I've worked for IBM - Manpower on the Belo/Dallas Morning News Account among others. They always paid me late. Three weeks late one more than one occasion. I'd send my red-neck buddy named "Hoss" to the local Manpower office to get my paycheck Manpower said would be late "next week". They always coughed up the dough. I'm supposed to be paid every Friday. I was in my 3rd week with no paycheck and even Hoss couldn't get them to pay my ass. So I went to Melinda Blackburn, the IBM service delivery manager and threw my ID badge at the bitch, said a few derrogatory words about her obseity and walked out. She begged me to stay and she would run down my paycheck. I made her give me all of her cash and to be considered as "interest only". She got me all of my money, but it took an additional 3 weeks to recover all paychecks coming to me. Being resourceful, I started taking a 10 pound sledge hammer to IBM's client the Dallas Morning News' newspaper machines and you know what? There's usually $12-15 in these things on any given days! Sunday evenings, the tally would be $25-30! I made a pretty fair living popping those machines. No wonder the Dallas Morning News is going broke! I then started "buying" one paper and cleaning out the machines of their new newspapers and sell them to the foreign owned convenience stores. A little less messy that way.
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