Working six days a week open till close, no time to fish, duck season open tomorrow and can't go hunting, all I can say is AAAAAARRRRRRRGGG! Whew,,thanks for letting me vent.. Have a great weekend everyone.
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Working six days a week open till close, no time to fish, duck season open tomorrow and can't go hunting, all I can say is AAAAAARRRRRRRGGG! Whew,,thanks for letting me vent.. Have a great weekend everyone.
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These days, your pretty fortunate to have a business that can run 6 days a week.
Right you are, just too bad I have such a hard time finding someone who really wants a 40 hour per week job. New employee, came in late once in the first week which was just last week, then was supposed to be in at 9 Wednesday morning, no show, no call until 10:30 am,,not going to make it in feeling sick...then call in sick yesterday...not going to cut it here, bye bye...employee before that, several complaints at the business next door on my day off that the person working my store was pretty much worthless... plus several items mysteriously missing,,,plus constantly taking 3 day weekends,,nope, not here, not in retail furniture sales... I just don't understand. It really does not get any easier than the position that I am trying to fill. I am guaranteeing these people 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year.. Paid vacation after a year. Most days are only busy for a couple hours so they get paid to sit and read a book, do puzzles, be on the computer etc. for at least half the day. All I ask is that you show up on time, and do your job when it is needed. I mean ,come on people, if I had that kind of work ethic I would kick my own butt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crappie 1
Sounds like a pretty darn good job. It's not like it used to be. People just want the $$ but don't want to do anything to get it. At one time I would have loved a job like that. You would think that as many people as there are that don't have jobs someone would jump at that one. Good Luck..
Problem is our government makes it way too easy to do nothing and get paid for it. :donoQuote:
Originally Posted by Crappie 1
There are all kinds of people wanting this job. The problem is not only do they want to get paid for the half day that there is nothing to do, they also want to sit on there butts the other half day and get paid for it also. Or they think that coming in to apply for a job in a shirt with cut off sleeves, or dirty jeans and a hoodie is ok. Then they get mad when I ask if they really want a job or if they are just here because social services makes them look for work. Then when those people ask me to sign their sheets for DSS because that is all they are really here for I tell them "No, you aren't really looking for a job so I am not singing something that says you came in and applied for one", oh man, that does not go over very well. Oh well, I am going fishing or getting in the woods this weekend and will feel good about it because I earned a break. Hope everyone is having a great fall so far. Take care and hope to see many of you Michiganders at the Spring Slabfest.
Frank,
You speak many good words, lots of lazy people
We plan on having a winter outing, you interested ?
People today believe they are "entitled" to things that most of us worked very hard for. Easy, to most people is defined simply as "let someone else do it"
Jeez wish you lived closer to me Frank.
I have a friend who bales and sells hay. He had to stop making bales, bought a $30,000 machine to make the 4-6 ft. rolls. He was unable to hire anyone to stack the bales at $20.00 (That's TWENTY DOLLARS) per hour. Years ago our son used to bale for 2.50/hr. and was happy to get the work. Our grandson turned it down - too much work!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!
The hard part is the fix. It has to come from the older generation.
So true! "What we tolerate today or children will embrace tomorrow". Saw that on a church billboard. Not only have we forsaken God in our country, our schools, and our lives, but we have forgotten the basic principles, like hard work, and honesty, and integrity that this country was built on. I am truely concerned for the next couple of generations.Quote:
Originally Posted by wicklundrh
You guys are killing me. I am stacking ROCKS for 10 TEN!!! bucks a hour right now. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by mmaveal
looks like you might have to relocate, very quickly my freindQuote:
Originally Posted by Hermin
Well that pay isn't the whole story. I'm working for a friend on his yard to start with. I also get to stay in a 5,000 sq foot house on Pine lake for the entire winter while hes back in AZ and he flew me out to AZ last year for a month long vacation. But all I can think about is I could be stacking bales of hay instead of rocks :D
Y.D, you are so right. The problem lies with the teaching of the current generation to the next. We start with our grandparents, and we see how hard they worked, then you look to the parents, then to you, then to the children and grandchildren and so on. Some place along the way, someone taught someone about something. Maybe it is all the stories we tell about "how hard something is". In the end, we were all better people for doing that "hard thing" but that part of the story isn't passed. Just the part about how hard it is to do something.
Recently I was thinking about selling everything I owned (except my boat), taking the profits, moving to a small parcel of land (by a lake) building a small two room cabin, and going back to the way things were done in the past. Utilizing some tricks I learned while in Alaska, to colect and store water (as apposed to having a well), a composting toilet, hot water on demand, solar power, root cellar, wood stove, etc. The only problem to this wouldn't be the money, or lack there of, but rather the health insurance. In the old days, you could see a doctor for next to nothing, now days, it isn't the case.... I wish it was..... Ah, the simple life
My problem would be the cost of the divorce!!!! Ha! Ha! Ha! Our daughter was given 2 tons of decorative rocks last week. I have the trailer so guess what - we loaded and unloaded two trailers full of rocks the size of a small basketball. To say the least my bones are still squeeking.
I had 36 tons delivered a few weeks ago on top of what I had already put down.Quote:
Originally Posted by mmaveal
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lookin good my freind
Ya know, that "tolerate" is an issue. Today we tolerate so much more than when I was a kid. My Dad wasn't all that tolerant. He taught me to work and earn a living, respect for other people, honesty, gratefulness when someone gives you something or does something for you. The list goes on. Don't see much of that teaching these days., not even in older people. Rudeness is rampant, on the roads, stores,water, everywhere. And some of the people doing it are my age and should know better. Today if kids don't want to do something, you can't make them. I was told to do something once, after that, you'd better be getti'n it done. Well, that's my $.02Quote:
Originally Posted by yankee doodler
That looks sweet Eric! Now I know who to call for $10 an hour...:Rofl
That looks awesome Eric!
I think we are all getting a little long in the tooth. Old and Crotchety! Crappie 1 is right though, we "tolerate" way too much. I think that is "pushed" on people because of the change in society. We are constantly being told by our politicians, courts, judges, advocates, media outlets, NAACP, NRA, NFL, NBA, MLB (I'm just adding funny acrynyms) to tolerate everything from race, to religion, to sexual orientation. The natural trickle down effect is to "Tolerate" everything.
After seeing the rocks you are installing I'm starting to feel pretty good. The soreness is magically going away. What we did was nothing compared to the job you are doing. I'm impressed and I'm glad it's NOT ME!
Sure looks nice though. I'm not showing this picture to my wife - I'll never hear the end of it
LOL, You know what they say about "What runs downhill" That is sure the truth... Right now I'm trying to boss the dog, but she's even growling at me. LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by wicklundrh
Hahah I don't think Carol would approve of having a roommate for the winter!Quote:
Originally Posted by yankee doodler
I dunno, we already have one. Girl that used to live next door and sorta became our "surragate daughter" needed a place to stay for a while (we'll see what a while is), so house is full...got a trailer tho. Not quite the 5000' home your accustomed to.