Subj : Re: Retired
To   : NANCY BACKUS
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Thu Feb 27 2020 04:56:34

  Nancy wrote --

>  JM> If I really disliked the job I knew I would be there only for a
>  JM> limited time (days, weeks or months).
> 
> So bearable for the sort term... :)

  I can handle anything if I know (or feel) there is an end to the
situation.

> And between the games, no need to try to find other work for those
> workers, as would be if they were on the regular payroll... or paying
> overtime to workers that already had the hours filled up...

   Regular employees where the first ones to fill those spots, then extras
for the rest.  Regulars where in more important positions, extras were there
wasn't that much responsibility.
   But the company had a limited amount of regulars who had that day off.
   Weekends are busy times for security since places are closed and need
security there at that time.
   But there were times people were putting in long hours and OT.  They
would have a few hours off (those who worked midnight for example) then back to
work, a couple of hours off then right back to work.  Sometimes it wasn't
unusual for someone to work 18 ho
   We used to have newbies (either regulars or extras) who thought working
the ball game they would be watching the game.  Most of the time we were so
far from the action we neither saw or heard the game.  
   The only time anyone saw any of the game were ushers in the stands or on
the field.
   The ushers had the best view.  On the field the team where we were
stationed blocked our view of the field.  :)

>  JM> I don't go hungry since everyone forces food on me.  I
>  JM> don't want to hurt anyone's feelings so I force myself to over eat.  :)
> 
> There is that... and you are such a kind considerate person... :)

  I am, aren't I?  :)  (adjusting halo)

> JM>  And working full time she's pulling down four incomes a month.
>  
> I guess the working is for her mental health, then.... getting her out
> to be sociable, and keep the brain working...

  That's a big part of it no doubt.
  She wants to be with Charlie as he gets more senile, yet she also needs
time away from him for her own mental/physical health.

> Maybe Wednesdays are when she schedules doctor appointments or
> something

  No, she likes to schedule those on the four days she's scheduled to work. 
:)
  She just wants to break up her week.

>  JM> I work generally only two or three days a week.
>  JM> If my captain has someone available they will work that Wednesday.
> 
> Ok, that's better... :)

  When the semester is over in May there are a lot of people who had been
working the dorms are put other places to keep them busy.  That's how I had
all that time off for my trip.  Other than a day here or there I didn't work
from mid-May to mid-August.  It 
  And it will be the same this summer.  Except no trip is planned.  Well, a
long one anyway.
  The university doesn't really ever stop.  Spring semester stops on a
Friday in early May then summer school starts that Monday.
   But things are slower, fewer students, all but one dorm closed down,
etc.  
   That is the time repairs, maintenance and deep cleaning, etc are done in
the dorms, other buildings around campus, etc.

>  JM> where shipping and receiving was located and the other someone asking
>  JM> where an office was.  (There may have been a thir
> 
> (and you broke off there)

  It was something like "There may have been a third, but don't remember".

> By the time this happened, neither of us could find anything to do, even odd 
jobs... earlier, when we were younger, we did make do with whatever we could 
find.... but nobody was hiring someone with some health issues and over 55....

   I have been very blessed with good health.
   I seldom even get a cold, maybe once every three years.

>  JM> My philosophy of life is if one is knocked down to the ground they
can either wallow in the dirt, or they can get up, dust themselves off and
start over again (like the old song).  I may wallow in the dirt a bit,
realise that's not getting me anyway, then 
> 
> (and you trailed off again)

  "then get up and start over" or the like.
  Joe
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