Red Ring Tupperware Party, Autumnal Equinoctal Edition (24)

Alcohol is a blood thinner. And eventually has a numbing affect and helps you sleep.

chet sometimes thats not an option. i've cut fingers open, done exactly what Melody did and got my fingers caught in machines where the finger was bent completely backwards when i was a mechanic. its not an option to just stop working unfortunately.

Waiting for x-rays. The bruising has just kept getting worse and I can't move it anymore. Work definitely has not helped. Boss agreed that it needs to be checked out before I go away for a week, being that it's a WSIB claim.

outtamymind wrote in post #16329651
chet sometimes thats not an option. i've cut fingers open, done exactly what JJ did and got my fingers caught in machines where the finger was bent completely backwards when i was a mechanic. its not an option to just stop working unfortunately.

Yup been there as well. In my young meat department days right out of High school I was called in to help a guy for a busy ground beef sale, 10 minutes after I showed up he left to go hang out with his girlfriend. I punched through a window in the meat department and cut my hand up eventually requiring stitches but kept right on working until someone came in saying they need assistance and noticed I was grinding meat with a blood soaked hand.

Good times.

Not much of a drinker, and it keeps me up at night.

No point in trying to keep working, it hurts like crazy, I can't work properly, and I don't want to injure it anymore. I still get my full day's pay today, and if I have to miss any work WSIB covers it.

Not broken. Just messed up.

My lifelong record of never having broken a bone still stands.

Jill-of-all-Trades wrote in post #16329693
Not much of a drinker, and it keeps me up at night.

No point in trying to keep working, it hurts like crazy, I can't work properly, and I don't want to injure it anymore. I still get my full day's pay today, and if I have to miss any work WSIB covers it.

You still have to bring a camera on vacation.

I will definitely be taking the camera. I can still use it.

14 hours!!

One week from today and I will be done with my current job! Craziness...

Awesome Nick!

And then you get all the craziness of learning the ins and outs of the new place. I always dislike the process of figuring out who you can and cannot trust.

*sigh* wrote in post #16330553
One week from today and I will be done with my current job! Craziness...

Is it a good thing?

Jill-of-all-Trades wrote in post #16330940
Awesome Nick!

And then you get all the craziness of learning the ins and outs of the new place. I always dislike the process of figuring out who you can and cannot trust.

I've always liked that time. Getting to know the new people is a challenge but it's also an opportunity. With each job change you have the ability to totally re-invent yourself. All prior perceptions are gone, all the old baggage. No one knows you and you can pretty much be who ever you want to be. I've always used that time to change my management style. Once you establish your new personal, you can slowly drift back into the person you are naturally but the perception of who you are is set and perceptions are almost impossible to change.

I do like that aspect, being a whole new person if you want to be. Starting fresh is always good. But I don't like not knowing who everyone around me is. Which ones are your friends and which ones are the enemy. Who can be trusted and who do you need to stay away from.

And for me, I have the extra effort of having to prove myself in everything. Prove that I am physically capable of doing the job, that I know what I am doing, that I can handle working with the guys, etc.

gjl711 wrote in post #16330968
Is it a good thing?

Yeah, it is... It's just going to be a busy transition. I have a week off in between, but that will be filled with studying, and as soon as I start my new job it's straight into more studying to get licensed.