Happy New Year!

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Happy new years, guys!

I spent last night with family members. Nothing exciting happened, thankfully

I’m starting the new year with a new boss. He actually started on Tuesday, but that’s really besides the point. So far he seems like a pleasant and fair guy. Hopefully, he doesn’t turn out to be a control freak in the end

I overheard a few snippets of a conversation between my new boss and one of the “big shots” . . . they were talking about firing somebody. I’m 99% certain it wasn’t me they were referring to, but I also hope it isn’t anybody I know. Because I do have a few colleagues who are not very good workers, for various reasons. The sad thing is they somehow can’t see it, even though they’ve been warned many times.

I’ve made no new year’s resolution. If you’re going to do something, it shouldn’t be just because it’s the new year. it should be because you want and/or need to do it

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The only New Year’s resolution I’ve ever kept was to quit smoking, that made by both my wife and I December 31, 1969. Cigarettes were about 75 cents a pack out of the vending machine, I recall.

P.S. Stopping smoking was not really all that difficult for me because, like Bill Clinton, “I did not inhale”!

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@db4690‌, not you, you know too much and aren’t full of yourself.

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@jtsanders‌

Actually, I’m fairly realistic about my shortcomings at work

I’ve admitted to previous supervisors that I sometimes get carried away with small details, but in doing so I sometimes miss the big picture

Or that I sometimes don’t check the easy stuff first . . . like the fuse . . . and start going down the wrong path

All that aside, I do put in an honest day’s work, and I give it my best shot. Some of my colleagues don’t even put in an honest day’s work. It takes them an hour or longer to get up to to speed in the morning. From that point on, at least 10 or 15 minutes each hour is spent on coffee or cigarette breaks.

And then there are the guys that are basically “in it for themselves” . . . there are guys who bring in car parts for their own personal vehicles. I’m talking rotors, drums, steering columns, transmissions, gear boxes, etc. And they literally spend every single second that the supervisor is not physically watching them, working on their own stuff

Then, at the end of the day, when they have to account for what they did all day, they make up these fantastic stories about things they never did. Just to “cover” themselves

There are guys, where the boss tells them to their face “Don’t take that home. Do not steal that. It doesn’t belong to you.” Yet they do it, anyways.

yeah, I’ve worked with some first rate guys

As far as me, I’ve got brown eyes

Maybe I am full of something . . .

I figure if somebody can’t poke fun at himself, from time to time, and can’t recognize some of his own shortcomings, he may as well just give up and crawl under a rock to die

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Happy New Year to everyone!

Tester