Grindelwald is surrounded with flunkies with no personality or purpose.
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Truly, you should always beware of flunkies wearing python skin.
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They became his flunkies and minions, his accomplices and his defenders.
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Trump will never have trouble surrounding himself with ambitious and unscrupulous flunkies.
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For properly programmed robot flunkies, the most recondite experimental schemes are a doddle.
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They are not his political flunkies who exist to validate presidential political fantasies.
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Flunkies at the festival today — they're called apprentices — don't get yelled at much.
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This does mean that the president's flunkies and allies are in a tough spot.
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After that, patsies and flunkies like Price and Elliot are superfluous to Whiterose's needs.
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A couple of Patriots flunkies were hanging around, but they were too emotional to talk.
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He can bumble around engagingly while flunkies work out how to turn his instincts into policies.
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Big important people's flunkies carry their bags, which are ostentatiously passed round, not through, the scanner.
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" "I wonder if [Kelly] and her flunkies have written their scripts about my debate performance tonight.
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The response to Emelianenko's criticism was fierce, coming from Kadyrov flunkies and even Emelianenko's fellow fighters and promoters.
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We've created a whole class of flunkies that essentially exist to improve the lives of actual rich people.
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All the while, a retinue of aides cheered and laughed like the nervous flunkies of a Mob capo.
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We were surrounded by a bunch of flunkies that had no idea about what kind of music background were coming from.
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Negan's militia loses ground this week, with many low-level flunkies landing themselves in custody while their leader remains at large.
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He wallows in the gutter with his cronies, flunkies, lackeys, and suck-ups, but he can't drag the whole country there with him.
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He also thinks underqualified would-be flunkies such Moore and former Godfather's Pizza impresario Herman Cain are the ones to help him do it.
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After another half an hour Mr Putin himself and a couple of flunkies made their grand entrance and deposited themselves in the empty seats.
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Trump, his children and his flunkies will not come to Graham's aid if he's sinking, and make no mistake, that is where he's morally headed.
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The taxonomy gets more sophisticated as these thankless roles split into five archetypes: the duct tapers, the goons, the flunkies, box tickers and task masters.
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We're told both Jeeps set Whiteside back over $125k each ... for all you math flunkies, that's more than a quarter-mil on the 2 whips.
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Others say that the outside world's binary view of Chinese Catholicism — of loyalist underground church members and government flunkies — misses more subtle realities on the ground.
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They were more or less flunkies for a bully whose top priorities have always been an immense fortune and immeasurable celebrity, though not necessarily in that order.
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Basterds let its characters kill off Hitler a little early and end World War II. Hollywood has Rick unwittingly intercept the Manson flunkies, which changes their path.
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But by the end of the warm afternoon the flunkies had given up trying to corral the unruly hacks, and colleagues were sitting, leaning and chattering everywhere.
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They speak, though mostly to compel Hector's flunkies Nacho and Arturo to talk to their boss, per the doctor's suggestion that words will stimulate Hector's stroke-addled brain.
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The flunkies on stage literally re-did the iPhone 8 presentation during the iPhone X time slot, reminding the audience about features they had hurried through 20 minutes prior.
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Still, when you consider the events of the last 12 months together, it becomes clear how relentlessly justice has ground forward, and how much Trump and his flunkies have lost.
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Michonne and Rosita reappear for the first time since the season premiere, fooled by a loudspeaker that ushers the episode into a shootout with a roving band of Negan's flunkies.
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Trump has now surrounded himself with yes-men and is running his Cabinet like he used to run his real estate company -- as a one-man show surrounded by flunkies.
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And, no matter how righteous their disdain for the allies and flunkies of authoritarian strongmen may be, they need to do their best to peel off some members of the ruling regime.
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Deol seems especially out of depth playing an extortionist in suburban Delhi, where he and his gang of flunkies force homeowners to sell apartments at dirt-cheap prices by threatening them at gunpoint.
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He wanted to wear a suit rather than the "terrorist gear" he was initially given because he felt the character didn't need a costume when he had flunkies to do the dirty work.
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Ms. Hunter, being an actress and not a satirist, imbues these myopic flunkies with so much dignity and humanity that we are forced to take their legitimacy for granted, regardless of historical accuracy.
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"Everything will be negotiated and discussed not with flunkies but with people who will have dinner with Putin and discuss the issues and get a go-ahead," Sater wrote to Cohen on Nov. 23.
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He also argues that while executives in the Reagan/Thatcher era prided themselves on how many low-level workers they could lay off, they then hired lots of management flunkies to enhance their status.
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Last seen in Atlanta during the first season, Morales makes an unexpected return as one of Negan's flunkies, and their shared past doesn't seem to count for much when he's holding Rick at gunpoint.
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Jones and his theorist flunkies, alongside many, many YouTubers, fanned the flames of this theory and, at times, suggested people they should investigate it themselves—some people, as they always do, took this too far.
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This winds up creating substantial levels of second-order bullshit as flunkies pony up an outlandish series of pro-Trump claims — claims that are then echoed in a large and vibrant ecosystem of pro-Trump media.
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Once-eager presidential enablers have turned on one another with feral abandon as the facts of what Mr. Trump's flunkies were doing in Ukraine have become clear and the impeachment investigation moves into its public phase.
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The umbrella of the title refers, of course, to the Penguin's signature prop, which we see him carrying in the opening scene while flanked by two new flunkies, signaling his continuing evolution toward his supervillain destiny.
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Taking advantage of the distraction, Dom yanks the knife from her own chest, slashes a Dark Army goon in the Achilles tendon, grabs his gun and kills Janice and her flunkies in a matter of seconds.
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In particular, the episode's choice to have the corporate flunkies at Smithereen be an obstacle to direct communication between Chris and Billy seems predictable from the outset; but as it plays out, it also seems ludicrous.
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Although Cal (as he's known to his staff of managers and flunkies) lives in what is supposed to be extreme fabulousness — he has a life-size portrait of Michael Corleone in his living room — he is miserable.
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But despite criticism from some of the most important leaders in the country, including multiple first ladies, Trump and his flunkies continue to falsely state that the president's hands are tied and blame Democrats for the horrific practice.
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As Trump flunkies, you are eliminating anything the previous administration touched, you are marginalizing scientists and experts, and you are blithely disabling the agency so special interests can move in and snatch public lands out of the public's hands.
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Saudis are used to seeing their leaders don the formal national dress of white robe, chequered head dress and black gauzy cloak for visits overseas, and to images of them flanked by a large entourage of flunkies and fellow princes.
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Executives who pride themselves on downsizing use the money saved to fill their offices with feudal retinues of useless flunkies The more a company's profits are derived from finance rather than from actually making and selling anything, the more this tends to be true.
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He also thinks underqualified would-be flunkies such as former Godfather's Pizza impresario Herman Cain and right-wing economics pundit Stephen Moore are the ones to help him do it, floating both of them for open seats on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
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It's not at all uncommon for the same executives who pride themselves on downsizing and speed-ups on the shop floor, or in delivery and so forth, to use the money saved at least in part to fill their offices with feudal retinues of basically useless flunkies.
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With Phantom Boy, screenwriter Gagnol returns to many of the tropes he played with A Cat In Paris: a mournful kid, a spunky animal sidekick, a criminal mastermind with dumb flunkies, a heroic cop — but spends more time establishing the characters' identities and making them distinct.
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Stalin seemed to make it to a natural end, but, as that terrific movie "The Death of Stalin" shows, he probably died sooner than he otherwise would have, because his flunkies were too terrified to do anything when they found him unconscious in a pool of his own piss.
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Killer robots and the need to stop them was also a hot topic at the recent Munich Security Conference, which brought together various politicians, bureaucrats, and wonks — along with their affiliated groupies and flunkies — to chat over expense-account cocktails about how things are going straight to hell.
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This sphere of bullshit ultimately ends up encompassing not only flunkies like Sean Spicer and Kellyanne Conway but aides such as Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein or National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, who entered Trump's service with sterling reputations yet inevitably find themselves fronting for one form or another of flimflam.
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So for me, The Last Jedi falls right behind The Empire Strikes Back and maybe the original film in providing the thrills and the heartbreak, the heroism and villainy, and the romance and betrayal that makes these films such a treat even for those of us who can't name all the planets or the alien species or even the Empire's flunkies.
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Almost anyone familiar with the interior life of large corporations, corporatized hospitals, newspapers, museums or universities, is aware of the burgeoning army of flunkies, box-tickers, consultants and managers whose sole task seems to involve managing other managers, and endless tiers of empire-building executives whose entire jobs seem to consist of coming up with performance metrics and flying off to meetings.
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President Barack Obama has once again invited numerous heads of state, top bureaucrats, and countless legions of flunkies to descend on some lucky city, as they've done every two years since 2010, to remind each other that it would be a really, really bad thing if terrorists got nukes, dirty bombs, or just about anything that glows in the dark.
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The funniest episode in the protective yet revealing new Hillary Clinton profile arrives when we learn that this sad, unemployed, 69-year-old lady is so desperate to keep her self-image alive that she still employs flunkies and retainers to treat her as though she actually were the president, or the secretary of state, or a president in waiting, or at very least the leader of the opposition.
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There are the "flunkies," who are hired to make other people feel important, like the publishing-company receptionist whose responsibilities were limited to filling the mint jar and answering the phone a few times a day; the "goons," who aggressively sell people things they don't need or want, like the call-center employees who pitch expensive credit reports to people who could get them free; and the "duct tapers," who exist only because of a "glitch" in an organization, like the woman who had to proofread research reports written by a statistician who was a terrible writer.
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The Weary Flunkies :10. The Exquisites (after Parnasso in festa) :11. Second Love Scene (after Rodrigo) :12.
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Maybe they are sorry for the flunkies and grovelers who, twisting the truth, issue such untrue praise.
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The Dawn of DNA is an adventure scenario that pits superheroic player characters against the insidious Doctor DNA and his European supervillain flunkies, the Errants.
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For example, "Sunday Salam" has been changed to "Friday Salam" to reflect the Islamic holy day. It also omits reference to Prince Ali having slaves by changing it to stating that Ali has "ten thousand servants and flunkies".
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Armed with a quarterstaff and a pet lion, noble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. When vicious mobster Johnny Nappa tries to muscle in on Samson's territory, Samson takes a stand against Nappa and his flunkies.
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Zack, known as in the Japanese version, is a nerdy and condescending student who is more or less one of Luna's flunkies. Zack seems to also have a problem with his height and tries numerous ways to get taller. Zack also appears to be afraid of heights. Zack usually gets information off of his own website, the "Zackpedia".
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The equivalent ladies would have been surrounded by flunkies and any other occupants chucked out. Geissmar's obituary in the Times is confusing at this point. The staff reporter says that she retired in 1944 but Thomas Russell, who was a member of the LPO committee says that she devoted the last ten years of her life to the orchestra until her final illness.
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Their kidnapper ("Wormface") is a horrible-looking creature who contemptuously refers to all others as "animals". Wormface has two human flunkies who assisted him in initially capturing the Mother Thing and Peewee, a preteen genius and the daughter of an eminent scientist. The Mother Thing speaks like birdsong, with a few musical notations. Kip and Peewee have no trouble understanding her.
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Tony laughs at this, but Feech asks if he can run the game once again. Tony allows him to supervise it and get 20% of its profits. At the card game, Feech's jokes and anecdotes annoy Tony but generate uproarious laughter from his crew. In an argument, Carmela has told Tony he has no friends, just "flunkies" who laugh at his jokes because he is the boss.
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Suman falls in love with Gajodhar, and a marriage is arranged in England when Dharam's older son Paramveer (Sunny Deol)—a loan-recovery agent for a bank—meets Khanna. Paramveer appears at Khanna's club as Joginder (Dude) Armstrong (Anupam Kher) arrives to take it over, and beats up Armstrong's flunkies and goons. Grateful, Khanna hires him as his manager. Paramveer then finds Dharam and Gajodhar trying to swindle his boss.
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Suman falls in love with Gajodhar, and a marriage is arranged in England when Dharam's older son Param(Sunny Deol)—a loan-recovery agent for a bank—meets Khanna. Param appears at Khanna's club as Joginder (Dude) Armstrong (Anupam Kher) arrives to take it over, and beats up Armstrong's flunkies and goons. Grateful, Khanna hires him as his manager. Paramveer then finds Dharam and Gajodhar trying to swindle his boss.
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Kip, Peewee, and the Mother Thing try to escape to the nearest human base by hiking across the lunar surface, but they are recaptured and taken to a base on Pluto. Kip is thrown into a cell, later to be joined by the two human traitors (Wormface's two "human flunkies"), who have apparently outlived their usefulness. Before they disappear, one mentions to Kip that his former employers eat humans. The Mother Thing, meanwhile, makes herself useful to their captors by constructing advanced devices for them.
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But for the household staff who had heard it > all many times, the midday meal was often a tedious affair. After the war, Albert Speer referred to the table talks as "rambling nonsense", adding: > [Hitler] was that classic German type known as Besserwisser, the know-it- > all. His mind was cluttered with minor information and misinformation, about > everything. I believe that one of the reasons he gathered so many flunkies > around him was that his instinct told him that first-rate people couldn't > possibly stomach the outpourings.
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Esquire paid nearly $5,000 in expenses over the duration of the story. Talese was uncertain whether the story could be finished, but ultimately concluded, in a letter to Harold Hayes, that "I may not get the piece we'd hoped for—the real Frank Sinatra but perhaps, by not getting it—and by getting rejected constantly and by seeing his flunkies protecting his flanks—we will be getting close to the truth about the man." Without Talese ever receiving Sinatra's cooperation, the story was published in April 1966.
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The comedy was produced from 1987 to 1988 by the now defunct Coestrellas company and produced and directed by Daniel Samper Pizano and Bernando Romero Pereiro. The series starred Carlos Benjumea as Don Camillo (Don Camilo in Colombian Spanish), Hector Rivas as Peppone (Pepón in Colombian Spanish), Luis Fernando Múnera as The Christ Voice, and the actors Diego León Hoyos and Manuel Pachón as Peppone flunkies. The series was broadcast on Mondays at 10:00 pm by Cadena 2 (Señal Institucional now) and rebroadcast by Señal Colombia in 2011 and Canal Uno in 2014.
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Ripburger offers to hire the Polecats to escort Malcolm to the meeting, but when Ben declines, he is knocked out by Ripburger's flunkies, Bolus (Jack Angel) and Nestor (Maurice LaMarche). Ben awakens to learn that the Polecats have been duped into escorting Malcolm, and that an ambush is planned for them further up the road. He tries to catch up, but his motorcycle has been sabotaged, resulting in a fiery crash. He is rescued by young photographer Miranda (Pat Musick) and taken to the town of Melonweed, where he is treated by a mechanic named Maureen (Kath Soucie).
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After quitting cold turkey, she developed a relationship with a young attorney named Alan Beam - unbeknownst to Lucy, one of J.R.'s flunkies - in 1979; they became engaged, and the engagement was broken when Lucy realized that she did not love Alan. For a short time after this engagement, she was involved with her literature professor, Greg Forrester, whom was married. Lucy married med student Mitch Cooper in 1981, but their goals in life differed; Mitch was from a poor background, but wanted to become a doctor, while Lucy had no goals. Lucy's wealthy background was a huge problem in their marriage, and after a few months of marriage they separated.
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that argues for the existence and societal harm of meaningless jobs. He contends that over half of societal work is pointless, which becomes psychologically destructive when paired with a work ethic that associates work with self- worth. Graeber describes five types of meaningless jobs, in which workers pretend their role is not as pointless or harmful as they know it to be: flunkies, goons, duct tapers, box tickers, and taskmasters. He argues that the association of labor with virtuous suffering is recent in human history, and proposes universal basic income as a potential solution.
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He surrounded himself with yes-men and flunkies and parked 12 new cars in his garage. He had a swimming pool but he couldn't swim, a tennis court but he didn't play the game, dairy cattle, which he admitted scared him, sheep and swine in his pastures. He owned a thoroughbred racing stable and raced his horses at Chicago's tracks, the horses draped in his family's ancient Celtic color scheme. One time, when he was ruled off the turf at one track for fixing the race, Druggan pulled his gun on the officials and promised to kill them all then and there, if they didn't change their ruling.
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According to historian William Ivy Hair, Long's political message: > ... would be repeated until the end of his days: he was a young warrior of > and for the plain people, battling the evil giants of Wall Street and their > corporations; too much of America's wealth was concentrated in too few > hands, and this unfairness was perpetuated by an educational system so > stacked against the poor that (according to his statistics) only fourteen > out of every thousand children obtained a college education. The way to > begin rectifying these wrongs was to turn out of office the corrupt local > flunkies of big business ... and elect instead true men of the people, such > as [himself].Hair (1996), p. 88.
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A review in The Times praises the book's academic rigor and humor, especially in some job examples, but altogether felt that Graeber's argument was "enjoyably overstated". The reviewer found Graeber's historical work ethic argument convincing, but offered counterarguments on other points: That the average British workweek has decreased in the last century, that Graeber's argument for the overall proportion of pointless work is overreliant on the YouGov survey, and that the same survey does not hold that "most people hate their jobs". The reviewer maintains that while "managerial feudalism" can explain the existence of flunkies, Graeber's other types of bullshit jobs owe their existence to competition, government regulation, long supply chains, and the withering of inefficient companies—the same ingredients responsible for luxuries of advanced capitalism such as smartphones and year-round produce.
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Stockman would crawl back to Shredder's side, but the damage would be done, as the Shredder began conspiring to rid himself of the turncoat scientist. The final full episode with Stockman as a human would be "Case Of The Killer Pizzas" where he helps the Shredder unleash killer monsters from Dimension X to attack the city. Stockman's big change occurred in the second-season episode, "Enter: The Fly", in which, after a failed attempt to generate a force field between the towers of the World Trade Center, the Shredder decided he required brawn to replace Stockman's brains. Instructing Krang to send his mutant flunkies Bebop and Rocksteady through a dimensional portal to Earth, the Shredder was warned that the dimensional interface was unstable, and required that someone be sent back through the portal to maintain the balance.
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Lloyd is a serious young middle-class guy on the make, who wants to marry the boss’ daughter. The problem is getting in to see the boss so that he can ask for her hand in marriage; the office is guarded by a bunch of comic, clumsy flunkies who throw everyone out who tries to get in. When Lloyd gets into the boss’ office, the latter uses trap doors and conveyor belts to expel him; Lloyd then goes to the costume company next door, tries to get in wearing drag (no success), and then in medieval armor – that works, since he bangs everyone over the head with his club, but then he finds out that the daughter has eloped with another suitor. Lloyd decides to be sensible and he settles for the cute switchboard operator (Daniels) instead.
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After brawling over a card game in the wharf area of New Orleans, a man named Kochak (Lewis Charles), suffering visibly from a flu-like illness, is killed by gangster Blackie (Jack Palance) and his two flunkies, Kochak's cousin Poldi (Guy Thomajan) and a man named Fitch (Zero Mostel). They leave the body on the docks, and later when the dead man, who carries no identification, is brought to the morgue, the coroner grows suspicious about the bacteria present in his blood and calls Lieutenant Commander Clinton Reed (Richard Widmark), a doctor and commissioned corps officer of the U.S. Public Health Service. Reed is enjoying a rare day off with his wife Nancy (Barbara Bel Geddes) and their son Tommy (Tommy Rettig), but decides to inspect the body. After careful examination, he determines that Kochak had "pneumonic plague," the pulmonary version of bubonic plague.
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The author interviewed on the premises of the book, June 2018 In Bullshit Jobs, American anthropologist David Graeber posits that the productivity benefits of automation have not led to a 15-hour workweek, as predicted by economist John Maynard Keynes in 1930, but instead to "bullshit jobs": "a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case." The author contends that more than half of societal work is pointless, both large parts of some jobs and, as he describes, five types of entirely pointless jobs: # flunkies, who serve to make their superiors feel important, e.g., receptionists, administrative assistants, door attendants # goons, who oppose other goons hired by other companies, e.g., lobbyists, corporate lawyers, telemarketers, public relations specialists # duct tapers, who temporarily fix problems that could be fixed permanently, e.g.
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