The Pipeline

Yair . . . Trashman. Thanks mate. As I always say HEF is a great site to round out ones education. (he grins)

Cheers.

stock said:

WTF is tofu? does it contain bacon, or potatoes or cabbage........................

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It's not bad fried with some kinda spicy sauce..

willie59 said:

Me, I'm fond of a bowl of cornbread and buttermilk, a combination that would make most folks pass out, but that's just me.

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HATCHEQUIP said:

And a big bowl of navy beans with a spoonful of mayonnaise mixed in to go with it

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Ya'll just killed my appetite. :throwup

Now give me some smoked ribs, turnip greens with pepper sauce and some homemade mac and cheese and you'll have to fight me to take it.

mitch504 said:

Aahh, you're just prejudiced because I don't like Spaghetti-Os

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Well, there's that too. :tong
and I knew you liked skettios!

HATCHEQUIP said:

spaghetti circles in sauce in can punch hole in top set on vice heat with torch or set on manifold must be extremly hungry. Better than toe jam I mean tofu

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I can't eat them warm, they taste like metal then. I have to eat skettios cold and from the can (cuz who wants to dirty a dish!). But if I were to eat ravioli it would have to be warm. I've never had tofu, dunno if I ever want to either.

willie59 said:

LMAO, you guys are cracking me up. But don't bust HEO's chops too bad for liking Spaghetti O's, like she needs my help, she's already proven she's tough as shoe leather, but all of us has our tastes. Me, I'm fond of a bowl of cornbread and buttermilk, a combination that would make most folks pass out, but that's just me.

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And I'm just getting tougher by the day! It seems as though I have an assistant spreadman on the job out to get me! Thought I didn't come to work today because he hadn't seen me. Funny thing was I had gotten with the 1ton early to load some crap way in the back. My foreman alerted me to his accusations when I got to the front around 6:30 this morning. Said they were in their meeting and this assistant asked him who took the most days off on his crew, my foreman questioned him so the assistant repeated himself. Well the other assistant spreadman (who I love) spoke up and said "That damn teamster!". Well that shut the other assistant up because he changed the subject. Well after my foreman told me all this as we were driving by to head to work I rolled down the window put on my biggest, cheesiest smile and waved frantically and said the loudest "HELLO!" ever. I got a hello from a few folks in their circle but that assistant just looked at the ground... Did I also mention there's someone here who thinks women come from a mans rib and therefor are below all men and of course "shouldn't be on the job". Shocker there right?

HATCHEQUIP said:

Willie you know if HEO keeps working down south like this she might not want to go back to the frozen country especially if she meets the right old southern boy

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The saying in that song "The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog." is so VERY VERY true.

mitch504 said:

And, oh yeah, Willie, SHE STARTED IT!

We once had a long argument one winter sunday afternoon about the relative merits of Chef-boy-ar-dee vs Spaghetti-Os on chat. She was very uncomplimentary about my taste in canned spaghetti.

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Anything from the Chef is nasty unless it's ravioli... Skettios rule.

tonka said:

She's probably eating Spaghetti O's because she's sick of ramen!!!

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Oh no, never sick of ramen. Actually sometimes I crave to eat it. Yum!

Women are always right

HEO Girl said:

Oh no, never sick of ramen. Actually sometimes I crave to eat it. Yum!

Women are always right

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LOL uh huh... just ask my wife!

No need Tonks I have one of my own and she says "she is not always right but she is never wrong"

I Kinda Miss It

You know what I kinda miss? Working for a company that kind of seemed like they cared about you. Working union is so weird. No one really cares, or so it seems. Especially the company your working for at the time. Why should they have too? I mean, all they have to do is call up the hall and they'll send out another of whatever they need at the time.


We didn't have T for this attachment but we did have some imagination!


My fortune cookie... pretty sad when a fortune cookie tells you this.


Counted 14 deer headed for the woods!


We are crossing one of Jack Daniels properties (went along side his polo field) supposedly these are his horses. I wanted to pat one badly but they weren't having any of that.


Sometimes you see the strangest things on your way home.

When are you breaking for Christmas K? Heading up to Maine for the holidays?

Yair . . . A profound statement this one HEO

You know what I kinda miss? Working for a company that kind of seemed like they cared about you. Working union is so weird. No one really cares, or so it seems. Especially the company your working for at the time. Why should they have too? I mean, all they have to do is call up the hall and they'll send out another of whatever they need at the time.

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I understand what you are saying although your system in the US is quite different to ours. I have only once had to work under union rules once and don't believe I could work in a system where folks are seen as numbers . . . I do believe however there are enough bad/manipulative employers out there that unions have a place.

I have been following your thread with interest and admiration.

You have a good Christmas and all the best for 2014.

Cheers.

stock said:

When are you breaking for Christmas K? Heading up to Maine for the holidays?

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We get the 22nd through the 30th off, then we work, then we get the first off. I don't understand, why not just give us the whole time... but I'm working for a workaholic spreadman and we've had quite a few rain days. I'm waiting for that 7 days a week until the jobs over to start like the last one. Today was a rain day as well. Good thing as I was feeling pretty burnt out this week for some reason.

I will not be headed home for Christmas. It's just to long of a drive and I have to pick up the dog from training on the 22nd then head back on the 23rd to do more training with his trainer. Can't fly as I'll have the ferrets and the dog. Doing training with the dog those 2 days just doesn't leave enough time to make it worth it for me to drive 2 days there and 2 days back. I'm 24 hours away total but really I think 12-14 hours is my limit for how long I can drive a day. Haven't told my mom yet, she'll be upset.

Scrub Puller said:

Yair . . . A profound statement this one HEO



I understand what you are saying although your system in the US is quite different to ours. I have only once had to work under union rules once and don't believe I could work in a system where folks are seen as numbers . . . I do believe however there are enough bad/manipulative employers out there that unions have a place.

I have been following your thread with interest and admiration.

You have a good Christmas and all the best for 2014.

Cheers.

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Thanks Scrub. Hope you have a good Christmas too
It kind of bums you out when you think about it to much. I just keep telling myself the paycheck is nice.

Well we will be on line so as to help keep your spirits up. You can start a new thread just for the day............

Yeah, we'll call it "the help keeping HEOgirl from going crazier thread.

Hey we gotta keep an eye on her !.......... After all we raised her from a kitten LOL I'll be around here also

HEO Girl said:

You know what I kinda miss? Working for a company that kind of seemed like they cared about you. Working union is so weird. No one really cares, or so it seems. Especially the company your working for at the time. Why should they have too? I mean, all they have to do is call up the hall and they'll send out another of whatever they need at the time.

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Well I don't work union but have worked for this company since the day after graduation from high school back in 1968 with a little time off during the school year for a couple years of college. The company has gone from a regional company that was more or less family owned where top management knew most of at least the long term employees by name. Now by way of mergers and buyout it is on of the largest aggregate and concrete producers in the world. Now it's rare for management two levels above our supervisor to have any idea who the employees are even those with more than twenty years service to the company. I have the feeling that this is planned so if they "need" to downsize a location they can just think of the numbers on the paper and not have to think that there are people attached to those numbers.

HEO Girl and all others hope you all have a great Christmas:waving

stock said:

Well we will be on line so as to help keep your spirits up. You can start a new thread just for the day............

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♥ I just might do that

mitch504 said:

Yeah, we'll call it "the help keeping HEOgirl from going crazier thread.

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I think I've already gone crazier! You might be a little late on that one! :tong

Tiny said:

Hey we gotta keep an eye on her !.......... After all we raised her from a kitten LOL I'll be around here also

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Meow :tong

kshansen said:

Well I don't work union but have worked for this company since the day after graduation from high school back in 1968 with a little time off during the school year for a couple years of college. The company has gone from a regional company that was more or less family owned where top management knew most of at least the long term employees by name. Now by way of mergers and buyout it is on of the largest aggregate and concrete producers in the world. Now it's rare for management two levels above our supervisor to have any idea who the employees are even those with more than twenty years service to the company. I have the feeling that this is planned so if they "need" to downsize a location they can just think of the numbers on the paper and not have to think that there are people attached to those numbers.

HEO Girl and all others hope you all have a great Christmas:waving

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No one in upper management in this company knows who you are. They are in another state. I know a couple people on this job who are on pay roll all year long but they aren't management persay. I'm a company hand which means even though I got my book out of VA the company hires me on where ever they go (at least that's what I hope continues) which is how I ended up in TN with them.
Hope you have a good Christmas too!

HEO, really want to be a number? Join the military!

Hope you have a great Christmas even if you can't go home. Ya get real down I'll be on and off on Christmas.

Rick

Hello lay off! Hello Mississippi?

Hello lay off! Hello Mississippi?

Lay off is here. Yaaaaaaaay. It was starting to get a little cold anyways .

Got a call from a man who was running a ho on the job but had got done way early. His wife was his oiler, they were really great people. Worked beside their crew for a little bit so got to know them. Anyways he told me if he got a steward job he'd give me an oilers book, he's been a BA and an off and on steward before. I always thanked him for that comment but honestly didn't think anything would actually come of it you know. Well as I stated above he called me, said he's going to steward down in Mississippi, said he'd have work for at least 4 months for me if I wanted to come down and oil, starts in the spring. Same company, different spreadman. Supposedly he's not a nice spreadman either. Oh well I'm used to butt heads, where's the fun if everyone got along anyways? He said I'd have to let him know for sure by the end of Feb if I was coming and I'd be in the group of first hire ons.
Helllllloooooooo oilers book It really is all in who you know!

I'm afraid to branch out a little because I know the spreadman I'm with now would hire me on again but I guess I've heard talk that he doesn't have work after this. However there are lots of rumors and stories in this line of work and you truly don't know for sure until whatever happens happens, or doesn't happen... Decisions, decisions.

HEO Girl said:

Hello lay off! Hello Mississippi?


I'm afraid to branch out a little because I know the spreadman I'm with now would hire me on again but I guess I've heard talk that he doesn't have work after this. However there are lots of rumors and stories in this line of work and you truly don't know for sure until whatever happens happens, or doesn't happen... Decisions, decisions.

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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

"It's better to have a lesser but certain advantage than the possibility of a greater one that may come to nothing."
Had to look that saying up lol.

This is certainly true. Union is weird, I could 'drag up' and still work for my old spreadman if I were to get on the job in Mississippi and were to get a call to go to work. It's hard decisions to make. Pros and cons to both sides really.

Well good luck with which direction you decide to go.

Rick

Yes what ever you decide I'm sure it will work out. Anytime you can learn a new part of a business it makes you more valuable the next time you are looking for work.