There's lumberthing I want to tell you - Page 85

Gravdigr · 12-15-2017, 02:15 PM

Well, ya gotta impress a KY boy, 'fore we go all ooh and ahh.

Ain't y'all got no good lookin' weed over there?

I kid.

Undertoad · 12-15-2017, 02:27 PM

anyone else go back to the picture and imagine what it'd be like if it was 20 lbs?

monster · 12-15-2017, 08:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lumberjim

Do not mail me weed.

lumberjim · 01-03-2018, 10:51 PM

Duke got fired today

I didn't believe it, but...

...

xoxoxoBruce · 01-03-2018, 10:55 PM

Duke is the other guy that does what you do?

lumberjim · 01-03-2018, 10:56 PM

I was there setting up my new computer, and he got in some kind of spat with a sales manager that has a second interview at another dealer tomorrow. This manager is the one of the four we have that I would consider a normal person. His imminent departure was weighing on me. My job will be harder if he does leave.

Well, he 'quit' over the altercation. My hope is that with Duke gone, he will decide to stay.

Undertoad · 01-03-2018, 11:26 PM

Duke is sales

That was hard to follow. So the sales manager might have been leaving because of Duke?

lumberjim · 01-03-2018, 11:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Duke is the other guy that does what you do?

Duke is a salesman. He was a constant itch. Way past tolerable, but he performed. The balance finally tipped, i guess.

lumberjim · 01-03-2018, 11:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Duke is sales

That was hard to follow. So the sales manager might have been leaving because of Duke?

Not really. I think it had mostly to do with money. But there's a balance there too. How much you make vs how much shit you have to eat.

Duke made everyone else's life harder. Two of the other three sales managers also wear on him.... I just hope he won't want to miss life there post Duke.

Griff · 01-04-2018, 07:34 AM

These things always sort out funny. We had a series of dominoes fall recently, who knows the end result?

Undertoad · 01-04-2018, 07:56 AM

so there is a point where a sales person can really bring in dollars but get canned anyway for being just intolerable?

captainhook455 · 01-04-2018, 09:27 AM

When I worked at Wal-Mart it was hard to get fired. Laying out was the #1 terminator. I would scan the job listings and would suggest they bid for it. Then I would be rid of them.

Funny thing is they would often brag about how good a job they did on the floor crew and oftentimes they couldn't figure out how to put a wringer on a bucket.

monster · 01-04-2018, 07:21 PM

It's impossible to get fired here in AA right now, unless you're caught stealing. At least in the "unskilled" sector. But I think everywhere. So few workers, so many jobs. Starting pay even for maintenance and bag packers in my store is $12ish and no-one bites. With benefits. We are employing brain-injury, alcohol rehab, and non-English speaking people almost exclusively. Which is great except that..... we sell alcohol. By the pint to sip as you shop. None of the drug rehab people can sell it, most of the brain injury and non-English speakers can't manage to do the training needed to sell it..... etc etc etc

Certainly in my store, anyone with a vague hint of competence is promoted to a manger within weeks. They don't have the skills. Where are the people with the skills? .... I think the "next tier" are also suffering and those people are working those jobs.....

I suspect but have no evidence that it's trickle-down from when Pfizer -formerly the second biggest employer in AA after the University of Michigan- bugged out. Our population decreased dramatically -especially families with young children -those children would be the people filling the unskilled jobs as they graduated high school without plans, and the stay-at-home spouses would be filling the more skilled jobs as they were no longer needed at home.....

monster · 01-04-2018, 07:22 PM

oops sorry, LJ, didn't mean to hijack

captainhook455 · 01-04-2018, 08:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

oops sorry, LJ, didn't mean to hijack

Do you mean like go off topic? Bwaaaaaaaaahahahaha. They ain't no sech thing. Besides LJ is getting laid every night and dosen't get over here much.

12-15-2017, 02:15 PM	#1261
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Well, ya gotta impress a KY boy, 'fore we go all ooh and ahh. Ain't y'all got no good lookin' weed over there? I kid. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

01-03-2018, 10:51 PM	#1264
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	Duke got fired today I didn't believe it, but... ... __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

01-03-2018, 10:55 PM	#1265
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Duke is the other guy that does what you do? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-03-2018, 10:56 PM	#1266
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	I was there setting up my new computer, and he got in some kind of spat with a sales manager that has a second interview at another dealer tomorrow. This manager is the one of the four we have that I would consider a normal person. His imminent departure was weighing on me. My job will be harder if he does leave. Well, he 'quit' over the altercation. My hope is that with Duke gone, he will decide to stay. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

01-04-2018, 07:34 AM	#1270
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	These things always sort out funny. We had a series of dominoes fall recently, who knows the end result? __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

12-15-2017, 02:27 PM	#1262
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	anyone else go back to the picture and imagine what it'd be like if it was 20 lbs?

01-03-2018, 11:26 PM	#1267
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Duke is sales That was hard to follow. So the sales manager might have been leaving because of Duke?

01-04-2018, 07:56 AM	#1271
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	so there is a point where a sales person can really bring in dollars but get canned anyway for being just intolerable?

01-04-2018, 09:27 AM	#1272
captainhook455 Rapscallion Join Date: Aug 2016 Posts: 1,357	When I worked at Wal-Mart it was hard to get fired. Laying out was the #1 terminator. I would scan the job listings and would suggest they bid for it. Then I would be rid of them. Funny thing is they would often brag about how good a job they did on the floor crew and oftentimes they couldn't figure out how to put a wringer on a bucket.

01-04-2018, 07:21 PM	#1273
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	It's impossible to get fired here in AA right now, unless you're caught stealing. At least in the "unskilled" sector. But I think everywhere. So few workers, so many jobs. Starting pay even for maintenance and bag packers in my store is $12ish and no-one bites. With benefits. We are employing brain-injury, alcohol rehab, and non-English speaking people almost exclusively. Which is great except that..... we sell alcohol. By the pint to sip as you shop. None of the drug rehab people can sell it, most of the brain injury and non-English speakers can't manage to do the training needed to sell it..... etc etc etc Certainly in my store, anyone with a vague hint of competence is promoted to a manger within weeks. They don't have the skills. Where are the people with the skills? .... I think the "next tier" are also suffering and those people are working those jobs..... I suspect but have no evidence that it's trickle-down from when Pfizer -formerly the second biggest employer in AA after the University of Michigan- bugged out. Our population decreased dramatically -especially families with young children -those children would be the people filling the unskilled jobs as they graduated high school without plans, and the stay-at-home spouses would be filling the more skilled jobs as they were no longer needed at home..... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-04-2018, 07:22 PM	#1274
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	oops sorry, LJ, didn't mean to hijack __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

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