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Post by DavidR on Jul 8, 2022 13:06:22 GMT -5
Has anyone seen these 2 guys on their History Channel show?  What are they thinking? OR Are they thinking? Their internal organs must be getting trashed. |
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Post by creimes on Jul 8, 2022 13:36:29 GMT -5
Whatever sells to viewers and makes money I guess haha, looks pretty unintelligent to me though yikes  |
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Post by markc on Jul 9, 2022 2:53:06 GMT -5
Ah, scorpion and snake bites and stuff. It may be unintelligent, but I bet it sure makes most of us cringe or cower in empathy....
Here was me, thinking this was going to be yet another thread about how super expensive cables can't audibly alter audio transmission.
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Post by drtrey3 on Jul 9, 2022 8:29:52 GMT -5
Wildlife Jackass.
Trey
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Post by DYohn on Jul 9, 2022 8:49:21 GMT -5
Not just stupidity, stupidity while prostituting yourself for a paycheck
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Post by housetech on Jul 9, 2022 12:42:02 GMT -5
Not just stupidity, stupidity while prostituting yourself for a paycheck Don't so may of us do that (prostituting yourself for a paycheck) when we don't follow our dreams, for fear of failure or criticism? If I would only have... The screams of millions. |
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Post by DYohn on Jul 9, 2022 13:44:56 GMT -5
Not just stupidity, stupidity while prostituting yourself for a paycheck Don't so may of us do that (prostituting yourself for a paycheck) when we don't follow our dreams, for fear of failure or criticism? If I would only have... The screams of millions. Indeed. |
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Post by Boomzilla on Jul 10, 2022 7:50:02 GMT -5
I'm happy to say that for the past 22 years, I've never had to prostitute myself for a paycheck. I love my work, I'm really good at it, and I'm payed handsomely for it. I have the luxury of turning down work that I'm not qualified for, that I don't want, or that I don't feel I have full management support for. If I need subcontractors, I hire only the best and pay them well. And perhaps best of all, I'm blessed with the opportunity to pass on knowledge to students who are eager to learn what I'm teaching.
Would that everyone could be so fortunate.
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Post by marcl on Jul 10, 2022 8:20:34 GMT -5
I'm happy to say that for the past 22 years, I've never had to prostitute myself for a paycheck. I love my work, I'm really good at it, and I'm payed handsomely for it. I have the luxury of turning down work that I'm not qualified for, that I don't want, or that I don't feel I have full management support for. If I need subcontractors, I hire only the best and pay them well. And perhaps best of all, I'm blessed with the opportunity to pass on knowledge to students who are eager to learn what I'm teaching. Would that everyone could be so fortunate. Likewise ... best I could, anyway. I never took or stayed at a job just for money. I had hoped to spend part-time in my retirement years doing what you're doing as a consultant, but maybe partly Covid-related that didn't pan out. I did get an offer in December that I might have taken a year or so before. One of my mentors - who I always wanted to work with - offered me three months full time, 100% remote, for a four-figure day-rate. I thought about it for a weekend and called him and said all I could think about was .... I don't want to work anymore, but I could buy a car with the money. Not the right reasons to take a job. I turned him down ... and bought the car anyway! In my most recent (Agile software coaching) profession my biggest problem was management wanted to say they were committed, say they were doing a process transformation, tell everyone they had to participate and do it .... but management - not even maliciously - had no clue what they were actually saying. It was all smoke and mirrors and they wanted to look like processes were changing but weren't interested in actually changing anything. I know it sounds weird, but I spent hours and hours coaching teams that just did not want to change. I gave up. Essentially they couldn't pay me enough to put up with the frustration ..... P.S. In some of my best leadership training over the years we talked about what motivates people. Daniel Pink wrote a book called Drive. In it he describes research on the subject, and to summarize ... Where cognitive skills are required, as long as you pay people "enough", money does not motivate them to work harder or be happier. Motivation centers on: Autonomy; Mastery (of a skill or ability); and Sense of Purpose. |
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Post by Boomzilla on Jul 10, 2022 9:06:56 GMT -5
Yeah - Prior to my consulting career I worked in a company that paid lip service to change but lip service only. That company went bankrupt - and deserved to!
In fact, in 1976, when I started there, Borden Chemical was (by itself) the 51st largest company in the USA. If you added in all the other Borden businesses (dairy, wallpaper, adhesives such as Elmer’s Glue, etc.) Borden was the 17th largest.
By 2000, when I left, poor management had driven the whole company into the ground. Bad decisions upon bad decisions just kept piling up. My site, in Geismar, LA, was the second largest natural gas user in the State after the power company. We were vertically integrated, using our own gas from our own fields. Then corporate, seeing that gas was cheap (at that time) sold our gas fields. Of course, when gas prices went up again, we were suddenly operating at a loss.
On and on…
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Post by DavidR on Jul 10, 2022 9:16:20 GMT -5
I'm retired and finally happy and comfortable about it.
EHS sucked as did most of the companies.
I was most happy managing and improving process equipment in the first half of my career.
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Post by housetech on Jul 11, 2022 9:03:47 GMT -5
Electronics field service for 30 yrs, Kodak sold off our division, got discussed with corp America, quit & started a R.E. business. After being fully vested, It took a class action to get our retirement paid. My advise to anyone still working, walk if you find something better & more enjoyable. Your present job will lay-off/fire you and not care.
Since retiring, I have a full time consulting job; but my wife doesn't listen to me and the pay is terrible, R.E. still pays much better.
"Things never change until the pain becomes unbearable."
"discussed"? lol, disgusted
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Post by leonski on Jul 11, 2022 14:48:03 GMT -5
Electronics field service for 30 yrs, Kodak sold off our division, got discussed with corp America, quit & started a R.E. business. After being fully vested, It took a class action to get our retirement paid. My advise to anyone still working, walk if you find something better & more enjoyable. Your present job will lay-off/fire you and not care. Since retiring, I have a full time consulting job; but my wife doesn't listen to me and the pay is terrible, R.E. still pays much better. "Things never change until the pain becomes unbearable." Welcome to the world of Commodity Employment. Companies are merciless. When I got the boot from a job, I made the mistake and signed off my stock which was at a low point. Had I known? I'd have kept the stock and actually made some money....It was not a trivial amount and I was 100% vested. And from above? Continuous Process Improvement was my only joy at work for a long time. Fixing the same BS mistakes over and over, even after 3 layers of safeguards in place was beyond just boring. |
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