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If the Susquehanna is still anything like it was when I lived in Harrisburg, release would be your only option! Definitely not something I would eat.
And there only trout at the mouths of the colder tribs in cold months.
It gets "sudsy" by the shores, among other things.
No Blinkys reported (yet).
Who knows after Microsoft gets TMI cranked up again.
I'm not sure what inhabits the river, but I'm pretty sure it's not something you'd want to eat, no matter what the species.
Full Disclosure: Haven't actually been close to the water since before COVID when we took the paddleboat "booze cruise".
I actually worked at TMI when the plant was being built. One of my Penn State wrestling friends was hired there when he graduated and was a plant operator. (He didn’t have anything to do with the events that occurred during the reactor upset.)
In one case you’re already dead…the other you’re heading that direction!
Both command lots of alcohol.
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A 21 year old had both her grandmothers die in a week to get out of working. Nobody actually died in the telling of the lie.
Another person said she couldn't work because she had just had a biopsy done in the operating room at some local hospital. My wife, who was a supervising operating room nurse at a Trauma 1 hospital, told her that was not possible. Biopsies are never done in a $10,000 an hour operating room lol. She refused to walk away from the lie. Of course she had no hospital paperwork either.
I had someone quit and move out of state, and then filed for unemployment. She claimed she was still in the area. Fortunately, I had the text from her saying she had moved to another state and could no longer work.
Interviewed someone who told me to my face that she had never been arrested. When I ran the state background check, she had 28 felonies and 15 misdemeanors in JUST the prior 10 years, including just two weeks earlier. When I said that I can't hire you, she flipped out, calling me a liar. LOL. She is also the only person to ever flunk the drug test with a majority of the panels failing. That's seriously hard to do.
Many, many more ...
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This reminds me of Jason Kelce's story of a college teammate who got notified of an upcoming drug test, knew he'd flunk it anyway, and decided to smoke his way to the all-time high score.
Anyway, keep 'em coming. Good stuff!
Had a nurse that refused to give out medication. "It's your job. It's why you were hired". "I'm afraid to give out medication". Well, bye!
Had a nurse with 35 years experience that claimed she didn't know how to give a bed bath. Our average employees know how to do this. She just didn't want to do it. My wife and I, on our way to a weekend getaway and dressed better than average, showed up and my wife gave him a bed bath in her street clothes. Needless to say, that was the nurses' last day of work.
If you do this long enough, you see it all. Mostly great people. Some not so great people. I am not very high on the younger generation of adults, but there are clunkers in every age group. They just don't stick with anything. Some exceptions but not enough. If you ever want to piss off an employee and have them tell you to perform anatomically impossible tasks, just ask them to take responsibility for their actions and statements. It never fails. Seriously, it never fails.
Truth be told, I have 85 employees, and at most, I might have 5 problem children at any one time. So it's not as bad as the stories, but the stories make you laugh at times.
Had an employee who would not work with any client who had cats. Why? Because when I was 10 a bunch of kids threw a cat off the roof of a three story building and it landed on my head. Why are you blaming the cat? Because the cat scratched me when it landed on my head...
As u noted, most people r great. But that entity that isn't gives everybody else a bad name for being closely related as a species.
I work at a much bigger company, and so we see all kinds of bad behavior and cover-ups, but my favorite story is an employee who saved himself with a blatant lie.
He got busted watching porn at work, but claimed he was addicted to porn and therefore protected under the Americans With Disabilities Act. Everybody knew it was a lie, but the company couldn't prove he wasn't, so he was suspended with pay (which only cost him sick leave) and required to undergo therapy (which his insurance paid for).
I was stunned into silence by the response. What would have been the point?
I used to be a global manager in a previous life, and my favorite story is about a cocky 28 year old guy in project management. One day a customer called upper management to say that our company had accidentally faxed our proposal cost data to the client with vendor names and all. That rock rolled down the mountain and found this 28 year old as the culprit. When asked what happened, he blamed the fax machine for sending the cost data and took no responsibility whatsoever. Even when we scornfully questioned him, he was indignant that he didn't mean to send it but the fax sent it anyway!!!!! This was just before the 2008 crash, and needless to say, when the first layoff started shortly thereafter, he was in the first wave.
This is probably my favorite example of hubris.
My only example with porn was actually a woman. We found that when we would leave our office, she would spend all her time watching pornhub. So obviously we fired her. About a week later, I get a call from the US Dept of Labor questioning why we had let her go. She claimed we let her go because she was a lesbian. I said we let her go because she was watching pornhub on company computers and company time. I even told him the titles of the videos. The guy politely thanked me, laughed, and said he'd take care of it. That was the end of that.
It sickens me when people don't take responsibility for their actions. If you're gonna do the crime, ya gotta do the time.
I used to work at a company with 12,000 employees. Your posts come across to me as someone who also travels a lot and works for a large company. I traveled 50% of the time internationally for 20+ years. One day I said enough and came home and said I'm ready to retire to Hilton Head, and so we did. She passed away suddenly two years later and I started this company to keep me busy. Too busy actually, but it comes with great stories.
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And now a good story. I had an 88 year old lady call me last night begging for care. We gave her care from 9-11am this morning. She called me at 3pm saying she needs more help because she can't get to the kitchen for a glass of water. I send the same aide there an hour later and she finds the lady on the floor. She is on the way to the hospital as I type. So as much I tell the crazy stories, the good stories greatly outweigh the bad. That aide saved this woman's life today.
Well I have one...
I cook at an industrial kitchen. Women's lunch is noon and guys at 1:30. My responsibility ist to make sure the food is ready for service. At 11:50, I said my gout was flaring up and if I didn't go home to get my medication, I would be out until the flare up subsided.
My boss told me to go and I got to watch most of the first half of the game today.
Both services went perfect. Now I want to to an hour and a half break everyday.
I cook at an industrial kitchen. Women's lunch is noon and guys at 1:30. My responsibility ist to make sure the food is ready for service. At 11:50, I said my gout was flaring up and if I didn't go home to get my medication, I would be out until the flare up subsided.
My boss told me to go and I got to watch most of the first half of the game today.
Both services went perfect. Now I want to to an hour and a half break everyday.
I was a sous chef in college and we used to provide lunch for the wife of the university president at the time and her "committee". All it amounted to was 30-40 older ladies talking about their grandchildren.
Here’s my favorite nurse story. Way back in San Diego, I used to go to an assisted living facility on Sundays with a few other people from my church and we would do a worship service for the elderly people there. (That, by itself, was an awesome experience.) At the entrance to the facility, there was a central desk where the nurses and attendants would gather, just like on a hospital floor. One Sunday I went in and saw an incredibly attractive blonde woman at the desk in a white medical smock. It was hard not to look and I had to pull myself away because that wasn’t why I was there.
We ended up meeting each other through some mutual friends about a year later. When we met, I knew I had seen her somewhere before but I just couldn’t place it. When she told me that she worked part of the time at the assisted living facility, then everything clicked.
The best part of the story is that she has been my wife for almost 20 years.
Serving the Lord gets you a hottie wife; I guess we do reap what we sow : )
Here I was thinking the residents were wondering why is this guy giving a sermon on lust. :}
I had an employee "Bambi" that was shall we say was "difficult". The big red flag was Rutgers MBA and series of progressively more responsible financial jobs; punctuated with a three year gap in employment, where she moved from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg to accept a position as a clerical supervisor. My boss, never stopped to consider this when he signed off on her hiring before I arrived-and accepted the lame explanation that she was settling her father's estate-and he wasn’t J. Paul Getty.
From the beginning, I knew she was bat guano crazy. She dressed in olive drab, no doubt reminiscing about being a protestor. She would laugh or cry for no reason-and generally reminded me of Anthony Perkins portraying Jimmy Piersall in Fear Strikes Out. If you are to young or aren't enough of an old movie buff for the reference-Perkins also played the lead in Psycho. A former college cheerleader, she managed to transform herself into Margaret Hamilton in Oz, sans green skin.
One night she treated me to her thoughts on how then Treasury Secretary John T. Snow brought financial ruin to us. She was incredibly antagonistic to another woman who worked for her.
One day she decided to go Emeril Lagasse and kick it up a notch. She started brandishing a banana as a pistol, complete with sound effects. At one point she added an imitation of automatic fire and recoil.
That was enough. I called the employee assistance line and after a discussion with the counselor was informed that she was hitting on eight out of ten warning signs for a “troubled employee”. I was told that ideally, she would receive counseling-and as a condition of continued employment-but unless she recognized the need-it would likely be unsuccessful. The best I could do was engage in supervisory counseling.
I had a simple and brief injunction for her-not acceptable-saying surely as an MBA, you are aware that after 911 things are different. Shortly after, my boss called me into his office to get the thoughts of the counselor and to discuss. As we were speaking, there was a knock on the door. Bambi peered in and said “Gentlemen, I have just one question-is my sanity in question?”. I think most sane people think that if you have to ask that question-the answer is yes.
A couple weeks later, my boss took an extended vacation to get married and left me in charge-she used the occasion to file a nine page, handwritten “sexual harassment” complaint. When called in by HR Karen who read from the original complaint, I noticed she wrote it with enough anger to emboss the paper.
Among other things, she said I “mounted” her, made her work overtime without pay (I fortunately had several emails telling her go home after work), threatened to kill her and fell on her. My response to the last charge was pretty simple-"look, I’m well over 200 pounds and she’s a hundred and nothing. If I fell on her, two things would be true. First, she’d be seriously injured and second that would be a workplace accident, not sexual harassment". HR Karen never thought about that.
After three months, I received the best possible outcome. No evidence was found to substantiate her claims. Despite that, I was informed that it would be inadvisable to meet with her privately, the charge would remain my permanent file and in the event of another claim, even if made years later by another person, it could be “considered”.
Someday, I’m writing a book about my adventures as a mid-level bureaucrat. I will say the day she retired, I did a jig.
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A ketogenic diet, if you can follow one, will make your gout disappear, no medication required.
Well looking for women sure wasn’t my intention that Sunday afternoon!
In case you’re curious, the assisted living facility was Pleasant Care in the Kearny Mesa area.
Thank you.
I really didn't have a flare up. I just wanted to watch the first half of the game at home.
Just tear up the get well card I mailed you and I'll blow out those candles I light at church.
You can keep the red meats, organ meats, alcohol, sugary drinks and other high purine foods i mailed to you.
Merry Christmas!
You can keep the red meats, organ meats, alcohol, sugary drinks and other high purine foods i mailed to you.
Merry Christmas!
Was he the porn star from my dads era, or am I thinking of someone else?
@Cstroke help me out here. I feel like you could answer this..
Don't forget me..
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