I went to St Thomas after Maria two years ago to help with recovery. I got there three days before Irma hit. I stayed and rode out the CAT5 because well there were 55000 other people that didnt' have the chance to leave like I did. As soon as it was over, everywhere on the island people were out with chainsaws and trucks moving debris and cutting trees etc. The power company still didn't have things fixed a year later but the people there were trying to help themselves. I remember so many news stories about how the federal government wasn't helping None of them were from St Thomas. They took the help if it was provided and they were extremely grateful for us being there. But I never heard any one complain. I love to help people that will help themselves but so many people want a hand out not a hand up.
Craig From: "Steve Jones" <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2020 3:56:46 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT People The thing about getting bit in the ass is that the people cant say nobody gave them a chance. It's good to help your fellow man, even if he wont help himself. My dad used to always say "but for the grace of god go i" sometimes it's one bad choice for you to be In the other guys shoes, and hopefully somebody is there offering an opportunity at a leg up. On Mon, Mar 23, 2020, 3:37 PM Brian Webster < [ mailto:i...@wirelessmapping.com | i...@wirelessmapping.com ] > wrote: Keep being you. Who knows how you may have helped some of these folks years later or how you might have made a difference in their kids lives for whatever time they were employed by you. Just because people do not really recognize the opportunity given, don’t let that change who you are. Just cautiously continue to help. Thank you, Brian Webster [ http://www.wirelessmapping.com/ | www.wirelessmapping.com ] From: AF [mailto: [ mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com | af-boun...@af.afmug.com ] ] On Behalf Of [ mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com | ch...@wbmfg.com ] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2020 4:24 PM To: [ mailto:af@af.afmug.com | af@af.afmug.com ] Subject: [AFMUG] OT People Had to fire a guy today. He had a checkered past. Drugs, prison etc. I gave him a shot, lots of training, (at least now he can have a career, he was doing asbestos removal when I hired him). Seems that he shoplifted at one of our favorite supply houses. They had eyes on him when he went in, security footage of him standing by a rack of stuff and when he turned away things were gone. The front of his coat was bulging when he left. He visited the john, after he left they went in there and found some tags etc etc etc. I told them I would pay for the stuff. They sent me an itemized bill with the exact stuff he took. Of course he wasn’t there, didn’t do it, didn’t steal, thought about stealing this stuff but didn’t do it. Wrongly accused, can he talk to the vendor etc etc. I first found out when the vendor called me and told me he is permanently banned from their place. He was a parolee. We even removed a bullet from his back that the cops had put there. It was bothering him and he could not get anyone to cut it out. He didn’t want to spend the money to do it right. So one evening after work he was complaining about it to the crew. My son the mechanic scrubbed up, got out the betadyne, scalpel, forceps and out it came. (howz that for a company health plan). I have hired a bunch of guys like him over the years. It rarely works out. I have written letters to judges, hired lawyers, got sentences reduced, got people sprung from jail. Very few figure out how to leverage the chances I have given. Sucks losing the training time I have invested... Sucks losing an employee that knows how to do some valuable things. Sucks seeing humans continue to screw up their lives. About 20 years ago I was complaining about this same thing to someone. I told him I was not going to do this anymore. He said: “yes, you will keep doing it”. Nope, done. I guess he was right, I kept doing it. I will probably do it again. I think I am an idiot sometimes. -- AF mailing list [ mailto:AF@af.afmug.com | AF@af.afmug.com ] [ http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com | http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com ] -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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