Subj : Re: Retired To : JOE MACKEY From : NANCY BACKUS Date : Fri Feb 21 2020 12:45:00 -=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 02-17-20 05:50 <=- JM> When I started in security in 1994 it was only PT, working the JM> football games. I had another PT job and this was just some needed JM> extra cash. One thing led to another and I did not only football, but JM> basketball, and here and there. JM> I also worked for a temp agency. JM> Basically in the winter temp work (unless you had something long JM> term) was non-existent. That is when I did security. JM> When the weather warmed and more temp jobs came along I did that in JM> the summer. JM> I left temp work in the early 2000s when security demanded more and JM> more of my time and went full time. Temp work would have given you more variety, at least potentially, but the full-time security work was a more secure job... pun partially intended... ;) And apparently you found your niche in life.... JM> We no longer have the athletic contract at Marshall. And frankly no JM> one misses it. JM> It took a lot of man (and woman) power to fill all those positions JM> (150+ per football game, 20+ for basketball, doing one thing or JM> another) which meant a lot of people were working OT, along with day JM> workers hired for that. Which, no doubt, is why the college hired out the security for the games in the first place.... ;) JM> My company is contracted by a private JM> company for security for that one lot, about 50 cars/tailgaters. This JM> company rents spaces to the FOP, who in turn "sub lets" spaces for JM> others in law enforcement in some way. So the people on the lot could JM> be LEO's IOW, the FOP rents the lot and who they sub-rent to is JM> their own business. So long as the owner of the lot gets his money JM> he's happy. :) All I do is check the dates/times of home games JM> (about 5-6 per season) and let my captain know I am working there that JM> day and not schedule me for the other place. And you are still doing that, even though you are now retired...? > JM> During the week when the woman calls off and I get a call JM> Betty is 80, not in the best of health and her husband is going JM> senile and getting to be a handful. JM> If she can't work some day she calls my captain who then calls me. JM> I generally get a couple hours notice. JM> Some times she needs a day off for a doctors appointment and I am JM> scheduled to work that day. Just check the schedule every week. JM> What I hate are times I have plans for that day and that is often JM> the morning I will get a call. JM> I am an early riser so two hours notice isn't that bad. Its just JM> changing all my plans, telling people I can't make whatever, etc. And here you thought that being retired meant that you could do your own things.... > And still on a regular schedule even though you've retired...? JM> Regular schedule of Saturday/Sunday from 0800-1600. But I still JM> have to check the weekly schedule to make sure. JM> There are times I will fill in for Betty (scheduled or not) and then JM> she offers to work that Saturday for me. I generally say no, I'll do JM> it. I don't want her to fooling around with my schedule. JM> But then she changes her schedule often, wanting to work three days, JM> no I want to work four, no now I want to work five, no make it three... JM> My captain is a patient man, but he is growing tired of her changing JM> how many days a week she wants to work. I guess she just isn't sure how much she wants to work, but doesn't want to let go of it quite yet.... :) JM> Plus she likes to take off Wednesdays which means my schedule is JM> thrown off. Work two days, off two days, work a day, off two days, JM> work two days, etc. Yup, that does throw a monkey wrench into your schedule... ;( JM> In the summer when the dorms are closed (or during a break time) my JM> hours are less as someone else fills in that post to keep them busy. JM> Such as last year when I was on my trip. I knew in advance I would JM> have that free time and just let my captain I wasn't available. I was JM> off till August. :) And enjoyed every minute of it... ;) > But at those times, wouldn't the captain have to let you know which > days you'd be working JM> Those are on the regular weekly schedule. JM> Only if something comes up at the last minute does than change. JM> Its my job to check the schedule every Saturday morning. It comes JM> out on Friday. JM> He will let me know in advance if he needs me elsewhere to fill in JM> for someone if they have requested time off. JM> I have only gotten one call in some time to hurry/run somewhere and JM> that was when the other person took ill. Ah, ok.... that's not too bad then.... > I still don't see why he'd've assumed that you knew to work that Sunday > that you didn't show up... JM> Because I didn't check the schedule. JM> I had only been at this post a couple of times over several years JM> and not familiar how it operated. JM> And being told "I need you Saturday" it never occurred to me to JM> check the schedule for the next day (Sunday through Saturday). Ah, ok... that makes sense then.... more ancient history than happening recently... Now you'd just automatically be checking the schedule to see what might be up... So now the question is, how is that so much different from before you retired... Still bound to checking the schedule, regular hours, ets.... doesn't sound all that retired to me... except for the finally being able to take an extended trip... > > And passed on to the next grade, whether or not they met the > > requirements.... > True, it was already happening some when we were kids... JM> But that was pretty rare. JM> I went to parochial school and things like that just didn't happen. JM> That was more of a public school thing. I suppose that was true... I wasn't in the public schools then either... but did hear tales.... In the Christian school I was attending, kids got to skip grades when they were obviously misplaced and needed something more challenging... or held back if they didn't make the grade after all... (not the same kids, obviously....[g]) > JM> I asked how in the world he graduated and he said friends had > JM> helped him. Some friends. Some help. :( > And did he expect those same friends to cover for him for the rest of > his life....? JM> A lot of people his age live only for today. Tomorrow is in the JM> future and don't even think about a year or more ahead. There is that. > JM> Just charge it, pay the minimum, live life to the fullest. > And then complain how unfair life is when the house of cards comes > a-tunmbling down.... JM> Again, something they don't think about. JM> Just like adults who spend it as fast they make it. And don't see the cause and effect when things go sour.... > The times that we were back to living on a showstring again were tough > partly because we had to be helped ourselves instead of helping > others... JM> I have always tried to make it on my own. I hate to ask anyone for JM> help. We did as much as we could on our own.... And then God supplied the rest we needed, from the church and from friends... And, eventually, with renewed employment... JM> I got into a discussion once with a woman who said asking for a JM> job was asking for help and one can't make it on their own, since they JM> need a job for money, etc. JM> No, asking someone for a handout is asking for help. Not getting and JM> keeping a job. Did said woman have a job....? From her viewpoint, it would appear that one would need to be independently wealthy to "make it on their own"... ttyl neb .... "I resent overly expensive shellfish", he said crabbedly. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140) .