Subj : Re: Retired To : JOE MACKEY From : NANCY BACKUS Date : Fri Mar 06 2020 12:45:00 -=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 03-02-20 08:39 <=- NB> And between the games, no need to try to find other work for those NB> workers, JM> No, they were "day labour" for the most part, hired just for that JM> event. I don't know of any who went full or even part time JM> eventually. May have been that I don't know about. JM> A few of them looked like they needed security watching them. LOL Hopefully they were merely scruffy, but otherwise honest... ;) > JM> then back to work, a couple of hours off then right back to work. > JM> Sometimes it wasn't unusual for someone to work 18 ho NB>> (you lost stuff again... probably more figures...) JM> It was something along the lines of someone working 18 hours, then JM> off a couple then right back to work, within a 24 hour period. I guess that would be during the busy season.... JM> There was one big game some years ago where anyone breathing for JM> miles around was needed. (This was with a national company I worked JM> for and had much large work pool to draw from). JM> I was talking to one woman who said she and her group had worked JM> their regular 8 hour shift, then loaded in a van and driven several JM> hours to work the game, and then were going back on site to work their JM> next shift. That happened only once that I am aware A game that big probably was close to unique... and needed extraordinary staffing.... I can see where that would be memorable... Presumably that crew survived... ;) They'd've been pretty tired at the end of it... :) NB>> So clearly ushering was the plum job... unless one didn't care that NB>> much about the game itself... :) JM> Yep, that was a cake position, provided the weather was nice. JM> I did that a few times. JM> One big game at half time people were leaving the stands to go JM> wherever and a few visitors asked if drinking were allowed in the JM> stands. No. They said a group behind them had been drinking so I got JM> another guy (as a witness) and we went to check. JM> The area in front of the seats were littered with empty beer cans JM> and i walked along to the end of the row, kicking them out of my way. JM> I recognised the only guy left of the party at the end was a well JM> known judge. (The rest had left to do something till the game resumed JM> and returned). JM> I asked if that was his seat, had he been there the whole time, yes JM> to both. I then asked about the beer cans. He had been drinking, JM> slurred speech, glassy eyed. He then expressed amazement at the cans JM> and wondered where they came from. JM> I reminded him there was no drinking in the stands and he of all JM> people should know that and I was going to keep an eye on his party, JM> and the other guy and I walked away. JM> Now he was so high (in more ways than one) in the stands I couldn't JM> clearly see anything that was going on, but every now and then I would JM> turn around and look in his direction. JM> After the game he stopped and said he was sorry and wouldn't do it JM> again. I smiled and nodded, said ok and he went on his way. JM> I never accused him of drinking, never made an issue of it or JM> anything. But he still learned his lesson... :) And was probably thankful that you hadn't raised a fuss.... JM>>> And working full time she's pulling down four incomes a month. NB>>> I guess the working is for her mental health, then.... getting her NB>>> out to be sociable, and keep the brain working... JM>> Oh, no doubt about it. And with hubby's mental health problems she JM>> needs time away or she would go nutty. NB>> It does make sense... as long as she has the stamina to keep going... :) JM> The only stamina she really needs is getting and from work. Sitting JM> at a counter doesn't require that much effort. The making it there was what I mostly meant... ;) JM> Everyone there (from the head of the med school department down) JM> knows her. Just as when in parking I was known from the president of JM> the university on down to newest freshman. For better or worse. :) The fixtures, so to speak... :) > JM> And it will be the same this summer. Except no trip is planned. > JM> Well, a long one anyway. NB>> You could do a trip then, though... :) JM> I am planning on another trip this year, but closer to home. JM> I am a history buff and plan on spending a couple of weeks just JM> driving around to historic sites in VA. first hitting Lexington, VA, JM> Appomattox, etc. Then over to Norfolk where I was in the Navy 50 years JM> ago, then to revisit friends in the DC area and hop That sounds like a nice trip, too... where to after the DC area....? > JM> But things are slower, fewer students, all but one dorm closed > JM> down, etc. NB>> So there's less call for security... and it isn't the sports season for NB>> any sport, so no need for all that army of workers.... :) JM> Life is more relaxed in the summer. I always quoted the old song: JM> Summer time and the living is easy. Quite appropriate... ;) JM> Marshall, ever on the look out for a few extra bucks, will rent out JM> dorm rooms when there are large events in the area. One year it was JM> some national soccer event with kids, parents, etc. Last year we had a JM> group of Swedish scouts going to the BSA Jambore BSA Jamboree...? Somewhere in the vicinity, I presume...? Makes sense, though... the rooms are there, empty and available... :) They probably made more than enough to cover the cost of the extra security and all... :) ttyl neb .... Enter any 12-digit prime number to continue. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140) .