Cooking Failures

[delcecchi]

ok i might have a job with 2 hrs of breaks, but you guys have jobs wher u can surf the forum all hrs of the day, wat up wit dat?? imean i get slamed and its so far back in the thread it dosent pay to payback the guy and if i do no one knows what im talkig about. its a conspiracy i tell u!!!

Who are you accusing of having a job?  I'm innocent.  I don't know anything about a job.  I've been clean since 2007. 

[leechlake]

Boar-  I own my own company...figured I could sit on here all day if I wanted without getting in trouble.

WRONG ANSWER---my wife busted my chops this am because she looked the history on my computer.  Was I looking at XXX sites?  Nope.  Ashley Madison?  Nope.  I got in trouble for being on here too much.

I should tell her she can't cook and never has made the effort to learn how to.  That is a really bad real life history.  Why am I talking so tough?  She isn't home

We kid because we care...

[reinhard1]

I dont' know what Boar does for work, but I worked at the Duluth Steel  Plant for a few months after I got out of the Army and I got 2 1/2 hours of breaks in a 8 hour day.  I worked in the fence post area and I'm telling you I have never worked that hard in my life.  It was all piece work.  The more fence post you got on the rack the additional money you got.  I was full of sweat all that time.  So there was a reason for the breaks.  The plant soon closed down after I started and I moved down here and the rest is history.  good luck.

[delcecchi]

Actually in my work I ran a lot of computer jobs simulating stuff, so you had to wait for the program to run.  So, once the internet became an option I did what came naturally.  Before that we had forums internal to the company that were pretty entertaining at times. 

[Boar]

i work for our local county co op fertilizer plant. love it. the spring will be busy with no breaks. but now is laid back coffee time

[RebelSS]

ok i might have a job with 2 hrs of breaks, but you guys have jobs wher u can surf the forum all hrs of the day, wat up wit dat?? imean i get slamed and its so far back in the thread it dosent pay to payback the guy and if i do no one knows what im talkig about. its a conspiracy i tell u!!!

Now hold on there, nozzle nose! I don't remember ME bashiing you at all!! And I put in my pile of years of 12 hour days with weekends and holidays, so there! NYA!  

I dont' know what Boar does for work, but I worked at the Duluth Steel  Plant for a few months after I got out of the Army and I got 2 1/2 hours of breaks in a 8 hour day.  I worked in the fence post area and I'm telling you I have never worked that hard in my life.  It was all piece work.  The more fence post you got on the rack the additional money you got.  I was full of sweat all that time.  So there was a reason for the breaks.  The plant soon closed down after I started and I moved down here and the rest is history.  good luck.

In the late 70's, before I  took up my life-long vocation, I worked at a steel milling plant. I was into lifting weights, working out, and thought I could handle anything. Hoo boy, did that get me in shape. Yanking steel and aluminum, flipping it around all day, and it was sprayed with diesel fuel as a lubricant. You were soaked with it, and the place was over 100* in the Summer. We had guys passing out all over. The diesel, which you were covered in, and the heat gave ya pounding headaches. We got two 10 mn. breaks, and 20 mns for lunch. You were either accepted and "given" a nickname, or had yer butt kicked daily until you quit. Lotsa guys stumbled outta there. I'd go home, shower, have a beer or two, then off to bartend until 1:00 am. Up at 6:30 next morning, back to work....

 

Jeez, I hate this "merging" stuff...$#@!

Edited December 5, 2015 by RebelSS

[leechlake]

as long as we're spinning these work "yarns" I'm telling mine.  I worked as a block tender/labor for a concrete contractor  in HS and college.  There were no concrete pumps or electric wheel barrows.  I was told a "buggy" of concrete weighed about 300-350 pounds, about 12 wheel barrels to a yard.  9-10 yards per truck load.   A lot of digging and shoveling in that job,  I remember hurting my back once and shoveling on my knees for a while because it didn't hurt as much.   

15 minute break in am 30 minute lunch and usually we skipped the afternoon break for some reason and it was a union gig.  The bonus of a block tender is that at break time you have to "tool" the joints for the blocklayer when break is starting and when break is over the blocklayers expected "mud" to be perfect and ready to go immediately.  The 30 minute lunch was about 20 minutes.

Luckily I was young and dumb and didn't know better.  I just did as I was told and thought that's how people worked.  Makes me puke when I see people sitting around doing nothing when they should be working for their $$$.  Complete joke when I drive through a highway crew "working."

 

[RebelSS]

Quote:  

Complete joke when I drive through a highway crew "working".

 

Hey leech! know how many Mn DOT guys it takes to dig a hole? Four! One to dig, and three to lean on the shovels! 

 

[leechlake]

I wish the ratio was that low.     I'm sure I will offend someone but I've driven for 30 years plus and in that time witnessed this every single time.  I've got to be missing something since some business would have to do it different and be able to win the contracts if there people worked just half the time during a 40 hour week.

I also worked for a landscape company.  We worked on some pretty big houses at times . I'd say 5000 square foot houses with almost an acre of land.  We could plant the shrubs, put edging in and rock or mulch and lay a semi of sod with 6-7 guys in a day and sometimes it leaked to the next morning (not counting retaining walls).  My house took the guys about 2 weeks and the sod came in those big "round bail" type rolls they used a machine for.  This isn't any fish story either, it's crazy.  

Okay I'm done, heading to the hockey rink to watch my son play.  Adios.

[Boar]

Boy sounds like aot of success stories not failure, heres one. My wife should be an inspiration to all. Pushed outa the house at 14-15 by A-hole step father, living at here G-freinds, or older sisters place, put in fosters care, two different homes, dropperd outa high school at 16, worked where ever, Had a kid at 19-20, our oldest, (Im Daddy, biological is POS) she wen on the system, and vowed she'd not be a welfare mom. Went to school, got her LPN while were were dateing, we married, she got her RN, then her BSN and now she is curently putting together a assay to submit and hopefully be acccepted into a Doctrite program in Duluth, along with our oldest who graduate BSU in the spring with a 4 yr double major. You cant imagine how I Beam with pride.... Besides, pretty soon if it all works out I wont have to work. BOOYAA!

[leechlake]

very inspirational Boar.  I'm proud of her and don't even know her.

 

[RebelSS]

Great story, Boar. Friggin' good for her!!! YAY!  And she's with YOU! Amazing!!!   

[Boar]

Great story, Boar. Friggin' good for her!!! YAY!  And she's with YOU! Amazing!!!   

 sun shines on a dogs butt once in awhile.

Edited December 5, 2015 by Boar

[RebelSS]

 sun shines on a dogs butt once in awhile.

Ohh, don't say it Reb, don't do it......don't take that opening.... no no no no no........

[Boar]

Im impressed reb. youve droped down to  a insinuation instead of an insult. Niceley done.

[RebelSS]

Im impressed reb. youve droped down to  a insinuation instead of an insult. Niceley done.

Thanky! It's my new holiday manners. Besides, I'm still working on a good one for that Smurf.  

[bobberineyes]

Ya congrats boar, one heck of turn around. ...

[bobberineyes]

Aren't we a bunch of sorry sons o beotches.  Gorgeous day out and here were playing on the Internet. Surprised the kids don't tell us to go out and play...lol

[leechlake]

bobber- this is a rare weekend where I have nothing to do.  All the tasks are done, the ice on the pond is too thin to put the rink lights up and the wife and kids are gone.  You're rightthough, since I have the bolgnese on I'm going to find something to do that isn't on here.

[RebelSS]

And I'm gonna be outside to go to  the store for some of those $#@! store-bought tomato's...at least I'll be outside for a bit!  

[Cicada]

Hope you don't mind if I interrupt the work talk with a bad cooking story...

First, my sister-in-law's famous turkey dinner.  My brother had been dating her and they both were stuck working in Bismarck for Thanksgiving.  She offered to cook dinner for him.  Well, he got there Thursday afternoon and said it smelled amazing in the house.  Everything looked great.  They sat down and ate and he commented on how good the turkey was.  She said she was glad he liked it and then told him she had never cooked a turkey before and wasn't sure how to do it.  He asked how she did it.  She said she put it in the oven sometime Wednesday morning at 190° and left it alone until shortly before he arrived Thursday afternoon.  He didn't know if he should continue to eat it or just go have his stomach pumped immediately.  They will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary next fall...and he does most of the cooking.

One of my first cooking fails was just an error in judgement.  My college roommates and I had been consuming mass quantities of alcohol, coincidentally also in Bismarck,  and decided we were hungry.  We drove down to the grocery store a few blocks away.  These were the days when drunk driving was a just slap on the wrist bad idea, not a felony.  Picked up all the fixin's for nachos.  When looking for the peppers, I thought if hot were good, then the ones that offended Satan should be better.  Further more, we figured to do this right we should have at least one pepper on each chip covered with shredded cheese and then put them in the oven to kick it up a notch.  The next morning as we were all contemplating duct taping our heads so they wouldn't explode, one of the guys asks, "Did anyone else p00p a volcano this morning?" 

My most recent fail was with the deep fryer.  I got home from work and had nothing to go with the fish I was about to fry.  I did find a little container of left over mashed potatoes.  I thought it might taste good to make a few patties and deep fry the potatoes.  As soon as they hit the grease, they just blew up and I had a brown snowstorm of potatoes in the fryer.  Ugh...

Edited December 5, 2015 by Cicada

[RebelSS]

Ha! Good stories!!! Nothing like the alcohol-fueled hungries to come up with some (at the time) GREAT stuff!! 

[Boar]

Sorry cicad, i just dont beleive college students consume mass quatities of alcohol. seems fishy..specially from one on this thread.

[LindellProStaf]

Ok I have something.....   I used to live in Stillwater when married to the ex.  We had a 32' houseboat (not a fancy one)  that we spent a lot of time on.  Well we decided to have her parents and their friend Betty go out on the boat with us and cook a turkey on the weber.  Had not done it before.  We found a nice spot upriver and I started the grill.  Had a bag of charcoal and all was well.  We started having cocktails and grilling and I noticed the turkey was a little frozen in the middle yet.  Well I kept slipping a few more charcoals in the weber and slipping a few more cocktails to everyone.  When I ran out of charcoal I waited as long as they were still a little hot and started cutting hunks out of the bottom side of the turkey that was closest to the coals.  At first it seemed like we were alright.  Well Betty was a cook at a school and she didn't drink very much unfortunately.  As we were eating she stops and looks at her meat and said Barry this turkey isn't done.  I said it just looks pink cause I did it on the grill.  She got huffy and said well I'm not eating it. Well we all then ate more of the sides and not much turkey.  I never heard the end of that one.

[LindellProStaf]

Now the bad job story.  When I was 18 two buddies and I got in the one buddies car and headed to the cities to find a job and live large.  Well we had just enough money to get a little one bedroom apartment for the three of us.  That meant two of us slept on the floor.  We didn't care at that age just fun to be on our own.  Well through the alley there was a AAA daily Labor page.  We thought, great we can get jobs there.  No problem.  Well the next day we went down and filled out the paperwork. You could check the light, medium, or heavy work box.  Naive SW MN kid I was I thought heavy would pay more.  Well early the next morning I got in a van with 5 or 6 big hungover shady looking guys and headed out somewhere in the Cities.  It was middle of the summer and already getting hot out by the time we arrived at the building.we were going to work in.  It was a battery recycling place at a scrap yard.  They handed me a yellow rubber rainsuit and some boots and rubber gloves.  Everything was soaked inside with sweat from the guy who wore it yesterday, I mean soaked.  Well I didn't want to be a pansy so I just shut up and started cutting batteries up with a hatchet.  I did that all day long.  Acid was flying everywhere.  The gave us a small sandwich for lunch and that was it.  When I got done at the end of the day I asked if there was something else to do when I found out I didn't get any more money than the other jobs.