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| jurb6006@gmail.com: Dec 19 02:53PM -0800 On Saturday, December 19, 2015 at 11:18:03 AM UTC-5, Wond wrote: > > MAKE NO PROMISES. > > Ever. > Reminds me of that fellow, Ainit da Troot Yup, those words to not emit from my mouth or keyboard. I have learned how to manage this planet. I also do not get pissed off unless it is really severe provocation. Aggravation is not a choice but anger is. If I kick you in the balls, whether you get pissed off or not you want to kick my ass. If you are not pissed off you want to do it to make the world a better place, which is the same reason I will shoot to kill if someone tries to rob me. But if a baby steps on your balls with those fucking cement baby shoes (no wonder they can't walk) you are not angry. If you can avoid anger in physical pain like that you got no excuse any other time. (I should probably teach an anger management class huh) I try to do what I say I am gong to do, but II always allow for Murphy's Law. If I say I'll be there at noon I will plan to be there by eleven. Actually I say "I'll be there BY...", not "at". When you learn electronics, especially service, you pick up a frew things. My last good job, I go to boss and say I know what is wrong and we got the part. That is all I said, but that stupid fuck would schedule delivery for later that day. Sometimes I felt like cutting his goddam fingers off so he couldn't dial the phone. But see, if something went wrong he was the one to explain it to the customer. Fine with me. And if they pissed me off I could look at the clock for a couple of minutes and see one more dollar in my pocket. Wanna say something about it I could go to the bathroom. Got them by the balls, and after a little while they know it. In a way I was the boss. Order some of these, and we need this and that, and get this shit the fuck out of my way before I shoot it or take an axe to it. Some places, they asked ME what I wanted for lunch and they would go get it. Well I gotta admit there is a reason for that lol. Rich, a coworker, became a friend. I lived 25 miles from the shop and he lived twice as far. I rode with him to and from work for quite a while. then we sat at my house for a bit and got smoked a bit. We almost died together. He had this Ford Escort and we were on I-90 in the fast lane, which is the correct lane because the exit to my house was on the left. A semi changed lanes and we were underneath it right along the dividing wall. An extremely stressful situation. He drove expertly and matched speed and piloted the thing perfectly, with the horn blaring all the time. Eventually the semi got out of the fast lane and I said "Get us to the nearest bar". He agreed. Anyway, we got tight and one day we decided, since we were both "Electrasound graduates" where you DID go out for lunch, that we were going to the Ground Round for lunch. The boss said "Don't go, you guys won't come back". We went, had surf n turf and a few beers and Rich says "I don't like how he was saying we won't come back". I said "Yeah". And then that lightbulb (a dim one) lit up and one of us said "Know what we should do ?". you know what happened then. So we sat there for about an hour drinking and then decided to call the shop. Told the boss we need money because we cannot pay the tab ! That was a lie but fuck it. Told him we need someone to bring down about $50. The boss said "I can't leave, I am the only one here". I have had some really bad times in life, and I have had some really good times in life. In some jobs, the employee is really the boss. Like construction. Brick layers smoke pot and therefore cannot pass a drug test. Know what the union does here ? They hire one guy who does not smoke it and whether or not he can lay brick, he takes all the drug tests for everybody. These brickies make around $30 an hour plus super benefits, and that is because they do something that not all that many people can do, at least at their level of performance. They are the boss. As a matter of fact, you offer most of them the foreman position they will refuse. My Father was a pretty damn good job shop machinist (worked with the engineers on the prototype for the first floppy disk making machine) and was offered management positions more than once. He said no, in fact he said fuck no. the reason ? Everyone bitches at you. you got the suits wanting shit that can't be done and employees you have a hard time getting to do what can be done. Middle management is not a good place all the time. And back then the labor market was such that you could not get 100 people to suck donkey dick for two bucks an hour. We had real industry and skilled people were important to the economy. Things were different then. Now, money is made on paper. They even have paper gold. The world is junk. One more good reason and I am ready to leave it. Honest Men with real skills have no place in this country anymore. |
| John Robertson <spam@flippers.com>: Dec 19 03:49PM -0800 >> Reminds me of that fellow, Ainit da Troot > Yup, those words to not emit from my mouth or keyboard. > I have learned how to manage (on) this planet. I also do not get pissed off unless it is really severe provocation. Aggravation is not a choice but anger is. If I kick you in the balls, whether you get pissed off or not you want to kick my ass. If you are not pissed off you want to do it to make the world a better place, which is the same reason I will shoot to kill if someone tries to rob me. But if a baby steps on your balls with those fucking cement baby shoes (no wonder they can't walk) you are not angry. If you can avoid anger in physical pain like that you got no excuse any other time. (I should probably teach an anger management class huh) I like your analogy - if your baby/child kicks you and you do not respond with rage, then why when an adult does? Sounds like a good trick for anger management. Perhaps some world leaders (or would be leaders) need to think about that! Thanks! John :-#)# -- (Please post followups or tech inquiries to the USENET newsgroup) John's Jukes Ltd. 2343 Main St., Vancouver, BC, Canada V5T 3C9 (604)872-5757 or Fax 872-2010 (Pinballs, Jukes, Video Games) www.flippers.com "Old pinballers never die, they just flip out." |
| Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>: Dec 19 04:25PM -0800 >MAKE NO PROMISES. >Ever. Ok, I promise not to make any more promises. - If I did everything I promised to do, I'd never get anything done. - Everyone lies, but that's ok, because nobody listens. - Do unto others. Then run. - Troubleshooting: Find the person giving you trouble and shoot them. - Most embarrassing moment: When the Chinese clone works better than the original. - Election time: Promise the voters anything, and then do whatever the opposition promised to do. It happens every 4 years. -- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
| jurb6006@gmail.com: Dec 19 01:58PM -0800 > Thanks for the laugh and Merry Christmas. > G² I think happy hannuka(sp) might be more appropriate. At any rate, Lieberman has alot of good knowledge and experience and is not stingy with it. With the exception of a couple of assholes, nobody here has anything but good to say about him. I'd pick up some steaks, beers and good smoke and go see him if he wasn't two fucking thousand miles away in that other planet they call Califuckingfornia. I don't see how he can stand it there. Alot of people are moving to Arizona from there where the jail inmates wear pink panties. Less crime. But the weather is better than Arizona, where if your car breaks down they find skeletal remains of your body. If you haven't been to the dentist they ID you by the VIN on your car. But that is going to change. A good piece of that coast is about ready to drop off into the ocean. Actually they should try to help global warming in California because then instead of losing the whole state all at once, they will just lose it a little bit at a time. Now up here when your car breaks down the meat is well preserved. Kinda like Canada. See, we got the best of both worlds, zero to one hundred almost every year. Like living in Africa and Antarctica at the same time. You think health insurance costs ? Try heating and cooling a house in Cleveland ! That's why the Rothschilds ad Rockefellers don't live here, they would go broke. And they ain't stupid. (what did I just say there ?) |
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