Really getting tired of the random road rage around here.
You got in the right lane, then got stuck behind a dump truck, and when I get in the left lane and go around you I get flicked off? Berk you, buddy. I hope the fleas of a thousand camels infest your underwear.
One of the Chrome click bait articles was someone complaining that her new Wrangler couldn't go faster than 70mph uphill.
Why would anyone want to drive a Wrangler that fast?
Pete. (l33t FS) said:One of the Chrome click bait articles was someone complaining that her new Wrangler couldn't go faster than 70mph uphill.
Why would anyone want to drive a Wrangler that fast?
Working on a family member's CJ5 now, that thing is scary at 45 mph.
volvoclearinghouse said:jharry3 said:tuna55 said:My nicely sized family owned private company employer was just sold to a private equity firm
Next the new investors will sell the property and lease it back to the business. It's a strategy I heard about recently but apparently has been done for a while. It's one of the things that went into the Red Lobster bankruptcy.
Hopefully Tuna's company will not start offering All-You-Can-Eat Shrimp.
The Unlimited Shrimp is the only reason I go to Red Lobster too though
Know what I hate? Canoes after 12AM.
It's the May squeeze again. Every night, most mornings, is a home-life scheduling disaster. Hauling ass home from work to be late for kid's sports. Plays, musicals, events, etc. Eating dinner at 4pm or 9:30pm. Doing dishes and cleaning up the house until 10pm. Our summer calender is booked every. single. weekend. until school starts back. When someone asks me to attend an event on the weekend I tense up because I already know my wife has us booked up solid 8 weeks in advance.
I can't wait for this weekend. The calender is free for the entire weekend and I can't wait to have some actual free time.
jharry3 said:tuna55 said:My nicely sized family owned private company employer was just sold to a private equity firm
Next the new investors will sell the property and lease it back to the business. It's a strategy I heard about recently but apparently has been done for a while. It's one of the things that went into the Red Lobster bankruptcy.
Owner and CEO is fourth generation family. His kid doesn't want it, otherwise that would have happened. Current owner is in his 70s, it seems pretty bleak.
This may be slightly more than minor, time will tell. Most people with T1D stockpile supplies whenever they can, well insulin has to be in a refrigerator for long term storage. I have a stock pile, I have wifi enabled sensors that alarm if the temp leaves the set range. Someone left the freezer door cracked and the fridge temp went up to 48 degrees for 18 hours, the freezer was there too. So all of the food in both was junk but more importantly there is an insulin shortage and all of my insulin was over the 46 deg upper thresh hold for storage. Manufacturer says that starts the timer (30 days), so I may have a stash of useless fluid and I am struggling to buy more. I feel sick to my stomach, I can't figure out why the sensors never alarmed, I don't know how the freezer got left open and I just want to scream or cry or something.
volvoclearinghouse said:Pete. (l33t FS) said:One of the Chrome click bait articles was someone complaining that her new Wrangler couldn't go faster than 70mph uphill.
Why would anyone want to drive a Wrangler that fast?
Working on a family member's CJ5 now, that thing is scary at 45 mph.
I worked on a Wrangler for a friend a few times, and most of you remember the famous red XJ from my dearly departed friend. Every time I was on a test drive I'd think the same thing, "Why would anyone ever drive this pile in traffic?".
Oh good, the baclofen is only working for an hour or so at a time. Gonna be a long summer with these berkeleying hiccups if this stuff stops working.
In reply to tuna55 :
You have a few things to do. Update your resume is the obvious one. The less obvious is to look at the private equity firm's track record. It will take only a few minutes to figure out how they operate. The Worst case is it will confirm your worst fears and make your decisions easier. The Best case will show that they are building a business portfolio of some kind, complimentary businesses, across industries, etc...
One of my co-workers has extreme political beliefs that go way beyond anything that I'm willing to endorse. This morning I overheard him speaking with another co-worker who is somewhere down the same highway , just not so far: "75 percent of Americans want to hang him....."
Now that's scary. I don't think that 75 percent of Americans would endorse hanging the reincarnation of Adolph Hitler and Pol Pot.
Our country has got it's problems to be sure, but treating the opposition as the devil ain't helping things.
tester (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to tuna55 :
You have a few things to do. Update your resume is the obvious one. The less obvious is to look at the private equity firm's track record. It will take only a few minutes to figure out how they operate. The Worst case is it will confirm your worst fears and make your decisions easier. The Best case will show that they are building a business portfolio of some kind, complimentary businesses, across industries, etc...
I intend to do just that after this week is over. It's a very busy and stressful week with our listing agency in town to witness tests (UL). Essentially google [company name] "layoffs" when looking through their portfolio of divested or longer term companies. It's called Tailwind. I don't know much about them, and none of their companies immediately ring any bells.
In reply to Kreb (Forum Supporter) :
The fun part is both sides have these goobers. Worse yet, the media feeds them.
Kreb (Forum Supporter) said:Our country has got it's problems to be sure, but treating the opposition as the devil ain't helping things.
That has pissed me off for all of my adult life.
And what really pisses me off is that players on both of the majority teams do it, and then scream and cry when the other side does it to them.
Tolerating hypocrisy is not one of my strengths.
tester (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to Kreb (Forum Supporter) :
The fun part is both sides have these goobers. Worse yet, the media feeds them.
Yep. I'm not making a veiled reference to a certain group, because there are multiple ones, and they all think that they are the virtuous ones.
You are building a box to sell flooring out of. A couple of big rooms, a couple of offices, and a couple of bathrooms.
Do you really need 997 pages of specs for that? It's going to take me longer to find the pages I need than it will take to quote the doors.
Toyman! said:
Do you really need 997 pages of specs for that? It's going to take me longer to find the pages I need than it will take to quote the doors.
Division 8 - Openings:
084213 - Aluminum-Framed Entrances
084229 - Automatic Entrances
In reply to Duke :
I know exactly which section I need. Unfortunately, most specs don't have an index so I have to scan through 1/3 of pages to find the few sheets I need.
It still doesn't explain why a box store needs almost 1000 pages of specs. It's not like they are building a hospital.
In reply to Toyman! :
When I used to do a lot of work for the University, their construction contracts had 3 tiers. Up to $6k or so could be single-sourced. $6 to $28k required 3 bids, and anything greater required that it go through public bidding. The problem was that there's a no-mans land where public bidding is massively inefficient, because of the extreme paperwork, the consultants and engineers, the overblown specifications, et cetera. So occasionally I ended up with multiple contracts to keep it on a lower tier: One for supplying material, one for labor, etcetera. And we still saved the University great gobs of money by not feeding the bureaucracy.
This coming Saturday is my middlest daughter's high school graduation. yay! Yesterday afternoon the school sent out an email saying that tickets will now be required for all guests attending the graduation. There are a total of 24 students in the senior class and the graduation is happening inside the cathedral, so it's not like there's a lot to worry about in regards to space. We told everyone when and where the graduation was going to be and didn't care if they were coming or not. But now they want me to run down everyone and find out. So I just gave them the full list of everyone on both sides of the family and they can just print a E36 M3load of tickets out, most of which won't be used.
I will say, though, that if Seb Vettel isn't busy this weekend, there'll be a ticket waiting for him because I slipped his name between the names of my sisters-in-law just for fun.
tuna55 said:tester (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to tuna55 :
You have a few things to do. Update your resume is the obvious one. The less obvious is to look at the private equity firm's track record. It will take only a few minutes to figure out how they operate. The Worst case is it will confirm your worst fears and make your decisions easier. The Best case will show that they are building a business portfolio of some kind, complimentary businesses, across industries, etc...
I intend to do just that after this week is over. It's a very busy and stressful week with our listing agency in town to witness tests (UL). Essentially google [company name] "layoffs" when looking through their portfolio of divested or longer term companies. It's called Tailwind. I don't know much about them, and none of their companies immediately ring any bells.
Is there any chance to do an employee purchase of the business?
Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) said:tuna55 said:tester (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to tuna55 :
You have a few things to do. Update your resume is the obvious one. The less obvious is to look at the private equity firm's track record. It will take only a few minutes to figure out how they operate. The Worst case is it will confirm your worst fears and make your decisions easier. The Best case will show that they are building a business portfolio of some kind, complimentary businesses, across industries, etc...
I intend to do just that after this week is over. It's a very busy and stressful week with our listing agency in town to witness tests (UL). Essentially google [company name] "layoffs" when looking through their portfolio of divested or longer term companies. It's called Tailwind. I don't know much about them, and none of their companies immediately ring any bells.
Is there any chance to do an employee purchase of the business?
Too late, it's all done. Since it's a one man owned show, there was never any discussion. Until two days ago, nobody, not even the VPs, knew what was going to happen. We all assumed the kid would get it anyway.
Duke said:Kreb (Forum Supporter) said:Our country has got it's problems to be sure, but treating the opposition as the devil ain't helping things.
That has pissed me off for all of my adult life.
Used to be in this country that it didn't matter what side you were on, (most) everybody respected your beliefs. It wasn't uncommon to have meaningful back and forth with friends, relatives, or coworkers on the other side. Sometimes you would agree on points, sometimes you wouldn't, but the conversation was always civil and agreeable.
I enjoyed those conversations, but they're becoming fewer and fewer
In reply to Kreb (Forum Supporter) :
I have one at work that is a joy. I apparently wore a blue tie two days in a row. Not as a statement but because they matched the shirts I wore. I was somehow unaware that we're all supposed to wear red ties to support his candidate in their time of trouble. I really didn't expect an angry critique of my fashion choices but I've now got to wear blue ties every day.
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