Well my first and most horrible job was when I was 11 years old and I became a North shore news delivery boy... 200 Wednesday and Friday. 250 on Sunday 3X per week I saw a 50 % increase in fliers on the Friday and Sunday papers
I had to collate and stuff every north shore news paper with so many damned fliers. This was for a most atrocious salary of 30 dollars per month.. Thinking back on it now it was a major rip off considering for the amount of work one had to actually do. This was 27 years ago.
If I wanted to buy sweets at the corner store or other toys I had to earn my own money which I supplemented that 30 dollars by going door to door on Saturdays washing the neighbors cars, mowing their lawns & come autumn it was raking leaves, in winter shoveling snow.. During fall there was always picking apples, plums peaches and grapes.. the odd job pet sitting and giving dog baths.
On to the second part time job at 12 years old this was delivering newspapers for The Vancouver Sun 45 news papers per day 6 days per week time to deliver them approximately 45 minutes by skateboard.. 30 minutes by bicycle this was the evening newspaper the final edition
This was back when the Vancouver Sun had a morning edition and a evening edition 2 versions a day, the salary was 280 dollars a month, not great amount of money but it was mostly spent playing pinball and on the odd Slurpee at 7-11 & I think I heard every excuses under the sun when it came time to collect from the customers on why they didn't have the money to pay... but some customers made up for it with good tips I averaged 325 dollars per month with tips.
The third Job at 14 was for Burger King were I pretty much worked the whole thing, Burger prep, grilling machine, steamer bun prep, drink and soft serve station, deep fryers. Hoods and grill cleaning at night close. cashier, fry cook, gradually moving up to drive through and night closer. started at a whopping 5.35 an hour and left almost 8 months later with a wage of 6.50 as a night closer. that was at the age of 15
I moved on to Denny's dish pit for 7 dollars an hour at 15
Save On Gas at 16 for a gigantic per hour wage of 8.25 an hour as a night closer. full service station... I ate dinners at the Kypriaki Taverna next door. The lemon rice soup was fantastic & the belly dancer was magnificent.. I got fired for losing the night drop.. (almost 250 dollars) I was also pretty spaced on 2 doubles of California Sunshine at the time (That was the name of the LSD we had at that time)
Petro_Canada at 16 for a huge 6 bucks an hour not as good of pay as save on gas but they were East Indian Owners and paid horrible. Made up for it with huge item discounts staff got 40 percent off all none house hold or automobile items. meaning pop chips sandwiches.. and a few other items. Plus the full service tips, more than made up for the loss in hourly rate. earned a average of 25 dollars a day in tips ( this was only a part time job after all 4 to 5 hours a day 5 days a week) I got fired for making 1 to many mistakes on the Visa machine.. owners claimed my handwriting was illegible.
went to A&W between 17 & 19 for a closing position I was drive-through and front cashier afternoon to closing, do the cleaning and lock up assist the night manager with cash out and the money drop it was not a bad job at 17 paid better than many fast food gigs it was 8.45 an hour & at that time it was huge money for a night closer. this was almost 22 years ago. I must of quit 3 or 4 times the manager kept talking me into coming back to work... till I finally had enough of his tyrannical ways.
do you know what is truly disgusting, well to me what I find truly disturbing or disgusting, is that the assistant managers and night closers got paid pretty well back then when a dollar was actually worth something.
Well today most of these jobs still pay the same amount of money but it is only about 2 to 4 dollars more per hour depending on the job. It is now nearly 25 years later and the dollar has deflated to the point it is next to worthless. how horrid... A cheese burger at burger king 24 years ago was 60 cents. today that same cheese burger is smaller and 1.29 or is it 1.39 cents plus tax... Bah!!!...
What makes matters worse my father filed the T4 tax returns I did the work but guess who got the tax refunds.. thats right he did.. mind I was a dependent child.. and they did apply to get me a social insurance card 2 years before most kids applied for one.
When I was a kid, I recycled a lot of pop cans (yeah for dumpster diving!) and delivered phone books in the summer.
I babysat.
I was an umpire for a summer. Grade 7? No. Grade 8. Gah, can't remember. old.
I thought you were about 24 sportsdude or something to that effect. how can you be so old you cannot remember a few years back... do you smoke a lot of green perchance.
Paper route.. the real estate weekly. Did it for a few years. Then didnt do much other than school and sea cadets.. made some money as a summer trainee then as a staff cadet. Worked at a place for a bit building escape devices for oil rigs. Worked at a gas station with a car wash for about two years on and off.. then what I am now.
lol Orik.
I'm an old engine in a new body or is it the other way around? Either way, which ever is the old car part is pretty worn down and out at the moment. I've been runnin' on empty for years.
Heaven knows what I'll be like at 35 or so... I lack that 'youthful exuberance' which apparently I'm supposed to have according to my late eighties issued owner's manual.
When Hunter S Thompson was my age, he wrote The Rum Diary.
"At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles – a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other – that kept me going."
Hootenanny! I'm bringing the rain today. lol
I used to collect those 25 cents from the shopping carts at the malls with my siblings and sometimes, we'd include a friend. And we would stick our fingers in those phone booths to find any money and we were lucky. One time, the phone booth was jammed and we got a lot of change!!
There also was the paper route and babysitting and bottle collecting from neighbors.
Oh, also did some bookkeeping at an in-home business when I was in grade 11-12.
Then, worked at Pizza Hut (waitressing) and at a fashion jewelry store called Reflexion which was like Claire's both locations at Lougheed Mall back in the day.
[P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal]1st job Little Billy's on Edmonds washing dishes on the weekend did not get home until 3 am.......after that what I do now with a break to work at another place to get more experience.
1st real job I had was right after graduating from High School. I assembled and tested military air conditioners for a sub-contractor in Maryland. They also built the air conditioners used on some of the Mercury and Gemini missions but I didn't work on those. Did that for ~ 2 years, then I went to tech school. It was a 3,000 hour course (2 years). We covered everything from vacuum tubes to integrated circuits. (We didn't cover personal computers because there weren't any, they didn't really exist yet. IBM was a couple years away from launching their first consumer-level personal computer. This is circa 1982 or so, when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth. Fire had only just been invented the year before.)
I was hired directly out of tech school, seduced like a drunken prom date by [a href="http://www.jeol.com/"]a company[/a] that made really cool stuff: [a href="http://www.jeol.com/PRODUCTS/ElectronOptics/ScanningElectronMicroscopesSEM/SemiinLensFE/JSM7500F/tabid/393/Default.aspx"]electron microscopes[/a]. For the next 11 years I traveled around the US and Canada installing scanning electron microscopes and transmission electron microscopes (as well as a boatload of other [a href="http://www.jeol.com/PRODUCTS/ElectronOptics/MultiBeamSEMFIB/JIB4500/tabid/502/Default.aspx"]scientific doohickeys[/a], like [a href="http://www.jeolusa.com/PRODUCTS/AnalyticalInstruments/MassSpectrometers/tabid/227/Default.aspx"]Mass Spec[/a] Analyzers and [a href="http://www.jeolusa.com/PRODUCTS/AnalyticalInstruments/NuclearMagneticResonance/tabid/234/Default.aspx"]Nuclear Magnetic Resonance[/a] gear). I'd take the disassembled [a href="http://www.jeol.com/PRODUCTS/ElectronOptics/TransmissionElectronMicroscopesTEM/200kV/JEMARM200F/tabid/662/Default.aspx"]microscopes[/a] out of a sea crate, put them together from ~20,000 different parts (really), and then [a href="http://www.jeol.com/PRODUCTS/ElectronOptics/TransmissionElectronMicroscopesTEM/100120kV/JEM1011/tabid/121/Default.aspx"]install them[/a] on site (anywhere from a week to 2 month's worth of work for each one). Then I'd spec the unit, test it, and certify it. Then I'd train the investigators and/or scientists on how to use it.
I saw a lot of really cool stuff in that job over the years and I had a [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_clearance"]TS1 clearance[/a] so I could go to places like Los Alamos, GE Vallecitos, Westinghouse/Hanford and other nuke sites. (Plus places Lockheed, McDonald Douglas, Link-Singer, Intel, IBM, AMD, the Rocky Mountain School Of Mines, Montana Ceramics, U of Alaska, U of Calgary, Berkley, Children's Hospital, and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, US Army MID Research, to name a few...and way, way more places than I can possibly remember. Plus a few I'm still not supposed to mention.)
Got tired of traveling after 11 years and more than 1,000,000 air miles, so I hung up my traveling shoes and went to work at a cancer research facility in Seattle. Left there after a year (it was boring and filled with some grade-A jerks) and went to a place that made laser-based particle measuring gadgets. I got headhunted after 2 years and ended up going back to field service working on barcode printers, scanners, and wired/wireless data collection networks. Saw some cool stuff in that job too. I eventually moved from doing field service to working at the head office, and I started doing technical writing. I did virtually all of the tech docs for both the customer support and field service departments.
After 6 or 7 years of doing that I went over to the Dark Side, and became a contractor for [a href="http://www.boeing.com/"]Boeing[/a] doing tech writing and web development for them in the IPMDS group. Boeing was a great place to work, and Uncle B was very good to me. I actually built my first website (for me, not for Boeing) while working there, lol. (The pace at Boeing was....errr....pretty relaxed.) The site is still up and running today. No, it's not DiscoverSeattle. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)
Boeing Jokes:
Question: How many people work at Boeing?
Answer: Oh, about half of 'em.
"Did you hear that they found Bin Laden's brother working at Boeing?"
"Really?"
"Yeah, they found 'Bin Sleepin' and 'Bin Loafin' over in the Powerplant Assembly building!" (ha ha)
I was actually working for Boeing on the morning of 9-11. Everyone was in shock, to say the least, to see our planes flying into the buildings. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Sad/9.gif) After that day, the higher-highers at Boeing knew damn well that no one was going to be buying airplanes for a while, so they flushed all the contractors and we were all gone within a couple of months.My last day there as January 2nd, 2002. I was actually one of the last to go from what I understand.
After that I worked all sorts of contract gigs at Microsoft, AT&T, and several other places. I got fed up at the treatment I received at Microsoft on my last gig and quit in disgust one day, vowing to never, EVERY go back. I decided to take a year off and recover from mind- and soul-raping that I got at Microsoft.
During my time off I fiddled around and for fun, I managed to learn [a href="http://php.net"]PHP[/a], a popular web programming language. I built a site selling an online-service that surprised me by becoming very popular. Before long it was making my house payment, and not long after that I realized that I could probably make a living at it. So I went into it full time and that's been about it.
Recruiters still call me from time to time, and I always thank them for the call but decline their offers. One of them, after a loooong pause, asked me, "Don't you want to work??" I thought about for several moments, and it occurred to me that, hell no, I didn't want to work. So I told him, "Well, now that you mention it, no, I don't really want to work." I think that may have been the first time he was turned down when offering someone a job. Sometimes they say that the job is in Redmond (code for "Microsoft"). That's when I say, "Tell me if this sounds like me hanging up on you", and I slam the phone down into the cradle.
And that's how yer 'umble webmaster, Tehborken, ended up here, slaving away over a hot keyboard 27 hours a day. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)
Boeing was a great place to work, and Uncle B was very good to me. I actually built my first website (for me, not for Boeing) while working there, lol. (The pace at Boeing was....errr....pretty relaxed.) The site is still up and running today. No, it's not DiscoverSeattle. [img border=0 src="http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif"]
DV?..................DATW?????...........................Guess Her Muff??????????............memeBee?????
OK are you Fornicator.................Gordy......................EED.........thats it your EED [img border=0 src="http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Thinking/2.gif"]
DDD wrote: [div style="font-style: italic;"]DV?..................DATW?????...........................Guess Her Muff??????????............memeBee?????[/div]
LOL, I'd be offended if I wasn't laughing so hard. No, none of those.
OK are you Fornicator.................Gordy......................EED.........thats it your EED
Gordy?? You think I'm Gordy? OMFG. No, I'm not Gordy. For one thing, I'm human. For another, I don't think Gordy could build a web site. In fact, I don't think Gordy could pour piss out of a boot with the instructions written on the heel. Good f*cking god, I'd rather be featured on America's Most Wanted than be mistaken for Gordy.
No, I'm not any of those people. If I was, I'd get up right this minute and throw myself in front of the biggest bus I could find.
LMAO great responces TB...DDD you really need to read more about the 'umble webmaster here... Thanks for sharing all that TehBorken an amazing history. nice to know we got a good guy here running the show...
[P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal]Well I am glad you had a laugh cause that's what it was [?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /][st1:PersonName w:st="on"]al[/st1:PersonName]l about.............I do like how you described Gordy and what most us would like him to do to himself involving the bus..........As for EED I found him to be entertaining at times at other times I wish he too would find a bus to park himself under. I do remember DV of old where most of us started out from.
This past weekend I made peace with some former employers. When I was 20, I managed a pub for some psycho, crazy owners. I lived and breathed that place 24/7, even to the point where I slept in the building some nights as the security patrol. My pay cheques were bouncing, and I finally reached my breaking point. I moved away and never went back again...until Saturday afternoon. It was a feeling of relief, actually.
Were the same people running the pub ?
Yes. I met with one of the business partners who was there at the time.
Did they remember you right away ?
We still hang out with one of the sons of owner of the business that I walked away from a few years back. lol
I sold candy at school when I was nine, and I cut grass. I made about $150 to $200 a month way back when, that was pretty good money in the 70s.
I like closing books too Lil Me. I went back to meet this teacher 6yrs after the fact because I felt bad about what happened. Still haven't done my trek to meet up with a few teachers from my high school's. One of them had cancer and died a few years ago. I emailed him a few times before he passed on.
One of my previous employers died 12 years ago- I did a university internship with him. I hadn't seen him since then. I tried to get out to the funeral, which was out-of-town, but Heckyl had just been born, and I never made it there. He was a very nice man- although he was an adult Charlie Brown.
Uh, as I recall, you were fired from Microsoft or one of those big-name Seattle jobs because you sent out some vicious email. It's fun to re-write history and blame others, isn't it?
Are you talking to anyone in particular ?
P.C. wrote:
Are you talking to anyone in particular ?
"Kathy" was talking to me, and was just being a hag. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/2.gif)
Having a little trouble letting go, are we? Lol, your life must be going very well if you have the time to come here and leave bitter little comments like that. lolololol
kathy wrote:
Uh, as I recall, you were fired from Microsoft or one of those big-name Seattle jobs because you sent out some vicious email. It's fun to re-write history and blame others, isn't it?
[P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal]Kathy please let go of the past you will be a better person for it. It is better to have loved and lived than to have loved and not lived on.
[P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal][?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /][o:p] [/o:p]
[P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal]Sincerely yours,
[P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal]Chief, DDD
DDD wrote:
[p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"]Kathy please let go of the past
[/p] [p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"][o:p] [/o:p][/p][p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"][o:p]Lol, yeah, like that'll happen. [/o:p]
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TehBorken wrote:
DDD wrote:
[P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal][SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"]Kathy please let go of the past [/SPAN]
[P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal][O:P][/O:P]
[P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal][O:P]Lol, yeah, like that'll happen. [/O:P]
Yes it will the Chief has spoken...................Long live DDD
Oh, and just to clarify, I most certainly did send some vicious, hateful emails while at Microsoft. But I didn't get fired for it. (//richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif) I got fired once for shooting my .45 in the break room (hey, that f*ckin' Coke machine deserved it) and once for installing Linux on my manager's PC. He worked for 15 minutes straight without getting a blue screen of death, and that's when he went, "Hey, what the......" lol
Just reporting the truth as it was told to me... I had no reason to doubt it. Just checking up on you....
Oh, whatever... you are saying that one of your best friends is a liar. Ha ha ha!
DDD wrote:
kathy wrote:
Uh, as I recall, you were fired from Microsoft or one of those big-name Seattle jobs because you sent out some vicious email. It's fun to re-write history and blame others, isn't it?
[P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal]Kathy please let go of the past you will be a better person for it. It is better to have loved and lived than to have loved and not lived on.
[P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal][?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /][o:p] [/o:p]
[P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal]Sincerely yours,
[P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal]Chief, DDD
It's too much fun, since I am a night owl, and have time on my hands, to poke a chauvinist, latent axe murderer like tehborken.
kathy wrote:
Just reporting the truth as it was told to me... I had no reason to doubt it. Just checking up on you....
More like "just stalking me" in the hopes of finding out something about the guy that dumped you and then went on to have a wonderful life, lol.
Since you're so interested, he and his wife are doing fine. He and I never mention your name, talk about you, or discuss you. None of us really give a shit what you're doing or where you're doing it. We all moved on, but not you.
So, whatever happened to that incredibly great life you droned on and on about? Must not be so wonderful after all, huh?
kathy wrote:
It's too much fun, since I am a night owl, and have time on my hands, to poke a chauvinist, latent axe murderer like tehborken.
Stop being such a troll. Maybe it's time I emailed Bill and clued him in to this message board, eh? I bet he'd be surprised to find out what his misandrist, non-latent cheating wife was up to.
Oh, and I almost forgot- you must be mighty proud of BP's safety record now, right? OSHA statistics show BP ran up 760 "egregious, willful" safety violations, while Sunoco and Conoco-Phillips each had eight, Citgo had two and Exxon had one comparable citation. But you wouldn't know nuthin' about that, would you? I mean, it's not like YOU were involved in any safety-related shit, right? Right?
By the way- how's that BP stock doing? I hear it's down 40% or so. Tragic.
Is she hot..........do you have pics of kathy [img border=0 src="http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/4.gif"]
DDD wrote:
Is she hot..........do you have pics of kathy
Lol, "hot" is never a word that will be used in the same sentence as "Kathy". Trust me. "Sturdy", and "robust" come to mind, but not 'hot'. Noooooooo.
so the hot or not scale
1 not 10 hot
she is a 3
DDD wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]so the hoy or not scale
[/div] [div style="font-style: italic;"]she is a 3[/div]
If you squint and the lighting is indirect.
TehBorken wrote:
DDD wrote:
[SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"]Is she hot..........do you have pics of kathy [/SPAN]
Lol, "hot" is never a word that will be used in the same sentence as "Kathy". Trust me. "Sturdy", and "robust" come to mind, but not 'hot'. Noooooooo.
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[img border=0 src="http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/4.gif"] omg, I laughed so hard I cried. But in all fairness some men (and women) like that type of woman.
Natasha wrote:
TehBorken wrote:
DDD wrote:
[SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"]Is she hot..........do you have pics of kathy [/SPAN]
Lol, "hot" is never a word that will be used in the same sentence as "Kathy". Trust me. "Sturdy", and "robust" come to mind, but not 'hot'. Noooooooo.
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[img border=0 src="http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/4.gif"] omg, I laughed so hard I cried. But in all fairness some men (and women) like that type of woman.[/DIV]
Yuppers so she can look after the pigs and cows [img border=0 src="http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/4.gif"]
Kathy shall be the name of the flying pig, now and forevermore to be...
Wow, welcome to sexist pig-land. You describing my body in a derogatory way to someone, with that pus-gutted lard belly you had last time I saw you? How ironic.
Stop threatening me regarding my husband--why do you and Jack resort to such cowardly tactics? Stand up on your hind legs and fight like a man! I was just bored one night and was cruising the Net and decided to poke you a bit to keep you honest: You were fired from Microsoft for drunken, sexist emails, according to Jack! I remember him tellling me this explicitly! Apparently I hit a soft spot.
Sorry to disappoint you, but I didn't lose a bunch of money with this BP oil catastrophe. I sold my stock in the company last year and retired in April a millionaire, thanks to them, remember? My life is great--I just got back from a stellar time at the 5-star Wynn hotel in Las Vegas...90 degrees, great food and swimming pools... I wish I was still there since the weather here sucks right now...
I am sick about this BP Gulf gusher/ environmental nightmare, and as a matter of fact, with my degree in Environmental Health from WWU, I voluntarily participated in highly technical monitoring of conditions when my fellow workers would take units down for turnarounds every year, as well as being on the Oil Spill Response Team for the refinery, that affected the surrounding community. So yes, I wasn't in it just for the money and actively participated in making the refinery and the area safer. You're wrong again.
Would you prefer that I had burned to death as 7 refinery operators did in Anacortes about a month before I retired? I lived around that danger every day. April was a rough month for energy industry workers: 29 at Massey Coal, 11 at the BP rig, 7 in Anacortes. Think about that next time you fuel up your car.
And quit being such a jerk. If I didn't have facts on my side, you wouldn't have let this get so far under your very thin skin.
For such a happy lady Kathy you paint a picture of misery. With every swipe you take, it shows the bitterness you are hiding, it is barely beneath your thin skin. You try hard to make it look like you are ever so happy and rich in wealth. I see a woman screaming in anger and with a very poor heart. Perhaps in the future you may wish not to try and sell the image so much, not if you wish for others to believe the lie.
Mind this is just my 2 cents. it is not like I hold a degree in psychology, I only minored in it, however what has been said on this forum really seems to be eating you up. It is bothering you so much that you find a need to explain your words and your actions. If none of this bothered you per-say, you would not have even replied. Since you did not carry along and since you did reply, it shows you are hurt injured and still living in bitterness. Might I even say maybe even remorse.
The best thing you could of done would of been to have carried on and ignored it all because that would show that all of this really was not bothering you and it would thus have been beneath you.
My interests are still in Criminology, Abnormal Psychology and of more interest these days is Sociology. Though I should take some English course's so I can write more of what I see.
kathy wrote:
Wow, welcome to sexist pig-land. You describing my body in a derogatory way to someone, with that pus-gutted lard belly you had last time I saw you? How ironic.
Lol, I can't help it if my description of you was accurate. You started this by calling me a "latent axe murderer", and now you're whining about anyone daring to slap you back? f*ck you, you're just as much a hypocritical bitch as you ever were. Wah, wah, wah. Poor little downtrodden you.
Stop threatening me regarding my husband--why do you and Jack resort to such cowardly tactics?
It's not a threat. I'll email him and/or call him and tell him what his darling wife has been doing for the last ten years if you keep coming here acting like a shit and making trouble. Count on it.
I was just bored one night and was cruising the Net and decided to poke you a bit to keep you honest
Go be bored somewhere else, Nancy. Since you have such a wonderful life (like you keep telling me over and over and over and over and over in your drunken emails), go spread your wonderfulness some place else. You aren't welcome here.
[/div][div style="font-style: italic;"]My life is great--I just got back from a stellar time at the 5-star Wynn hotel in Las Vegas...90 degrees, great food and swimming pools... I wish I was still there since the weather here sucks right now...
Whatever. Go away and amuse yourself elsewhere. If you don't, you'll regret it.
[/div] [div]Would you prefer that I had burned to death as 7 refinery operators did in Anacortes about a month before I retired?
Hmmm, let me get back to you on that.
[/div] [div style="font-style: italic;"]If I didn't have facts on my side, you wouldn't have let this get so far under your very thin skin.
No, I'm just sick of your obsessing over Jack and his life. Piss off and get your own life. He dumped you because you were a lying, deceptive bitch and you can't let go. It's been 3 years or more and you're still emailing him and me, desperately trying to get someone to pay attention to you. We don't care what you're doing, so f*ck off. You're always trying to pry information out of me while simultaneously telling me that you don't care- IT'S LAUGHABLE HOW PATHETICALLY TRANSPARENT YOU ARE.
You deceived Jack for years until he finally dumped you, and then he went and got married to a lovely lady half your age, size, and weight. I introduced him to his wife, and that just burns you up like the jealous bitch you are. You went so far as to call his wife a "child bride" because you're sooooooo jealous. Newsflash: she's not a child, she's 26. Tell me, Nancy, did you consider yourself a child at 26? Hmmm? The fact is that she's cute and sweet and we all like her. It's not her fault that she's younger than you, but you make it sound like a flaw.
Yes, how dare Jack marry someone younger, prettier, and nicer than you! The nerve of him!
"Theorist" is right- you sound desperately unhappy no matter how hard you deny it. Just look at yourself, lurking here, hoovering up every little tidbit hoping for some nugget of information or attention. F*cking pathetic is what it is. Go get a life and stop soiling this forum. If you keep making trouble here I promise you that you won't like what happens next.
Whoever you are, I worked in an oil refinery in a very technical, macho man's world for 25 years, and am not going to tolerate being beaten down by sexist slurs and lies about me or my career. I learned to fight back many years ago and will fight back with facts and fire. I am proud of my career. I kept people safe and made money for my company.
I retired at the top of my pay grade and with kudos from management for an event that I helped manage in December that kept the refinery from totally crashing. You have no idea what it's like to work in that environment, so STFU.
Now, I can ignore semi-literate posts from idiots like you, in the future. Learn how to spell.
I'm thinking it's almost time to take a vote on banning "Kathy", as all she wants to do is make trouble and whine about how mean everyone is to her. (She's always been like this- she starts trouble, then cries about how unfair it is when anyone dares to call her on her bullshit. Oooh, the mean mean people in the forum are abusing me, oh boo hoo hoo.)
"Theorist" called you dead to rights. Now go on, keep posting your drunken bullshit. Maybe I'll have Bill come read this thread and see what he makes of it.
kathy wrote:
Whoever you are, I worked in an oil refinery in a very technical, macho man's world for 25 years, therefore I am not going to tolerate being beaten down by sexist slurs and lies about me or my career. I learned to fight back many years ago and will fight back with facts and fire. I am proud of my career. I kept people safe and made money for my company.
Now, I can ignore, semi-literate posts from idiots like you, in the future. Learn how to spell.
My spelling is fine, it is my punctuation that may require a little work. Before you call someone else, "semi-literate" Miss Kathy, you may, wish to review your own sentence and paragraph structuring.
Try not to use a comma before you use the word "and" in a sentence, this makes you appear uneducated. I replaced the "and" with therefore and added a I to the sentence structure which you forgot. I do call into question you calling me semi-literate when you, yourself can not maintain the correct structuring or spelling of the engish language.
Now for these semi-literate posts and my apparent poor spelling. Miss, please point out my spelling errors. English may not be my strong point. Yet it appears I have a better grasp for the usage of it, than you yourself. For future reference you may wish to note, "telling" is spelled with 2 l's and not 3.
I may make the occasional typo but my spelling seems to be of fine degree. I might even say my spelling is impeccable but I shall not, for that makes me sound very pompous. The only semi-literate postings, I see Miss Kathy, is within your own intoxicated and poorly structured paragraphs of inane rambling.
The continuous usage within your posts over how outstanding your life is are nothing more than attempts to justify to your ownself that you are happy. When it is clear for anyone with a bit of a education to see, that you are actually very unhappy, you seem to be unhealthily fixated on someone else.
I question why you can not let go of the past. It would be much better for you, if you could. If you are of need and live in Seattle, I can recommend a psychologist to see, for help on your issues. She can help you move forward and come to accept what has happened in your life
Ms. Johnston will help you find happiness once more, that is if you are willing to go see her. The myriad of self esteem issues you prescient (present) are astounding. Ms. Johnston will be easy to deal with, she does specialize in self-esteem issues of which you seem to have in abundance. If you are not willing to see her, I can recommend a couple of others.
Once she helps you move past them, you will find you are able to move forward and be happier for it. She is very good in her field, I strongly recommend you seek her out or someone like her, you need some help and the sooner, the better.
All of the things you state Miss Kathy only enforces my belief in that, I was correct in my prior dissertation and diagnosis on how terrible your life is. Miss Kathy, please feel free to come back to us, when you have had time to sober up.
I for one find your drivel rather mundane and the postings rather inane, they theoretically may hold some nuance of entertainment and yet I find they are like hot air, hard to hold and a waste of time in trying to grasp the meaning within them.
I strongly recommend to you, that you go to see a colleague within the field of clinical psychologists and therapists. I recommend Ms. Jane Johnston she has a practice in Seattle and she specializes in the field's that you portray the need of for help.
Jane Johnston MA
5417 Baker Ave N.W.
Seattle, WA 98107
phone: 206-285-0412
that is near Phinney Ave.and 55th if you need to find her.
Areas of Expertise:
Self-esteem; Anxiety; Codependency; Depression; Relationships/Intimacy issues; Stress Management; Attention Deficit; Self Growth; Eating issues; Understanding and managing anger; Meditation
A little bit of "back story", because everyone but me and a few other people here are coming in at the end of Act III and wondering who the hell "Kathy" is and what her problem might be.
"Kathy" often gets sloppy when she's been drinking, and she often [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]browses[/span] stumbles the web when she drinks. And that's usually at night, when the walls of her fabulously wonderful life begin to close in on her. That's when she realizes that she's come to the end of her personal road, and there's a "No Outlet" sign ahead. She's mostly friendless, stuck in what she herself has said is a "dreadful" marriage, living in a big, empty house. And that's when the bitterness and vitriol start to flow.
She could have had a very nice life with my friend, but she chose not to. That's fine, we all make choices and we all live with the results of those choices. But she won't let go and she refuses come to terms with the aftermath of her decision. Years later she's still unhappy with what her choices cost her and so she blames anyone and everyone but herself for the way things turned out. She blames Jack for not putting up with her lies and decietful behavior. She blames me for introducing Jack to a lovely young lady who was ready, willing, and able to start a life with him. She blames Jack's wife for being younger than her, pretty, and for being well-liked by all of us.
"Kathy" used to write me frequently, and was always "casually" inquiring about where Jack was, what he was doing, how he was doing, and who he was doing it with. "Kathy"was incensed by the fact that Jack didn't sit around pining away for months over their breakup, instead he went on with his life. Jack is like me in several respects, and one way is that we do things. We don't sit around thinking about doing things or talking about doing things, we just go do them.
So when I introduced Jack to one of my wife's friends and they hit it off, a few weeks later he flew with me to Cambodia and got engaged. "Kathy" was outraged over the fact that Jack was moving on with his life and not wasting any time doing so. And that's when "Kathy" made her true nature known. The snarky, hateful comments and put-downs started almost immediately and they just got worse and worse. For example: His wife was "too young". Her skin was "too nice". Jack looked "too happy". He got engaged "too fast". Etc etc etc. Like this was any of her f*cking business.
As part of my "adventure series" (lol), I told [a href="http://discoverseattle.net/cambodia/"]my story[/a] about [a href="http://discoverseattle.net/forums/index.php/topic,3388.0.html"]meeting my wife[/a] here. I also mentioned the part where [a href="http://discoverseattle.net/forums/index.php?topic=3388.msg126995#msg126995"]Jack flew with me to Cambodia and got engaged[/a], and "Kathy" has been obsessively monitoring this forum ever since, hungrily looking for any mention of him.
TehBorken wrote:
I'm thinking it's almost time to take a vote on banning "Kathy", as all she wants to do is make trouble and whine about how mean everyone is to her. (She's always been like this- she starts trouble, then cries about how unfair it is when anyone dares to call her on her bullshit. Oooh, the mean mean people in the forum are abusing me, oh boo hoo hoo.)
"Theorist" called you dead to rights. Now go on, keep posting your drunken bullshit. Maybe I'll have Bill come read this thread and see what he makes of it.
I do not think we want to ban her. I need a good laugh every now and then and she makes me LOL. I now have this image of her in my mind and I am very glad she does not live in BC
This is all fine and dandy however, is it not a wee bit off topic ?
Perhaps Kathy could post how she started off in life, what her first few jobs where.
This is a thread on that very topic after all
Job and personal history
Orik wrote:
Kathy shall be the name of the flying pig, now and forevermore to be...
[img id=karmaImage onclick=captured(); border=0 name=karmaImage src="http://discoverseattle.net/forums/pig_l.gif" width=68 height=72] Hi Kathy
Orik wrote:
This is all fine and dandy however, is it not a wee bit off topic ?
Perhaps Kathy could post how she started off in life, what her first few jobs where.
In a word, "no". I'm not interested in having her participate here, I don't care to know her personal or job history and I'm not inclined to let her take a crap in my sandbox. So, no, not in this instance.
Me thinks you really do not like her..............just the way i feel about irish and his buddy gordy
Lol, understandable TB, I would like to see the thread get back to topic though.... Just get so bored sometimes...
TehBorken wrote:
I'm not inclined to let her take a crap in my sandbox.
lol..oook. Never heard that one before.
I have heard it before, I just have never heard it used so well before and with so much enthusiasm... I get the feeling Tehbork does not like this lady to much... Anyways ...Thanks Kathy I caught 6 more blessings today.... =D
OK back on topic..when did you get your 1st BJ
How does that question apply to the topic ? D you sometimes are just as sick as SMP and RDL.
Your mind is constantly in the toilet and needs to be flushed
Orik wrote:
How does that question apply to the topic ? D you sometimes are just as sick as SMP and RDL.
Your mind is constantly in the toilet and needs to be flushed
Lets see I think about SEX all the time not the crap they post or put links to like SMP did at DV to the mod then posted it at DATW that has no person looking after it as most don't care or are never there now. So if you want to see sick shit just go there
Hmmm, well let's see... I had tons of jobs really...
washed cars as a kid in my neighbourhood, along with my brother & sister... we did rather well (in kid terms).... in later highschool years, Myself, (and a few of my friends) would get hired in the summertime at the Black & White whisky bond.... it was good money for a h/s student. When I was 15 my dad got me a job in a friends bar a few evenings per week, I loved it, as I was young and really shouldn't have been allowed to work there, I also worked in a clothing boutique on weekends.... at 16 I left home, but continued with school & worked evenings in another bar... later moving onto nightclubs. At 19, I moved to England, and at 24 I moved to Cda. :)
Orik wrote:
How does that question apply to the topic ? D you sometimes are just as sick as SMP and RDL.
Your mind is constantly in the toilet and needs to be flushed
He can be a tad sex focused sometimes but in all fairness the name of the thread is "What were your [FONT color=#c00000]first [/FONT]few [FONT color=#c00000]jobs[/FONT] in life. personal history." It doesn't say work related jobs.. lol ;)
Natasha wrote:
Orik wrote:
How does that question apply to the topic ? D you sometimes are just as sick as SMP and RDL.
Your mind is constantly in the toilet and needs to be flushed
He can be a tad sex focused sometimes but in all fairness the name of the thread is "What were your [FONT color=#c00000]first [/FONT]few [FONT color=#c00000]jobs[/FONT] in life. personal history." It doesn't say work related jobs.. lol ;)
LMAO
See asking that was in keeping with this thread
Sheesh.
LOL.................... [img border=0 src="http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/6.gif"]