One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up. As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!

Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a steppingstone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.

Remember the five simple rules to be happy:
Free your heart from hatred - Forgive.
Free your mind from worries - Most never happen.
Live simply and appreciate what you have.
Give more.
Expect less

NOW ............

Enough of that crap . .. . The donkey later came back, and bit the farmer who had tried to bury him.
The gash from the bite got infected and the farmer eventually died in agony from septic shock.

MORAL FROM TODAY'S LESSON:

When you do something wrong, and try to cover your ass, it always comes back to bite you.

I like this thread.

1) Lately with so many layoffs and not much work, I see many opportunities
to come back to the factory (satellite). I barely got my last job to
repair some solar panels, that were worth millions of dollars to the US
government.

As this job comes to an end, each day I see many opportunities to keep
my employment. As each propectus job comes into the picture I send
out 'feelers' that I'm interested. One step at a time, for each job that comes
into view/factory each day, one day at at time, slowly working for that
next job, but remember you got to finish the last one first.

You don't have to beg but keep doin' good work and networking with all
your fellow workers on how to get that job for the factory, which people you
need and how to pull it off with all the right paperwork/union rules and
management beuracracy.

2) As for trying to cover up your A$$. I employ honesty. You can't always
be by the book, but if you are honest with people, with what you
write down on the "Root Cause and Corrective Action, RCCA" paperwork
defining the problem you are trying to cover up, you will find management,
co-workers and quality buying into that line of "KRAP" and goin' down
with ship when it sinks, because we are all in it together, but you
got to write it down and come up the first report on how you are goin' to
solve the problem. You got to orchestrate how all this "KRAP" flows.

You will find more people covering up for you and lying about the situation
in your favor or just forgetting about the problem altogether because you
you kept them informend gave then a good line of "S_it", wrote it down
and road out the storm.

Sincerely,

Larry Otani:moon:

Uhh, ok Larry. I guess...