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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: NHSparky on November 13, 2009, 08:29:09 AM
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Yeah, weekend coming? Not so much. Working 8 hours tomorrow, maybe also Sunday, may not get a comp day after all--and that's with half the shop getting a FOUR DAY WEEKEND.
Nah, my attitude is fine, really!
Cloudy and getting cooler. Ida leftovers coming in tonight and tomorrow. At least the rain/clouds will keep it a bit warmer at night than it has been, but next week right back into the 50/30 routine. I'm guessing first serious accumulation of snow before the 1st of December.
Anyone else getting the royal bone this weekend?
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Quit your F'n whining, Sailor..... I'd be happy to trade lives with you at the moment..... :cheersmate:
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Yeah, weekend coming? Not so much. Working 8 hours tomorrow, maybe also Sunday, may not get a comp day after all--and that's with half the shop getting a FOUR DAY WEEKEND.
Nah, my attitude is fine, really!
Cloudy and getting cooler. Ida leftovers coming in tonight and tomorrow. At least the rain/clouds will keep it a bit warmer at night than it has been, but next week right back into the 50/30 routine. I'm guessing first serious accumulation of snow before the 1st of December.
Anyone else getting the royal bone this weekend?
If by Royal Bone you mean will I be working this weekend, with no OT or comp day repaid for it? Yes. I am getting the Royal Bone. Something about my boss's lack of time management skills. :mental:
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Nope, no royal bone for me, but I do get to install a utility sink.
I've learned more about Manabloc's and PEX tubing and plastic couplings in the last week than I'd ever known in my life. I get to put that knowledge into practice today/tomorrow, even pulling out my hammer drill and affixing the damn sink to the concrete floor in my basement.
I work harder at home than I do at work. :-)
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Sorry to hear that still up in the air if I am working been trying to kick this nasty flu bug wish it would go away
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Quit your F'n whining, Sailor..... I'd be happy to trade lives with you at the moment..... :cheersmate:
I know, I know--so would a lot of people. The bitching might have been legit watching the coners head out to the beach while I'm still lugging shore power cables and shutting down the plant, but now that they actually pay me for my TIME, hey...right?
Then again, I was walking out of work last night and I honestly had no idea what day it was.
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Yeah, weekend coming? Not so much. Working 8 hours tomorrow, maybe also Sunday, may not get a comp day after all--and that's with half the shop getting a FOUR DAY WEEKEND.
Nah, my attitude is fine, really!
Cloudy and getting cooler. Ida leftovers coming in tonight and tomorrow. At least the rain/clouds will keep it a bit warmer at night than it has been, but next week right back into the 50/30 routine. I'm guessing first serious accumulation of snow before the 1st of December.
Anyone else getting the royal bone this weekend?
That pretty much sucks. Sorry to hear it :-*
No weekend work here, but also still no option for overtime, and I have a ton of work to do.
My dad's company laid off about 12 percent yesterday. His job is safe, thank goodness, but it doesn't do much for my opinion of those who are insisting that the recession is over.
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Friday!!!
I'm off tomorrow, but I get to spend my day tracing electrical problems with my car. I wish I could print out the entire 2000-page service manual, because I don't have a laptop I can keep in the car. At least the weather will be nice.
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Nope, no royal bone for me, but I do get to install a utility sink.
I've learned more about Manabloc's and PEX tubing and plastic couplings in the last week than I'd ever known in my life. I get to put that knowledge into practice today/tomorrow, even pulling out my hammer drill and affixing the damn sink to the concrete floor in my basement.
I work harder at home than I do at work. :-)
When I am done with my work, that is not paying me to work, I get to go assist replacing a window, and snaking a sewer vent. Neither of which are mine. This weekend is gonna bite the big one.
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Cloudy here but rain is not likely. High will be about 72.
The boss leaves early today and will be gone for a two-week vacation. Par-tay!!
This weekend I'll be finishing up the painting (as much as possible). Without help, it will take me a while but I'm focused.
Only 13 days left until Turkey Day! Gobble, gobble!
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Cloudy here but rain is not likely. High will be about 72.
The boss leaves early today and will be gone for a two-week vacation. Par-tay!!
This weekend I'll be finishing up the painting (as much as possible). Without help, it will take me a while but I'm focused.
Only 13 days left until Turkey Day! Gobble, gobble!
Gee whiz. I bought my first house in June, and have only managed one room painted. AND I have to redo it because the color was mixed wrong. You make me look bad. :bow:
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Get to sign the lease and pick up keys for my new place at 2:30. Then I'm driving out to Athens tonight to pick up my bed and dresser and a few other things from my mom's house and drive back tomorrow to move in.
Can't wait.
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Screw that, Wayne. Know how much stock I put in that crap?
So far today, I woke up and chased my black cat out of the room, spilled salt at breakfast, walked under a ladder at work, and just to really tempt fate I broke a mirror for shits and giggles.
And now I (oh crap--the boss)
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:lmao:
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The morning started off with me hearing on tv that the 9/11 M-F's to NYC for trial..... :maddernhell:
The other half went with me to do interiors over in the next county....nasty. I don't even know how to comp them....they need to be condemned but that county does not condemn property outside the city limits. One of the houses (both on same property) didn't even have a bathroom....
Sunny and going up to 68....supposed to be sunny all weekend. We'll be working outside trying to get things ready for winter. Getting rid of leaves, covering the pool, putting up cushions - if I can get them dried out, and furniture....
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Ah, gyros... :cheersmate:
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I know, I know--so would a lot of people. The bitching might have been legit watching the coners head out to the beach while I'm still lugging shore power cables and shutting down the plant, but now that they actually pay me for my TIME, hey...right?
Then again, I was walking out of work last night and I honestly had no idea what day it was.
Kind of reminds me of my tour on Recruiting Duty. 16 Hour days, 5-6 days/ week, but sometimes 7.... Look at the positive side, at least you don't have the CR or Zone Supe beating up on you...... :cheersmate:
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Kind of reminds me of my tour on Recruiting Duty. 16 Hour days, 5-6 days/ week, but sometimes 7.... Look at the positive side, at least you don't have the CR or Zone Supe beating up on you...... :cheersmate:
Being the nuke recruiter was sometimes WORSE...because you'd have the CR, EPO, XO, AND CO all jumping your shit because, "We've missed nuke goal for the third month in a row, blahblahblah," and then the recruiters/RINC's would stab you in the back because their 63 QT, 25 y/o, DUI, GED couldn't get nuke even though "he cut the line scores".
Trust me, I did as much windshield time as anyone in the district, but because people didn't see me at THEIR station on a particular day, they just assumed I was at the NRD, cokin and jokin. I can't count the number of times I went into a recruiter's school, and found out that I was the ONLY Navy recruiter they'd seen in five YEARS, yet walk into the station and look at the school folder, there it was, dutifully filled out gundecked. Of course, any leads I generated from my over 2500 presentations in over 200 high schools during that 2 1/2 years went not to me, but to the recruiters (as it should be, but still...)
By the time I got out I had serious doubts as to how many of them ever got ANYONE to enlist. I was proud of the job I did in recruiting, even if the command didn't see my results right then and there, because as you know, recruiting doesn't care what you've done or the seeds you've planted. I was embarassed by the conduct of some of my fellow recruiters, however--some of them really had no business in recruiting.
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Gee whiz. I bought my first house in June, and have only managed one room painted. AND I have to redo it because the color was mixed wrong. You make me look bad. :bow:
I'm only doing the kitchen, living room, and hallway right now. And to be fair, I had help. My folks came over on Saturday and helped me knock out a lot of it. I was motivated. I'm hosting Thanksgiving and I know my sister would have made some snide comment about the walls. So I really wanted to have it looking spruced up.
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Worked today....High Schoolers are worse than 1st graders.
Selling Nutcracker tickets all day tomorrow. Poor daughter is getting her body abused by the guest choreographer...on day 3, 4 more to go.
Mr Flame is working tomorrow, as they are moving offices and need to work an "off" day to set back up computers and all.
Not sure what's happening on Sunday. Sleeping all day sounds like a plan.
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The two major things that pissed me off about recruiting were the "tabs", a way to track how many phone calls or attempts were made, appointments,interviews, and contracts and the district was going to miss goal for a certain month, so one overproduces and due to the overproduction, the NRD makes goal, but then the recruiter rolls a doughnut the next month. I had that happen to me several times. I was a pretty successful recruiter, leaving with a 4.0 PPR when the NRD average was 1.52. I pushed Nuke, AEF, or ATF quite hard when I found someone that cut the scores and had the HS class background.
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The two major things that pissed me off about recruiting were the "tabs", a way to track how many phone calls or attempts were made, appointments,interviews, and contracts and the district was going to miss goal for a certain month, so one overproduces and due to the overproduction, the NRD makes goal, but then the recruiter rolls a doughnut the next month. I had that happen to me several times. I was a pretty successful recruiter, leaving with a 4.0 PPR when the NRD average was 1.52. I pushed Nuke, AEF, or ATF quite hard when I found someone that cut the scores and had the HS class background.
And of course, the ZS and CR don't see the 4.0 PPR, they only see the months you rolled doughnuts because you put your guys in for the NRD. And when we got the laptops? OMG--what a micromanagement tool. RINCs would download who they wanted you to contact, etc., into the laptop and that was your production for the day.
I don't know how many times I tried to tell the CR we needed more recruiter involvement in the schools, i.e., they should be welded to me when I was giving presentations, for example, but he wouldn't hear of it--something about the E-9 to E-6 relationship and what the hell do you know about recruiting.... What do you expect from a guy with a 29 QT? Yes, I checked. I left there firmly of the belief that the CRF program needed to go the hell away.
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I couldn't imagine how recruiting would have sucked with laptops and cell phones. I thanked God when I was out of the office PDCing, school visits, or getting some windshield time.
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I couldn't imagine how recruiting would have sucked with laptops and cell phones. I thanked God when I was out of the office PDCing, school visits, or getting some windshield time.
You guys are a hoot. This is from the other side of the glass.
Oldest son had to drop out of Maine Maritine Academy at the end of his 2 year, he LOVED the school but the cost of student loans was going sky high and the grants were not enough to pay for board.
So like so many others he figured if he came home, lived with family rent free for 2 years he could go back and get his Junior year in. NOT.
One day on a lark he went into the Navy Recruiters office down town and took their test, next day the phone was ringing off the hook. He was retested 2 more times and when the reciters came to our house they told him, he at the very least qualified for Nuke school.
The boy could not get them to put in writing a guarantee he would never go to a skimmer of any kind. His Daddy was a Nuke on the SSBN Sam Houston (609) in the 1960's and he wanted the sub service. He had seen and grown up seeing the difference in subs and skimmers and he was not about to go skimmer.
So the boy went to the other services to see what they had to offer, he all most went Army with the lure of a full college education with his 2 years at the Academy granted and only need 2 years to get his degree in Engineering.
He had just turned 21 and one night he and some friends went to a strip bar, he got drunk, fell in love with a woman my age with nipple rings. With the loss of $250.00 and his virginity, his eyes were open to another world out there.
Youngest son a few years later went into all branches of the military recruiting and some how passed all tests.---But-- he was high as a kite when he took their test and they knew it.
Only the Army would take him and within 6 months had turned that kid headed for disaster around into a man I hardly knew. For 2 years until the accident in Alaska my man/ boy was going places.
Both my boys had darn good recruiters, they saw the potential in both my sons, they even saw the potential I as a mother missed.
Recruiting cannot be easy, to have a trophy head hunt, to get the best and then loose them must be very stressfull.
Back in the mid 1970's some branches had a buddy program where when 2 friends enlisted they were assured that they would stay together in any station. Yes, one may have to be a Cook while the other one was a Boson Mate. Good idea at that time. Helped getting through boot camp, etc.
I don't know how reacting is done in today's world but there has to be a better way to open the eyes of potential recruits then Manning a booth at a fair that perhaps 2 people will come to.
With all the Nursing schools out there from nursing aids to Rn's why not recruit where the need is the biggest. Recruiters concentrate on the ground ponders mostly men, Get the woman involved and the men will follow.
Did I hear correctly that it was civilian hellocopters that removed the injured from Fort Hood.? Shame, Shame, the Army recruiters have fallen down on that job. Need to get more medical personal , male and female in the Army.
Grumble grumble, if I were 20 years younger I would have given that life a go.