Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

And why aren't there elephant devices in the British base force units?

If only the RAF ground crews would have been able to fix said machines, they wouldn't have needed animal labor to move the planes around...

The important factor that you're missing here is that the word is actually spelled labour

Also, the Corsair was operated by the Fleet Air Arm and was thus the responsibility of Royal Navy ground crews to fix and maintain. So your attempted dig at RAF ground crews has fallen flat due to your shoddy historical knowledge There's also the fact that the RAF did not have base forces, although I believe I am correct when I say that the Royal Navy did maintain several. So there's another coming your way

I wish we still had an Empire though, the possibility of joing the military as an elephant handler is an interesting one

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

in other news......my long lost friend "one upya" commented to me the other day after my announcement of winning Triglyceride Lotto, "only 435??!! Hell....i had a rating of 699!!!!.....till i started taking Fish cod oil." (or some other similar product)

Given that anything over 150 means "Future cardiac event" (a quaint new doctor term for "Sieze up and expire") in all likelyhood, i think this is one comparison i'm happy to let him have.....

Dude! What the hell do you eat?

Its mainly hereditary. Even on lipitor and staying away from red meats and sweets, my dad's T levels are twice what they should be. Brother has similar issues and now it's my turn. Granted, my diet is not the best in terms of quality. I've eliminated any bad meat fast food trips for lunch due to lazyness in not buying the stuff to prepare my own which should help. GF unit and I have started hitting Whole Foods, a major organic produce chain around here. The meats and stuff they have there are really high quality but also very expensive. Oh well.....price of living better. At least the doctor didnt' tell me i needed to give up BEER!

How my friend "one upya" got 699....or whether it's true or not.....i couldn't tell you but i have a friend at work who's sister had a T level so high it was quote "Off the scale"

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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ORIGINAL: USS America

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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ORIGINAL: USS America
BLASPHEMER!!!

There is only one true THREAD, and Brother Nik knows it. He just tries to pretend otherwise.

All Glory to THE THREAD!!!

All Glory to wood!

You know you love it in the morning.......

Sure. But it makes it difficult to pee in the morning.

Yuri, you just need to get a little "help" with that situation.

In my case....the "Help" is a sponge and some bathroom cleaner. Guess there is a downside to "Morning wood"

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ORIGINAL: USS America

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ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

To be honest we weren't sure there was anything in there for a couple of weeks. As you said the infection and some of the swelling had to go away first. By Sunday it was evident to me there was something still there because the original wound site was getting more purple and swollen. I called them Monday, they took care of me Wednesday morning. There was a large quantity of local anesthetics involved (thank goodness).

Wow, I'm glad they finally got that fixed up, Bruce!

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ORIGINAL: USS America

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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ORIGINAL: stuman


They really dont provide coffee to you guys ? You know how cheap a perk ( pun intended ) that is ? Geez

Yes.....and now that i'm at home i can tell you who the cheap-o's are...."ATT MOBILITY" (Coffee was probably the last perk to go......the only one left now is TP provided for the bathrooms.....we have a pool going on when that'll go and we have to start bringing in our own)


The part that really pisses off the workforce is that we get announcements like the above, for reasons of cost and then days later we get yet another quarterly report card email announcing mounds of financial success in meeting the goals and in one case, 'record profits' Managers litterally cringe when leadership pulls that.

and with all that success.....they can't even provide cheap ass coffee that makes Starbucks seem like some of JWE's Javarian brew. Guess the CEO needed another corporate Jet or something. I keep dreaming of the day when i finally get a bite on the job market and can just quit.....with 2 minutes notice.

and don't get me started on the big I.T. fiasco recently.

"They" took away our coffee type drinks about 2 years ago at my very Big Blue, International employer. Record profit growth for the last several years in a row now.

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: scott1964

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ORIGINAL: USS America

Waiting for the heating and air conditioning service man to come and do the free "checkup" on our system.  

My furnace has a small gas leak..over $1300 to fix.

If I were you, I think I'd be more upset that my furnace has a gas leak.

i just discovered yesterday afternoon one of our three furnaces has a gas leak as well... when the propane tank went dry...

The furnace in the (heated) barn is the culprit, so at least we have heat in the house.

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

And why aren't there elephant devices in the British base force units?

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Well it's been a busy week.

The highlight was the orthopedic surgeon removing a 3/8 inch long (that's about 9 to 10 millimeters) long piece of wood from my finger. It got in there back on December 31 during yard work

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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ORIGINAL: USS America

Wish I had a turn to keep me busy while waiting. 

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

I'm just glad copious quantities of local anesthetics were involved

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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ORIGINAL: Lifer

Better 1300 than to have the house blow up.  Unless it is leaking Carbon Monoxide.  Either way is bad.

Greg

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

in other news......my long lost friend "one upya" commented to me the other day after my announcement of winning Triglyceride Lotto, "only 435??!! Hell....i had a rating of 699!!!!.....till i started taking Fish cod oil." (or some other similar product)

Given that anything over 150 means "Future cardiac event" (a quaint new doctor term for "Sieze up and expire") in all likelyhood, i think this is one comparison i'm happy to let him have.....

Dude! What the hell do you eat?

Its mainly hereditary. Even on lipitor and staying away from red meats and sweets, my dad's T levels are twice what they should be. Brother has similar issues and now it's my turn. Granted, my diet is not the best in terms of quality. I've eliminated any bad meat fast food trips for lunch due to lazyness in not buying the stuff to prepare my own which should help. GF unit and I have started hitting Whole Foods, a major organic produce chain around here. The meats and stuff they have there are really high quality but also very expensive. Oh well.....price of living better. At least the doctor didnt' tell me i needed to give up BEER!How my friend "one upya" got 699....or whether it's true or not.....i couldn't tell you but i have a friend at work who's sister had a T level so high it was quote "Off the scale"

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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ORIGINAL: stuman


They really dont provide coffee to you guys ? You know how cheap a perk ( pun intended ) that is ? Geez

Yes.....and now that i'm at home i can tell you who the cheap-o's are...."ATT MOBILITY" (Coffee was probably the last perk to go......the only one left now is TP provided for the bathrooms.....we have a pool going on when that'll go and we have to start bringing in our own)


The part that really pisses off the workforce is that we get announcements like the above, for reasons of cost and then days later we get yet another quarterly report card email announcing mounds of financial success in meeting the goals and in one case, 'record profits' Managers litterally cringe when leadership pulls that.

and with all that success.....they can't even provide cheap ass coffee that makes Starbucks seem like some of JWE's Javarian brew. Guess the CEO needed another corporate Jet or something. I keep dreaming of the day when i finally get a bite on the job market and can just quit.....with 2 minutes notice.

and don't get me started on the big I.T. fiasco recently.

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: USS America

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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ORIGINAL: stuman


They really dont provide coffee to you guys ? You know how cheap a perk ( pun intended ) that is ? Geez

Yes.....and now that i'm at home i can tell you who the cheap-o's are...."ATT MOBILITY" (Coffee was probably the last perk to go......the only one left now is TP provided for the bathrooms.....we have a pool going on when that'll go and we have to start bringing in our own)


The part that really pisses off the workforce is that we get announcements like the above, for reasons of cost and then days later we get yet another quarterly report card email announcing mounds of financial success in meeting the goals and in one case, 'record profits' Managers litterally cringe when leadership pulls that.

and with all that success.....they can't even provide cheap ass coffee that makes Starbucks seem like some of JWE's Javarian brew. Guess the CEO needed another corporate Jet or something. I keep dreaming of the day when i finally get a bite on the job market and can just quit.....with 2 minutes notice.

and don't get me started on the big I.T. fiasco recently.

"They" took away our coffee type drinks about 2 years ago at my very Big Blue, International employer. Record profit growth for the last several years in a row now.

Cant complain. We got one of those machines with the one-time use cups of grounds. Its not half bad.

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: scott1964

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ORIGINAL: USS America

Waiting for the heating and air conditioning service man to come and do the free "checkup" on our system.  

My furnace has a small gas leak..over $1300 to fix.

If I were you, I think I'd be more upset that my furnace has a gas leak.

i just discovered yesterday afternoon one of our three furnaces has a gas leak as well... when the propane tank went dry...

The furnace in the (heated) barn is the culprit, so at least we have heat in the house.

If the one in the house failed would you move to the barn?

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

And why aren't there elephant devices in the British base force units?

If only the RAF ground crews would have been able to fix said machines, they wouldn't have needed animal labor to move the planes around...

The important factor that you're missing here is that the word is actually spelled labour

Also, the Corsair was operated by the Fleet Air Arm and was thus the responsibility of Royal Navy ground crews to fix and maintain. So your attempted dig at RAF ground crews has fallen flat due to your shoddy historical knowledge There's also the fact that the RAF did not have base forces, although I believe I am correct when I say that the Royal Navy did maintain several. So there's another coming your way

I wish we still had an Empire though, the possibility of joing the military as an elephant handler is an interesting one

But since for most of the war FAA manning and deployment was under direct RAF control his dig is still valid in a roundabout fashion.

Bigger boys stole my sig

(in reply to Onime No Kyo)

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Warspite1

Dixie (with apologies to non-British who won't understand the following), but that picture
brings to mind a famous episode of Blue Peter

I hope the ground Crew had more control over the elephant than John Noakes!

Bigger boys stole my sig

(in reply to warspite1)

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ORIGINAL: USS America

There is absolutely no doubt that our favorite troll has created a new mask and is back.  

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2708098

Bigger boys stole my sig

(in reply to USSAmerica)

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

And why aren't there elephant devices in the British base force units?

If only the RAF ground crews would have been able to fix said machines, they wouldn't have needed animal labor to move the planes around...

The important factor that you're missing here is that the word is actually spelled labour

Also, the Corsair was operated by the Fleet Air Arm and was thus the responsibility of Royal Navy ground crews to fix and maintain. So your attempted dig at RAF ground crews has fallen flat due to your shoddy historical knowledge There's also the fact that the RAF did not have base forces, although I believe I am correct when I say that the Royal Navy did maintain several. So there's another coming your way

I wish we still had an Empire though, the possibility of joing the military as an elephant handler is an interesting one

But since for most of the war FAA manning and deployment was under direct RAF control his dig is still valid in a roundabout fashion.

Yuri, Yuri, Yuri I'm afraid old boy that you are wrong. The Fleet Air Arm was sent back to the Admiralty (and therefore under RN control) in 1939.

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ORIGINAL: stuman

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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ORIGINAL: stuman


They really dont provide coffee to you guys ? You know how cheap a perk ( pun intended ) that is ? Geez

Yes.....and now that i'm at home i can tell you who the cheap-o's are...."ATT MOBILITY" (Coffee was probably the last perk to go......the only one left now is TP provided for the bathrooms.....we have a pool going on when that'll go and we have to start bringing in our own)


The part that really pisses off the workforce is that we get announcements like the above, for reasons of cost and then days later we get yet another quarterly report card email announcing mounds of financial success in meeting the goals and in one case, 'record profits' Managers litterally cringe when leadership pulls that.

and with all that success.....they can't even provide cheap ass coffee that makes Starbucks seem like some of JWE's Javarian brew. Guess the CEO needed another corporate Jet or something. I keep dreaming of the day when i finally get a bite on the job market and can just quit.....with 2 minutes notice.

and don't get me started on the big I.T. fiasco recently.

I own my own business. it's only 22 employees, but it is a good office. I have worked for multinational firms ( one of the " Big Six " accounting firms ) have started from scratch, etc. And I realize that there is a constant balancing act between being bottom line oriented, and maintaining a motivated workforce.

But I am here to tell you that it doesn't really take all of that much ( free coffee, free soft drinks maybe, lunch/dinner brought in, sensible leave policies and so forth ) to keep people happy. And a happy group of folks is far more productive imo than an unhappy one. It simply requires work ( somtimes a lot granted ) by upper management to implement.

ok, enough of my ranting.

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

And why aren't there elephant devices in the British base force units?

If only the RAF ground crews would have been able to fix said machines, they wouldn't have needed animal labor to move the planes around...

The important factor that you're missing here is that the word is actually spelled labour

Also, the Corsair was operated by the Fleet Air Arm and was thus the responsibility of Royal Navy ground crews to fix and maintain. So your attempted dig at RAF ground crews has fallen flat due to your shoddy historical knowledge There's also the fact that the RAF did not have base forces, although I believe I am correct when I say that the Royal Navy did maintain several. So there's another coming your way

I wish we still had an Empire though, the possibility of joing the military as an elephant handler is an interesting one

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: stuman

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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ORIGINAL: stuman


They really dont provide coffee to you guys ? You know how cheap a perk ( pun intended ) that is ? Geez

Yes.....and now that i'm at home i can tell you who the cheap-o's are...."ATT MOBILITY" (Coffee was probably the last perk to go......the only one left now is TP provided for the bathrooms.....we have a pool going on when that'll go and we have to start bringing in our own)


The part that really pisses off the workforce is that we get announcements like the above, for reasons of cost and then days later we get yet another quarterly report card email announcing mounds of financial success in meeting the goals and in one case, 'record profits' Managers litterally cringe when leadership pulls that.

and with all that success.....they can't even provide cheap ass coffee that makes Starbucks seem like some of JWE's Javarian brew. Guess the CEO needed another corporate Jet or something. I keep dreaming of the day when i finally get a bite on the job market and can just quit.....with 2 minutes notice.

and don't get me started on the big I.T. fiasco recently.

I own my own business. it's only 22 employees, but it is a good office. I have worked for multinational firms ( one of the " Big Six " accounting firms ) have started from scratch, etc. And I realize that there is a constant balancing act between being bottom line oriented, and maintaining a motivated workforce.

But I am here to tell you that it doesn't really take all of that much ( free coffee, free soft drinks maybe, lunch/dinner brought in, sensible leave policies and so forth ) to keep people happy. And a happy group of folks is far more productive imo than an unhappy one. It simply requires work ( somtimes a lot granted ) by upper management to implement.

ok, enough of my ranting.

Stuman,

You sound like a pretty cool boss. What would your policy be on playing AE on company time? If you permit this, just what line of business are you in? Are there internships available?

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Warspite1

Dixie (with apologies to non-British who won't understand the following), but that picture
brings to mind a famous episode of Blue Peter

I hope the ground Crew had more control over the elephant than John Noakes!

They don't make TV like that these days

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Cj2TtFd_E

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Aye, I wish ye had ye an Empire still too.

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Aye, I wish ye had ye an Empire still too.

Scottish?

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Aye, I wish ye had ye an Empire still too.

Scottish?

Was goin' for a bit of a Scottish pirate, I was. Argh!.

What-too much?

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: stuman

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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ORIGINAL: stuman


They really dont provide coffee to you guys ? You know how cheap a perk ( pun intended ) that is ? Geez

Yes.....and now that i'm at home i can tell you who the cheap-o's are...."ATT MOBILITY" (Coffee was probably the last perk to go......the only one left now is TP provided for the bathrooms.....we have a pool going on when that'll go and we have to start bringing in our own)


The part that really pisses off the workforce is that we get announcements like the above, for reasons of cost and then days later we get yet another quarterly report card email announcing mounds of financial success in meeting the goals and in one case, 'record profits' Managers litterally cringe when leadership pulls that.

and with all that success.....they can't even provide cheap ass coffee that makes Starbucks seem like some of JWE's Javarian brew. Guess the CEO needed another corporate Jet or something. I keep dreaming of the day when i finally get a bite on the job market and can just quit.....with 2 minutes notice.

and don't get me started on the big I.T. fiasco recently.

I own my own business. it's only 22 employees, but it is a good office. I have worked for multinational firms ( one of the " Big Six " accounting firms ) have started from scratch, etc. And I realize that there is a constant balancing act between being bottom line oriented, and maintaining a motivated workforce.

But I am here to tell you that it doesn't really take all of that much ( free coffee, free soft drinks maybe, lunch/dinner brought in, sensible leave policies and so forth ) to keep people happy. And a happy group of folks is far more productive imo than an unhappy one. It simply requires work ( somtimes a lot granted ) by upper management to implement.

ok, enough of my ranting.

Stuman,

You sound like a pretty cool boss. What would your policy be on playing AE on company time? If you permit this, just what line of business are you in? Are there internships available?

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley