On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:37:13 GMT, "Larry L"
wrote:


"rb608" wrote


In the midst of this, I took a call from my mortgage banker.


in Sept I was sitting at the Nature Conservancy cabin at Silver Creek
chatting with the volunteer hosts, a couple of retired teachers I've gotten
to know fairly well. My son is leaning towards teaching and we were
discussing that field.

There was some guy that showed up "to fish" that must have spent over an
hour on various calls ..... as his buddy got rigged .... then his buddy
stood and waited, ...then his buddy went down to the water, alone. You
could overhear enough of each call to know he was giving emplyee after
employee detailed instructions on what to do that day.

Jerry finally quietly said something to me about "can't believe he's been on
the phone this whole time on a fishing trip" .... which the cellslave heard
and looked up at, perturbed. Partly to take Jerry off the guys mind and
mostly because I'm a bit of an asshole, I then added loud enough to be
heard, " Yeah, if the business can't run for a couple days without him, he
must really suck as a manager. Employees should be better trained and
prepared than that."

I got a very seriously irritated look from "Mr Big Business" ... BUT ....
he was off the phone very soon after that and down at the creek. I like
to think I did him a favor, by ****ing him off. G

Speaking as another very-unimportant, non-business owning/managing Luddite:
It's gotten to where I can pick out a rolling cell user from a half-mile away.
You've probably seen the same phenomena: wandering out of their lanes,
changing speed for no reason, running right through traffic signals and
signage without warning.

At least a half-dozen times in the last couple of years, I've been stopped at
a red signal with a "user" next to me and seen them suddenly just take off
through the still-red light. Now, I *never* go through an intersection without
my foot hovering over the brake pedal.

And they are fricken' *everywhere* I wanna go...

/daytripper (I can't pass these idiots fast enough)