Good morning

I agree with Ray

 

Good morning everyone!
I hope you all had a great weekend.
Its monday morning, so rise and shine and have a great day!

 

Jim's Valentine FTW

 

Good morning and have a good Monday and happy Valentine's day CT.

 

Hey everyone. I haven't really been on here in quite a while, but wanted to sa y that I am am still around and reading the posts and questions and learning alot.

 

good morning all..and yeah another monday! yeah right! lol

 

Time to give the truck a bath, with me wearing shorts and a tshirt already!

 

Everyone:

I have two job interviews this week.

One on Wednesday here in town.

One on Thursday up in New Milford.

 

What happened with the job overseas?

 

Hi there Pete:

The best guess the guys over there had was that:

1. The corporate recruiter was coming down with Alzheimer and mistakenly recruited me.
2. The initial corporate paperwork review (if any) didn't catch that I was honest about my lack of specific experience.
3. I was a body to fill a vacancy and that meant that the company got its stipend from the government, and the state-side management that I reported to didn't seem to care otherwise.

The manager over there was a Christian too, when I arrived he said that it appeared that I was set up to fail but he wasn't going to throw me under the bus.

The manager over there said that there is a fit for everyone and that he would keep me as long as he could.

The manager over there didn't think very highly of the company and, had it not been that he had given his word to stay, he would have quit already.

So, once they got more qualified people, they rotated me home early.

I kept my employee Ids, and my body armor was placed in storage in Afghanistan pending my return. Versus me returning to Camp Pendleton to turn my gear back in to the Marines.

When it came time to rotate back over to Afghanistan, seemed there was a black hole.

Eventually, two weeks past due to be back in country the VP contacts me to say he thought I was terminated coincident with leaving Afghanistan.

So effective Dec. 26 I was terminated.

Now, one could say that the company held onto me over my off cycle (which is a no-pay period) as insurance just in case they again needed a 'body' back in Afghanistan.

Shortly before I got the heads up that I was leaving Afghanistan, the corporation was chopping heads state-side.

I went home and 'played' stupid, I put in for the two days I worked that pay-week before flying home, plus the holiday later that pay-week. I got the holiday pay which meant that I was still an employee at that point.

So, if there was the order to terminate me as I was leaving Afghanistan then either:
It wasn't until I started sending in time sheets for 'on' cycle wages due, mentioning that corporate travel still had yet to deploy me, that I came up on their 'priority' list of things to attend to.

 

Clean trucks at last!


You guys like my new vinyl decal? Its free - link below

No, that isnt where i put it lol havent put it on yet

Argent International, Inc.

i like pictures if you guys havent realized that yet

 

Miles:

I love that sticker!

I just requested two of them.

 

HELLO CT!

miles thanks for the link!

is anybody watching the IBM jeapordy game?

 

Evening guys.
Miles I did the same this afternoon but then I had to go out and it got dirty again, just not as bad.
No Aaron I am watching Ax Men from last night.
Looks like a cold one tomorrow.

 

Good morning everyone. I guess that I am somehow the first one up today.