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Posted By: coonman220

Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 08:32 PM

So now I got drag trash oil soak dirty gloves along truck to show as proof an inspection in morning or $10 to get new gloves, I go thru pr or 2pr a day, that how dirty oily hard work is, watch em take half check garnish on gloves, I don't know who mangement actually is this place but this stuff something else, loose arm protecters or time cards it like so much item, nothing under $10, time cards, $30 card, this stuff ridiculous, I buy own safety glasses, someplaces give u money buy the stuff, even work boots
Posted By: LLtrapper

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 08:36 PM

Go get a new job. Oh and stop trapping. LLL
Posted By: Gary Benson

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 08:37 PM

It was the same thing when I worked at a hog packing plant 45 yrs ago.
That job that fella offered up paying 70-80k a year working steel sounds pretty good.
Posted By: upstateNY

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 08:45 PM

cry
Posted By: AntiGov

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 08:50 PM

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Posted By: DelawareRob

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 08:50 PM

Dang that sucks.
Posted By: DelawareRob

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 08:51 PM

Originally Posted by AntiGov
[Linked Image]


Batting a thousand.
Posted By: martyd

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 08:53 PM

As we say in North Dakota ...... Life is hard on the prairie. MD
Posted By: AntiGov

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 08:58 PM

[Linked Image]
Posted By: DelawareRob

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 09:01 PM

Maybe this could be a good meme thread?

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Posted By: coonman220

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 09:02 PM

I put them Walmart bag, not go fond of drag stinking gloves along that use work sharp metal , with oil u put on rollar brush , similar to rear end lube in weight , soaks thru gloves into skin, like stick hands in barrel oil , now drag them along, I guess they found good ones in trash can , I don't know what janitor does but u need respirater in restroom, that bad, I guess if caught covid there, no symptoms anyhow, have wear a hot mask an try breathe
Posted By: DelawareRob

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 09:04 PM

Can you use nitrile gloves?
Posted By: wetdog

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 09:41 PM

Why did you take trash oily gloves home in the first place.
Seems if you took them home without a problem, taking them back should not be an issue either
Posted By: coonman220

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 09:43 PM

I just say ridiculous drag along an bring in morning as proof,unsaintary trash , 2 Walmart bags as soak thru 1 bag, everthing u wesr, boots, cloths, even if hot apron by hot machine are trashed , stand in oil an work, get be disgusting at some jobs
Posted By: Hornady Reloader

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 09:52 PM

GO FIND ANOTHER JOB
Posted By: upstateNY

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by Hornady Reloader
GO FIND ANOTHER JOB

WHAT ????
Posted By: DelawareRob

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by Hornady Reloader
GO FIND ANOTHER JOB


How dare you suggest that.
Posted By: BBarnes

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 10:03 PM

So coonman220
How’s the truck running???


B
Posted By: jv220

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 10:18 PM

I don’t know why I’m replying again..... but I have worked for the same company for over 30 years... they give us at no cost all the ppe they require.... if the company you work for won’t do that you are being screwed ...GET A DIFFERENT JOB ...work at Casey’s Walmart ....shut up or put up.
Posted By: Pirogue

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 10:19 PM

Horey Chit !!!!
Another dog gone train wreck !!!
Posted By: upstateNY

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 10:19 PM

Originally Posted by BBarnes
So coonman220
How’s the truck running???


B

Should run good with all that free oil.
Posted By: bankrunner

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by jv220
I don’t know why I’m replying again..... but I have worked for the same company for over 30 years... they give us at no cost all the ppe they require.... if the company you work for won’t do that you are being screwed ...GET A DIFFERENT JOB ...work at Casey’s Walmart ....shut up or put up.

He works for a temp agency, they probably don't need to supply it.
Posted By: lumberjack391

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 10:25 PM

I had to buy my own safety gear and I bought the best. I didnt get drenched in oil every day (sometimes when around hydraulic hoses , but mud , rain, dust was commonplace). It was no big deal because I used it on my own time too.
Posted By: white marlin

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 10:27 PM

you need to work for yourself, in whatever capacity is appropriate.

Posted By: newfox1

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 10:28 PM

Coonman, if you hire out to be tough you gotta be tough.
Posted By: jv220

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 10:38 PM

He works for a temp agency, they probably don't need to supply it.
Originally Posted by bankrunner
Originally Posted by jv220
I don’t know why I’m replying again..... but I have worked for the same company for over 30 years... they give us at no cost all the ppe they require.... if the company you work for won’t do that you are being screwed ...GET A DIFFERENT JOB ...work at Casey’s Walmart ....shut up or put up.

He works for a temp agency, they probably don't need to supply it.

I know he has said the same thing over and over .... has been given advice over and over... won’t do it... for the love of crap..... I was never given anything... worked my butt off... never was given anything trapping or job wise and excelled in both..... if I can do that anyone can... it is completely ridiculous
Posted By: WhiteTrash 88

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 10:55 PM

A man has got to realize his limitations.
Posted By: grumley701

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 11:00 PM

I have a feeling coonman is sitting back and laughing and laughing... laugh
Posted By: wadask

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 11:04 PM

I have three college degrees and end up with a headache and crossed eyed every time i try to decipher his posts. LOL
Posted By: Blaine County

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 11:08 PM

I have no use for employees that whine.

I would have fired Coonman a long time ago.
Posted By: Gary Benson

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 11:20 PM

You guys don't like to listen to Coonman complain........but then you complain about him. crazy
Posted By: KeithC

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by Hornady Reloader
GO FIND ANOTHER JOB


You forgot the !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

Keith
Posted By: uglyduck

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 11:33 PM

coonman - wash oily close/ gloves in washing machine with dawn dish soap. take a change of chose to work for the ride home .
Posted By: CTRAPS

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 11:37 PM

Originally Posted by AntiGov
[Linked Image]


They think the football players are talking about them in the huddle.

They think the light really stays on in the refrigerator after they shut the door.
Posted By: Boco

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 11:37 PM

You need to work where there is a good Union-No Union-Greedy company will keep you down as low as possible.
Posted By: Hornady Reloader

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 11:44 PM

Originally Posted by Boco
You need to work where there is a good Union-No Union-Greedy company will keep you down as low as possible.

Not all non union companies are like that. I wouldn't work for a union. To hard to get rid of dead beats
Posted By: Tailhunter

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/16/21 11:54 PM

Originally Posted by Gary Benson
You guys don't like to listen to Coonman complain........but then you complain about him. crazy


At least we can understand their posts.
Posted By: Dan D

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 12:06 AM

I get unlimited gloves. Different kinds for different jobs. Free pair of work boots every year and 10 free uniforms that get washed and delivered to the locker room every Monday.
Posted By: white marlin

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 12:10 AM

Originally Posted by Boco
You need to work where there is a good Union-No Union-Greedy company will keep you down as low as possible.


if Life was so good under a Union, they wouldn't be losing members left and right.
Posted By: keets

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 12:22 AM

the other day I was at work, and the Soundgarden song "spoonman" came on....I sang along by replacing it with coonman grin
Posted By: grumley701

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 12:23 AM

Originally Posted by keets
the other day I was at work, and the Soundgarden song "spoonman" came on....I sang along by replacing it with coonman grin


I see what you did there...
laugh
Posted By: coonman220

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 12:23 AM

Originally Posted by oneuglyduck
coonman - wash oily close/ gloves in washing machine with dawn dish soap. take a change of chose to work for the ride home .

No locker , no place put coat , nothing ,put work bench where outxway hopefully around oil an hope someone not throw floor , washoil soak gloves in wash machine, ? If u were stuck ur gloves in thick oil, a good idea ? I can barely stand wear them 5 hrs, I wash arm protecters in wash machine an not dryer,usaly get lost washer an take clothes out dryer in search of, there a joke, I loose my temper on wash them home an love burn them, ur clothes, ur body burn easy in oil, a union yes, that be great !
Posted By: elkaholic

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 12:27 AM

Why not turn them in at the end of your work day? Get your new pair. Put new clean gloves in your truck for next day.
Posted By: charles

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 12:28 AM

A National Treasure
Posted By: uglyduck

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 01:05 AM

coonman -the place you work is worse than any place I have ever worked, and I have worked at 5 different companys in the past 12 years ,if I am not happy with my employer I keep doing my job the best that can, but I look for work at other companys at the same time, I hope you can find a better job.
Posted By: trapdog1

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 01:14 AM

Time to find a new job Dave. You found this one, so you can also found a better one. Good luck.
Posted By: Anonymous

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 01:31 AM

Unfortunately temp services are there to fill the crud jobs that no one else will do.
Posted By: coonman220

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 01:42 AM

Originally Posted by elkaholic
Why not turn them in at the end of your work day? Get your new pair. Put new clean gloves in your truck for next day.
that is not allowed , strict, ya close handy other job, sone machines are little fun deoend on job but I don't get them often , pay is not good
Posted By: ~ADC~

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 01:49 AM

How many job applications for other employment have you put in since you decided you hate this job Dave? Lets say in the last two months? You can't improve your situation if you don't try.

Oh and never quit trapping! It's obvious it is one of the few things in your life that you enjoy are optimistic about, no way should you ever give that up. [Linked Image]
Posted By: Nessmuck

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 02:08 AM

Did you get you 1400.00 check yet ?
Posted By: rvsask

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 02:28 AM

I feel like this is one of the best character sketches a clever creative writer has ever come up with.
Posted By: AntiGov

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 02:47 AM

Originally Posted by Gary Benson
You guys don't like to listen to Coonman complain........but then you complain about him. crazy



I like the coonman's posts ......
Posted By: Swamp Wolf

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 03:36 AM

Originally Posted by rvsask
I feel like this is one of the best character sketches a clever creative writer has ever come up with.

Im convinced too.
Posted By: NonPCfed

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 05:02 AM

Quote
A man has got to realize his limitations.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4lvLBe6fsE
Posted By: Badger23

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 06:10 AM

There's a job fair coming up in Dubuque soon. I'll get the date later as I'm going in to work right now. I did see in the Telegraph Herald Sunday paper that there's a place in Peosta paying over $18 an hour for machinist and assembly workers and you'll be over $20 in 15 months. I think it was Bodine electric or something like that but I can't remember for certain the name but I'll look when I get home later today. Trust me I'll post that one too,
Posted By: Badger23

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 08:28 AM

I just looked at Bodine electrics website and they're looking for people on 2nd shift 3:30 to 2 Monday thru Thursday. How far is Peosta from where your at? Like I said I'll look at the paper when I get home but if you got time to post here you got time to fill an app out for there.
Posted By: Whopper Stopper

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 09:13 AM

This is good stuff Lol

WS
Posted By: WhiteTrash 88

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 10:39 AM

You need to make a resume coonman and pad it a little bit ( or a lot). Post it on one of the looking for work web sites. In no time,a head hunter will contact you with a job offer. Make sure you list your rate of pay as triple to what you are making now. They will be on you like white on rice.
Posted By: ILcooner

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 10:52 AM

Originally Posted by AntiGov
[Linked Image]


ding, ding, ding
Posted By: Pirogue

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by Badger23
There's a job fair coming up in Dubuque soon. I'll get the date later as I'm going in to work right now. I did see in the Telegraph Herald Sunday paper that there's a place in Peosta paying over $18 an hour for machinist and assembly workers and you'll be over $20 in 15 months. I think it was Bodine electric or something like that but I can't remember for certain the name but I'll look when I get home later today. Trust me I'll post that one too,


Wasting your time man. He aint gonna listen.
Posted By: wetdog

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by Swamp Wolf
Originally Posted by rvsask
I feel like this is one of the best character sketches a clever creative writer has ever come up with.

Im convinced too.

So I'm not the only one.
Waiting on the book
I even got a title for the book
Trolling for dummies. Part 1
Posted By: K52

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by ~ADC~
How many job applications for other employment have you put in since you decided you hate this job Dave? Lets say in the last two months? You can't improve your situation if you don't try.

Oh and never quit trapping! It's obvious it is one of the few things in your life that you enjoy are optimistic about, no way should you ever give that up. [Linked Image]


But that stress he goes through all year about prices, if and where to market his fur is a killer!
Posted By: ILcooner

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 02:48 PM

new SNL skit "Mexican bulge"
Posted By: Kong

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 04:08 PM

Coonman is real. Same train wreck on the Iowa site. Won’t take advice. If you go to the NTA in Spencer, or the Iowa convention you can get your picture taken with him.

I almost think Coonmans answer to his money problems is if HE would offer ride alongs. You can’t make up a lot of the stuff he runs into. Guys are already offering to pay for autographed truck parts. Why not pay him for a ride along?
Posted By: Savell

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by Kong
Coonman is real. Same train wreck on the Iowa site. Won’t take advice. If you go to the NTA in Spencer, or the Iowa convention you can get your picture taken with him.

I almost think Coonmans answer to his money problems is if HE would offer ride alongs. You can’t make up a lot of the stuff he runs into. Guys are already offering to pay for autographed truck parts. Why not pay him for a ride along?


... just bring your socket sets and a towel to sit on lol
Posted By: Savell

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 05:15 PM

... you ought to slap your boss right across the face with those oil soaked gloves and then jerk his britches down and spank his bare bottom in front of everybody lol
Posted By: Swamp Wolf

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by wetdog

So I'm not the only one.
Waiting on the book
I even got a title for the book
Trolling for dummies. Part 1

This has been discussed on a recent thread. Someone even posted pics of coonman. I wasnt swayed.

Send me a pic that isnt photoshopped of Dave Plueger and Dave the coonman...together...and I may backup.

Posted By: ~ADC~

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by Swamp Wolf
Originally Posted by wetdog

So I'm not the only one.
Waiting on the book
I even got a title for the book
Trolling for dummies. Part 1

This has been discussed on a recent thread. Someone even posted pics of coonman. I wasnt swayed.

Send me a pic that isnt photoshopped of Dave Plueger and Dave the coonman...and I may backup.



LOL, I'll stop lying.
Posted By: Badger23

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 10:59 PM

I think the job fair was yesterday not that it matters anyway. I've given you 2 places that pay a lot more than what you make with a better work environment. With your experience you should be have a good shot at Bodine as their ad says they will train. Their facility on their website looks clean too. you'd actually have benefits at either of those.
It's up to you but I'm really thinking you love your job and just like to complain.

Good Luck
Posted By: Steven 49er

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 11:04 PM

Coonman is adverse to risk and change.
Posted By: lumberjack391

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/17/21 11:13 PM

I got dibs on an exhaust manifold autographed in grease pencil
Posted By: coonman220

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/18/21 03:40 AM

Originally Posted by Badger23
I think the job fair was yesterday not that it matters anyway. I've given you 2 places that pay a lot more than what you make with a better work environment. With your experience you should be have a good shot at Bodine as their ad says they will train. Their facility on their website looks clean too. you'd actually have benefits at either of those.
It's up to you but I'm really thinking you love your job and just like to complain.

Good Luck

Wonder if hire part time ? U could get $40 hr but no one going put up with big problems from other employees , which I don't have, wonder what u have do, yes there not more than 300 yrds away, they hire rarely, u hear these ads online or signs up say hire an $18 hr machinist start pay is bogus,the pay is not that high start, I heard this before, if want make trip next bug town close an drive rush hour there which I put up with 7 months at low pay job I quit which pays like $3 something hr more now, jobs, yesi I know 2 places that likely even my bad knee, that I say a pretty good chance be hire with lots experience had, but with other job,it just to much, I get so wiped out , worn out end week ya I complain to much, if had tkr on knee an recovered, it be different if could do factory work again , I believe I rember talk hr on phone a few yrs ago bodine, $15 hr start, can't rember what u do, FedEx hires dock position driver apprentice just bfore bodine, job description sound rough high hi standards,lots crap go thru for position, very early mornings start time that job , some these delevirey drive jobs which rough places work at as know what like at one an mangement, u start very early like 4 am
Posted By: ~ADC~

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/18/21 04:19 AM

Originally Posted by coonman220
Originally Posted by Badger23
I think the job fair was yesterday not that it matters anyway. I've given you 2 places that pay a lot more than what you make with a better work environment. With your experience you should be have a good shot at Bodine as their ad says they will train. Their facility on their website looks clean too. you'd actually have benefits at either of those.
It's up to you but I'm really thinking you love your job and just like to complain.

Good Luck

Wonder if hire part time ? U could get $40 hr but no one going put up with big problems from other employees , which I don't have, wonder what u have do, yes there not more than 300 yrds away, they hire rarely, u hear these ads online or signs up say hire an $18 hr machinist start pay is bogus,the pay is not that high start, I heard this before, if want make trip next bug town close an drive rush hour there which I put up with 7 months at low pay job I quit which pays like $3 something hr more now, jobs, yesi I know 2 places that likely even my bad knee, that I say a pretty good chance be hire with lots experience had, but with other job,it just to much, I get so wiped out , worn out end week ya I complain to much, if had tkr on knee an recovered, it be different if could do factory work again , I believe I rember talk hr on phone a few yrs ago bodine, $15 hr start, can't rember what u do, FedEx hires dock position driver apprentice just bfore bodine, job description sound rough high hi standards,lots crap go thru for position, very early mornings start time that job , some these delevirey drive jobs which rough places work at as know what like at one an mangement, u start very early like 4 am


grin
Posted By: Badger23

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/18/21 04:25 AM

So Bodine is 300 yards away from your house! They have an ad in this past Sundays paper saying what the pay is and what you'll be at in 15 months from what I saw. Put an app in. If you get that job you won't need the other job period. They have machinist and assembler work there. If you talked to them before and they said they started at $15 an hour then they probably are at $18 now. A lot of places but not all have raised their pay.

You've also had 2 places say they'd probably hire you but yet you stay put. You get on here complaining about not making enough but yet you stay. It doesn't make sense.You say places don't put up with big problems from employees but then say that's not you. If it isn't what's the point of saying it?

If you want to find out make that 300 yard journey to Bodine and find out. You could walk to work most days. I don't know what else to say you live right next to a better work place.
Posted By: CTRAPS

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/18/21 04:27 AM

I think there is a dead horse getting a beating some where.
Posted By: WhiteTrash 88

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/18/21 06:22 AM

I think the possums and coyotes are eating on that dead horse. sick
Posted By: Badger23

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/18/21 09:00 AM

I've read his reply a few times now and I'm still at a loss for words. I'm at work right now or I'd probably have a drink but at least I'm starting to see some humor in it. Coonman you are entertaining if nothing else. Just drive by Bodine and keep stacking those $3 coon and beaver.
As always I wish you the best of luck. confused

I can't find the the image of the head hitting a wall or I'd put about 20 of them here.
Posted By: Crit-R-Dun

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/18/21 10:32 AM

Good luck Dave, do keep us informed on what you decide and how you make out. Tman highlights.
Posted By: ~ADC~

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 12:28 AM

Did you go put your application in Dave?
Posted By: yotetrapper30

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 12:34 AM

Originally Posted by ~ADC~
Did you go put your application in Dave?


He's just waiting on his gov't cheese to arrive.
Posted By: LDW

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 02:35 AM

I'm not buying an that he's really a factory worker. It's all made up, he's setting in his recliner laughing at everyone. That's the only explanation for what he does and says. He obviously doesn't want any help or advise. Makes my head hurt reading his posts.
Posted By: Wanna Be

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 03:05 AM

On an old duck hunting site I used to be on one of the older members made up a new account and was basically Coonman, lol. Even had a few of us vouch for him. He would come up with off the wall topics and always down on his luck. When I first started reading his posts and one other members that’s exactly what I thought it was, lol.
Posted By: ~ADC~

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 04:14 AM

Let me tell ya how I think it will go if you put your application in there Dave....

You go in put in the application, they give you a call back, you go in for the interview and get hired for second shift. You put your two weeks notice in at your two part time jobs, the factory tells you you are done now, great! more time for spring beaver. The cleaning job, you do that for your two weeks while you've put a dozen or two beaver hides in the freezer. They start out your pay at $15.50/hr. You start out working there and about a week into it you fall into a routine where you sleep until 7 am get up go run traps, come home around 11, skin your catch and get it in the freezer. Make it in the house around 1 time for lunch and short nap before you head to work at 3, you put in your 8 hours and get out at 11pm. Come home watch tv a few minutes go to bed, get up at 7 and do it again. This is great until season closes and you pull traps, then you can get out the hides a few at a time and finish them in the mornings before lunch. This is where it gets interesting,,, you no longer need the fur money to pay bills since you are making good wages. Your stress level goes down and you start to relax at work and after work.

You've worked there a couple months and your probationary period is over, you get a small raise to $16.05/hr. All's good but you feel like something is missing. One day you're working across the press from Heidi she's a widower in her early 50s. She's been working there for about 11 years, making $19.85/hour and has 3 weeks a year vacation. Her first husband left her for a younger women when she was 45 luckily her 2 kids Cindy and Bill (his real name is William) were already grown and out of the house living their own lives. She's an attractive lady with slightly over processed blonde hair (Cindy is a hairdresser). She's a few pounds over weight but seems happy now that her second husband Frank has been gone for a year and a half. You see he was an alcoholic she got hooked up with when she was on the rebound. Ironically he was a trapper too, but more on that later. He developed stage 4 lung cancer from smoking and in the end his liver gave out too. Anyway, You find you kind of enjoy your job a little more that day and you find yourself thinking a lot about her when you get home. As luck would have it, she's on the same press with you again the next day. While doing quality checks you notice she is looking at you. Yours eyes meet for an awkward second but nothing is said. At last break she mentions on the way to the break room she made a big lasagna the day before and offers to heat you up a plate if you'll stop by her place after work. You can't pass up a free meal so of course you go over there. Well the lasagna was the best you ever you had and she grilled some fresh garlic bread to go with it, brand name parmesan cheese too!!! You watch a little Matlock and head home around 1:30, after promising you'll make supper next time.

The next day at work you walk in with her. She's working across the plant today, bummer. You can get a peek at her every once in a while and she catches you and grins. You take your breaks together where you learn a little more about her. Turns out she worked for furrier when she was young and is very proficient at skinning mink and muskrats. You decide its time to put on the moves so you invite her over for supper after work Friday night. She accepts and arrives at your place where you serve her a beaver hind quarter and potato from the crockpot, with a nice cool glass of tap water on your best paper plates! After supper and a little small talk you pull up a milk crate next to your recliner for her and flip on a seductive video, Beaver Sites and Sets by Dobbins. While you're watching you realize she's actually looking at you and find her hand has slipped over on your leg (Dobbin's does this to women). Well, I won't go into details but bow chicka wow wow, I'll just say, you miss the end of the video and little coonman110 is very happy.

Well from there this relationship blossoms and grows. You find yourself spending a lot of nights in her waterbed (no leaks and the heater works!). Finally she asks you to move in and let her take care of you,,, well being a long time bachelor you hesitate to give up your glamours lifestyle but when she shows you Franks fur shed he left fully stocked with traps, lures, gauntlets, and coincidentally he wore the same size waders you do! 4 new in the box pairs!!! Then she leads you to the garage where his 2014 Toyota Tacoma 4x4 with only 25K miles, NEW tires and NO cracks in the manifolds!!! factory undercoated too! Topper with side doors and tinted glass so you can access traps but no one can see your business! Says you may as well drive it, it's just been setting there. Well his gun collection in the house safes seals the deal and you move in the following week.

Your luck is running good and its only two weeks before trapping season. You use your vacation strategically to make many a long weekend and pile up the furs, which of course she helps you skin, flesh and board as well as making sure you have a hot meal in the house and Oscar Mayer Bologna sandwich (she knows its your favorite) in your lunch box everyday. You're doing so well you just throw away all the raccoon wiener bones with the carcasses and don't even give em a second thought! Season goes on and you do very well. As Christmas rolls around you decide to make her an honest woman and buy her the third best engagement ring Walmart had. You figure giving it to her on Christmas gets you out of buying her a real Christmas present (you sly dog!). It works and she says yes. Well, season is over Jan 31st and because you're now working and really in no hurry to get the money you just, without even contemplating on it, box them furs up and ship them to FHA. You know they'll eventually sell but whenever is fine.

You two go to the justice of the peace and make it official. I now present Mr. & Mrs. Dave Coonman220! Middle of Feb and you're scheduled for your knee replacement surgery (your insurance from work covers the whole thing and gives you a leave of absence without penalty for the recuperation time). Along comes August and you're feeling pretty spry. Little coonman110, never been happier! You decide its time for a proper honeymoon, so you gather up an old mattress to toss in the back of the Toyota and you're off to the Iowa Trappers Association convention, yes its almost 45 miles away but you don't even care! You've got that 9th stimlous Biden sent AND you're fur check from FHA burning a hole in your pocket. You buy a few things only haggling a little on the prices. You head out to the Toyota where you and her spend the night testing out the springs on the Toyota (It's your honeymoon after all!). Back to the convention Saturday morning but no smoking deals so you leave. Lunch at McDonald's on the way home (dollar menu, lets not get crazy).

Back to work the next week. You carry on like this happy and stress free a few more years and she suggests you take early retirement. Well you hadn't thought of that and really enjoy working but when she pointed out she'd continue to work and since the house and vechiles are all paid for, you could collect SS and trap full time, like a good wife moocher. So it's been decided. You have no more work, all the money you need from SS, stimlouses, and her savings. You have a dependable truck without cracks in the manifold. You have a new pain free knee, and nothing but time and Matlock to think about. Life is great and you and Heidi live happily ever after!

OR, you don't fill out the application, keep working your nasty low paying jobs, can hardly make ends meet and a week before you retire you have a accident when the frame from your old vechile rusts out during a high speed chase from a mexican woman cop. End up with a second wrecked knee and have to move into a home with a african american man with a big bulge in his pocket for a roommate.

The choice is up to you my friend. Please put in the application.
Posted By: cwtrapper

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 04:55 AM

ADC, You're going to give the poor guy nightmares.
Posted By: ~ADC~

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 04:57 AM

Originally Posted by cwtrapper
ADC, You're going to give the poor guy nightmares.


I had some free time. smile
Posted By: mad_mike

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 05:03 AM

Sad me...

I work in a blue collar job. I buy work wear that is industry standard. The end....
Posted By: WhiteTrash 88

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 10:45 AM

Dang ADC !! What's the address to that place? If that's the way it's gonna go, I want to get a job there just so's I can meet Heidi. I would let her make me the king of her double wide trailer. Does she make a good chicken fried steak with gravy? How many guns does she have in that gun safe? Has she got a hot tub? Always wanted to be a kept man. Come on now ADC , give it up. I'll even promise her that I will mow the grass once a month if she's got a zero turn. laugh
Posted By: hippie

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 10:58 AM

Don't become a mechanic Conman, you have to buy thousands of dollars worth of your own tools!
Posted By: MNEric

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 11:09 AM

ADC there is something wrong with your story. When Coonman invites her over for supper the first time after work on Friday night,,, I thought the job was Monday through Thursday. Lol
Posted By: kiyote

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 12:35 PM

OSHA Regs requires employers to pay for and provide PPE
https://www.newpig.com/expertadvice/osha-says-employers-must-pay-tab-for-ppe/#:~:text=OSHA%20does%20not%20specify%20the%20method%20that%20employers,as%20employees%20receive%20the%20PPE%20at%20no%20cost.
Posted By: 330-Trapper

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 12:54 PM

I'd wear 3 Walmart bags...stay cleaner drag home shiny boots no sharp metal oily mess
Posted By: ILcooner

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 01:08 PM

best post ever!

WOW

Originally Posted by ~ADC~
Let me tell ya how I think it will go if you put your application in there Dave....

You go in put in the application, they give you a call back, you go in for the interview and get hired for second shift. You put your two weeks notice in at your two part time jobs, the factory tells you you are done now, great! more time for spring beaver. The cleaning job, you do that for your two weeks while you've put a dozen or two beaver hides in the freezer. They start out your pay at $15.50/hr. You start out working there and about a week into it you fall into a routine where you sleep until 7 am get up go run traps, come home around 11, skin your catch and get it in the freezer. Make it in the house around 1 time for lunch and short nap before you head to work at 3, you put in your 8 hours and get out at 11pm. Come home watch tv a few minutes go to bed, get up at 7 and do it again. This is great until season closes and you pull traps, then you can get out the hides a few at a time and finish them in the mornings before lunch. This is where it gets interesting,,, you no longer need the fur money to pay bills since you are making good wages. Your stress level goes down and you start to relax at work and after work.

You've worked there a couple months and your probationary period is over, you get a small raise to $16.05/hr. All's good but you feel like something is missing. One day you're working across the press from Heidi she's a widower in her early 50s. She's been working there for about 11 years, making $19.85/hour and has 3 weeks a year vacation. Her first husband left her for a younger women when she was 45 luckily her 2 kids Cindy and Bill (his real name is William) were already grown and out of the house living their own lives. She's an attractive lady with slightly over processed blonde hair (Cindy is a hairdresser). She's a few pounds over weight but seems happy now that her second husband Frank has been gone for a year and a half. You see he was an alcoholic she got hooked up with when she was on the rebound. Ironically he was a trapper too, but more on that later. He developed stage 4 lung cancer from smoking and in the end his liver gave out too. Anyway, You find you kind of enjoy your job a little more that day and you find yourself thinking a lot about her when you get home. As luck would have it, she's on the same press with you again the next day. While doing quality checks you notice she is looking at you. Yours eyes meet for an awkward second but nothing is said. At last break she mentions on the way to the break room she made a big lasagna the day before and offers to heat you up a plate if you'll stop by her place after work. You can't pass up a free meal so of course you go over there. Well the lasagna was the best you ever you had and she grilled some fresh garlic bread to go with it, brand name parmesan cheese too!!! You watch a little Matlock and head home around 1:30, after promising you'll make supper next time.

The next day at work you walk in with her. She's working across the plant today, bummer. You can get a peek at her every once in a while and she catches you and grins. You take your breaks together where you learn a little more about her. Turns out she worked for furrier when she was young and is very proficient at skinning mink and muskrats. You decide its time to put on the moves so you invite her over for supper after work Friday night. She accepts and arrives at your place where you serve her a beaver hind quarter and potato from the crockpot, with a nice cool glass of tap water on your best paper plates! After supper and a little small talk you pull up a milk crate next to your recliner for her and flip on a seductive video, Beaver Sites and Sets by Dobbins. While you're watching you realize she's actually looking at you and find her hand has slipped over on your leg (Dobbin's does this to women). Well, I won't go into details but bow chicka wow wow, I'll just say, you miss the end of the video and little coonman110 is very happy.

Well from there this relationship blossoms and grows. You find yourself spending a lot of nights in her waterbed (no leaks and the heater works!). Finally she asks you to move in and let her take care of you,,, well being a long time bachelor you hesitate to give up your glamours lifestyle but when she shows you Franks fur shed he left fully stocked with traps, lures, gauntlets, and coincidentally he wore the same size waders you do! 4 new in the box pairs!!! Then she leads you to the garage where his 2014 Toyota Tacoma 4x4 with only 25K miles, NEW tires and NO cracks in the manifolds!!! factory undercoated too! Topper with side doors and tinted glass so you can access traps but no one can see your business! Says you may as well drive it, it's just been setting there. Well his gun collection in the house safes seals the deal and you move in the following week.

Your luck is running good and its only two weeks before trapping season. You use your vacation strategically to make many a long weekend and pile up the furs, which of course she helps you skin, flesh and board as well as making sure you have a hot meal in the house and Oscar Mayer Bologna sandwich (she knows its your favorite) in your lunch box everyday. You're doing so well you just throw away all the raccoon wiener bones with the carcasses and don't even give em a second thought! Season goes on and you do very well. As Christmas rolls around you decide to make her an honest woman and buy her the third best engagement ring Walmart had. You figure giving it to her on Christmas gets you out of buying her a real Christmas present (you sly dog!). It works and she says yes. Well, season is over Jan 31st and because you're now working and really in no hurry to get the money you just, without even contemplating on it, box them furs up and ship them to FHA. You know they'll eventually sell but whenever is fine.

You two go to the justice of the peace and make it official. I now present Mr. & Mrs. Dave Coonman220! Middle of Feb and you're scheduled for your knee replacement surgery (your insurance from work covers the whole thing and gives you a leave of absence without penalty for the recuperation time). Along comes August and you're feeling pretty spry. Little coonman110, never been happier! You decide its time for a proper honeymoon, so you gather up an old mattress to toss in the back of the Toyota and you're off to the Iowa Trappers Association convention, yes its almost 45 miles away but you don't even care! You've got that 9th stimlous Biden sent AND you're fur check from FHA burning a hole in your pocket. You buy a few things only haggling a little on the prices. You head out to the Toyota where you and her spend the night testing out the springs on the Toyota (It's your honeymoon after all!). Back to the convention Saturday morning but no smoking deals so you leave. Lunch at McDonald's on the way home (dollar menu, lets not get crazy).

Back to work the next week. You carry on like this happy and stress free a few more years and she suggests you take early retirement. Well you hadn't thought of that and really enjoy working but when she pointed out she'd continue to work and since the house and vechiles are all paid for, you could collect SS and trap full time, like a good wife moocher. So it's been decided. You have no more work, all the money you need from SS, stimlouses, and her savings. You have a dependable truck without cracks in the manifold. You have a new pain free knee, and nothing but time and Matlock to think about. Life is great and you and Heidi live happily ever after!

OR, you don't fill out the application, keep working your nasty low paying jobs, can hardly make ends meet and a week before you retire you have a accident when the frame from your old vechile rusts out during a high speed chase from a mexican woman cop. End up with a second wrecked knee and have to move into a home with a african american man with a big bulge in his pocket for a roommate.

The choice is up to you my friend. Please put in the application.
Posted By: 4 Fur

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 01:39 PM

You forgot to mention Heidi is a retired middle school English teacher and loves tutoring spelling, grammar and listening skills! wink
Posted By: CTRAPS

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 03:16 PM

I recommend ADC's post (#7220518) from 3-18-21 at 11:14 PM become enshrined into the Archives. It's a fantastic work instruction which provides directions and solutions to problems, real or perceived.

All in favor say AYE.


Posted By: ~ADC~

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by WhiteTrash 88
Dang ADC !! What's the address to that place? If that's the way it's gonna go, I want to get a job there just so's I can meet Heidi. I would let her make me the king of her double wide trailer. Does she make a good chicken fried steak with gravy? How many guns does she have in that gun safe? Has she got a hot tub? Always wanted to be a kept man. Come on now ADC , give it up. I'll even promise her that I will mow the grass once a month if she's got a zero turn. laugh


Gun SAFES, my friend not safe. That should be all you need to know. wink


Originally Posted by MNEric
ADC there is something wrong with your story. When Coonman invites her over for supper the first time after work on Friday night,,, I thought the job was Monday through Thursday. Lol


Overtime, duh. grin

Originally Posted by 4 Fur
You forgot to mention Heidi is a retired middle school English teacher and loves tutoring spelling, grammar and listening skills! wink


Ironically, that is what her son Bill (Dave now calls him Sweet William) does for a living.

Originally Posted by CTRAPS
I recommend ADC's post (#7220518) from 3-18-21 at 11:14 PM become enshrined into the Archives. It's a fantastic work instruction which provides directions and solutions to problems, real or perceived.

All in favor say AYE.




I did really well in creative writing in school. laugh
Posted By: rex123

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 03:54 PM

ADC, your story is a work of art brother, way to go.
Posted By: trapdog1

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 04:00 PM

Hallmark channel material, for sure.
Posted By: hippie

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by ~ADC~
Let me tell ya how I think it will go if you put your application in there Dave....

You go in put in the application, they give you a call back, you go in for the interview and get hired for second shift. You put your two weeks notice in at your two part time jobs, the factory tells you you are done now, great! more time for spring beaver. The cleaning job, you do that for your two weeks while you've put a dozen or two beaver hides in the freezer. They start out your pay at $15.50/hr. You start out working there and about a week into it you fall into a routine where you sleep until 7 am get up go run traps, come home around 11, skin your catch and get it in the freezer. Make it in the house around 1 time for lunch and short nap before you head to work at 3, you put in your 8 hours and get out at 11pm. Come home watch tv a few minutes go to bed, get up at 7 and do it again. This is great until season closes and you pull traps, then you can get out the hides a few at a time and finish them in the mornings before lunch. This is where it gets interesting,,, you no longer need the fur money to pay bills since you are making good wages. Your stress level goes down and you start to relax at work and after work.

You've worked there a couple months and your probationary period is over, you get a small raise to $16.05/hr. All's good but you feel like something is missing. One day you're working across the press from Heidi she's a widower in her early 50s. She's been working there for about 11 years, making $19.85/hour and has 3 weeks a year vacation. Her first husband left her for a younger women when she was 45 luckily her 2 kids Cindy and Bill (his real name is William) were already grown and out of the house living their own lives. She's an attractive lady with slightly over processed blonde hair (Cindy is a hairdresser). She's a few pounds over weight but seems happy now that her second husband Frank has been gone for a year and a half. You see he was an alcoholic she got hooked up with when she was on the rebound. Ironically he was a trapper too, but more on that later. He developed stage 4 lung cancer from smoking and in the end his liver gave out too. Anyway, You find you kind of enjoy your job a little more that day and you find yourself thinking a lot about her when you get home. As luck would have it, she's on the same press with you again the next day. While doing quality checks you notice she is looking at you. Yours eyes meet for an awkward second but nothing is said. At last break she mentions on the way to the break room she made a big lasagna the day before and offers to heat you up a plate if you'll stop by her place after work. You can't pass up a free meal so of course you go over there. Well the lasagna was the best you ever you had and she grilled some fresh garlic bread to go with it, brand name parmesan cheese too!!! You watch a little Matlock and head home around 1:30, after promising you'll make supper next time.

The next day at work you walk in with her. She's working across the plant today, bummer. You can get a peek at her every once in a while and she catches you and grins. You take your breaks together where you learn a little more about her. Turns out she worked for furrier when she was young and is very proficient at skinning mink and muskrats. You decide its time to put on the moves so you invite her over for supper after work Friday night. She accepts and arrives at your place where you serve her a beaver hind quarter and potato from the crockpot, with a nice cool glass of tap water on your best paper plates! After supper and a little small talk you pull up a milk crate next to your recliner for her and flip on a seductive video, Beaver Sites and Sets by Dobbins. While you're watching you realize she's actually looking at you and find her hand has slipped over on your leg (Dobbin's does this to women). Well, I won't go into details but bow chicka wow wow, I'll just say, you miss the end of the video and little coonman110 is very happy.

Well from there this relationship blossoms and grows. You find yourself spending a lot of nights in her waterbed (no leaks and the heater works!). Finally she asks you to move in and let her take care of you,,, well being a long time bachelor you hesitate to give up your glamours lifestyle but when she shows you Franks fur shed he left fully stocked with traps, lures, gauntlets, and coincidentally he wore the same size waders you do! 4 new in the box pairs!!! Then she leads you to the garage where his 2014 Toyota Tacoma 4x4 with only 25K miles, NEW tires and NO cracks in the manifolds!!! factory undercoated too! Topper with side doors and tinted glass so you can access traps but no one can see your business! Says you may as well drive it, it's just been setting there. Well his gun collection in the house safes seals the deal and you move in the following week.

Your luck is running good and its only two weeks before trapping season. You use your vacation strategically to make many a long weekend and pile up the furs, which of course she helps you skin, flesh and board as well as making sure you have a hot meal in the house and Oscar Mayer Bologna sandwich (she knows its your favorite) in your lunch box everyday. You're doing so well you just throw away all the raccoon wiener bones with the carcasses and don't even give em a second thought! Season goes on and you do very well. As Christmas rolls around you decide to make her an honest woman and buy her the third best engagement ring Walmart had. You figure giving it to her on Christmas gets you out of buying her a real Christmas present (you sly dog!). It works and she says yes. Well, season is over Jan 31st and because you're now working and really in no hurry to get the money you just, without even contemplating on it, box them furs up and ship them to FHA. You know they'll eventually sell but whenever is fine.

You two go to the justice of the peace and make it official. I now present Mr. & Mrs. Dave Coonman220! Middle of Feb and you're scheduled for your knee replacement surgery (your insurance from work covers the whole thing and gives you a leave of absence without penalty for the recuperation time). Along comes August and you're feeling pretty spry. Little coonman110, never been happier! You decide its time for a proper honeymoon, so you gather up an old mattress to toss in the back of the Toyota and you're off to the Iowa Trappers Association convention, yes its almost 45 miles away but you don't even care! You've got that 9th stimlous Biden sent AND you're fur check from FHA burning a hole in your pocket. You buy a few things only haggling a little on the prices. You head out to the Toyota where you and her spend the night testing out the springs on the Toyota (It's your honeymoon after all!). Back to the convention Saturday morning but no smoking deals so you leave. Lunch at McDonald's on the way home (dollar menu, lets not get crazy).

Back to work the next week. You carry on like this happy and stress free a few more years and she suggests you take early retirement. Well you hadn't thought of that and really enjoy working but when she pointed out she'd continue to work and since the house and vechiles are all paid for, you could collect SS and trap full time, like a good wife moocher. So it's been decided. You have no more work, all the money you need from SS, stimlouses, and her savings. You have a dependable truck without cracks in the manifold. You have a new pain free knee, and nothing but time and Matlock to think about. Life is great and you and Heidi live happily ever after!

OR, you don't fill out the application, keep working your nasty low paying jobs, can hardly make ends meet and a week before you retire you have a accident when the frame from your old vechile rusts out during a high speed chase from a mexican woman cop. End up with a second wrecked knee and have to move into a home with a african american man with a big bulge in his pocket for a roommate.

The choice is up to you my friend. Please put in the application.


LOL, pretty much got the bases covered there ADC.

I'm afraid you put more effort into that post than he'll ever do to get the new job tho, but hope it inspires him to do so!!!
Posted By: Badger23

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 06:11 PM

Coonman have you filled an app. out yet or at least walked next door and talked to them? 4 10 hour shifts has a big upside to it in my book. along with the $6 to $7 raise you'd get.
When you responded and said it was next door to you I picked up on something that is worth considering. You said they don't hire very often. Well these days that's often a sign of a good employer and the employees stick around because they're treated decent. Things to consider are staring right at you.

What's the real story on this part time cleaning job that you have in the evenings? Is there someone you're sweet on working there? For an unknown reason that seems to be a hang up for you even though it doesn't pay near what the Bodine job would.

Good Luck again.
Posted By: bankrunner

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by trapdog1
Hallmark channel material, for sure.


I will see if my wife has a connection. She watches that channel ALL the time, what woman doesn't enjoy hunting shows and sports.
Posted By: Ringneck1

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 07:38 PM

ADC, right to the hall of fame with that one.

As always, I enjoy a good coonman220 post. Wish there was a c220 podcast, it'd be awesome.
Posted By: upstateNY

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/19/21 08:09 PM

Originally Posted by ~ADC~
Let me tell ya how I think it will go if you put your application in there Dave....

You go in put in the application, they give you a call back, you go in for the interview and get hired for second shift. You put your two weeks notice in at your two part time jobs, the factory tells you you are done now, great! more time for spring beaver. The cleaning job, you do that for your two weeks while you've put a dozen or two beaver hides in the freezer. They start out your pay at $15.50/hr. You start out working there and about a week into it you fall into a routine where you sleep until 7 am get up go run traps, come home around 11, skin your catch and get it in the freezer. Make it in the house around 1 time for lunch and short nap before you head to work at 3, you put in your 8 hours and get out at 11pm. Come home watch tv a few minutes go to bed, get up at 7 and do it again. This is great until season closes and you pull traps, then you can get out the hides a few at a time and finish them in the mornings before lunch. This is where it gets interesting,,, you no longer need the fur money to pay bills since you are making good wages. Your stress level goes down and you start to relax at work and after work.

You've worked there a couple months and your probationary period is over, you get a small raise to $16.05/hr. All's good but you feel like something is missing. One day you're working across the press from Heidi she's a widower in her early 50s. She's been working there for about 11 years, making $19.85/hour and has 3 weeks a year vacation. Her first husband left her for a younger women when she was 45 luckily her 2 kids Cindy and Bill (his real name is William) were already grown and out of the house living their own lives. She's an attractive lady with slightly over processed blonde hair (Cindy is a hairdresser). She's a few pounds over weight but seems happy now that her second husband Frank has been gone for a year and a half. You see he was an alcoholic she got hooked up with when she was on the rebound. Ironically he was a trapper too, but more on that later. He developed stage 4 lung cancer from smoking and in the end his liver gave out too. Anyway, You find you kind of enjoy your job a little more that day and you find yourself thinking a lot about her when you get home. As luck would have it, she's on the same press with you again the next day. While doing quality checks you notice she is looking at you. Yours eyes meet for an awkward second but nothing is said. At last break she mentions on the way to the break room she made a big lasagna the day before and offers to heat you up a plate if you'll stop by her place after work. You can't pass up a free meal so of course you go over there. Well the lasagna was the best you ever you had and she grilled some fresh garlic bread to go with it, brand name parmesan cheese too!!! You watch a little Matlock and head home around 1:30, after promising you'll make supper next time.

The next day at work you walk in with her. She's working across the plant today, bummer. You can get a peek at her every once in a while and she catches you and grins. You take your breaks together where you learn a little more about her. Turns out she worked for furrier when she was young and is very proficient at skinning mink and muskrats. You decide its time to put on the moves so you invite her over for supper after work Friday night. She accepts and arrives at your place where you serve her a beaver hind quarter and potato from the crockpot, with a nice cool glass of tap water on your best paper plates! After supper and a little small talk you pull up a milk crate next to your recliner for her and flip on a seductive video, Beaver Sites and Sets by Dobbins. While you're watching you realize she's actually looking at you and find her hand has slipped over on your leg (Dobbin's does this to women). Well, I won't go into details but bow chicka wow wow, I'll just say, you miss the end of the video and little coonman110 is very happy.

Well from there this relationship blossoms and grows. You find yourself spending a lot of nights in her waterbed (no leaks and the heater works!). Finally she asks you to move in and let her take care of you,,, well being a long time bachelor you hesitate to give up your glamours lifestyle but when she shows you Franks fur shed he left fully stocked with traps, lures, gauntlets, and coincidentally he wore the same size waders you do! 4 new in the box pairs!!! Then she leads you to the garage where his 2014 Toyota Tacoma 4x4 with only 25K miles, NEW tires and NO cracks in the manifolds!!! factory undercoated too! Topper with side doors and tinted glass so you can access traps but no one can see your business! Says you may as well drive it, it's just been setting there. Well his gun collection in the house safes seals the deal and you move in the following week.

Your luck is running good and its only two weeks before trapping season. You use your vacation strategically to make many a long weekend and pile up the furs, which of course she helps you skin, flesh and board as well as making sure you have a hot meal in the house and Oscar Mayer Bologna sandwich (she knows its your favorite) in your lunch box everyday. You're doing so well you just throw away all the raccoon wiener bones with the carcasses and don't even give em a second thought! Season goes on and you do very well. As Christmas rolls around you decide to make her an honest woman and buy her the third best engagement ring Walmart had. You figure giving it to her on Christmas gets you out of buying her a real Christmas present (you sly dog!). It works and she says yes. Well, season is over Jan 31st and because you're now working and really in no hurry to get the money you just, without even contemplating on it, box them furs up and ship them to FHA. You know they'll eventually sell but whenever is fine.

You two go to the justice of the peace and make it official. I now present Mr. & Mrs. Dave Coonman220! Middle of Feb and you're scheduled for your knee replacement surgery (your insurance from work covers the whole thing and gives you a leave of absence without penalty for the recuperation time). Along comes August and you're feeling pretty spry. Little coonman110, never been happier! You decide its time for a proper honeymoon, so you gather up an old mattress to toss in the back of the Toyota and you're off to the Iowa Trappers Association convention, yes its almost 45 miles away but you don't even care! You've got that 9th stimlous Biden sent AND you're fur check from FHA burning a hole in your pocket. You buy a few things only haggling a little on the prices. You head out to the Toyota where you and her spend the night testing out the springs on the Toyota (It's your honeymoon after all!). Back to the convention Saturday morning but no smoking deals so you leave. Lunch at McDonald's on the way home (dollar menu, lets not get crazy).

Back to work the next week. You carry on like this happy and stress free a few more years and she suggests you take early retirement. Well you hadn't thought of that and really enjoy working but when she pointed out she'd continue to work and since the house and vechiles are all paid for, you could collect SS and trap full time, like a good wife moocher. So it's been decided. You have no more work, all the money you need from SS, stimlouses, and her savings. You have a dependable truck without cracks in the manifold. You have a new pain free knee, and nothing but time and Matlock to think about. Life is great and you and Heidi live happily ever after!

OR, you don't fill out the application, keep working your nasty low paying jobs, can hardly make ends meet and a week before you retire you have a accident when the frame from your old vechile rusts out during a high speed chase from a mexican woman cop. End up with a second wrecked knee and have to move into a home with a african american man with a big bulge in his pocket for a roommate.

The choice is up to you my friend. Please put in the application.

WOW! You best quit grinding mushrats and start writing soap operas.That was great. smile
Posted By: ~ADC~

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/20/21 04:01 AM

Originally Posted by upstateNY

WOW! You best quit grinding mushrats and start writing soap operas.That was great. smile


I hope it pays off. Filling out applications does suck, may not be worth it. smile
Posted By: Badger23

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/20/21 04:39 PM

Big news Coonman, there's a JOB FAIR at the Diamond Jo in Dubuque on Tuesday March 23rd. It's from Noon until 3pm. on the 2nd floor in the Harbor room. Looks like there will be a lot of employers there including Bodine Electric and A.Y. McDonald.It gives you the chance to talk directly with them to get the information you want.

Head on down there and get yourself a new job. For more information call 563-588-5600.

I'm still holding onto a little optimism, but at this point I've gotta wonder why.

Sincerely, all the best Coonman.
Posted By: trapdog1

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/20/21 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by Badger23
Big news Coonman, there's a JOB FAIR at the Diamond Jo in Dubuque on Tuesday March 23rd. It's from Noon until 3pm. on the 2nd floor in the Harbor room. Looks like there will be a lot of employers there including Bodine Electric and A.Y. McDonald.It gives you the chance to talk directly with them to get the information you want.

Head on down there and get yourself a new job. For more information call 563-588-5600.

I'm still holding onto a little optimism, but at this point I've gotta wonder why.

Sincerely, all the best Coonman.


You ought to go check this out, Dave! They may have something that is a good fit for you. You've got nothing to lose by talking to them. You never know, it could be life changing for you. Good luck!
Posted By: ~ADC~

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/20/21 06:43 PM

How about some motivation...
Dave if you go to Bodine and get hired. I'll send you $100.00.
Only two catches,,,
One, you must work there for one year from your hire date before you get the money.
Two, you can not make a post on a trapping forum complaining about the job during that one year period or you forfeit the money.
Posted By: The Beav

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/20/21 09:17 PM

Your $100.00 Is safe.
Posted By: upstateNY

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/20/21 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by ~ADC~
How about some motivation...
Dave if you go to Bodine and get hired. I'll send you $100.00.
Only two catches,,,
One, you must work there for one year from your hire date before you get the money.
Two, you can not make a post on a trapping forum complaining about the job during that one year period or you forfeit the money.

I will lay good odds that you never have to send that $100. grin
Posted By: Badger23

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/21/21 12:12 AM

Originally Posted by ~ADC~
How about some motivation...
Dave if you go to Bodine and get hired. I'll send you $100.00.
Only two catches,,,
One, you must work there for one year from your hire date before you get the money.
Two, you can not make a post on a trapping forum complaining about the job during that one year period or you forfeit the money.


I agree with Beav but I will up the pot a little. If you meet the above criteria I'll throw in a $30 gift card to Texas Roadhouse so you can take "Heidi" out to eat.
Posted By: Badger23

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 03/23/21 04:00 PM

Today's the big job fair Coonman. Go check it out and snag that new job. Keep in mind you'd have insurance after a while to get your knee fixed.

Good luck
Posted By: coonman220

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 04/02/21 12:37 AM

So at work, it post on hear I worthless temp an none are any good, so big full time biig money guy today, he left break an kept work, I did all work all morning while full-time slacker took easy an wouldn't talk me as I temp, so he screw everything up stack an I smash finger cause his stupid work, he got service award other day, so he leave an his difference made 10 seconds faster a part, I did one big part in charge press in 70 seconds, he around an 1 part in 60, what bunch crap, yes I know, temps are worthless
Posted By: Pirogue

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 04/02/21 12:53 AM

Originally Posted by coonman220
So at work, it post on hear I worthless temp an none are any good, so big full time biig money guy today, he left break an kept work, I did all work all morning while full-time slacker took easy an wouldn't talk me as I temp, so he screw everything up stack an I smash finger cause his stupid work, he got service award other day, so he leave an his difference made 10 seconds faster a part, I did one big part in charge press in 70 seconds, he around an 1 part in 60, what bunch crap, yes I know, temps are worthless


And there it is
Posted By: upstateNY

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 04/02/21 12:59 AM

Originally Posted by coonman220
I smash finger cause his stupid work, he got service award

HHMmmmm
Posted By: DelawareRob

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 04/02/21 01:00 AM

My goodness! Bless your heart
Posted By: CTRAPS

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 04/02/21 01:03 AM

Oh, that's right...APRIL FOOLS!!!
Posted By: DelawareRob

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 04/02/21 01:06 AM

Originally Posted by CTRAPS
Oh, that's right...APRIL FOOLS!!!



lol he definitely got us on that one!!
Posted By: Coonman300

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 04/02/21 02:25 AM

ADC...that’s the funniest thing I’ve ever read on this site. When I got to the part about dinner.. beaver hindquarter...I laughed so hard I was literally crying. My wife was laughing at me I was laughing so hard. Thanks for that!!
Posted By: Savell

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 04/02/21 02:36 AM

Originally Posted by coonman220
So at work, it post on hear I worthless temp an none are any good, so big full time biig money guy today, he left break an kept work, I did all work all morning while full-time slacker took easy an wouldn't talk me as I temp, so he screw everything up stack an I smash finger cause his stupid work, he got service award other day, so he leave an his difference made 10 seconds faster a part, I did one big part in charge press in 70 seconds, he around an 1 part in 60, what bunch crap, yes I know, temps are worthless


... what a bunch of jumped up bullcrap....what you ought to do is, snatch that service award certificate from him..roll it up real tight and jerk that hand’s britches down and whip his bare butt in front of the whole crew with it!

.., there’d be a whole new respect for temps around there after that
Posted By: DelawareRob

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 04/02/21 02:38 AM

Originally Posted by Savell
Originally Posted by coonman220
So at work, it post on hear I worthless temp an none are any good, so big full time biig money guy today, he left break an kept work, I did all work all morning while full-time slacker took easy an wouldn't talk me as I temp, so he screw everything up stack an I smash finger cause his stupid work, he got service award other day, so he leave an his difference made 10 seconds faster a part, I did one big part in charge press in 70 seconds, he around an 1 part in 60, what bunch crap, yes I know, temps are worthless


... what a bunch of jumped up bullcrap....what you ought to do is, snatch that service award certificate from him..roll it up real tight and jerk that hand’s britches down and whip his bare butt in front of the whole crew with it!

.., there’d be a whole new respect for temps around there after that



Gotta say, the Texan has a good point!
Posted By: Savell

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 04/02/21 03:46 AM

... exactly.. ol coonman needs to quit playing the victim... raise up and stick some lit blackcats up some folks noses ... paint the town then poke the mayor right in the bellybutton lol
Posted By: ~ADC~

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 04/02/21 05:13 AM

Originally Posted by Coonman300
ADC...that’s the funniest thing I’ve ever read on this site. When I got to the part about dinner.. beaver hindquarter...I laughed so hard I was literally crying. My wife was laughing at me I was laughing so hard. Thanks for that!!

Glad to help. laugh
Posted By: Badger23

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 04/02/21 07:54 AM

As someone said before it's a small price to pay for a job you love.

Bodine electric is hiring yet. Once again it's 300 yards from your house and they start at just under $19 an hour. $2000 hiring & retention bonus.

Good luck.
Posted By: coonman220

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 04/03/21 03:24 PM

It 300 yards from where work at now, not from my house,none there, industrial area, , that small town, most factories went up in last 25 years, can't think owns most land or sold it industrial area of 20 probly factories on 2 streets, none pay good except bodine the most, maybe mitim, biggest one but not good start out an lots hrs, very fast pace there, I know others that wouldn't work there, it got be awful bad heat in there summer when look it drive by , the person owns all land, u can see there mansion an yards in Illinois side or wisc, not sure if fishing below dam in dbq , from my experience, I not sure any them factories are real fantastic to work at in that industrial area,
Posted By: Savell

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 04/03/21 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by coonman220
It 300 yards from where work at now, not from my house,none there, industrial area, , that small town, most factories went up in last 25 years, can't think owns most land or sold it industrial area of 20 probly factories on 2 streets, none pay good except bodine the most, maybe mitim, biggest one but not good start out an lots hrs, very fast pace there, I know others that wouldn't work there, it got be awful bad heat in there summer when look it drive by , the person owns all land, u can see there mansion an yards in Illinois side or wisc, not sure if fishing below dam in dbq , from my experience, I not sure any them factories are real fantastic to work at in that industrial area,



I hear you... that industrial area sounds like it has some crap jobs with all the fast pace and heat in the summer... you’re too good for those punks over there for sure
Posted By: Badger23

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 04/03/21 11:42 PM

https://www.bodine-electric.com/Careers/

https://www.bodine-electric.com/who-we-are/

Looks like a real sweat shop, oh wait it's climate controlled. From what I've seen of the inside in the few pictures looks like a clean place.

I misunderstood one of your previous posts and thought you lived close by. But you're driving by though and can practically look at a place from where you work that pays $7 to $9 an hour more. It's up to you though.

Good luck.
Posted By: Scout1

Re: Pay for protection wear at work - 04/04/21 02:57 AM

Originally Posted by Savell
Originally Posted by coonman220
It 300 yards from where work at now, not from my house,none there, industrial area, , that small town, most factories went up in last 25 years, can't think owns most land or sold it industrial area of 20 probly factories on 2 streets, none pay good except bodine the most, maybe mitim, biggest one but not good start out an lots hrs, very fast pace there, I know others that wouldn't work there, it got be awful bad heat in there summer when look it drive by , the person owns all land, u can see there mansion an yards in Illinois side or wisc, not sure if fishing below dam in dbq , from my experience, I not sure any them factories are real fantastic to work at in that industrial area,



I hear you... that industrial area sounds like it has some crap jobs with all the fast pace and heat in the summer... you’re too good for those punks over there for sure

Coonman needs to apply for one the them industry's PR jobs.
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