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Old Oct 23rd 2019 | 8:09 am
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How could I have forgotten The Prisoner, Man from Uncle, The Avengers (Steed) or MASH
 
Old Oct 23rd 2019 | 8:35 am
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These words are so true. If only managers actually realized this....lol People tend to quit bosses/managers and not jobs. Looking back I would say about 90% of the jobs I left were due to bad bosses and not the job itself.

 
Old Oct 23rd 2019 | 9:20 am
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39 found dead in truck in Uk

Why !!! Smugglers need dealing with harshly
 
Old Oct 23rd 2019 | 10:25 am
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Some criminals make it far too easy for police.

https://windsor.ctvnews.ca/alleged-w...-car-1.4652141

"Police say a shoplifter at a Windsor-area mall climbed into an unmarked police cruiser, mistaking it for a getaway car."
 
Old Oct 23rd 2019 | 10:40 am
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I wish the digger and impactor next door would STFU at 7am in the morning.
 
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I wish the digger and impactor next door would STFU at 7am in the morning.
7am sounds a tad early. : ours tend to kick off at 8am. But I reserve the right to growl
 
Old Oct 23rd 2019 | 10:48 am
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These words are so true. If only managers actually realized this....lol People tend to quit bosses/managers and not jobs. Looking back I would say about 90% of the jobs I left were due to bad bosses and not the job itself.


Had a couple of those in my life.

Fortunately OH proposed and that gave me the ideal way out from the first one. But half the teaching staff left as well.

The second one moved on after a year as the funding for him ran out while I was still being funded so I stayed.

 
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It's even more annoying when management does a survey to see why turn over is so high and employees respond because this manager or managers are poor, treat us like dirt, show no respect, and then nothing but crickets and the cycle continues. Companies have high turn over for a reason, and work environment and management can play a bigger role than wages.

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Had a couple of those in my life.

Fortunately OH proposed and that gave me the ideal way out from the first one. But half the teaching staff left as well.

The second one moved on after a year as the funding for him ran out while I was still being funded so I stayed.
 
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... My Favourite Martian ... TISWAS ...There are bound to be some OMG how did I forget thats.
I'll never forget those two.
 
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That is the pits.

Wasn't a digger but when the dollar store went in downstairs below our unit, it was drilling, hammering Mon-F from 7:30am to 5:30pm, and man do they start right on the dot at 7:30am...lol There were days it seemed like a jackhammer was coming through the floor.



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Old Oct 23rd 2019 | 12:13 pm
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
...it was drilling, hammering Mon-F from 7:30am to 5:30pm, and man do they start right on the dot at 7:30am...lol ...
It's good if you forget to set your alarm.

 
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Flu jab today
(had the pneumo one too)
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39 found dead in truck in Uk

Why !!! Smugglers need dealing with harshly
They sure do. The driver's been charged on suspicion of murder, I wonder how that will pan out. Those poor souls
 
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Only if you need to be up that early..... At the time I was working until 3am, so I was not wanting to be awake at 7:30am...ha ha

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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
Only if you need to be up that early..... At the time I was working until 3am, so I was not wanting to be awake at 7:30am...ha ha
My husband's niece in Liverpool is a nurse and works lots of night shifts. She's a bit of a character and not someone you'd want to cross. She puts a 'Shift worker sleeping, please don't ring the doorbell' sign on her front door before she goes to bed. She was very cranky one morning when someone rang the bell after she'd only had 2 hours sleep, so she opened her (upstairs) bedroom window and yelled 'can't you f***ing read?!'.
 


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