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Company thinks I'm a young buck again

RosieRosie Member Posts: 14,525 ✭✭✭
edited May 2002 in General Discussion
Have traveled all over for years buying machinery for the company I work for but quit traveling about five years ago. All of a sudden they want me to travel again. Went to Chicago last week and Detroit today. I'm too old for this crap. Gonna have to have a little heart to rock talk with the owners. Really not too bad though. Nice to get out again. Anyone want to buy a laser cutting machine? I know where there is a small one for three hundred thousand, new and ready to go.
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  • FUBARFUBAR Member Posts: 175 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rosie, Laser cutting is nice , but do you have a stable laser welding machine? Investment is one issue, operating expense is another.

    Guns! Guns! Guns!
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I told my boss once that at my age and background, "my dues are paid in full for life."

    - Life NRA Member
    If dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • daddodaddo Member Posts: 3,408
    edited November -1
    Your never too old- just a little slower. And a few xtra aches and pains. And maybe can't see as well, but thats it. Except for maybe a little more spare tire. And.........................
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rosie--Can I have your job when you retire? I've been fantasizing about a job where I can spend most of my days/evenings on the road. I love to drive. It is absolutely the best part about the job I have right now. 30,000 miles in 11 months and I wish I could drive more. I just don't want to do it behind the wheel of a rig.

    SSG idsman75, U.S. ARMY
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    30,000 miles in 11 months!?!?!?!?! Man you aint drivin, you're trashin around! If you cant do atleast 120,000 a year you need to try ALOT harder!

    If you love to drive but don't mind being treated like dirt, have money extorted from you and a list a mile long of the other degrading things that the general public and some law enforcment does to you, drive a truck. You get on with the right company and you will be tired of driving in a year. But get used to being told you are no good and you are a cancer to society and that you have no rights and the public needs protected from you, trucking is fun but there is NO other job that you may be legally discriminated against and be treated and humiliated to no end , have your hard earned cash taken from you and be otherwise misserable like trucking. Do that for awhile and you will understand why myself and other truckers are so misserable.
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Well, there's always Burger King. You get one of those spiffy hats and you're always home every evening.

    You want fries with that?

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • DupontDupont Member Posts: 129 ✭
    edited November -1
    7MM nut


    You think you have it bad as a driver? Try a deisel Mechanic!
    We really get no respect!!

    BTW- Was a driver for 12 years!

    Getting old is mandatory, Growing up is optional!
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  • timberbeasttimberbeast Member Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Never thought of you as an "old buck", Rosie. Since I'm sitting in the weeds and plotting out the next step of "the business", I been working for an investment casting company as a machinist, you probably have dealt with them, they be the second biggest in the U.S., found myself a Mori-Seiki that's got my initials on it, a ZT-2500, how's that for irony? She drives nice. Ever use any of the ASRS stuff from Rock-AB? MsBeast's sister is married to da guy what invented the stuff in his basement. A lucky and blessed man, he, as a guy who can get beaucoup rich just because he started playing with his model trains by hooking them up to computers and putting eye beams on them had a hell of a great idea and played with it!
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  • PelicanPelican Member Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rosie, ya know - I'd buy that there thing 'cept I just don't never hafta cut no lasers.

    The Almighty Himself Entrusted the Future of All Living Creatures to a Wooden Boat.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -"Audemus jura nostra defendere"
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  • RosieRosie Member Posts: 14,525 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Pelican, I also checked out a water jet cutter. Just think about how fast 66000 psi would make that beautiful boat of yours go!!
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  • RosieRosie Member Posts: 14,525 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Timber, I prefer the old SL-4, 5 Etc. Mori-Seiki's Won't run as fast but real work horses.
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    7mm Nut--That's 30,000 miles as a recruiter. Our profession isn't driving. It's just part of the job sometimes. 30,000 miles equates to a lot of lost time. I spent three hours of my day just driving. It's almost 10:30pm and I'm about to head home. If that worthless punk kid who I have to put in the Army decided to get off his rear and come to my office when he says he will, then I'd have been home for a few hours now. Time to go eat dinner.
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    LOL, if you get him in the Army IDS maybe they will do something about his punctuality! Bet he won't be late more than once!
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    He already enlisted last summer. He can't leave for Basic Training unless he has a diploma in his hand. It is currently locked in the school safe. Graduation was a week ago. He won't get it until he completes the requirements for one of his classes. Sadly, I've been spending two hours on the road per week to constantly check up on him and his grades. If he isn't ready to go by the end of June then he is dropped and we have to make him up since he counted for the "numbers" during fiscal year 2001. Whenever we take a loss like that, we start the month at a -1. We started this month at a -1. I was the first person to put someone in the Army this month. My recruit brought us up to a big fat zero. Most don't know it but anyoen that fails to ship for basic training due to apathy or failure to graduate can be drafted for a period of two years at any time in their life until they reach the age of 35. This little punk makes me pray for a draft. He has made my recruiting life a living hell since last August.

    SSG idsman75, U.S. ARMY
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