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A good boss is hard to come by. Many bosses will be a total horror-show, like Bill Lumbergh in ‘Office Space.’ They’ll take credit for your work when it’s good, throw you under the bus when it’s bad, and make you come into the office on a Saturday. Sunday too.
But a good boss inspires their workforce to want to work hard and, in turn, make them look good. It’s all about respect. And nobody embodies respect more than our Vice President, Joe Biden.
From double-fisting Ice Cream to yelling about ‘Malarkey,’ no matter which party you affiliate with, you can’t deny that ‘Uncle Joe’ is an all-around great guy.
And thanks to an excerpt from Esquire, via Gavin Newsom’s Facebook Page, we now know that Joe Biden isn’t just a great guy, he’s a phenomenal boss as well.
To My Wonderful Staff,
I would like to take a moment and make something clear to everyone. I don not expect nor do I want any of you to miss or sacrifice important family obligations for work. Family obligations include but are not limited to family birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, any religious ceremonies such as first communioins and bar mitzvahs, graduations, and times of need such as an illness or a loss in the family. This is very important to me. in fact, I will go so far as to say that if I find out that you are working with me while missing important family responsibilities, it will disappoint me greatly. This has been an unwritten rule since my days in the Senate.
Considering that bosses these days expect literal blood, sweat and tears from their underpaid, underappreciated employees, it’s nice to see that the Vice President of the United States treats his employees with respect.
Let me say that again: The VICE PRESIDENT of the United States of America is saying that nothing is more important than family obligations. The guy who is a heartbeat away from the Presidency, who casts tie-breaking votes in the Senate that become laws, and whatever else he does that is considerably more important than what your boss is working on, is telling you that it’s okay to miss a day of work for your cousin’s college graduation or your parents’ wedding anniversary.
That, right there, is a class act. No Malarkey..
[via Gavin Newsom / Facebook]
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Really going to miss tuning in to the State of the Union just to see what kind of facial expressions Uncle Joe is going to make at people in the crowd.
Going to miss The Onion headlines too.
It’ll be tough to top “Diamond” Joe Biden, but I like the “Tim Kaine is trying to be America’s stepdad” angle the media seems to be running with.
Stepdad Tim is talking to the people of America like “hey, listen, I know your mother is a fucking bitch and doesn’t let you do anything fun but I’m gonna reason with you. Here are the keys to the Shelby, go take it for a spin and have some fun and get drunk with your friends and I’ll take care of her. To be honest, I liked your mother at first because the sex was good and easily accessible after you and your real dad divorced but she was also kind of aloof with depression so I got to do whatever I wanted. Now I’m fucking trapped man, go enjoy your life because mine is pretty much over. I know I’m not your real dad so I don’t technically have to deal with the consequences of your fucked up decision making processes but just don’t fucking crash the Shelby or I will literally kill you.
That typo just made this situation even more fucked up than I intended. I’m mailing it in for the day and going home.
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To be entirely fair, the VP doesn’t really do anything.
Didn’t they call Stalin “Uncle Joe?”
All those things in Biden’s letter? Those are called “personal days.” Pretty much everyone has them.
Why the uptick in political stuff lately? Particularly, an uptick in posts about how cool or hip elected officials affiliated with only one particular party are . . . Biden gives staff fucking days off, Obama listens to music, so cool!
You sound just like those people commenting on business insider posts on facebook every time they post something bad about Trump
Except a lot of employers do *not* give you enough time off to attend all the days like that. I do wonder, though, if that means the people without spouses and/or kids can take extra days off now and then to attend their best friend’s birthday, help their neighbor who’s ill, etc.
Uncle Joe and I would likely disagree about everything except how cool Joe Is.
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I’d rather work as a garbage man than for anyone associated with Barrack
As if you’d ever even get the chance.
I bet he has a good chance at being a garbage man
In the past the POTUS would sometimes offer VP to their rivals. Worked out well for LBJ. So next time think before you speak.