Mr. Cow
> If we were really concerned about sun protection, baseball caps (or seed corn company caps) would be the Sherlock Holmes style for shade front and back.
Saw a guy at a baseball game last weekend wearing two: one forward, one backward. It kept his neck pretty well shaded.
Just wait until you get the American Community Survey in the mail.
I did.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/orwellian-american-community-survey
Evan...
Rich,
I have been told by HS friends that one of our friends in HS was the one who came up with registering for college classes by calling a number and then touch toning your course registration.
Apparently, he thought of it while waiting on a long, long line to register for classes at Duquesne Univ.. wait an hour on one line and then move to the next for a long wait. Remember those days...
But I imagine that HC still has a rotary phone.
A few years ago, I saw quite a few advertised positions which required personal ownership of a cell phone. My thought was that if the company needed me to have a cell phone that bad, they would provide one.
I hadn't given it much thought but after reading this thread it seems that I too am becoming quite intolerant. You have touched on several of the things in life that irritate me.
As Red Green says "We're all in this together..."
Try having the office telling you that no calculations are to be done in the field and them taking all the calculators away. We were to call in any issues that we had with points that were pre entered in the collector. I staked a straight clearing line by tape because I could see the start and squeeze between the trees to see the end. I got back to the office and didn't have the recorded stake out coordinates. 2 days off no pay. Tolerance is. well I guess was stupidity staying there but when no one was hiring.
I love telling the cashiers what the change is before they enter how much i gave them. They look at you like you just saved a kid from being hit by a car.
Do surveyors still bring their dogs along?
> Do surveyors still bring their dogs along?
As long as theyre not S%!t eating dogs. Wouldnt want the Iman to get bit if they were hungry.
>rimshot<
I do, sometimes.
Sometimes we take the turkey, too! LOL
I'm the most tolerant person that I know, and Holy is MORE tolerant than I am.
Right on Mr. Cow! :good:
Loyal
Grumpy? You ain't seen grumpy, yet.
You are in the checkout line and the total bill comes to $12.05. You hand the clerk a 10 dollar bill and a five dollar bill and a nickel. He tries to give you two dollars plus 95 cents in change and can't figure out what to do with the nickel.
an old family friend who was a banker retired but wanted to do something, so he is now a cashier at the local market. on his first day i pulled a similar trick by providing the change and he asked me to just let him make the simple change. he was overwhelmed by the register.
Mr. Cow
Maybe those guys are instrument men, who are tired of hitting the bill against the gun....?
The ACS sounds like the logical extension of the some of the forms asking for information "for statistical reasons only" that we've filled out when taking new jobs for years.
Back in the mid-80s, being as tolerant then by the pre-altered definition as I am now, I decided that the form asking about my ethnic heritage was too personal a thing to ask and might be used to my detriment. At the time, I was a seasonal employee of the MI DOT and had made it known that I was hoping for a permanent position.
It was in the mid spring when they brought the 1st batch of seasonals back to work. at first I just didn't fill out the form and was told that I had to fill out all of the forms or I could find a different job. I saw the bold statement at the top of the form that declared that the info was being gathered strictly for informational purposes only and had no effect on one's employment status. Since it was purportedly a meaningless form, and since I was slightly offended at my ethnicity being generically referred to by a primary color rather than by the actual regional, continental, or national heritage as were all the other categorical ethnicities, I looked for a more respectably described or labeled ethnicity to which I might be reasonably categorized.
It was immediately apparent. I had never been anywhere but North America my entire life - it is all I ever really knew, so I must be a native of this land. thus, I indicated that I was a Native of America, or more succinctly, a Native American.
Man, did that cause panic at the project and district offices! The admin guy in our project office called me on the radio. This confusion over a "for statistical purposes only" bit of info couldn't wait for the end of the day. It had to get settled immediately! Wow, these people are serious about their statistics.
Merle: "Are you really a Native American?"
Me: "Well, I was born here and lived here all my life. Both parents were born and raised here, and my roots go so far back on my dad's side that nobody in the family knows when the first Page arrived here. So yeah, I'm a Native of America."
Merle: (at this point fairly screaming over the radio for all on the frequency to hear) "G** Dammmmt! are you a f*****g Indian!"
Me: "Well, no Merle, I'm not. The form didn't ask that." (They've since changed these forms to clarify the categories and avert "incorrect" answers from smartalecs like me. I am once again of the only ethnicity described as a primary color)
I found out at the end of the day upon arriving back at the office (Merle had calmed enough to allow me to continue breathing by then) that had I indeed been a descendent of the peoples who inhabited North America prior to the influx of peoples of other parts of the world, they would have had to immediately change my employment status from seasonal to permanent if that was indeed what I wanted, and that various bureaucrats could have been in some amount of hot water, from the HR functionaries in Lansing, to the engineers in the managerial chain of command in district on down, all the way to little 'ole Merle for having overlooked the combination of my ethnicity and my desire for a permanent position. But being just a person described as a primary color, they could continue to work me 3 pay grades out of class and then discard me at the end of the construction season.
That was my first lesson that when the government wants personal info for some benign reason, and tells you that it will not be stored in a way to affect your dealings with govt, your rights, your employment, etc., they are lying. What they really mean is that they won't use it except in the advancement of the ever-changing concept of tolerance.
