@diver said@Wycombe-Al did once wonder whether I might be some other RHP character revenant -- so maybe he did have a slight brush with fame (meaning me, not the other guy).
Interesting.
Do you meet famous people much?
My late Dad perhaps similarly by happenstance rode in an elevator with Eddie Murphy, stood behind Vincent Price at a hotel desk, and he and my late Mom were invited to (the also late) Roy Horn's 60th birthday party in Vegas.
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@diver sometimes but not that often, guess depends what is famous these days, more tv people than film
@diver saidThat's me -- prone to digressions and long-windedness at times, if one can even get me to talk at all.
I only read the first long one and thought it was fine. A bit long I suppose 🤷♂️
So disappointing to see the two downvotes on the posts that I did let ride -- presumably from Ghostianne, but so unkind and discouraging in any case.
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@Wycombe-Al saidSorry -- I completely misread your post up there. And I realized that I had blabbed something about diver that I had remembered, so I have also deleted my own post.
@diver sometimes but not that often, guess depends what is famous these days, more tv people than film
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Given the season, I think my job these days is to be the scrub of a brother that perhaps Suzi always wanted and/or never wanted, but who might still serve a useful purpose by sleeping on the couch in the front room in case the wolves and demons come in that way -- but somehow I don't believe she would appreciate how well-composed my dying exclamations might be. Fine. I imagine there are others who appreciate me.
What is appreciation anyway? In whom or what does it occur?
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@Drewnogal saidDo you have the American equivalent of Social security? I make more money on SS than I thought I would make but in today's prices for food and such it isn't that great after all🙂 $40K bucks does not go very far it turns out.
Oh so easy this! - A ‘Casual Domestic’ (spits the words out!) for Social Services!!! - equivalent to one of those zero hours contracts these days. They’d employ me for 3 weeks then I had to sign on at the Dole Office for benefit for a week, then they had me back for 3 weeks, then back in the dole etc etc. Such a con! As it meant that I could never accumulate a single annu ...[text shortened]...
My best job? The one I did for public services which gave me job security for the last 33 years.
My worse job was working for my step dad in roofing. As a musician I always try to keep from injuring my hands, so one day I was asked to steady this propane tank that weighed some 150 pounds and I am guiding it into the truck and it slipped and squashed a couple of fingers so bad I could not move them and the bled like a stuck pig, that was the last day on that job, I thought I would never play guitar again.
Best job, had a lot of those but one stuck out.
In the Bahama Islands there is one some 50 km from Nassau is one I worked at for two years till some scumbag company🙂 stole the maintenance contract right out under us, us being RCA, taken over by Phillips, so ALL of us were kicked out and I had to go where RCA sent us, Alexandria Virginia, working on some Navy TS crap. Anyway my job was to maintain the giant plot boards, wait, let me tell why it was there, Andros Island, there is a feature of a huge underwater canyon some some 150 km long and 60 odd Km wide and 8000 feet deep. ATT the UK owned the Bahamas and I don't know the full story of why they owned them but that was the case.
So the UK saw a chance to use that underwater canyon to conduct testing on various weapons, torpedoes, subs, whatever, so the bottom of the canyon and the sides were plastered with hundreds of hydrophones, underwater microphones, and the signals were sent to a microwave station that took all those hundreds of audio signals and sent them to the main base some 30Km away, so now cables.
Anyway, there is or was a sound board with switches that could switch any one of those mics to an amp and speaker and we were allowed to listen after work. It was the most fascinating sounds I ever heard, like being on an alien planet, all the sounds generated by whales, dolphins and such whoops, and trills and such in an unending display of sound, and being a musician I was TOTALLY enthralled with those sounds and now thinking back I really wish I had some kind of recorder to record all the unearthly sounds coming out of that little speaker. But Phillips company screwed that job up🙂
@sonhouse saidSounds a fascinating place to work and a beautiful place. Made me think of the underwater scene in that film The Island.
Do you have the American equivalent of Social security? I make more money on SS than I thought I would make but in today's prices for food and such it isn't that great after all🙂 $40K bucks does not go very far it turns out.
My worse job was working for my step dad in roofing. As a musician I always try to keep from injuring my hands, so one day I was asked to steady thi ...[text shortened]... l the unearthly sounds coming out of that little speaker. But Phillips company screwed that job up🙂
Crushed fingers - God …. the agony! Yes we had Social Security. It’s now called Universal Credit and we also have something called PIP, Personal Independence Payment.
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@Drewnogal saidSorry to mention this in case any of my former co-workers, supervisors, or faculty members happen to check the RHP forums, but during my long-term job at a bio-research department of a university in the USA, there was some bullying, predatory, creepy, and otherwise inappropriate activity going on in that department.
Let’s guess, a gangster?
Despite the most considerate chair telling me that I would always be part of that department's "family", these days (eight years later, after my retirement) nobody from there wants to talk to me.
Bunch of Ph.D.s.
I feel used. How convenient for some of them that I could easily learn how to do some tech things that they couldn't figure out on their own.
And it might be a surprise to some here that at times I was also considered the most diplomatic staff member to give a potential new faculty hire a tour of our offices and labs.
And how lucky for some that I never went straight to H.R.
Somehow I never ended up killing anyone, although I'll admit that sometimes I was tempted (the logistics would have been against me, though).
P.S. -- Suzi and Ghost don't know me, either. Such bitchy creeps. I don't believe either of them is capable of offering sincere apologies.