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kw5kw wrote:

NcongruNt wrote: I wasn't referring to the intelligence or importance of the workers when I said that. I say it in reference to the way skilled workers in the tech industry are being treated as expendable and unimportant by the corporations that rule this industry. The same holds true for software engineers, too. When I say bottom rung, I'm talking about how support and field technicians are overwhelmingly treated by their employers. Corporations see such positions as pure overhead and treat them as such. In my opinion, this has led to the demise of the quality of customer service in the computer industry.

How true... for instance I started this job 6 1/2 years ago. I make exactly the same today as the day I started.

I'm supposed to be the System Administrator, but I have no input on what we purchase, in fact I have no purchase power at all.

I'm told that we're getting some new equipment/software on the day that the vendor shows up to install said equipment/software.

When the printer went down last year as they were trying to print holiday bonus checks, the business manager got all huffy and wanted me to fix the printer right away... which I did, but did I get a holiday bonus... NO!

I get no respect, yet people yell at me because their computer/printer doesn't work. Just this morning an employee told me his printer wasn't working (before I even punch the time clock), I stop and take a look at it... his USB cable had come unplugged from the printer.

*sigh*

NcongruNt wrote: Additionally, I have great respect for blue collar workers - they are the ones that keep this country running. My comparison was to provide a parallel to the kind of disrespect that blue collar workers are commonly at the receiving end of. Please don't put words into my mouth by implying that when I said blue collar, I meant dumb and uneducated. I most certainly did not.

Hopefully the employers will understand and treat the next person better.

Russ

txinvestigator wrote:

BrassMonkey wrote:There are only two reasons a person would be carrying a concealed weapon.

1. LEO
2. CHL holder - Note the first letter of the abbreviation - C = CONCEALED

Actually, an inadverdent flash is not illegal.

If he is a LEO, say who has a side business as a plumber, he has no business carrying open while not in direct execution of his OFFICIAL duties as a LEO.

You clearly don't know the law. A LEO can carry ANYTIME, ANYWHERE off-duty.

The only way for a repairman to be legal is to be a CHL holder. If I see his weapon, he broke the law or at the very least made a BIG mistake, either in decision to carry in my home or in his methods of concealment.... Remember, this is in my home. MY HOME, My castle, my abode, my whatever...

It would never hit the papers unless we danced. If he is legal, I buy the guy a beer and/or buy him some ammo. If he is not, there is another win for CHL's in Texas...

don't be so sure. If I was a repairman in your home, and you saw my firearm and pointed a gun at me I would shoot you. Period. If for some reason I couldn't, I would file on you for deadly conduct, at the very least. I would also sue you from here to eternity.

pbandjelly wrote:so, only YOU'RE allowed to carry....