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Bartlett Can't Staff Duke-Energy
Already Gone:
--- Quote from: Camella Black on Nov 24, 2008, 05:07 --- :) Just a friendly tip... here in America Yankees were born above the Mason-Dixon line, ie the North. People born in the South might take objection to being called Yankees. ;)
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Sorry Camella, but in the ENTIRE WORLD, Yankee means American. It's just that you were raised in part of the world that at one time forgot that you all were Americans too. But we all love you anyway - even though you will never admit that you are a Yankee too.
I just need to interject one more thought here that actually has SOMETHING to do with staffing at Duke Power.
The contention that there are 18 slots open, and the outage is understaffed, and the fact that Bartlett will tell certain techs that there is no opening for them at that outage, are not mutually exclusive.
As long as there have been outages, the staffing companies have used "already staffed" as a way of steering the caller away from one job and onto another. There is also the practice of revising staffing numbers to reflect the actual number of employees who are going to show up for the job. A site can request 50 techs and change that to 40 once they realize that they can only get 40. So, an outage can be both short-handed and fully staffed at the same time.
So, the fact that the office is calling a job staffed does not prove that the job isn't 18 techs short.
Camella Black:
--- Quote from: Smart People on Nov 25, 2008, 10:10 ---that would make you a d*** yankee
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yeah, but only half! It's funny my grandfather who was 8 or 9 when he came down from Wisconsin used to talk about the snow birds and D*** Yankees all the time, LOL; his daughter my mom was so proud of being a true Floridan she used to tell us she was born on a frosty morning in Dixie. Go figure.
Back on topic now, I am glad that my husband works the Duke outages, sure the pay may be lower at times but its close enough to home that we both can travel back and forth which has become a real bonus since we now have a grand-daughter to spend time with and another on the way!
FatMalky:
This thread has reminded me why I don't bother using the forum.
Freedom of speech over here in Yankeeland? (Just for you, Camella. ;)) Apparently it's non-existent on the interweb... at least at THIS particular URL!
I'm gonna slip back into anonymity, as apparently it's ok to fabricate stories about people from atop a high-horse, but beware if you dare try to defend those being shot at. Not my idea of a fair, balanced forum, hosted within the "most free and powerful country in the World" but there ya go... I guess "CHANGE" really IS ahappenin'!
Oh, and for the record, this is not me "arguing with any moderators"... I'm just saying!!
stownsend:
--- Quote from: Camella Black on Nov 25, 2008, 09:34 ---Wow we must really be entering a p.c. world; now I can't call a Yankee a Yankee without offending anyone? ;) Geeze, I come from a long line of Yankees (who migrated south in 1904 or so) and am proud of it and btw I love the North especially Maine, PA and CT. :)
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Sorry Camella if my sense of humor didn't come through.I was referring to the NY Yankees as I'm a die hard Redsox fan and I've been trying to convert Marssim from his evil empire ways.
stownsend:
--- Quote from: FatMalky on Nov 25, 2008, 12:11 ---This thread has reminded me why I don't bother using the forum.
Freedom of speech over here in Yankeeland? (Just for you, Camella. ;)) Apparently it's non-existent on the interweb... at least at THIS particular URL!
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Hey Fatmalky
I'm sorry if it got personnel for you but we all understand who started this thread and I think the majority of posts reflect what we think of his comments.Being an open forum and knowing that people have a tendency to get upset and post libelous remarks, the moderators had to step in for the good of all of us.Everybody (Management included) reads these posts and that is not where we want them to get the wrong impression of this site.Send a PM to the one who has fired you up.Thanks.
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