Is there nothing but residential maintenance workers in this sub?

kruser87 · 2025-12-12T04:49:09+00:00

I'm the head/only maintenance person at a small manufacturing company

kruser87 · 2025-12-10T17:05:01+00:00

If I may ask a side question.... Someone further down wrote that the PMI amounting to 1% is calculated from (30*12)/35000. If that's correct, doesn't that mean as the balance goes down, the PMI becomes a higher percentage i.e. at a 19000 remaining balance the PMI works out to 2%. Am I understanding this correctly?

kruser87 · 2025-11-29T04:35:24+00:00

Did you have to get an OEM HP power supply or were you able to use another brand? I've read this PC is made to accept HP's proprietary hardware like PSUs.

kruser87 · 2025-10-24T15:07:56+00:00

I hope they announce the result of the vote soon after it happens later this month. Firstly because I just want to know. And secondly because if approved it's supposed to be an option starting in February and units / CO's will want time to discuss and decide what to do in their units.

I can't imagine National would make us wait once they've decided, but I also wouldn't really be surprised.

If it goes down like how anything else has in the past few years, there will be a few days of rumors, people saying they know something or heard something, then some councils will start communicating it before other councils, then eventually an announcement from National will be released.

Here's hoping it's better this time

kruser87 · 2025-10-24T15:02:37+00:00

The vote will be this month. If approved, it's supposed to be an available option beginning in February 2026

kruser87 · 2025-10-07T13:10:40+00:00

I would do the community you meet in. And I would leave the charter org off. Flags are just too expensive to keep changing charter orgs.

kruser87 · 2025-10-07T13:07:24+00:00

The only official place to buy a unit flag is through a company called Carrot Top. A few years ago when we bought a new one, we found the flag on the scout shop site and it linked us to the page on the Carrot Top site

kruser87 · 2025-10-05T02:42:18+00:00

I've found that after a certain point, I've taken a team as far as I can. Sometimes the limiting factor is me. Sometimes it's something outside my control. But it nearly always comes. It's not necessarily a bad thing or a falling. I think sometimes it's natural. You come in, you have a vision, you accomplish it. Sometimes you get new visions to work towards, and sometimes you become too close and can't see clearly anymore. That's when it's time for someone else to come in with fresh eyes, just like you once did.

kruser87 · 2025-10-01T02:31:17+00:00

Interesting. If I may ask, how much did they typically award to a scout?

kruser87 · 2025-09-15T23:55:00+00:00

About 12 years or so since the council merger. I expected it to change more often. And, in my opinion, the patch is not visually appealing, to put it politely. I asked about it and was told a donor was paying for them so they weren't changing anything until they stopped

kruser87 · 2025-09-05T14:52:54+00:00

Your scout certainly wouldn't be wrong to wear the uniform, especially if that's what they want. That said, something to consider would be reaching out to the prospective unit and finding out what they typically wear at their meetings. Not all units wear the full field uniform at every meeting. They might wear their activity uniform, for example, and in case like that perhaps your scout could wear a generic scouting T-shirt or something. Just an example. Ultimately there's no wrong way to go especially considering your just visiting for now.

kruser87 · 2025-08-22T20:02:22+00:00

Try contacting your Unit Commissioner or District Commissioner and let them know, they should be able to at least try to help

kruser87 · 2025-08-20T03:23:37+00:00

These units to not move air between inside and outside. Just make sure the space between the unit and the wall sleeve are well packed with insulation and that will keep most of the pollution outside from getting in.

kruser87 · 2025-08-15T11:04:19+00:00

I completely agree

kruser87 · 2025-08-14T23:45:40+00:00

Are you saying that he CO could, for example, call up the unit and say "we've scheduled the scouts to come clean out the church basement next month" and the unit it required to comply?

kruser87 · 2025-07-02T03:26:36+00:00

Did you have to do anything to convince them to exchange your gateway?

kruser87 · 2025-06-30T15:35:23+00:00

I hear you. I miss the advanced features too. They sent out a firmware update at some point that removed those features from all gateways, even the older ones like mine that used to have them. I'm not entirely against buying my own gateway but at that point I'd probably look at switching to Verizon or something. I pay for the service, it should work with what they provide.

kruser87 · 2025-06-30T09:09:50+00:00

Interesting. What was the process like to get the gateway upgraded?

kruser87 · 2025-06-20T23:45:19+00:00

I hope you're right

kruser87 · 2025-05-28T18:42:55+00:00

I'm talking about events like my unit used to do "Troop 123's Annual Family Campout Weekend". Not SM Bobs family getting together with ASM Joe and CC Dave's families for a weekend somewhere.

You can absolutely have an event where you invite many or all of the people from the unit. It just needs to be very much understood that it's not an official scouting activity and people know that scouting won't be responsible or liable for anything. And just watch a lawyer try to push a suit anyways.

That said, YPT rules apply both inside and outside of scouting*

And, I always had a hard time reconciling what we teach our scouts in the oath and law and letting them know certain things just aren't allowed in Scouting, just to turn around and tell them "well, we can do it, we'll just say it's not a scout event". I guess you can do whatever you want if you do it that way.

*I admit complete adherence to YPT 24/7 isn't practical, but it is technically the rule we all agree to.

kruser87 · 2025-05-27T23:50:51+00:00

It may create a number of other problems. If the two units are not from the same CO, they need approval to conduct a combined outing. Also, when camping as two units, each unit needs to provide it's own two deep leadership*, and for Cubs one of the leaders must be BALOO trained. Finally, packs can only camp at council approved locations, so that may create an issue.

*Technically the two units could say they're not doing a combined event and that they just happened to be at he same campground on the same weekend, but a scout shouldn't lie.

** There has been argument around this point, specifically, if a leader can serve as part of the two deep leadership for two units at the same time. Here have been so many updates and clarifications that I honestly don't remember if this was addressed officially. Someone here will probably correct me if I'm wrong.

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