Re: Last night was "surf and coop."

On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 1:53:06 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-03-14 8:56 p.m., dsi1 wrote:

On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 22:05:37 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

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How hard they work and what they have to put up with?  I realize they
have to hustle and have to deal with idiots but my sympathy my be a
little restrained when I think back to some of the jobs I had as a kind
that paid peanuts. I was a paper boy who had to deliver a heavy bag of
papers on a two mile route regardless of the weather. I was out on the
hottest days of summer and the coldest days of winter, in the heavy snow
and pouring rain. I made next to nothing doing it  and I also had to go
around and collect every week which  took 5 times longer than delivery,
and trying to squeeze that 60 cents a week out of adults.  Then the
summer I was 14 I worked for a house builder making basements for $1 and
hour, sweating my ass off in a huge hole in the ground and and pushing
around a bug  construction size wheelbarrow loaded with gravel or
cement. I picked strawberries in a field in the glaring sun for what
amounted to about 55 cents an hour.
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I had a much better summer job while I was at university. I worked in
the furnace room of an alloy smelting plant.  I rarely had to work more
than 15-20 minutes  every hour but when I did it was usually hotter than
an oven. I had to wear long johns and a heavy wool coat to protect me
from the heat. I got burned almost every day on the job and one day
someone was  killed in the job. Hell I was  replacing a guy who had been
injured on the job and was off for four months. I later worked for the
highways department in various positions. Four people I had worked with
were killed on the job.  And servers have to carry heavy trays and be
nice to people?
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Being nice to other people is difficult for some people. I had an easy
time with that. I could take difficult/hostile people and turn them into
loyal patients. I'm like a silver-tongued devil. I should be dsc1 - the
C would stand for "charming."

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I used to be able to hand people a couple tickets and they would shake
my hand and thank me for being so nice to then,  Heck I should have been
car salesmen. Those guys can throw a real screwing into a customer, suck
the into spending thousands of dollars for nonsense stuff  and the
purchases hate to leave the dealership because they have a new best
friend.

That's how some folks think. My family and I never used our particular
set of skills to exploit people. It's my dad's legacy. He never took
advantage of other people's situations. He did however, disdain the rich
and powerful. Me too!