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Awesome. You never know when they will try to pull that shit on you! Rank and file gotta stick together!

 

Back home. Lots of funny stories and a few tears. We see people at funerals and weddings that otherwise we forget. The preacher who performed the service challenged me to tell a better story about Bill than he could. He had no clue just what me and my old buddy had been up to in our younger days. Had em all rolling in the isle.

The stories just made me miss my old buddy even more.

 

lol. we have laurel thickets in the mtns. that grown men want out of before dark. bears and rattlesnakes bout all that live there!!

 

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

NO

 

There is something to be said about a friend who will get up and share stories of life with a long time friend. I had to do that once. I was scared shitless. But,I made it through. My hat off to you sir. I’m sure you did him good...

 

Something else I'm seeing is some of these kids further along become foremen and supervisors with so-called "operator experience" and they really haven't been in the field long enough to get a grasp of what's going on and really have no leadership or management experience but can do the programming and read the shit out of a set of plans and they are not above rat-fucking someone because they haven't quite shown their ability or haven't been given or realized the challenge or importance of what they should be doing.

 

I’ve had the police coming after me on at least 3 occasions. The irs coming to evict me from the house 2 times. My computer has had this virus that allows anyone to take money out of savings and checking.
My long lost son overseas needs money to come and find me..
He’s still waiting.. lol

 

It was 20 something this morning. Would have been nice to stay in bed but went up to the mtn and popped a big 'ol doe good freezer meet. I remember all the years i would put at least 8 in the freezer a year. It was all my kids knew for red meet

 

see it all the time ole buddy. our good management came thru the ranks and some that came in as manag. dont have a clue and only read out of the play book because they have no idea! i stayed out of supv. position. dont like the politics and i can get more done on the floor as i can say crap they think about but cant say because of HR and political corecttness. they call it my manag. style as ive fixed alot of problems for them all i ask is they have my back

 

THIS is exactly why My Florida resume looks like a who's who.....

You give me a job description and I accept, then you undermine that....guess what , I am not afraid to

With the Old School retiring or passing onto the "Heavens" , this New Gen sometimes has no clue...and then too "$hit" on your senior, experienced staff, again

I now show up to a site and the "Old Man is here" starts , if they are not "truck ready", I just jump in, , last week on a hammer, then the mini and then the loader....

We work as a team or we FAIL as a team..

And Quiet me has no problem telling someone to get the f!@# off his a$$ and phone...……….or I will kick them both....They giggle at 1st until my son says he is totally serious ....ask me how I know

Respect is something this country has FORGOTTEN and once that becomes a natural occurrence again, we might become a better society...

Ok, I am done.....Had a weird feeling Tacoma Mike was typing for me...

 

I think I'd like working with you. If yo tried that where I work though they woud just sit down and laugh at you I have seen it it's pitiful and they'll still get the sae if not better raise than I do

 

Chris, our ownership is not afraid to give someone an "unpaid" day off for discipline as they have found it to be less disruptive to have a few GOOD men working, than an a$$ dragging the whole team down..

Sadly we just lost a GREAT pipe-layer to addiction, he will be in a State run hotel for an extended stay..

 

awsome post!!!

 

That's why we have the Oregon villa

 

Took a page out of @Cold Iron book 28 deg sure grilling weather neighbor I am pretty sure is now convinced I need medication. But it's good !! Even Uther agrees he has his own piece . @Tacoma Mike see this is how he likes it , though he would prefer some recreation before hand a little run maybe

 

That's over cooked....

 

Only on the outside edges I have to replace my drip trays ;( or buy a new grill. I know this one pretty well though after 12 years.

Cypher

 

Christ just chase the fuckin cow with a knife and fork..

 

Yep, that checks a lot of our boxes too. Maybe more of mine than my wife's. Surprises me how many of these retirement themed areas are being developed off the beaten path. For us as well, health care, as this becomes even more important as we get older, the four seasons - North Texas can get cold for a few days here and there, always looking for reasonable taxes but one thing I crave is scenery. Feels like I've always lived in a subdivision where the only view is that of your neighbors houses.