THANXS Mike, I think the main point of this article is that they are pushing to bring in contractors again (rather than trying to compete in hiring) so they are trying to get some backing from the public. I just hope everyone remembers what happened to Puget and look at their outage times.

 

Ok time to start up that chipper. TTYL

 

Hey You got the power back on.. Tell anyone that wants to complain about it.. I'll work my 40 just the same.. But that means you'll be without power an extra couple weeks. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

Some folks have a different plan of how to manage their lives than most of us do. When I worked for a large aluminum smelter there were some men that would take OT any time they could get it. Work and sleep was about all they did. One man would have his camper in the parking lot and stay at the plant for two weeks at a time then go home for a weekend. Something over ten years he did this. Then he retired. His wife, a teacher, and he had two kids toward the end of his marathon and after the plant closed he stayed home and took care of them. Home schooling and the whole bit. He and his wife have been retired for about ten years now and his kids are doing great. The OT was available and under the union contract he was allowed to work it. He made his choices and took the bad with the good. The fellows that are making the big bucks now may be doing much the same and more power to them I say. If the contract everyone agreed to allows them to work that many hours and they are doing the work then they are earning the money and if some folks don't like it, well all I can say is tough. I just hope they are doing it for the right reasons because as you say sometimes the OT becomes like a drug.

 

They need to look around a little if that is what they have in mind. Gonna be a lot of stuff put up hap-hazard and some dangerous shortcuts being used. I've seen it happen in other areas and it's not a good thing. Major line builds sometimes require outside contractors but if a system is growing at a reasonably constant speed then in house crews are the best way to go. Just my opinion and I could be wrong. But I'm not.

 

Repost for those who missed it...

We had this great 10 year old cat named Jack who just recently died.
Jack was a great cat and the kids would carry him around and sit on him
and nothing ever bothered him. He used to hang out and nap all day long on this mat in our bathroom.

Well, we have 3 kids and at the time of this story they were 4 years
old, 3 years old and 1 year old. The middle one is Eli. Eli really
loves chapstick. LOVES IT. He kept asking to use my chapstick and then losing it. So finally one day I showed him where in the bathroom I keep my chapstick and how he could use it whenever he wanted to but he needed to put it right back in the drawer when he was done.

Last year on Mother's Day, we were having the typical rush around and
try to get ready for Church with everyone crying and carrying on. My
two boys are fighting over the toy in the cereal box. I am trying to
nurse my little one at the same time I am putting on my make-up.
Everything is a mess and everyone has long forgotten that this is a
wonderful day to honor me and the amazing job that is motherhood.

We finally have the older one and the baby loaded in the car and I am
looking for Eli. I have searched everywhere and I finally round the
corner to go into the bathroom. And there was Eli. He was applying my
chapstick very carefully to Jack's . . . rear end. Eli looked right
into my eyes and said "chapped." Now if you have a cat, you know that
he is right -- their little butts do look pretty chapped. And, frankly, Jack didn't seem to mind.

And the only question to really ask at that point was whether it was
the FIRST time Eli had done that to the cat's behind or the hundredth.

And THAT is my favorite Mother's Day moment ever because it reminds us
that no matter how hard we try to civilize these glorious little
creatures, there will always be that day when you realize they've been
using your chapstick on the cat's butt.

 

LOL You two sound like school kids with the flutters [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

 

I have to work OT, Val keeps making me buy toys for myself, she is so dang unselfish [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

If you keep trying to prove Murphy's law, will something go wrong?

 

where did the sun go?[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img] i hope it shows up again