only has three answers, and when posed to an ambitious Gen-Y candidate, none of them will make you look good. Here's what I mean:
I improvised a vague answer about my aspirations to work in academia, but as far as interview questions go, itwas tricky to respond without either lying or being evasive. I answered truthfully — I could see myself working in academia in five years — but it was a two-person department, so my five-year track plan hovered somewhere between option two and option three. As a result, my nonspecific reply sounded dispassionate as I tried to steer clear of enemy waters.
Questions about your five-year plan, your strengths and weaknesses and how you resolved a conflict with a co-worker are unlikely to be dashed from interviewers' clipboards anytime soon, so it's smart to come up with a safe answer. If you're a mid-career professional in a similar field, you can dodge a bullet by sticking to what you know is nonthreatening territory, but if you're less experienced and don't know the "right" answer, then what?
You do have a few options. Tap contacts in similar fields for a safe five-year job description that sounds motivated but not bloodthirsty, or do what I did: Be generic. But if you're so busy playing it safe, what is the recruiter really learning about you? Nothing of note — and it's a safe bet that you won't be a memorable candidate, either.
While it's valid for a recruiter to probe for information about a candidate's long-term dedication and motivation within the field (not to mention to gauge a personality fit) here's what I wish interviewers would ask instead:
Here's why: Telling a recruiter that you're passionate about the arts, traveling, writing and creative thinkingproves that you're cultured, adventurous and innovative; it's a good getting-to-know-you question, but it's mostly irrelevant. If a recruiter wants a real answer to the five-year plan question, he should listen to how a candidate finances or schedules the things she loves into her life.
Does she save every penny for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to New Zealand? Start work at 6 a.m. in order to spend more time with family on the weekends? Volunteer to guest-blog for an outdoor adventure company in exchange for a rock-climbing trip? If she's willing to make sacrifices for the things she loves doing, it's a safe bet that she'll be a dedicated employeeand be motivated to find innovative solutions to professional problems in the same way she does in her personal life.
Finally, ask her how she'll realign the duties of this job to play to her strengths and complement her passions. If she can tell you how writing the company blog dovetails with her lifelong love of journalism or how brainstorming brochure copy sparks her love of travel — and mean it — then it's probably a good fit for the company and the candidate. If a new hire is happy and challenged, the question of a five-year career goal is largely irrelevant, whether you've been promoted to CEO in half a decade, or are still in the entry-level position where you started.
If you want to know what my five-year professional plan is, ask me what I do on a Sunday afternoon. And if you can't find a way to incorporate the things you're passionate about into the job description, you're better off thanking the interviewer and moving on.
After traveling around the world as a professional polo groom, Lindsay Westley landed in Philadelphia as arts & culture editor of a small daily newspaper and then in the communications department at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Now writing about art, design, architecture, travel and outdoor adventures from my home near Burlington, Vt. Follow her on Twitter at @LindsayJWestley.
This one question speaks more about the Interviewer and the Corporation than they seem to realize. When I, as a candidate, receive this question during an interview, I have already ended the conversation in my mind. Either the interviewer has already decided I am not a good fit and has decided to waste my time with filler questions, or they really and truly have no experience with anyone who has a true Career and their experience has been limited to individuals who are looking for a "job". There are distinct career trajectories for specific fields. Being a PM, if someone asks me where I plan to be in 5 years, the obvious answer lies within the structure of the field – PM to Program Manager; Program Manager to Program Director, etc and so on. Clearly this person has nothing to offer me in the spectrum of growth, mentor-ship or career development, because they have demonstrated to me in a single question that they have no understanding of my chosen career. Hiring Managers need to be reminded, YOU are being Interviewed as well. How you present your company and organization is paramount to my decision to continue the conversation.
Lindsay, there is, in fact, a 4th answer to what is, arguably, the single stupidest question in the interviewer's book of questions: "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?"
The truth, of course, is that at a time when NO ONE knows where he or she will be in 5 years, because the average job nowadays only lasts 2 to 3 years, and often less, the answer is: "How can I possibly know?" That's not, however, an answer you can use on an interview.
So here's the answer that I recommend…"Where do I see myself in 5 years? (Smile.) Here! That I'm impressed by your company, and very interested in the position I'm here interviewing for is, I hope, very obvious. Very frankly, I'd like to put down roots here, and contribute to making your company as successful as it can be, for as long as possible.
Now what I'll be doing for you in 5 years is much harder for me to say, because I don't know what your needs will be in 5 years, or how much will have changed in the company or the economy. Nevertheless, I see myself still here, working at whatever the company believes I can make the biggest contribution."
The best part of this answer is that it's undeniably true that you can't possibly know what the company's needs will be in 5 years (they don't know, either!), or how they'll best be able to use your talents. But the company also wants to hear that you're interested, enthusiastic about them, and not likely to be bailing out any time in the near future. Do your research, know a lot about what they do and how they've been evolving, tell them why you find their company compelling, and why you want to stay — to help them succeed, of course — and you've just won a lot of points with most interviewers.
So true, Paula. If nothing else, the five-year question is a great way to gauge how you REALLY feel about the job. (And if that's not something you can share with the interviewer, then it's time to withdraw your application!) But I like the enthusiastic option – as several other Forbes bloggers have pointed out, passion about the job (if it's heartfelt) often seems to tip the scales in the interviewees' favor.
Thanks for reading!
A fourth answer woul be: Develop a strong profesional team to drive you up in the ranks so I can follow you on your actual position.(that is how I answer this one jajajaja)
You are dead on righ, in that they should search on wich are your out of the work interests, that tells them a lot about you and your future goals.
Congrats good article. Victor
As the question seeks to guage 1) your level of commitment towards what you do and 2) how clear you are in your head regarding your career path, I would answer it by saying something like: I would like to see myself as a Subject Matter Expert in my field of work by continually learning and trying out ways to improve what I/we do.
I guess this kind of an answer positions you as a person who's not so much after designations/titles (which I really believe), but someone who wants to excel in his own task, thereby bringing excellence to the organization as a whole. Inside my heart, I also know that when I ll be recognized among the experts, I would automatically be in positions where my expertise helps drive decisions. But this answer is non threatening even when interviewing with prospective co-workers or bosses. So, drives your point in a positive way without alienating anyone..
As the question seeks to guage 1) your level of commitment towards what you do and 2) how clear you are in your head regarding your career path, I would answer it by saying something like: I would like to see myself as a Subject Matter Expert in my field of work by continually learning and trying out ways to improve what I/we do.
I guess this kind of an answer positions you as a person who's not so much after designations/titles, but someone who wants to excel in his own task (which I really believe), thereby bringing excellence to the organization as a whole. Inside my heart, I also know that when I ll be recognized among the experts, I would automatically be in positions where my expertise helps drive decisions. But this answer is non threatening even when interviewing with prospective co-workers or bosses. So, drives your point in a positive way without alienating anyone..
Great article! Will be really helpful to me in the future. Though i am more worried about a question which i may definitely have to deal with and that is related to my GPA. I have a 2.4 gpa right now which is not good at all. How would you suggest i tackle any question related to it if asked?
My answer to this question would be that I want to continue to grow professionally, to keep upgrading my skills, and to continue meeting job challenges for the rest of my career, not just the next five years. Then I might add, "I don't know where exactly that will put me in the next five years, but I want to be as prepared as possible for opportunities that come up."
I know that is quite late but I read this just now. You've touched on one of my pet peeves: Routine questions from interviewers.
I've conducted literally thousands of interviews for entry-level positions. During the years that I've interviewed, I've observed many colleagues ask routine questions and get well-rehearsed answers which often don't tell the truth.
My experience tells me that there is absolutely no substitute for thoroughly reading a candidate's résumé. The questions should follow from there. And guess what? I always got better candidates who stuck longer.


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Beowulf is a 3rd person action game with a few RPG elements mixed in. The title is based around an old 6th Century poem told in anglo-saxon tongue that through the ages has been passed down generation to generation. You play as a young mighty warrior named Beowulf who is sent out to walk the northlands in search great evil mythical creature named GRENDEL, bane of the Danish king HROTHGAR. In order to gain fame and glory Beowulf must kill the creature but its easier said then done. You must wander the pagan world building your strength and learning the ways of the sword before you take GRENDEL one-on-one. Also it is said that you will be helped by a mysterious race named the YLFE. These people will guide you along your way but as the game progresses you must choose whether to trust the strange race. Beowulf will capture the spirit of the early Viking Age, creating a unique world not seen in other games and will push graphics to the limit with all new state-of-the-art technology.
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The herbarium in the Botany Department houses a research collection of 165,000 specimens of native and naturalized plants of the southwestern United States (especially southern California) and northwestern Mexico (especially Baja California). The collection consists primarily of vascular plants, with significant holdings of marine algae, mostly of the eastern North Pacific. There are about 400 type specimens. The type specimen database is searchable online.
The San Diego County Plant Atlas project, a cooperative multi-agency project, began in the summer of 2002. The department's Parabotany volunteers will do the fieldwork necessary for a complete survey of the plants of San Diego County. The Plant Atlas project will run for at least five years, and will provide a web-searchable database of plant distribution information from the earliest stages of data collection.
The curatorship of the botany department is endowed as the Mary and Dallas Clark Chair of Botany.
The collection is in the care of Jon P. Rebman, Ph.D., Curator, who is a specialist in the systematics of the Cactaceae (particularly the genus Cylindropuntia) and in the floristics of the peninsula of Baja California, Mexico and San Diego and Imperial counties.
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GOULD, Frank W. & Reid MORAN. 1981.
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FELGER, Richard S. 1999.
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Junior Jessica Kittelberger was chosen for the grades 9-12 Symphonic Band on timpani and was named first alternate for snare drum. It was her fifth consecutive year being chosen for the All-District clinic. Sophomore Kyle Pelton was named first alternate on trombone in the Symphonic Band.
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Ed Lee's State of the City: What evictions? What displacement?
Mayor Ed Lee punctuated his State of the City speech with a nice little quip: "Every San Franciscan deserves a clean, safe place to call home." I agree.
So why, in a speech lasting more than an hour, did the mayor not once mention that thousands of San Franciscans are facing the loss of their homes -- and will be forced out of the city -- because of the same policies that he's proudly promoting?
These things are always self-congratualtory and full of the requisite bullshit. But Lee's description of the State of the City was nothing more than a fantasy to the two-thirds of San Franciscans who live in rental housing, many of whom are living with an unacceptable level of insecurity. Much of the city's rental stock -- and the effectiveness of rent control -- is at risk at speculators are buying up properties, tossing the tenants out with the Ellis Act, and converting them to tenancies in common. This is a massive civic crisis, brought on in part by the boom in tech jobs and the consequent boom in high-paid young people who want to live in a city that has virtually no vacant housing.
We saw this before, under Mayor Willie Brown; we called it the Economic Cleansing of San Francisco. It was awful, and it's happening again.
But you wouldn't know that to hear the mayor completely ignore the issue.
Oh, Lee gave it a toss-off line; gee, the rent is too high, but we can't ignore the laws of supply and demand. Gee, we're going to build 45,000 new housing units, and that will fix everything.
But Lee, of all people, ought to know that housing in San Francisco has never followed the laws of supply and demand. This is a highly irregular market, because demand is essentially unlimited. Housing fills us as fast as you build it. And none of the new housing that's currently under construction or in the pipeline will be affordable to current SF residents who live in rent-controlled units and are at risk for eviction.
When you're evicted under the Ellis Act in San Francisco today, to make room for someone with more money, you wind up having to leave the city. That's the bottom line. And everywhere you turn, tenants are facing that ugly prospect.
The mayor spent much of his time talking about jobs. That's fine; he's proud that the unemployment rate in the city has fallen to 6.5 percent, but he insists he won't rest until everyone has a job. Actually, most economists would say that's impossible; capitalism, by its nature, exists with a structural unemployment rate that rarely falls below 4 percent. In fact, 4 percent is generally considered "full employment."
More important, the overall rate is 6.5 percent, but it's way higher for people without college degrees, for youth, and for African Americans. (It's above 50 percent for transgender people.) The tech boom isn't providing jobs for all of the unemployed current San Francisco residents; a lot of the jobs are going to people who don't live here and are moving here for employment. They are putting pressure on the existing housing stock. That always leads to displacement.
None of this is to say that tech jobs are bad or that we shouldn't have companies that pay high wages locate in San Francisco. What it means is that the city first has to protect its existing vulnerable populations -- and that's not happening.
I would encourage Mayor Lee to talk to the Housing Rights Committee, or the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, or any of the other tenant lawyers who are fighting desperately every day to state off evictions. He'd get a very different picture of the state of the city.
1) It encourages tenants to never move, even tho they would like to
2) It encourages property owners to switch to owner occupancy
3) It suppresses the construction of new rental units apart form condo's, because of the worry that they may later be covered by rent control
In fact, all land use rules push up prices and rents
Houston! Problem?
Too bad for them huh?
Re: point #3: Rent control only applies to pre-1979 buildings. Worrying that new construction will eventually be covered by rent control is a silly concern.
Just as silly as owners who remove units from the market and keep them vacant. If they can get, on average, $2500-$3000 per month, minus expenses and still refuse to bring it back on the market, then they are spiteful and don't value a decent return (definition of greed?). Sell the property to someone who knows that they have to work to maintain a property, is a decent citizen and understands the need for housing. The "marketplace" has inflated the value of properties without landlords having to do very much. If the economy tanks, rental properties' values in SF do not tank as much accordingly and then there is the predictable rebound. And capital improvement pass-throughs as allowed by SF Rent Ordinance allow for recouping much of the costs plus interest, amortized.
construction is rent controlled. That is why every developer and investor i have spoken to would rather build new rentals 10 miles north, south or east where there are no such worries.
And the fact that thousands of units are kept vacant and unrented ought to tell you how LL's feel about rent control, To give up that amount of rent and leave a unit unused is a damning testimony about how punitive RC really is. So are Ellis evictions which are highly destructive of value and yet LL's feel they have no choice.
Oh, and passthru's are a total PITA. Check out the forms.
It ain't all about housing and poverty, it is about rampant municipal corruption that leaves us with crappy transit, filthy streets, unmaintained and privatized parks, that keeps ineffective nonprofiteers on the quasi public payroll while their advocacy domains crumble, all so that Lee's patrons can continue to rake in the cash.
ethos. Are you sure you're living in the right country?
I grew up in NY back when the infrastructure was fully invested and the public realm was not squalorific.
Libertarian capitalist conservatives have turned our country into their country.
dates from 1958.
It was said by a liberal, Galbraith, who saw that capital did not invest everywhere to elevate living standards.
The Democrats tried that but Vietnam put the kibosh on that all by consolidating the claim that the military industrial complex has to this day on the public treasury.
In the places where there was sufficient public investment, such squalor was constrained to the margins.
It was said by a liberal, Galbraith, who saw that capital did not invest everywhere to elevate living standards.
The Democrats tried that but Vietnam put the kibosh on that all by consolidating the claim that the military industrial complex has to this day on the public treasury.
In the places where there was sufficient public investment, such squalor was constrained to the margins.
sector is not a new thing nor a product of Reagan or neo-conservatism.
Rather it has always been the american way compared to Europe where the primacy of the state and the bureaucracy is accepted far more cheerfully.
is quite opulent.
it isn't in accordance with the will of the people?
as long as the two-headed corporate/war party is our only choice.
elections are bought or stolen.
Get a new song. The voters are way smarter than you give them credit for.
and foreign policies between Obama (D) and Romney (R). Unlike you, I hold Americans in high esteem. You regularly refer to them as fat and placated.
is somehow not valid and irrelevant is patronising and false.
choose only from severely proscribed choices. Like the choice between war and war. Or austerity or austerity.
And see how many votes you get for your weird take on reality.
economic and political democracy, peace, and the recognition of the inherent equality of all people.
Cowardly people like yourself who accept their sujugation to economic authority and support exploitation are the cogs the ruling elites desire.
platform of world peace, equality and all those other fuzzy notions that you offer up as a substitute for rational discourse.
an attacking style, is far from rational discourse.
debating that should be welcomed in any forum that claims to welcome disparate viewpoints.
with Limbaughtic.
cheap labels and insults.
is the money you make by evicting people and exploiting vulnerable day laborers.
Here's another label: economic terrorist.
Many of them left voluntarily though.
Lists of lies specific to each topic discussed!
"You never win a debate"
"You resort to ad hominem and labels"
This is going to be fun!
You are no more Socratic than my cat.
Yes, the policies that people vote for Democrats who run on these issues over and again but that the Democrats steadfastly refuse to implement once elected.
The Republicans, for their part, follow through on their conservative promises, just as the Democrats follow through on the Republicans' conservative promises.
you think the Dem's should follow.
Actually, voters want social security, socialized medicine for seniors, want a reasonable chance to be employed and want the capitalist wars to end. The Democrats run on all of this and once elected turn around and do what the Republicans were going to do if they were elected.
implement a small part of their program because politics is about compromize with other parties.
That said, we have social security and medicare. We just aren't paying for them right now.
Right, WE are.
American workers have been paying -- and continue to pay -- Social Security's costs. You are a despicable liar.
we have a 16 trillion dollar national debt.
If voters paid the full costs of these welfare schemes, they'd be screaming to end them.
running a surplus.
Not for long.
1 Progressive ideas are not popular
2 Progressives want to tell everyone else how to run their lives
3 Only corporations pay tax
4 Poor people here are actually quite wealthy.
5 All politicians lie
6 "Purity progressives" can't compromise
7 Progressives have situational ethics
8 Progressives ignore pressing problems while promoting pet projects.
9 Anybody who thinks the police must have proper civilian oversight is a "cop hater."
10 Presidents always move to the center
Which is why not so many rentals get built in SF even tho theoretically post-79 constrcution is exempt.
Most developers aren't stupid most but most progressives think that the voters are.
What evictions, what displacement is right, ironically. There are no statistics to back up this Tenant's Union nonsense about spikes in Ellis Act and evictions by would be condo converters and "thousands in danger of being displaced." None.
Ellis is barely even up. All this doubling and tripling and thousands and blah blah blah?
It's b.s.
My block has been clearcut of existing renters in all buildings < 8 units.
There's also natural turnover and owner move-in's, which very possibly happened with the unit that you currently keep from being rented out to a deserving tenant
From March 2011 through March 2012 Ellis evictions went up from 61 to 64.
You can look at the rent board's own study. All this stuff that they're screaming about spikes in Ellis is straight b.s.
Redmond is a polemic douche with a simplistic black and white mindset. And his paper is a phoney conlgomerate cynical same slinging stack of nothing.
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Bad news, genre fans. In an epic clash of bad timing, the season finale of The Walking Dead's third season finale is thirsting for our brains on March 31 at 9 pm…the very hour Game of Thrones' third season opener will have half of Westeros taking revenge against the other half. What's a loyal viewer of both to do?
Although these important life decisions are easier to make with DVRs that record one episode while we're watching the other, only one of them can give us that instant gratification of watching it as it airs. So I've created a handy guide to determine which show deserves your undivided attention at 9 pm.
Do you like the undead?
Winner: The Walking Dead. Although GoT has their own form of zombie in the form of white walkers, TWD's raison d'être is to show as many of the brain-eaters as inhumanly possible. Raaagh!
Do you like gore?
Winner: The Walking Dead. GoT does not shy away from violence. Far from it. In season 1, Khal Drogo ripped a man's tongue out of his throat…through his goddamned esophagus. (Seriously, WTF?) But the walking dead in TWD are utterly horrific even when they're on the ground. When they're in motion, they're even more gore-tastic.
Do you like hot men?
Winner: Tie. All of the people I know who are smitten by men are smitten by Darryl in TWD and Jon Snow in GoT (except me. I'm smitten by Tyrion). If there is an edge here, this category would be won by GoT because there are so many more male characters to crush on.
Do you like hot women?
Winner: Game of Thrones. Although TWD is full of strong, confident zombie killers like Andrea, GoT has Daenerys.
Do you like sex?
Winner: Game of Thrones. TWD had a cute moment recently where Glenn and Maggie wanted to get naked together in the watchtower, but Glenn couldn't perform while the undead were watching. In GoT, people perform in every circumstance, all the time. All. the. time.
Do you like tough women?
Winner: The Walking Dead. Brienne of Tarth is a fighter's fighter. Michonne is a badass. If you put them in a room together, only Michonne would walk out, because Brienne would fight with honor, and Michonne…Michonne would fight to win.
Do you like betrayals?
Winner: Game of Thrones. There are more betrayals per square inch of GoT (e.g., Mirri Maz Dur's slow kill of Khal Drogo, Petyr Baelish screws over Eddard) than TWD. But it doesn't mean that Lori's not telling Rick about her relationship with Shane for most of season 1 doesn't hurt.
Do you like snarky humor?
Winner: Tyrion Lannister. I mean, Game of Thrones. TWD has excellent dialog and some amusing moments. However, only Tyrion Lannister can confess his crimes in so amusing a manner.
Do you like death to come unexpectedly and without warning?
Winner: Tie. Eddard Stark's death in season 1 of GoT was shocking. Just as shocking in TWD was death of prisoner Axel, who was taken out the very moment we started to like him.
Haven't read TWD but there is no way Michonne would beat Brienne. Brienne is arguably the best sword fighter in Westeros. And she goes up against the best swordsman and handles herself well in book 3/season3.
Michonne has skills but she primarily fights slow undead walkers.
That "clunky armor" makes a predominately slashing weapon like a katana incredibly ineffective. Brienne is also a big strong woman who has trained with armor for years, she would be more than accustomed to handling the armor's weight. She also actually has experience swordfighting with other living participants. Michonne mostly targets slow-moving zombies.
Brienne would crush her.
I'll be watching The Waling Dead because Mr Man works second shift and the moment he gets home at midnight Game of Thrones will be on the TV and I'd like to watch fresh with him.
Michonne would definitely kick Brienne's ass because Brienne would limit herself to fighting with a sword and Michonne would use the total environment to win. Plus, Brienne is weighe down by clunky armor and Michonne would simply be faster than her. When you don't limit yourself to following any rules whatsoever you have a major advantage.
Arya is my (totally young, underage, not hot in *that* way) hot chick on GoT. She's also my hero and the one person that *better* be standing in that pool of blood by the end, if there ever is an end. As a long term comic fan I don't understand the need the fans, including my SO, have for an ending.
And Darryl is my hero on WD. Ironic, because he's not even in the book. Sad too. I never read the series and I really have no reason to, now, since my absolute favorite character is not (and never will be?) there. He may have his odd unseemly character trait, but he's never been anything but heroic, IMO.
And *hey!* I can get your column on Feedly! How cool is that?!?!
Game of Thrones. Walking Dead jumped the shark in season 3 imo.
For people on the West Coast, you can watch HBO's eastern feed for GoT at 6pm.
I don't see how anyone could possibly describe the north of the wall as anything but beautiful. Desolate, sure, but not at all in a bad way.


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Joseph T. Coyne, retired Wilkes-Barre City Police Chief, recently made a $1,000 donation to sponsor the Ruth's Place Shelter Walk-a-Thon that was held on Nov. 4. At the check presentation, from left: Ruth's Place board members Peggy Rapp, Robin Field, Bill Bolan, Coyne and Pat Rushton.
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This episode of Undercover Boss follows Rick Silva, CEO of Checkers & Rally's, a double drive-thru fast food restaurant. The restaurant chain, headquartered in Tampa, FL, operates in 38 states around the country. Rick Silva formerly worked for Burger King before heading up Checkers & Rally's a couple of years ago. Rick's parents are from Cuba and he is a first generation Cuban-American. His goal is to increase the business to 1,000 restaurants over the next couple of years.
His undercover name is Alex Garcia, a failed pharmacy owner from Philadelphia. The employees are told he is on a reality show to try to change careers. His first stop is at a Checker in Homestead, FL. He is training with Todd, a crew member for a little over a year. Alex is concerned because the grill and fry station is very important and Todd has never been trained properly, but he seems to do a good job.
Todd has always wanted to be a chef and he started school but dropped out to take care of his mother. While he's telling Alex the story, the manager yells at Todd to stop talking and cook the meat. The manager is also seen talking down to another employee about working late. Later Alex finds the fryer station confusing because the timers are not labeled. The restaurant is not working according to company standards.
The manager is still barking at employees. Instead of jumping in and helping, he just yells. Todd says his manager feels like he's worthless. Alex wants to talk to the manager about his attitude but Todd doesn't want to say anything because he needs his job and he starts crying. Alex asks the manager what excuse does he have to talk to people without being respectful but the manager doesn't think he was. He says the manager runs the crew not the other way around. The manager asks if Alex has ever worked in fast food before, and Rick reveals his true identity. Rick tells the manager he's doing things the wrong way and he's shutting the restaurant down now.
The manager tells him he is not properly trained. He was three weeks into assistant manager training when he was put into his management position, so he can't train the crew properly because he's not trained properly. Rick is disappointed in his company and himself because it's ultimately his responsibility. He tells the crew that they will be properly trained before the restaurant opens again and they will all be paid.
The second stop is another Checkers in Carol City, FL, to work with the manager Joyce on the night shift. She doesn't sell burgers and fries she sells hospitality. She works the walk-up window and is very friendly with the customers. Joyce calls all of her employees Mr. and Ms. She thinks Alex is too stiff and needs to lighten up. He works the drive-up window, and he has trouble hearing the customers through the speaker system because it's so old.
He asks Joyce what would she do if she had her own store. She says people need to know their customers. The company took about a certain product her customer's liked because other stores didn't like it. She also has a lot of marketing ideas to bring in more customers. Joyce's mother and father died early in her life, her brother died of AIDS, and she lost her job. She and her daughter found a coupon for free Checker's food and she's been loyal ever since. Her partner is also a Checker's manager, and they've been together for 21 years.
His third stop is in Mobile, AL, at the first ever Checker's restaurant. He's working with Johanna on the sandwich line. She wears a headset so she can hear the orders coming in. She starts the sandwiches as soon as she hears it so the food is ready when the customer gets to the window. She demonstrates how to make a burger and lets Alex take over.
Unfortunately for Alex, he is not up to par with Johanna. Her standards are high and he's not meeting them. He doesn't know how to build all the sandwiches and quickly falls behind. The drive-thru fills up so Johanna steps in to pick up the slack. Johanna has worked at Checker's for seven years. He asks what she would do as a manager and she says she would reward the crew. Managers get bonuses and awards but never the crew. She only makes $8.00 an hour and a manager only starts at $9.00 an hour.
The Reveal
Rick does the reveal at a Checker's. He tells Johanna she is very good at her job and he is creating an incentive program for crew members. When managers get bonuses, so will crew members. He is going to mentor her so she can become a manager. He also gives her $20,000 to replace her old, unreliable car.
He tells Joyce she brings a great enthusiasm to her store and he appreciates it. Rick has the speakers at her store replaced. He is creating a manager's council so they can give feedback to Rick directly and better market for their customers. He gives her $10,000 to help pay off her bills. He gives her an extra $10,000 to spend on herself since she takes care of others.
Rick tells Todd he is incredibly proud for speaking up and letting him know about the problems. The manager is being retrained and all new employees will be trained about respect. He's paying for Todd to finish his culinary degree. He also gives him $15,000 to cover expenses at home since he takes care of his mother.
The Aftermath
Todd got a new manager and is enrolled for school in the fall; Johanna bought a new car and is involved in the manager trainee program; Joyce got new speakers and is working on the manager's council.
Undercover Boss has moved to Friday's 8/7c on CBS.
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A criminal complaint is being prepared against the mother of twin boys who died two weeks ago in a fatal fire in North Braddock.
According to WTAE-TV, District Attorney Stephen Zappala said Friday that Allegheny County fire marshals found that the fatal house fire on Jan. 4 started in a stove. The mother, who was ot home when the fire broke out, had told relatives she had just stepped out for a short period to look for her teenage daughter.
An ongoing investigation by county homicide detectives shows that the mother was gone for almost an hour, WTAE-TV reports. The mother suspected her daughter took some marijuana from her purse, and when the girl didn't come home after school, she went out in search of the teen, Zappala said.
Zappala said information from witness interviews indicated that the 3-year-old boys sometimes operated the stove themselves and cooked their own food.
investigators have said that Dy'Heir Arthur died of burns and smoke inhalation. He was found in the kitchen on the first floor in the rear of the house. His twin, Ky'Heir Arthur, who died of smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning, was found in a second-floor bedroom.
To see the full WTAE report, click here.
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