a new kind of onery

just too much frustration here today! , for stress relief has anybody called in sick to places you have never worked at just to confuse the place

Goin to try this!!!

Wow you noticed that too? I thought maybe it was just me.

Some of you guys really need to chill out today. You're wound up tighter n' a you-fill-in-the-blank.

I mean... Crabbing about the Foose 4020? 2010 called, they want their b!tch session back!

One time working both first and third shift jobs plus farm dead tired well it started snowing on third got done with third shift figured what the heck called first shift and told them i couldnt make it because of snow then drove home. only thing other job was across street home was 15 miles away they never caught on

All I'm feeling today is cold. And I don't even know if it's an LOL? Why is it when the wind is out of the east it just feels so darned miserable? The furnace is running,it's as warm as it ever is in here,but since I stepped out the door this morning I've been chilled. I can sit here and rub my hands together and they feel cold on one another.
Even if I had a real job I might call in sick today,even though I don't feel sick.

maybe the humidity.

it's always discussed on the hot days, but not so much when it's cold.

I find the higher the humidity when it's cold, the more it chills you to the bone.

It could be. The snow is knocking on the door,should be here shortly. That wind is just about enough to tear the hide right off me today. You'd think I'd be used to it this winter but this is a whole different animal than what we've been seeing.

You're right on the humidity- its more miserable here in freezing fog at 32° than when we get an Arctic front and its 18° and dry.

That reminds me...

Several years ago I was working for a company which was moving it's main office to a new site.

I was the IT manager, so I had to be sure all the cables were going to be run properly in the new building. I had scheduled a meeting with the contractor to be sure the plans were being followed properly. That day came, I got the address, and headed over with one of my network guys. First time either of us were on site.

We had a little trouble finding the place by the address, but went by the description of the building the president had given me.

We stopped in and found a bunch of guys discussing the location of the main data closet.

We pulled the plans and reviewed the layout, and I found they had TOTALLY ignored what I had originally asked for. We got into all sorts of discussion on why the closet couldn't be where they were building it.

Told them to stop all work, there were very specific reasons for having it where I wanted it, it was not just for our use, but also had to be a showcase to demo some of our equipment. HAD to be attached to the conference room, etc.

Got everybody all riled up, and then calmed everything down as we decided to just move forward, it was mistake, not too late to correct it, etc. I left about four hours later after we worked it all out.

I was then off on the other side of the country for two weeks, got back. Drove back to the site with the president to check progress...

Doesn't he pull into a COMPLETELY different building about 1/4 mile down the road...

It was like the twilight zone for several minutes. I kept asking "where are we going... this isn't the building". He thought I was having a stroke or something. I thought HE was having a stroke.

This was NOT the new office building.

To my shock and horror, we finally worked out what the issue was.

On my original trip, I had gone into the WRONG office building!

I hit the one in a million chance that there were a bunch of guys there working on a data closet, which is what I was going to discuss.

Good god I can't even IMAGINE how much I screwed them up!!

Just goes to show you, if you sound like you know what you're talking about, people will trust you.

I'm SURE they moved their data closet, and probably incurred all sorts of extra change order expenses.

I never went back there to explain, I just couldn't make myself do it, I felt too foolish. Too much time had passed.

If I figured it out the next day, I would have, but not two weeks later.

ooof.

I got one for you JR. I was new to working insurance, so they sent me down in the SW part of the state to ride with an experience adjuster. So I am setting in the back seat of the agents car, old hand adjuster in passenger seat up front and we are just visiting along going to look at a house that had burned down. Agent pulls up to the house that he had insured, and taken photos of. And it aint burned down. Hows a block away was burned down though. The agent had looked at the house and taken the photos without the owner present, (which is really a no-no) Pretty embarassing for the agent. Not a big deal for us. Houses were all about the same and we still payed the loss.


Last year I was with my wife, she does property inspections for same ins. company. We pulled up to an address to do just a drive by inspection of a rental property. It's nothing but a pile of rubble. We saw a neighbor and asked him what happened. He said they were going to do some rehabing but it proved to be too far gone, so they desided to demo it. We still had insurance, like $55,000 on this pile of rubble. Owner must have been honest or it would have been torched.


Gene

The new president of Allis Chalmers requested a tractor and loader for his English caretaker of his the country estate that he had bought. But somebody got carried away and instead of the L&G tractor/loader that they needed, they shipped an industrial tractor and loader from the Topeka factory to the MIlwaukee dealer for delivery.

The rain car came in Saturday night, so the division serviceman and I had to unload the tractor and check it out for delivery. The dealership hauled it to the country estate and unloaded. I told the Pete the serviceman to instruct the caretaker how to operate the unit while I helped the truck drive back the semi down the lane.

Obviously, the caretake had never driven a tractor. He made a loop around the drive and came back to the garage and forgot how to stop it. Fortunatly he stomped on both brakes and stalled the engine just before he would have hit the doors. The caretake asked who he should call if he needed anything, so I gave him Pete's name and phone number.

When the first snow fell, I was in the dealership when Pete came in looking mad. When I asked him why he was there (since I hadn't called him for anything) he said: "You told that caretaker to call ME if he needed anything - and I had to drive down here (Milwaukee) from Minneapolis to put on a set of tire chains!"

At least I had a good laugh out of it, even though he didn't enjoy it. I lived just 2 miles down the road from the president's estate!

That story reminds me of old Eaffis & Effy in down east Maine Eaffis is retired but takes on part time work occasionally so he got a part time job with the County corinor as a body bagger. Well Effy met him at the door when he got home that first day and said my god eaffis how did you get that shiner. Well he said I got it on the job, they sent me to the old folks home to pick up a fella that past in his sleep. well I got there and he had a huge errection, no way I could get him in the body bag like that, so I grabbed hold of it and tried to bend it in half. Well seems I was in the wrong room.

East ind is wetter. Call it humidity, whatever, it"s wetter.