Tundras live: A Bunch of Idiots And A Bunch of BS- Resume discussion group

Time to work out, who's with me?
@GODZILLA

 

100% agree. I tell everyone "if you send it in a text that means it is as important as something you'd put in an envelope and mail with a stamp. You don't get to be mad if it takes a few days for me to respond. If it needs an immediate response you better call, and you better leave a VM if you want me to call you back."

 

I'll stay fat. Thanks.



Stuff just broke at work, so I'm chained to the desk for now.

 

Well, shiiiit.
I'm waiting for some alarms to come in, quarterly testing. I'll throw some weights around for you.

 

Is this going to be one of those 'hey, can you spot me bro??'... moments???

 

Once a week or so, I get a “I really miss you today” text. Wtf. There is no way to respond to that message. Especially when 99% of the time I’m in work mode and my first and only response is “I don’t have time for this chit”.

 

https://youtu.be/I-iNUzOSEfk

 

That's a great way to get shot. Mooning is one thing, but that is flat out ass beating territory.

 

F that, there would be severe beatings if that happened to me

 

Same here, I go into autopilot for that response.
"I miss you too babe"

 

I just love texting, Americans are so delicate that I can send one short text and they won't speak to me again.

For example, it was over a year ago that I strongly inferred to one of the people I work for that he was a c**t, while I didn't specifically aim the word towards him its usage in my text could hardly be read as anything but directed at him. He hasn't said a word to me since. Which suits me just fine because he's an asshole's asshole.

 

You ain't kiddin on that one; not sure if you're familiar w/the Atomic Sit-Up...

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=atomic+situp


Back in my earlier years, I may or may not have attended an 'after work let's have a beer on the roof session'...

One of the younger dudes thought it would be funny to pull the atomic sit up routine on the oldest guy in the group (no, not me and I was not the prankster either)... dude's nose ended up completely buried, and he was fuckin' pissed; he jumped up and his right hand went to his waistband, about 5 of us ended up grabbing him and pinning his arm down (not wanting to see where that was headed); once he calmed down enough we let him go, and he snatched the young dude up and tuned him up quite a bit... lessons learned

 

WTAF. You must all be office boys.

 

Now, yes. Prior jobs, never. Doesn't matter. Somebody sticks their ass in my face without my consent, they are getting a beating.

 

A beating? Pull that stunt in a blue collar fishing town and you'd be wearing concrete boots and swimming with the fishes.

 

So, you're saying there's a chance you'll consent

 

I must've misunderstood your office worker comment. I thought you were saying that you didn't think the ass to the face was a big deal. I'm confused. Perhaps it's the language barrier.

 

Sorry, it was the whole dropping trew thing. If you've ever had the misfortune to use a construction site portapotti you probably understand why it's not the done thing.

 

Yah nah

 

Definitely a language barrier thing. My comment was aimed squarely toward a bunch of blokes on a rooftop dropping trew with each other. Back in my day the pranks were limited to things like welders tacking each others boots to the deck, other trades shitting in the painters pots, hoisting portapottis in the air while the subject was taking a dump or sending the newbies down to the store/requisitions for a 'long weight'. Get your ass out in a shipyard and someone will tar it for you.

 

Perhaps if we came from an island nation we'd all have worked in a shipyard, but there is a vast swath of this country that is nowhere near a shipyard. Also, they are all sadly unionized shitholes, so I don't want to work in one.

I've done fast food, roofing work, retail, customer service, accounting, and driven with a CDL for a living prior to my current job in a bunker with screens. Doesn't matter which one I was in, if that was done somebody was going to the hospital.

 

Solid pranks

 

Hope you moved some heavy things back and forth for me, Zach. I've sat here and bounced through about a hundred programs and called a few on call guys to ruin their nights while you were getting paid to workout.

 

I did, thanks!

 

I have yet to be a union member, one of the joys of being an unsocial oick who preferred his own company. Very few Brits work on boats in this day and age, most of them are white collar workers.

 

I love my union, blue collar career. Wouldn't want it any other way.
I was non-union for 13 years, the work and the people were great but I would never go back.

 

Don't get me wrong, there is a usefulness in a companies workers being able to unionize for better treatment. That's what they were originally created to do, but it's become so regulated and politicized that unions now only hound companies for added wages in order to fatten their own wallets and push political agendas.

I grew up in a household funded by a union job, and when they went on strike the union did dick all to help with anything. They pushed the strike to get their own wallets fattened, but the millions paid into the union box weren't there to help the workers when they didn't have an income. The numbers were crunched and of the dues paid over decades there was about 2% in the official coffers at the time of the strike. Where did all the money go? My guess is the union bosses' summer houses, boats, vacations, and bonuses.

The ridiculous cradle to grave benefits of the auto industry were forced by unions, and there have been unending bankruptcies and brands going under. Now, is it all the unions' fault? No. Mismanagement is a factor as well. However, you can look at what happened to Hostess. The union forced crazy demands, the company countered stating it wasn't possible and they'd have to go out of business, the workers understood it and said they didn't want that, but the union had the legal power at that point and drove them under. They cost people their jobs out of greed, because it wasn't their job on the line.

I hope yours is good for you and doesn't run your employer into the ground. I really do, but I don't trust others to bargain on my behalf because none of them have MY best interest at heart. They only have their own, and at my expense if needed.

 

Totally get that side of the coin.
I'm lucky in the fact that I work for a public utility, it's really stable. Our dues are so minimal its a little shocking for what we get in return. My take home pay almost doubled when I went union, not to mention top-tier benefits and a state pension.
I'm positive there are slime ball union bosses out there, I just don't have any experience with that world.

I love not having to hit my old boss up for a raise and hearing excuses. I don't care about why you can't pay me what the industry standard is old man. It makes you bitter when you know how much profit you're making for the company when you run jobs. Rant over