AArrrgh - MEN - rant!!!

littlejoe · #41 08/28/07, 12:13 AM

Sometimes those small jobs cost more than they make. You just do them out of courtesy and respect for people. It's better to fit them in between better paying jobs. Could that be the case?

tinknal · #42 08/28/07, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by littlejoe

Sometimes those small jobs cost more than they make. You just do them out of courtesy and respect for people. It's better to fit them in between better paying jobs. Could that be the case?

Good point. I once put up hay with my boss's equipment. I did all the work, and paid for the fuel. Hoggie, why don't you just do this?

hoggie · #43 08/28/07, 01:20 AM

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Originally Posted by tinknal

I think I just discovered the difference between men and women..............

My "hunting clothes" consists of layers, between 2 and 8 depending on the weather. One recent hunting season I took a nap in the grass. Had about 4 layers (give or take). Next day I could feel something moving about. Didn't worry too much about it, and about 6 hours later the little vermin made it's way to my collar and I captured it and put it in my pocket. (fed it some of my sandwich). When I got together with my buddies I showed them the offender, we had a laugh, and I liberated it with a full belly. No screaming, no stripping, no panic. Here is the difference between men and women. All men will see the sense in this. None of the women will.

Did I say I screamed

I guess it si a difference, but I have no fear of anything, but something unknown 6 inches from my privates and still crawling - I'm SORRY - but I am NOT leaving it there to see what it does

LOL

hoggie · #44 08/28/07, 01:31 AM

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hoggie we Yanks don't quite comprehend the British man, and the Channel Island man even less (are they similar? Do you know?) One of my boss/teachers was a Guernseyman and he was a charming lech, but so were several other men I met over there (luckily not my real boss). I found that the English women were very tame polite submissive and sweet and the men were pretty taken aback when I behaved forthrightly outspoken American- think I got a lot mroe communicated but sometimes it just backfired because they were too grumpy at me. Sometimes I'd get a vicious attack of "You want to be one of the men?!? I'll treat you like one of the men!" not said directly but my best interpretation of their words not physical actions.

Anyway are you as I describe English women or can you tell? and other Channel Island women? And I think American techniques/advice for managing men are not so effective in the UK and Ch Isl.

I don't know is the answer. I don't know any American women face to face to be able to compare. I am not submissive, but I tend to wait and pick my fights carefully. It means that sometimes people take advantage of me and think I am going to sit quietly and say nothing - then suddenly they find that I bite LOL. That's not quite the case here but in general people think I am not going to react and are surprised when I do.

But yes on the Guernsey men LOL. I know exactly where you are coming from with that one. One of my best friends is a Guernseyman and - I guess you just get used to keeping them at arm's length LOL. My boss is actually English, but yes - a lot of British men are like that - I suppose I didn't really realise that American men aren't

I do notice at the moment that we have a lot of Polish workers here and they are VERY different - very quiet and polite. I only realised how different the other day when my boss and I and our Pole were working together on something and my boss started making comments and the poor old Pole was almost cringing with embarassment

hoggie

hoggie · #45 08/28/07, 01:35 AM

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Originally Posted by tinknal

Good point. I once put up hay with my boss's equipment. I did all the work, and paid for the fuel. Hoggie, why don't you just do this?

It's a little bit different here because all the jobs are small ones - there are no huge fields of hay to be cut - so what happens is that several small ones get cut then all get turned then all get baled. Then several more small ones get cut. You have to bear in mind that it is a very small place, most of the fields are almost next door to each other, and they are all small.

I was supposed to be taking the equipment off to do the bedding myself, but the boss won't let me have the equipment until everything else is done so there is no advantage.