Got Yelled At

mcswny said:
To be fair, you work in construction management right? I can only imagine dealing with local, state and fed agencies in terms of permiting, zoning etc.

Also to be clear, I have no skin in the game.
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Yeah, fair point. But before i was building government buildings I did work a few years with WDFW after getting my BS from UW SAFS. While there certainly were some hard working individuals at WDFW, I wouldn't say that most were that way. Most were there to punch a time card, or worse. But, entirely possible my experience is the outlier.
 
Josh said:
I don't get the hate for govt workers or the assumption that they are all incompetent. In my experience the percentage of half-ass lazy fools in govt jobs (not counting elected politicians) is no greater than any other sizable business. Which is to say, a few of the folks working there are awesome, most are just fine, and some are morons who screw things up for everyone else. I think anyone who has ever worked a job anywhere larger than a mom/pop company would say the same. You know who the superstars are, you know who the dumpster fires are, and most everyone else falls in the generally competent middle somewhere.

The issue is that humanity has always had a very bad "shoot the messenger" problem where we blame whoever is behind the desk for the decisions of their bosses if we don't like those decisions or they cause us hassle. And it's one thing to have Comcast be annoying about your TV channel package, its another to have the city planning dept mess with your house building permit over some outdated law. One is vastly more emotional than the other.

And remember, nobody tells stories of the normal uneventful interactions they have with companies or agencies. We all just tell the terrible ones. If we're shooting the shit around the campfire, I'm not telling you how quickly the city got out and fixed a pothole I reported through their web app (seriously, within 24 hours). Oh no. I'm telling you how the water dept screwed me out of $30 for a bogus late fee because of a account snafu with my bank. EVEN THOUGH I PAID BY CHECK IN PERSON ON THE DAY IT WAS DUE.

But that's humans for you.
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No hatred of government workers. They are just humans like everywhere else. Big organizations are the problem. Especially big organizations with strict top down leadership. SAC in the 1970's is a great example. SAC leadership was absolutely intolerant of any mistakes and managers responded by promoting yes men and hiding or maintaining ignorance of any mistakes that might be occurring. As a result our b-52 fleet was not properly maintained and many crews died needlessly during linebacker 2 in Vietnam.

It's not just government. It's any big organization.
 
And then there is the---> Lazy B.
 
krusty said:
There's just not much in the way of righteous cowhiding going on these days.....
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Or men dragging armed men out of skiffs by their hair...

Washington was a veritable giant for his time, Six foot 2, 225 lbs. All bullets missed this man who, comparatively, was a barn door of a target. The other bulk of men were 5'6 maybe 150. Plus there is probably like a "Desperate Celtic" multiplier of say 0.8 for those inclined to poaching, potato eating, sharping, conniving, deceit, skullduggery and subterfuge ie 150*0.8 ie 120 lbs. So basically Washington could rip this carbuncle out of the skiff and toss him, donkey kong style, like a barrel of pickled shad or, with either arm, like fat bundles of undried tobacco, or boxes of awful Ceylon Tea, or maybe just fling him like a wagon wheel frisbee....

Either way, this would be an awesome chapter for Drunk History to re-enact.....
 
Wadin' Boot said:
Or men dragging armed men out of skiffs by their hair...

Washington was a veritable giant for his time, Six foot 2, 225 lbs. All bullets missed this man who, comparatively, was a barn door of a target. The other bulk of men were 5'6 maybe 150. Plus there is probably like a "Desperate Celtic" multiplier of say 0.8 for those inclined to poaching, potato eating, sharping, conniving, deceit, skullduggery and subterfuge ie 150*0.8 ie 120 lbs. So basically Washington could rip this carbuncle out of the skiff and toss him, donkey kong style, like a barrel of pickled shad or, with either arm, like fat bundles of undried tobacco, or boxes of awful Ceylon Tea, or maybe just fling him like a wagon wheel frisbee....

Either way, this would be an awesome chapter for Drunk History to re-enact.....
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And his ill-fitting dentures made of metal, ivory, and teeth of random origin didn't improve his disposition when dealing with colonial miscreants.....

Definitely nobody to tangle with after one of his many failed attempts to enjoy his favorite meal of corn on the cob.
 
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krusty said:
And his ill-fitting dentures made of metal, ivory, and teeth of random origin didn't improve his disposition when dealing with colonial miscreants.....

Definitely nobody to tangle with after one of his many failed attempts to enjoy his favorite meal of corn on the cob.
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Krusty, as usual, your historical case building is on point and with a level of unconsidered detail that suggests a true scholar!

You just know those dentures had a certain an unappealing funk to them. It's probably a historical unknown, but would it have been a worse smell than just the standard halitosis of the day?
 
Wadin' Boot said:
Krusty, as usual, your historical case building is on point and with a level of unconsidered detail that suggests a true scholar!

You just know those dentures had a certain an unappealing funk to them. It's probably a historical unknown, but would it have been a worse smell than just the standard halitosis of the day?
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Thank you!

I don't remember where I placed the parchment manuscript detailing Washington's excruciating dental travails, but I suspect it's buried somewhere under the trove of ancient Sanskrit flyfishing documents I've been attempting to translate for decades.
 
krusty said:
, but I suspect it's buried somewhere under the trove of ancient Sanskrit flyfishing documents I've been attempting to translate for decades.
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Picturing a sorta high U of Montana part time FF-guide + very part time history grad student googling "How do I learn sankrit", "sanka fly fishing manuscript" and "Where is Krusty manuscripts trove be?"

(apologies to original poster this was not meant to be thread jack just dumb jokes... Kinda with Jake W here, if they saw you trying to fish, Kudos to them for sticking up for their water and saying something. Why not practice on the salt, put a hook on the end, say you're fishing for SRC.....)
 
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