BS: How long have you been on the job?

Subject: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Wesley S
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 10:02 AM

I'm not sure if this is something to celibrate but I've had this job 14 years as of today. I'm not sure if I'm dedicated or just crazy. How about you? Have you been on the job for awhile? Or do you tend to change jobs every few years?

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 10:06 AM

23 + years with one company- then RIFed. Now 3+ with the second...

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 10:23 AM

I thought I'd just hold my pick.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 11:00 AM

Whoo hoo! 3 days, but it's the first job I've had since I lost the job I'd had for 8 years, in 2002!

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 11:17 AM

I've been in my current state of self-employment for six years. Prior to that, I spent almost twenty years at the same job.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 11:17 AM

In construction since 1971, many different companies, in the field & in the office, union & non union, happy to be medically retired. Now to work on finding my next part time career, something a bit more enjoyable & a little less physical. I'd except a slight cut in salary. Sailing, singing, maybe both, singing, sailing maybe both. I clean up well & I'm a quick study. Food & drink taster? I'm just not sure yet what I'd like to do when I get older & grow up. Not rich enough to be a sugar daddy, maybe I can walk around a boxing ring during a match in a slinky outfit & hold up the big number signs that tells the onlookers what round it is.

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 11:38 AM

No longer employed nor need to be. I retired after 27 years with the government. Perhaps that accounts for my bad attitude.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 11:49 AM

18 years with the last job, then got a disability retirement.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 12:01 PM

Just under 3 years with this job, but I have just got news that I could be made redundant...I have the papers, they came today. I get very little as of payout because of the length of time I have been with the company. But it might not be a bad thing as I will be able to spend a little bit more time at home with my son and look around for some part time work that will cover my rent and bills.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 12:09 PM

It depends how you define "job".   

I've been with WFDU for 32 years, but I do not get paid for the service.   

During the weekdays, I've been showing up at the same company for 7 years, and they give me a check every two weeks. I spent 12 years in my last sentence with a different employer.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: HouseCat
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 12:23 PM

28 years with the same small business. Started in high school, worked while I was in college and then became the accountant/office manager/human resource/hey, what DON'T I do around here? Maybe crazy, but they're nice folks and they pay 100% of my medical and dental insurance and my boss does pretty much as I tell him to do. Since I'm still only 46 (note the ONLY) I still have a looooong way to go til retirement.:~( I also have a part-time job (6 years) directing a children's education program.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: artbrooks
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 12:40 PM

Before I retired (coming up on 6 years now), I had been with the same US government agency for 27 years and in the same career field for 22. On the other hand, I moved from one location to another (usually for a promotion, redundancy once) every 3-4 years, so I'm not sure if that can all be considered "on the {same} job".

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Bee
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 04:10 PM

26 years in public child care, five years desktop publishing/small mag design, some design contracting and museum work (ongoing), and fifteen years as a fine art/craft worker (present, and overlapped much of the other work). My pension will suck.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: jeffp
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 04:19 PM

Nearly 10 years with this employer. It's the first job/employer I haven't hated after 5 years. Decent pay, great benefits, they treat me very nicely and they were great when my wife was sick and when she died. Our contract got extended, so it looks like I've got at least 2 more years here, barring disaster. That's just fine with me.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 04:21 PM

Are you guys in the US aware that 'On the job' in the UK means in the act of having sex?
G

"Two nations, separated by a common language"   Winston Churchill. [I think]

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Wesley S
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 04:32 PM

English people have sex?? OK - How long have y'all been having sex?

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: akenaton
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 04:34 PM

2 minutes and I'm just finished.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 04:45 PM

Some do Wesley, some do.
G

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 04:46 PM

Oh dear oh dear oh dear....

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 04:51 PM

30 years since my MS this past May, 35 years in the profession, 4 years 1 month and 16 days here.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: GUEST,maire-aine
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 04:56 PM

35 years in the same place. Started right after college. First 15 years as an accounting clerk, next 25 as a programmer.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Greg B
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 05:01 PM

Total, or maximum for a single shagging session?

In either case, I'm not in the habit of stopping and starting the
stop-watch and keeping a log.

Unless of course 'long' refers not to time but rather to dimension.

In which case, that's rather a personal question.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Jim Lad
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 05:04 PM

Midnight until about six, one night on one of the smaller islands. I had to cut things short to catch the first ferry. I've often thought I should have seen it through to the end though. Ferries come and go but ships in the night ....

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: akenaton
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 05:18 PM

I've worked as a stonemason 46 years....the last 33 self employed.

Suppose I'll "die with my boots on"......Ake

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 05:36 PM

Since I was born. And I plan to retire in a pine box.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 06:24 PM

"on the job" means having sex? That sure ruins a useful phrase.

...and in the USA, to "knock someone up" does NOT mean to go tapping at their door.

Once I discovered the academic community didn't need many Philosophers, my life has been a series of jobs, with the longest being about 5 years in a cabinet shop, from which I retired, having new skills to provide part-time income in my declining years.

But nothing compares to a year spent as a genuine Bean Counter. (I did physical inventory in a plant that canned Pork & Beans)

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 06:26 PM

Yup, and when we say lay the table, it doesn't mean what you think it might Bill!
G

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 06:36 PM

Why, I never thought that! Being a woodworker, I KNOW about splinters! ;>)

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Don Firth
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 06:42 PM

Well, lemme see. . . .

I worked one summer (1953) for Boeing as a draftsman trainee, then the following summer for a picture framer (grunt work:   sanding and painting frames, washing glass, etc.), then I worked for a few weeks selling newspaper advertising (hated that job, but I earned enough money to buy my first Martin guitar). All of this time, I'm going to the University of Washington, studying English Lit and Creative Writing.

In the mid-1950s, I had been singing around a bit, and several people prevailed upon me to start teaching guitar (the blind leading the blind at first, but one can really learn a lot by trying to teach!). Also, about this time, I decided to try to make a career of singing. I returned to the U. of W. and changed my major to Music. This was fairly good timing, because within a couple of years, folk music suddenly burst onto the pop music scene (after having gurgled around in the background for who knows how long?), coffeehouses opened up everywhere, and I got tapped to do a television series. Off and running!

In the mid-60s, the nature of the folk scene had changed greatly (traditional was out, singer-songwriter was in), the British Invasion swamped out the pop-folk scene, and coffeehouses and clubs featuring folk started closing or hiring other musicians.

I went back to Boeing in 1966. Got caught in the big lay-off in 1971 (Boeing failed to get a couple of government contracts they were whining and barking for). But fortunately, after working at "the Lazy B" for about six months, I knew I didn't want to work there for the rest of my life. I took some broadcast training and stepped right out of Boeing into a job as a radio announcer. Over the next eight years, I worked in a number of stations:   two "elevator music" stations (I was news director at one of them), at a rocker (as a "rock-jock!??), as a traffic reporter ("Traffic backed up as far north as the ship-canal bridge due to a disable vehicle on the Mercer off-ramp"), and at two classical music stations (I could pronounce names like "Mstislav Rostropovich" without chipping a tooth). The stations kept changing personnel, and when I griped about this to an old-time radio announcer, he said, "If the ratings aren't as high as they would like them to be—and they never are—more often than not, they figure they need to change the on-the-air staff and get new voices. Whenever you go to work at a new station, you need to do two things:   update your résumé and keep your bags packed!" I love the work, but I hated the insecurity. I really wanted to go to work for my local NPR affiliate, but their on-the-air staff liked it there and refused to move on.

So I got talked into going to work at the telephone company as an operator (from broadcasting to narrowcasting). Reasonably good pay, good bennies, pleasant physical surroundings (carpets, rubber tree plant in the corner), but God, I hated that job! For reasons it would take to long to go into here. Ma Bell went through an identity crisis, couldn't figure out if she was Pacific Northwest Bell, AT&T, U. S. West, AT&T again, Qwest, or once again, back to AT&T. A whole slug of operators and other employees got either fired for trumped-up reasons or laid off during this aberration (mid-1980s). The union (Communications Workers of America) got us a halfway decent settlement from the company—whatever it was calling itself by then—and I was quite happy to be out of there!

In '86, I went to work as a technical writer for a firm that was doing residential weatherization inspections for the Bonneville Power Administration. Good job! I enjoyed that one. But in late 1988, BPA didn't renew the firm's contract, so writers and inspectors got laid off.

While all the above was going on, I was singing at folk festivals and doing occasional concerts.

I thought about looking for another job, then assessed my financial situation, did a little arithmetic, noted that I wasn't rich, but I wasn't busted either. So I said, "Screw that!" and decided to retire. I am now doing a lot of writing, practicing the guitar, singing, learning new songs, doing a little guitar teaching. Bob (Deckman) Nelson and I are planning to do a sort of "reunion" concert this coming fall. I'm also planning on doing some recording. Never done that. Always wanted to get some stuff on wax. Or vinyl. Or plastic, or whatever CDs are made of.

Well, you did ask. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: John Hardly
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 07:16 PM

been a self-employed potter since 1978.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 07:35 PM

3 months retired (with a good pension) from a 26 year stint in the Public Service - 18 years in my last place, 16 in the previous.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: JennyO
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 07:46 PM

Er Sandra, 18 plus 16 makes 34 - not 26. Well after all, you weren't an accountant ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 07:54 PM

And there's an impending ban on fags in pubs and restaurants - and that would mean something a bit different over there as well.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Gulliver
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 10:06 PM

How long? All my life. Need more lubrication these days though.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Janie
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 10:52 PM

35 years in the same profession. Post grad school, 15 years at the same clinic, but we were privatized last year so my employer changed.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Jun 07 - 12:55 AM

Ten years as of last month at this one. Longest single job I've had. I worked for many years as a "professional seasonal," intentionally moving from place to place for the pleasure of working in a lot of different park and forest settings. That was from 1971-1985. There were some others in between, and a few years at home raising kids.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Jun 07 - 04:56 AM

JennyO - small typo, I meant 36 years, & I also left out my first jobs - 3 months in a bookshop, 2 years in Postmaster General's Dept, 6 months in a Public library, then 16 years, etc ...

so it was really 36.5 years in public service agencies - Federal & local!

Today I visited my old colleagues as our Director retired. First we had a yummy lunch with local staff & a collection of Big Wigs visiting from Canberra, then I went back to the office, how strange to wear a visitor's badge & have restricted access, but it is always good to watch people working!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 22 Jun 07 - 05:47 AM

As a student:
- 1 summer picking hops in Kent
- 1 summer putting up marquees
- 1 summer digging holes in roads for the council
- 6 months as trainee programmer with Comshare
- 9 months as trainee systems programmer with Birmingham University
Then, once I got my degrees:
- 2 years as systems programmer with a cement company in Greece#
- 6 years as analyst/programmer & project leader with BP in Greece
- 4 years as junior IT consultant with BP in London
- 7 years as IT Manager with BP in the Netherlands, and later covering all BeNeLux
- 2 years as Area IT Mgr with BP in East Mediterranean (Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Italy)
- 3 years as Regional IT Mgr with BP first in the Middle East & Med, then in Eastern Europe (but based in the UK)
- 2 years as senior project manager with BP in the UK
- just over 1 year as professional singer/songwriter
- 6 months as Strategic IT Director with Christie+Co (UK)

In total, some 28 years in IT, 24 of them with BP.
Almost every job was great. Sometimes because of the challenges, that helped me grow; other times because of the friendships, the companionship, the chance to travel. And I love my current job best -it's the cushiest, and it allows me time for the music, travelling for gigs etc. I only really disliked one job - putting up marquees - because is was bloody hard physical work for this softie...

There, that's my CV, just about - gizzajob...

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: GUEST,Black Hawk at work
Date: 22 Jun 07 - 07:30 AM

42yrs continuous service.

Company changed hands 3 or 4 times but they wont let me go.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: skipy
Date: 22 Jun 07 - 07:43 AM

26 years!
2+ in training
4+ F4M Phanton
3 Nimrod fleet in Malta
3+ VC10
6+ Teaching @ RAF Halton
6+ Hawks & red arrows
2 Queen's flight BAC146, + Queen Mother's helicopters
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Mooh
Date: 22 Jun 07 - 09:15 AM

Started the present job about 1999, teaching guitar lessons part-time. It grew to full-time a few years ago. It is the longest I've held a job in my life (I'm 49). It makes me happy, not rich. It's challenging, not boring. It's interesting, not frustrating. It's rewarding, not stressfull. Beats the hell out of my previous jobs as professional broom pusher, union negotiator, retail sales, demolition, gardening, even tree planting.

Assuming there'll be folks wanting lessons for a few more years, I should be okay until retirement.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: GUEST,Phot in Chile.
Date: 22 Jun 07 - 09:16 PM

12 years in the RAF. Airframes fitter(Rigger)
Basic training at RAF Swinderby
Trade training at RAF Halton
6 years on Jaguars at Coltishall
Fitters course at Halton again!
3 years Repair and Salvage Sqn at Abingdon(Cat 3 specialist)
3 years at Lyneham servicing C130 Hercules

2 years driving buses

8+ years in the RN
3 years on Harriers at Yeovilton
5+ years as a photographer..........Bloody everywhere!

When were you teaching at Halton Skipy?

Wassail!! Chris.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Joe_F
Date: 22 Jun 07 - 09:21 PM

Too long.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jun 07 - 10:06 PM

Oh, all of it!

Lessee:

1957 - 59: cut grass & shoveled snow for people for pay.
1960 - 63: nominally delivered newspapers, but my siblings helped.
Summer, 1962: Quartermaster and bugler at Boy Scout Camp.
1959 - 1963: Worked off high school tuition washing dishes, scrubbing floors, etc.
7 June 1963 - 7 December 1963: Basic Combat Training, Advanced Individual Training, US Army, Fts. Leonard Wood (MO) and Riley (KS)
December 1963: Delivered milk for $1.00/hour, starting at 0200.
January, 1964 - September, 1964: Maintenance Clerk, then Housekeeping, at a hospital.
September 1964 - July 1965: Blastman and tombstone setter for a "monument" company.
July, 1965 - September 1967: Student worker in college library.
September 1967 - April, 1968: Assistant, local public library.
May 13, 1968 - August 21, 1969: US Army, Colorado and Korea.
February 11, 1963 - February 10, 1971: National Guard, then Inactive Reserves.
August 1969 - December 1970: Asst. Manager, College Bookstore; student library worker at college.
January, 1971 - August, 1971: Assistant in University Bibliography, No. Ill. University.
October 1971 - February 1984: Reference Librarian, Burton (OH) Pub. Library
February 1984 - May, 2000: Associate Director, Adult and the Technical Services, concurrent System Administrator, Elkhart (IN) Pub. Library.
May 2000 - September 2002: Library Director, No. Kentucky
September 2002 - May 2003: Unemployed, taking classes.
May 2003 - present: Library Director, Marshall Public Library, Pocatello, Idaho.

That's about all I can remember....

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Sooz
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 04:17 AM

22 years teaching in the same school.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: skipy
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 07:16 AM

Phot, what years at halton & abingdon?
We may have served together!
Skipy also airframes.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 12:42 PM

Phot you seem to have fitted a lot of years into a short life. Do you have a picture in the attic?

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 05:10 PM

:-D

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 10:04 AM

I worked (court reporter) for a US District Court for thirty-six years. Finally I realized that it wasn't fun any more, so I took my (semi)retirement. Between Civil Service Retirement annuity and Social Security and my Beautiful Wife's Social Security, I figured we'd be all right financially.

But wait. I started working full time (as in 48 hours a week) when I was 13. There's no way I could sit on the front porch and twiddle my thumbs.

So I called a court reporting agency for whom I'd done a little pickup work from time to time, and asked:

"Marge, I'm going to retire from the court. Can you give me some work from time to time?"

"Sure, Dave. How much do you want to make?"

(Time for thought: At the time I could only earn $15,000 before my Social Security got cut back.)

"Oh, about $15,000," I replied.

"Sure, Dave, we can do that."

Only one problem there. I was talking about a ceiling; she was talking about a floor. So for some several years I worked a good deal more than I'd contemplated. Luckily, about that time the Social Security limitation on what I could earn was removed. I've been freelance reporting since, eleven years now.

So, taking the court job and freelance reporting together, it's about forty-seven years now.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 09:07 PM

Knowing fully well that the title of this thread is "How long have you been on the job?", I just misread it as "How long have you been on the bog?"

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: fumblefingers
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 10:27 PM

36 years with Texas Instruments. Retired 4 years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 09:29 AM

37 years with a grateful Government. 96 days 18 hours 36 minutes and 23 seconds left.

To put it all into context, on my first day I walked past Tony Curtis and Roger Moore who were filming the first episode of 'The Persuaders', and a steam engine overtook my train on the London Underground.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: GUEST,Phot, in the Falklands.
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 03:31 PM

Skipy, I was at Halton in 84(AAM181A), and again 89-90(AAF189) and Abingdon 90-93(RSS 1 Flt)

Jane, I might have! Then again, you're as young as the woman you feel!! It's great being 25 again!!

Wassail!! Chris.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Midchuck
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 04:36 PM

Graduated law school 40 years ago this summer, admitted to practice 40 years ago this coming December. In private practice by myself since '74.

First social security check coming a month from today (assuming the govt. does something on time other than ask me for money.

I'll probably practice part-time until Mizchuck is ready to retire. She's talking about teaching 3 more years. We'll see.

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 11:39 AM

4 years insurance broker
3 years childminder
19 years primary school teacher not with same school - longest was 14 years but then made redundant. Currently covering maternity leave until January 2008 then who knows!

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: skipy
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 06:02 PM

Phot, I was at Halton as an instucter when you where there & I was at Abingdon the same time as you! So we may know each other! Have you ever been to Wareham Wail? I met a sailor there!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 27 Jun 07 - 03:09 PM

I hate job hunting. That's the only explanation for my having spent more than 10 years each with three companies, in good-but-not-great circumstances. All small businesses with limited benefits and no pensions.

My wife and I own our house outright, having paid off the mortgage with flood-insurance proceeds last year. We're hoping that we'll be able to finance a half-decent retirement, starting about five to seven years from now, through a reverse mortgage.

The longer we can keep working, of course, the better. For one thing, the monthly annuity paid back by the bank is adjusted according to the age at which you begin the process. Also, our neighborhood is in the process of serious flood recovery, and property values ~ which are artificially low right now ~ are very likely to increase quite significantly with each passing year.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 27 Jun 07 - 11:12 PM

4 years as a 'Saturday' girl in a stationers, grocery stores etc
4 part time years as a bar maid -- being paid to have fun would be my definition of that
1 year as a junior reporter
2 years as a part time secretary (winters) and hostess in Southern Spain (summers) -- Torremolinos, since you ask. (I hope hostess doesn't have some conurtations here that I am not aware of -- we danced, and were charming and were bought incredibly overpriced drinks for which we received a cut......NOTHING ELSE - at least nothing else required....there may hae been others who made different choices)
1 year as a teacher of English as a second language while living in Spain (favorite student was a nun taking private lessons so she could teach her students....she was smart!)
1 year full time as a secretary (ever tried being a pair of legs and an accent behind a typewriter.....???)
1 year running the switchboard at the college were my exhusband had an internship -- living in 2 rooms in the men's dorm -- sadly, the two rooms were separated by a corridor........)
1 year working p.t. as a secretary while working on degree
2 years as a teller while earning my degree
7 years in bank management
16 in insurance
7 years (and counting...) in real estate ... this is the best one. Plan to 'retire' in about 8 years but that means moving to England for half the year (not working) and selling houses the other half year in the US.....this is fun.

Perhaps I am guilty of thread creep here but there surely is a long and healthy thread out there on things that mean one thing in the US and one in the UK. I well remember asking my ex mother in law to 'knock me up....' one morning and then ordering a dozen rubbers as part of my office supplies order waaaaaaay back when - to the hysterical amusement and shock/horror of those in hearing. And then there was the time when I asked a friend's mother if her puppy was a dog or a bitch. I can still hear the intake of breath -- in England, a female dog is a bitch AND IT IS OK TO ACTUALLY SAY THAT WORD IN THAT CONTEXT   (and of course, some bitches are bitches too)...

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: Phot
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 12:34 PM

Skipy, that'll be me then!

Wassail!! Chris.

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: skipy
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 01:44 PM

Come & see us at White Horse Folk Festival, very sing!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: How long have you been on the job?
From: John Hardly
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 03:52 PM

"Graduated law school 40 years ago this summer, admitted to practice 40 years ago this coming December. In private practice by myself since '74."

five years now and I did not know this.