Pretty sure that top book is Accounting for dummies, not counting

Which most american's need, because for some reason we don't teach essential things needed in life in high school.  

You saw right through the sticker!  You should change your name to irsmart.

ha, well you can see a partial letter there.

Plus just look lower and it says "covers financial reporting standards for publice and private companies"

Pretty sure we don't teach kids that in elementary along with counting.

Contractors are pretty much in the same boat everywhere. Contractors also tend to get a higher wage than their permenant staff member equivalent, in part because of the lack of holiday pay.

Yep thats the United States !

WhatEVER guys. If other countries had as much quality televised entertainment as the United States, they'd be watching 8 hours a day too. 

Yea, I know what you are talking about.  I worked contract (SMX) for Jabil and was making 10.50 and when they wanted to hire me on at 9.50 I told them no.  They looked at me surprised saying that it was a privileged to be hired on.  I told them that I already lived pay check to pay check and that I couldn't take a dollar wage reduction per hour for holiday pay and paid time off (they closed down the Round Rock plant anyways after 5-6 months of offer).  I believe Flextronics/Aerotek (where I work now as an Aerotek contract worker) they might give a wage increase with benefits now.  They perhaps did the same bullshit Jabil tried to pull before.  You have to pay for all other benefits (medical, dental, vision, etc) so the only real benefit you get is paid time off and paid holidays.  Everything else you have to still pay for under most manufacturers (unless they are better than Jabil and Flextronics which isn't hard to acheive).

Haha! No, but we are aware that TV companies enjoy making entertainment out of the strangest folks around. I know quite a few people from the US but none of them are like that at all.

I do think that American TV has hit an all time low though, there is a crazy amount of shitty shows emerging now, especially in the "reality" department.

I live in 'MURIKA and I can confirm that that is exactly what americans (I'm a legal resident, waiting about 5 years for citizenship) look like.

In all seriousness, I don't see how anybody can watch this and not feel disgusted and mortified for the fate of those "things" on TV.I stopped watching TV on a regular basis and when i have the TV on, I usually have either CNN or adult swim. I also watch a few shows such as The Walking Dead and Face off. I can honestly say that it opens your eyes to how we, as people, are deteriorating and wasting away. We believe everything at face value and we enjoy crude entertainment rather than informative entertainment. Not everybody has to grow up to be a rocket scientists but goddamn.

Honey boo boo is what is wrong with society today. I weep for the future.