Greg_W

Beautiful, Tbay; simply beautiful.

Did you start the scented potpourri going and draw yourself a bath too ? Maybe I'll tell you about it when we climb next...

Sure, sounds good in theory. How about when you decide not to join a Union shop specifically because you do not want to put up with the BS associated with Unions, you show up to a job (comercial construction) and the Union guys on the job spend their time sabatoging and destroying your work, slashing your tires, picking fights with your fellow employees and causing general mayhem. Seems to me like just because you choose not to join a union doesen't mean you don't have to deal directly with the Union mentality and problems. Mind if I ask what union you work for? Unions only succeed if everyone is a member. If one guy decides he doesn't want to pay dues, but he still wants to reap the benefits won by the Union, how do you think that makes the dues paying guys feel? All warm and cuddly? This sounds like an vague justification for the violence that DOES occur between union and non-union tradesmen. Ask yourself why union goons show up at a jobsite where the framing contract was let to a non-union contractor and intimidate all the framers, invade the personal lives of the field supervision of said contractor and generally cause mayhem. Simply because the contract went to a non-union contractor instead of a union one. Why? Sounds fucked up. But it happens all the time.

Hey, I'm Welsh and German, what do you expect? Good luck pissing me off; I'm on the good ship "Mellow" now, baby!!! poppin' prozac now??!?! Yeah... Despite my prozac buzz, it's still obvious to me that sportclimbing is neither. anytime you wanna go either neitherclimbing or climbing, you just let me know...YOU can ropegun for me! but you'll have to replace your P-pillz w/ some speed or sumpin... Cool!!! I'll short-rope your ass up some wicked scary 4th class sandy ledges!!!!!! Awesome!! I promise to give you a belay worthy of holding the full whopping weight of a falling rhino! Hey...you ever get mid week time off????? Or are you straight 40 a week?? Next highpressure i'm up at index regardless of when... I could skate an hour or so early, if necessary...keep in touch.

Hey, I'm Welsh and German, what do you expect? Good luck pissing me off; I'm on the good ship "Mellow" now, baby!!! poppin' prozac now??!?! Yeah... Despite my prozac buzz, it's still obvious to me that sportclimbing is neither. anytime you wanna go either neitherclimbing or climbing, you just let me know...YOU can ropegun for me! but you'll have to replace your P-pillz w/ some speed or sumpin... Cool!!! I'll short-rope your ass up some wicked scary 4th class sandy ledges!!!!!!

AAAAAAHHH!!! MY EYES!!! MY EYES!!!

Hey, I'm Welsh and German, what do you expect? Good luck pissing me off; I'm on the good ship "Mellow" now, baby!!! poppin' prozac now??!?! Yeah... Despite my prozac buzz, it's still obvious to me that sportclimbing is neither.

I was lucky to work for a man who I would love to emulate as a business man. He was loyal to his employees, almost to a fault, and that's all that he asked of his people: loyalty. He understood that his business could only succeed through the people he hired. He hired good people, rewarded them, and did all he could to make sure they and their families were happy. He led by example. He left us alone and let us do our jobs and gave us what we needed to get the job done. He is committed to building a successful business that will last; to do that he invested in his people. I do own my own company (I'm the only employee) and I reward myself all the time. Sexual harassment reports are on the rise; I'll have to look into that.

Are they as narrow as the aliens? As in, do they work well in shallow cracks?

which probably explains why you regret not having had to work in sweatshops when you you were 10years old, why you absolutely refuse to take vacations (paid or not), do not observe the 40hour week and make sure you do not receive overtime pay when the boss needs you to work more, etc ... damn unions they really suck, don't they? Still babbling incoherently like the day you were born, eh, j_b? We're discussing (or I was) the current need for unions. Go back to your cesspool of liberal pseudo-intellectuality.

Hey, I'm Welsh and German, what do you expect? Good luck pissing me off; I'm on the good ship "Mellow" now, baby!!!

Would you care to elaborate on why? I love the few aliens I have and those zeroes look kind of fragile.

Whoopdiefuckingdoo, toptimmy. Good for you. As I stated, everyone has their stories. I do not agree with the concept of a labor union, period. "Good" or "Bad" is immaterial. rbw1966, have I heard of affirmative action? Yeah, it sucks. I think it's a fucking sham to reward one group (blacks, mostly) over another. Go ahead and flame me, I don't fucking care and you're not going to change my mind. Bang your head against this Wall, you make me laugh as I watch your blood pressure rise. Greg_W

Huh, wow, and here I thought that I had actually been working in the real world for the past 12 years. Gee, thanks for enlightening me on "the real world". You must work for the wrong people. I work, and have worked, for companies who do reward employees based on merit. If this ceases, I move on to someone who values the skills and abilities I bring to the mix. Greg_W

Unless you have to hike from the Ranger Station through knee deep snow and then listen to avalanches in the pre-dawn hours at Glacier Basin. Then you might want to do something else.

I'm surprised that a working stiff like yourself could be so anti-union. Unions make life better for for a lot of people. Why would you be surprised that I believe in the ideal of personal merit as opposed to collectivism? Anymore, unions are simply tools for large numbers of workers to extort benefits they may not necessarily deserve from employers. It's extortion plain and simple: "give us more money/benefits or all of us are going to walk out." Please don't respond with all sorts of "unions help blah blah blah"; I've worked with several unions over my career and have no use for any of them. Why not excel and earn based on your personal merit not the coattails of someone else?

Eldo in a day would be a good hump.

Weren't we all...well, maybe not.

Fuck the Teamsters, I'm now buying all Darigold. John Deere broke the union, I hope Darigold does the same.

I could hear a nice gentle rain falling outside the open window this morning at 4. It was peaceful and warm. A great way to start the day.

I like it. But, then, I was a child of '80's music; you were probably still ridind a Big Wheel and wearing Garanimals.

There may be room for (20), but the rangers have a restriction on the number of climbers at Thumb. I'm not sure what the numbers are.

Worse than this, it was discovered that her hypocrisy went even farther. Her bodyguards carry guns.

Don't go cheap on shit that could save your life. That's my criteria. My ass is precious to me and I want it in one piece - it deserves the best.

Not to be confused with the College Inn on University Ave.