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NickTheGrip

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    pigging eck

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Chuffin Nora!!!!!

     

    Speaking as a Lancashire lad, born and bred. I can relate to all these

    Along with such words as:

     

    owt (anything)

    nowt (nothing)

    ta (thank you)

    ta ra (cheerio)

    butty (sandwich)

    wazzock (idiot, nuisance)

    cewd (cold)

    crackin' (great)

    shufti (look-see)

    bog (toilet)

    I could go on for hours

     

     

    ya load of manky gits :lol:

    Air Travel

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Yes, I'm well aware of this. Rule for all professions in the US. Women can be pilots, though I haven't seen many yet. I'm merely poking fun, since I'm a dirty almost old man (refer to "cheeks" thread). LOL! Didn't need a big explanation! Can't I just be an Idiot?!

    Nah, Admins have to be a "special" type of idiot - LOL

    Air Travel

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    I am not specifically anti-union, but especially in the US, seniority forces the Airline to keep the older, more senior flight attendants which is why you see mostly 40/50+ year old women as FAs on most domestic flights.

    There does seem to be a pretty sour attitude all around although I do think some of that is passenger created. Some of the shit they have to put up with is pretty bad. Doesn't give them the right to be assholes with the rest of us though.

    If you want good looking flight crew, fly international with a non-US airline.

    I remember back in the 80's flying on Singapore  Airlines and every single attendant was a total knock-out. I have heard it is still like that.

    What I do for Work.

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    I was an insurance broker for 30 years, then sold my portion of the business to my brother and his sons 4 years ago. Since then I fell into another career as a curator for a natural history museum that is being built in Silicon Valley.  I wish I would have gotten into this gig before insurance. It's a lot more fun. 

     

    Wait, this means LOM is our resident Ned Ryerson - watch out for that first step - it's a doozy!!!

     

    Possible move to Northern Kentucky

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Well, the deal is done. They came through with the conditions I was looking for so I decided to re-accept. They are covering my COBRA payment up front and have promised the relocation funds up front also. They even sweetened the pot with an extra week's vacation :cool:

     

    I handed my 2 weeks notice in today. My boss was totally blindsided and not very happy. :rant:  This was right after he set me up as the guy to close out two of our biggest problem jobs to those customers (Subaru and GM). Now he has to go back to them and say "change of plan - we don't have one yet"

     

    January 6 is my first day on the job in Kentucky. Now the fun part starts - trying to relo the family over the next 3 months or so. :shock:

     

    Woo, hoo.................................I think LOL

    Possible move to Northern Kentucky

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    Well the good news and the bad news:

    After all the round about stuff they made me an offer I couldn't refuse so I accepted. That was a couple of weeks ago and reality has now set in and I think I am going to back out of it.

    The company and the position looks good, so do the people and there was plenty of good areas to move too (we were looking around the Blue Ash area of Cincinnati) but this is where the problems started

    First off, the promise of health insurance from day one became "oh we just changed that policy to after 30 days" - funny no one mentioned that during the interviews. Then the relocation money that they promised me in order to move for my promised start date of Jan 6 became "You will get that in your first pay check ($15k). - potentially 3 weeks after I start.

    So basically they want me to relocate my family, on my dime, in the next 4 weeks (with a major holiday in the middle). I just don't think i can do it. Especially pulling my 8 yr old out of school in the middle of the year and dumping him in another curriculum that most likely does not match up. (he is struggling in school right now)

    We discussed it as a family and the decision was made to back out. It's a shame as it was quite a major upward move and would have more than made up for some crap stuff that happened in my last employment place.

    So now we are targeting some time in the summer for somewhere, as we still desperately want to get out of the Detroit area - just not right this minute!!!! 

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