Life Thread v2.0

impulse418 wrote: Congrats on the promotion! I'm curious why the competition ghosted their clients?

Idiocy, short-term gains at the expense of long-term profit, inability to pivot quickly.

When it became clear, almost immediately, that this thing was going to go on for more than two weeks, they started laying off everyone from dishwashers to middle management and even above in an effort to shed financial liability. That literally left nobody to pick up the phone when the clients started calling to figure out if food service would be possible for the next school year. These companies all have strict top-down management styles with heavy siloing and firewalls to prevent anyone outside the organization from gaining the ability to reach someone who actually has the ability to make decisions or give you any real info.

Compare that to my company which has a more balanced management structure (we give operations managers at the unit level the ability to make a lot of decisions that have very real and visible results and consequences) believes in free communication between departments and units, embraces radical candor and individual ownership, and literally gives everyone in the company the personal phone number of both of our owners (I can call Paco and Tina right now from my cell and they'll pick up).

That freedom and communication allowed our individual unit-level managers to work with our clients from the get-go to prepare for eventual re-opening and proved ourselves to be invaluable partners in helping to guide policy for many of our clients regarding cleaning, distancing, cost management, PPE procurement, etc.

I actually stayed employed and kept my assistant managers whole by working harder than I ever had before to develop plans, distribute food to those in need within the school community, and aid the school in procuring the PPE and necessary chemicals, signage, and equipment to keep the community safe.

The company didn't tell me to do this, I just picked up the ball and ran with it as did our other unit-level managers. We had schools where we were so effective, they never actually closed or stopped service (mostly boarding schools which had the ability to essentially quarantine in place until the end of the school year). Those other companies never gave their managers the ability to do any of that. They just cut them all loose to save money in the short term, not taking the long view that they'd need these same folks on the back end of things to get that business back.

impulse418 wrote: Tested positive for COVID last Sunday. Have been fully vaccinated since June. Thankfully the symptoms were mild, so I'm still chalking that up to a success, but still pretty bummed I was a breakthrough case.

Glad you were vaxxed up so it was mild.

For me, I haven't been on here in a dog's age. I got promoted back in June and it's been non-stop work ever since. I started out with no Hilton Honors account and in just two months, I've hit Diamond Elite status with a full year of carryover and have over 100k points on my account. I should be able to take the family on a vacay for a full week on points alone pretty much anywhere in the world by the end of the work year (June). The good news is, the company makes it worth my while. Big, fat raise, car allowance, phone allowance, and my monthly share of health care premiums dropped to $20/mo, so you can't really beat that.

Hopefully, things slow down in a little while because I spend most of my time away from home right now. We picked up 25+ schools this year because all of our competitors just ghosted their clients during COVID.

Well getting old inhales deeply. Two small strokes, left side weakness only real issue. Played paintball scenario from my wheelchair over weekend, was the HQ guy, rest of team out there, was at HQ alone, 4 bad guys raced in, rolled out of my wheelchair got 3 before they got me, they thought it was going to be easy.

BTW got one of the faulty from factory TMC's, trigger linkage will not allow sear to release rear bolt at times, new parts coming from Tippmann.

Hey guys did you see we left Afghanistan? 

Yeah thanks!

I still live in the sane part of the country. Western Cape has avoided that garbage. Mostly because it is semi - tribal, with the Zulus getting ticked off the Ex Pres, who is a Zulu, was arrested. That wasn't the only reason of course but my part of the country is predominantly Xhosa and they don't give two tosses about a Zulu issue.

At the beginning of lockdown I started some minor prepping, and everyone thought I was going overboard. Well, I guess it wasn't too bad of an idea but like I said we've skipped most of that.

We have our own issues and I'm expecting similar if not the same things to kick off here but it's more likely our protests will involve burning Goverment buildings and such because people here know who to be angry at.

I'm a week tomorrow into my first vaccination (Pfizer) so have to wait till Sep 1 to get my full dose. My mom's fully vaxxed and my wife's parents are fully vaxxed too. We're going slow but it's being done. We're up to 260 000/day. Not super many but we only have 45 mil in the country, so it won't be long.

That being said my AK is still loaded, my SANDF Pattern 82 Battle Jacket is loaded with mags and gear.

Thanks for the concern!

Just found a link to this place that actually works.  I thought it had died!

Today i had a trip to "Schaffhausen"

After 7 Month´s of Corona-Break i had my first Trap-Shooting this year !

Edited by spydercam - 31 May 2021 at 6:02pm

I went to Nürnberg this week, it´s a 2h23min trip by Train from Stuttgart.

Buying a house has been the most stressful thing to ever happen to me.