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I work for the government on airplanes. Some of my co-workers: 1. Dude who is brothers with one of the big wigs, and a raging alcoholic. Drinks at the bowling alley at lunch every day. Comes in periodically after missing a few days having obviously been on a meth bender. Those occasions he's either still spun as gently caress or looks like 500 miles of bad road. We have to get a security clearance at work and he just barely eked by with 5 DUIs over about 20 years and some drug poo poo in his past because he admitted to everything on his record beforehand. Was eventually fired when he got his 6th DUI. Almost got re-hired a couple years later with a perfectly scoring resume until someone figured out who it was(they take the names off resumes to grade them). His job? Forklift operator. 2. Former Marine drill instructor who was forbidden from re-enlisting because he was abusing and hazing recruits too badly. If you know anything about the loving Marines that's a real accomplishment. Walking embodiment of a short guy complex, still treats people who allow it like they're recruits by yelling at them and running them down. He got a contractor fired and when the contractor returned to pick up his tool box he had a tiny little security lady in tow. Contractor guy, who was built like a linebacker, proceeded to beat the poo poo out of drill instructor guy while wearing security lady as a necklace until a group of 4 men managed to break it up. Drill instructor guy is still an rear end in a top hat, but somewhat more subdued. 3. A guy and his wife both work here. A guy in another building is loving that guy's wife. The angry husband challenges him to a fight after work at a nearby park. The husband gets his rear end kicked, doesn't divorce his old lady, and she still fucks that guy sometimes. 4. Two guys in management are both fooling around with the same lady in another building. They come to blows over it in a meeting with multiple big wigs from both our depot and the military present. Both men are married to other women who don't work here.
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Nelson Mandingo posted:So wait what got the linebacker contractor to beat the poo poo out of the drill instructor? Kinda skipped that part besides the implication he gets pissy. The drill instructor guy had got him fired by complaining to his boss. There's a weird second-class citizen thing going on at a lot of government jobs where contractors get hired alongside government employees to do the same job and it's used as a filtering process for new government hires and an ability to hire/fire flexibly because the government employee union makes it hard to fire people. That's also the reason married dude didn't quit his job. You don't walk away from 20+ years invested in a job with a pension, health benefits and decent pay because your wife sucks. Some more: 1. A support personnel working nights leaves with the government truck at lunch time during his shift and never returns. His absence isn't noticed until the morning, when day shift can't find the truck and notice he's still clocked in. An alert is put out to the base police for both the truck and the employee. He's found about an hour later, inside the truck, keys in the ignition, empty bottle of Jack on the floor. He had it parked facing the bay, and had drunk the entire bottle of whiskey the night before at which point he passed out and pissed his pants. He got in trouble but continued to work there until he retired years later. 2. A guy is forklifting a jet engine down a hill and doesn't have it secured properly. The entire engine falls off his forks, smashed into the ground, and rolls down the asphalt hill. striking the curb at the bottom. The multi-million dollar engine is ruined. He freaks out, parks the lift right there, runs to his car and drives home. Nobody hears from him for a few days until his boss goes out to his house to check on him. He's allowed to come back to work and actually ended up retiring from there as well, because he was just doing as instructed and there was no SOP on file for forklifting engines at the time. They had always done it that way, they just were lucky/careful. 3. There was a time there was no cell phone service at the flight line due to it's relatively remote location, and this was during a time before they were super prevalent. Lots of guys only had a way to call home because of the pay phone located in the building. This was made difficult by a base cop who would cruise out there and get on the phone for entire shifts at a time talking to his girlfriends or whatever. This pissed a lot of guys off. In revenge, they opened all 4 doors to his cruiser, turned on his spinning lights, let the air out of all 4 tires and then called the cops and said it looked like there was a wrecked cop car with it's spinners on outside the flight line. They responded like it was the end of the world, only to get out there and find dipshit still on the phone, oblivious to the state of his cruiser. He never came back again.
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Jul 7, 2016 02:00
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argondamn posted:I'm a civilian by most people's definition of the word, but for some reason the Army decided that only those who hold government jobs can be referred to as civilians, the rest of us are lowly contractors. Yeah, it's even on your CAC card and everything. It's basically shorthand for federal employee. I was a contractor for 8 years before I finally got a good government offer. I'm glad it finally happened but goddamn do I wish I had that 8 years to add to my retirement.
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Jul 7, 2016 02:23
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diabeetz posted:A girl with a speech impediment told me her parents gave her $10k when she finished college and she blew it all on Facebook games Could have gone to Vegas and had a way better lost it all to stupid gambling story.
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Jul 7, 2016 02:29
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I am Toni Lippi posted:My buddy at work farted in front of the QA and I got sent the video. I uploaded it on youtube under the title "Filipino farts in front of a gay man." QA found out about it and yelled at me so I took the video down but he still refuses to talk to me. I can't stop laughing at this.
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