Posts by Dorktacular

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Your Employment - Have you Been Stressed Mentally or Hurt Physically ?

by flipper in

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as most of you now know, i do commercial janitorial for a living !

lol!

especially after seeing the thread i posted today !

Dorktacular

I had a very stressful job for 6 years, where I was also injured! Woo Hoo! I was a field engineer for a major company. This job was so stressful, and I'm not making this up, that the upper management actually had national meetings to discuss why so many of the field engineers were having heart attacks and heart problems. We were on call 24 hours a day 365 days a year and had to work sometimes 18 days in a row. At one point I was driving 400 miles a day. That, coupled with being a single dad, almost killed me. Literally. We all fantasized about having less stressful jobs like air traffic controller or bomb technician.

I bent over one day to look inside a machine and my back snapped. Everybody heard it. It sounded like somebody breaking a chicken bone. Well, I ended up in the hospital. X rays said everything was fine, doctors say everything looks good, but my back is still giving me problems 6 years later. I quit to go to work where I am now. The job I have now is stressful sometimes but it is nowhere near as bad as my last job. At least the stress here is for a point. And this new company treats me really good. The stress levels from my last job were just pointless.

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I Have a Commercial Janitorial Service - And Proud of It !

by flipper in

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i hope well.

this is a subject i've been wanting to approach for awhile as i've noticed on the board at times there have been wisecracks about janitors who were jehovah's witnesses .

now , hey, i'm real, have a good sense of humor, and can take a joke like anyone, be the brunt of a good joke, hell, i laugh at myself when i work alone at nights- just to keep entertained !

Dorktacular

Flipper, I don't put too much stock in degrees or titles. There is nothing in this world that a college can teach that a person with a library card, an internet connection and a willingness to learn can't acheive on their own. Degrees and papers aren't for you, the individual. They are for everyone else. It's not that you know what you know, it's that THEY think they know what you know by the papers you have in your posession. Some of the smartest people I've ever known have never gone to college. Some of the most successful people in the world don't even have a high school diploma. My dad is one of those people. On the other side of that coin, I have a very good friend who has two PhDs. What did he do for his entire carreer? He was a security guard; a rent-a-cop.

I never really cared about what someone does for a living. I have friends who are CEOs and friends that are short order cooks at Huddle House. It doesn't matter. (In fact, my friend that is a short order cook at Huddle House is waaaay smarter than my CEO friend. It's kinda funny. I bet most people don't go to eat at the Huddle House and imagine that the guy frying their eggs is a published author....) Me? Well, I've done everything from cleaning toilets to electrical engineering. Sometimes in the same day. I wasn't any dumber when I was cleaining a toilet, and I wasn't any smarter when I was engineering electronics. But, I was always me, and I still am. People who judge a person's entire life and worth as a human being based solely on what they happen to be doing for a living at that moment are shallow and usually surround themselves with people just as shallow as they are. If you had a best friend and they switched jobs, I think they would still be your best friend. So, my janitor friend, that's cool with me. Keep posting. And, if you ever become a CEO, keep me in mind for a nice upper management type job, will ya? Just keep posting. :)

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I cannot believe how brazen some people can be

by unbeliever in

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my bf and i have been together for about 2 years.

he has this ex gf from college who he stayed friends with.

i am not the jealous type so i never cared even though he had a problem with me being friendly with my exes.

Dorktacular

I wouldn't communicate with her anymore. She sounds unstable. Just ignore her. Hopefully your husband ignores her, too. I had a girl that I dated 8 years ago email me sometime last year and my wife gave me hell about it, like I was talking to her or something. Hell, I forgot all about her! It wasn't even anything bad or graphic, she just asked me how I was doing... But, a solid year later, that email is a favorite conversation topic for my wife. I just emailed her back and informed her that I was married and I asked her not to contact me again. So far, she hasn't bothered me. It's that simple.

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Competition = Who has the oldest/worst Car???

by Witness 007 in

my last "pioneer"car was a datsun that was older then iam from 1972, rusty, 1,000000000000 miles on the clock, am radio optional extra wow!

heater that could not heat.the windsceen.

and to top it off someone dinted it at the back.

Dorktacular

In high school I drove a 1980 Dodge Aspen. Can you say Instant Chick Repellant? Now I have a gigantic Dodge Ram.

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The elders want a JW to be my Mother in law's POA instead of her own son

by Younglove1999 in

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it's been a while since i posted here- i frequently lurk, but have been busy with work, life, and not letting the fact that i was a jw for so long linger over my life and become overcome with "what if's?

yesterday we got a phone call from my mother in law who is a jw.

she was distraught because she still has my husband (her son) who is no longer a jw as her medical and legal poa.

Dorktacular

You know what? If she already has one through her lawyer, the little form that the Hall wants her to sign really doesn't matter.

Let me say this: It's good that even though your mother in law and your husband have differing opinions on religion that they both still recognize that they can love one another and respect each other's wishes. I'm in a similar situation with my father. Yes, he hounds me once in a while to come back to "the truth" and whenever he visits our house we have to rent a dumpster to dispose of all the Watchtower literature he leaves hidden everywhere, but I still have a respect for his right to believe what he believes and he doesn't "shun" me like he probably is required to do by the borg. If worse came to worse with my dad, I would still respect his wishes when it came to medical care, funeral arrangements, etc., even if he wasn't a witness. In fact, I have urged him to contact a lawyer to prepare a medical directive for him because the borg ain't gonna do what he wants done. The only thing they care about is if you take any blood. It's a good idea to have a living will, no matter what religion you are. Just ask Terri Schiavo's husband!

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Where we go from here is a choice I leave to you

by coolhandluke in

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friends

that is one of my favorite lines from the matrix.

the lines proceeding it are: .

fear.

Dorktacular

Hey Dawg, how's it goin'? I totally agree that there is no "Personal Jesus" to take away our sins. I think that our "sins" die with us. The best we can all do is try to be good people and try to do what's best for us and not hurt anybody in the process. If and when God decides to come and tell us all what he really thinks, that's my course of action. Besides, I don't think He'd have a problem with it.

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Bizarre conversations

by RebelWife in

tula and i started talking about this yesterday.

can anybody tell us what's going on here or how to deal with these goofy conversations?

we're not talking about anything even remotely connected with religion, god, the bible or jws.

Dorktacular

My wife gets mad because I answer simple questions simply. It's like I should have an entire soliloquy prepared for her entertainment. This usually leaves me frustrated because I can't possibly imagine how she would like me to respond to such a simple question. I usually end the verbal exchange with "Next time, why don't you just write down what you want me to say in response to your question on a 3x5 notecard, and I'll read it. You'll be happy with my response, and I'll be happy because I won't be in trouble for giving the wrong answer. It will save us so much time!"

My wife, on the other hand, responds to simple questions with off the wall emotional tirades. It's bizarre. I can ask "Honey, where do you want to eat tonight?" And she'll say something like, "So, are you trying to say that I'm getting fat?" At that point, my brain detaches itself from my spinal cord and tries to squeeze itself out of my earhole and escape before the logic train squishes it on the tracks of rational thought like an old penny. Before continuing such a conversation, I have to ask myself the all-important question: Can my body..... withstand..... the amount of pot...... I would have to smoke..... to make this conversation make sense from this point forward?? And usually, the answer is no. At this point, I usually tune out and think about naked chicks until she's done yelling at me.

Sometimes I wonder if we speak the same language. If I ever win the lottery, I will make it my life's work to compile a man-to-woman English dictionary. I will no doubtedly win a Nobel Peace Prize for bringing peace and understanding to men and women all over the world.

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MLM schemes @ the hall, i.e Amway, , etc...

by avishai in

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friends

anyone get sucked in?

i always thought it was ironic how often they preached against this sort of thing from the platform, then were out in the parking lot trying to sell it to you.

tons of elders defrauding folks this way..

Dorktacular

The big thing at my father's Kingdumb Hall right now is Arbonne. Yeah, my dad and his wife bought into it. My dad is a senior on a fixed income but he sunk several thousand dollars into this crap. He hasn't made dime one yet on it. I think it is very unchristian for these vultures to take advantage of gullible people who don't have much money to begin with.

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I WASN'T SUPPOSED TO GROW UP IN THIS "SYSTEM"

by rache31 in

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friends

oh, how many of us heard that we wouldn't make it to graduation or get married in this system?

i thought i wouldn't grow up.

no one talked about preparing for the future.

Dorktacular

I wasn't supposed to graduate from high school because "this generation" of 1914 was to come to an end right around my senior year of high school. Then, the year after I graduated, they changed their doctrine so now "this generation" has the potential to last forever. Oh well. I guess it's a good thing I didn't listen to them and I went and got an education and a 401K plan, huh? I might be an old bastard before "this generation" comes to an end. When they said "Millions Now Living Will Never Die".... now I do have faith that might be true. I didn't believe it at first, but just the other night, I was watching the ball drop in Times Square and who did I see?? That's right! Dick Clark! HIS old ass is still alive and he has to be about 1,000,000 years old. So, I guess if he's still alive, there's still hope! (yeah, right.)

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TurnThat Music Down Boy.....

by hillary_step in

any audiophiles on the board will have noticed how in recent years one has to turn music up past its comfortable level to get a decent balance of sound.. do not feel that this is your imagination, it is not.

it is by design and designed to suit the ears of young people who think that loud sound is better sound.. http://funl.blogspot.com/2007/06/loudness-war.html.

this link provides a simple explanation of what happens at the mixing and mastering stage of much modern music production.

Dorktacular

I played in a blues band about 10 years ago and we had a hard time finding a studio that would faithfully record our music. They all wanted to screw with it so much that it didn't even sound like us anymore. Any audiophile can tell you that loud doesn't equal good. Good = Good and it should sound good no matter what the volume level is. Years ago that's how they sold stereos at the electronics stores. They would play some music with a lot of bass, turn it all the way up and let it rattle your rib cage just to show you how "good" the stereo was. Creating a lot of bass is easy. Playing music with a wide dynamic range and making it sound good with a sound system is difficult. I'd much rather hear the music the way the artist intended it to sound rather than how the studio thinks it would sound on some idiot's boom box.