Running the store
Jan24
I have managed to dodge being put in management positions for the last 15 years of working in corporate America, and fate willing, I will die without having to do management. Fuck that noise. I work to live, not live to work. I like my limited free time and my ability to leave my work at work, and have a home life.
Says the guy who is effectively updating this site as his second job. *headdesk*
Now this I found interesting.
I’m not a fan of the .380 as a caliber. It’s tiny. Not saying I’d like to suffer a full mag from a Bersa at ten feet into my center mass, but I’ve heard a LOT of apocryphal tales of the bullets bouncing off hard cover, with no penetration.
So this video was cool.
I love it when people record testing these kinds of things.
You’re probably already a reader / fan, but for the other readers: http://theboxotruth.com/
… Might take a couple shots from my FEG, because yes it’s 9×18 instead of 9×17, but I’m using Russian Flying Ashtray hollowpoints.
Also, ROFLMAO on the comic.
Do you mean this Oleg: http://olegvolk.net/blog/
I am imagining Mr. Volk (who by all accounts is a really nice guy) smiling and having a very artful naked woman beat the shit out of James Grant with a crowbar.
If I recall correctly, a number of those artful naked women care *quite* capable of such violence with crowbars… 🙂
Management. Heh. When I started out I thought that was what I wanted to be and worked my way up to just that. Had more friggin’ tension than I really want to remember. These days I’m an “individual contributor” and happy to be so – I don’t get management calling me on weekends and evenings (well, other than the on-call stuff) and I’m a LOT less stressed. CAN I do that job? Sure. Been there, done that – but just don’t want to do it any more.
Unless it’s being the owner of my own gun shop. THAT I want to do. Just like Omar. Right down to fake Russian accent when selling Russian surplus guns. Will be fun doing that! Cannot wait!
So, um. Am I the only person to think “Stand in front of a car coming at you, and you’re going to get dead even if you make the shot and kill the driver?”
For the tabletop gamers, the British game Warhammer 40000 actually has rules for that-Infantry with vehicles bearing down on them can try a “death or glory” roll. Never had one work out in anything but the vehicles favour, in any tournament I played. Even the “no guns allowed” Brits realised that you aren’t stopping tanks with (las)pistols.
Well, if they tried to perform DOG with a troop that did not have something in the line of Krack grenades, Melta bombs, Melta guns oe some kind of heavy weapon…. they deserved what they got.
Just saying: if it can go through the windshield in one direction, it can probably go through the windshield in the other direction.
I caught the supervision monkey twice and two times was chastised for what amounted to treating my direct reports more like human beings than was strictly necessary.
Done with that noise.
LOL MGMT. They tried that on me once… ONCE.
Now that you bring up the topic of NICS denials, I had a rather interesting one recently: I called in, got an operator, and he operator gave me an approval number…. Only to call back almost immediately to say that she had screwed up, and that it was actually a denial.
I probably wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t been the guy calling in the background check.
Anyone else have any crazy background check stories?
And doesn’t this just give us all a warm and fuzzy about expanding the background checks.
i wouldn’t carry it into an encounter with me, but i have an FIE titan ii in .380 that is just the thing for teaching new shooters. just large enough to get a feeling for recoil, without being scary.
Management is what makes all the lesser positions possible. Otherwise, all business == small business. Which is cool, I suppose, if your a fan of inefficient economies.
That said, management isn’t for the faint-of-heart. *shrug* We need more worker bees than queen bees anyway, so I’m quite happy for you if you wish to be a worker bee.
Oh, and .380ACP? In most cases, I’d prefer .22WMR over that. The .380ACP is just about equal to the .22LR, IMO.
I am management and have been for the better part of a decade. I LOVE it. I love the power that comes with it.
mmmmmm, POWER……. :p
Mwahahahahahahahaha
“Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first one is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.” – Bertrand Russell
I hate telling people what to do in a work environment, I find it extremely unpleasant and I try to push off all the newbie training to colleagues. I’d rather just do the work/task myself than try to explain something to someone, unless it’s a topic I care about and the outcome doesn’t matter. My dream job would be any menial task that has no clients or bosses, just a task to complete with only my own productivity to worry about. Walk in, listen to some podcasts/music while I do the thing, have lunch, finish up, and go home again. Bliss. Hopefully when the next batch of newbies is trained I can resume leaving my colleagues to their thing and put my headphones back on.
I know a manager who has a copy of an old poster from the 1950s showing a guy who is clearly a boss working at an assembly line. The caption is “Managers Are Not Workers”.
And boy does my supervisor subscribe to that one.
It’s probably one of the hardest things I need my new team leaders to learn: They can’t do it all themselves, or I wouldn’t have needed to send a crew with them in the first place. Their primary job must be to keep the crew on task and the job flowing properly to completion-
So many of them have the urge to try to do it all themselves so it comes out “right”, rather than managing the crew and job so THEY get it right…
Therein lies the rub that a lot of front line craft types don’t understand. For a lot of managers, myself included, actually doing the work that your people do is not beyond you. I can perform the tasks that my carpenters can do. Its just that in doing so, I’m not actually doing my job. If I catch one of my front line supervisors doing production work, I generally put a stop to it because it means he’s not doing hisjob, which is planning, scheduling, procurement and so on and so forth.
That being said, it is not necessary for your manager to be able to do the front line production work in order for him to be the manager of people in that trade. I’m not a plumber or an electrician but I schedule, dispatch, order materials for, and supervise lots of both on a daily basis.
This strip is not a comic. Like “Dilbert”, it is more of a documentary…. but a good one.
Another cartridge with “questionable penetrative qualities”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrIWhoDMXuI
M-1 .30 Carbine is weak compared to, say, the .30-06, or the .308Win… I’d never call it outright weak, though! There are a few pistols out there chambered for it, and if you fire one, you will get a surprise!
Speaking of Box O Truth:
http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/edu112.htm
Dumb question, probably, but what’s a ghost gun? One bought without a background check?
A homemade or home-assembled one with no record of sale and no serial number, according to the idiot California lawmakers.
Basically a somewhat glorified (and likely effectively non-existent) zip gun.
And there is always the chance a piece like that will explode because the parts are not “just right” when assembled.
Takes him out of the gene pool if it does, at least!
Degree of actual danger aside, what’s the actual argument against requiring such firearms to be registered and regulated?
I mean, sure, probably almost nobody’s gonna bother with making a ghost gun, but why is it bad for those that do to be subject to the same checks and requirements as people who buy guns from a manufacturer?
it’s called the “monopoly of violence” that governments love, but as free citizens, we should be very afraid of.
”If every German Jew and anti-Nazi had possessed a Mauser rifle, twenty rounds and the will to use it, Adolf Hitler would be a footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic.” — Aaron Zelman, 1995.
now replace “German Jew and anti-Nazi” with “american” and replace “Adolf Hitler” with “wannabe tyrant” and you start to get the idea. and no this isn’t a left-right thing…both sides have their tyrannical streaks, and it doesn’t matter which boot is on your neck if you lack the tools to resist.
See “The Weapon Shops of Isher”.
By the way, it’s perfectly legal to buy a gun from another person. Happens all the time. So serial numbers are all but meaningless as a means of tracking. Registration is useful for tracking, but just as useful for more sinister purposes, such as control and seizure. Look at what is going on in Ukraine right now and tell me it’s better that the police there know who has what weapons and can go after them—that it’s better that a corrupt dictatorial government has control of the means to resist its oppressions.
Here’s a look at the next BIG SCARY THING. http://youtu.be/mJGH7cDFw7c
I was offered management training at a couple of restaurants where I worked serving customers. I said, “What? You want me to do 80% more work, for 20% more pay? No thanks.” It’s a bit of a shame that I took that attitude, because management experience looks good on a resume.
@MaskMan: Aside from capital-intensive industries (e.g., oil refining, automobiles, heavy machinery), Big Business is usually only more efficient b/c it is better able to withstand an insanely crippling Big Government regulatory environment. Small businesses tend to adapt to changes in the market a lot faster, and innovate a lot more.
I’d say that .380ACP is probably the smallest round I’d recommend for a self-defense sidearm. You know, if the guy has a choice. the First Rule of Gunfights is still “have a gun,” even if it’s .25ACP, which is less effective than .22LR.
Ha, my boss wanted to name one of us acting supervisor when he was away. No takers. Then he tried just appointing people. That drew ill-tempered angry complaints and a couple of outright refusals. He was—not happy.
courtesy of google translator “Ivan mystery man. It should not be fucked with. You will learn more about him in the days to come – Dark Times.”