What's the latest in people's lives?

[Uzume]

P&CE, man. P&CE......

[SolkaTruesilver]

P&CE, man. P&CE......

Plant & Capital Equipment?

(acronym finder is just as puzzled as I about what that means..)

[Uzume]

Seriously man, welcome. and yes I'm a whoa-man.

[SolkaTruesilver]

Seriously man, welcome. and yes I'm a whoa-man.

Impossible. There are none of those on the internet, except 2d representations of the scandily dressed models.

(/bad joke)

[Deepcrush]

So work gave me off today "Due to the possible traumatic effects of being threatened at work". What the fuck are these people on... really??? I get sent home because of some kid being bitchy? I got stabbed on base and all I got was a long lunch for the stitches.

Really, these people are way to soft here.

[SolkaTruesilver]

So work gave me off today "Due to the possible traumatic effects of being threatened at work". [/uWhat the f**k are these people on... really??? I get sent home because of some kid being bitchy? I got stabbed on base and all I got was a long lunch for the stitches.

Really, these people are way to soft here.

Do you think soldiers could use that excuse?

At least, I hope it's a paid day off, and that it won't count against your sick day allowance.

My other speculation is that they are trying to settle into an official position as to what exactly happened, and they don't want you in the way, protesting against their propaganda.

[Reliant121]

Dad had a bit of baptism of fire. With a normal trip to work, it was maybe 11 miles to work, meaning 22 on a days trip. He could do about 5 miles in work around in a day and you're looking at 26...lets just call it 30 a day.

His first day, he made a nearly 200 miles(round trip) to see a single foster carer.

[SolkaTruesilver]

His first day, he made a nearly 200 miles(round trip) to see a single foster carer.

Everytime I say the U.S. should develop a stronger train network, I get the (stupid) reply that "it won't work, car is such a part of American culture", which I think is bullshit.

Just with the example above, it's pretty clear why trains would work so well in the U.S.. You have a highly mobile workforce, but you can't always afford to move around by settling. Nor can americans afford those 100 miles car trip to commute.

Train, I believe, is the U.S.'s future when it comes to commuting, or even maybe for trans-country transportation alternative to the airlines.

[Sonic Glitch]

His first day, he made a nearly 200 miles(round trip) to see a single foster carer.

Everytime I say the U.S. should develop a stronger train network, I get the (stupid) reply that "it won't work, car is such a part of American culture", which I think is bullshit.

Just with the example above, it's pretty clear why trains would work so well in the U.S.. You have a highly mobile workforce, but you can't always afford to move around by settling. Nor can americans afford those 100 miles car trip to commute.

Train, I believe, is the U.S.'s future when it comes to commuting, or even maybe for trans-country transportation alternative to the airlines.

{cough} Reliant's in the U.K...

{Ediit} But as someone who lives in the U.S. I do agree that effective trains would be greatly beneficial to the U.S.

[Mark]

Seriously man, welcome. and yes I'm a whoa-man.

Yes. I can personally attest to the fact that she is indeed a whoa-man (quite a hot one in fact). We have photographic evidence in the members picture forum. Her photo is posted with a slew of others belonging to us. If you'd like to post a pic, load one on photobucket (or something similar) and let an admin or mod know

[Mikey]

@ Solka: Yeah, Reliant's over in Portsmouth (or thereabouts.) Not really a good analogy to the U.S. transit infrastructure. As to this:

Train, I believe, is the U.S.'s future when it comes to commuting, or even maybe for trans-country transportation alternative to the airlines.

We actually have transcontinental train travel, as well as a strong system all along the northeast metropolitan corridor (Boston to New York to Washington, D.C.) In fact, Amtrak has been heavily bolstered by Federal money. Now, that's one reason why you don't see more train corridors like it; the other is parsing, for lack of a better term. There exist extensive train networks within every major metropolitan hub: the New York Subway, Chicago's "el" trains, Philly's Septa system, et. al. The commutes about which you're talking, though, don't fall into that category. U.S. suburbia doesn't allow for a train station in every town, nor even multiple corridor routes in any given group of localities. My wife commutes 100 miles every day. In order to travel by train, she'd still have to travel 20 miles to the nearest station; then spend an hour and a half on the trains and waiting for transfers. One could say that this is a case for improvement of the system; but with the way of suburban spread, that's as close as a train station and single-route corridor would ever get, no matter how "improved" it is.

[Captain Seafort]

So work gave me off today "Due to the possible traumatic effects of being threatened at work".

Maybe they were talking about the possibility of the oik responsible suffering the blunt force variety and didn't fancy the paperwork?

[Mark]

Deep.....is it paid time off?

[Deepcrush]

Its paid off, but still annoying as hell. Waste of my day to drive 30min then talk to some local shit HR rep for 30min then just drive home again. All so they can tell me that if I have any worrying thoughts I can come back and talk to them. I swear by God if someone else asks me to talk about my feelings today I'm going to lose it.

Edit, problem is that in the hour I was at work. A half dozen teachers bugged me about it and just as many more wanted to know about why it doesn't bother me.

[Mikey]

"Talk about my feelings? Maybe it would be better if I showed you..."