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Bullshit. Most of the laborers stay in the area because of family. Manual labor isn't popular any more, most people in my industry are there because it is a family tradition. I have two families that work for me, and they are all second and third generation laborers in the industry. Four of...

I'm in the midwest. In the town I'm in, 50k is like 100k in other places. As far as the guy I need, it's got to be industry specific. We specialize in being able to do the most complex jobs in the area. You can't take a guy whose never done the work or operated the equipment, and have him...

I'll say it again. The issue is not the pay. The last Estimator that left the company (the one that got strung out) couldn't get $11 an hour up the street. The issue is finding the right candidate with the right skillsets.

Nowhere within 100 miles, is anyone in my industry paying more. My guys are making double what they are at some companies around here. There is a big company around here that pays their Crew Leaders $11 an hour, and lays off for four months a year with no unemployment. It's pretty easy to...

I hope it works. I just caught an employee "accidentally" saying he worked until 7pm, when I know he left before 6. I'm not doing timesheets when the GPS's are in trucks, since I'll be able to tell the minute they get in. Why is it no one "accidentally" cheats themselves of time?

Good point.

He shouldn't be doing stuff like this. A few years ago, the Estimator might only have had enough estimates to run for six hours out of the day, so the rest of the day he was free to float around and assist. Over the years, I've increased our monthly ad budget from like $600 a month to 10,000...

Nice one, but too soon.

I've lost interest in it. The last one I read is where the Superior Spiderman almost kills the Rhino and Vulture, and blood was flying everywhere. It just doesn't feel like Spiderman. Why not give him some guns and call him the Spider-Punisher?

I need guys with industry specific knowledge and experience. For instance, we are doing a job where we are clearing a city block of debris, removing dead trees and beautifying the trees. The job requires a grapple truck, as well as a bobcat with arm attachment. There is so much work there...

The issue isn't pay them more. The average laborer at another company makes under 30k a year (Managers don't get paid much more). Pretty much every company in the area shuts down for four months out of the year. Since a lot of them are paid cash, they can't even get unemployment during their...

So in Superior Spiderman #9, Doc Ock supposedly permanently erases Peter Parker. Disney apparently wants the rights back to Spiderman badly.

That's all I've got. This movie isn't worth lengthy posts.

I've met plenty of Phd's from elite schools that had zero common sense. My Dad has a PhD in Chemistry, so all of his friends do too. I've been to plenty a dinner party where I'm surrounded by mouthbreathers with prestigious degrees. There's a difference between intelligence and wisdom.

Astro called, he wants you stop trolling on his turf. K, thanks.

I went with NextTraq, they'll be installed on the 14th of May. These are going to help us out a lot with efficiency.

Bare minimum, they need to have five years' experience doing everything and using all of the equipment. They need to look presentable, our wealthy clients bitch at us if we send a guy who is all tatted up, etc. They need to be good with customers and likable. They need to be trustworthy and...

This is all that companies care about, and should be more than enough to start the conversation on a raise. Just point out to them what you've done for them in hard numbers, and ask for a substantial raise. If you don't get it, then you should look for another job (while still working for...

I just thought the movie tried to do too much. It was a movie about creation and religion, but also was a Sci Fi and horror movie. That's too much to do in a two hour movie. It's like RS tried to do a retarded version of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Not intended. But it is tough to find a good Estimator, that can bid both residential and commercial jobs and be accurate within 5% of actual cost. And then, they want like 10-15% of whatever they sell. Even now, I've had guys try to get commission of customers that have been with the company...

You are right, I'm just playing into his game. I post link after link of what Ridley Scott says, and he ignores them, and says Scott didn't say that.

It's not in the movie because Scott was quoted in one of those interviews was that the story was of Cosmic Jesus, and he didn't want us to figure that out so easily. The Cavalorn blog expanded on the symbols, which were in every scene of the movie. You can actually line up what was in the...

http://www.prometheusforum.net/discu...dark-angels/p1 http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/31...ign-continues/ http://www.esquire.com/the-side/qa/s...erview-9423167 He even referenced a scene that was deleted where the builder explains that they sent a Caretaker to Earth, and we crucified...

Maybe it's different in Canada, but in the U.S., lawyers are a dime a dozen and pretty cheap.

Apparently, you missed Scott saying that's what the movie was about? Or are you being purposefully obtuse?

Read this for an hour and then get back to me: http://cavalorn.livejournal.com/584135.html

I knew it was about Christianity from the opening scene where the Caretaker sacrificed himself. I don't have a problem with the thumping. My problem was that it was derivative. I don't like movies or books where it is so derivative that not much is new. Every action or scene in the movie...

But in this case, he's right. As Scott said it, this movie was really about Space Jesus. Weird. http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/31...ign-continues/ And the whole way in the movie, from beginning to the end, there was Christian symbolism in every scene. This was just too derivative for...

I sent the letter to them, we'll see what their response is. At this point, I'd rather goodwill them $500 to make this go away, even though we had nothing to do with the damage. On a positive note, the phone is ringing like our busiest month of the year. Last week, we got 53 calls. On 53...

Assuming you aren't trolling, this movie was largely derivative of religious material. I don't like derivative anything.

I don't think you can sue, unless you area member of a protected group. But I don't know much about housing laws.

I don't like Tywin, but the character playing him is absolutely magnetic when he's on screen. That scene with his kids was as about as intense as it gets.

This is Sci Fi. They continually keep shows that only pull in one million viewers a week for multiple seasons. Is it expensive? Sure, but the $100m includes the MMO. I'm not saying this is the best Sci Fi ever (it's not). But I also didn't find it horrible.

The show is pulling in ratings higher than BSG's.

I'll take the Marvel approach, they give us a variety of their heroes, without much regard to toy sales. DC just keeps churning out Batman, Superman and Teen Titans for toy sales. I love Batman, but he's had like umpteen episodes. Hell, the average age of a comic book reader is 28. DC's...

...in both Marvel and DC Comics.

DC and Cartoon Network are owned by the same parent company, so that should tell you the politics going on. It was a hit show, that was canceled. And since when do toy sales become more important than ratings?

B.S. DC Execs are beyond retarded. They just canceled Young Justice prematurely, and it was the second highest rated cartoon on TV. They don't know what they are doing, and they are mired in excessive politics. There was an article (which I posted on FOH, but can't find now) that pretty much...

The DC Execs make the most retarded decisions. Avengers did billions, and DC is still asking itself if a JLA movie is feasible.

Congrats!