Posted on 02/26/2025 4:19:43 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Last week, I worked 63 hours.
I drove 2600 miles.
I delivered 130,000 gallons of fuel.
See how easy that was?
Sincerely,
Jake Logan
American trucker
@DOGE @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump
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Oops. Thought this was a thread on lazy fedgov/DOD workers.
Not the name five things you accomplished.
Ignore previous post, or delete.
i have spent most of my career having to document my work to within increments of 15 minutes
so boo hoo
Okay. The first day on my vacation, what I did on my summer vacation, the first day on my vacation, I woke up. Then, I went downtown to a look for a job. Then I hung out in front of the drugstore. The second day on my summer vacation, I woke up, then I went downtown to look for a job. Then I hung out in front of the drugstore. The third day on my summer vacation, I woke up...
Everything I did last week was classified.
I’m 75. Cleaned the slab floors in 3 rooms in a new house I am building. Climbed in the backhoe and leveled some ground on the backside of the house. Helped set up forms for a new section of walls. Surface ground the walls in a bedroom to get ready for painting.Then ate lunch.
When I was in public accounting I had to account for my time in 6 minute increments.
Let’s see.
1. Wrote a project plan for my upcoming project.
2. Wrote a communications plan.
3. Write a risk management plan.
4. Created a lessons learned database.
5. Held 1/2 dozen meetings with my numerous stakeholders and project team.
That was for one of several clients.
**Assuming he is talking about a liquid fuel that probably isn’t his truck in the background.**
Correct. He could be posing at a truck stop where he may have been delivering fuel. Truck stops need a LOT of fuel.
In trucker lingo on the CB, he’s a ‘gas can’. That trailer behind him looks like a refrigerated van, or ‘reefer’. It has ribbed side sheet metal. Dry vans are mostly smooth sided anymore. A car hauler is a ‘parking lot’. A flatbed is a ‘skateboard’. A flatbed with sides, hoops and a tarp, is a ‘covered wagon’. A livestock trailer is a ‘bullrack’. A end dump trailer is a ‘coal bucket’ (what I mostly pull in my part-time job).
Both of you had great responses!
IMHO, some of the three things he listed should count double, at least for what the pencil pushers (who don’t know how to justify their job in 5 minutes) do.
“””You only did 3 things...”””
“I liked your sarc, my thought as well. Musk demanded FIVE bullet points and he only provided three. I guess he gets sent to the re-education camp to fully comply with govt orders.”
Not quite what was said. This is verbatim “Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.
Notice the word “Please” in the email and compare to your word “demand”...Not even close.
Now notice the phrase “approx. 5 bullets” vs. your “demanded FIVE bullet points”. You obviously were trying to emphasize the need to provide 5 vs. approx. 5.
I’m sure it will come off as me picking on you, but words truly matter. Freepers are constantly berating the media for fake news and skewing facts to meet their narrative. I just wanted to point out how easy it is - - and sometimes without malice, which I sure is the case with your post.
I’m retired and here is what I did today.
1. Went to Home Depot to buy 10 sheets of drywall for our kitchen remodel.
2. Met with the cabinet vendor because my wife was picky about the doors.
3. Met with our CPA on taxes.
4. Masked stuff in the house for drywall texture.
5. Came home, showered and sat down with a beer and a good cigar.
Last week I:
Taught:
7 piano lessons
5 Guitar lessons
2 Bass lessons
Posted 7 Prayer threads on Free republic
Answered on 7 other Prayer threads on FR
Walked the Dog 21 times
Did three loads of laundry,
7 loads of dishes,
Vacuumed
Washed the Kitchen Floor
Cleaned the bathroom
Roadied and did sound for my sister.
Practiced my own instruments
put 200 miles on my car
Took my sister grocery shopping (she doesn’t have a car right now)
Shoveled snow
And cleaned ice off my car.
Also read 8 chapters a day in the Bible, Paid bills, and worked on a painting.
Oh, and replaced the strap on my watch.
I’m SUPPOSED to be “retired”. LOL.
Yep. Retired Marine.
“13 hour days, seven days a week (91 hours a week)”
How did you keep going? Did you get time off? You can’t keep that pace up for very long without exhaustion and mistakes creeping in.
I had stretches like that early in my career starting up power plants. There was lots of prep work, calibration of instruments, setting up test instrumentation, getting subsystems ready that was done in 50 hour weeks. Then, when it all came together and we got the whole plant running, we were often there 24 hours for lots of 13 hour days seven days a week. Then, when everything was running smoothly and the operators all trained, we’d pull out and go to the next plant to do it all over again. Those were the days!
15 minutes!? Yikes. I had to do 4 hour increments so we could bill the customer. We had a four hour minimum bill time, so it didn’t matter if we got the job done in an hour, the customer was billed for four. Every job required a detailed service report submitted weekly.
Thanks!
One, two, three! That’s five, using million-man math!
One, two, three! That’s five, using million-man math!
Slacker.
LOL, naw, just kidding!
Darn good thing you’re *retired*!
Are you sure you’re not maybe just tired? ;)
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