In article hQnOd.57320$mt.28824@fed1read03,
Bunky42 wrote:

Luna wrote:
In article T3iOd.55260$mt.15963@fed1read03,
Bunky42 wrote:


JC Der Koenig wrote:

How would you know, given your lack of language expertise?


My last manager was book smart. He ended up getting fire for putting a
pneumatic staple in a production workers arm. He just had no common
sense like you.




Maybe if the production worker had better language skills, he could have
said "No, please don't staple my arm" and he would have been fine.

Yea, if he knew it was coming. You must be book smart too.

Yes, I know how to read and write English. I read 3 - 4 books a week. I
also worked for over 6 years as a freelance scenic carpenter and prop
builder, and in my work used circular saws, jigsaws, table saws, raidal arm
saws, band saws, hammers, drills, and pneumatic tools including staplers
and nail guns. I never injured a coworker, and only had minor injuries
myself. In fact, at a carpentry internship at a summer stock theater, I
was the only intern in our department to not require a trip to the hospital
that season.

The only time I've come close to being seriously injured was in the scene
shop at my college, working with a foreign student who it turned out didn't
speak or understand English very well, but would nevertheless say "Ok,
gotcha!" whenever he was given instructions. We were attempting to
manuever a 4' x 8' platform from the top of a stack higher than our heads
in a cramped storage space, and in a situation like that, turns out it's
pretty important that both parties can speak and understand phrases such as
"Now, you take that end" and "There's a step down behind you."

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Michelle Levin
http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick

I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws.