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dukeboy_318 said:
mine too..... i almost cried lol kidding


Advice needed.

I can't stand people who deliberately lie about themselves and misrepresent their experiences. Drives me nuts.

Now, let's set the background, My cousin, she is 6 years younger than me, she's 24, almost 25. After she was born, my uncle and his now ex wife lived on the farm for about 18 months, moving to town for a couple months before getting a divorce and then his ex wife got custody of the now 2 yr old and remarried to a professor at a university and moved to SC. My uncle relocated to SC, got a job and such. My cousin has only been back up here about 4 times for a combine total of maybe 2-3 weeks.

Anyway, I get a link sent to me last night by my sister. It's to a newspaper article from a paper in SC, my cousin announced she's running for the city council down there. In the article, she(cousin) brags about having all this experience farming and all the stuff she learned from the hardwork done on the family farm(our grandparent's).

What gets me, she's never so much as lifted a bail of hay, milked a goat, collected eggs, fixed fence, even ridden on a tractor, never lifted a finger on this farm. I have, I spent my entire life busting butt on this farm. It pisses off not only me, but others in this family, that she's claiming to be this farmer chick when she isn't by any stretch of the imagination.

I'm tempted to write a letter to the editor of that paper setting the record straight but that would flame into a giant Hatfields/McCoy situation rapidly.
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Sounds like she is perfect for a career in politics.
 
krazykuda said:
Memike, Ben, and I were on then...

It's your phone/computer that you are trying to use that may have been the issue...
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At 4:30 am the site was down for some reason, so out times might have been east coast and all that !! I did get logged in at about 5am
 
dukeboy_318 said:
mine too..... i almost cried lol kidding


Advice needed.

I can't stand people who deliberately lie about themselves and misrepresent their experiences. Drives me nuts.

Now, let's set the background, My cousin, she is 6 years younger than me, she's 24, almost 25. After she was born, my uncle and his now ex wife lived on the farm for about 18 months, moving to town for a couple months before getting a divorce and then his ex wife got custody of the now 2 yr old and remarried to a professor at a university and moved to SC. My uncle relocated to SC, got a job and such. My cousin has only been back up here about 4 times for a combine total of maybe 2-3 weeks.

Anyway, I get a link sent to me last night by my sister. It's to a newspaper article from a paper in SC, my cousin announced she's running for the city council down there. In the article, she(cousin) brags about having all this experience farming and all the stuff she learned from the hardwork done on the family farm(our grandparent's).

What gets me, she's never so much as lifted a bail of hay, milked a goat, collected eggs, fixed fence, even ridden on a tractor, never lifted a finger on this farm. I have, I spent my entire life busting butt on this farm. It pisses off not only me, but others in this family, that she's claiming to be this farmer chick when she isn't by any stretch of the imagination.

I'm tempted to write a letter to the editor of that paper setting the record straight but that would flame into a giant Hatfields/McCoy situation rapidly.
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The new gen tries to pump themselves up now days.. Like your facebook profile... Your online life is just a fantasy of what you wish you were, not what you really are...
 
krazykuda said:
The new gen tries to pump themselves up now days.. Like your facebook profile... Your online life is just a fantasy of what you wish you were, not what you really are...
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i wouldnt know, im blocked from her page for calling her out on it the last time, when she was trying to get a job at the USDA for an ag educator........................ :rofl::lol:
 
memike said:
At 4:30 am the site was down for some reason, so out times might have been east coast and all that !! I did get logged in at about 5am
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If you go back and look at the last page, we were all on and posting between 5:25 and 5:40...
 
dukeboy_318 said:
i wouldnt know, im blocked from her page for calling her out on it the last time, when she was trying to get a job at the USDA for an ag educator........................ :rofl::lol:
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My son has inflated his resume also... I tell him that some of that's not true, but he says you have to make yourself look good.... :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

What happens if you get the job and can't do what you told them you can??? :mad:
 
krazykuda said:
My son has inflated his resume also... I tell him that some of that's not true, but he says you have to make yourself look good.... :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

What happens if you get the job and can't do what you told them you can??? :mad:
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my employer just fired a guy for that very thing on Tuesday. Claimed he had all this experience when come to find out, he'd never even seen the programs before. After 2 months of him literally not producing a thing, they let him go
 
krazykuda said:
If you go back and look at the last page, we were all on and posting between 5:25 and 5:40...
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well it must of my regional then.... cause I tried from my phone and the laptop before leaving for work, both wouldnt let me on
 
dukeboy_318 said:
my employer just fired a guy for that very thing on Tuesday. Claimed he had all this experience when come to find out, he'd never even seen the programs before. After 2 months of him literally not producing a thing, they let him go
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And they should.
 
krazykuda said:
I can I think...

But I'm also trying to make that next step up since I'm here now and wouldn't need to give notice...

It would be nice to get back to where I was instead of keep working my way up the chain...
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I hear ya... I worked my way up and was a maintenance manager for many years. New owners/management pushed me out. With no degree, very difficult to get in anywhere at management level. Got in with a co from CA starting new in our area that was supposed to grow into a management spot. Even though we were making big $ for them, they shut it down after 3 years. To even get in the door as a mechanic, I am prob going to take a big step back in pay and likely end up on a night shift. :BangHead:
 
Holly Molly !! 109 feels like temp for today on the hill :BangHead::BangHead: Thank god for the 300 Oaks and shade around my little cottage :thankyou:
 
zkx14 said:
I hear ya... I worked my way up and was a maintenance manager for many years. New owners/management pushed me out. With no degree, very difficult to get in anywhere at management level. Got in with a co from CA starting new in our area that was supposed to grow into a management spot. Even though we were making big $ for them, they shut it down after 3 years. To even get in the door as a mechanic, I am prob going to take a big step back in pay and likely end up on a night shift. :BangHead:
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I have an engineering degree and I'm driving a fork lift, after working at a clothes warehouse before that... I have to start on the ground floor and work my way up...

I had to take 10 years off to take care of my sick dad and mom while raising my two kids myself...

They preach family before work, but if you do that, they hold it against you when you try to get back in... :mob:


I had a CEO snub me for taking a temp job, WTF??? I have never taken any unemployment or welfare and will work a $10 per hour job to keep from doing so, but that doesn't get any appreciation... :icon_fU:
 
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zkx14 said:
I hear ya... I worked my way up and was a maintenance manager for many years. New owners/management pushed me out. With no degree, very difficult to get in anywhere at management level. Got in with a co from CA starting new in our area that was supposed to grow into a management spot. Even though we were making big $ for them, they shut it down after 3 years. To even get in the door as a mechanic, I am prob going to take a big step back in pay and likely end up on a night shift. :BangHead:
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That really sucks man. I wish you the best. If I can help, let me know
 
krazykuda said:
My son has inflated his resume also... I tell him that some of that's not true, but he says you have to make yourself look good.... :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

What happens if you get the job and can't do what you told them you can??? :mad:
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I think that's part of my problem. How do you compete against someone half your age who has supposedly done everything...
Actually a big part of why I got pushed out of my manager spot. I was not willing to pencil whip reports to make up for all the crap they were not willing to spend money on to fix. So it looked like other sites were somehow getting things done and I wasn't. Yet my facilities were some of the safest, best looking, smoothest operating... Just not perfect on paper. Too many people just don't give a **** and wonder why everything is going to ****. :BangHead::BangHead::BangHead:
 
my boss has said several times that I should be further up the food chain here than I am - - problem is, I have always been blunt and honest.. that **** doesn't get you anywhere in this type of environment
 
zkx14 said:
I think that's part of my problem. How do you compete against someone half your age who has supposedly done everything...
Actually a big part of why I got pushed out of my manager spot. I was not willing to pencil whip reports to make up for all the crap they were not willing to spend money on to fix. So it looked like other sites were somehow getting things done and I wasn't. Yet my facilities were some of the safest, best looking, smoothest operating... Just not perfect on paper. Too many people just don't give a **** and wonder why everything is going to ****. :BangHead::BangHead::BangHead:
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I hear ya...

When I was at the engine factory, the engine line was supposed to change the sockets on the connecting rod tightening stations every week... the maintenance guys would come in on weekends with overtime and fill out the reports that they were changing the sockets every week...

When we were in one Saturday in Feb to test the new tools to run the new aluminum cam bearings (change from babbitt), I stopped at the connecting rod stations and put paint marks on the sockets and extensions on the multiples there...

Those same marks were on the sockets and extensions on the equipment still in July....

I mentioned this to a co worker and when he brought it up in the morning meeting, the maintenance supervisor jumped all over him calling him a liar... I kept quiet because I didn't want to let him know how I can prove it...

Those sockets and extensions were on there for months after that, but the maintenance crew kept signing the paperwork each week saying that they were replaced... You could also pull up the tool room stock to see that they were not using that many sockets and extensions to support their claims...

If they would have cooperated, I could have gotten with the tool engineer and changed the maintenance frequency to every three months, but since they were being a--holes I left it as it was...

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Another time as I'm passing through the lunch room at lunch time I hear a skilled trade guy ask another if he's working overtime this weekend...

The guy replied, "I'm coming in, but I ain't working..."

Then stated that he was an oiler...

I mentioned this to the tool engineer and he said, "No wonder our air motors keep burning out, that a--hols is not filling the oilers like he's supposed to and the motors are running dry....

So the tool engineer and I got with some tooling vendors and tested their electric equipment... we found some very repeatable equipment and retooled the whole engine assembly line with DC elelctric motors and got rid of the air motors and the need for the oiler on that line since he didn't want to do his job....

The new equipment reduced 66% of our torque audit violations.... :thumbsup:
 
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