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**IrrettelatWet** · 01-21-2011, 07:34 PM

Partisan politics or opposition to Black's appointment had little or nothing to do with the reaction to her idiotic joke. If Joel Kline had made the comment, the reaction would have been the same.

School overcrowding has been a hot-button issue for years. Even before the Beekman tower went up, it was warned that the school there wouldn't be enough; and it wasn't appreciated that a few years ago Bloomberg used that school and PS 234 as political pressure, threatening to pull funding.

I've cracked jokes about some of my bosses in front of them, but that was after we got to know each other. Never did it at a first meeting. If I did and got in trouble for it, someone would have told me, "How could you be so stupid?"

01-21-2011, 07:34 PM	#15
IrrettelatWet Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 431 Senior Member	Partisan politics or opposition to Black's appointment had little or nothing to do with the reaction to her idiotic joke. If Joel Kline had made the comment, the reaction would have been the same. School overcrowding has been a hot-button issue for years. Even before the Beekman tower went up, it was warned that the school there wouldn't be enough; and it wasn't appreciated that a few years ago Bloomberg used that school and PS 234 as political pressure, threatening to pull funding. I've cracked jokes about some of my bosses in front of them, but that was after we got to know each other. Never did it at a first meeting. If I did and got in trouble for it, someone would have told me, "How could you be so stupid?"
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