| Lo Fun Fact #1 |
| "Lolita Files" is my real name. It is not a pen name, as incredible as that may seem. There are plenty of Files family members and people who have known me for years capable of validating this. As for the "Lolita" part, my mother named me after the movie based on Nabokov's book, although she saw or read neither. For as long as she lived, she had no idea there was anything sexual or seedy about being called "Lolita". |
| Lo Fun Fact #2 |
| I love fried chicken and fabulous shoes (although obviously I can't eat fried chicken nearly as much as I'd like). If you ever want to get on my good side, send Popeye's or Church's (that's right, I said Church's) and a pair of
Christian Louboutins. |
| Lo Fun Fact #3 |
| Never show up unannounced or without a Pepsi. Better yet, how about not showing up at all? |
| Lo Fun Fact #4 |
| I hate the telephone. Don't get mad if I don't call you or take a long time to return your calls. I don't call anyone. Don't call me asking why I don't call. Just don't call, okay? (Exception: I will happily take all calls related to business or to share fun/exciting/major news. I'm just not one for jawing on the phone just to be jawing.) |
| Lo Fun Fact #5 |
| I love the internet!!! I love communicating through the internet!!! You can e-mail me and odds are I'll e-mail you right back (if I'm not in the middle of a major project). Makes up for my hangup about the phone, doesn't it? See, I'm not so bad after all!!! |
| Lo Fun Fact #6 |
| I can't stand IMing. Please don't IM me. I'm always on my laptop and connected to the internet as I work and when IM's pop into my screen out of nowhere, they break my concentration and often startle the sh*t out of me in the process. So don't do it. You will get the cold shoulder. I don't like giving people the cold shoulder, so please don't put me in that position. |
| Lo Fun Fact #7 |
I have four five six wonderful, slap-happy dogs and a cat, all of whom I love to pieces. I had a bird (a Roller pigeon that I rescued in LA on New Year's Day in 2004) named B-Bird (what? that's a good name!) who passed away in February 2009, which broke my widdle heart in half. He loved me so, as I did him. If you meet me and ask me about my dogs and cat, we'll be instant friends, and if you ask about B-Bird, I'll probably hug you (unless you smell...wash first). If you meet me and ask me why the f*ck I have four five six dogs and a cat, see the above fun fact for how I will respond. |
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| Do the math |
| Thursday, April 12, 2007 |
It just doesn't add up. Fed Ex had agreed to pay $53.5 million to settle a racial bias lawsuit. The spokesperson for FedEx is calling this a win-win settlement, but I beg to differ. I thought the whole point of suing was to make the other party pay.
While $53.5 million sounds like a lot on the surface, it has to be split amongst nearly 20,000 African American and Hispanic workers and then we haven't even touched on the lawyer fees. If we don't take into account the lawyers fees, each party in the suit would receive $2675.
Yeah, I think that covers the loss wages that could have been gained if the reviews were done properly and the promotions had been granted. Fed Ex didn't come up with a win-win, they just came up with a way to leave their current and former employees stranded. 
FedEx to pay $53.5 mln to settle racial bias suit |
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did fed-ex throw in a bucket of KFC and a watermelon for dessert?...for what they got in return, might as well...
speakin' bout race and stuff...not to be a dead hoss on the rutgers gals vs imus, but where's oprah?
helloooooo?....
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OH, I get it, because Tom Hanks and Wilson were both WHITE in Cast Away! I see...
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hey sheletha, in the movie "cast away" with tom hanks, tom played chuck noland, a fed-ex executive who survived an fed-ex plane crash in the pacific ocean, washing up on a deserted island. wilson, a washed up fed-ex package from the wreckage, was a volleyball that became his best friend.
lo was tying in the movie "cast away"....fed-ex employees...and the racial bias suit.
if you haven't seen "cast away" it's a must see. it'll may that survivor reality shit on t.v a joke.
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it'll MAKE that survivor reality shit on t.v a joke.
sorry for the typo...
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ohhh...okay.
I only saw parts of cast away. I don't think the beginning, middle, or end were the parts that I saw.
kidding...
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I was just kidding, but it's certainly one of my favorite movies.
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did fed-ex throw in a bucket of KFC and a watermelon for dessert?...for what they got in return, might as well...
speakin' bout race and stuff...not to be a dead hoss on the rutgers gals vs imus, but where's oprah?
helloooooo?....