BYC Café

[Meg-in-MT]

Morning, all!

Sorry to hear about the sadness, DL. Maybe a better opportunity will present itself. The new place sounds a little sketch

Love the woodwork Shad and NFC! All of that stuff is beautiful.

Sorry, Sour...I kind of barked/laughed/barely-kept-coffee-in at the women's symposium thing Too funny!

 

[Shadrach]

The atmosphere, the lack of communication and direction and the general management of the place.
It is also not well known for hiring 'fine upstanding citizens'. More like druggies puking on the sides of cars in the parking lot. And the plant is located in a dicey area of Binghamton.

How many from your old company have gone there?

 

[Shadrach]

The atmosphere, the lack of communication and direction and the general management of the place.
It is also not well known for hiring 'fine upstanding citizens'. More like druggies puking on the sides of cars in the parking lot. And the plant is located in a dicey area of Binghamton.

It's got to be worth something just to have an employer accept your hours of work.

 

[DobieLover]

How many from your old company have gone there?

Good question. A fair number. Maybe 25%.

 

[Shadrach]

Good question. A fair number. Maybe 25%.

That's enough to maybe turn the place around a bit.

 

[DobieLover]

It's got to be worth something just to have an employer accept your hours of work.

It's worth a lot. Don't get me wrong. I'm grateful for the job. It's just another stress source that I need to muddle through.
As an example of the lack of communication:
My new manager texted me Friday (on my day off) to let me know I needed to attend a HR training session when I come in Tuesday morning. What? I work for i3 and am going to i3. I asked what the training was for. Got no answer.
Where do I go? At what time? No answer.
So the grand plan is to show up to work 30 minutes early, find a pal and maybe the two of us can figure it out.

 

[sourland]

Morning, all!


Sorry, Sour...I kind of barked/laughed/barely-kept-coffee-in at the women's symposium thing Too funny!

Do you think that maybe I was played ?

 

[Shadrach]

I think Cillin has fully grown up these past three months. He's a bit over two years old now.
He doesn't often bring the tribe around anymore. I get Treacle here a lot trying to keep an eye on everyone. I still touch Cillin's beak everyday by way of saying hello but I can almost see him shuffling his feet like a small boy whose mum has just ruffled his hair saying goodbye at the school gates.
He's the most senior rooster here now. He takes his hens where he wants. None of the other roosters bother him really. Thankfully he's very steady and never bothers the other tribes hens of chicks. Punch, Tribe 2 just moves his family away when Cillin shows up. Cillin doesn't drive him away and doesn't deliberately crowd Punch's space. Treacle has had a quick go at Punch and got badly shown up but seems to be learning from Cillin (his father) that conflict is best avoided.
This has delighted Fat Bird who can now go and get at ehr favorite dust bath spots and the fruit that falls in Tribe 2's territory. She hasn't been able to do this since the death of Major who was a Maran rooster and very much the senior rooster of Tribe 1. Basically Fat bird and Cillin are inseparable at the moment.
I'm a bit concerned about Mel. She spends too much of her day on full alert. It's understandable given she fought off a Goshawk when Treacle was just a chick. If you read the story that's Treacle in the pet carrier with Mel.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/is-it-better-to-let-them-die.1268732/page-4#post-20418031

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Do you think that maybe I was played ?

Just maybe

 

[N F C]

I think Cillin has fully grown up these past three months. He's a bit over two years old now.
He doesn't often bring the tribe around anymore. I get Treacle here a lot trying to keep an eye on everyone. I still touch Cillin's beak everyday by way of saying hello but I can almost see him shuffling his feet like a small boy whose mum has just ruffled his hair saying goodbye at the school gates.
He's the most senior rooster here now. He takes his hens where he wants. None of the other roosters bother him really. Thankfully he's very steady and never bothers the other tribes hens of chicks. Punch, Tribe 2 just moves his family away when Cillin shows up. Cillin doesn't drive him away and doesn't deliberately crowd Punch's space. Treacle has had a quick go at Punch and got badly shown up but seems to be learning from Cillin (his father) that conflict is best avoided.
This has delighted Fat Bird who can now go and get at ehr favorite dust bath spots and the fruit that falls in Tribe 2's territory. She hasn't been able to do this since the death of Major who was a Maran rooster and very much the senior rooster of Tribe 1. Basically Fat bird and Cillin are inseparable at the moment.
I'm a bit concerned about Mel. She spends too much of her day on full alert. It's understandable given she fought off a Goshawk when Treacle was just a chick. If you read the story that's Treacle in the pet carrier with Mel.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/is-it-better-to-let-them-die.1268732/page-4#post-20418031

I remember that story...very impressive!