Wouldn't that be true of any leader who surrounds themselves with competency?
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Have you considered investing in gold?Can Pete Buttigieg have it all?
He has been out since mid-August with ships backed up in ports and our trucking industry not being able to keep up. We don't need to tiptoe around it, this administration is dropping the ball all over the place. They are being given latitude by the press and by people on this board because they are Democrats. They have been incompetent on all levels: COVID response has been neurotic and unhelpful, multiple foreign policy gaffes (Afghanistan and the row with France over submarines being recent examples), energy policies that reduced domestic energy production only to turn around and beg for help from OPEC and Russia because of increasing prices, inflation that has things like chicken and beef up 15 to 20% in cost year over year, extended unemployment benefits in a labor market starved for labor, Transportation secretary MIA while our supply chain is breaking down.
These guys suck.
So should I have put in for leave this morning while taking a Zoom call and fishing in my kayak? One thing we've learned during COVID is that many people can successfully blend work time with family time.
maybe. the guy is new to the job. how adroit at it can he be after eight months. if the reports are accurate to many it looks like a guy sitting home making 250,000 a year on the taxpayer's backs during a pandemic. not good optics.
Umm there is no federal trucking fleet. There is no federal shipping fleet.Can Pete Buttigieg have it all?
He has been out since mid-August with ships backed up in ports and our trucking industry not being able to keep up. We don't need to tiptoe around it, this administration is dropping the ball all over the place. They are being given latitude by the press and by people on this board because they are Democrats. They have been incompetent on all levels: COVID response has been neurotic and unhelpful, multiple foreign policy gaffes (Afghanistan and the row with France over submarines being recent examples), energy policies that reduced domestic energy production only to turn around and beg for help from OPEC and Russia because of increasing prices, inflation that has things like chicken and beef up 15 to 20% in cost year over year, extended unemployment benefits in a labor market starved for labor, Transportation secretary MIA while our supply chain is breaking down.
These guys suck.
Pete is demonstrating more us/them. No Difft than flaunting mask rules. Go to any local employer and take 3 months off after 8 months on the job. Within 2 months of flma running they'll find a reason to fire ya
He announced his twins the first week of September so I'm not sure where this three months off is coming from (other than saying it was August and counting Aug, Sept and Oct).
Is there much difference between ... what's his pronoun?... being off 3 months and not being off 3 months? Can we actually tell the difference? OR is he just someone WE pay 1/4 mill because he ran for pres once?
3 months is what FMLA allows. Less public isn't the point. The crisis is only tangentially the point. If you are paid to work then work. If you are in his position being paid by us and working for us than you really need to work. This bottleneck is impacting people's lives. Millions of people. It's selfish as hell imo. Even if he can't directly impact it make a showing that you are there trying.
Umm he wasn't off for three months, ie 91 days.
I guess I'm struggling on what he is hindering that could be fixed as again, this is a private sector problem on a global scale.
Is port cargo capacity part of the infrastructure bill.? Sounds like it should be.
If Buttigieg wants to act as a general employee, he should resign the cabinet and apply. We have never seen a transportation crisis like we have now. Buttigieg needs to be on station.
I was responding to the perception of the millions in CoH's post, but i do agree Pete has a critical political issue here for his future.
Again what he can or can't do isnt the point imo. If there were a crisis I would be in the office 18 hours a day. I might be on this website 16 hours of it but I would be in the office. Showing everyone I'm here and I'm ready and I'm trying to come up with something.
And what would you suggest he be doing? What steps can DOT take to alleviate this situation?
What is the effect of the Green New Deal on which trucks can actually pick up freight at the ports?
I was following until the data was coming from something like "Panjiva". Can't trust any bastages that have that naming convention/ origination. Ya think imperial measurement system is stupid compared to metric, Try following Indian numerical logic... nope nope nope.The Absolute Simplest Explanation for America’s Supply Chain Woes
Snarled ports. Empty store shelves. Panicky Christmas shoppers. It all flows from one issue.slate.com
Are you trying to come off as a racist? Like, I get people who are racist and try to hide it and get mad when people call them racist, but a post like this just screams "I'm a racist, and I want you to know." You can't possibly be doing that on purpose, can you?
Just off the top of my head
hmmm Good question Goat. If I have experienced a very particular set of results, and have identified a very specific set of disingenuous results and mannerisms from a specific set of people from a specific area of the world, over the last 9 years continuously, with the same repeating results, does that make me racist or does that make me someone who studies the inputs of an experiment vrs the outputs and then form a conclusion?
Thanks for this, as a lifelong retail executive it touches on why buying overseas is so damn cheap but it's volitile.The Absolute Simplest Explanation for America’s Supply Chain Woes
Snarled ports. Empty store shelves. Panicky Christmas shoppers. It all flows from one issue.
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Unless you are a CEO, then they MIGHT give you a golden parachute.
That is true but I'll bet you won't see a captian of a ship leave the ship while it's slowly sinking.
I really think it is a generational thing and how you're raised kind of thing. I can't imagine taking 12 weeks FMLA and expecting my employer to pay it. I can't imagine really ever taking more than a week off. And I do get that is why things historically have been so much harder for women.
I was more responding to the idea of "leaving the ship while it's sinking" in NPT's post to which you'd responded. I've seen it at both large and mid sized companies. Not so much at smaller companies (mostly family owned so, where are they gonna go anyway. Those folks are kinda forced to deal with whatever problem arises).
