Brother Al
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All is well. She sleeps right through most nights thankfully!
Yes, Spyder is making Glass lens headlights, like the other chinese ones out there... imagine its a rebadge, but who knows... Im gonna buy a set and see if they are DOT-marked like their other ones.
Geeze Bill, that SUCKS!!!! The risk of changing jobs is such a mfkr... I left a good paying job 20 years ago, when I was a tin knocker... Shop owner paid us well, but he was a real ass-busting *****... no coincidence, everyone called him "Dicky". He was a complete shtbag about doing jobs with the right tools. He'd tell us to run parts that our machines couldnt handle happily... (I had a Strippit press punch assigned to me). One day he come over and tells me to run a mountain of parts made of 1/2" plate... Machine was designed to max 3/8". Got screamed at for telling him it would break. Even his son told him it was a stupid idea. Destroyed 1 punch die because it kept jamming & eventually chipped so badly it couldnt punch fully. Broke the spring on another, showering me in shrapnel... after a pile more, I hit the pedal and KaBoom!!! Scared the fk outta me. The entire press assembly pushed through the housing head and exploded its piston guts all over my press table. That one cost him BIG... had to fly and house some Strippit Corp tech for crazy $$$$ for about a week. Cant imagine what the parts cost....
I was no saint, I fkd up a few jobs... but the biggie was when I was told a part needed to be ground down. Well, I ground off a bit too much & 1000+ pieces were all fkd-up... The company that contracted with us had to issue a recall... cost the owner quite a bit. Funny how you know when a boss is close to firing you...everyone avoids you and all of my work was being "rechecked" for a few months... so I figured it was about time I look elsewhere, this after working for about 4 years there and going out of my way to pitch in and do the "extras" that others didnt do, like clean up grinding dust in the corners and crevices of the shop (see explosive). Anyway, I put word out and a guy who owned a commercial HVAC business said he'd hire me for less pay, but he'd train me to do HVAC and Id get union pay on a huge contract he had for a new Social Security Office, which would easily make up for the lost in pay. Took the job. Well, the owner was a ******, most of his crew didnt tell me crap & a few guys were perpetually drunk. I was hired to make duct work, but I was regularly being sent to install it. I had no idea WTF I was doing, and no one really showed me. On week 3, I made all the ductwork for the S.S. office... I asked about the prevailing union wage. He said I had to work on the site... Semantics, so I played along and reminded him about our initial discussion & to show me what to do if they needed me to hang it. On the jobsite, I made stuff as we found issues and added things. 1 week later, no union wage in my pay. Owner was "not in" when I went to talk to him. Left a msg with his secretary. Went to jobsite Monday 6am... forecast to be 95+.. Went to work and lost track of time... Sweating my ass off in a closed, multi-floor building, I stopped to get my gatorade and realized NO ONE else was on the floor. Went out to see WTH was going on & the site manager asked me WTF I was doing in there. I explained and he told me he'd ordered the site closed 2 hours ago, because it was over 100° inside (sealed building). Despite a further "discussion" with the guy, I ignored him & went back in, packed up my tools, tossed all the shop's tools into the job box, & drove the box truck back to the shop. Got back, shop was locked, so I locked all the shop keys inside the cab. There were 5 employees on site that day, our electrician, our plumber, 2 installers, plus our foreman....., none of them said a fkn thing & no one called my shop cell phone. Sure, I was the FNG, but I coulda passed out from heat exhaustion & no one woulda found me until the next day (dead). I went back to the shop later that evening. Left a letter in the mailbox addressing the "issue", that my proper paycheck be mailed to my house, and that I resigned, effective immediately.
Yes, Spyder is making Glass lens headlights, like the other chinese ones out there... imagine its a rebadge, but who knows... Im gonna buy a set and see if they are DOT-marked like their other ones.
Geeze Bill, that SUCKS!!!! The risk of changing jobs is such a mfkr... I left a good paying job 20 years ago, when I was a tin knocker... Shop owner paid us well, but he was a real ass-busting *****... no coincidence, everyone called him "Dicky". He was a complete shtbag about doing jobs with the right tools. He'd tell us to run parts that our machines couldnt handle happily... (I had a Strippit press punch assigned to me). One day he come over and tells me to run a mountain of parts made of 1/2" plate... Machine was designed to max 3/8". Got screamed at for telling him it would break. Even his son told him it was a stupid idea. Destroyed 1 punch die because it kept jamming & eventually chipped so badly it couldnt punch fully. Broke the spring on another, showering me in shrapnel... after a pile more, I hit the pedal and KaBoom!!! Scared the fk outta me. The entire press assembly pushed through the housing head and exploded its piston guts all over my press table. That one cost him BIG... had to fly and house some Strippit Corp tech for crazy $$$$ for about a week. Cant imagine what the parts cost....
I was no saint, I fkd up a few jobs... but the biggie was when I was told a part needed to be ground down. Well, I ground off a bit too much & 1000+ pieces were all fkd-up... The company that contracted with us had to issue a recall... cost the owner quite a bit. Funny how you know when a boss is close to firing you...everyone avoids you and all of my work was being "rechecked" for a few months... so I figured it was about time I look elsewhere, this after working for about 4 years there and going out of my way to pitch in and do the "extras" that others didnt do, like clean up grinding dust in the corners and crevices of the shop (see explosive). Anyway, I put word out and a guy who owned a commercial HVAC business said he'd hire me for less pay, but he'd train me to do HVAC and Id get union pay on a huge contract he had for a new Social Security Office, which would easily make up for the lost in pay. Took the job. Well, the owner was a ******, most of his crew didnt tell me crap & a few guys were perpetually drunk. I was hired to make duct work, but I was regularly being sent to install it. I had no idea WTF I was doing, and no one really showed me. On week 3, I made all the ductwork for the S.S. office... I asked about the prevailing union wage. He said I had to work on the site... Semantics, so I played along and reminded him about our initial discussion & to show me what to do if they needed me to hang it. On the jobsite, I made stuff as we found issues and added things. 1 week later, no union wage in my pay. Owner was "not in" when I went to talk to him. Left a msg with his secretary. Went to jobsite Monday 6am... forecast to be 95+.. Went to work and lost track of time... Sweating my ass off in a closed, multi-floor building, I stopped to get my gatorade and realized NO ONE else was on the floor. Went out to see WTH was going on & the site manager asked me WTF I was doing in there. I explained and he told me he'd ordered the site closed 2 hours ago, because it was over 100° inside (sealed building). Despite a further "discussion" with the guy, I ignored him & went back in, packed up my tools, tossed all the shop's tools into the job box, & drove the box truck back to the shop. Got back, shop was locked, so I locked all the shop keys inside the cab. There were 5 employees on site that day, our electrician, our plumber, 2 installers, plus our foreman....., none of them said a fkn thing & no one called my shop cell phone. Sure, I was the FNG, but I coulda passed out from heat exhaustion & no one woulda found me until the next day (dead). I went back to the shop later that evening. Left a letter in the mailbox addressing the "issue", that my proper paycheck be mailed to my house, and that I resigned, effective immediately.
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