Fired for laughing? That is hard to believe! Was her boss naked at the time?

I don’t have a good one, but a guy I worked with asked the big boss for a much needed raise once and he was told more money would just complicate his life. lol

Good Morning Ms. Alisyn,

I hope you had a wonderfu; birthday.

I was in the Military for 13 years, so “strange” doesn’t really cover it…lol

It wasn’t me, but I saw a Drill SGT have a man dig a 3×3x3 foot hole. When he finished it the Drill tossed in a cigarette butt and then told him to fill the hole.

A platoon sgt had the extire platoon walk around with an empty notebook for about 2 weeks. I do mean empty, not a piece of paper in it.

I hope you have a wonderful Day.

chas

How was your birthday weekened Alisyn?

Are you wearing any of your many, many gifts?

I can promise you being Southern that not one person south of the Mason Dixon Line would have a job if they banned telling tall tales, jokes and laughter at work. I walk into a place of bussiness where all the employees act as if their attending a Wake. I am not coming back to that place. That is why I like you Alisyn the you always manages to put a smile on my face or make me laugh. How long would Fox and Friends be on the air if the hosts did not laugh, joke and act like two year olds.

Good Morning Alisyn I hope you birthday was fun and you recieved lots of presents.

Of course, just another way for us to fall into line………….heads in the clouds.

There is a certain irony in that the same morning that there is a story about someone being fired for laughing at work that the breaking news story is the death of George Carlin, one of the funniest and ground breaking comics of the later half of the 20th century.
Not only famous for his “7 Words You Can’t Say on TV”, but also his “Stuff” routine that Alisyn mentioned this morning, and my favroite “Football vs Baseball”.
A woman fired for laughing at work and a man whose job was making people laugh. We need more Carlin’s in the world and fewer of the type of the woman’s boss.

She should have known there was a problem when she was hired and the boss was named Ebanezer Scrooge.

And for those wondering what the seven words are that you can’t say on tv, they are …… Oh wait the FCC is knocking at the door.

Alisyn thats crazy, maybe shes a happy person,
and she likes her job, whats wrong with that,
I rather be around a happy person then some miserable person anytime.
Sal

I bet she gets a lot of hits on that site from people looking for some groovy pottery! Wonder if the DEA has ever visited that one…….

Hi Alisyn. I saw the segment about Darra this morning and I have a suggestion for her. She should apply with catering companies in the Tampa area. They are always looking for experienced people, the pay is great, it,s always something different and if she is busy with her company she can just turn down that particular event and work the next one! P.S. Something is wrong with her web address - darra@potpeddler.com

Thanks,
Joseph Patterson
Orlando

I worked in the child care industry and have many examples of totally wierd requests from a very very poor owner of the school.

We were setting my the classroom for the school year to start. They run a summer program here and then change over to school. The teacher in the other room was not coming back until a week after school begins. I was desperately trying to get my room ready after a HUGE mess. She came in and said “If you see someone from the regulating agency come in—–run in here and tell me so I can get people in the rooms so that we are in compliance. ” This meant her, the kitchen lady, etc. We were supposed to have 1 person for every 10 kids. Sometimes 1 person had 40 and these were 3-5 years olds.

I no longer work there…and that is the BEST laugh ever in the workplace. Sometimes people laugh when they are nervous. Laughter is the best medicine I read somewhere.

Wonder if there is more to the story—as most times there is.

Ted Nugent is on the Board of Directors of the NRA (National Rifle Association) …

I had a boss tell me that I was too nice & friendly to the clientele … Err, waitaminute … That makes it sound like I was a … I laughed off what he said as I was the one always saving his asp from losing the clients …

morning Alisyn….hope you had a great birthday!
hi chas and marshall…

Hey Alisyn,

I was in West Palm Beach all last week. It’s hot there!

My boss told me to stop blogging with Alisyn Camerota!!! Can you imagine?????

Pat

I once had my boss’s wife tell me I wasted too much time joking with the other workers.
When she did that it was 4pm, she had just shown up at work, after playing tennis at the country club. I had been there since 5am when her husband, the boss/owner, also came in. (He had already gone home for the day.) Oh, and I was off the clock at the time, but that didn’t stop her from asking me to do something for her.
But I can’t say she was completely in the wrong. I was 19, and the other workers at that time of day were the high school girls, that just happened to all be cheerleaders. Now you know why I was hanging around work even when I was clocked out.

Is is possible for Fox and Friends to post the Youtube website of the singing dog on the Fox and Friends link. I’ve searched for it and was unable to find it.

Cheers from Oz

Happy post birthday Monday Alisunshine,
Laughter is indeed the best medicine and working at a bar, people are wanting medicine. People who laugh live longer I think and are nicer to be around. I hope we are stuck with you for a long long time sweety.

Good Morning Everyone
So you are a twin was it a surprise or did your parents know ahead of time?
My older brothers are twins (fraternal) and in 1949 I guess they couldn’t for sure tell that a pregnacy was to be a multiple birth. It was a big surprise! Then in 1951 my parents got another big surprise when my brother and I were born (again we are fraternal). My parents were told then that my mother would always have multiple births and that the next time the chances are that it would be triplets. My Dad informed them that there wouldn’t be a next time.
I do not remember what my older brothers weighed in at but at 10 lb 14oz that baby weighed more than my twin and I together

When I got my first job in the business world, my boss gave me a book on how to dress properly. The cowboy hat and pigtail were apparently not acceptable.

18 years later, we’re wearing shorts and flip flops. Not that I mind it, but my how things change!

thanks Alisyn….I ‘ll be watching!

Alisyn, I hope you had a great birthday weekend!

And may I say, “orange” you looking beautiful this morning!

Interesting when you think about that we, as a society, like to think we are more “sophisticated” today and more “tolerant” than back when Carlin first had his “7 words” routine, but today we still have those 7 words that can’t be said, but many more have been unofficially added due to political correctness and fear of offending someone.

Decent people can suffer for the sake of a good laugh.

I remember Carlin from a comedy album he did in the late 19602, when I was a teenager.
He was….Al Sleet, the Hippy Dippy Weathman….it was hilarious! He will be missed.

in the late 1960’s

Okay, I remember one, but not sure it is all that funny. When I was about 19 I was applying for a job at a fast food place and the manager was giving me a tour. We were at his desk area and he was explaining this and that and I kept noticing this red light above his desk flashing. He noticed that I was distracted by the thing so he told me not to worry, because it was connected to a button out front and the cashiers were all the time bumping it with their knees. About that time the very large cook came running by us screaming, “He is going to kill us all!” Then two guys wearing ski mask came busting through the door and told us all to hit the floor.

Now for the crazy part, after it was all over the manager asked me if I was still interested in the job!

When I worked at the social Security Administration in Baltimore (Many years ago), I was also told to stop laughing so much. I was disturbing ither people. But in a bar?? Give me a break. People go there to feel better (Tequila) and have a better time than they are having at home. My guess is that her boss had other issues. Happy Birthday, Alisyn and Hello to Audra!

Okay — second try — why do these comments sometimes “take” and sometimes not??

In brief — without knowing the entire context of the story, or at least hearing the other side, I can’t really say if this laughing thing is as ridiculous as it sounds. Perhaps she was fraternizing with one small group of customers to the point where she was neglecting other customers, or neglecting the waitress station, or placing the brunt of the bar work (which includes cleaning, replenishing stock, etc.) on other bartenders. You never know. She seems like a nice person, however, so good luck to her in her job search.

I haven’t been asked to do anything strange, but I have seen some terrible workplace behavior that’s gone unchecked, so I understand how annoying small things can get, or even how they can help create a “hostile” work environment.

I’ve seen one woman, a receptionist, line up her religious icons and pray to them every morning in a very overt style — including repeated kissing of the icons — and this is at a reception desk!

I’ve seen one attorney at a small firm I worked at behave in such a disgusting and sleazy manner that women used to run into the ladies’ room when they saw him coming. He was given to open leering and giggling at people, he spent much of his day soliciting gossip from the secretaries and billing clerks who were given to that sort of thing, and then would make sure he got a chance to repeat it loudly and pointedly in front of the person they’d all been gossiping about.

I’ve seen smokers take break after break after break, calling their smoking friends so they could coordinate their breaks, to the point where they would rack up one and a half to two hours of paid free time by the end of the day. They’d then push their unfinished work on the non-smokers to make up for it.

So, maybe after working at a place where bad behavior went unchecked, I appreciate the other side to stories such as these.

Hi Jimmy.

Hey Pat, I know what you mean. People are always coming by and expecting me to work instead of spending time here.

Some people…

chas

Alisyn do your new jammies have feeties?

Morning Jimmy and Chas. Jimmy did you get any rest over the weekend, or were your eyes glued on that new baby?

Alysyn….When I was a mere lad, I worked for a guy whose mantra was…’a happy worker is a non-worker…’ The sad part was…..he TRULY believed it! Ya know where that job was? US Postal Service! Yup…he was one of those disgruntled guys!

Great show…keep up the good work!

Phil

Hmmmmmm……… I’ve seen non-smokers spend 30 minutes in the break room on a 10 minute break complaining about smokers taking a 5 minute break outside in the rain. Some people just aren’t happy unless they can be biotchin’ (is that one of the 7 words?) about other people.

Morning Marshall.

Perhaps people need to consider “Unions”. That kind of puts a stop to managment using their power in a kingly fashion.

Have a great day Ali.

Alisyn,

Shouldn’t Darra be concerned that her website (thepotpeddler.com) might draw the wrong type of people? And possibly scrutiny from law enforcement?

Hope you had a wonderful birthday ! I assume it was your 29th.

When I was on active duty in the military I was attending the NCO Academy back in the middle 1980’s. When we went on break for 10 minutes of every hour we were required to make sure that if someone used the water fountain that it was wiped clean and no water spots were left behind.

After one particular break we asked the instructor for that hour what the rationale was behind this particular behevior. Mind you we had several other little oddities that were required such as checking each others uniforms for loose threads, which we called ropes. Well, the instructor tried to pass off to us that since we were in from all around the world the idea behind this was to prevent us from spreading diseases that we all might be carrying. We were in San Angelo, TX and yeas we had people in from Europe and the Pacific as well as stateside.

All he had to do was tell us that it was part of the game. It was just another way of teaching discipline. We were all professionals at this time in our career with the majority of being middle level managers looking for promotion into the upper tiers in the non-commissioned world.

Nothing wrong with playing a few games once in awhile but for that instructor to brush off the real reason left him an unpopular instructor to say the least. What we needed was the truth. We were big boys and could handle it.

Unfortunatley as I have seen in my 18 + years since I retired that there are a lot of people out here that can’t accept the truth.

Gary T
San Antonio, TX

Good Morning Alisyn,

Hope you had a great birthday! You deserve it!

Well, Marshall, the official breaks for workers who get those are on the clock, so that doens’t happen in this office. Smoking breaks, however, are not. They’re on the honor system. Some people are honorable about them, and some not.

I loathe dishonorable people, and users and slackers and lazy lay-abouts and people who abuse the leeway given to them (to support, I might add, a disgusting, filthy, piggy, weak-willed addiction) are dishonorable people.

You go to work to do a job. You take money for your time. If you’re only there to get the money and find as many ways as possible to avoid doing the work, then you’re a lazy, selfish, shifty, dishonorable person. If you make more work for other people in the process of finding ways for you to do less work yourself, then you’re creating a hostile work environment.

I’m quite happy, thanks, and I don’t actally spend much time at all complaining about people. My comments here are in response to the situation being discussed.

But, hey, let’s do it your way — let’s all show up at work, laugh, joke, have a bunch of smokes, waste time, etc., and then all whine and complain when our raises aren’t what we expected, or when smoking priviledges are taken away altogether. Because some people just aren’t happy unless they’re complaining about the big bad boss who expects people to earn the money he’s paying them.

I certainly hope you are not at work right now!

good one marshall!!!

Gee Nora. You are just a ray of sunshine this morning.

For someone that says she doesn’t spend much time complaining about people, your posts sure have been focused on that.

A big Happy Birthday from one of your fans who think you should be the main squeeze between the guys — Steve and Brian.

Question for you. What happen to ED Hill — is she off the air?

Also, another favorite of mine is Greg Kelly and where is he — is he off the schedule?

A fan wants to know.

Somebody got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning I see.

I always thought a happy worker was a productive worker.
And I have had bosses who thought they could critcize you and belittle you into doing a better job. A little praise goes a lot further.

I’m glad I see the humor in most all situations and can start a week on a higher note. I am also glad that I am very proficient at my job and can make things happen without being a tyrant with a frozen grimace on my face for 10 hours a day.

I suspect that Ms. Nora is one of the people that helped push smokers outside to begin with and now complains that they go outside.

No audio on the ASS, again this morning.

It all makes sense now. I see Gretchen, Alisyn and Peter laughing. That is now not allowed so the audio was turned off so we can’t hear it.

Yes, it was an armed robbery and petrifying at the time, but a lot of nervous laughter afterward.

I had just moved to Atlanta, GA and was living in a boarding house so I kept every cent I had to my name in my wallet. The robbers had us all stretched out on the floor face down with our arms extended over our heads. They went around and got purses and wallets from everyone and made the manager open the safe. For some reason they left before getting to me so I was spared. I got out of that place and never looked back!!!

I used to work with a couple of smokers at a Vet clinic. We worked at the reception desk. We ALL needed to get away sometimes. When I felt I was going to reach over the counter and strangle a client—–I would say I am going for a smoke break. I would calm down and we all covered for eachother.

It made for a very congenial workplace instead of being mean and petty about it.

That’s because you are sensable and reasonable person Eileen. Morning.

Whoever is in charge of the ASS must not be up for job review soon.

Wed- The ASS was not streamed live. Only available later on website.

Thur- Audio off for first part of ASS. When posted first part was edited out.

Fri- ASS showed fine. But was never posted later on the website.

Mon- NO audio on ASS.

Maybe time to change the intern that is in charge to someone that can get it right?

Marshall, I’m a freelancer now. I no longer have to work around the lazy, the stupid and the slow. I’m infinitely more productive, make twice the money, and work when and where I please. It’s a great gig. You should try it sometimes — beats having to work for someone else.

Why are you so sensitive here? All I’m doing is providing some perspective. You all want to complain about bosses, but should anyone dare to point out that sometimes bosses have a point, OMIGOD, all they’re doing is complaining about people!!!

Anyways, I reallize the majority of commenters here are merely a bunch of, er, men (and I use the term loosely…) who’d rather spend all day hotchatting Alisyn than focusing on the topic at hand.

You can commence oozing all over her now.

There’s no real point to these comboxes anymore.

Ta!

I guess she told you Marshal….lol

I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want her as a boss. Way to many anger issues….lol

maybe there is a reason she works on her own….hmmmmmmmmm

Once I had the choice of a Christmas bonus or a Breast augmentation. It was a time when money meant a lot to me, I found it so insulting. As soon as I had a chance I left the company.

Well, I think that explains all the hostility.

Many, many moons ago had a boss give us a pep talk about not getting raises that year, but we should all be happy we had jobs. The real kicker was he had to send it on video tape because he was in France with his wife shopping for antiques.

Doobie, doobie, doo ~~~~~~ Just oozin’ and smoozin’ with Alisyn on a sunny Monday morn ~~~~~

Hi Nora,
I dont have a problem when workers laugh and joke while their working,
but if it that takes away from their work and someone else has to do their work, thats a different story.
Sal

Happy Belated Birthday Alysin May your good personality and humor carried on through your life.

I was once told by a superior, that I worked to fast, and that I should slow down, so as not to make the other workers look bad.

I wish I was working with Mike Malone when he was 19, All the cheerleaders., No wonder he stayed after work, I would of done that too. LOL

Good to see you Mr. Fahy. I hope the Mrs. is recovered by now.

How’s tha man bag working out for ya?….lol

chas

Holy Cow Kathy. Now of course my mind goes to what was offered to the men????? Nope—not going there…..hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

You guys lay off Nora! She’s entitled to her opinion, as we all are.

As to Emily’s comment, we’ve also noticed that Greg Kelly is MIA, and he was one of your best. So are several of our other favorites missing. The weekends have gotten really bad–with repeat shows from earlier in the week and some shows being shown 3 times in a day’s schedule. What gives? Our viewership has gone wwaaaayyyy down on the weekends! These opinions have been sent to your higher ups. It doesn’t seem to be helping as matters are getting worse–not better.

Otherwise, y’all have a great day and keep smiling–makes everyone wonder what you’re up to!

hi alisyn good morning its always great to see your smiling face on monday mornings glad fox doesnt tell you to stop smiling

good morning also to marshall, chas, jimmy and dog

Pat in New Port Richey

Morning Pat.

hey wizard how are you doing

pat new port richey

hi Pat

hi jimmy how are you today

ok….i just took Sun off from everything….watched tv on the sofa all day….

lori and i are at the other place

ok be right there

But Gwen, are we not allowed our opinion about Nina’s opinion?

I saw on a TV News blog that Greg Kelly has been doing some fill in work on the morning show at FOX 5 in NYC. FOX 5 is owned and operated by NewsCorp, the parent company of Fox News Channel.
Greg was working with Jodi Applegate on thier “Good Morning New York” Show. I don’t think it was a permanant thing but who knows. If he does well…..
FOX 5 is where Dari Alexander was transfered to when they needed an afternoon news anchor.

As for those asking about where is E.D. Hill. Her show has only been off a week. Not a lot of time for her to show up with a special or filling in on another show. She might have even taken last week as some vacation time.
Hopefully we will all be seeing her soon or at least hear word of what she is working on.
I know I miss her, and her show in the afternoons.

Good Morning Alisyn!
‘Saw the story about Darra. People usually go to a bar for entertainment, have fun and forget about the day they just had! Anyway, you gave out a website that will write out resume’s. I didn’t write the web address down (thinking I could remember it!!) Could you please let me know again the address for resumes?

Oh, and the 16yr old girls that want to have babies…are the Jaime Spears Fan’s? Maybe they want to follow suit with her.

Thank-you
Gemma Potts

Doing well Pat. All is well with you?

Hi Pat!

Gwen, of course everyone is entitled to an opinion, but everyone doesn’t have to like it! lol

Life is too d@mn short to get all caught up in things that mean little in the long run. A job eats up a very big portion of our lives and having some laughs along the way is a good thing.

Ms Nora, our records do not properly reflect this adjustment to your income and there are some serious questions about your claimed deduction for managing everyone else’s business. We will be in touch.

Ya know, Fox has a whole lot of talent that we only see in short snippets (haven’t you learned to hate that word this year?) and the airwaves are filled with repeats all night long! Why not use some of these people during those hours?

I also want Fox Business on my cable service because that branch of the network appears to be loaded with babes!!!!!!!!