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A friend came up from Toronto and told me that there was a job at a factory not far from my sisters house, so I went down and got it.It was a labourers job in a candy factory(Jeanny Lyned).It was here that Philip was born.We were staying at Aunt Lillians house.While we where there my dad came down to stay with us because he was going to take a welding course so he could get a job at the shipyards
At night I would help him with his homework.I liked the theory so after he finished I signed up for the course to.It was at The Provincial Inst. Of Trades.
During this course we took Arc welding ,acetylene welding,brazing both in all position,drafting and theory.
I got so far ahead of the rest that the instructor would let me go to the pipeshop and weld the pipes that the pipefitters would hang all over their shop.
When I graduated I had the second highest grade ever for the school.I missed one question in theory.
I was asked if the nightschool instructor up home could use my notes to teach with.I gave them to him and I didn’t even know him.
After I left school I got a job at CBM.It is a cement company in Toronto.It was relining the drums of the cement trucks and repairing the trucks plus any outside jobs.I worked there for about a year and then got a job at Anthes Steel.This was building steel roofing trusses and steel beams for for hi-rise buildings.We had to work to pretty close tolerances,its like one of the customers said to me,when your up 20 stories and the beam is swung in, the dam thing better fit the first time.It was a good job that I enjoyed doing.I worked my self up to Sub-foreman. I got the promotion because one of the foreman quit and went to Dominion Bridge to work He called me at work and asked me to come to his job. When I got there he offered me a job there as a supervisor with a large raise. I said I would have to think about it. When I went back to my job they ask what he had wanted so I told them.The next day when I came to work the company said they would match the offer so I said O.K.I didn’t want to lose my seniority. I had 45 guys working for me.When they built a new plant the company sent me there to set up the whole place because they wanted the building set up properly.I did the whole layout so that when the material came in it would all come together in a totally organized way.I came up with an idea for a dye for one of the machines that would cut the fabrication time by 50%.They had an engineer draw up the plan for it and gave him $500 for it.When I asked what do I get for the idea I was told nothing because I had nothing on paper.I was some angry.Next they brought in the Companys President son and ask me to teach him what we were doing and why.He was an electrical engineer and knew nothing about structural steel.He spent most of his time down the road at the legion.So it was up to me to set up the schedule for my shift and for the shift following.That involved coming in an hour or more before our shift started and going through the blueprints to make sure the dimensions were right,because a lot of times the draughtmen made mistakes on the drawings and I had to catch them before we started assembly.I had to make sure the material was brought in in the proper sequence.
The finale insult was when the company sent my boss to university during working hours and I was on my own to run half the shop and it was a large place.I did the first-aid as well.When I said I would like more money seeing as I was doing the bosses job I was told I didn’t know enough about the job.This, after I taught him everything he knew and done his job for him and covered his ass.This happened on a Friday,when I came in on Monday I said I was taking 2 weeks holidays starting the following Monday.The company said it was short notice but they would try to have my holiday pay ready on Friday. They did get it ready and off I went to get a job at the shipyards up home.I went in on Monday morning and took a welding test and got hired. I went right back to Toronto and told my company that I was outta there.I was hired as a C welder because they said I didn’t have enough experience.I figurured I will take it and I could prove myself later,which I did.I figured out later that the guy who gave me the test didn’t think anyone was as good as him.I worked at the shipyards on and off for over 20 years.They would lay me off or I would quit to go pipelining. At about the time I started at the shipyards L.O.F. Glass opened.I was laid off from the yard so I went to the glass plant because I needed a job but I was only there for about 6 months and I got laid off.When I got my call to go back to the yard I thought I may as go back because if I was going to be laid off at both jobs I may as well keep the one that paid the most.
When I first started at the yard I ask one of the fitters,how close of a tolerance do you work to on a ship that is 750feet long? His answer was what is a tolerance? That told me all I needed to know.There was a story about the yard manager when he was taking a visitor around.The visitor ask him how many people work in the yard.The reply was about half of them.
and now a joke
Sunday Morning Sex
Upon hearing that her elderly grandfather had just
passed away, Katie went straight to her
grandparent's house to visit her 95 year old
grandmother and comfort her. When she asked how her grandfather had died, her grandmother replied, "He had a heart attack while we were making love on Sunday morning."
Horrified, Katie told her grandmother that 2
People nearly 100 years old having sex would surely be
asking for trouble.
Oh no, my dear," replied granny. "Many years ago,
realizing our advanced age, we figured out the
best time to do it was when the church bells would start to ring. It was just the right rhythm. Nice and slow and even. Nothing too strenuous, simply in on the Ding and out on the Dong." She paused to wipe away a tear, and continued, "he'd still be alive if The ice cream truck hadn't come along
