Keystone State Thread

Dang. So I'm guessing there goes those jobs. They still may have to maintain the building?

 

Can’t remember who they sold the building too, When PNC owned it they had an independent company maintains the building.

 

Yea it was a real-estate management company, the name slips me . Ill remember laying in bed tonight. Same company manages a few buildings downtown.

 

I’m 60% sure that I have this 100% under control.

 

Good morning fellow Pennsyltuckyvanians!!

I attended the ribbon cutting ceremony for a new extension center for the college I worked at. Signing the lease last year was one of the last things I did before retiring as president. What an awesome job they did on the construction. It will be the new home for our Petroleum and Natural Gas Center as well as a full service location for certificates and degrees - located in Tunkhannock, PA. Turns out the husband of the new Center Director has a Tacoma and is here on TW - not sure if he's here in the PA group or not. She's a rock star who's worked for us for years in our business office. I'm totally impressed with what she's done already to get the center up and running. Great morning.

Crewed another hot air balloon flight last night. Two in a row...and hoping for another tonight, tomorrow night and Sunday night.

Be safe out there!!

 

retired life keeps you pretty busy my friend, God bless!

 

Morning Pennsylvania

 

Good morning PA TW.

 

Good morning all and happy Friday!

We're still running short staffed here where I work. Pay and benefits are.....okay. Couple of issues though in that raises are almost unheard of here. We've had guys here go 7-8 years without a raise. Vacation time should be better too. Need to be here 15 years until you pick up a third week. I think if I'd been told that upfront when I started I'm not so sure I would have taken the position. On the plus side you can have off almost as much as you wish if you take it without pay. We had one guy take off 4 months to finish hiking the Appalachian Trail that he'd done half of many years ago. Side projects are allowed, sometimes even when on the clock if we're slow. No layoffs in almost 15 years. Fairly small family owned business. Shop has a gym and racquetball court plus an indoor pool which hardly ever gets used.

 

Besides the vacation time and wages/raises, benefits sound awesome.

 

Hey Steelcity 2, morning. Been in the Mid'lantic most of my life. Warrington , Bucks Co. I currently call home.

 

Great, nice place to live. Enjoy the site , lots of great people here.

 

At my old job we had benefits like cantankerous vending machines in the break room and ...................
........ well, we had the vending machines...


Morning all, hope you have a good day!

 

Welcome to our little corner of Tacoma World

 

Welcome.

 

We do have free coffee during work hours........Oh, we also have a slushy machine! 2 Flavors!

 

It does have it's perks, just gets a little frustrating at times. Too often it feels like a case of the inmates running the asylum. After 8.5 years here I've still never had any type of employee review to discuss how I'm doing or anything of that nature. First world problems I suppose.

 

Yea , overall it doesn't seem that bad. But a job can have some of the best of the best benefits but that still doesn't pay the bills. U need good wages to live. It's when 2 jobs are within a buck or 2 then consider the benefits . Oh well someone let me know where the best of both worlds jobs exist.

 

Every job/occupation has its positives and negatives. I’m an hourly employee, no vacation, sick days or personal days. I make a great hourly rate, have good health care, pension, annuity and savings plan. It all depends on what you want to focus on IMO.