Post Race!

[Shaggy Hiker]

That goat managed to escape a few times. Twice that evening. I really got the neighbors goat. I wasn't trying to kidnap him, or anything, he just kept butting into our evening.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm pretty sure it was a baby goat, despite him constantly taking it on the lamb.

[dday9]

Wow. That was awesome.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Do we have a button fly site? What's with the 503?

[dday9]

I've asked Steve about it, but he's as in the dark as we are.

[wes4dbt]

Do we have a button fly site? What's with the 503?

You moderators get all the good stuff. We just get Error 504.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Oh, I get that, too. It alternates, just to spice things up.

[Delaney]

That goat managed to escape a few times. Twice that evening. I really got the neighbors goat. I wasn't trying to kidnap him, or anything, he just kept butting into our evening.

Grilled goat is good, you didn't take the opportunity to taste it ? you could also try to get some milk to do some cheese.

(We French have a particular relation to food and almost everything is food : either for the body or for the mind and soul )

[FunkyDexter]

I'm a big fan of curried goat... nom

[NeedSomeAnswers]

I'm a big fan of curried goat... nom

drool.... or curried mutton, and speaking of that

you could also try to get some milk to do some cheese.

prefer a bit of Brebis myself

[Shaggy Hiker]

There wasn't much goat there, so I wasn't about to bite it. It was just goats, too. I have mutton to do with sheep.

[dday9]

I like my lamb raw.

[Shaggy Hiker]

And silent, apparently.

[dday9]

I got a pay raise today.

[dday9]

It was unexpected. I opened my email today to find an email from my CEO saying that he reevaluated the market and internal salaries and determined that I needed a raise.

[wes4dbt]

It was unexpected. I opened my email today to find an email from my CEO saying that he reevaluated the market and internal salaries and determined that I needed a raise.

That's good news. Unfortunately, yesterday my son was told that his raise was a mistake and they were cutting it in half. He's not a happy camper.

Glad your news was good.

[dday9]

Oh man, that's terrible.

[dday9]

What does he do for a living?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Also, what was the amount. I'm getting a pretty nice raise in a couple weeks, but there have been plenty of years where raises were small enough that cutting them in half wouldn't have made much of a difference.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Just got home last night after a nine+ hour drive.

[Shaggy Hiker]

The drive sucked.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I was coming from Zion National Park, though, and that was pretty spectacular.

[Shaggy Hiker]

The drive was NOT spectacular.

[wes4dbt]

What does he do for a living?

He's an assistant manager in produce at a grocery store.

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.

[dday9]

Just got home last night after a nine+ hour drive.

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.

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.

[dday9]

He's an assistant manager in produce at a grocery store.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Nomad land.

[dday9]

Yeah, no one wants to do that. But it happens for a wide range of reasons.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking down on anyone.

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.

[dday9]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...191700373.html

Wow

[Shaggy Hiker]

Ah, there's a thread for that.

[dday9]

Yeah, the post race!

[FunkyDexter]

Here's another article about it

[dday9]

Oof. That was accurate.

[FunkyDexter]

Couldn't resist it

[Shaggy Hiker]

Bout time they put that out there without an ad wall in front of it.

[FunkyDexter]

yesterday my son was told that his raise was a mistake and they were cutting it in half

WOW! Now that is some crappy management.

[dday9]

Nah, crappy management is the supervisor at the septic cleanout company. That was horrendous management.

[Shaggy Hiker]

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.

[Shaggy Hiker]

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.