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Like I said in my field of work it separates the people who are "professional" and work mostly in the office (I do some of both) and the shop guys who are fabricating. It's not even a money issue as some of our shop guys make six figures. But the salary guys have more leeway in a lot of areas...

I used to add $10 per sheet for every sheet I had to plot. Now I just roll it into the charge for the job if I charge per sheet. $235 per sheet for a 24x36" sheet or $55 per sheet for 11x17" sheets. Now if I could figure out a way to charge for 36 hours a day I would be in good shape.

Did people really have faith in MooState beating both LSU and Bama in the same year? I haven't looked how often that has happened but they beat LSU 2 out of 21 last years or something simliar and I think it was worse against Bama.

Kind of interested as well. When I did design on contract I charged them a per hour rate for revisions on top of the contract that was lump sum, per pound, or whatever else. Curious how that works etc...I always just submitted them a bill and nobody ever questioned it. I have heard of...

I visited with a UK based company that is building pellet mills in the southeast and a shipping/storage facility on the MS river in LA. They take whole trees and chip them then pelletize them and ship them to the UK for use in their converted oil fueled power plant. There are other similar...

All that and I got punked. They company got bought out and/or merged with a company I had done work for in the past. A guy who I did a lot of work with there put him up to it. He knew I would turn down a per hour shop type job. I'm supposed to go out to lunch next week with the guy who knows me...

Doesn't matter if they are ranked dead last of Div 1 shoots it's still a tough place to play on the road. That was his point I believe.

Seriously? On a major news site they had a headline about a WoW player reaching level 100.

What part of TX? I have a wildlife management degree from a university in TX and and one time I hunted every day of the 60 day duck season, plus the teal season and drove down to the coast to catch the late season goose season. I also hunt deer, hogs etc... Finding public areas in TX is...

Our world is 7-3:30 and that's the norm for our industry and mostly that revolves us contacting the companies we service. I can come in at 8 and leave at 4 or pretty much come and go when I want as long as it's not a turnaround going on. We shift to start late if it's really cold due to the guys...

I can see that argument. But our busy time only happens in the spring for a very short period and the fall for another short period. Then you might get a disaster you have to fix and put in extra hours. You're paid salary basically to cover it all. Everything outside those periods might have...

It really doesn't work that way for us. The shop works per hour and they work when they are told. The office which is small works when the guys in the shop work and sometimes more. You get your job done regardless. Our world doesn't revolve around normal hours. Like I said I might work 80...

Contract pay is good. I once did a one year contract and the project got canceled in the first week. Nothing beats a one year pay check for a weeks worth of work. Sometimes I charge by the pound for what I draw. This job was around 2 million pounds for the entire precipitator. I offered to do it...

Yup, thanks.

The only people in my indsutry that get paid by the hour work in the shop. On top of that he started talking about 12 hour shifts and such. Yeah let me jump right on that. Except for shop people nobody in my industry works shifts. If the work needs done, it gets done. I'm not even sure what I...

Size compared to downtown LA.

So you want me to run a multi million dollar organization that has plants in 4 states and pay me by the hour...Right I see that neting me for a pay period. I think someone slipped him the wrong resume or something since it has been so long. I had never heard of the guy even tho I've worked...

Jealous of people that have people skills. I assume you use those in negotiations or is it more of a bottom line type of deal?

I'm a structural steel designer and project manager. I carry one in my bag when I have to go to the field. I would say maybe 1 in 10 people I show it to know what it is.

A comment I saw on an article... "Very impressive, I wonder if the engineers who did the incredible math required to make this happen can parallel park thier own car?" haha.

Imagine how fewer savages we would have to deal with if we ever got to take the gloves off and move on with whatever else.

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That was a waste other than the free meal. Guy started talking about 12 hour shifts or whatever and all the over time available. I haven't gotten paid by the hour since high school 25 years ago. After that is was contract or salary. Even my 2 year old resume should have made that pretty clear...

Spatula.

Yeah kinda what I was thinking, but I sent it in while self employed so who knows. I'm on paid leave till after the first. I have a meeting with him scheduled over lunch so I got that going for me lol. I've been reading about the company in the local paper and they are really expanding in...

I got a call today from a guy who identified himself as CEO of XXX. He went on for several minutes. I didn't want to be rude but I finally told I had never heard of his company. Turns out I sent them a resume as a feeler about 2 years ago and since then they got bought out lol. Kind of an odd...

It's wildly unpopular with LSU fans, at least the big money backers in the TAF. At first it was good and got lots of exposure. But now after several years the backers have told the AD to cut down on it since we've done it now 4 years in a row or something similar.

It's very hard for top tier tems to get a team to come into their home stadium for a game, even with a huge payout. That's part of the reaon LSU has gone to playing the opener against ranked teams at a neutral site in Houston and Dallas etc.. Even a home/home gets a lot of resistance because...

Glad I didn't go to the game last night, even more glad I didn't watch it. But I knew when the playoff was announced and people were saying it would end the endless griping about the BCS that they were crazy. After reading the score and what happened this game (LSU) officially marks the...

LSU fan and their pet.

Yes. I read the post 5-6 above yours. Just got an invite to the LSU/Bama game. Way to wait till noon to call.

Big game I guess semi locally. LSU versus Alabama. Friend sent me link to a newspaper article about how small the crowds were when the Pope visited New Orleans (which south LA is hugely catholic) because the Saints were playing that weekend as well as LSU and Tulane who all had home games lol.

So black people can't go as white people or ghost now (only spookds I guess) from now on. Got it.

ESPN announced the LSU Arkansas game is on at night on ESPN2. LSU gets all night games this year. I guess the AD gets to keep his job they have been on his ass for a number of years about the noon and 2:30 games.

Did you confuse the college thread with the NFL again?

No porch? I couldn't do without it. I have a deck in the back but we sat on the porch in my rocking chairs behing old men lol. I have a wrap around porch in the front that goes around the front and both sides of the house. For whatever reason I use the deck for certain things and the porch for...

I got almost 400 email responses for sending that link of her crying to her husband/boyfriend who was an LSU fan. I forwarded it to everyone on our company email list which was right at 1100 people. I forgot we are doing an experimental coal plant in MS and had all those people on the list. They...