Can it be that he lacks the moral character to hold a job once held by Nixon and the wisdom to hold a job once held by George W. Bush?
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The right to hold a job, you have earned it.
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I couldn't hold a job for a number of years.
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I am well-versed in the stereotype that millennials can't hold a job, but I couldn't help but wonder whether it was that I couldn't hold a job or that this job couldn't hold me.
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Cayuga Centers was planning to hold a job fair Monday for additional staff.
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Once Bonk was wheelchair bound, it was difficult for him to hold a job.
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Only then did I fully understand how many skills one needed to hold a job.
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They're more likely to abuse alcohol; they may not be able to hold a job.
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You hold a job during the week and still have enough time for your art?
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Worse health then sabotages their job performance and/or their ability to hold a job.
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Mr. Khudziayeu is battling pancreatic cancer and is unable to hold a job, while Mrs.
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Because of Alzheimer's, he can no longer hold a job, so he considers this his work now.
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Prior to the concert, you hold a job fair for veterans — tell me a little about that.
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When you list my experience to all the networks, it sounds like I can't hold a job.
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Wouldn't we be safer if they left more prepared to hold a job and follow the law?
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The youngest, Marianne, had finally straightened out enough to hold a job at an animal shelter near Burlington.
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She's an American-born citizen, but her epilepsy makes it impossible for her to drive or hold a job.
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I also became hostile to authority, making it difficult for me to work with others and hold a job.
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This allowed me to hold a job and also to be on Princeton High School's basketball and tennis teams.
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Though he frequented the employment agencies on Eldridge Street, he was unable to hold a job, Tianxia Chen said.
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Socially awkward, withdrawn from everyone except my grandmother, he was unable to hold a job or live by himself.
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His father drank and couldn't hold a job, his mother was overwhelmed, and he had siblings who slept in drawers.
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Yet how can we expect a person to win and hold a job if his bed is a park bench?
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He couldn't hold a job, and he became dependent on the family despite being among the oldest of their children.
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Now she'll be able to walk and run, go to school and hold a job, support herself and her country.
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He couldn't hold a job very long, would not shave or cut his hair and refused mental health help, she says.
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Most of the respondents want to hold a job in their later years to keep their mind sharp and stymie boredom.
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Think of someone with mental health problems, a drug addiction, and an inability to maintain family relationships or hold a job.
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I worked for the same boss for eight years, a long time for an inmate to hold a job in prison.
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"She suggested that I stay as a waitress and build a resume and perhaps hold a job for a while," she recalls.
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The couple welcomed their first daughter, Dallas, in 1988; Pat's substance abuse spiraled out of control, and he couldn't hold a job.
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"I mean, [Riley] wanted to be in the medical field, and now she can't even hold a job if she wanted to."
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My younger sister spent over a decade in prison for drug-related offenses and other crimes because she couldn't hold a job.
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Like other "work colleges," students agree to hold a job for 10 to 15 hours per week in exchange for free attendance.
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In poor countries, these kids often end up unable to walk, attend school or hold a job; frequently, they end up as beggars.
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She had been hospitalized on and off for severe depression over the last decade, I learned, and hadn't been able to hold a job.
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"I had stopped talking for periods of time, I was hospitalized, I couldn't hold a job, I couldn't leave the house," Ms. Scott said.
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At the basis on American capitalism lies the assumption that everyone should get and hold a job to become a productive member of society.
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But later in life, he spent years living out of cars in Alberta and British Columbia, unable to hold a job due to developmental disabilities.
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Hillary Clinton continued working at Rose Law Firm, making her the initial first lady of Arkansas to hold a job while her husband was governor.
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The new data underscores previous research that found Americans over 65 who are still working expect to hold a job until age 72, on average.
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Meanwhile, underemployment, where people hold a job below their level of training, runs between 85033 to 40 percent for military spouses, according to the report.
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We all get sad, but only some of us are unable to get out of bed, hold a job, or maintain relationships because of depression.
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A final factor is the increased number of women in the workforce: about 44% more hold a job now, across 12 developed countries, than in 1995.
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He tried to file a lawsuit against the company for violating a federal law that requires employers to hold a job for reservists who are deployed.
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My brother has never been able to hold a job for more than a short time and has never really understood how to deal with people.
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, already requires working-age adults without dependents or disabilities to consistently hold a job to benefit from the program.
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Work requirements did, of course, encourage the mostly poor single mothers of able body and mind who did not already hold a job to get one.
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The "match" problem is exacerbated by the time and energy that job searches demand; it can be hard to hold a job while also seeking a job.
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I couldn't stay in college and I couldn't hold a job, so I would manipulate my parents and come up with crazy, asinine reasons why I needed $40.
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Labor market participants are defined as those over the age of 16 who either hold a job or are actively looking for one, and are thus officially unemployed.
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It also takes away your ability to participate in much of life, to hold a job, to be comfortable in loud restaurants and movies and many other social situations.
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But while Americans who earn too little don't pay income taxes, those who hold a job are still subject to payroll taxes, which support Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment insurance.
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With cosmic scorn, Mr Glenn suggested that his opponent visit a veterans' hospital and "look those men with mangled bodies in the eyes and tell them they didn't hold a job".
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But despite Theresa's unwavering daily lunch dates with Jon, her marriage has dark undercurrents: She refuses to hold a job, as if to please him, and behind his back she drinks.
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Some say that short stints at a company no longer reflect poorly, while others advise that you hold a job for at least one year to show a sense of commitment.
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Opponents of work requirements say that they unfairly punish people who face barriers to employment, and that they can block access to programs that help enable people to hold a job.
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Even though it is no longer illegal to attend school or hold a job, the immense social pressures imposed by families, community patriarchs, and vigilantes make it incredibly perilous to do so.
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Do we want them to be functional, productive people who are able to hold a job or do we want them to be so disabled by mental illness that they can't function?
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In Liberia on my win-a-trip journey, I show how it can be easily fixed — preventing a child from ending up disabled and unable to go to school or hold a job.
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Offering citizenship to those immigrants who are living in the US illegally but hold a job, speak English and are willing to pay back taxes is immensely popular, with 24% behind such a plan.
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More than seven years into a halting recovery, fewer than 60 percent of working-age Americans hold a job — not much more than at the trough of the recession in the spring of 873.
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Kim DeVries, a gift shop owner in Tucson, said she started looking for a gaming addiction specialist two years ago after her son failed out of college and was struggling to hold a job.
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That&aposs because the IRS requires that anyone earning non-W-2 income from a job be classified as an independent contractor, even if they also hold a job as a W-2 employee.
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In 2018, the state legislature passed a law that required "able-bodied" Tennesseans who do qualify for TennCare to hold a job or go to school if they wanted to keep their health insurance.
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He was apparently so meek and frail ("never robust, even as a boy," one tribute read after his death) that he was forced to drop out of school and was rarely able to hold a job.
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"The market is flooded with gypsies who can't hold a job and who will try to keep you on the phone or in a chat by chit-chatting with you, but then they are gone," Julie said.
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This may have been a reaction to the emotional toll of having an alcoholic father who, while lively and charming, couldn't hold a job and absented himself intermittently from the family in pursuit of drink and women.
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Encouraging a mother to stay with a father who deals in drugs, can't hold a job and beats her can actually lead to worse problems for the children, according to Sara R. Jaffee of the University of Pennsylvania.
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A 61-year-old man from the Dominican Republic has been waiting for his day in federal immigration court since the 1980s, unable to visit his dying mother back home or, in recent years, legally hold a job.
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The verdict on the streets points this way: Mr. Lawrence — struggling to hold a job, stuck in a gang he no longer recognized — was leaning against a tide of change in the life of his set, the G-Shine Bloods.
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Mark Zaid, a Washington attorney who represents intelligence officials in clearance disputes, said that in his experience the sort of suspension Flynn has received can be indefinite, particularly since Flynn does nor currently hold a job that requires access to classified material.
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Upon receiving a considerable inheritance in the wake of his mother's death, Charlie Friend — a generally listless man, unable to hold a job and deeply infatuated with his bright, young upstairs neighbor Miranda — makes the decision to purchase an artificial human for himself.
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Snow, who is transgender, also told BuzzFeed News she has experienced homelessness on and off for the past five years, partly because she's found it difficult to hold a job due to conditions such as anxiety, depression, and a debilitating back injury.
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I probably watched three, got busy or bored, and then abandoned the Gone Girl/Ozark mashup without a second thought towards Amy Adams or the staggering amount of booze she consumes and somehow still manages to hold a job as a reporter.
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Of the nearly 44 million people getting some help to buy groceries with food stamps — the largest of the nonentitlement federal welfare programs — most of them work, after you deduct for the disabled and those too old or young to hold a job.
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CNN said the president thinks a comprehensive immigration bill that would allow illegal immigrants to hold a job and require them to pay taxes has a chance of clearing Congress, and it said Trump may refer to the idea of legislation in a speech on Tuesday night.
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Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RAISE)-Early Treatment Program (ETP) demonstrated that patients who were receiving CSC were staying in school, had better interpersonal relations, an improved ability to hold a job, better quality of life, high rates of recovery and overall much greater cost-effectiveness than typical treatment.
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In January, gambling that a less hard-hearted approach on Medicaid would improve chances Republicans would survive the next House election in 2019, the new Speaker, Kirkland Cox, said he would support expansion if it included a work-for-benefits requirement for Virginians able to hold a job or train for one.
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Economists generally chalk it up to the decline of labor unions, slow productivity growth, automation that allows employers to replace workers if they get too expensive, and a continued influx of workers from the sidelines who may not have been able to afford to hold a job because childcare or transportation costs exceeded their wages.
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While the majority of Americans today — nearly 21950 percent — do not think women should return to traditional wife-and-homemaker roles, something shifts when you replace "woman" with "mother": Just over half of Americans believe children are better off with a mother who is at home full time and does not hold a job.
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Across the country, state leaders have recently passed laws to create more alternatives to prison when dealing with crimes committed by people struggling with addiction, mental health challenges, or those who made a bad decision at a low point in their life — for good reason: prison isolates people from their family; takes a mom or dad miles away from their child; and starkly removes any chance to engage with the community, hold a job and be self-sufficient.
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He demands that Monty Bodkin hold a job for one full year before he can marry Gertrude.
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Bob, a man who can't hold a job, discovers an ad in the Yellow Pages for a butler school. Anne Jamieson (Brooke Shields), a single mother and neat freak, hires Bob as her butler.
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Daughter of John G. Butterwick, and cousin of Ambrose and Reggie Tennyson. In love with Monty Bodkin, she refuses to elope with him when her father demands that Monty hold a job for a full year.
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In the primary, Metzenbaum contrasted his strong business background with Glenn's military and astronaut credentials, saying his opponent had "never worked for a living." Glenn's reply came to be known as the "Gold Star Mothers" speech. He told Metzenbaum to go to a veterans' hospital and "look those men with mangled bodies in the eyes and tell them they didn't hold a job. You go with me to any Gold Star mother and you look her in the eye and tell her that her son did not hold a job".
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The change has been a source of some contention as opponents argue that businesses use this change to suppress wages, with corporate owners leveraging the knowledge that an immigrant should hold a job to successfully complete the immigration process.
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Newly inspired, Tully decides to get back into boxing himself. Tully's life has been a mess since his wife left him. He drinks too much, cannot hold a job, and picks fruit and vegetables with migrant workers to make ends meet. He still blames Ruben for mishandling his last fight.
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Mitchell was a student at California State University, Long Beach for several years, where he attended a variety of classes. He did not hold a job. His fiancée, Marylou Hill, worked as a preschool teacher. Mitchell wanted to marry Hill right away, but she wanted to wait until their financial situation improved.
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New Documentary, edition 2, revised. Routledge, 2006 Oswald's prosecutor is wily, sarcastic Anson "Kip" Roberts (Gazzara). From the beginning, Roberts is skeptical about a "poor shlub who couldn't even hold a job" assassinating the President. However, a phone call from President Johnson himself makes him realize he had better stick to this hypothesis.
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Outpatient treatments include many of the same activities offered in an inpatient treatment facility, but the patient is not protected by the secure and safe environment of an inpatient treatment center. For this reason, they are significantly less effective. The patient usually continues to hold a job and goes to treatment nightly.
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The Conklin Center for the Blind was founded in 1979 by Millard Conklin and the Lions Clubs of Florida. It is the only facility in the United States dedicated to training blind adults with multiple disabilities. Live-in training prepares residents to live independently and hold a job. After completing training, the Center assists in their job search.
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He is charismatic, a loving husband and father, loved dearly by his family but especially by Francie. He is, however, an alcoholic. When he does hold a job, Johnny works as a singing waiter. He has a beautiful voice, a talent that is greatly admired but that is largely wasted because of his reputation as an alcoholic.
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He was unable to hold a job and eventually became homeless. After a night of heavy drinking, he was confronted by a street preacher whose message persuaded him to join the Methodist Episcopal Church. Corbett immediately stopped drinking and became devoutly religious. After being baptized, he subsequently changed his name to Boston, the name of the city where he was converted.
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As a mother Julie was embarrassing, she humiliated her children with her antics. Her persona meant she found it hard to hold a job because she was never suited to anything she tried. She firewalled herself with these traits, as she genuinely had a good heart but refused to show it. The anniversary book describes this as the reason she was disliked by almost everyone she encountered.
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They are not allowed to vote, hold a job, read, possess money, or own anything, among many other restrictions. A particular quote from The Handmaid's Tale sums this up: "The Republic of Gilead, said Aunt Lydia, knows no bounds. Gilead is within you" (HT 5.2). This describes that there is no way around the societal bounds of women in this new state of government.
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Significant Benefits, The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study Through Age 27Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy: Social Programs That Work: Perry Preschool Project At age 40, the participants were interviewed once more, and school, social services, and arrest records were pulled. The participants had higher-earning jobs, committed fewer crimes, and were more likely to hold a job than adults who did not attend preschool.
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Larry - A 24-year-old male who has never held a full-time job for longer than a month or two. Because he cannot find and hold a job he still lives at home with his parents and siblings. Devin - A 21-year-old active gang member who is on parole for possession of narcotics. He has been a part of many illicit activities such as selling drugs and theft.
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Ivy League scholar Gregory Vance descends into an alcoholic abyss after the death of his wife. He ends up barely able to hold a job, and a night watchman's job at that. Vance's two children, Joan and Donald, are exceptionally intelligent and benefit from his tutoring. But they are bullied at school by other students and their father risks losing custody of them if he cannot change his ways.
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Spencer wrote many scholarly books about women, especially with regard to women's work and positions. For instance, she explains that girls only work a few years, from when they are old enough to hold a job until marriage. With the brief work experience, women are not taking advantage of education. Because women know they are only going to spend a brief period in the workforce, they settle for low-paying jobs and poor working conditions.
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Hans Schlaffer (d. Schwaz, 4 February 1528) was a former Catholic priest, who became an Anabaptist in 1526. In May 1527, Schlaffer was part of the group surrounding Hans Hut, and therefore involved in a notable theological controversy taking place in Nikolsburg, Moravia. Unfortunately, the exact subject of the debate has been lost to history, but it may have involved the question of whether or not a committed Christian could hold a job, e.g.
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He unsuccessfully tried to overcome his alcoholism, lost two marriages to divorce, struggled to hold a job, and it was said that he could be found outside Maple Leaf Gardens trying to sell broken sticks of Maple Leaf players to try to make some money. He emerged as one of hockey's tragic figures. Jackson suffered a series of injuries and ailments in his later years. In 1958, he broke his neck after falling down a flight of stairs.
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Cusack made his National Rugby League premiership début with the Sydney Roosters in the 1998 NRL season. A front-rower, Cusack was one of the last remaining top level league players to hold a job outside football, working part-time as a plumber. He played in the 2000 NRL Grand Final loss to the Brisbane Broncos. Cusack was awarded the 2002 Sydney Roosters season's Clubman of the Year and played in their 2002 NRL Grand Final victory over the New Zealand Warriors.
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The PFL does not offer job security stipulations. Instead, it relies on the limited job security already provided by federal and state laws: an employer is only required to grant time off and to hold a job for an employee if the employer is covered by the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) or the California Family Rights Act (CFRA). The California Family Rights Act offers twelve weeks of unpaid leave for employees of firms with more than 20 workers.
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The retired Police Commissioner and father of Frank (grandfather of Danny, Erin, Jamie, and the late Joe; great-grandfather of Nicky, Jack, Sean, and Joe Hill). His childhood during the 1920s and 1930s was hard due to his father, Charles, an Irish immigrant, World War I veteran and former police officer, being an alcoholic and unable to hold a job. Henry was a Marine in World War II and Korea, and joined the NYPD in 1952. He got married in 1955.
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He was playing for the Salt Lake Golden Eagles, the Blues' Central Hockey League affiliate in Salt Lake City in 1983 when he suffered severe head trauma as he fell and hit his head on the ice during a game. The injury left him physically and mentally disabled. Because he was playing in a minor league game, NHL benefits for catastrophic injuries did not apply to his case, and he and his family struggled financially for several years because he was unable to hold a job.
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Skelton was the Script Editor on Charlie Brooker's comedy panel show You Have Been Watching and on Brooker's BBC Radio 4 show So Wrong It's Right. He was the co- founder, with Paul Carr, of The Friday Thing, a weekly email bulletin they started in 2001, and, in 2004, of the short-lived weekly all-comment newspaper The London News Review, with cartoons provided by Matt Groening. In 2005 he founded The Clacton Festival. Skelton and fellow writer Victoria Coren used to hold a job reviewing porn films for the Erotic Review.
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The first woman to fly solo around the world and return home safely was the American amateur pilot Jerrie Mock, who did so in 1964. In 1933, Frances Perkins was appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt as his Secretary of Labor, making her the first woman to hold a job in a Presidential cabinet. However, women also faced many challenges during this time. A National Education Association survey showed that between 1930 and 1931, 63% of cities dismissed female teachers as soon as they became married, and 77% did not hire married women as teachers.
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Constant and repeated movement creates a risk of repetitive stress injury; pain must often be worked through to hold a job in a market with constant turnover; and the days are filled with degrading and uninteresting tasks (e.g. toilet-cleaning and mopping). She also details several individuals in management roles who served mainly to interfere with worker productivity, to force employees to undertake pointless tasks, and to make the entire low-wage work experience even more miserable. Additionally, she describes her managers changing her shift schedule from week to week without notifying her.
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Unfortunately, the exact subject of the debate has been lost to history, but it may have involved the question of whether or not a committed Christian could hold a job, e.g. as a soldier, in which he would be required to use violence. In August 1527 Hans Hut was a key participant at the Martyrs' Synod in Augsburg, a gathering of 60 Anabatists from the surrounding region, trying to come to a common understanding about various teachings. When the Augsburg town council learned of the meeting, they attempted to arrest the group.
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Artie DeVanzo (Artie Lange) is an unemployed town drunk who plays softball with his buddies Maz (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny (Jimmy Palumbo) for Ed's Bar and Swill. Their arch-rival is Manganelli Fitness, led by Dennis Manganelli (Anthony DeSando). After the teams brawl during the first game of the year, the town's police chief decides whichever team finishes best in the league that season can still play in the league, and whichever team loses is out for good. Artie lives at home with his mother (Laurie Metcalf) and can never hold a job or a girlfriend for very long.
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Frank Diaz (John Leguizamo), an unemployed boxer, and his family have been living in a homeless shelter for months when, finally, on Christmas Eve, comes word that an apartment may be available. However seeing that he doesn't hold a job "on the books" the social worker tells him it's not possible for him to get the apartment. Frank, at his wit's end, tells a story about his time in the army during the first Gulf War. This story causes the social worker to give Frank a chance to get the apartment, but must do so before the end of the day.
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Beauregard Bottomley is a polymath who lives in Los Angeles with his piano-instructor sister Gwenn and an alcohol-guzzling parrot they found named Caesar. Beauregard is knowledgeable on any subject—except how to hold a job. In front of a store window, Beauregard and Gwenn watch a quiz show, Masquerade for Money, hosted by Happy Hogan, and sponsored by Milady Soap. Each contestant dresses up in a particular costume in which their costume determines the type of questions asked, with the prize money doubling with each correct answer, starting at $5 and reaching up to a maximum of $160.
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She's sweet and smart, but when introduced, seemingly ill-suited for long term responsibility, as she isn't able to hold a job well or reliably for very long. But this "freedom" in her schedule lets Jeri call on her to look after Gabe when Jeri's out pursuing a story. Taylor's aptitude for responsibility is unexpectedly tested, however, when the burden of Gabe's care and upbringing suddenly and unavoidably becomes hers. Maya Kandinski (Carly Pope in Season 1, Sonya Salomaa from Season 2 onwards) used to be a normal child until her father started sexually abusing her at a young age.
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After his discharge from the army in August 1865, Corbett went back to work as a hatter in Boston and frequently attended the Bromfield Street Church. When the hatting business in Boston slowed, Corbett moved to Danbury, Connecticut to continue his work and also "preached in the country round about." By 1870, he had relocated once again to Camden, New Jersey, where he was known as a "Methodist lay preacher". Corbett's inability to hold a job was attributed to his fanatical behavior; he was routinely fired after continuing his habit of stopping work to pray for his co-workers.
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Franklin subsequently became stranded in London after Sir William Keith failed to follow through on promises of financial support. In Franklin's absence, Read was persuaded by her mother to marry John Rogers, a British man who has been identified variously as a carpenter or a potter. Read eventually agreed and married Rogers on August 5, 1725 at Christ Church, Philadelphia. The marriage quickly fell apart as the "sweet-talking" Rogers could not hold a job and had incurred a large amount of debt before their marriage. Four months after they were married, Read left Rogers after a friend of Rogers’ visiting from England informed her that Rogers had a wife in his native England.
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Monty Bodkin, despite his wealth, needs to hold a job down for a full year so when he is sacked from his job, he jumps at a tip that his old job as secretary is available, especially on hearing that his former fiancee will be on the premises. Hearing that Monty is on his way, and concerned about Ronnie's jealous nature, Sue heads to London, dines with Bodkin and warns him to be distant. On the train back, they both encounter Ronnie's formidable mother and claim not to know each other. Lady Julia, having seen Sue and Monty at lunch together, tells her son about their suspicious behaviour, and Ronnie is at once convinced that Sue loves Monty.
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Each subject was given three different photos to examine: one of an attractive individual, one of an individual of average attractiveness, and one of an unattractive individual. The participants judged the photos' subjects along 27 different personality traits (including altruism, conventionality, self-assertiveness, stability, emotionality, trustworthiness, extraversion, kindness, and sexual promiscuity). Participants were then asked to predict the overall happiness the photos' subjects would feel for the rest of their lives, including marital happiness (least likely to get divorced), parental happiness (most likely to be a good parent), social and professional happiness (most likely to experience life fulfillment), and overall happiness. Finally, participants were asked if the subjects would hold a job of high status, medium status, or low status.
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Cliff Taylor (George Raft) is an ex-con who wants to go straight, but since being released from prison on parole, he finds it hard to find and hold a job due to his criminal past. Cliff's younger brother Tim (William Holden) is worried because he cannot afford to marry his girlfriend Peggy (Jane Bryan) and increasingly disillusioned about being able to make a position for himself in the world honestly. Afraid that Tim might end up leading a life of crime like himself, Cliff decides to help him find the money to settle down. He tells his family he has found a job as a salesman, but in reality he gets back to ex fellow convict Charles Martin (Humphrey Bogart) and they organize a number of robberies.
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Set in Shelbyville, Tennessee in 1978, the film centers on high school student Clancy Whitfield, whose family is facing financial ruin due to his father Billy's inability to hold a job because of his drinking. His mother Joan desperately is trying to make ends meet while their dining room furniture is repossessed and the bank is threatening to foreclose on the house. She finds herself the subject of gossip but supported by Sally Crowder, her friend since childhood. A rumor that former resident Sondra Locke will be returning to town to attend the annual Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration and the opening of her film Every Which Way but Loose at the local movie house has Clancy and his friends Melora, Bobbie, Ray, and Glen eagerly anticipating her arrival.
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Then in late June, just a few weeks after their first wedding anniversary, Snider received another letter from her, this one announcing that they were now physically and financially separated. Snider had several responses to the second letter: He emptied the couples' joint bank account, he had a brief affair with an old girlfriend, and now convinced that Stratten was having an affair of her own with Bogdanovich, Snider hired a private detective to gather evidence of his wife's infidelity. As a foreign national living in the US without a green card that would allow him to hold a job and having no other source of regular income, Snider relied on Stratten, now through her business manager, to pay the monthly household bills. Little was left over for extravagances, such as the expenses incurred by a private detective working a case 3,000 miles from home.
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Happy Endings follows the dysfunctional adventures of six best friends living in Chicago: "crazy-in-love" married couple, businessman overachiever Brad (Damon Wayans, Jr.) and his neurotic perfectionist wife Jane (Eliza Coupe); ditzy Alex (Elisha Cuthbert), a happy- go-lucky boutique owner and Jane's younger sister; daydreamer Dave (Zachary Knighton), an aspiring restaurateur and food truck owner; slacker manchild Max (Adam Pally), who struggles to hold a job and maintain a consistent relationship; and outgoing party girl Penny (Casey Wilson), a serial dater on an eternal search for Mr. Right. The series begins with the wedding of Dave and Alex, which comes to an abrupt halt when Alex leaves Dave at the altar. The six friends must cope with a sudden change in the group dynamic as Dave and Alex mourn their relationship and the rest of the group try to preserve their friendship. Dave and Alex decide to stay friends, but there are many more complications down the road.
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Gowan McGland (Tom Conti) is a creatively blocked Scottish poet who ekes out a day-to-day existence by exploiting the generosity of strangers in an affluent Connecticut suburb, where he recites his verse to various arts groups and women's clubs. Gowan is something of a leech, cadging expensive dinners from well-off patrons (usually stealing the tips afterward) while seducing their bored wives and affecting a superior attitude toward the smug bourgeois types he exploits. Although a talented poet, he is a chronic drunk, indifferent to the wounds he can casually inflict with his wit. (When one of Gowan's middle-aged conquests undresses for him, he mutters, "Released from their support, her breasts dropped like hanged men," reducing her to tears.) Gowan falls in love with a young college student, Geneva Spofford (Kelly McGillis), who has everything to lose from a relationship with a drunken deadbeat poet unable to hold a job.
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