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Oh Sam! It is a good story tho.

I had qualifying at work tonight, putting my shotgun back in the company car is like a bull in a china shop...stuff goes flying...no room.

The guy wanting the shell of this XJ texted me yesterday and asked if I was ready for him to come and get it yet. I'm not sure what scrap is right now, but I believe its in the dump. What's just the shell weigh? He's giving me $100 for it. The only thing I promised him would be in it is the glass...I told him to bring friends to lift it.

I love my select-able locker up front. I prefer the auto locker in the back if I can only have one select-able. Someday when the money tree allows, I'll have a zip in the back too.

mac 'like before Moab 18' gyvr
 
SAMSET said:
When you go to work on just a couple hours of sleep mistakes can be made.


Doing some pm's, Have to change an oil filter. Twist the hell out of it and it just would not come off. Decide to put a pipe wrench on it. Finally comes off. Go to put new one on, threads are all stripped out. I was twisting the wrong way...housing is now screwed up. Piping is 30yrs old and has electrical parts that I have to unwired to take apart. Replace housing return all parts back. Finally done, go to check it off my list........it wasn't on my pm list



It'd be a good idea to go home now but I think I'll see if I can make anymore dumbass mistakes tonight
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Well now it is PMed. You're just ahead of the game :D

I think scrap is around $100/ton. If he is willing to get it out of your life and you don't have to leave the house I'd say it's a win.
 
Scored tickets to the Boston College vs Notre Dame Hockey game on December 10th. Looking for a hotel near campus, but also near a bar or an Applebee's...

May also have two more tickets available (free) if anyone is interested, suppose to be four tickets and just the wife and I going. Let me know if you're interested.

mac 'get checked' gyvr
 
Shortly after the last mistake, pulling flex cooling lines off of heaters to check for blockage, they have compression fittings that originally have 4in long pipes. 1 of them was down to a 1in pipe. Busted it. Now it needs a new heater. We don't have the heater. It's a big pain to change these heaters. Tonight is a long night. This one was not really an stupid mistake just bad luck.

Drinking my 3rd monster. 4 hours to go.
 
Get off the phone when you are working, maybe you will have less mistakes? ;)

Signed the offer letter yesterday on the new job, still have not even been inside the facility. Turns out that they haven't actually fired the guy I'm replacing yet.

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that's bc they are going to have you kill the guy as your starting day duty :D
 
w_howey said:
Get off the phone when you are working, maybe you will have less mistakes? ;)

Signed the offer letter yesterday on the new job, still have not even been inside the facility. Turns out that they haven't actually fired the guy I'm replacing yet.

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Keep in mind that I haven't had a job interview in 20 years. ;)

Why would you work for a company that refused to tell you who they were, haven't opened the position for you to work in and haven't let you see inside the building?

Are you concerned that you're going to be the guy that gets fired when the next guy that they hire in secret comes along?
 
w_howey said:
Get off the phone when you are working, maybe you will have less mistakes? ;)

Signed the offer letter yesterday on the new job, still have not even been inside the facility. Turns out that they haven't actually fired the guy I'm replacing yet.

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It all sounds fishy, I would have told them to pound sand.
 
macgyvr said:
The guy wanting the shell of this XJ texted me yesterday and asked if I was ready for him to come and get it yet. I'm not sure what scrap is right now, but I believe its in the dump. What's just the shell weigh? He's giving me $100 for it. The only thing I promised him would be in it is the glass...I told him to bring friends to lift it.
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Last XJ shell I scrapped, the scrapyard gave me $30 and he acted like it was paining him to give me that much.
 
MKR5150 said:
Ruptured disk with piece of disk pushing on main nerve at L5. Set up to get an epidural next week to try and calm the inflation down so i dont randomly crap myself. No lifting for the next few months, so basicly do nothing but work my build strength back up in my right ankle.

Going to be fun not shoveling snow or working on cars most of the winter. Now that I got the pitttyparty over with on to figuring out what RC kit to buy. Like the Bombers but kind dig the SC10s. Want a waterproof 4x4 basher type beater that will hold up to having fun but not break the bank.
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My dads been in a similar situation for a few years. I believe he has a herniated disc, but a few epidurals. Had to stop playing all sports, still works as a union labor on scaffolding though...
 
RedHeep said:
Keep in mind that I haven't had a job interview in 20 years. ;)

Why would you work for a company that refused to tell you who they were, haven't opened the position for you to work in and haven't let you see inside the building?

Are you concerned that you're going to be the guy that gets fired when the next guy that they hire in secret comes along?
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Honestly, this has been just another odd process in a string of them. It was you that said everything is a choice. I could drive into the city, work for a 3pl company, learn to speak Spanglish, get called Gringo and puta a bunch of times and collect a pay check in a machine. Or suit up in a freezer suit for 10 hours a day and bitch at crappy fork lift operators working some bizarre ass shift for a company that thinks 12 hour shifts are perfectly safe for people doing physical labor day after day and that holdovers that can lead into a 16-18 hour shift is acceptable on a regular basis and then wonder why they have a 'workman's comp' issue.

Yes, this interview process has been strange. They tick off enough positive things for my situation to accept the strange parts of it. It is a small company with around 100 employees total. Very short chain of command, I answer the owner/President and the VP of logistics, noone else. First shift only for me. The owner does not want any management except the plant superintendent working night shifts. Absolutely no weekends beyond inventory, once again the president does not want management working weekends. The pay is very competitive for the scope of responsibility, something other companies were challenged at. The company strictly enforces an everyone must speak fluent English policy, something other warehouses struggle with. Its not cold storage which many of the warehouses around my home are or even 3PL which creates its own special set of challenges. And possibly most importantly, I will never get sent somewhere last minute cancelling my plans to fix inventories someone screwed up completely. This company has one other facility in Chicago. In private businesses aren't we all just the guy in the chair waiting till they secretly hire another guy for the chair? Do your best job possible and things will sort out the way they do.

Sorry to go all Alt-Rockr...

The TL/DR version. Wierd, yes. Enough positive things for the industry to overcome that initial weirdness. Anyone can be fired at any time...you do the best you can do and let it happen.
 
Gotta watch those cyber Monday deals guys. Ordered a 42" TV yesterday and this morning and 3and a half foot tall transvestite midget knocked on my door.
 
and?????? Sounds like a total score to me, especially if it was discounted with Cyber Monday deals!
 
w_howey said:
Honestly, this has been just another odd process in a string of them. It was you that said everything is a choice. I could drive into the city, work for a 3pl company, learn to speak Spanglish, get called Gringo and puta a bunch of times and collect a pay check in a machine. Or suit up in a freezer suit for 10 hours a day and bitch at crappy fork lift operators working some bizarre ass shift for a company that thinks 12 hour shifts are perfectly safe for people doing physical labor day after day and that holdovers that can lead into a 16-18 hour shift is acceptable on a regular basis and then wonder why they have a 'workman's comp' issue.

Yes, this interview process has been strange. They tick off enough positive things for my situation to accept the strange parts of it. It is a small company with around 100 employees total. Very short chain of command, I answer the owner/President and the VP of logistics, noone else. First shift only for me. The owner does not want any management except the plant superintendent working night shifts. Absolutely no weekends beyond inventory, once again the president does not want management working weekends. The pay is very competitive for the scope of responsibility, something other companies were challenged at. The company strictly enforces an everyone must speak fluent English policy, something other warehouses struggle with. Its not cold storage which many of the warehouses around my home are or even 3PL which creates its own special set of challenges. And possibly most importantly, I will never get sent somewhere last minute cancelling my plans to fix inventories someone screwed up completely. This company has one other facility in Chicago. In private businesses aren't we all just the guy in the chair waiting till they secretly hire another guy for the chair? Do your best job possible and things will sort out the way they do.

Sorry to go all Alt-Rockr...

The TL/DR version. Wierd, yes. Enough positive things for the industry to overcome that initial weirdness. Anyone can be fired at any time...you do the best you can do and let it happen.
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sooooo what is the name of this place?
 
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