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[Honey]

Originally posted by titey@20 November 2003 - 12:52
I work in shipping/receiving.... which is a glorified way of saying I'm a fork-lift driver.

hey.. nothing wrong with that... i've seen some cool moves made on a forklift!..

Oh! I didn't make it out to be that bad, and I did bring her over didn't I?

Hi Honey! *hugs*

heya sheila... *hugs*...
you sure didnt make it out to be all bad... and yep... you did tell me to get my arse over here to support the ozzie cause... but hey... isnt that what mates are for?... B) B)

Yes, you brought her.... an' thanks for that!

titey... you say the nicest things!...

oh.. i'm a woman too... nothing adversarial about me!.. B)

[titey]

Actually Sheila, the first time we "met" was when you decided to venture outside the nightclub an' got some lip when you posted in World Events.

Then you posted yer "I'm afraid to post here" thread in the Lounge.

You made a comment about the mods an' I made a suggestion which you mistook for an attack.

We sorted it out, but the very first impression you had of me wasn't favorable.

(Unless you had somehow formed an impression of me before then. )



@ babe - Tanks, but I know several people here would consider it to be a menial job an' look down on it.... not that I care.

An' you ain't foolin me by playin the "I'm a woman" card.... I'm sure you can throw down when ya wanna.

[AussieSheila]

Yep, got me there. I didn't remember you from that occasion tho, so you obviously didn't piss me off too much.

[titey]

Hee hee.... as I recall, you brought a few people from Sheringham back wif you for support then too.

[Honey]

@ babe - Tanks, but I know several people here would consider it to be a menial job an' look down on it.... not that I care.

well too bad for them if they're that narrow minded... their loss!..

me... im a social trainer... which means i work with the intellectually handicapped teaching them the skills to live within the community rather than institutions... at times its a real shitty job... but most of the time... it has its own rewards.. before that i worked with street kids, abused kids, wards of the state... i needed a change though coz that is really emotionally draining... i ended up wanting to foster all of the kids... and that isnt good!...

An' you ain't foolin me by playin the "I'm a woman" card.... I'm sure you can throw down when ya wanna.

i can handle myself for sure hon.. anyone wants to give me a hard time does so at their own risk.. all that restraint training when i worked with the 12 - 17yo agro young guys n girls comes in very handy...

... though im not a fighter at heart...

[titey]

Good on you babe for doin such demanding work.

I'd never be able to do social work cuz I'd have a tendancy to get to emotionally attached to the people I was trying to help.... I'd wind up in an institution.

• ( Not that I don't beling there anyway.)

Yeah.... I'm not one to go lookin for a fight, but I won't back down if'n I think I'm right or if I feel someone's doin someone else wrong.

[Honey]

thats just the thing though titey.... you have to have that tendency to be emotional about the job because you can't possibly work in that field if you don't have a genuine love of people...

it's just knowing when its time to take a break and try something different... B)

i work for the government so i have the option of moving around other government sectors... which is terrific!..

another job i did was in the Ministry of Justice as a youth worker... i worked in a Juvenile Remand Center... did that for two years... and again i had to make the change because i found myself becoming a little emotive with some of the remandees... working with kids who had raped and in some cases murdered others became very difficult... especially when it involved old women and little children...

[titey]

Exactly.... you do have to genuinely want to help people to do a good job in that field.

Trouble wif me though is that I'm too empathetic an' it would just tear me up.

I wouldn't wanna adopt the little kiddies.... but I wouldn't be able to separate myself emotionally from their hardship.

[Honey]

its the first couple of hundred bucket loads of tears that are the hardest titey... B)

i think i'd like to take a spin on a fork lift!... can ya do tricks on them?...

[titey]

Originally posted by Ozbabe@20 November 2003 - 01:41
can ya do tricks on them?... 

I can't really think of any way to do a trick wif something that slow an' bulky....

• 'sides, I think it might be frowned upon by my employer.

I did make a couple of co-worker's cars "disappear" where I used to work though.