Excellent, I am planning to try camping at Garlits, I look forward to a little more conversation time there.
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I usually have even more "free" time.
If I work a lot overtime I can take additional days off.
I like to combine them with holiday or for longer weekends driving to car shows.
This way I am usually off from work up to 8 weeks a year.
Just last weekend I have been to England, Santa Pod to the Mopar Euro Nats which meant I needed additional three days to the weekend off.
Some C-bodys were Drag Racing, too
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Perhaps the only advantage to having no kids
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I understand that it is not easy to plan and pay for a trip to Europe for most Americans. But where there is a will, there is a way...
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It's not the only advantage!
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Besides the freedom? They're expensive. Forget about the fact that our society is steadily going down the tubes.
This is coming from someone that never felt that urge to have children.
This is coming from someone that never felt that urge to have children.
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to me I never wanted the reponsibility.
It is not done with simply producing & paying for them IMHO
Having kids means you have to spent a lot of time with them, take care of them etcetc.
Today I enjoy the freedom, too.
And spent my money just for my old junk
Not to get in the kids/ no kids debate... That ship sailed for me 33 years ago.... But some of the fondest memories I have with my cars involves my two sons.
Just the other day, my oldest needed pick up a rental car in town (he hit a deer with his car). We grabbed the 300, put the top down and I tossed him the keys and he drove. Perfect convertible day and sharing his company... Good times.
Just the other day, my oldest needed pick up a rental car in town (he hit a deer with his car). We grabbed the 300, put the top down and I tossed him the keys and he drove. Perfect convertible day and sharing his company... Good times.
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On a shot like this Julian, you need to force the flash. Beautiful shot anyway.
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In many companies here in the states, if yer gone for more than three weeks, you may not have a job when you get back. If they figure out how to get along without you for that time, they may soon realize they can do without you permanently. . .
What is happening also is that employees with long term service are now regarded as a liability. If you have three weeks of vacation accrued, you are probably also compensated better than the new guy they can hire off the street. You are more expensive to keep.
What I also saw happening is the surge in temporary workers. What used to be good, solid, blue collar jobs are being filled with temporary workers. The skill set and system knowledge is being thrown out the window in the name of lowering expenses. It's a false economy, but it looks good on paper. Temps don't get vacations... Work them for 26 weeks and toss them aside for a new set of temps.
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So true. . . And so sad. . .
Thanks! I will have to find a beach, beautiful weather and old mopars standing around now
It's not that they can life without me on my job forever just because I'm on vacation for 4 weeks without the company collapsing. The colleges have to do my work next to theirs for a relative short time during my vacation and when I'm back everything goes back to normal. And I do the same when the others are on vacation.
To think you're not needed just because the others can do your work next to theirs and work more then 100% permanently is simply naiv and doomed to fail...
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A big problem is that bean counters are running large organisations. They view turnover as a good thing since they only see the lower wages of new employees and ignore recruitment, on boarding, training and customer service/quality costs. I've seen first hand how these a*#holes who know nothing about operational requirements destroy organisations by destroying employee engagement and productivity. End of rant...
It is and I agree with you.
A few years ago, the trend was to cut staff back to the bone. What some management would do was to keep cutting (or not replacing) people until there was a failure. Given people's desire to "get the job done", everyone would work harder and longer to make sure deadlines and quotas were met. If everything still ran, they would just cut more and more until things broke down.
It's all about the $$$ and what looks good on paper. A short staff that was working themselves to death helped the bottom line.
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And it helped management's quarterly bonuses.
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