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Topic: In other news..WMU replaces employees with goats

Topic: In other news..WMU replaces employees with goats

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L.C.
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In other news..WMU replaces employees with goats

Posted: 7/11/2017 10:11:57 AM

http://tinyurl.com/y8qt3kx9

...Just trying to lighten things up with a humorous headline. Mods can feel free to move this to Siberia, since it could turn political.

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C Money
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RE: In other news..WMU replaces employees with goats

Posted: 7/11/2017 10:45:07 AM

Can I tell you how jealous I am of the arbitrator that will get to resolve this? He or she will be able to tell this story for the rest of his or her life. "Oh yeah, you think that workplace harassment case is impressive? I handled a goat grievance once."

(Full disclosure: I once owned a goat I named "Bob". I named him that so he could say his own name. Cleared about 10 acres of hillside in about 2 weeks, all by himself. Dude was a machine.)

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RE: In other news..WMU replaces employees with goats

Posted: 7/11/2017 11:21:47 AM

I need this in Tennessee. Plenty of poison ivy to feed the little guys.

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RE: In other news..WMU replaces employees with goats

Posted: 7/11/2017 11:43:06 AM

Odd that the grievance isn't THAT the school did this, but that they DIDN'T TELL the union in advance.

Real horns of a dilemma for the arbitrator.

The simple solution is to unionize the goats, but they would have to vote and too many would just say "Nnneh."

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RE: In other news..WMU replaces employees with goats

Posted: 7/11/2017 1:13:54 PM

I'll take it political. Has anyone bothered to check the immigration status of said goats?

C Money
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RE: In other news..WMU replaces employees with goats

Posted: 7/11/2017 1:24:39 PM

Sam bobcat wrote:

I'll take it political. Has anyone bothered to check the immigration status of said goats?

Someone clearly has never been to Lucasville Trade Days.

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RE: In other news..WMU replaces employees with goats

Posted: 7/11/2017 1:46:07 PM

C Money wrote:

First thought: That's a lot of goat s***!

OUcats82
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RE: In other news..WMU replaces employees with goats

Posted: 7/11/2017 1:56:58 PM

Am I the only one who wanted to listen to those old Adam Sandler goat skits after reading this?

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RE: In other news..WMU replaces employees with goats

Posted: 7/11/2017 2:20:56 PM

Pataskala wrote:

What does the union contract say about cooking and eating scabs at the end of their work?

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RE: In other news..WMU replaces employees with goats

Posted: 7/11/2017 3:20:39 PM

C Money wrote:

Sam bobcat wrote:

I'll take it political. Has anyone bothered to check the immigration status of said goats?

Someone clearly has never been to Lucasville Trade Days.

So you're claiming the goats are legal? Let me guess...they ate each other's green cards?
I'm sick and tired of these goats coming in and taking American jobs! Where is the outrage? My anger has nothing to do with the 3 days of community service spent in the zoo's petting cage when I was 14. Nothing.

Last Edited: 7/11/2017 3:21:11 PM by Sam bobcat

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RE: In other news..WMU replaces employees with goats

Posted: 7/11/2017 4:01:00 PM

Sam bobcat wrote:

C Money wrote:

Sam bobcat wrote:

I'll take it political. Has anyone bothered to check the immigration status of said goats?

Someone clearly has never been to Lucasville Trade Days.

All I'm saying is, if you have 3 goats, and I have a shotgun that is OFFICIALLY sitting at the bottom of the Ohio River after a fishing accident, and we want to do a deal, the last thing we want to do is bring ink and paper into the transaction.

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RE: In other news..WMU replaces employees with goats

Posted: 7/11/2017 4:56:32 PM

L.C. wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/y8qt3kx9

...Just trying to lighten things up with a humorous headline. Mods can feel free to move this to Siberia, since it could turn political.

Oh my. This is awesome. We need this thread to be as long as the thread about driverless cars/trucks and safety and job losses....

Can somebody hit a pull up jumper for me?.....

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RE: In other news..WMU replaces employees with goats

Posted: 7/11/2017 7:23:02 PM

Ohio69 wrote:

L.C. wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/y8qt3kx9

...Just trying to lighten things up with a humorous headline. Mods can feel free to move this to Siberia, since it could turn political.

Oh my. This is awesome. We need this thread to be as long as the thread about driverless cars/trucks and safety and job losses....

Agree.

Our neighborhood Facebook page blew up recently with hundreds of posts about a goat which escaped from somewhere and has been on the lam for the better part of two weeks. Theories on where it came from and why. Folks trying to mobilize a crew to try to hem it in. Suggestions about who can/should help capture it safely and why. Dozens of sightings. Arguments about what type of goat or whether it was actually a sheep. Hilarious and unifying.

As for politics, there is a danger -- especially if OCF (a goat supporter as a Navy vet) squares off against Oldkatz (a mule supporter as an Army vet). For the record, I support goats and mules. :-)

Last Edited: 7/11/2017 7:24:46 PM by Joe McKinley

L.C.
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RE: In other news..WMU replaces employees with goats

Posted: 7/11/2017 8:50:11 PM

Joe McKinley wrote:

Our neighborhood Facebook page blew up recently with hundreds of posts about a goat which escaped from somewhere and has been on the lam for the better part of two weeks. Theories on where it came from and why. Folks trying to mobilize a crew to try to hem it in. Suggestions about who can/should help capture it safely and why. Dozens of sightings. Arguments about what type of goat or whether it was actually a sheep. Hilarious and unifying.

As for politics, there is a danger -- especially if OCF (a goat supporter as a Navy vet) squares off against Oldkatz (a mule supporter as an Army vet). For the record, I support goats and mules. :-)

That reminds me of a story from 1974, in Chicago. One day a kangaroo was sighted, and no one had a clue where it came from. Since Kangaroos can travel 50-100 miles a day, the next day he would be sighted far, far from the prior location. There was rampant speculation that people were just imagining that they had seen a kangaroo, or that it was really just a deer, until one day a couple policemen cornered it in an alley - one ended up in the hospital as it reared back on its tail and kicked the heck out of the policeman's shins. After that no one questioned the fact that there really was a kangaroo on the loose in Chicago.

It took a couple weeks, but eventually they figured out that it had escaped from the Davenport zoo, a couple hundred miles away. It made for a lively news story every night. No doubt there were some false reports of sightings mixed in with the genuine ones.

There is a mention of the story in wikipedia, but it implies there was no kangaroo, and there is no mention of the policeman's injuries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_kangaroo
This article gives more details, and does mention the injuries:
http://www.dark-stories.com/eng/kangaroos_in_the_united_s...
And here's another article on "phantom kangaroos":
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/does-america-have-a-...
None of the articles mentions that the Chicago kangaroo was from Davenport.

As for military goats, I remember watching the changing of the guard in Quebec, Canada, at the old fort, and the ceremony somehow involved a goat, which gold horns, as I recall. I don't recall anyone complaining at the time that the ceremony should involve one less goat and one more person, though.

Last Edited: 7/11/2017 9:08:01 PM by L.C.

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RE: In other news..WMU replaces employees with goats

Posted: 7/11/2017 9:50:24 PM

This made my day. Thank you LC

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RE: In other news..WMU replaces employees with goats

Posted: 7/12/2017 11:52:27 AM

Joe McKinley wrote:

Ohio69 wrote:

L.C. wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/y8qt3kx9

...Just trying to lighten things up with a humorous headline. Mods can feel free to move this to Siberia, since it could turn political.

Oh my. This is awesome. We need this thread to be as long as the thread about driverless cars/trucks and safety and job losses....

I'm also a Cub fan, so my feeling about goats is mixed! ;-)

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L.C.
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RE: In other news..WMU replaces employees with goats

Posted: 7/12/2017 2:28:21 PM

Ohio69 wrote:

L.C. wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/y8qt3kx9

...Just trying to lighten things up with a humorous headline. Mods can feel free to move this to Siberia, since it could turn political.

Oh my. This is awesome. We need this thread to be as long as the thread about driverless cars/trucks and safety and job losses....

Sure, the goats are happy now, but how will they feel when the shoe is on the other foot, and they get replaced by autonomous robotic goats?

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” ― Epictetus

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