Word: complainer
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...looked so haggard last August, was the station commander overseeing the pair of recruiting offices in Nacogdoches. The job required the veteran of both Afghanistan and Iraq to dial into two daily conference calls from his office at 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. "On a regular basis, he would complain to me that the 15 to 19 hours we worked daily were too much," a colleague told Army investigators...
...will technically live in Massachusetts for four years, the majority of us will never experience the area in its own right. Bracing ourselves against the icy February winds and trudging through the snow to class somehow cajoles us into thinking we know New England life. Sure, we can complain about the weather along with the rest of the locals—but that is where the similarity ends...
...newsletter concluded its announcement on junior seminars with a request for its undergraduate students: “Please complain to your local dean that the Economics Department needs more faculty...
Among those who are still employed, reaction to deferments and fellowship options largely has been harsh. Many associates privately complain about how law firms have betrayed trust by promising jobs they may not be in a position to deliver. On public (but anonymous) websites like Abovethelaw.com, most critics have expressed outrage at what they perceive to be a breach of contract. Still, Sandra Sperino, an assistant professor of law for the Beasley School of Law at Temple University in Philadelphia, notes that because most states provide at-will employment, firms can change the terms of a job offer...
...perks of being a theater critic, in those dog days of the season when you find yourself struggling to sit through the latest Chekhov revival or pretentious little comedy about tightly wound New York singles, is the Broadway-musical revival. Yes, you can complain - as I often have - about unimaginative commercial producers who keep recycling surefire classics like Gypsy or Guys and Dolls. But there's good reason they're recycled so often: they are surefire - unfailingly entertaining, no matter how uninspired the production, the indomitable high points of a genre that is America's great contribution to world theater...