Tuesday, February 20, 2018
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
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DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Longtime employee is irked
by colleagues’ work ethics
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I am almost 62 and
have earned — and without having to
struggling to get through the day at
cut back. Please consider what I have
work. It’s not because of the work
said and ride it out.
itself, but I am extremely unhappy in
Dear Abby: I recently had a phone
the work environment.
conversation with a cousin who lives
I have been here more than 20
on the other side of the country. We
years, and I have a real problem
talk once a month. She has always
with the work ethic of the younger
been judgmental and negative about
employees. They come in to work
our cousins, aunts, uncles, etc., who
Jeanne
anywhere from a half-hour to two Phillips — for the most part — she rarely
hours late.
communicates with. In the past, when
Advice
One of them takes hourlong
she would put them down, I’d cut the
breaks, two-hour lunches and then
conversation short because I didn’t
leaves early. Another comes to work and want to listen.
complains nonstop about her drive, her ex
During our last chat, she started in on my
and all her aches and pains. (She just turned brother. That’s when I lost it. I gave her a
40.) I go home every night frustrated and so piece of my mind and hung up. Since then,
stressed out I snap at my poor husband.
she has texted and called a few times, but I
I really want to retire. It wouldn’t be a haven’t responded.
financial burden, although we would have
I feel bad for what happened, but at the
to cut back on a little spending. My husband same time, I refuse to listen to her talk badly
won’t offer an opinion, but I know I’d be about and judge other family members. How
much happier and healthier if I did. Any should I handle this? Should I respond to her?
advice? — Stressed And Tired
In one of her texts she said she “didn’t mean
Dear Stressed: You might be happier and to upset me,” but I don’t consider that an
healthier if, rather than retire early, you talked apology. — Hates Judgment In Ohio
to a licensed mental health professional
Dear Hates Judgment: Yes, you should
about how to manage your stress. You can’t respond to your cousin. She needs to
control the behavior (or misbehavior) of understand that you are changing the rules
your younger co-workers. That’s your boss’s regarding further conversations with her.
responsibility. If their lack of punctuality
Explain that it has always made you
and poor attendance doesn’t bother your uncomfortable when she said unkind, judg-
employer, you should not be letting it affect mental things about family members, and
you.
that when she started in on your brother, you
And as to the woman who complains about finally reached your limit. Tell her that in the
her aches, her pains and her ex — why are future when you talk, it must be about posi-
you listening to that garbage? You have only tive things and not family members. After
a few more years until you reach an age at that, the ball will be in her court. See if she
which you can retire with all the benefits you follows through.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 19-20, 1918
Pendleton’s restaurant and eating house
proprietors met yesterday afternoon at the
Hotel Pendleton and pledged themselves to a
strict observance of the rules and regulations
approved by the federal food administrators
of the northwest states. As a result of the
meeting the sugar bowl was banished from
the tables of all eating houses today. Sugar
service will hereafter be limited to three
cubelets or two medium sized lumps or an
equal amount of soft sugar for each meal.
Tuesdays and Saturdays will be porkless and
the meal between 11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. each
day will be porkless. Mondays and Wednes-
days will be wheatless and the evening meal
each day will be a wheatless one. Consump-
tion of potatoes will be encouraged by low
price and large quantity.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 19-20, 1968
Mobile dial telephone service is now
offered by Eastern Oregon Telephone
Company, Pilot Rock. Walter Karnopp,
owner and manager, said it is the first all-dial
mobile system in Eastern Oregon. The
equipment can be arranged easily to be used
in any area of the county where such service
exists. Key to the system is a 50-watt trans-
mitter at Battle Mountain on Carney Butte.
The range extends into several counties in
Eastern Oregon and Washington. The mobile
dial unit works like any dial telephone so far
as the user is concerned: Dial the number
you want, converse, and hang up. When the
conversation is completed the equipment
automatically transmits the base station call
letters in Morse code.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 19-20, 1993
The Helen McCune Building is probably
the best solution to the city’s cramped and
out-of-code offices, a facilities committee has
determined.
Consequently,
committee
members
decided Thursday night to ask the city council
to begin talks with the school district about
purchasing the Helen McCune Building, once
the junior high for the community. Although
the committee has not made a final decision,
its discussion Thursday made it clear that
modeling the Helen McCune Building comes
ahead of all other options — if the price is
right.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 51st day of
2018. There are 314 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Feb. 20, 1962, astro-
naut John Glenn became
the first American to orbit
the Earth as he flew aboard
Project Mercury’s Friendship
7 spacecraft, which circled
the globe three times in a
flight lasting 4 hours, 55
minutes and 23 seconds
before splashing down safely
in the Atlantic Ocean 800
miles southeast of Bermuda.
On this date:
In 1862, William Wallace
Lincoln, the 11-year-old
son of President Abraham
Lincoln and first lady Mary
Todd Lincoln, died at the
White House, apparently of
typhoid fever.
In
1907,
President
Theodore Roosevelt signed
an immigration act which
excluded “idiots, imbeciles,
feebleminded
persons,
epileptics, insane persons”
from being admitted to the
United States.
In 1971, the National
Emergency Warning Center
in Colorado erroneously
ordered U.S. radio and TV
stations off the air; some
stations heeded the alert,
which was not lifted for
about 40 minutes.
In 1998, Tara Lipinski
of the U.S. won the ladies’
figure skating gold medal at
the Nagano Olympics while
fellow American Michelle
Kwan won the silver; Chen
Lu of China won the bronze.
In 2003, a fire sparked
by pyrotechnics broke out
during a concert by the group
Great White at The Station
nightclub in West Warwick,
Rhode Island, killing 100
people and injuring about
200 others.
One year ago: President
Donald Trump tapped Army
Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as
his new national security
adviser, replacing the ousted
Michael Flynn. Thousands
of demonstrators turned out
across the U.S. to challenge
Donald Trump in a Presidents
Day protest dubbed Not My
President’s Day.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Socialite Gloria Vanderbilt
is 94. Actor Sidney Poitier
is 91. Racing Hall of Famer
Bobby Unser is 84. Racing
Hall of Famer Roger Penske
is 81. Singer-songwriter
Buffy Sainte-Marie is 77.
Hockey Hall of Famer
Phil Esposito is 76. Senate
Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, R-Ky., is 76.
Newspaper heiress Patricia
Hearst is 64. Basketball Hall
of Famer Charles Barkley is
55. Actor French Stewart is
54. Model Cindy Crawford
is 52. Actor Andrew Shue is
51. Actress Lili Taylor is 51.
Actress Chelsea Peretti is 40.
Comedian Trevor Noah is
34. Singer Rihanna is 30.
Thought for Today: “I’ve
always believed in the adage
that the secret of eternal youth
is arrested development.” —
Alice Roosevelt Longworth,
former first daughter (born
1884, died this date in 1980).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE