name the player,or post whatever you friggin' want

Chains aren't authentic.

 

hell no. just living off the naming rights. there's a Famous Dave's BBQ in South Philly. Heard terrible things about it. I wasn't shocked at all.

 

The small guy that actually owns the place, always has a vested interest in making it work.

 

skinny--we need a hockey trivia question on the hockey trivia thread...haha

i was talking to my boss about promotions etc and he agreed i was due for one but he asked me to create a position for me to be promoted into? huh? isn't that his job? how am i going to conjure up a new role, that doesn't exist currently, and then fill it with myself and have our CEO approve of it? so i said it wasn't possible and put it back on him. i said there's 1 new role i could do that would spawn into several other areas but that is up to him to approve of. he said he agreed with me and we can talk about tomorrow. wahoo! the scariest thing is if i didn't go to bat for myself on the promotion - he wouldn't have done a thing for me. he's an old guy who doesn't think about his staff daily or their wants and needs. glad i did.

 

I can help with your "problem" if you want. Start with your CURRENT title, your dept. and its function. If you "stood" directly over a co-worker, someone your equal, in what capacity would that be? Also, to prevent from stepping on anyone else's toes, is there anyone of rank between you and your boss? If so, what is their title and primary function? Also, consider other departments and their personnel (plus titles) too. Good luck! Hope you get the promotion.

 

you could be the "head" painter.

 

halo--2 people in my job bf me were fired for not getting 1 project off the ground. i was able to do it and save my bosses ass. i am a staff of 1 - me. there's is no one that knows the computer system i admin over but me. i also control 2 other functions that no one knows. i cut costs on 2 functions of my job as well. put it this way - he needs me. for me to challenge him like i did was nuts but he won't fire me. he needs me badly. i am the entire program here. it lives and dies with me. i sleep, shit, eat and breathe it.

so i proposed 1 new role for myself but he has to agree to it etc. he disagreed that there's only 1 opening or chance for my future. we are talking about that in 20 min today. im dying to see what he thinks is out there for me. i do thank you for your hints and advice.

 

Cat, take him to the cleaners!

 

ugh - so much for that gents. he said today i gotta start doing the work, showing the executive board i can do the work, that im doing extra work and in 6 months to a year then go back show them my results and get promoted. so now i gotta write up and draw up a new role for myself and all it will cover and start doing the work i am creating this fall and spring next year. the new work is going to suck. we have a network drive the entire company has misused for 15 years or more that has no policing or governance. documents and folders are just randomly on there. there's no retention either so shit just stays on there forever. so now i gotta tackle this monster of a mess to get promoted. great. people in this company don't like rules or to be told what to do. i now gotta be the network police cop to enforce rules and governance over what can and what can't be created and placed on the drive. so i am big brother watching basically and the Gestapo ! great. give me bamboo shoots up my fingernails why don't you ? no one will listen to me or do the rules i put forth ? so this is how i get promoted? people got promoted with less efforts and things to take on. fuck me.

 

Nice family, I remember just last spring they were babies still, you mess with one of these guys and you go to jail for two years.

 

^^my sister had a geese like that land on her property. somehow it became a member of their family for 3 yrs. the thing wouldn't go away. my niece, who is slightly autistic and great with animals could walk up to it and pick it up like a kitten! the thing would hiss and flap his wings at everyone else. she loved my niece. one day it just got up and flew away. he departure was low to the ground but she gained height quickly and was gone.

 

If you notice, you'll see one of the parents in the front and one in the back. I was at this place back in April and they were babies, still walking them?

Damn millenial geese, don't wanna leave the nest.

 

they all look fat as hell! someone has been feeding those guys well!

 

They don't look like they're afraid of people, you walk right up to them and they give you a look like, "what?, no food?

 

the one my sister has was nasty. it would hiss at you and flap its wings. one time it kind of trap my sister in a corner of her yard against a pool fence and she was screaming. i threw a football near it and came to her aid with a wiffle ball bat waving it at the goose. it scurried away. my sister was pissed and all upset and crying.

 

I've never got that in depth with geese, I'll know what to look for next time.

 

^^i wouldn't steer you wrong skinny. and when i was a kid, my Mom took me to a park to feed them and i guess some ducks. when i got back in my Mom's station wagon, a goose, was biting my pant head as i was closing the car door as i was in the front side passenger side of the car. i started to scream my bloody head off. my mom came around the other side of the car and hit it with his pocketbook and the goose ran away. she closed the car door and ran to the other side. those geese were around our car like Cujo the dog from the movie. My Mom drove away thank God.

 

My dog got curious one time with a baby goose, she learned her lesson, the mother chased her away.

 

i was golfing years ago and my balls rolled into a nest of eggs. well i took 1 step towards the nest with a 5 iron and Momma Swan wanted a big piece of me. My buddy started laughing at me and yelled "is that ball really worth it?" hell no.

i dropped from the fairway and quickly hit a new ball and got out of there.

 

The course where I grew up, late summer, 10th hole, always a gang of geese.