TIM RICHARDSON -> ED HULETT wrote:
 TR> On 05-21-09, ED HULETT said to JOHN MASSEY:


 EH>>> That is hilarious. You think working at Micky D's is hard work?


 JM>> I worked for Micky D's in '68-'69. Back when the Arches were part of
 TR> the
 JM>> building.


 EH>> That's about when I was working for Puget Sound Vegetable Growers
 EH>> Association. Let me tell you, that is hard work. And dirty. It kept
 TR> me off
 EH>> the streets and taught me a good work ethic, though.


 JM>> If this is Otto's best hard work story, it's clear he does not know
 TR> what
 JM>> hard work is.


 EH>> And his silly claim that the rest of us couldn't handle that job is
 EH>> hilarious. I know of a couple elderly people who work for Micky D's
 TR> and a
 EH>> young man with Downs Syndrome who works for Arby's. They all do rather
 EH>> well. Ed


 TR> I drive about 30 people who are mentally retarded to and from their day
 TR> programs, many of whom have Downs Syndrome.


 TR> All but six (who are so badly physically and mentally handicapped they
 TR> probably don't know the day of the week most of the time), work at some
 TR> job or other.

And they gladly do the job Otto makes noises about being too hard.

 TR> Several of them work at fast food outfits, one of which is Arby's, another
 TR> works at an Oscar's. One or two work at Burger King and McDonald's.


 TR> The one at Oscar's, I was recently told, has been there 14 years. Two at
 TR> Burger King I already knew had been there about 15 or 16 years.

If they are like the young man I know, they are eager to work.

 TR> Many of the people I transport work in settings for a program
called `Partners
 TR> With Industry'. They are the ones who pack the small parts into the
 TR> boxes that go on store shelves for sale.

I used to work at an Internet provider that was in a large business center.
Not far from the office I worked in was a place that employed the
developmentally disabled (many of who were Downs Syndrome) doing exactly
that.

 TR> They put the screws, nuts, bolts, washers, etc into the plastic bags for home
 TR> -assembly products that the buyer assembles when they take the product out of
 TR> the box.


 TR> I know people who have spent more time doing yard work for a
living, than Otto
 TR> has ever spent `in' the Air Force, much less working at McDonald's!

I get a chuckle out of his claims about his work experience. Claiming no
one could handle the work he has done is hilarious.

Ed

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