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On Mon, 3 Feb 2020 04:15:27 -0000 (UTC), Bill
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Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/2/2020 8:41 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 2/2/20 7:49 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/2/2020 7:40 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
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On Sun, 02 Feb 2020 17:54:33 -0500, Adorable Deplorable
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On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 13:05:48 -0500 (EST), Justan Ohlphart
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Adorable Deplorable Wrote in message:
On Sun, 02 Feb 2020 03:18:19 -0500, wrote:On
Sat, 1 Feb 2020 18:18:25 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:I ordered one this evening and
honestly? There?s no frills to it. It?s a big 1/2 lb double
burger with bacon, some kind of gooieÂ* cheese stuff, with some
ketchup and a pickle is n a standard generic toasted bun. Kind
of flavorless.Not worth the hype. I can make better at
home.And no, it doesn?t look near like
this...https://photos.prnewswire.com/prnfull/20160805/396024I
spent enough time working behind the counter in fast food
(Wendy'sArby's and Burger King) to know it is all ****. You
can live on it butit is not really good food like even a bar
hamburger. I've worked also in fast food restaurants (Garst's
Drive In, Sedalia, MO) for years. We bought allour meat from a
local butcher, ground it in house and fried the burgers on the
grill (my job).Nothing **** about it, I guarantee!My next fast
food job was cooking Kentucky Fried
Chicken when Minoit, ND, got their first KFC placeback in the
early 60's. Nothing **** about that either. It was all pure,
fresh chicken!The more I hear about your experiences down there,
the more I think I'll stay away from that part
ofFlorida!--Freedom Isn't Free!

We went to a rv ralley in Minot ND last summer. Great place and
some of the friendliest people. Capt. Sullenberger was the
featured speaker. What he did was indeed a miricle.

I was up there with the US Coast and Geodetic survey doing the
triangulation surveys for the
Minuteman missile sites. Definitely not a fun place to spend a
winter! Got transferred from there to
Cape Canaveral. Much better weather!

"Why not Minot"?
"Freezn's the reason".
One of my IBM buddies was stationed in Minot and later the south
pole.
He lives in Colorado now. Definitely a cold weather guy.

When I was offered my first promotion at The Associated Press, I
met with the General Manager, Wes Gallagher, and his deputy, Keith
Fuller, at AP headquarters in NYC. I'd only been with the AP for
about six months, and Gallagher told me if I ****ed up my
appointment to Chief of an AP Bureau, he'd reassign me to Fargo,
North Dakota.

Whew...*that* was a confidence builder.Â*Â*

One of my row mates at the KC Star, Harihar Krishnan, was later
hired by Reuters and assigned to cover news coming out of Tibet,
India, and a part of China.

You are so transparent in your comments ....

It's not, "When I was offered a promotion ...."

It's, "When I was offered my *first* promotion ..."

You remain full of yourself even in your old age.

Eight or so months after that promotion, The AP offered me a second
promotion.Â* Thus, the promotion I described was the *first* promotion
at The AP. I turned down the second promotion, because I had been
recruited by a large Advertising-PR agency in Detroit that offered me
far more dinero than The AP was offering.

Weren't you regularly offered promotions in Da Naveeee?

Of course, but they weren't "offered".Â* They were required in order
to stay in the Navy if you were so inclined and you competed with
thousands of others based on test scores, time in service and
evaluations.

This reminds me of a retirement party my wife and I attended years ago
for someone who was leaving Foxboro Corp after 30 years.Â* We were
sitting at a table with another Foxboro employee who had over 20 years
with the company.Â* He told me he joined the company as a purchasing
agent straight out of college.Â* I asked what he did now.Â* He replied,
"I am a senior purchasing agent".

Oh, well, once you were "in" The AP, you could "bid" on bargaining unit
jobs but senior management "selected" you for management jobs. I started
as a bargaining unit "newsman" and once I got that first promotion, I
was considered "management."

I was too far down in the Navy food chain to be considered "management".

I was not management. I liked to design and fi stuff too much.

I ended up with a lot management responsibility and no management
power. It was the way I liked it. Then we were just doing the right
thing because it was the right thing, not because I was threatening
anyone. My inspector job and my HOA job here are the same.
One thing we were proud of in Ft Myers as when they split out our
little territory and treated us like a branch office, we had the best
numbers in the Southern Region, by double digits in every category.

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