I thought it was pretty neat to put faces and voices to names. I enjoyed myself to the utmost!! I wasn't worried about you talking. I learned things tonight.
I don't know about anybody else, but I had a GREAT time!Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Three
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I thought it was pretty neat to put faces and voices to names. I enjoyed myself to the utmost!! I wasn't worried about you talking. I learned things tonight.
I don't know about anybody else, but I had a GREAT time!
If you don't savvy why you can't get a young employee to be loyal and motivated for $10 an hour, I ask: how committed to the job were you when working for $1.50 per hour in 1967?
You could buy MORE with $1.50 in 1967 than you can buy today with $10.
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You could buy MORE with $1.50 in 1967 than you can buy today with $10.
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I missed you too Matt. I was hoping to actually talk to you and Mike. Oh well maybe next time. Maybe it should be earlier next time we are all retired anyway aren't we?
Hey I was making $3 an hour well not then I was in the Army for about $120 or so a month. Big bucks. Of course all the meals, living quarters, clothes were all paid for even the laundry and some of the places I was stationed at had some pretty darned good food too. I just had to pay for beer and cigarettes a quarter for beer and 20cents a pack for smokes.Oh and all the medical and dental everything damned near except snacks. Hell we had it made and didn't know it.
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Hey Bells I missed you too I think the ladies told be you had been there. And Roto I didn't even know that was you gotta figure out how to make it show your ECF handle on their too.
Had fun in the hangout. I tend to talk and be social more with fewer people, but at least I got in a rimshot ot two.
I'm also glad the the myth of only being able to fit 5 people in was false. We had up to 7 at one point before I had to go.
Really enjoyed seeing people again, and for the first time. Hope my PC gets fixes so people can put a face to the name soon. Backup PC camera just don't work.
I'm also glad the the myth of only being able to fit 5 people in was false. We had up to 7 at one point before I had to go.
Really enjoyed seeing people again, and for the first time. Hope my PC gets fixes so people can put a face to the name soon. Backup PC camera just don't work.
I think 10 is the limit with video not sure it is the same if it is just audio.Had fun in the hangout. I tend to talk and be social more with fewer people, but at least I got in a rimshot ot two.
I'm also glad the the myth of only being able to fit 5 people in was false. We had up to 7 at one point before I had to go.
Really enjoyed seeing people again, and for the first time. Hope my PC gets fixes so people can put a face to the name soon. Backup PC camera just don't work.
Only reason I know that is I saw it when I was trying to figure a way to show your nickname instead of your real name. I think you might have to have a separate account.
I did too!!
One of my first jobs I only made 2.10/hr in the late 70's but I still cared about my job and did a good job.
I've never heard you could only do 5. I wasn't sure if we could have 9 or 10 but at one point for just a bit we did have 10 in there.
Cl, was great to see you hun! just wish you would have jumped in more. And it was sooooo great to see Semi!!
The youth of today have no good examples to emulate and even if they did they are too lazy to follow them. I personally have heard more than one kid tell another that they had a job interview but refused the job because it was "entry level". They want a position.
Good morning, everyone! Sounds like all y'all had great fun, last night! Wish I had been able to join you ...
After a glorious, sunshine-y day, we had vicious thunderstorms; debris everywhere. Whew! From one year to the next, I forget the intensity of spring/summer storms and am amazed anew. This is my favorite weather - 'though walking the dogs in the evening can be a bit of a challenge. None of us loves getting drenched
Hope everyone has a great day! Today is my quarterly "Look See" appt. Hoping for good news!
After a glorious, sunshine-y day, we had vicious thunderstorms; debris everywhere. Whew! From one year to the next, I forget the intensity of spring/summer storms and am amazed anew. This is my favorite weather - 'though walking the dogs in the evening can be a bit of a challenge. None of us loves getting drenched
Hope everyone has a great day! Today is my quarterly "Look See" appt. Hoping for good news!
Minimum wage rose above $2.10 an hour starting Jan 1 1976. (In 1975, minimum wage was $2.10 an hour). By Jan 1 1979 minimum wage was $2.90 an hour.The youth of today have no good examples to emulate and even if they did they are too lazy to follow them. I personally have heard more than one kid tell another that they had a job interview but refused the job because it was "entry level". They want a position.
If today's youth have no good examples to emulate, that's saying their parents did not set good examples. And who are their parents? The finger of guilt points pretty quickly back at you and me, which makes it pretty hard to claim that we had some magical qualities that made us superior to subsequent generations. Yet, there's a great tendency for every generation to feel that they are uniquely superior.
Every generation also tends to believe that they had it tougher than any other generation. That's been going on forever.
I am glad that I don't think like that. I don't have to, and I ain't going to.
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I was likely an exception. My 1st job paid $1.10/hr and I would have taken less to work there. It was a full service gas station and the young owner had the reputation for building the fastest cars in the area. Probably spent as much time working on is 'hot rods' as I did customer's cars. It was fun 'and' I got paid.
Good morning, everyone! Sounds like all y'all had great fun, last night! Wish I had been able to join you ...
After a glorious, sunshine-y day, we had vicious thunderstorms; debris everywhere. Whew! From one year to the next, I forget the intensity of spring/summer storms and am amazed anew. This is my favorite weather - 'though walking the dogs in the evening can be a bit of a challenge. None of us loves getting drenched
Hope everyone has a great day! Today is my quarterly "Look See" appt. Hoping for good news!
Best wishes LittleBird ... will be thinking of you.
Nope ... I had it much easier coming out of college. Most of us had multiple job offers and we just ignored any that were less than $9K per year. Which was good money in 1969. I think my 1st job paid 2x what my Dad was making after years of being a union OTR truck driver. The job market was the pits when my son and his friends were looking for jobs after graduation. I think that was 2000/2001 timeframe.
And furthermore, can somebody defend "Tootle" with the same energy that they're defending "Puffer"?
It's not the Puffer in Tootle Puffer that turns me off, it's the Tootle.
It's not the Puffer in Tootle Puffer that turns me off, it's the Tootle.
I use 'My Yahoo' as one of my home pages, and it is 'temporarily unavailable. Mail is working, though!
Anyone else?
Anyone else?
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