A little bit more on the New York Observer's firing of the long-time cleaning lady: apparently the paper's owner, Donald Trump's maybe-soon-to-be son-in-law Jared Kushner, offered her the possibility of staying on-if she worked for half the pay! What a world. (Perhaps she was pulling down six figures? We suspect: no.) And also, who knew Dilbert was so totally on the money these days?
Thursday, May 7, 2009
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Dilbert is never, ever, right on the money. If he were, I would have offed myself long ago.
Wow, you guys have NYO Cleaning Lady Gate on LOCKDOWN.
Well, you know--gotta follow one's interests!
Don't ask me about the "stock market" though.
Maybe he could have kept her on half-time and hired her for the other half to clean his new multi-million dollar apartment.
And what an amazing deal-maker this guy is, negotiating pay rates with the cleaning lady! Even Donald Trupm had to start somewhere, I guess.
Charitable question: Is it possible that she wanted to retire and he just couldn't bear to let her go? And so made the half-time, half-pay offer?
That storyline has not yet emerged in any of the conversations I have heard! But I will fish for it.