Rudy Giuliani just twitched reading that . <| sep |> He may not have won that elusive premier league medal , but he ' ll always be a champion in my heart and mind because he punched that dj for not putting on Phil Collins . <| sep |> i was hyped then i confused the dates , now im a salty scrub <| sep |> Cocaine is a helluva drug . <| sep |> Juul by Pax . <| sep |> Electricite du Liban contract workers Thursday closed the company ' s Beirut headquarters and several south Lebanon branches to customers in a protest aimed at pressuring the government to make them fulltime employees . The staterun National News Agency reported that the workers in Beirut later opened the main gate to the company ' s employees but continued to block access to the customer service gate . NNA said that negotiations took place between Internal Security Forces and the workers to reach a deal on opening the company to customers . Meanwhile , EDL workers from the Sidon , Tyre and Deir Zahrani branches in the south also staged sitins demonstrating against the company ' s decision a day earlier to hire more contract workers instead of giving the existing temporary employees fulltime status . We were surprised by their decision to hire 200 new contract workers , other than the old workers that they still haven ' t found a solution for , EDL contract worker in Sidon , Rabih alSayegh told The Daily Star . NNA later reported that EDL had began preparing a complaint against the workers for causing public harm and material damage to their properties . In August , EDL extended its contract with service providers by four months , an extension that the contract workers have rejected . Since 2012 , contract workers have been employed by private service providers KVA , BUS and NEU , companies brought on board to carry out EDL services . Both sides reached a deal in 2012 , when the government promised to hire workers if they passed an entrance exam . But after 140 contract workers passed , none were hired . According to the terms of the agreement , those who passed the tests should be reclassified as permanent employees with full company benefits . We have taken exams , and we have passed . They told us that we don ' t have a place in the company . And despite all this , they decided to hire new people . Some people are still waiting to be examined , but they don ' t want to test them , Sayegh added . The workers have staged a number of strikes and sitins in recent years to protest what they view as unjust treatment . EDL counts heavily on contract workers to carry out maintenance work and collect electricity bills . The government has put a freeze on the hiring of new staff in a bid to reduce spending in public departments . But experts warn that the government will eventually be forced to replace the aging staff at EDL .