TET: Celebrating the day we stopped the alien invasion!

[Barboneia]

You're wonderful when you see some of the others in General. Many use Rachel Dolezal who infiltrated the NAACP to discredit transgender people.

See, that's the thing. Nsg has all these threads to argue in. TET's softer. Until repeat offenders, and yes Kannap I'm looking at you, barge in with unnecessary aggravation. Aren't we fucking tired of drama? No? Bloody hell.

Some people just want to watch the thread burn, it seems.

[Ava Ire]

Something something 3edgy5me.

[Lordieth]

Something something 3edgy5me.

I should know better, too, but I couldn't help myself. Must try harder, Lordi.

Where's a Mod, a can of petrol and an open flame when you need one.

[Ethel mermania]

What trade do you ha e? I know you mentioned it, but I forgot.

I'm an industrial repair tech in training. Journeymen training level but little experience starts off around $15 to $20 an hour and due to overtime will be around 40 to 70K a year as a rookie dependent on two things, the employer they landed with and overtime policies at said company. Some companies like Denso cap overtime at 2 hours a day as to prevent overwork and overuse injuries. Workers there may be closer to the lower to middle end of the range.

Do you work as an apprentice first or straight to journeyman.

[Dyakovo]

See, that's the thing. Nsg has all these threads to argue in. TET's softer. Until repeat offenders, and yes Kannap I'm looking at you, barge in with unnecessary aggravation. Aren't we fucking tired of drama? No? Bloody hell.

Some people just want to watch the thread burn, it seems.

[Lordieth]

Some people just want to watch the thread burn, it seems.

Global warming: artist's impression.

[Hurdegaryp]

You might benefit from a cheerful bubbly girlfriend. It might balance you out. I had once. She was exhausting.

I'd probably murder myself inside a week.

Pretty sure you're stronger than that. You would make a proper woman out of her and be married to her for one, maybe two decades before you are so utterly broken by all the chipper cheerfulness, waking up to a sunny smile every single morning and sheer positivity that you just leave and disappear.

[Ava Ire]

Something something 3edgy5me.

I should know better, too, but I couldn't help myself. Must try harder, Lordi.

Where's a Mod, a can of petrol and an open flame when you need one.

You should try that transvestitite/transgender thread absolutely blowing up right now. Everyone there's is so reactionary/edgy, and there is absolutely no progress happening in the thread. A mod needs to shut that shit down.

[Gallade]

Global warming: artist's impression.

Looks like Northern Europe still can't catch a break. When's it our turn to burn?

[Ethel mermania]

You're wonderful when you see some of the others in General. Many use Rachel Dolezal who infiltrated the NAACP to discredit transgender people.

See, that's the thing. Nsg has all these threads to argue in. TET's softer. Until repeat offenders, and yes Kannap I'm looking at you, barge in with unnecessary aggravation. Aren't we fucking tired of drama? No? Bloody hell.

If only.

[Lordieth]

I should know better, too, but I couldn't help myself. Must try harder, Lordi.

Where's a Mod, a can of petrol and an open flame when you need one.

You should try that transvestitite/transgender thread absolutely blowing up right now. Everyone there's is so reactionary/edgy, and there is absolutely no progress happening in the thread. A mod needs to shut that shit down.

That's the one I was referring to. Normally I just look at threads like that and move along. It's crap like that that'll end me getting a warning someday, although I'm usually careful not to cross the line.

[Lordieth]

Global warming: artist's impression.

Looks like Northern Europe still can't catch a break. When's it our turn to burn?

Enjoy the heat. Just don't inhale the fumes coming downwind.

[Hurdegaryp]

Nah, we'd get on great. You're down to earth. Most of the super-cheery sort I meet seem to be on other planets.

I am so down to earth, I am underground.

But I am definitely on the, "this is the only ride you get, so you better fucking enjoy it" side of the equation.

The underground is not who you are, it's just your career. Let's keep things in perspective, shall we?

[The Serbian Empire]

I'm an industrial repair tech in training. Journeymen training level but little experience starts off around $15 to $20 an hour and due to overtime will be around 40 to 70K a year as a rookie dependent on two things, the employer they landed with and overtime policies at said company. Some companies like Denso cap overtime at 2 hours a day as to prevent overwork and overuse injuries. Workers there may be closer to the lower to middle end of the range.

Do you work as an apprentice first or straight to journeyman.

Depends on employers. Some may start one even of training level for a journeyman (nearly two years of schooling and hands on experience) as an operator to familiarize the employee with the equipment. This is particularly common when Programmable Logic Controls in assembly line settings are present as the equipment often costs hundreds of thousands dollars and occasionally over a million dollars. Some companies will develop them as journeymen who are specialized right away once my schooling ends like a fellow who works at a meat processing plant in the Kalamazoo area. He's a scale technician who makes his living calibrating, troubleshooting, and repairing scales.

[Kannap]

Apparently I've done enough damage to the thread today. I'll dismiss myself to please the populace then. Have your happiness.

[Hurdegaryp]

Yep, at least for the next hour or so. If any one of us left these boards, we'd be mostly forgotten in a few months. o/

Eh, aren't some people still remembered here years after they left?

That is a fact, but keep in mind why they are remembered. If your redeeming quality as a former NationStates entity was "bringing the mood down every time you post" or "being a raging neonazi nerd", your only function as a community memory is as a cautionary tale. Mind you, other people are actually genuinely missed because of their pleasantness, but our brains are evolutionary hardwired to pick up negative things faster and stronger, since it's an excellent survival mechanism.

[Gallade]

I am so down to earth, I am underground.

But I am definitely on the, "this is the only ride you get, so you better fucking enjoy it" side of the equation.

The underground is not who you are, it's just your career. Let's keep things in perspective, shall we?

Smile and agree with everything he says. He has the keys to sanctuary when Armageddon rolls around.

[Ava Ire]

Apparently I've done enough damage to the thread today. I'll dismiss myself to please the populace then. Have your happiness.

Goodbye then.

[Ethel mermania]

Do you work as an apprentice first or straight to journeyman.

Depends on employers. Some may start one even of training level for a journeyman (nearly two years of schooling and hands on experience) as an operator to familiarize the employee with the equipment. This is particularly common when Programmable Logic Controls in assembly line settings are present as the equipment often costs hundreds of thousands dollars and occasionally over a million dollars. Some companies will develop them as journeymen who are specialized right away once my schooling ends like a fellow who works at a meat processing plant in the Kalamazoo area. He's a scale technician who makes his living calibrating, troubleshooting, and repairing scales.

We use a lot of plc's for train contol, power and scada applications. There is defiantly a good living working with those kind of systems.

[Lordieth]

Apparently I've done enough damage to the thread today. I'll dismiss myself to please the populace then. Have your happiness.

This drama didn't even register a 2.0 on my drama-llama-O-meter. It's over with now.

[Ethel mermania]

The underground is not who you are, it's just your career. Let's keep things in perspective, shall we?

Smile and agree with everything he says. He has the keys to sanctuary when Armageddon rolls around.

Bad news, it floods.

[Hurdegaryp]

Think of it like a sport. Go play the field, Des, and land yourself a catch.

I said sport not Calvinball

Calvinball as the ultimate flexible sport has many advantages over regular sports, but hardly anyone can function in such an anarchistic competition.

[Barboneia]

I should've named my character in Oblivion (the video game in the Elder Scrolls series, not the terrible movie, mind you) "Significantly Richer Than You", because that's what he's turning out to be, eh. Ech...

[Hurdegaryp]

Smile and agree with everything he says. He has the keys to sanctuary when Armageddon rolls around.

Bad news, it floods.

Of course it does. What do you expect from a city that was founded by the Dutch? There is going to be water, and lots of it. Hence why water management is one of the acquired skills of our king.

[Gallade]

Apparently I've done enough damage to the thread today. I'll dismiss myself to please the populace then. Have your happiness.

This drama didn't even register a 2.0 on my drama-llama-O-meter. It's over with now.

No need to leave, I agree, but let's not lessen the import of a potential learning moment.