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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1025708" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p><strong>Re: Comparison: Last, Best & Final to Pre-strike proposals</strong></p><p></p><p>If one spends enough time on Brown Cafe and has any sort of creative writing ability, it becomes fairly easy to recognize the writing styles of some of the more "high-volume" posters. Using myself as an example, if I were to change my avatar and screen name without telling anyone.... but continue posting in my typical manner... I suspect that most people who are on the site a lot would figure out my new screen name fairly quickly. Same goes with, say, Hoaxter or Bubblehead or Upstate or TOS or Big Union Guy to name a few. People who write a lot tend to develop their own unique "style" of syntax, punctuation, pet phrases, favorite topics and other "literary fingerprints"....and people who <em>read</em> a lot will recognize them.</p><p></p><p>PobreCarlos/SloppyJoes7/AssistantSanta has a very unique and recognizeable style of writing that does not change regardless of which screen name he happens to be generating his repititious, long-winded, anti-union diatribes under. Without fail his punctuation, spelling and grammar are flawless. Almost without fail, he posts exclusively in the "union issues" folder. He purports to have a great deal of knowledge about union and company financial issues, yet he never discusses any sort of operational issues and he remains vague about what job, if any, he has ever had within the company beyond being a PT/ helper last peak as "AssistantSanta". Even more damning is the <em>huge</em> similarity with the three screen names; all 3 names consist of compound "double" words with no space or punctuation between them, with both words in the name starting with an uppercase letter.</p><p></p><p>None of all this really matters that much, except in the sense that those of us like myself who actually <em>attended</em> the union meetings and <em>walked</em> the picket line back in '97 have a <em>lot</em> more actual knowledge of what occurred before during and after that strike than some anti-union shill whose entire UPS career consists of being a P/T peak season helper for 3 or 4 weeks last year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1025708, member: 14668"] [b]Re: Comparison: Last, Best & Final to Pre-strike proposals[/b] If one spends enough time on Brown Cafe and has any sort of creative writing ability, it becomes fairly easy to recognize the writing styles of some of the more "high-volume" posters. Using myself as an example, if I were to change my avatar and screen name without telling anyone.... but continue posting in my typical manner... I suspect that most people who are on the site a lot would figure out my new screen name fairly quickly. Same goes with, say, Hoaxter or Bubblehead or Upstate or TOS or Big Union Guy to name a few. People who write a lot tend to develop their own unique "style" of syntax, punctuation, pet phrases, favorite topics and other "literary fingerprints"....and people who [I]read[/I] a lot will recognize them. PobreCarlos/SloppyJoes7/AssistantSanta has a very unique and recognizeable style of writing that does not change regardless of which screen name he happens to be generating his repititious, long-winded, anti-union diatribes under. Without fail his punctuation, spelling and grammar are flawless. Almost without fail, he posts exclusively in the "union issues" folder. He purports to have a great deal of knowledge about union and company financial issues, yet he never discusses any sort of operational issues and he remains vague about what job, if any, he has ever had within the company beyond being a PT/ helper last peak as "AssistantSanta". Even more damning is the [I]huge[/I] similarity with the three screen names; all 3 names consist of compound "double" words with no space or punctuation between them, with both words in the name starting with an uppercase letter. None of all this really matters that much, except in the sense that those of us like myself who actually [I]attended[/I] the union meetings and [I]walked[/I] the picket line back in '97 have a [I]lot[/I] more actual knowledge of what occurred before during and after that strike than some anti-union shill whose entire UPS career consists of being a P/T peak season helper for 3 or 4 weeks last year. [/QUOTE]
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