You were a surveyor correct? Did it require more than just geometry?
Would you even hire a rodman without a grade 12?
Would you even hire a rodman without a grade 12?
I'm Hating It!!
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Yep, surveying was much different when I started, you HAD to fully understand trigonometry and even be able to derive formulas from scratch. There were no battery operated calculators then, not until about 1973. Rodmen on any sustained basis are obsolete today, sure you might use one on a building lot, but it's a lot different from running 20 or 30 miles of levels. The instruments used today have all the math built in, for general day to day performance you don't even have to understand a sine or a cosine. To establish co ordinates, bearing and elevations we used to have to find a couple of monuments and a bench mark. Today they just fix on 8 or 9 satellites and check it two or three times.
I've found about 95% of the time the way you are treated is a direct reflection on how you treat people, and about 99% of the hassels can be avoided by simply getting the waitress to repeat the order back.
I have and use a total station, somebody still has to hold the prism. The GPS units are too slow but great for setting your Control Point.
You're out of date, now they set up the total station and head out with the prism which has controls installed on it, they hold it up press a button and when they hear a beep move on to the next point.
*cringe* you're joking, right? Dr.B's is like any other hokey diet scheme.... their patients tend to gain back the weight plus ten as soon as they can't stay on the super restrictive diet anymore.
Don't diet... see a nutritionist and get a trainer, but don't diet. The health care system is trying SO hard to discourage dieting right now. Consider the fact that most severely obese patients are chronic dieters, and don't start down that horrid road.
Go ahead and read whatever you want into what I said. That doesn't make you intelligent ... just a gossip
Great example of miscommunication, eh? ...and you're "from here" too :roll:
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And i think big corporations are trying to push all salaries down to minimum wage,ecept the fat cats,they'll raise theirs beyond whats reasonable.
And you can hardly blame them, Gov't keeps mindlessly ramping up minimum wage, which has been going on since the 50s and hasn't really benefitted a single person in real spending terms. When the tide is up all the boats are still at the same level! :lol:
Yeah, but it's the Europeans that started that practise in North America near the end of the 15th century. lol
Not quite. It is a combination of a few things that makes people overweight.
I don't care how active uyou are, if you consume more than you can burn off, you'll gain weight.
And then there is this:
http://news.discovery.com/earth/air-pollution-obesity-120315.html
lol No-one ever had to wait for you.
Your mother likely had to go through a lot of pain waiting for you to decide to emerge.
Perhaps they only had $200.27 to begin with.
Try getting lost in the bush with only a map and a compass. No GPS or other gadget.
Even better, try getting lost in the bush with only a plain jane wristwatch to use as a tool.
lol Someone has to pack the gear around and act as a gofer.
To carry on with that process, gov't also wants more and more taxes to do less and less work, the greedy CEOs and their businesses keep wanting to raise profits, the average Joes and Jills want more pay to compensate for raised taxes and corporate profiteering, and then the idiotic cycle keeps feeding on itself.
Tell me about it. I wandered around in the bush west of Lone Butte about 35 years ago for hours a $3 compass, the ground was dead flat, the sky was over cast, I was north of Hwy. 24, near the gas pipeline, but anyway I got turned around and wandered this road back and forth until I finally got fed up and found my way back to the way I walked in. One big mistake people do make is doubting their compass- even a cheap one doesn't lie unless there is a major ore deposit, which in B.C. would pretty well have to iron!
That was the good old days, pickets, stakes, axe, machete, chain saw, rod, chain, gas, oil, tools. Now a days for a lot of jobs you'll need a data collector, a couple of rolls of flagging, a few nails, if you are in the bush you hire a slashing crew for the time required and they can pack stakes etc. You don't even need a pencil anymore.
That's easy stuff.
Been a few times out in the bush I've been disoriented (fairly easy when firefighting) but managed fairly easily to reorient myself simply using my watch.
Been a few times out in the bush I've been disoriented (fairly easy when firefighting) but managed fairly easily to reorient myself simply using my watch.
Reminds me of the city critters who move out here for the "peace n quiet" and then start moaning about having to drive so far to the nearest Canuck Tire for something or even into town to get their fave ice cream. I say imagine doing that when all you have to carry your dumb self is your feet.
Of course 99.9% of the whole problem is driven by greed. That's the reason the system is the way it is, you raise the wage slave 5% his wage goes up 50 cents while the C.E.O.s goes up $50. Neat system eh?
And even when the person at the front counter who takes theorder, gets it in the system perfectly, exactly what the customer asks for.What really bugs me is when whoever is putting the meal together, messes up.The customer always reams out the person at the counter. Same as many otherjobs. It’s not necessarily the person who screwed up. It’s the person whoanswers the phone, is at the counter, is nearby. I see and hear that quite regularly.
And no, I am not a lackey, I’m a manager. And not at a fast food place.
JLM, Yay, thank you for your post. Your first sentence is right on the money.
Kakato, I agree, Too funny!That does explain a lot of their posts. Theyare just ‘kids’."Kids"with 'sooo' much life experience.
They 'know' everything…. I see a lot of thattoo. (Especially in their first days of work, while they’re training.)