so waht ya doin today?

[popper]

could not do the work because they "were not shown how to use the new equipment".
New norm in workers. Proper thing for the new worker would have been to clock out! Yrs ago friend was flipping houses, hired from work force center. Guys that didn't know how to do the work found their way back to the center, didn't expect any pay.
Still trying to get over the head cold I got from being on antibiotics for a month.

 

[glassparman]

Yep, SOCAL Edison has doubled our rates as well. Been at this house 20 years and if anything, should be much lower as all my kids grew up and moved out. The electric companies have become terrorists.

 

[Snakeoil]

We can't find drivers because the current Teamsters contract has the guys working for $17 and change. Obviously it dates from the pre-plague era. Mind you, the actual cost to the Town is around $60 @ hour when you get done with all the bennies and costs. The guys don't see that, they just see their paycheck. So what do we do? The contract has another year to run, we can't find drivers, at least ones that will work for that $ AND pass a drug test, and the supply of new drivers is simply not there. Nice ball of string we're looking at!

I used to have a Class 3 before they changed the rules and started calling them CDLs. I let it expire when I got all the books in the mail that I had to study in order to take the tests to get my CDL and then pay some crazy new price when I renewed my license. That said, I see the "Looking for Drivers" sign out in front of the DOT garage in our town. It's been there for a couple years now. I'd gladly plow snow in the winter just for something fun to do. I used to drive those big trucks with wing plows when I worked on the Thruway as a kid. It was the Thruway that got my Class 3 for me back then. But, they want drivers with CDLs so I can't help them.

 

[Mitty38]

could not do the work because they "were not shown how to use the new equipment".
New norm in workers. Proper thing for the new worker would have been to clock out! Yrs ago friend was flipping houses, hired from work force center. Guys that didn't know how to do the work found their way back to the center, didn't expect any pay.
Still trying to get over the head cold I got from being on antibiotics for a month.

Crazy thing is she has been here 5 months. Was trained on equipment that worked exactly like the new stuff. The new spectro was the same model, worked exactly the same way. Everything like printers etc, that was hooked to it was the old stuff. Even sat on the same spots they did before..
I set up the desktop links, icons,formats, mouse, keyboard, exactly the same as the old computer, she was trained on and used for 5 months.

Only 2 things were different and without using those she still could have done the work.The option to use the touch screen instead of the mouse. And the ability to send and receive internal memos. Both which I left notes on for her.

There really was nothing to figure out. Except to take the initiative to sit down and move the mouse. Look at the screen to see everything she needed, looked, abd worked exactly the same .

 

[Mitty38]

I let my Chauffeur license go when the Grandfather ran out. I didn't drive anything at the time that had a fifth wheel or an air break.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

I got out of the house yesterday, for the first time since getting home from hospital. (Not counting errands like bank/grocery/Rx/Drs)

I helped my buddy butcher his buck he shot last week.
He had it all skinned by the time I arrived @ 10am.



We finished up just after 13:00 and cut horns out and swept floors.
We also found the bullet!

 

[popper]

initiative to sit down and move the mouse
none.

 

[RBHarter]

I'm not that guy at work and I don't want to be him .......
This new guy sucks . I mean the job requires a 5 min sign in paperwork, 140' walk around around , zip tie seal , and clean up after yourself....... You can fudge the walk around when you have the same company , beat all to heck trailer , 6x a week , it's pouring rain, dark and nobody is around . This squeeze bottle water jet baggie is a procreating slob just blatantly not doing the job .

So y'all ain't alone in the land of "what's a work ethic" .

For those with a fat head 6.5 Japanese I have a 1 pass form solution for it. I had to take a whopping .006 off the bulge lip but most of it was in the generous extractor groove of the 6.5CM that neatly grows from 1.915 to 1.980 just .004 short of spec in my Lyman size die . Instead of having a .1 belt it's about .05 heavy rub out . Mine just won't take the .463 head bulge lip at .455 it's a heavy bolt that I think will clear up on firing .
I'm going to run the rest of this 56 pieces , anneal , and COW form 1 .

 

[Bret4207]

Since we did not host a Thanksgiving Celebratory meal, we have no left overs to deal with. However, we saved our deer leg bones, shoulder blades, and a couple of pelvises to make broth from with intentions of canning it. So yesterday we got those bones out their temporary home in a spare freezer and prepped them for the roasting pan with the judicious use of a cleaver. I hauled a chopping block up the hill to the back door on the home made wheel barrow we used for cowboy action shooting, scrubbed it with a wet salt paste, and chopped the bones to fit better in a Nesco roaster. Sue even managed to get a bone flying through the air headed for a SS bowl.

Next they spent 4 hours browning in the roaster, the last two brushed with tomato paste. We boiled about a gallon and a half of water so when we added it to the roaster we would not be cooling it down too far, chopped onions, carrots, and celery, added some salt, a bay leaf, and a scoop of powdered Puff Ball mushroom dust. That has been simmering since 1 pm yesterday. This afternoon we will strain it, chill it, remove the fat, and eventually can it. If I can salvage the meat scraps they will either become pot pie or mince meat pie ingredients. More likely I will roast then grind a couple of neck roasts for the mince meat. If any of you have old authentic mince meat recipes from your family histories I am all ears, or rather eyes. I am only interested in trying to recreate my paternal Grandma's recipe with real meat, suet, citron, raisins etc.

Like many of you I love pie. My Grandma made a couple that are uncommon today, the true mince meat and cottage cheese custard pie. My Dad always said as good as the cottage cheese pie was that we had at home, the pie he remembered from being a kid on the farm was made with home made cottage cheese and was even better.
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I love real mince pie. Nothing else like it! It's a meal in itself, or could be for me. But the last lady I know of that makes the real thing said it's very, very labor intensive. I countered with the observation that some things are just worth the effort!

 

[Bret4207]

Looking at the electric bill. About had a heart attack. It went from 300 bucks last year in November to 500 bucks.
Almost the same usage. Going to have to figure something out for auxiliary heating. Maybe rigging some kind of contraption to keep the heat in the house from the dryer.
Going to fix a couple windows where the plastic needs replaced today. Then maybe figure out a way to close off the mud room and dining area a bit from the rest of the living room. Since it has no plumbing or heating ducts. Cut down a bit on the area heated for winter.

From what I have been told, just now. By a fellow employee that caught me at the gas station. At work, the other lab person did come in for their shift, yesterday evening.
They said, could not do the work because they "were not shown how to use the new equipment". So basically sat there and did nothing all night. Not even the work they could have done without the equipment. Mind you same brand and model number. Just newer and used with a windows 11 computer, instead of Xp.
Thing is..... I came in the night before, caught all the work up in 11 hours. Then took 3 hours to finish configuring the new machine, then the computer to work exactly like the old one did. Except for a few exceptions. Of which I left detailed notes on. Before I headed home.
My call is purposeful ignorance. I hate to think what I will be walking into Wednesday night.
Ps. We get paid a minimum of $17 an hour to start, in the lab now. Which in our area is about $3 more then most positions that are lumped in the " lab tech and data processing category". Of course we do a bit more physical labor then most lab techs. But still, $17 bucks an hour for a job that normally pays $12. In an area of the country that still has one of the lowest costs of living. Ya think that might be incentive enough to try and figure out if you could do some kind of work in your shift . Instead of just sitting in the lunch room because something changed.
Ok Rant over.

The world if full of living, breathing rectums...

 

[Bret4207]

Yep, SOCAL Edison has doubled our rates as well. Been at this house 20 years and if anything, should be much lower as all my kids grew up and moved out. The electric companies have become terrorists.

Well, to play devils advocate- I don't know how it is elsewhere, but here in NY all the wind and solar power produced has to be purchased, BY LAW, by the mainline power companies at a rate many times higher than what it costs the mainline producer to make the power itself. I don't recall the specific dollars and cents, but what it comes down to is that the rate payer is the guy making up the difference between what National Grid can produce power for and what they are forced to pay the solar/wind/greenies. That is part of why you bill has gone up. Always remember every action has an equal and opposite reaction, especially if there is a profit motive involved!

Plus, come one man! You're in California! Swimming pools, movie stars and an apparently inexhaustible pool of money in the hands of the population!

 

[JWFilips]

Just did chores around the house today & then got my hunting stuff together ! Think I will head out by myself tomorrow for a walk in the woods ...maybe I will get lucky! Both my BIL and his friend are laid up so I really don't want to miss out on tomorrow! Weather is decent and a big storm headed our way for Wednesday , so sounds like a good feeding situation! Ah Heck I will give it a shot!

fiver: Cooked up a bunch of kohlrabi stems tonight! Did not have the patience to peel them! When they were tender I seasoned them and just sucked the eatable centers out of them like crab legs! They we great! That will save my non fruiting crop! Thanks for the tip!

 

[fiver]

yeah that white part is worth the effort.
remember when you see them bolt like that, that you can trim them [the leaves] just like a brussel sprout, which will make the stalk easier to peel when you go to cook it.
the more i work with the brassica's the more i see a ton of similarities and traits within the family. [well yeah right?]
only not with cabbage and cauliflower, those two don't go anywhere near each other.

so i get get a 3 page questionnaire in the mail today.
apparently i drew another 6 months as a prospective juror, the directions are as clear as mud.

 

[glassparman]

Funny guy Bret!

All that so called "Swimming pools, movie stars and an apparently inexhaustible pool of money in the hands of the population" is in the big cities where the rich live.

Us conservatives live in the rural areas and work hard for a living.

But yeah, they are tearing up the deserts and get permits to bulldoze protected Joshua Trees by the thousands so they can install tens of thousands of acres of solar panels. I'm sure at the same rates you spoke of.

 

[popper]

Fixed the plugged up Keurig tonite, she got me a burger for dinner.

 

[glassparman]

Worked today . . . just like everyday.

Sooooo ready to retire!

 

[Brad]

Worked today . . . just like everyday.

Sooooo ready to retire!

No doubt!

Every day I grow more and more weary of working.

 

[waco]

Worked today . . . just like everyday.

Sooooo ready to retire!

Well let's see... I've only got like 20 year left...

 

[JWFilips]

so i get get a 3 page questionnaire in the mail today.
apparently i drew another 6 months as a prospective juror, the directions are as clear as mud.

Got one of them about 2 months ago....I'm tired of serving on socialist jury courts! Then through it in my desk along with the afterward 2 reminders! Decide if there is a fine.... rather pay that then sit & wait to be picked Then when picked I have to deal with 11 bleeding hearts, who no know idea of right or wrong! Been there too many times in my life!

 

[Brad]

Well let's see... I've only got like 20 year left...

I have 3 - 5 most likely. Sigh