New England B.S. Thread

hey you can't be doing any of that trading stuff, it's only gifts or buying really expensive ziploc bags

 

9/80 work weeks are awesome for both companies & employees!

 

LOL good point. I live in the "city" so I never really got the true NH experience.

 

I think you're confusing rural and inbred. Someone from rural NH was calling Mainiacs inbreds I believe. Your defense may still apply though depending on the area...

 

I would love to have a schedule like that. I think I'm averaging a 5/60 week but have spiked beyond 5/80 on rare occasions. Usually, if I break 80 hours in a week, it involves a 6 or 7 day work week.

 

Been there!

I feel like production goes down in most cases when hours turn into days and days turn into weeks if you know what I mean. Sometimes less is more!

 

Shrug. Parts of rural NH are just as likely to branchless family trees as parts of rural ME. Though I think it's less of a problem now that there's these horseless carriage things starting to get more popular. Lets people get out of the backwoods.

 

It certainly does, but I'm salaried so I don't think they really care if productivity goes down. Just means I'll work longer hours to make up for it.

With the trades though, there is a lot of evidence that working stupid long hours is not sustainable beyond about 2 weeks. After 2 weeks, you end up just paying a shit load of overtime but you're really only accomplishing what you would have if you just kept the workers at 40 hours. I really try to run my jobs like that. I may pile on the hours for a couple weeks to get a specific task completed, but there is a set end date, not just working 10-12 hour days until we catch up. That rarely works and it gets really expensive.

 

I don't know man, I used to think that but then I started spending more time in Aroostook County. Spend an hour on a Friday night in the Hannafords in Caribou Maine... I'm not sure there are people like that ANYWHERE else on this planet.

 

Two words:
Dixville Notch.

When I rode thru there a few years ago I was felt like everybody I passed stopped and watched me ride by. Like 'this guy ain't from 'round these parts'

 

Oh, we got way worse than Dixville Notch! LOL

 

i knew a couple guys from Vt's Northeast Kingdom and they called the inbreds "Chicoins' or something like that.

 

If there's enough of them to where the area has a name for them, I think that tells me about all I need to know...

 

Been drinking Whiskey and ice tea out of beer glass does that count

End of number 3

Mainiac is some one who left this great place.

So true, lived in Caribou for few years.

 

Funky Bow FTW!

 

If your ever up this way, let me know 15 minutes down the road on a slow night.

 

@tacobell007 Turned me on to their stuff. Would love to visit it someday.

 

It's a fun evening, live band fire pits and good beer. They will have Santa Sack soon, freaking good. Their Panama Red aged in bourbon barrels.

 

Yum!

Will have to look for that one.

 

Tap only. They do can the Pannama red though.