Combat Chuck
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Re: It was her rotten utility pole - she owned it
I'm still trying to figure out where anyone is justified in calling this guy a tub of lard. His weight only seems to have been brought into this situation because of his attempt at humor (picked up by the reporter) after a situation where he broke something and probably got the shirt scarred out of him.
It's a utility pole, considering that it used to support a whole tree I don't think any human with the ability to climb said pole would weigh enough for it to actually be a safety concern.
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| said by Combat Chuck  :I'm still trying to figure out where anyone is justified in calling this guy a tub of lard. His weight only seems to have been brought into this situation because of his attempt at humor (picked up by the reporter) after a situation where he broke something and probably got the shirt scarred out of him. It is because the groupthink here is that anyone who works for a corporation is automatically an evil, consumer hating oppressor who is wrong in everything they do. Facts shall not intrude on the programmed hatred.
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Austinloop
join:2001-08-19
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Chuck, since you replied to me, I will answer. I do not recall calling the guy a tub of lard. I discussed actions that management should take if the individual was overweight.
If I said he was a tub of lard, please provide link.
Utility poles are of all ages and conditions, depending on the local environment. Poles that have been there for many years may be so hard on the outside that it is very difficult to use climbers to climb. I know of one incident in town where a person was on a pole and removed an attachment, the pole lost support from the cable, etc. and broke. Unfortunately the man on the pole rode it to the ground, and even more unfortunately, he was between the ground and the pole when the pole impacted the ground.
Poles do rot, in anyway you can think of, and normally at ground level and cannot support the weight of a person. Your not thinking that any human would wight enough...etc. was not agreed to by the company I worked for, which required pole testing prior to climbing. |
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Combat Chuck
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| said by Austinloop :Chuck, since you replied to me, I will answer. I do not recall calling the guy a tub of lard. I discussed actions that management should take if the individual was overweight. What I'm saying is that there's no real reason to worry about him being abnormally overweight, as there's nothing substantial to say he was or wasn't short of a self deprecating joke he made to the customer. The issue is a rotten pole and a worker who didn't think to check for the condition.
The weight issue was used as a subliminal cue in the article to give you a bad guy (at the very least you know the reporters view of who the bad guy was). All Reference to his weight short of what he actually said should have been removed by an editor, but emotion sells, and newspapers are hurting so anything goes.
If you read most of the other stuff over there it's pretty much the same thing, newsatorials.
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cpal
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said by TKJunkMail :said by Combat Chuck :I'm still trying to figure out where anyone is justified in calling this guy a tub of lard. His weight only seems to have been brought into this situation because of his attempt at humor (picked up by the reporter) after a situation where he broke something and probably got the shirt scarred out of him. It is because the groupthink here is that anyone who works for a corporation is automatically an evil, consumer hating oppressor who is wrong in everything they do. Facts shall not intrude on the programmed hatred. TK, your amusing hyperbole notwithstanding, I believe your posts invariably contribute to that viewpoint... |
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| said by cpal :said by TKJunkMail :said by Combat Chuck :I'm still trying to figure out where anyone is justified in calling this guy a tub of lard. His weight only seems to have been brought into this situation because of his attempt at humor (picked up by the reporter) after a situation where he broke something and probably got the shirt scarred out of him. It is because the groupthink here is that anyone who works for a corporation is automatically an evil, consumer hating oppressor who is wrong in everything they do. Facts shall not intrude on the programmed hatred. TK, your amusing hyperbole notwithstanding, I believe your posts invariably contribute to that viewpoint... QFT |
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