Lutheran Air - posted by Joe Merrill

[John Kennedy]

Several months ago Joe posted a blurb on Lutheran Air - a real funny piece.
Unfortunately I didn't make a hard copy. Tried the search feature but no luck. How would I go about finding it? If it's not here any longer, could I persuade Joe to post it again.

[Barbara Moulton]

This one?

http://www.naznet.com/community/showthread.php?t=898

[Barbara Moulton]

What's weird is that it didn't come up in a search of the forum. I found it by looking at all of Joel's posts.

[John Kennedy]

I had precisely the same experience and didn't have a chance to look through all Joe's posts.
Thanks,
John K.

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

I did a search for: "Lutheran" and it came right up -- the bottom of the only page of results.

[Barbara Moulton]

I did a search for: "Lutheran" and it came right up -- the bottom of the only page of results.

And it did for me now...but that's not what was happening earlier. I tried several times.

[Jim Franklin]

Talk about Lutherans reminds me of the jury I sat on several years ago. It was a civil case in which both the plantiff and his attorney and the defendant and his attorney were all Lutherans. The plantiff"s attorney had previously been the Attorney General of the State of Idaho. The plantiff had been an insurance salesman for a Lutheran Brotherhood insurance company. The case was over his being fired by a brand new young superior from the Spokane agency because although the plantiff had been the company's top salesman on several occasions he had dropped below the agency's monthly production level in the month that he had remarried, gone on a honeymoon and broken his foot even though he had not dropped below the company's monthly production level. The plantiff was 56 years old and had an average of $50,000/year in commissions and benefits. The jury was made up of 6 people under 35 and 6 people over 45. The older group of which I was one let the younger group take the lead because we did not want it to look like we were trying to protect one of "our own." The younger group felt that the case clearly smacked of age discrimination, particularly when it was learned that the position had been given to a 25 year old. So we just figured the 9 years remaining until 65 times the $50,000 and awarded him $450,000 which he used to set up his own consulting firm which I know because both he and his attorney came in and bought suits from me at JCP. The last day of the trial was on my birthday and the judge thanked me by name for staying through to the end of the trial. The baliff led the rest of the jury in singing, "Happy Birthday" to me as we filed out of the court room.