Who else pushes snow?

[Tool Guy - Kg]

Gropple?

[smifwal]

I spelled it like it sounded apparently I wasn't even close, I never was good at spelling

[Tool Guy - Kg]

Leave it to the weather folks to invent a word to make it seem more important.

[smifwal]

They have to do something to make themselves look intelligent, because their predictions sure don't. monkeys throwing darts at a dartboard would get it right more than they do. If I were a prettier fella, I would be a meteorologist, what other job can you have where you are wrong all the time and still get paid. If I was real beautiful I would be a meteorologist in San Diego, where you could just say it's going to be sunny and hot. I spent three months there and boot camp in between July and October1998 it rained one time for about 2 minutes and then it was, you guessed it sunny and hot again

[Tool Guy - Kg]

Shawn musta got buried in the snowmageddon?

[smifwal]

Been trying to catch up on paperwork and sleep. We got around 7 inches. Minimal break downs and nobody died, so all in all a good storm

[Lou_MA]

what other job can you have where you are wrong all the time and still get paid

Any financial “expert” that claims to know where the overall market, general economy, or an individual stock is headed.

[Tool Guy - Kg]

Sounds like a profitable snowstorm. Good to hear things going well.

Originally Posted by smifwal

...what other job can you have where you are wrong all the time and still get paid.

I think I could name a whole bunch. It kinda seems like society’s tolerance for folks doing their jobs incorrectly has gone up quite high. Or maybe it’s just me?

[evan1968]

I miss my plow truck.

[smifwal]

Tonto: I think this next generation of kids as a whole are pretty sad when it comes to learning how to do something correctly. I see a lot of good enough. This is the main reason I don't have a helper for flooring work. It is unavoidable in the snow business if I want to make any money at it, so I try to pay a little more to get adults that listen and also that can take direction from a kid, Yep I am a young pup compared to the people that work for me and under me as a area manager. I am pretty sure I am the youngest area manager in my company at the moment and maybe the youngest in the company's 18 year history. I am 39, area manager since I was 34, and had absolutely zero plow experience at 31 when I started with them. But my detail oriented approach at life and my get it done without whining about it attitude got me noticed by the powers that be. Every year I get at least one new sub, I have subs that get paid by the hour and subs that are routed, routed guys get paid a set amount to get their properties done no matter how long it takes. I will have a hourly guy tell me that a property is ready for salt and then the salt guy will call me and tell what a turd the property looks like, and send me pictures of the abomination that they have left( I love pictures, there is no excuses or no I didn't leave that like that with picture evidence) so then I have to have the salt guy fix it or send someone else to fix it so the salt guy can carry on with his route. Now I expect this from a routed guy since he is trying to blow through the property that things might be a little loose but this makes no sense to me when a hourly guy does it, YOU GET PAID BY THE HOUR!!! why in the hell would you leave before the property was tight? And the answer I normally get is "well I thought it was good enough", or I get this one, well I thought we were coming out tonight to do clean up so I figured I would get it then My response normally is " that is what you get for thinking" Then we have to have a heart to heart about what I expect a property to look like before you tell me it is ready for salt. I normally only have to have that talk once and I have to have it more than once that guy gets to go home first until he figures it out

Craig: I am sure it snows on the weekend up there and that your snow boss would be more than happy to let you come out and play

[evan1968]

I told him I am available on the weekends. Last winter, a good storm came on a Friday afternoon thru Sunday. I got a few hours. I'm like the back up to the back up.

[mullet]

Pretty cool.

[evan1968]

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[evan1968]

I miss those too Mullet.

[Tool Guy - Kg]

I miss them, too. Uh...I think?

Wait! No, I know what I missed. I missed the New York Birthday 4 days ago. Sorry about that. Happy Belated Birthday, Craig!