On Wed, 19 May 2021 15:57:41 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons
> wrote:

>On Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 6:50:57 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>> bruce bowser wrote:
>> > Sheldon wrote:
>> >> I don't consider a
>> >> treadmill or a nordic track any benefit unless one has the IQ of a
>> >> hamster.
>> >
>> > I have run around a conventional race track, but haven't done so in awhile.
>> I used to run on a local school track occasionally for timed speed
>> workouts but they are very boring too. Even worse are all the home
>> exercise machines.
>>
>> Best to run outdoors and bike outdoors too. You get fresh air and
>> sunshine and plenty of mind-stimulus seeing constantly changing views
>> and people.
>>
>A bunch of my co-workers left and went to Peloton. An assistant manager
>left, and he started pirating some of the best workers. I wasn't one of them.
>About 6 months before he left, he had to give me my review, and I cussed at
>him for minutes straight about my wage not being commensurate with my
>skills and performance. I said stuff like, "You know this is ****ing bullshit,
>and I know you didn't make the ****ing decision, but you get ****ing paid to
>listen to this." I didn't suffer any repercussions for mouthing off to an exec,
>but I also didn't get any more money.
>
>We got along fine after that, and he quit about 6 months later, and not long
>after that I threw another fit about my working conditions. I didn't get any
>more money, but I got everything else, exactly the position and exactly the
>hours I wanted, and I can leave early any time I want if I'm done with my
>tasks. My last performance review was glowing, and I don't even care that
>I only got a 2% increase. Shit, I'm only a few years from retirement.
>
>The Peloton guy didn't offer me a job, and I told one of my work buddies to
>tell him that if I knew what I know now, maybe I wouldn't have cussed at
>him for 10 minutes straight, because I knew it would get a laugh, which it
>did, since everyone concerned knew that I'm happy where I'm at, and there
>is zero chance that I'd toss the dice with job satisfaction for a few more
>dollars an hour. In 4-1/2 years I'll be on Medicare, at which point I will
>never again work a single minute on anyone's timeclock.
>
>I worked extra today. My tasks were completed, but there was a call-off
>in another department, so I volunteered to pitch in there, without being
>asked. Then I came home and made dinner, which was pan seared steak,
>mushroom gravy, and chopped, peel on potatoes, boiled, with a little carrot,
>slivered with a peeler added near the end, that I whipped with the mixer.
>
>The mushroom gravy was sliced mushrooms sauteed in butter, then put
>into a pot with cornstarch slurry, a little beef BtB, white pepper, a tiny bit of
>onion powder and some added butter.
>>
>--Bryan
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