Kid's Books From When I Was a Kid, vs Now

[mowerman]

Excellent I think I do remember that one love the puppies and the boots

[other dog]

2 hours ago, mowerman said:

we mostly played in the street ,,,dead end,,,and im sure most of you fellas remember,,,everyone had one car,,,that the old man had at work,,,,mothers all stayed home,,,,,so my street was dead all day,,,,only thing that would come thru was milkman and mail man,,,bob

How does that old joke go?..something like the little girl asks "mommy, when should I give daddy his birthday card that I made for him?"

And mommy says "this afternoon, when he delivers the milk sweety".

[Joseph Cummings]

16 hours ago, Mark T said:

I couldn't tell you where or even if I have a high school diploma.

What if you have to apply for a job?

My uncle left high school to enlist in the Navy during WW2. Somehow he was supposed to receive a diploma but somehow it slipped through the cracks. He went on to be an industrial electrician and retired in the 80's. Somehow this came to somebody's attention and they had a ceremony to award him and a couple other guys their diplomas. Well he was the only one still living and just barely. Well into his 80's and up on stage in a wheelchair with the mayor. The mayor hands him his diploma and they ask him if he has anything to say. He thinks for a minute and says "Now I can finally get a job"

[Mark T]

5 hours ago, Joseph Cummings said:

What if you have to apply for a job?

My uncle left high school to enlist in the Navy during WW2. Somehow he was supposed to receive a diploma but somehow it slipped through the cracks. He went on to be an industrial electrician and retired in the 80's. Somehow this came to somebody's attention and they had a ceremony to award him and a couple other guys their diplomas. Well he was the only one still living and just barely. Well into his 80's and up on stage in a wheelchair with the mayor. The mayor hands him his diploma and they ask him if he has anything to say. He thinks for a minute and says "Now I can finally get a job"

I'm not too worried, guy I work for hasn't asked in over 30 years. I think I'll be ok 🤞

[GA_Dave]

9 hours ago, Joseph Cummings said:

 

Very nice!  All American LaFrance 700 Series rigs except the last one, an American LaFrance JO 100' ladder.  They were built before the 700's.

 

[mowerman]

2 hours ago, Mark T said:

I'm not too worried, guy I work for hasn't asked in over 30 years. I think I'll be ok 🤞

I never finished I used to just lie on job applications 

[Joseph Cummings]

3 hours ago, mowerman said:

I never finished I used to just lie on job applications 

Now they have this thing called "HR". It's a "Make Work" program for women with worthless college degrees. It's their job to make sure all that stuff like diplomas and forms for stuff like selecting your gender and pronouns, and a million other checks and background searches are done. They make sure that whoever you are looking to hire is eliminated before the first interview. That way the guy who is in charge of actually getting anything things done never gets to meet a skilled applicant. This assures you will only be getting welders who can't strike an arc, machinists who look at a drill press like it's something from Mars, and mechanics who can't jump start a truck even though they are wearing a full arc flash suit.

 

 

Edited December 18 by Joseph Cummings

[mrsmackpaul]

Well I dunno about books now and then

BUT there was some books I have read and never forgotten 

Is about a Australian family struggling to survive the great depression mining gold 

My brother Jack,  well you'll just have to read it, a very good read

My grandfather left me this book, bloody good read 

 

Speaking of Pa, here he is during WW2 

 

 

He was really special to me

 

Anyway onwards and upwards

This book is another bloody good read 

Talking here books from my teenage years 

Happy days everyone 

 

Paul

 

 

[mowerman]

Joseph…. My company fedex freight used to pay us money to sent in professional people to apply… through the years all that changed and everything has to go through central headquarters Harrison Arkansas they decide who thier going to hire now all they wind up with is lazy dumbbells … that look good on paper..lol what a country… the stupidity doesn’t end