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I like your view, Spidey. When my company was sold, we had to conduct a physical inventory. Of course it was to start after first shift Friday, and go thru the weekend until it was done. Of course, being salary, I got "drafted" for this pleasure. So we have a handful of warehouse people, mostly to run fork-lifts, and a lot of salary people counting. Some of the salary people, it was the first time they ever got close to our product. They were no help. Management wanted salaried people for this as they got their inventory done for free. Didn't have to pay any one. 30 hours later we were done. The CFO called from home every hour for like the last 12 hours, "are you done yet?" You know what I remember most? I'm in a warehouse aisle with a hourly guy. I'm counting like crazy because I want to get out of there. The other guy pulls out a box of like 5,000 one cent parts. The whole box is worth $50. He sits down in the aisle, dumps the box on the floor, and starts counting one at a time. I tell him to weigh measure them, it will be done instantly. He says he doesn't care, he's getting a ton of OT $$$. 30 minutes later he is still counting, I call over to him "what time is it? He says 10:15, and resumes counting 1016, 1017, 1018, 1019............I thought to myself, OMG, I'm never getting out of here
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Gee, I thought the election thing WAS the WORSE
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Amen, SDFan. Here's my whole problem with the corporate attitude, and I experienced it first hand working for a Tyco subsidiary, the epitome of greed. Corporate America wants you to suffer in the bad times, which most of us can understand. But Corp Am won't share with you in the good times either, and still tries to keep you down. So when a company like USAir says help me, that's why workers say "screw off". Still, the kicker is that it can come back at you if the airline folds and you loose everything. Corporate-Labor high stakes poker
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Big Fight at The Walden Gallaria
MarkyMannn replied to Bills/Sabresfan's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
You're 1/2 right. The Galleria did in the Thruway mall. But the Galleria does have the "element". A lot of kids with "attitudes" there -
OT I got a motorcycle for x-mas
MarkyMannn replied to Hull, Kent67's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Is that was was the Savage up until last year? Are you a first time rider? -
Excluding injury, how many yards would Travis have
MarkyMannn replied to Kelly the Dog's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
OK, that's fair. I would say a 3rd rounder tops. He hasn't played in a year basically, has some injury history & smaller backs careers go quicker. With free agency, why trade much of anything when you can sign for free whoever you want -
Excluding injury, how many yards would Travis have
MarkyMannn replied to Kelly the Dog's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
How many TD catchs would Moulds have if he played on the Colts? -
Excluding injury, how many yards would Travis have
MarkyMannn replied to Kelly the Dog's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I don't understand the whole purpose of this thread. The Bills are playing great one game from the playoffs, and you bring up TH? How many games did the Bills go without a running TD before Willis came in? What was it, 10, or 14 or some number like that. If TH can get a lot more yards with NE, Willis could get 1,000 more than him, if you want to speculate. And the fact is, TH DOESN'T play with NE, and had his chance to do it here. He didn't. Willis steps in with the same cast, and racks up the yards. If Willis started the whole season, he may have more yards than Dillon. Maybe then people in Boston papers would say, "if Dillon played for Buffalo, how many yards would he have?". What were you looking to accomplish with this thread? -
Seriously people, make a case so we feel better...
MarkyMannn replied to CentralVaBills's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Rams at home against the Jets without their best pass rusher, Abraham. StL could do it for this game. It won't be easy for either team though. Does Indy have anything to play for against Denver? I suppose if they win, they go play a lower seeded team Don't overlook this Steeler team, I don't see Cowher as the type to roll over. Bills are REALLY going to be tested Sunday -
Old timers share some Bills stories here
MarkyMannn replied to Typical TBD Guy's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
This thread made me realize the same thing. How can we remember this stuff, and I have to re-play Bills games Sunday night so I can recall what happened in the afternoon? I'd like to think I'm still a little young for being senile -
Old timers share some Bills stories here
MarkyMannn replied to Typical TBD Guy's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I was at the first game ever @ Rich Stadium, against the 'Skins, the 'Skins return the opening kick-off for a TD. Hoped that wasn't an omen. -
Old timers share some Bills stories here
MarkyMannn replied to Typical TBD Guy's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Bona's Bob Lanier would come to our house to visit the tenant upstairs, his good friend. He was so tall he could look right into our kitchen window and he would yell to my Mom "cooking smells good tonight". Myself and a friend would go upstairs and hang with him for a little while each time. Damn that guy had some shoes on him! My Dad used to panic about what the neighbors would think with this 7' black guy coming to our Cheektowaga house. I think his first contract Bob L could buy out the whole block. It's funny to think back about that now -
Old timers share some Bills stories here
MarkyMannn replied to Typical TBD Guy's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Talking about the old Rockpile War Memorial...........you'd park your car and the neighborhood kids would come up and say "watch your car for a quarter". You'd give them the money and they'd walk away! Cheap insurance I guess as otherwise you're probably looking at 4 flat tires after the game. By the time the baseball Bisons were playing their last games there the price was up to $5. Talk about inflation!!!!!!!! -
Old timers share some Bills stories here
MarkyMannn replied to Typical TBD Guy's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
To this day, nobody was better than Curt Gowdy. Just liked his style -
Old timers share some Bills stories here
MarkyMannn replied to Typical TBD Guy's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Sorry I'm on a roll here. Not any particular game, but when OJ was here. At the game or at home, any time he was loose in broken field situations, everyone would stand up all excited because there was always the chance he was going to break it all the way. If there was one guy left in front of him, that was as good as 7 points because that defender had no chance. The other thing about OJ, NO ONE ever caught him from behind Buffalo fans should recall in the 70's Buffalo had arguably the greatest athletes in 3 of the 4 major sports. OJ, Gil Perrault, and Bob McAdoo. That was a great time -
Old timers share some Bills stories here
MarkyMannn replied to Typical TBD Guy's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
If it was one factor, hard work and perseverance can over come that. Bills had a lot of issues. Yes bad managment and coaching. Ralph was cheap too. I think why he isn't today is because he has made his fortune, and dollars don't mean as much as intangibles, like Super Bowls before he kicks the bucket. Lastly, when draft day comes and the News publishes the Bills draft history, there are a lot of losers up until Polian shows up. -
Old timers share some Bills stories here
MarkyMannn replied to Typical TBD Guy's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I was at that Raiders game 48-6, and coach John Rauch was fired that night. I don't know why, but I can remember the Ed Rutkowski play to this day. Yet I would not be able to tell you about the Cinci game last Sunday. Maybe it is an age thing. Today Rutkowski is second in charge of the NYS Parks system. Patronage............... -
Old timers share some Bills stories here
MarkyMannn replied to Typical TBD Guy's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Here's another, 1968, the year the Jets win the 69 Super Bowl. Bills only victory in a 1-12-1 season is the Jets. We are at War Memorial where the Bills win 37-35 as Bills return 3-4 picks for TD's. -
Old timers share some Bills stories here
MarkyMannn replied to Typical TBD Guy's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
About 1974, Monday night game @ Rich against the Raiders, Bills down by 11 with 4-5 minutes left. My Dad, who always had to leave early every where to beat traffic, says "lets go". We are just outside the gates when we hear a crowd roar, the Bills are coming back. Score 2 TD's in that time and win by 3. We are in the parking lot. I want to say both TD's went to Ahmad Rashad, but that is just a guess. To this day, I stay at every game until the the clock says 00:00, win or lose -
What about LOWER ticket prices? Everyone carries on about how much the players make and owners maybe losing money. Be sure to take care of the fan. Sure they'll bring in loser strike-breaker players, and knock off what, $5/ticket. I still say if the ultimate settlement doesn't include quality play and lower ticket prices for the fan, I don't care if or how it turns out
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But.. But.. But.. Corey Dillon didn't play
MarkyMannn replied to Thailog80's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
So if the Steelers win this Sunday, they have nothing to play for against us and Cowher sits everyone, we win, and make the playoffs!!! Of course we still need some help too Some how I don't see Cowher sitting his team. And the Bills better take the 49'ers serious now. If the Pats can loose, so can we -
Early Roll Call For Steelers @ Bills Game
MarkyMannn replied to R. Rich's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I'm in, section 204 -
NOBODY took more awkward tackles than Rob Johnson
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Do you have one of those Honda SUV's that start on fire when you change the oil? I love car threads, almost better than football ones. In my opinion the high cost of owning a car is not the repairs, but the depreciation. That's the killer. I don't believe there is enough difference in the repair costs to let that influence your decision. Especially if you keep it like 5 years, 50,000 miles. SDS, watch out for that "discount". My son works at a dealership, not in sales though. This past month I have my eye on a car there. He talks to the Sales Mgr who says "come on down, we have been working on a special price for you, as a family member". So I go there, he writes down this special price for me that no one else can get. I'm all excited!!! I go out to see the car and there is a sale price tag on it $400 lower than what they quoted me!!! WTF!!!!!!!! :I starred in Brokeback Mountain:
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I have a bad feeling about Jacksonville
MarkyMannn replied to SF Bills Fan's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
If Jax was going to lose, yesterday was the game. Next week they host Houston. That may be our best chance. The last week they are @ Oakland. Raiders will probably fold the season that day. For the Bills, assuming we beat SF, we WILL be playing for something against the Steelers