Mark’s Soap Box

This clown thinks that the rules don’t apply to everyone. He is not too big on personal responsibility; unless he can use it to beat some poor business person over the head with it. He is the typical lefty hypocrite in the media.

Are all Starbucks employees irresponsible?

A bimbo who works at Starbucks — yes I know that is not very limiting — is 9 months pregnant. She failed to get the requisite number of hours — 240 — for a quarter to maintain her insurance. Turko says it’s Starbucks’ fault that she is 45 minutes short. He then pointed out that she had vacation time. He doesn’t say that she could use it for the 45 minutes, just makes you think that it could be.

Turko believes it’s the responsibility of Starbucks to make sure that a selfish whiner — aka employee, aka partner as Starbucks calls them I believe — , who got knocked up instead of being responsible should get special treatment. He believes that Starbucks is wrong for enforcing it’s policy, because “it’s not fair” that the preggo bimbo didn’t use her head and now — once again — is ‘in a pickle.’

So what is Turko’s deal? How does he do, what he does? What’s his criteria for stories? Are there any? Seems so …

So, then, what calls merit his attention? While each situation varies, Turko says a faultless victim, a clear sense of wrongdoing, a topic that will appeal to a broad audience, a subject that can be captured on film, and timing all combine to make a stranger’s problem worthy of a Turko File. He also likes it when a caller has exhausted every option before turning to him for help.

… or not.

pregnant + irresponsible = free health care

So a bimbo who gets knocked up, doesn’t pay attention to her work hours while KNOWING SHE IS PREGNANT AND NEEDS THE INSURANCE — you see the “finance” is not providing any, he seems to be able to provide only sperm and spurious nights of lust, and a prop for fawning during the story — decides that 1 week before her baby is due — yes she is due on the 25th of July — calls up Turko to get saved. How is that a “faultless victim?” How so? Where is the “clear sense of wrongdoing?” Not here that is for sure. The issue — health insurance — does appeal to the public, only because it’s been bandied about by the media for years.

What Turko does exactly is use the power of television to force action. Whether it’s a misread water meter or a dishonest contractor, Turko uses negative publicity to bully the bad guys into correcting their misdeeds.

The only good part about this story is that Turko was not able to get a resolution, something he relishes. He was told they were reviewing the issue, because she filed an appeal . Starbucks it seems is not as impressed by him, as he is. My guess is that they are not going to be too lenient, since they are about to lay off thousands of workers and close 600 stores.

Neither am I, for that matter.

UPDATE: It seems that Starbucks has become even more gutless than I thought. They caved on the insurance for the irresponsible pregnant “woman”. Turko is claiming — indirectly — that he accomplished this, even though the “woman” had filed an appeal before contacting Turko. He says they did the right thing, I say they just taught her that being irresponsible is ok and the rules DON’T apply to everyone, mostly aggrieved minorities. Typical liberals.

I’m Turko, but who am I?

He seems confused on this point.

Although he considers himself a native Texan, Turko was born in Syracuse N.Y. in 1955 and spent his early days on the move, attending 13 schools before dropping out of an Ashville N.C. high school in the early 1970s. At 19, he struck out on his own hitchhiking across the country as one of the “wandering hippie folk.” During his travels, he spent time on an Indian reservation in the Dakotas, where the young Catholic, who says he has Indian blood, experienced a different kind of religion.

Speaking on behalf of all real Texans, you ain’t it bub! Graduating from UT does not make you a Texan — I don’t like picking of fellow Longhorns, but … –, no more than it made Walter Cronkite — or you — a journalist. Anyone else think the Indian blood is bull-crap? Yea, me also. He claims to be a Zen Buddhist. Well hell they all hail from Texas, don’t they? He also went to Law school at UT. That explains much.

Oh and you can’t see it in the picture, but he still sports a pony-tail. Bald men with pony-tails such a trustworthy bunch. Bald men with pony-tails that they hide, more trustworthy!

“I want to be taken seriously,” Turko says. “I want people to understand that I’m not just the guy that gets up there and yells ‘It ain’t right.’ I’m also the guy that gets some of these problems fixed.”

Yea, you and Obama.

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