Losing My Job At The Greenville Crane Rental Company

Posted February 5th, 2010 by
Categories: Industry and Manufacturing

The crane rental Greenville company that I was fired from told me that they were going to have to lay off many of their employees very soon but they were actually firing, or letting go, in their words the lowest ranking people first. I knew that I would be one of the first to go from the crane rental Greenville company when I heard the rumors of them possibly filing for bankruptcy last week.

I was offered a job by a very big crane rental Wilmington company about two weeks prior to getting this job and I turned it down because my wife wanted me to be closer to home. Now, I understand that it is possible that the crane rental Wilmington company is coming in and hiring a bunch of the big salary guys that will probably eventually lose their jobs here in Greenville.

My only hope for turning around this misfortune is to go back to the Wilmington company and hope that they still have at least one opening and they will reconsider me for it after I told them no before. If that does not work, I will be the first one on the unemployment line in the morning, filing for my benefits that are due to me.

Hoping Family Dentistry Clinic Offers Zoom Teeth Whitening

Posted February 3rd, 2010 by
Categories: Health

I looked up zoom teeth whitening online to find out more about it. I know that my best friend Jim just had it done and his teeth look great. I do not even want to stand next to him anymore, for fear that my teeth will look yellow next to his super bright zoom teeth whitening smile. I always tease him now that I bet he would glow in the dark but inside, I am super jealous and want that kind of a smile for myself.

I am always looking at people and checking out their teeth. If someone has great teeth, then I always think that they must be a clean person. We have a small family dentistry office on campus here that some fourth year dentistry students work out of. They get some hands on experience and the rest of the students get some discounted services.

I am not too sure if the cheaper family dentistry office offers zoom teeth whitening but I am going to call and find out. If I can get my teeth whitened for one third of what Jim did at his fancy family dentist back home, then I will have a new white smile too.

The Honda Mowers Were Supposed To Be On Sale

Posted February 1st, 2010 by
Categories: Home & Garden

The Honda mowers that were in the sales flyer were supposed to be fifty percent off and now that I drove two hours to get one, the store has had to admit that the sales flyer was incorrect. There were at least ten other customers there that had made a long drive to get a good deal and now we all had to go home without our Honda mowers.

My rotary lawn mower was still in good working order but I thought that if I could leave one at my lake house and then have the Honda at the week house, it would save me some time and energy of hauling the rotary lawn mower back and forth. I guess that by the ad being wrong, it just saved me some money and I can continue with the same thing that I have always does till a better deal comes along.

If I do ever see Honda mowers for a too good to be true price again, I will defiantly call and make sure that the price is right before making a long drive like that any time soon. My wife was happy to see that I did not spend the money on a new mower, because she thinks that we can now work on the kitchen and do some remodeling.

Selling My Gold Coins Online

Posted January 27th, 2010 by
Categories: Jewellery

My father always told me that there is no shame in selling things around the house to make ends meet and since I am selling off his gold coin collection to pay for a new transmission for my car, I hope that he meant it. When I had no other choice a friend of mine suggested that I look into selling gold online. I told her that I only had my wedding ring and I was not going to sell it, not to mention that it cannot be worth too much.

She walked over to my dad’s gold coins and told me that you can sell gold coins, not just jewelry. I had never thought of it before, that collection was my father’s pride and joy and I was happy when he passed it on to me. I always thought that I would pass it on to my children some day but since I had decided to not have children, I thought that to sell gold coins to help me out would be a great idea.

If I can make even just half of the amount of the transmission repair bill then I will be thrilled. That means that by selling gold online, I need to make about fifteen hundred dollars. It should be very doable since there are over two hundred coins in this collection.

I Have Two Personal Fitness Trainers

Posted January 20th, 2010 by
Categories: Recreation & Sport

I have been working with some great personal fitness trainers from my gym and have been seeing some fabulous results. In fact, I saw an old friend the other day and she hardly even recognized me since I have lost so much weight. I think that I am at about seventy five pounds and it has taken me about ten months to get to this point. The day that I put down the potato chips and wrote find personal trainer on a bunch of sticky notes and put them all over the house, was a new day in my life.

I used the internet to find the gym closest to me to see who had the most personal fitness trainers on hand at any given time of the day and signed up for a membership with them the very next day. I worked with four different personal trainers and then actually settled on two that I felt really comfortable with. So, instead of accomplishing the find personal trainer from the sticky notes, I found two personal trainers.

My goal is to lose another fifty pounds in the next year and I truly believe that with the support of my personal fitness trainers and the will to succeed, I will do it and will keep it off. I do not plan to ever go back to being the person I was before.

Have Not Received My Air Fresheners And Purell Order

Posted January 19th, 2010 by
Categories: Home & Garden

The last order that I placed with our supply company was for purell instant hand sanitizer and air fresheners and it has still not arrived. I called to check the status of the order and no one answered the phone. I am not sure if they were just closed or if they were too busy to answer the phone.

I know that purell instant hand sanitizer and air fresheners are not exactly things super necessities but I would like to know if I need to get them from somewhere else or if they will ever arrive. I am going to give it until tomorrow and if they have not arrived and no one calls me or they do not pick up the phone again then I am going to fax them a cancellation notice for that order and find a new supplier.

I am very shocked at the kind of service that I am getting since I have used this supply company for about five years and have never had any issues. I know that I can easily find someone else to use for my purell and air fresheners so it will not be a problem, I would just like to know what the holdup is.

Hiring Out All Our One Way Links

Posted January 13th, 2010 by
Categories: Webmaster

I hired a company to produce thirty to fifty one way links for me every month and have paid them for a year’s worth of work. My partner was not very happy with me when I wrote the check for all the one way links but I completely trust the owner to see that it gets done correctly and on time.

My partner on the other hand found a company that arranges a three way link exchange for site owners and it is fairly inexpensive. I told him to go ahead and do it and then we would just be getting double the links for this year and reconsider our plan next year.

I was all for saving money and using the three way link exchange if it produced some good results. I would just have to have my guy from the one way links company track all of them and show me that his were better than those or we would definitely have to switch. I knew my partner would be having his three way link exchange company track the results also, so it would be fun to put them together at the end of the year and compare them. I hoped that they were both the same because that would mean that we had both hired reputable companies.

The Dell Repair Store Raised Its Prices

Posted January 5th, 2010 by
Categories: Computers and Hardware

The dell repair store that is in town has raised their prices, because they are the only ones around who can fix a dell. They are thinking that they can charge whatever they want since they have virtually no competition. I started searching for a new dell repair company as soon as I heard this and found one online.

Our poweredge servers need to be fixed about once a month and we have always just used the local guy in town because it was convenient. Now that I have found this other repair shop online, it will be a little more inconvenient when it needs to be fixed but at least I know that we know that we will be paying a fair price, not one that is inflated.

I have already called and spoken with a representative from the online dell repair shop and explained that I will be calling on them the next time that I need help with fixing our poweredge servers. They have assured me that since I am now in their system and have explained the product that will need repairing, when it is time, that the turnaround time for me to get it back will be very short.

The Used POS Equipment Site Saved Me Thousands

Posted January 4th, 2010 by
Categories: Computers and Hardware

I had put off buying all the new equipment for the new system for the register lanes because I had found a different way to go. I had been looking for a different company to buy all the new stuff from when I happened upon a website that sold everything I needed at a huge discount.

The newly discovered site sold used pos equipment and I was shocked that they also offered a guarantee with their products. I wanted to buy new, because then I would have a warranty but since the used point of sale equipment came with a guarantee, I felt really comfortable with ordering from them. I decided to go ahead and order everything I needed right away before I changed my mind.

I ordered the used point of sale equipment and put a rush on it, so that we could get it all installed one night next week after the store closed. I knew that finding the used pos equipment site had saved me tons of money and I was glad that I had put off buying new that day and started surfing the web. If not, I might have spent thousands more than what I really needed to.

Trying To Convince Him To Buy Used Poweredge Servers

Posted December 31st, 2009 by
Categories: Computers and Hardware

For four years now, I have been the one in the office fixing the servers every time they go down. If I cannot fix them then I have to call in other computer server technicians and we figure out the problem together. My boss does not like it when we have to call in backup but there is no other way to fix the very old ancient dinosaur servers that he insists on keeping.

I have found numerous companies that sell used servers for really low prices and every time that I give them to him, he just tells me that our servers are just fine. I have even gotten one of the distributers to agree to give us a free sixty day trial with no money down, they will come in and install the used poweredge servers and he will not go for it.

I am wondering what it will take for him to see that he is losing money with the old servers. He has to pay me overtime on the days when I have to stay and fix them, he has to pay technicians if I cannot figure it out and he loses money in sales when they go down. I have no idea what else can change his mind to buy some new used poweredge servers.