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Offline thundley4

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Re: Follow the bouncing steel toed work boot
« Reply #25 on: July 22, 2010, 08:48:17 AM »
We have a uniform service supplied but we're not required to wear them, so I don't.  We had a choice of either long sleeves or short sleeves, no option of switching between winter and summer. Screw that, I wear T-Shirts in the summer and heavy cotton shirts in the winter.

We had a $50 dollar one allowance for work boots when they first started requiring steel-toed shoes, but there is some deal worked out with the local RedWing Shoe store for a discount.  I wear tennis shoes. :)
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Re: Follow the bouncing steel toed work boot
« Reply #26 on: July 22, 2010, 08:48:35 AM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on July 22, 2010, 08:44:24 AM
I was only joking around, Carl.  People who work in finance/accounting aren't members of unions and don't wear uniforms.  We also negotiate our own salaries and don't rely on unions to control us.

What you don't get a clothing allowance for your brown shirts?
You may wanna email Teh Rove and fix that.

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Re: Follow the bouncing steel toed work boot
« Reply #27 on: July 22, 2010, 08:49:18 AM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on July 22, 2010, 08:44:24 AM
I was only joking around, Carl.  People who work in finance/accounting aren't members of unions and don't wear uniforms.  We also negotiate our own salaries and don't rely on unions to control us.

I know Ralph,couldn`t resist taking a jab at lurking DUmbasses though. :cheersmate:
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Re: Follow the bouncing steel toed work boot
« Reply #28 on: July 22, 2010, 08:49:47 AM »
Quote from: Freeper on July 22, 2010, 08:48:35 AM
What you don't get a clothing allowance for your brown shirts?
You may wanna email Teh Rove and fix that.

 :lmao:

Yeah, I haven't received my monthly VRWC "allowance" this month yet either.  I need to get on that.
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Re: Follow the bouncing steel toed work boot
« Reply #29 on: July 22, 2010, 02:55:40 PM »
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We had a choice of either long sleeves or short sleeves, no option of switching between winter and summer.
  Why on earth would you not have that option?  Seems cruel and sadistic. 
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Re: Follow the bouncing steel toed work boot
« Reply #30 on: July 22, 2010, 03:05:55 PM »
Quote from: Karin on July 22, 2010, 02:55:40 PM
  Why on earth would you not have that option?  Seems cruel and sadistic. 

I have no idea, but I suspect the company did it so most people would opt out of the uniform service.  That means they pay for fewer uniforms to be cleaned each week.  I prefer T-Shirts and jeans for working most of the time, much more comfortable.
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Re: Follow the bouncing steel toed work boot
« Reply #31 on: July 22, 2010, 03:27:19 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on July 22, 2010, 08:49:47 AM
Yeah, I haven't received my monthly VRWC "allowance" this month yet either.  I need to get on that.

Dude,
Join the 21st century.
Direct Deposit, Swiss account, transfer to the Caymans then overnight courier. It's sitting next to your bowl of morning granola all clean, laundered, untraceable and ready to spend within hours of the pay vouchers being issued.
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Re: Follow the bouncing steel toed work boot
« Reply #32 on: July 22, 2010, 05:04:47 PM »
Ok so it was 40 years ago and things change but here goes anyway.

E.I. DuPont required us to wear steel toed shoes...but they gave us 2 pairs a year free and you could buy 2 more at 1/2 price and all you wanted at company cost. They also sold clothes at cost.....and "NO UNION".

They had steel toed dress shoes, ladies shoes, just about any style you wanted.
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Re: Follow the bouncing steel toed work boot
« Reply #33 on: July 22, 2010, 05:22:59 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on July 22, 2010, 05:04:47 PM
Ok so it was 40 years ago and things change but here goes anyway.

E.I. DuPont required us to wear steel toed shoes...but they gave us 2 pairs a year free and you could buy 2 more at 1/2 price and all you wanted at company cost. They also sold clothes at cost.....and "NO UNION".

They had steel toed dress shoes, ladies shoes, just about any style you wanted.
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Re: Follow the bouncing steel toed work boot
« Reply #34 on: July 23, 2010, 06:19:10 AM »
And one summer I took a job in a closed shop doing injection molding in an abandoned textile mill.  Worst working conditions one could imagine. I am not sure whether to compare it to Sodom and Gamora or Peyton Place, suffice to say the union boss had his pick of line workers on the cycolac in the warehouse (as did the best boy and leadman)....

The company and union agreed to no pay raise for workers with the stipulation that the union could raise dues.  This was just before OSHA, no ventelation, electical safety, clean restrooms ( hell no doors on them for that matter) Safety was of no concern to the union or company.  And pollution ?  Wow. 

Only Vesta can tell a story with more depravity IIRC.
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Re: Follow the bouncing steel toed work boot
« Reply #35 on: July 23, 2010, 08:09:05 AM »
I want a shoe allowance.   :bawl:  $150 would help me buy some cute new shoes, and I promise to wear them to work  :-)
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Re: Follow the bouncing steel toed work boot
« Reply #36 on: July 23, 2010, 08:11:46 AM »
Zeitgeist, what's a cycolac?  Glad you made it through hell. 
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Re: Follow the bouncing steel toed work boot
« Reply #37 on: July 23, 2010, 08:34:06 AM »
Quote from: Karin on July 23, 2010, 08:11:46 AM
Zeitgeist, what's a cycolac?  Glad you made it through hell. 

Cycolac [sp?] was a small round plastic pellet used to make platform shoe heels. It came in bags (which felt like a bean bag chair) that were fed into a hopper which fed 'a meat grinder type screw' through heat bands then finally extruded as extreemly hot liguid plastic (like a hot glue gun if you will) into water cooled mold to become a heel.  Pallet loads of these bags were in a remote part of the warehouse, a favorite location upon which the PTB's would often have career intervews with the 'mill maidens' (AKA mill-rats, not in anyway to be misconstrued as the upper crust of society nor poor exploited masses, many would brag at the local watering hole about who they where doing and why). 
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Re: Follow the bouncing steel toed work boot
« Reply #38 on: July 23, 2010, 08:42:50 AM »
Oh, I see.  I worked in paper mills for many years, and things were like that there, too.  They used dunnage bags, which were used to pad the rolls of paper in the boxcars.  Such goings-on.  One mill had a key club.  One elevator had a very bad reputation. 
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Re: Follow the bouncing steel toed work boot
« Reply #39 on: July 23, 2010, 08:47:46 AM »
Quote from: Karin on July 23, 2010, 08:42:50 AM
Oh, I see.  I worked in paper mills for many years, and things were like that there, too.  They used dunnage bags, which were used to pad the rolls of paper in the boxcars.  Such goings-on.  One mill had a key club.  One elevator had a very bad reputation. 

Sounds like some of the tales I heard about the local cotton mill. They caught a guy and girl on a stairway having oral sex. They fired her but not him....  he was on his lunch break.
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Re: Follow the bouncing steel toed work boot
« Reply #40 on: July 23, 2010, 09:27:28 AM »
Same thing with the elevator.  Except it was 2 guys.  What is with mills that makes people sex-crazed maniacs? 
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Re: Follow the bouncing steel toed work boot
« Reply #41 on: July 23, 2010, 10:32:35 AM »
Quote from: Karin on July 23, 2010, 09:27:28 AM
Same thing with the elevator.  Except it was 2 guys.  What is with mills that makes people sex-crazed maniacs? 

It is not just mills.  More than a few careers have been lost ( and launched ) at Christmas parties, house parties,  etc, etc. :naughty:

That said, mills generally offer the most hot, ditry, boring, work where primal instincts take over. 
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Re: Follow the bouncing steel toed work boot
« Reply #42 on: July 23, 2010, 01:22:25 PM »
Quote from: Celtic Rose on July 23, 2010, 08:09:05 AM
I want a shoe allowance.   :bawl:  $150 would help me buy some cute new shoes, and I promise to wear them to work  :-)

Amen sister! I'd like to use that 150 on new shoes or a purse.  Now I just have to submit fake taxi reciepts if I want something new.  Just kidding ;)
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