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|    Daryl Stout to JOE MACKEY    |
|    Re: Inventions    |
|    20 Feb 22 19:52:00    |
      TZUTC: -0600       MSGID: 1064.fidonet-memories@1:2320/33 26783448       REPLY: 1:135/392 9f03b075       PID: Synchronet 3.19c-Win32 master/2d3b97333 Feb 15 2022 MSC 1929       TID: SBBSecho 3.14-Win32 master/2d3b97333 Feb 15 2022 MSC 1929       BBSID: TBOLT       CHRS: ASCII 1       Joe,               JM> They appreciate my returning, several times over the years, to train        JM> new people. A lot of people have passed through the doors over the        JM> years.               They ought to pay you like that.               JM> When I returned in August I told them I was re-retiring at Christmas        JM> break. Neither of the two I trained stayed long.               Makes you wonder if they got told to leave early, so you'd stay there.               JM> There is too much to tell in just a couple of weeks. A lot is        JM> learning by doing, on-the-job experience, etc.               Even if you prepared a manual, you wonder how quick it'd take for them to       learn it.               JM> (*I don't know what's up with the young people today. In the past I        JM> was cursed at, yelled at, told where to go and what I could do with        JM> myself, etc. Now the current crop of students say things like "yes        JM> sir/no sir" etc. Its a bit unnerving at times.)               I was raised "old school"...where "children should be seen and not heard;       and not speak unless spoken to -- then it was 'Yes/No Ma'am/Sir'".               JM> I can't recall what I was writing about.               That's why quoting in QWK Mail and email comes in handy. |
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