Comments on: Busted by Sir Richard Carlisle

By: FeRD

FeRD — Tue, 08 May 2012 06:23:49 +0000

@Neeners:
I’m not sure it’s really fair to call out the sign as an eyesore, here. It’s easily the least upsetting thing about that landfill tableau.

By: caffeine

caffeine — Sat, 05 May 2012 23:22:18 +0000

There are at least 15 newspapers in this photo, with the possibility of more out of shot. No one is going to wait over two weeks of missing their newspaper delivery before complaining about it to whoever they are buying it from. If they finally discover the newspapers, whether they’ve been dumped, left at the end of the driveway or a few inches off the porch, they are not going to simply leave a sign like this hoping for resolution. As you said yourself, ex-paper girl, you never heard the end of it from that customer and I bet that wasn’t via obscure signs they stuck by a pile of papers they didn’t bother picking up for weeks on end just to prove their point. This is simply an example of the boss (yes, the real boss) trying to be clever and shame the delivery person (“See? You thought you could just dump these papers and still get paid but I’m on to you”). Quite possibly the boss is too ~~lazy~~ busy to go and retrieve the sign or pick up the rotting papers and hopes people will think he is the good guy because he told the guilty party to clean it up.

By: ex-paper girl

ex-paper girl — Sat, 05 May 2012 21:41:40 +0000

I don’t think these are from the paper person’s actual “boss” or “supervisor”, and I don’t think the paper person is a kid on a bike. This sign is actually wasted on its intended target because when you deliver a paper at 3 or 4 in the morning, you are driving by so fast and flipping papers out of your window that you’re not reading signs. 10 to 1 the paper person doesn’t even know it’s for them. Also, if it was his actual boss, he wouldn’t leave a sign and let this go for so long. He would drive the paper person over there after his shift and make him clean it up. This is a tongue and cheek indication on the part of Richard that “I’m your boss cause I buy the paper that it’s your job to deliver.” If Richard doesn’t call in and complain and request that the paper be delivered in a different manner, than nothing is going to change. I had a customer who wanted her paper delivered on the porch, and if it was even off on one of the steps, I never heard the end of it. So, sorry Richard, your sign is doing no one except us here on the internet any good.

By: Mrs.Beasley

Mrs.Beasley — Sat, 05 May 2012 04:53:48 +0000

Seriously, I don’t blame RICH ARD for being upset. Here he’s paying for a newspaper subscription to his home and the damned kid is delivering it to IIIEGAI MANOR!

By: Dr.Chalkwitheringlicktacklefeff

Dr.Chalkwitheringlicktacklefeff — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:42:44 +0000

I used to deliver a free paper as a kid. Everyone who has ever worked delivering a free paper has at some point just dumped a load of them. I held out longer than most, but eventually when you realise you’re delivering something no one wants and no one will miss, it’s really hard to motivate yourself to actually bother. I’m pretty sure you’re right and that’s what’s happened here.

By: Dr.Chalkwitheringlicktacklefeff

Dr.Chalkwitheringlicktacklefeff — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:40:35 +0000

My theory; the note wasn’t written by Richard The Boss. It was written in the hope that the culprit would accidentally reveal themselves.

Who even gets a paper delivered these days? It’s all on the internet for free.

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Fri, 04 May 2012 05:42:22 +0000

When I lived in a small college town, there was an ongoing drama about a weekly advertising spam newspaper. Sometimes the stories in the real news newspaper complained because the company’s deliverypeople kept delivering it to people who had opted out, and sometimes the stories featured heaps of rotting newspapers in storm drains and creeks. So I think a similar scenario is more plausible than a subscriber complaining that the papers were delivered two far from the porch.

By: Poltergeist

Poltergeist — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:32:02 +0000

No, Richard is clearly the actual boss of this paper person. He assumes this individual already knows where his office is, which wouldn’t make any sense if this was merely one of the customers.

By: Harmy G

Harmy G — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:09:05 +0000

Check out the number on the other side of the sign…

Clear Signal
Dish Network
503-990-7706

By: bookworm

bookworm — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:58:29 +0000

Then how come his “boss” doesn’t know his name? You’d think that somebody signing your paychecks would know what houses they assigned you to.

Richard is the man the papers are being delivered to. He has mistaken being a customer with being a boss.

By: yolanda

yolanda — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:52:52 +0000

When I was a young girl, around 13 or 14, I took on a paper route. This was not a subscriber route, however, I delivered spam by the armload. Flyers, coupons, and other lousy excuses for deforestation arrived by the bundle. I had a 2mile route (each way) with houses very far apart so lots of bicycling, and the papers were heavy. It wasn’t long before I realized I could skip over half the route by stuffing armloads of the things into sewer drains, the school trash bin, etc. I don’t guess a lot of people complained about the reduction in trash but the school janitor got fed up with the papers in his bin and the neighbours of the storm drain really got ticked. That was the end of my job. I would not have taken those papers to the office either!

By: saam

saam — Thu, 03 May 2012 06:36:09 +0000

I always thought papers were delivered by shifty-looking men driving plymouth dusters.

By: Stuffin'

Stuffin' — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:56:24 +0000

Sounds like the name of a brothel to me.

By: Chinchillazilla

Chinchillazilla — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:09:59 +0000

I know where MY boss’s office is.