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Re: Job Insurance? An investment portfolio or a second marketable skill
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 02-28-2011 - 12:50
Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> We need a sandhouse telephone game warning system.
> The person who told me this saw LPM stomping
> around in the mud at Chorro, but he probably
> wasn't in the position to know who was calling the
> shots for LPM. I had left SP employment by this
> time, so I don't know who came after LPM. In the
> 18+ years I was there, I figured out later that
> there was a new West Div Sup't on an average of
> every 15-18 months during all those years,
> including WMJ who was there for almost the entire
> first 10.
>
> WJL nad a valid point about efficiency testing,
> but the rather forceful way he went about it
> resulted in his not being respected. From the
> men's room at Tracy:
>
> There once was a brakeman from Tracy
> Who got efficiency tested by Lacy.
> When asked which way went the rule of the day,
> Said, why don't you go sit on your face, see?
Reminds me of the morning when LPM came strolling into the switchman's shanty at the Glasshouse during a shift change and started to ask each switchman, "What's the Rule of the Day?" Most of them had been working 8 on, 8 off. One of them replied, "Hell, I don't even know what day it is!" LPM was not pleased, turned red, and stomped out (for those of you who remember LPM, he had a particular gait that always reminded me of Mick Jagger's "chicken walk").
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> We need a sandhouse telephone game warning system.
> The person who told me this saw LPM stomping
> around in the mud at Chorro, but he probably
> wasn't in the position to know who was calling the
> shots for LPM. I had left SP employment by this
> time, so I don't know who came after LPM. In the
> 18+ years I was there, I figured out later that
> there was a new West Div Sup't on an average of
> every 15-18 months during all those years,
> including WMJ who was there for almost the entire
> first 10.
>
> WJL nad a valid point about efficiency testing,
> but the rather forceful way he went about it
> resulted in his not being respected. From the
> men's room at Tracy:
>
> There once was a brakeman from Tracy
> Who got efficiency tested by Lacy.
> When asked which way went the rule of the day,
> Said, why don't you go sit on your face, see?
Reminds me of the morning when LPM came strolling into the switchman's shanty at the Glasshouse during a shift change and started to ask each switchman, "What's the Rule of the Day?" Most of them had been working 8 on, 8 off. One of them replied, "Hell, I don't even know what day it is!" LPM was not pleased, turned red, and stomped out (for those of you who remember LPM, he had a particular gait that always reminded me of Mick Jagger's "chicken walk").
