Random Thought Thread

[SolarStorm50]

 

[SharpBits]

32 year career, always a superior performer, and all you get is a 7 minute phone call letting you know you were laid off.

Not me, someone close.

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

One reason I am a proponent for self-employment. Why let someone else's bad choices screw you up, when you can make your own bad choices.

 

[Blues]

Working for the gov't didn't stop me from making bad choices of my own...

(Let's not talk about it. )

 

[snuffle]

Why let someone else's bad choices screw you up, when you can make your own bad choices.

This is very close to the mission statement of my first company. After the 2000 dot.com crash, a couple friends were also in the same boat, and we decided if nobody else wanted to pay us we should start our own thing and not pay ourselves.

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

I could fire myself for incompetency and then collect unemployment against my own company.

I should look into that

As the sole officer of the corporation, that might be a problem. Maybe I should fire Jo.

She's gonna love this!

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

She does not like this idea

 

[Matthew Gregory]

I could go for a Glaive.

Totally got your reference- probably the only one, but we’re obviously of an age. Funny thing is, I JUST watched this again after 40 years or so. Forgot how cute the girl in it was!

 

[Blues]

I just realized...48 years ago today I started working for Uncle.

Fortunately, 21 years ago I pulled the plug.

 

[jlauffer]

Totally got your reference- probably the only one, but we’re obviously of an age. Funny thing is, I JUST watched this again after 40 years or so. Forgot how cute the girl in it was!

One of Liam Neeson's earliest roles!

 

[Casinostocks]

I could fire myself for incompetency and then collect unemployment against my own company.

I should look into that

As the sole officer of the corporation, that might be a problem. Maybe I should fire Jo.

She's gonna love this!

I had already tried that which did not work here in Cali, but I was operating under an LLC not a Corp (C-Corp?).

FYI, I assess that you have what is called an experimental mind which means that you are high driven both in terms of your curiosity and your ambitions. This kind of mind finds it hard to work for others. Having an experimental mind is truly a blessing but it comes at the expense of some variation of A.D.D.

There are other kinds of mind, but I don't get paid enough on here to showcase my knowledge. You know me, just a very modest fella who brown noses to you

 

[Casinostocks]

She does not like this idea

You can switch roles in your Corp and then she can fire you. She may like that idea a bit better.

 

[Jsega51]

She does not like this idea

Fire yourself, collect and watch from the sidelines, then re-hire yourself as a manufacturing consultant and get that pay raise!

 

[ferider]

Fire yourself, collect and watch from the sidelines, then re-hire yourself as a manufacturing consultant and get that pay raise!

Could get free healthcare, too !

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

I'm hooking up the largest UPS you've ever heard of and some of the cable is pretty big I'm having trouble cleanly trimming it





Legit commercial application for the K18

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

I'm hooking up the largest UPS you've ever heard of and some of the cable is pretty big I'm having trouble cleanly trimming it


View attachment 3031175


Legit commercial application for the K18

How big are your hands?

On a totally unrelated note I married my wife because she has small hands.

 

[jlauffer]

I'm hooking up the largest UPS you've ever heard of and some of the cable is pretty big I'm having trouble cleanly trimming it


View attachment 3031175


Legit commercial application for the K18

2 megawatt?







Oh, and hopefully you've been maintaining those batteries you bought years ago, otherwise they're prolly boat anchors by now.

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

How big are your hands?

On a totally unrelated note I married my wife because she has small hands.

L - XL


That's 3/0 AWG, rated for over 200 amps

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

My cable cutters can't touch it

The sawzall just makes a horrible mess and still doesn't really do it

The K18 cleaved it cleanly. I love when such a ridiculous object really is the actual best tool for the job. This makes me happy.

 

[bluemax_1]

My cable cutters can't touch it

The sawzall just makes a horrible mess and still doesn't really do it

The K18 cleaved it cleanly. I love when such a ridiculous object really is the actual best tool for the job. This makes me happy.

“Good grief… why do you have so many swords”

“That one’s a wire cutter, dear”