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Metal advice needed
"Michael A. Terrell" on Thu, 10 Jul 2014
13:33:40 -0400 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following: pyotr filipivich wrote: "Michael A. Terrell wrote: The people who never screw up, never do anything. 3 Or they work for the Government, so it doesn't impact their lives or careers to any great degree. Show me even one G-E who never screws up! It isn't the "never screwed up" part which is the problem. It is the detail that we rarely, if ever, hear of a GovEmp who got fired because he screwed up. -- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone." |
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Metal advice needed
On 07/11/2014 1:20 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
.... It isn't the "never screwed up" part which is the problem. It is the detail that we rarely, if ever, hear of a GovEmp who got fired because he screwed up. .... Then again, the percentage of private employees that are fired for a single screw up is likely not all that high, either. Long-term incompetence often exists there as well as I've observed from nearly 50 years experience. The VA thingie is going to catch out quite a few, I suspect, having already started w/ the head guy effectively fired by being pressured to point of having to resign. There's at least a reasonable likelihood of some civil and criminal charges arising out of this mess going forward methinks, as well. -- |
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Metal advice needed
pyotr filipivich wrote: "Michael A. Terrell" on Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:33:40 -0400 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following: pyotr filipivich wrote: "Michael A. Terrell wrote: The people who never screw up, never do anything. 3 Or they work for the Government, so it doesn't impact their lives or careers to any great degree. Show me even one G-E who never screws up! It isn't the "never screwed up" part which is the problem. It is the detail that we rarely, if ever, hear of a GovEmp who got fired because he screwed up. That's because all the screwups are busy plotting how to blame someone else. -- Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge. |
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Metal advice needed
On 7/8/2014 8:52 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:43:49 -0500, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote: " fired this volley in news:fb0a500f- : My philosophy That may be your philosophy, but that's not the one Steve expressed (not mine, either. "Do it well, or don't do it at all" is mine). Per Steve, it's a craft and a diversion from day-to-day. That's a good enough excuse, by itself, to do a good job. Lloyd Hear Hear!!! And its not..not just for "metal working" https://picasaweb.google.com/1040422...602/Ensenada20 https://picasaweb.google.com/104042282269066802602/Oday Etc etc etc On the other hand..there is a difference between "Perfect:" and "Good enough" One does have to know the difference though https://picasaweb.google.com/104042282269066802602 -- "Living in the United States now is like being a Tampon. We're in a great place, just at a bad time." I had a "Sunfish", IIRC, made by AMF. A little spit of a sailboat with an open cockpit, and up and down keelboard. I had it for the 16 weeks I lived in Seabrook, TX, and was going to commercial diving school. It wasn't much of a boat, but even when viewed by sailboaters, it got a lot of respect for what it was, A BOAT FOR LEARNING HOW TO SAIL. It was also good for taking girls for a ride, once you learned how to keep it upright, and make it do what you wanted it to do. And even the spills were fun after the first one. It was easy to right, and you learned in one minute if the girl was a keeper. Girls who don't like to get their hair wet were usually a no go in other ways. Girls who laughed it off were offered a couple of beers and another ride. Fussy ones were let off at the dock or left to swim in if we were near a dock. Know whut uh mean, Vern? Steve |
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