slightly OT: foam cervical collars

jimbud wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 05, 2019 3:36 pm

A wife can always tell.
Just say "yes dear" and do it.
Maybe you won't end up like me.
JPB

Many years ago I learned that I am a very responsible person. If anything goes wrong, I'm responsible. It was the same way at work. I was the only QA on site, so if anything was wrong, it was my fault. Either I should have found it and had it fixed, or, better yet, I should have been there and stopped it from happening. The fact that the place was open at least 15 hours a day, and often 24 hours a day didn't matter. I was still responsible.

Okie bipap wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 05, 2019 7:32 pm

jimbud wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 05, 2019 3:36 pm

A wife can always tell.
Just say "yes dear" and do it.
Maybe you won't end up like me.
JPB

Many years ago I learned that I am a very responsible person. If anything goes wrong, I'm responsible. It was the same way at work. I was the only QA on site, so if anything was wrong, it was my fault. Either I should have found it and had it fixed, or, better yet, I should have been there and stopped it from happening. The fact that the place was open at least 15 hours a day, and often 24 hours a day didn't matter. I was still responsible.

You're quite a guy (neighbor) Okie bipap.
JPB

Okie bipap wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 05, 2019 7:32 pm

jimbud wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 05, 2019 3:36 pm

A wife can always tell.
Just say "yes dear" and do it.
Maybe you won't end up like me.
JPB

Many years ago I learned that I am a very responsible person. If anything goes wrong, I'm responsible. It was the same way at work. I was the only QA on site, so if anything was wrong, it was my fault. Either I should have found it and had it fixed, or, better yet, I should have been there and stopped it from happening. The fact that the place was open at least 15 hours a day, and often 24 hours a day didn't matter. I was still responsible.

Being responsible, you should have always scheduled yourself to work, before and during all problems, so you could prevent them, It's your fault! Jim

Where I worked it was always my Bosses Fault. Good Bosses would tell you what need to be done, and go away, Bad Bosses told you how to do it, and micro managed how it was to be done. If you had a really Bad Boss, We did it the way he told us, line by line, and let him take the Full Heat for the results.. You could always tell the bad bosses, they had skid marks on theirhard hats from throwing them on the ground, and red noses from drinking too much!

Goofproof wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 06, 2019 11:49 am

Okie bipap wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 05, 2019 7:32 pm

jimbud wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 05, 2019 3:36 pm

A wife can always tell.
Just say "yes dear" and do it.
Maybe you won't end up like me.
JPB

Many years ago I learned that I am a very responsible person. If anything goes wrong, I'm responsible. It was the same way at work. I was the only QA on site, so if anything was wrong, it was my fault. Either I should have found it and had it fixed, or, better yet, I should have been there and stopped it from happening. The fact that the place was open at least 15 hours a day, and often 24 hours a day didn't matter. I was still responsible.

Being responsible, you should have always scheduled yourself to work, before and during all problems, so you could prevent them, It's your fault! Jim

Where I worked it was always my Bosses Fault. Good Bosses would tell you what need to be done, and go away, Bad Bosses told you how to do it, and micro managed how it was to be done. If you had a really Bad Boss, We did it the way he told us, line by line, and let him take the Full Heat for the results.. You could always tell the bad bosses, they had skid marks on theirhard hats from throwing them on the ground, and red noses from drinking too much!

You are sooo right, Jim.

JPB

jimbud wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 06, 2019 12:12 pm

Goofproof wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 06, 2019 11:49 am

Okie bipap wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 05, 2019 7:32 pm

jimbud wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 05, 2019 3:36 pm

A wife can always tell.
Just say "yes dear" and do it.
Maybe you won't end up like me.
JPB

Many years ago I learned that I am a very responsible person. If anything goes wrong, I'm responsible. It was the same way at work. I was the only QA on site, so if anything was wrong, it was my fault. Either I should have found it and had it fixed, or, better yet, I should have been there and stopped it from happening. The fact that the place was open at least 15 hours a day, and often 24 hours a day didn't matter. I was still responsible.

Being responsible, you should have always scheduled yourself to work, before and during all problems, so you could prevent them, It's your fault! Jim

Where I worked it was always my Bosses Fault. Good Bosses would tell you what need to be done, and go away, Bad Bosses told you how to do it, and micro managed how it was to be done. If you had a really Bad Boss, We did it the way he told us, line by line, and let him take the Full Heat for the results.. You could always tell the bad bosses, they had skid marks on theirhard hats from throwing them on the ground, and red noses from drinking too much!

You are sooo right, Jim.

JPB

DISCLAIMER: At no time did we do a job that put safety for us or others in danger. We did dangerous things to get the job done, but only at the level we thought was in our favor, and as safely as we could, without causing harm to anyone else.

If a Boss wanted us to do something that wasn't what we considered safe, he had one choice, we would get a witness, he could sign off on doing it his way on paper, we would do it ,and RED LINE (Tag OUT) The Equipment) for inspection by a safety committee. (Never turned out good for the Boss!) Trading Time for Safety in never a option. I never had a Boss override me, they knew they were wrong. In the end it was better for them to let us do it correctly. Jim

For several years, I was my own boss. I worked here in Oklahoma and the man I reported to was in California. I had one boss for three years and never met him. We did everything through email and telephone calls. When we were working twenty hour days, I would come in a couple hours after the day shift started and then stay over for half of the second shift. If I was lucky, I got five or six hours sleep a night and caught up on my sleep on Sunday (we worked six day a week). I was paid for a maximum of sixty hours a week, but I put in much more than that. The technicians were hourly, so they were paid unlimited over time (either time and a half or double). I was salaried, so I paid my normal rate for those hours I got paid for. After twenty years in the military, I had that "get the job done at any cost" attitude. I was determined there would be no work delays caused by the lack of QA when it was needed.