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On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:20:04 -0400, jmcquown >
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>On 7/19/2018 10:51 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 7/18/2018 7:52 PM, Alex wrote:
>>
>>> How many jobs have you had?* I'm 50 and I've had only five including
>>> McDonald's when I was a teen.

>>
>> I had three as a teen, four as an adult.* 7 years, 11 years, 9 years, 27
>> years.* Left the first three because the business was sold/moved.

>
>I wonder why Alex is so concerned about my employment history? I know
>very few people who went into a job when they graduated who also stayed
>there until they reached retirement age. Businesses come and go;
>circumstances alter. People change jobs for various reasons. What does
>it matter?
>
>Jill


I started working for money at ten years old, my first real job was
delivering Rx drugs for Whalens Drug Store in Brooklyn. Since then I
must have had 40-50 jobs. I really don't know how many but that's why
toolboxes have handles, until my last job where I worked for 25 years,
Brookhaven National Laboratory; BNL.gov... and then I retired. I've
taken jobs that I quit the first day because they sucked.
The latest on the news is that there are thousands of good paying jobs
going begging because young folks don't have the skills. Doesn't
matter that they are thinking of creating apprenticeship programs, can
take 5 years to learn a trade and not everyone has the apptitude to
learn a trade, in fact very few HS graduates have the apptitude or
they would have taken those jobs starting at the bottom right out of
HS same as I did. I served a formal 5 year apprenticeship for Tool &
Diemaker, never lost a day's work unless I chose to by taking a
vacation between jobs. Tool & Diemakers are well paid and earn a lot
of money moonlighting. I have friends who retired when I did but
outfitted their basement/garage with machine tools and earn $50Gs to
$100Gs every year moonlighting and tax free. I tired of that dirty
work so earned money being a landlord, was much cleaner collecting
cash. Real Estate was a much better investment than machine tools...
machine tools depreciate, real estate appreciates. Most top selling
realtors are female so I learned from the best, plus enjoyed the side
benefits.
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 18:48:53 -0400, wrote:

>Most top selling realtors are female so I learned from the best, plus enjoyed the side
>benefits.


Are you really saying that this diminutive *** grashopper:
http://www.recfoodcooking.org/mug/shot/Sheldon.jpg
had any interest in women or they in him?
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On 2018-07-19 6:50 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Thu 19 Jul 2018 09:06:52a, Dave Smith told us...
>


>> They hadn't even mentioned that once or twice a day she would
>> reach into her purse and discretely slip something out and go to
>> the washroom for a couple minutes.

>
> If she thought she was special, she should never have been working
> thre, or at least not around other people.
>


Apparently she has only worked there for a few weeks has gone home early
several times and is demanding two weeks vacation next month.
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Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 7/18/2018 7:52 PM, Alex wrote:
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>> How many jobs have you had? I'm 50 and I've had only five including
>> McDonald's when I was a teen.

>
> I had three as a teen, four as an adult. 7 years, 11 years, 9 years,
> 27 years. Left the first three because the business was sold/moved.


I'm putting the over/under on Jill's resume at 18 jobs.
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In article >, Sqwertz
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> On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:07:04 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
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> > Is there some reason you keep calling him your cow orker? Keyboard
> > malfunction? (Tee hee!)

>
> Cow Orker has been in use for several decades. I only ever saw it
> used in ba.food (where some of us used to hang out).


"Cow orker" was almost exclusively used in alt.folklore.urban or
alt.folklore.computers back in the day. I can't remember which.

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On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 17:47:19 +0000 (UTC), tert in seattle wrote:

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>>On 2018-07-19 10:51 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>> On 7/18/2018 7:52 PM, Alex wrote:
>>>
>>>> How many jobs have you had?A I'm 50 and I've had only five including
>>>> McDonald's when I was a teen.
>>>
>>> I had three as a teen, four as an adult.A 7 years, 11 years, 9 years, 27
>>> years.A Left the first three because the business was sold/moved.

>>
>>
>>I am closer to a dozen. Most of them were part time and summer jobs in
>>my youth. While at university I had a number of positions with the
>>university. In my last year I was the animal technician for the Psych
>>department, spent the summer as research assistant for my thesis adviser
>>and during the school year I was TA for two of his courses. After
>>graduating I had two term positions on contract. Then I got a contract
>>position with the provincial government that led to a full time
>>position. I had several promotions over the years and stayed with them
>>28 years before I got an early retirement.

>
>that was pretty interesting
>
>like most people I had a variety of jobs when younger - in college for
>one school year I was accompanist and manager for the women's chorus ...
>we performed a piece by Andrew Imbrie who came to the concert and I got
>to meet him
>
>speaking of "famous" musical people, I met Victor Borge after seeing him
>perform - he was at a restaurant sitting by himself, and my mom and I
>were like that's him! so we went over and said hi and how much we enjoyed
>his show etc ... and we completely forgot to ask for his autograph! duh


Same thing happened to my uncle, but he got the autograph!

But then he got delusional and decided that Victor Borge would be playing
his hole in the wall bar. It was a funny family story. If you were in the
family.


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On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:06:52 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:

>On 2018-07-19 10:33 AM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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>>> My brother and his co-worker are having trouble with a co-worker.
>>> He works part time in the tasting room of a local winery. They
>>> tried to talk to her politely about her constantly butting in
>>> while they are dealing with customers but she freaked out.
>>> Apparently she is the girlfriend of a friend of the boyfriend of
>>> the owner's daughter. She knows everything and has worked at
>>> everything. She has had at least a dozen jobs since she graduated.
>>>
>>> He pointed out how different that is from the experience of the
>>> good co-worker and himself. They had both worked at part time
>>> jobs until graduation and then into their career jobs until
>>> retirement. They now work at the winery just to keep busy.
>>>

>>
>> Too complicated! She probably just needs a good slap in the face!
>>

>
>I don't think you can do that any more. All they did was to say that
>they had to talk to her and told her that she has to stop interferring
>and interrupting them all the time. That was as far as they got when she
>freaked out and said that they were lazy and didn't do anything all day
>but stand around and complain about the owners. My brother, a retired
>cop, never trusted her from the start and made a point of never talking
>about the owners in her presence. Then she stopped talking to them.
>
>The coworker, the more senior, was approached by the owner's daughter,
>the one who had hired her boyfriend's friend's girlfriend, and asked
>what had happened on the weekend, so she obviously went whining to her
>boss/friend when all they had done was to asked her to stop doing those
>things that were so annoying. They hadn't even mentioned that once or
>twice a day she would reach into her purse and discretely slip
>something out and go to the washroom for a couple minutes.


Might be a tampon.

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On 7/20/2018 7:28 AM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

> "Cow orker" was almost exclusively used in alt.folklore.urban or
> alt.folklore.computers back in the day. I can't remember which.
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I'm pretty sure it was alt.folklore.computers.

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On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:07:04 -0400, jmcquown wrote:

>On 7/18/2018 3:47 PM, notbob wrote:
>> On 7/18/2018 12:53 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>>> ÿWhy > did she need to chill the hell out?

>> This goes back to the original issue in the article, which was,
>> "Splitting the check at the end" and the statement, "Any server is more
>> than happy to split a bill among a few friends".
>>
>> This one didn't! ÿ She freaked out before we had even ordered. ÿ My cow
>> orker (3) was jes trying to calm her down and she freaked out, even
>> more. ÿ Ruined our entire lunch, which we were never able to enjoy. ÿ 8|
>>
>> nb
>>
>>

>Is there some reason you keep calling him your cow orker? Keyboard
>malfunction? (Tee hee!)


It's a Usenet thing.

>
>There's a simple solution to a bad server - move to another
>station/section. Servers are assigned specific tables. If you get a
>server with an attitude before you've even placed your order, sit
>somewhere else.


I would suggest discussing it with a manger first, unless you always eat at
Perkin's.

>
>Still, I've never heard of a "starter tip". The minute the person threw
>his change back I'd have asked to be reseated (or just plain walked out
>and found a different restaurant).


That's the first step.

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On 2018-07-20 2:35 AM, Lesmond wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:06:52 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:
>


>> The coworker, the more senior, was approached by the owner's daughter,
>> the one who had hired her boyfriend's friend's girlfriend, and asked
>> what had happened on the weekend, so she obviously went whining to her
>> boss/friend when all they had done was to asked her to stop doing those
>> things that were so annoying. They hadn't even mentioned that once or
>> twice a day she would reach into her purse and discretely slip
>> something out and go to the washroom for a couple minutes.

>
> Might be a tampon.
>


They considered that, but it went on for several weeks. Their suspicions
might explain the mood swings.
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