That soo sux, my dear Zyx. Feel for you -- I can't with the refuseniks, and it makes me cry that I liked so many of them so much in the Before Times. *sob* But the tipping point's been reached & the True Colours are out and ugly, to muddle a metaphor. ~sigh~ Be safe <3
I procured ductile and cast iron pipe from both [McWane and American Cast Iron Pipe Company]. Unless one has a large order, one works through distributors.
Frontline and the NY Times explored this a few years ago. American Cast Iron Pipe Company was much more responsible than McWane.
Bosses [my bosses, that is] were unaware of any issues besides {sighs} price.
It is way past time for OSHA to be given some teeth-now actual field enforcement needs to be stepped up-fewer than 2000 inspectors nationwide. Finally, at least a nod in the right direction!
I remember reading an article that compared those two firms. American seemed like a much better company - people worked at McWane when they had no other choice.
Hmmmm, that's an interesting theory too. I started driving in 1987, and it was ingrained in us during Driver's Ed never to pick up a hitchhiker. And I never did. But when I ran out of gas on a out of the way spot a year later, I allowed 3 Japanese businessmen take me to the nearest gas station about 2 miles away. I was 17 and completely naive. But they were absolutely wonderful and respectful, and truly helped me out of a jam.
I note thet while Key West is a very liberal place, because it is in Monroe County, part of which is on the mainland, their votes are essentially nullified by the rest of the county.
"Dangerously ignorant and selfish," describes to perfection a character by the name of Wayne Allyn Root, conservative radio jock and conspiracy theorist. Make that conspiracy fantasist. Unfortunately he's more than just that. He appears to be well supplied with rat cunning and devoid of scruples.I wouldn't bother to mention him except that he has now issued a call for mass civil disobedience of vaccine mandates, and for the unvaccinated to picket and sit in at all businesses that bar customers who haven't had the jab. He's calling for "protests, strikes, boycotts, sit-ins and other forms of Civil Disobedience," by anti-vaxxers, because, " ... we are now the persecuted. It's our civil and human rights being violated." He invokes the Civil Rights movement as an equivalent and takes the name of Martin Luther King Jr. in vain, because of course he does. He also recommends his "brand new best-selling book" as a how-to text. Oh, well, he was bound to fit "Gimme your money" in there somewhere. All these bastards who try to hijack Dr. King's name and prestige for their own creepy purposes actually hate him. If King was alive now, in his prime, saying and doing precisely the things he did and said in the 'sixties, they would be the loudest in denouncing him. And if they were really being met with billy clubs, pressure hoses, mace and mad dogs wherever they appeared (which Root implies they will be courageously facing, because of course he does), they'd pipe down and withdraw into hiding p.d.q.To conclude, it's appropriate that Wayne Allyn Scumbag Liar Root operates from Las Vegas, the biggest, shiniest sucker trap on earth.
That soo sux, my dear Zyx. Feel for you -- I can't with the refuseniks, and it makes me cry that I liked so many of them so much in the Before Times. *sob* But the tipping point's been reached & the True Colours are out and ugly, to muddle a metaphor. ~sigh~ Be safe <3
EYUP!
I procured ductile and cast iron pipe from both [McWane and American Cast Iron Pipe Company]. Unless one has a large order, one works through distributors.
Frontline and the NY Times explored this a few years ago. American Cast Iron Pipe Company was much more responsible than McWane.
Bosses [my bosses, that is] were unaware of any issues besides {sighs} price.
The worst thing is when a trench wall collapses (with an injury or fatality) when a trench box was available next to the hole.
—Competent person emeritus for excavation (me)
Children who don't wanna get vaccinated are normal. Adults who are anti-vaxxers are dangerously ignorant and selfish.
It is way past time for OSHA to be given some teeth-now actual field enforcement needs to be stepped up-fewer than 2000 inspectors nationwide. Finally, at least a nod in the right direction!
I remember reading an article that compared those two firms. American seemed like a much better company - people worked at McWane when they had no other choice.
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Hmmmm, that's an interesting theory too. I started driving in 1987, and it was ingrained in us during Driver's Ed never to pick up a hitchhiker. And I never did. But when I ran out of gas on a out of the way spot a year later, I allowed 3 Japanese businessmen take me to the nearest gas station about 2 miles away. I was 17 and completely naive. But they were absolutely wonderful and respectful, and truly helped me out of a jam.
I only worked for law firms, primarily in BigLaw, so I don’t know anything about this “9 to 5” schedule to which you refer.
Then again, I retired at 45, so there are trade offs. 😁
But they will cheerfully pee in a cup so their employer can get an insurance discount
I note thet while Key West is a very liberal place, because it is in Monroe County, part of which is on the mainland, their votes are essentially nullified by the rest of the county.
And yet every day MAGATs are perfectly happy to wallow in a manure pit.
Coincidentally, 700,000 times a day is the number of times a certain poster here wants to fellate Musk.
"Dangerously ignorant and selfish," describes to perfection a character by the name of Wayne Allyn Root, conservative radio jock and conspiracy theorist. Make that conspiracy fantasist. Unfortunately he's more than just that. He appears to be well supplied with rat cunning and devoid of scruples.I wouldn't bother to mention him except that he has now issued a call for mass civil disobedience of vaccine mandates, and for the unvaccinated to picket and sit in at all businesses that bar customers who haven't had the jab. He's calling for "protests, strikes, boycotts, sit-ins and other forms of Civil Disobedience," by anti-vaxxers, because, " ... we are now the persecuted. It's our civil and human rights being violated." He invokes the Civil Rights movement as an equivalent and takes the name of Martin Luther King Jr. in vain, because of course he does. He also recommends his "brand new best-selling book" as a how-to text. Oh, well, he was bound to fit "Gimme your money" in there somewhere. All these bastards who try to hijack Dr. King's name and prestige for their own creepy purposes actually hate him. If King was alive now, in his prime, saying and doing precisely the things he did and said in the 'sixties, they would be the loudest in denouncing him. And if they were really being met with billy clubs, pressure hoses, mace and mad dogs wherever they appeared (which Root implies they will be courageously facing, because of course he does), they'd pipe down and withdraw into hiding p.d.q.To conclude, it's appropriate that Wayne Allyn Scumbag Liar Root operates from Las Vegas, the biggest, shiniest sucker trap on earth.
often accompanied by a side infection of stubborn stupidity, which takes longer to cure