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Old 10-31-2007, 09:52 AM   #41
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No need for prison, let the other guy swing first!
Screwing around with somebody is one thing, if you can't take a joke you have no business on an electrical crew, you would be better off in an office working with a bunch of women, then you can go cry to HR when you get your feelings hurt. But there are some guys that are just complete pr*cks, they are the one's that you don't have to take it from.

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Old 10-31-2007, 04:21 PM   #42
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I have a little different advice for the new guy. If you don't want to be everyone's little B**ch for the next 4 years, you find the guy who's giving you the most sh*t. He will be the one who was picked on the most in his apprenticeship and he's trying to give it back. Now he is also the biggest p**sy because he took it for so long. After your first union meeting when you all go out to the bar, ( or if it's nonunion, whenever you all go out after work), when that guy starts in on you, you get in his face and invite him to work it out like a man out back. He will probably back down, if he doesn't, go have some fun. Now some of the older guys, will think you were out of place. Most of the younger guys will back you. Either way, nobody really liked this guy in the first place cause he was the biggest whiner. You won't be anybody's b**ch anymore, and the old guys that thought you should be a good little boy are past their prime anyways so who cares about them.

"Calling out" a JW earns you a one-way ticket to the unemployment line at the very least...at the very worst you get kicked out of the program....especially for someone who hasn't earned a single stripe.
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Old 10-31-2007, 05:04 PM   #43
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I was called up in front of the E Board 3 times in 4 years. Never got fired and was never anyone's B*tch! I guess it's a personality type thing. To each his own.
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Old 10-31-2007, 05:15 PM   #44
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I was called up in front of the E Board 3 times in 4 years. Never got fired and was never anyone's B*tch! I guess it's a personality type thing. To each his own.
That's not exactly something to brag about. I'd hire a guy like you, just so that I could fire you.
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That's not exactly something to brag about. I'd hire a guy like you, just so that I could fire you.
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I have a little different advice for the new guy. If you don't want to be everyone's little B**ch for the next 4 years, you find the guy who's giving you the most sh*t. He will be the one who was picked on the most in his apprenticeship and he's trying to give it back. Now he is also the biggest p**sy because he took it for so long. After your first union meeting when you all go out to the bar, ( or if it's nonunion, whenever you all go out after work), when that guy starts in on you, you get in his face and invite him to work it out like a man out back. He will probably back down, if he doesn't, go have some fun. Now some of the older guys, will think you were out of place. Most of the younger guys will back you. Either way, nobody really liked this guy in the first place cause he was the biggest whiner. You won't be anybody's b**ch anymore, and the old guys that thought you should be a good little boy are past their prime anyways so who cares about them.

It's better to burn out, than fade away!! ---Def Leppard

You may under estimate some of the "older" guys. I always bust balls but at the same time I never met an apprentice that I would think twice about. I'm going on 53 and spent 8yrs active in the Marine Corps.
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Old 10-31-2007, 08:04 PM   #47
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That's not exactly something to brag about. I'd hire a guy like you, just so that I could fire you.

Don't worry about it shunk. I'm not in the market to be hired. I do the hiring, and the firing.
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I have a little different advice for the new guy. If you don't want to be everyone's little B**ch for the next 4 years, you find the guy who's giving you the most sh*t. He will be the one who was picked on the most in his apprenticeship and he's trying to give it back. Now he is also the biggest p**sy because he took it for so long. After your first union meeting when you all go out to the bar, ( or if it's nonunion, whenever you all go out after work), when that guy starts in on you, you get in his face and invite him to work it out like a man out back. He will probably back down, if he doesn't, go have some fun. Now some of the older guys, will think you were out of place. Most of the younger guys will back you. Either way, nobody really liked this guy in the first place cause he was the biggest whiner. You won't be anybody's b**ch anymore, and the old guys that thought you should be a good little boy are past their prime anyways so who cares about them.
I'm actually a bit speechless about this post. I am surprised anyone would be dumb enough to put something like this in writing and sign their name to it.
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I'm actually a bit speechless about this post. I am surprised anyone would be dumb enough to put something like this in writing and sign their name to it.
Stoopid is as stoopid does...

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I was called up in front of the E Board 3 times in 4 years. Never got fired and was never anyone's B*tch! I guess it's a personality type thing. To each his own.
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If you don't want to be everyone's little B**ch for the next 4 years, you find the guy who's giving you the most sh*t. He will be the one who was picked on the most in his apprenticeship and he's trying to give it back. Now he is also the biggest p**sy because he took it for so long.
...thanks for that insight into your life LOL


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