The drive sucked.
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The drive sucked.
I was coming from Zion National Park, though, and that was pretty spectacular.
The drive was NOT spectacular.
He's an assistant manager in produce at a grocery store.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
SH,
It was as small raise to begin with (less than 2%). Which actually made it worse because he was already a little bitter about how small it was.
On Saturday, I drove my camper to Lake Charles, then drove up to DeRidder, then drove back home. All in all it was about 9 hours, but it wasn't all at once.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I just hate pulling my camper. I don't go over 55 mph when pulling it and the roads absolutely suck here, so I feel every single bump.
Man, I'm really sorry to hear that. I used to work in the deli/bakery combo at Kroger's, which is unionized, and we were guaranteed a raise every so often. It was so minimal that it practically didn't make a difference. But I will never forget Mrs. Alice, the old lady I worked for. She was my department manager and I swear she practically lived at the store. She was 67 when I left and I remember asking her when she would quit working.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
She was actually one of the reasons why I decided to get serious about getting into insurance. I remembered thinking that I didn't want to be getting paid peanuts and work until I'm dead.
Yeah, no one wants to do that. But it happens for a wide range of reasons.Quote:
She was actually one of the reasons why I decided to get serious about getting into insurance. I remembered thinking that I didn't want to be getting paid peanuts and work until I'm dead.
Nomad land.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking down on anyone.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
I was very fortunate to have worked with her when I did. I was also very fortunate that my dad owned an insurance agency, so I knew I could get a job once I got licensed.
I'm just saying that I remember really admiring this woman and felt incredibly sorry for her because there was nothing I could do to really help her other than being the best employee that I could be which just didn't feel like it was enough.
Ah, there's a thread for that.
Yeah, the post race!
Oof. That was accurate.
Couldn't resist it :)
Bout time they put that out there without an ad wall in front of it.
WOW! Now that is some crappy management.Quote:
yesterday my son was told that his raise was a mistake and they were cutting it in half
Nah, crappy management is the supervisor at the septic cleanout company. That was horrendous management.
I was at a hatchery where we thought there was sewage leaking into the hatchery building. I volunteered to be lowered into a storm drain to try to snake a pipe that we found on the blueprints for the hatchery. That did no good, as that wasn't the source of the problem, but there were some mighty big rainbow trout swimming around my feet while I was down there.
The point was that we tracked the problem to a sewage uplift pump that had sucked up a stone and was jammed. A guy had to be lowered into THAT to fix the pump.
Somebody kept flushing while he was down there, even though we thought we had everybody blocked off. Nobody ever really did understand the plumbing of that hatchery.