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Old 08-05-2018, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by donquixote99 View Post
Oh yeah. I know that store pattern. They extend the dairy and eggs way down to the end of the back wall, half a mile past all the other food, to force you to walk through the furniture section. Exercise probably good, but I hate the manipulation.
I am feeling your pain. Menard's is another chain that has huge stores and nondescript goals for product offerings. They have lumber, plumbing, tools, books, office supplies, etc. Their stores give me vertigo because they are so perfectly awful. Even their checkout lanes are an ergonomic mess for their employees. Has a Menard ever shopped in one of their own stores? I have to wonder.

Thank you to the moderators for tolerating my expletive riddled rant about the restaurant/marina project at Stony Creek Metropark. Today I realized what made me so angry and gave me the courage to write. It was my experience with working alongside Mike Sessa and hearing him rant about the politics of Macomb Commumity College (MCC). I have to use the word "hearing" because I did not understand what Mike's frustrations were. All I knew at the time was that I was a co-op student from MCC that was working in a welding research lab where old men talked about military experience, war, and cocksuckers.

What struck me about Mike Sessa was that he was in the political fire. He was quoted as never being accused of calling the leader of MCC "intelligent". Damn. If I recall the leader was Italian and my impression was that Sessa was battling the mob in public. Sessa was swinging a big dick in this farm boy's mind's eye.

As I more calmly digest my thoughts about the Stony Creek restaurant/marina project, I think that I may be able to reach out and touch a political seed of thought about the intelligence of leadership at MCC. My first semester at MCC was a dismal failure. Social pressures persuaded me to sign up for a business class. I was miserable and the professor sensed it. At the end of the semester he behaved as a leader and asked me why I was in his class. He also asked me what I wanted to learn.

I wanted to learn electronics. Bam. The business professor said well then do that. Next semester I signed up for electronics classes and was happy as I went through them. That professor, that capitalist, had empathy which, as I think more deeply about the word, excludes him from the blindness of capitalism despite being a businessman.

Worrying about the Stony Creek restaurant/marina project has allowed me to exercise my memory and learning and try to expand my thoughts on that single weld spatter that needs to be scraped away from Macomb County. That weld spatter of a project might be the result of an empathetic disconnect between the business and culinary schools of MCC that happened a decade or two ago when MCC thought it was producing leaders. In fact the schools of MCC may have been guilty of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. If so then I begin to understand Mike Sessa's frustration with MCC leadership.

Whatever it is that Mike Sessa thought he was fighting for it apparently did not think like MCC leadership a few years ago. Whatever it is that I am fighting for it certainly does not look like a restaurant at Stony Creek Metropark.

God bless Mike Sessa. He was a pistol. Today I read that he passed away in 2016. I am beginning to feel his pain.
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