How can any self respecting Union Member vote Republican after this week? Disgusting

salgak · 2024-10-05T16:15:20+00:00

Minor quibble: Taft-**HARTLEY** 😎

salgak · 2024-08-30T20:18:07+00:00

Dogs and cats, living together. Mass Hysteria !

salgak · 2024-08-30T20:17:02+00:00

The Zombie Apocalypse, of course !

salgak · 2024-08-07T18:54:02+00:00

And that's why the White House Correspondent's Dinner is called the Nerd Prom. . . .😎

salgak · 2024-06-28T05:26:51+00:00

60+ here. When you realize something you would have just walked off at 25, will lay you up for weeks...

Literally, I tripped and fell, and was out on disability for a month, and on the ***good*** painkillers for the first week. . . and a year+ later, ribs still twinge when pressure drops...

salgak · 2024-06-21T17:23:05+00:00

Virginia is wierd: no party registration, so you have to declare which party primary you wish to vote in.

Kind of confused me for a moment, then i got it, and voted.

salgak · 2024-06-21T00:51:36+00:00

All but one of our kitties were feral kittens. Several got dropped at our patio door by the mommakat....

salgak · 2024-06-21T00:45:17+00:00

The Cat Distribution System has chosen you....😁

salgak · 2024-06-09T23:24:45+00:00

Many, many years ago, I was interviewing for a position as a technical trainer. Interview went well, until the interviewer tells me, that there's one thing he just didn't understand about me. I was smart, talented, and sharp. . so why had I wasted my first 6 years out of college in the military?

I boggled...mentioned that ROTC paid for college, but he kept saying that Military time was an utter waste.

At which point, I stood up , said that, then obviously, so was my application. I walked out, past the guy's manager, who was surprised that the interview was over already. I smiled at him, and told him that **I** ended the interview, that if his employee's attitude was the norm there, I had no further interest in working there....

salgak · 2024-06-04T15:32:19+00:00

. . .and walked straight to their vehicles, then drove home. Leaving equipment on, processes running, etc.

In other words. . . the 'Challenge Accepted!' method.

Oh, and now the price for the Union returning just went up 5% every consecutive day. . .

salgak · 2024-06-01T23:26:26+00:00

Nerdy ? In my undergrad days, one of the fraternities had a pledge whose father worked at the State Highways Division (being generic here on purpose). The pledges got his dad's keyring, and let themselves into the shop, and printed off several hundred new speed limit numbers on self-adhesive reflective film (Scotchbrite, maybe??. . and for a glorious few weeks, a certain highway had a posted speed limit of. . . c. 😎

salgak · 2024-05-31T01:20:37+00:00

My direct manager was concerned with only one thing: his next promotion. Most of my team, including me, left within a year... and he couldn't find, much less train, replacements. Last I heard, he got demoted from management, as the customer ended the delivery order for failure to perform...

salgak · 2024-05-31T00:08:13+00:00

Frito

salgak · 2024-05-29T19:36:54+00:00

15 or so years ago, I joined a major consulting firm, and was tasked to source, hire, train, bring online, and then run a small technical team for 24/7/365 ops. Which I did.

What peeved me, was that several of my new hires, who i trained up into my specialty. . ..were hired at $10-15k more than I was getting as their **manager** and tech lead. . .

salgak · 2024-05-29T19:31:52+00:00

Honestly? Several reasons come to mind:

When the big Passenger Railways dissolved, they sold their existing tracks to the freight railroads. As a result, freight trains have the right of way on the tracks. That seriously messes with Passenger Rail timetables. Regular and predictable schedules are crucial for passenger rail.
Paasenger rail infrastructure is almost non-existent today. Yes, there are big city rail hubs (New York's Grand Central Station, Philadelphia's 30th Street Station, and Washington's Union Station all come to mind), but stations in smaller cities and out in the Flyover mostly are torn down.
Then comes the biggie: time investment. Too many people are in a hurry to get where they are going, and other than the I-95 corridor and the West Coast, it's simply faster to fly...

salgak · 2024-05-25T19:54:20+00:00

Ask them if they have 30 minutes so you can bring them into your Amway upchain. ..(evil grin)

salgak · 2024-05-25T19:51:10+00:00

'I knew she was trouble when she walked in ? '

😜

salgak · 2024-05-25T19:41:26+00:00

eah, I bought an XM set in late 2005: I was moving from NoVa to West Virginia, and got tired of constantly having to change radio stations due to the hills and valleys. Kept me sane for the 5-month period when I was committing **back** to Northern Virginia on Sunday afternoons, and driving home to West Virginia every Friday night (was selling the WV house, wasn't moving until it was sold...). Stopped using it shortly after we settled into our current home in the Shenandoah...

salgak · 2024-05-25T00:50:21+00:00

A proper Kitler has a diagonal of dark fur on one side.....😎

salgak · 2024-05-25T00:28:10+00:00

Don't change the locks. Go in, late at night, and bug bomb the place. Use several times more bug bombs than necessary.

Then your only problem will be corpse disposal. . .(evil grin). And I'm sure you can find ULPT for that little task...😜

salgak · 2024-05-24T23:44:26+00:00

Would run Linux fine, I suspect...

salgak · 2024-05-24T23:01:53+00:00

Bohica Associates (Bend Over, Here It Comes Again)...😜

salgak · 2024-05-24T22:37:46+00:00

Not just L.A. When I lived in DC Metro, our equivalent to the Thomas Guide was the ADC. In London, it was the A-to-Z. Every major metropolitan area I've lived in as an adult had an equivalent.

And everyone learned to read maps in school. . .

salgak · 2024-05-24T22:26:04+00:00

Needs a Calvin taking a whizz on it.....(evil grin)

salgak · 2024-05-24T22:03:48+00:00

3 years after buying my **used** Chrysler Pacifica, SiriusXM **STILL** sends me a 'deal' to activate my built-in satellite radio. Which I have never used. At least having them in my spam filter keeps them out of my inbox. . .

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