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Title: What a company to work for!
Post by: DrewKaree on May 16, 2005, 10:10:15 pm: Thought this was kinda funny....sad, but funny :)

Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:

* 29 have been accused of spousal abuse

* 7 have been arrested for fraud

* 19 have been accused of writing bad checks

* 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses

* 3 have done time for assault

* 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit

* 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges

* 8 have been arrested for shoplifting

* 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits

* 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

Can you guess which organization this is?

Give up yet?

It's the 535 members of the United States Congress. The same group that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.
Title: Re: What a company to work for!
Post by: GGKoul on May 16, 2005, 10:13:05 pm: Wasn't this posted earlier?? I remember reading this before.
Title: Re: What a company to work for!
Post by: Thenasty on May 16, 2005, 10:15:53 pm: wonder if some of the laws they created are when they were stoned or drunk ;D
Title: Re: What a company to work for!
Post by: Apollo on May 16, 2005, 10:56:55 pm: the drunk driving stat is the scariest of those
Title: Re: What a company to work for!
Post by: DrewKaree on May 16, 2005, 11:04:59 pm: I don't remember if it was posted or not.

It still bears repeating. I think there's a good chance a few things have gone on like that, Nasty
Title: Re: What a company to work for!
Post by: quarterback on May 16, 2005, 11:44:40 pm: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/congress.htm
Title: Re: What a company to work for!
Post by: Bones on May 17, 2005, 04:27:54 am: And these are the people given the honour of creating a better society & culture for your children??

We are no different here, corruption and power always seem to go hand in hand. :(
Title: Re: What a company to work for!
Post by: shmokes on May 17, 2005, 05:39:44 am: Meh....those numbers are just pulled out of a hat. Most of them are nearly meaningless even if they are true. But they're not true so....
Title: Re: What a company to work for!
Post by: Shape D. on May 17, 2005, 10:58:13 am: so is that 373 different people or are the numbers intermingled?

Im guessing some of thos folks are in more than on stat on that list.
Title: Re: What a company to work for!
Post by: quarterback on May 17, 2005, 11:26:04 am: Since people didn't seem to understand my previous post and/or don't know what 'snopes.com' is.

This is bogus.
Title: Re: What a company to work for!
Post by: missioncontrol on May 17, 2005, 11:44:46 am: If it's on the internet it's got to be true
Title: Re: What a company to work for!
Post by: Crazy Cooter on May 17, 2005, 01:49:48 pm: What about the "Official business" thing where they supposedly can speed to work and not get ticketed?
Title: Re: What a company to work for!
Post by: ChadTower on May 17, 2005, 04:14:04 pm: Quote from: DrewKaree on May 16, 2005, 10:10:15 pm
It's the 535 members of the United States Congress. The same group that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.

Dude, when did Ted Kennedy become a Congressman?
Title: Re: What a company to work for!
Post by: DrewKaree on May 17, 2005, 11:11:05 pm: I'm sure if you looked, you could find a large portion of that list and a member it would apply to, which is the general point.

NOBODY remembers the rubber check writers? IIRC, there was someone from IL bounced like his bad checks!

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n7_v44/ai_12127933#continue (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n7_v44/ai_12127933#continue)
Title: Re: What a company to work for!
Post by: danny_galaga on May 18, 2005, 08:55:42 pm: "all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" - Napoleon the pig (from animal farm by george orwell)

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