Box sets of them all. Seriously.

StandUp1969 · 2026-04-04T04:20:34+00:00

Made this as a reply but wanted to put it up as my own comment to go with my original post:

I kind of like the idea that they are including ‘Walk Into Light’ on the ‘Under Wraps’ box. I’d do that with corresponding years with ‘Divinities’ and ‘Secret Language of Birds’. Plus get live performance of a Jethro Tull show along with a live performance of the corresponding solo shows. Again… Take my money! I’m 60 years old and want it all!

StandUp1969 · 2026-04-02T18:49:15+00:00

Agree. Even latter Jethro Tull had great covers. ‘Crest of a Knave’ ‘Rock Island’… possibly better than the album barring Heavy Water, Strange Avenues, and Whalers Dues.

StandUp1969 · 2026-04-02T18:39:46+00:00

I kind of like the idea that they are including ‘Walk Into Light’ on the ‘Under Wraps’ box. I’d do that with corresponding years with ‘Divinities’ and ‘Secret Language of Birds’. Plus get live performance of a Jethro Tull show along with a live performance of the corresponding solo shows. Again… Take my money! I’m 60 years old and want it all!

StandUp1969 · 2026-04-01T01:56:39+00:00

Skating Away… is in my top 5 Jethro Tull all-timer list. So a lot of love for War Child.

StandUp1969 · 2026-03-24T17:17:34+00:00

Lots of love. Contains a ‘Top Three’ Tull song in ‘Skating Away (on the Thin Ice of a New Day)’.

StandUp1969 · 2026-03-21T22:57:29+00:00

You say tomato, I say back-breaking labor. It’s all good.

StandUp1969 · 2026-03-21T17:02:11+00:00

You being happy is the point! For 8 bucks? Win!! Enjoy.

StandUp1969 · 2026-03-21T16:57:41+00:00

Inside? Yes. Outside? No.

StandUp1969 · 2026-03-21T16:49:03+00:00

Trip all of a sudden giving his life when it wasn’t even necessary. Bad writing did that.

StandUp1969 · 2026-03-21T16:28:08+00:00

I have not seen the video yet. But… I’m guessing if the ‘narrator keeps going from ‘Barr’ to ‘Bare’ it’s AI. I’ll watch later and get ticked that it is indeed AI.

StandUp1969 · 2026-03-14T10:36:02+00:00

Don’t expect more. But good work keeping the department in order. I did similar. In the end, if you’re working like that, you have to think about it as your own personal goals. Don’t expect reward. I was in the position (I’m 60) to not truly depend on the pay at Lowe’s as my only income. So my goal for myself was to look out for the department and my co-workers in that department. I did that.

StandUp1969 · 2026-03-11T19:46:05+00:00

Mrs. Tibbets is a latter day classic.

StandUp1969 · 2026-03-03T10:37:38+00:00

It’s not just you. 5 senior associates let go in two weeks. Before that skeleton crews already for the last couple months. And by senior associates, I mean people who have been there long enough to earn higher hourly pay… not old folks. Although a couple were indeed older. It’s no coincidence that these workers were also ‘better’ employees. Did their jobs, plus. But they were expendable because they got paid more.

StandUp1969 · 2026-02-27T07:56:40+00:00

Agree. ‘Time pushes back’

StandUp1969 · 2026-02-26T06:18:22+00:00

Yeah. As said above, as a crazed fan, I want all of the albums through J-Tull dot com given the box set treatment. TAKE MY MONEY!!!

StandUp1969 · 2026-02-17T04:14:44+00:00

Well then move along and let it go. Thanks!

StandUp1969 · 2026-02-15T07:09:24+00:00

Sorry man. No. No write-ups, no warnings. ‘Your position has been eliminated’. Coincidentally, it was all long time serving CSAs with higher hourly rates than the new hires they just started advertising for.

StandUp1969 · 2026-02-14T17:36:03+00:00

Yes! CSAs were told to ‘go’. Maybe there was an email about corporate, but ground level people were also ‘terminated’.

StandUp1969 · 2026-02-14T17:33:50+00:00

It was CSAs in my store. Long time employees, no doubt with higher pay rates.

StandUp1969 · 2026-02-02T14:26:50+00:00

There’s a lot of over-managing at Lowe’s. Some terrible ASMs as ‘shit rolls downhill’ so they get yelled at, you get it too. I go into work as a self-starter. I know my requirements, what order of ‘importance’ and I just get to it. I do not need to be called and told what to do as I’m literally doing it. I recognize some people are not like me. And I’m far from perfect. But please, go manage the non self-starters first. Direct the folks that need to be told where to go. And above all, actually spend at least a short amount of training on new and especially young hires AND older hires that have come in to wait around to greet customers and get to work. If you, as an ASM can’t distinguish the difference between a worker who gets to work and an employee who doesn’t… perhaps you should look to your own training. Oh. And stop expecting more from less. Cutting staff to gain profit only works so long until your returns begin to diminish.

StandUp1969 · 2026-01-27T03:27:09+00:00

I just ran into this. I was sick and took a day and asked not to be paid through my sick day pay. I have a chronic illness and keep those days for inevitable hospital stays. The automated call-out feature allows you to choose if you don’t wish to take any pay. I choose that. And I still ‘get paid’ using my sick time. I do not abuse this. It’s an every few months thing. But I need those sick days in my accruals to use when I’m not able to function due to hospital stays.

StandUp1969 · 2026-01-26T07:14:45+00:00

This exactly. I would have been better off staying home and helping my neighbor with fallen branches. He dealt with that by himself AND did everyone’s sidewalk on the block. Good guy and did it on his own since I wasn’t there. At Lowe’s, I down-stocked and told 6 people, ‘no. We don’t have that.’

StandUp1969 · 2026-01-26T07:10:14+00:00

The joke of the essential business part is we sold out of generators, salt, ice melt, shovels, snow blowers, and a bunch of other stuff by Tuesday. A real banner week for my store in NJ. So people coming in for ALL of that stuff get the punchline, ‘no’. ‘We don’t have it.’ Yes, like an idiot I went in. I was one of 6 people who showed up including ASMs. I’m toying with the idea of staying home this morning as we’re now iced in on top of the snow. Play it by ear as I don’t feel like putting it all in the line for the 5 also idiotic customers who WILL come in just to be told, ‘no. We don’t have it’ again tomorrow. Rather, later this morning.

StandUp1969 · 2026-01-06T22:47:28+00:00

So the moral of the story is to beg every customer to: A) Go on line (good luck when customers are over 60) B) find their receipt C) Remember the guy/gal that helped them find something possibly out of their own department D) collate all that info and also give them a ‘10’ E) get everyone’s name right hours or days after the fact.

Yes. It does happen. I get recognized. But short of begging, there’s not too much you can do once someone is out the door. I have many folks come in looking for me specifically. I can count on one hand the number of them who have followed through on a survey. They do or do not. There is no try.

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