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John H[_2_]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:58:10 -0500, BAR wrote:

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On 2/14/11 6:08 PM, BAR wrote:
In articlekLudnQKr_sVw7sTQnZ2dnUVZ_iydnZ2d@earthlink .com, payer3389
@mypacks.net says...

On 2/14/11 1:19 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:15:22 -0600, Boating All Out
wrote:

In ,
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:48:32 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

I've been here a lot longer than you have, and will still be here long
after you leave. Go get a boat, then we'll have something to talk
about.

Ah, so longevity counts for something? Why?

Looks like Wayne's playing the union seniority and schoolteacher tenure
card. Just sayin....
Naw! Just looked that way.

Seniority counts! I hold the door for the elderly. (now that's
snarky!)

I was on a construction site in Florida about 10 years ago, a new
powerplant, actually, when one of the major subcontractors called the
local union business agent to tell him he need five more workers
beginning the next day and continuing for a number of weeks.

"Send me the graybeards," I recall him saying, "I want guys who know how
to do it right the first time, without supervision."

When it is critical, seniority counts.

Seniority in a union just means you have managed to stick around for a
long time. It says nothing about the quality of your work or your
competency.

Seniority in the marines just means you re-enlisted.

Seniority in the military means you have been around and done quite a
lot of things. For officers if you make O-6 before 18 years in you are
on the fast track. If you haven't made it by 22 years you are just
marking time before you retire.

In the military seniority means you have been exposed to quite a bit of
stuff. My cousin is finally getting a battalion. He has been at NATO for
the last 18 months and he has been in Afghanistan for two tours and Iraq
for two tours. He is well on his way to O-6 and beyond.

Don't forget about enlisted time for us draftees!!