Fomer Cypress Gardens employees suing park for back pay and benefits

"A bunch of lawyers passing vague laws=full employment for lawyers."

That's my statement, and I stand by it. Do you dispute it? We seem to agree that the law is vague, meaning it must be worked out in court, therefore more work for lawyers. Or do you dispute that the most common occupation (by far) for a congressperson is lawyer?

I didn't suggest any reason why they write vague laws(merely stated the obvious that they do)--you just assumed that reason to me, just like you assumed I didn't know how laws came into being! (Yes, I do assume you to be left of center like the law's supporters, if that's not the case I apologize.)

This is a real law that companies take seriously. I was involved in a plant shutdown ~6 years ago, and the announcement of the closing included reference to the law and the necessary days notice. Litigation isn't cheap.

I'll go back to my side of the island now. :-)

On another note, am I the only one that was sent to my Webster's looking up "benefitscy"?

Lankster said:
"A bunch of lawyers passing vague laws=full employment for lawyers."

That's my statement, and I stand by it. Do you dispute it?

Yes, it's absurd. There's no conspiracy among lawyers where they all get together and figure out how to drum up more business for each other.

And frankly I'm just tired of people writing off the entire profession. They're not all ambulance chasers, believe it or not.

Again with the conspiracy thing when I just stated I gave no reason for why the laws are vague(there are other reasons you know)? And now I think all lawyers are ambulance chasers? Man, you sure like to put silly words in my mouth.

It is an absolute fact that a vague law needs to be worked out in court, which means more work for lawyers.

Disputing THAT is whats absurd.

I know some lawyers who are good, hard-working Joes & Janes just like the rest of us.

It's the same deal with cops. Not all of them are hair-trigger hard-arses or dougnut-eating lardbutts. Again, I have a couple of friends who are cops (one who isa parole officer for the state of NH), and the only time they get angry is when somebody tries to BS them.

Well to say quite easily....Florida is a right to work state.... My HOSPITALITY company just laid off 4000 people nationwide with most being here in ORLANDO at it corporate office..... We were told that 4000 would be laid off two weekes before it happened. Far cry from 60 days, and my last job (Land Development Co. gave us no notice and has since claimed bankruptcy)., and is clsoed for good.

Do not get me wrong I LOVE CYPRESS and I AM VERY UPSET they had to close, I even have my annual pass there. But if the folks that worked there did not see this coming, then really now they are not the sharpest tools in the shed..... I went there over the SUMMER when I was unelployed on a Friday, and there were only about 50 cars there. at most.. I think I was the only one walking the gardens at all....EVERYONE was in the waterpark...there was not one ride operating when I walked through the amusement area.....even the LAST DAY it was open there was one ride operator working BOTH the Tilt a Whirl and the Carosel....and she was taking turns after each ride she would close the gate and then walk to the other ride and start it up.

Yes I feel badly they lost thier jobs I know what it is like to be unelmployed, but really let's be honest....when you decide in September to only open on Weekends right there shodul have been a sign for all these employees to start looking for something.... Think about it, if you owned the park would you have given them 60 days notice.....especially if 50 people a day were walking through the gates? With that admission price that would have just been enough to pay the parking attendant and the ticke sales person, an that is IF those 50 peeps were not pass holders with Parkingand admission already paid for!

Really now.....these peeps do not deserve to win any case....as much as I am for SAVING Starliner and Cypress....peeps need to wake up and really not wait around for them to re-open in HOPES they will have another job, because with the way the economy is now....they may not....and that is from new articles I have read in Hospitality & Design Magazine..(not that I believe eveythingI read but)...ALL parks are feeling the capital $$ crunch...even those resorts that are putting in indoor waterparks..... Merry Christmas!