[Rhodes22-list] Information gathering

[Brad Haslett]

Herb,

The Lord works in mysterious ways!  A co-worker of mine called me in
June out of desperation, his house closing was moved up a few days and
he had this hard luck story about how he needed this particular day
off and I had the day off and yada, yada, yada.  "You cover this event
for me and I'll cover two for you in repayment".  I covered the event
and told him he only owes me one day tit-for-tat and pick the day at
his convenience.  He did.  The day he picked was a ride with the guy
who wrote me up but we didn't bother to officially run the schedule
change 'up the flagpole' so I was officially the "hammer" in the
computer (I'm professional enough to call balls and strikes as they
are without personal rancor but maybe he wasn't so confident).  The
day of the event, the 'vicitm' called in sick (I'm sure he was really
sick and it wasn't just a case of feeling uncomfortable) and after
scheduling called my colleague and listened to his story about how he
really didn't have the day off but I did, I got called in to cover the
event at time-and-a-half. The Lord works in mysterious, AND,
profitable ways.

Brad

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:
> Let's see, Brad posted his opinion there, and really attacked no one.
>
> And you responded how???
>
> Sorry folks, but someone calling another person a blowhard, no matter
> how nicely, is still name-calling.
>
> John Lock wrote:
>> At 04:37 PM 7/23/2008 -0500, Brad Haslett wrote:
>>
>>> Nah!  I save apologies for when they involve $$$$.  A student wrote me up a
>>> couple of months ago for swearing in the classroom.  He was playing "stump
>>> the professor" with engine operation and I'd had enough so I explained
>>> engines with the suck/squeeze/bang/blow theory  and a couple of other choice
>>> words. I knew at the time he was setting me up and was going to run it up
>>> the PC flagpole but couldn't resist taking the bait.  This list is one of
>>> the few places where you ignore the PC police and speak freely.  If we lose
>>> that, we've lost period.
>>>
>>
>> Jeez, how many times do we have to hear that story?!  We get the
>> picture, you do everything bigger, faster, longer, harder, louder,
>> better than anybody else.  But man, it gets tedious after a
>> while.  Give it a rest, will ya?
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> John Lock
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
>> Lake Sinclair, GA
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
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