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New Job
susie
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i just started an outage at a power plant 80 miles from home. wont be on here much. working 6 tens, for 4 weeks
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new job ,will be working part time in a new start up gun store .Could work into full time in the future .If things go well the owner is going to add class 3 items soon .He just picked up a new to him Full auto UZI .it came in last nite and after about an hour he left me in the store so he could go test fire it .Life is good, I will get paid to talk to peeps and play with guns .First time working retail This should be educational based on what you guys have said in the past .Wish me luck
traffic,(accidents and citations). Been a long time since I handled
any type of traffic duties. Have to brush up on all the regs and laws.
One day he lost control of a forklift and drove it off the loading dock.
Surveying the damage, the owner shook his head and said he'd have to withhold 10 percent
of Joe's wages to pay for the repairs.
"How much will it cost?" asked Joe.
"About $4,500," said the owner.
"What a relief!" exclaimed Joe. "I've finally got job security!"
RIF (Reduction in Force) notice was to be effective 1 December 2012 which would have resulted in me being unemployed. PPP (Priority Placement Program) stepped in and I now have a new position. I will be working in Industrial Hygiene as a "Program Assistant".
Thank the Lord. I was beginning to get a little worried. I would have been eligible for early retirement at a reduced rate and with kids still in school that was just not going to be enough.
New boss will have to wait until after deer season for me to start. [8D]
For a few moments everything was silent in the cab, and then the still
shaking driver said, "I'm sorry but you scared the daylights out of me."
The frightened passenger, apologized to the driver, and said he didn't
realize a mere tap on the shoulder could frighten him so much.
The driver replied, "No, no, I'm sorry, it's entirely my fault. Today is my first day driving a cab . I've been driving a hearse for the last 23 years. [:o)]
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So far so good, the biggest problem I've run into is that I really want to sexually harass the HR lady... what do you do in that situation? [}:)][xx(][V]
And people say semiautomatic assault rifles are evil....
We lost our Operations Manager back in Jan (promoted). Since then I had picked up the slack on alot of day to day stuff. A search since then turned up no worthwhile candidates. Last Wed, the General Manager said I should give it some serious consideration. On Fri, he made an offer that was very difficult to refuse. Having little interest in the job and having turned down other offers at other plants for a similar positions, I accepted. Out of the Control room and into management I go.
As a side note, a long time friend (13 years) also got a promotion to management. We will be sharing an office. He is from Boston, I am from the Bronx. Needless to say this makes for some interesting banter. We will be sharing an office, currently getting painted. We joked about how we would get some paint and that I would have to stare at the Green Monster and that he would have to stare at the right field fence at Y.S. (where the hall of famers reside) I came to work for night shift and the GM (Yankee Fan) had the walls opposite out desks painted in the appropriate green and blue. A painter has been commissioned to decorate them approriately.
A carload of bearded, young, loud Muslims, shouting Anti-American slogans, with a half-burned American Flag duct-taped on the trunk of their car, and a "Remember 9-11" slogan spray painted on the side, was stopped next to me.
Suddenly they yelled, "Allah Akbar! Praise Allah! "Death to America" and took off before the light changed.
Out of nowhere an 18-wheeler came speeding through the intersection and ran directly over their car, crushing it completely and CREAMING everyone in it.
For several minutes I sat in my car thinking to myself, "Man....that could have been me!"
So today, bright and early, I went out and got a job as a truck driver
I will be an ems dispatcher, most likely nights and weekends. Unfortunately, my physical limitations have likely end my career in the field, but I think I can be happy on the desk. I may not be able to go out and play any more, but I can still tell others where the party is.
Couldn't have come at a better time. I was in a neck and neck race between bankruptcy and being committed for depression. The liquor store was just enough money to get through the day to day, but the big picture stuff(car insurance etc) was falling apart.
So anyway, back in the saddle starting Thursday. Pretty psyched.
I will be handling budget and purchasing duties as well as running an office.