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CableIsMyLife
11/23/2000
Protel is a good company, I've been a sub for them for many months and I've never been screwed. The fact here is that the Cable Dogs don't make the rules, we follow them as we should. We may be a rowdy bunch but thats the way it is.. however, we still need to live inside the rules. We make it seem like we are a sub culture but we really aren't.. we're just a bunch of men who travel the country doing a hard job. What makes it harder is when your brother cable dog gets mad at the management and get everyone else's panties in a bunch, thats how this shit starts. My personal belief is that we need to take personal responsibility for our own actions. If Gary Vest screwed up then he needs to deal with it and not in the Cable bar. Protel didn't screw Gary, the customer didn't want him on the job for a very good and serious reason. Protel is clean. take it from someone who knows. Mark, Joe, Eric and Ralph have known me for years and if I got out of line and started screwing up,TRUST ME, I'd expect a good trimming. So, lets get ready for another day in the field and forget about this nonsense.
SUPERMAN0277
11/23/2000
Half buddy,..... I agree, they even sink so low to bring in car salespersons to run the show. Figure that one out !.......... Someone w/ Cable exp would RUN from these guys!
Jobsup4Mastec
11/23/2000
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU TOO JOE BROWN, AND TO ALL THE REST OF THE CABLE DOGS OUT THEIR WE KNOW. HOPE EVERYONE HAS A SAFE WEEK END...
Gerald Whitfield
11/24/2000
To Cables My Life .You,ll have to wait to see what I post about Protel,as far as you ,I challange you to a cable dogs death match,hell we can even go to a foreign country where they have such things.Losers body becomes hamburger meat at Wendys.Got balls enough to try this one punk??????????? You can start by posting your name on here,so I have more than your ip address,but believe I can get your street address from that.I haven,t posted any thing bad about Protel and you can tell you are an Industry ass kiss you can tell you also work for Protel,I've been in this industry 23 years in January,I probably wrote some of the books you call procedures.At any note you don't know me,if you did you wouldn't run you mouth to me,you would have better common sense.So if you want continue ,consider yourself warned (LAMPSHADE) ask Jim Schendlecker before you run your mouth some more.In this business what goes around comes around!!!! Be SEEIN YA "WHITFIELD"
paul
11/24/2000
Wow!!! Never have I heard too much crying, and fighting,and belly acking.Looks like an aol chat room.So come on dawgs shake hands and come out crying.
Mark A. Pickrell
11/24/2000
Long time no talk too all! How are things going for all the ole dawgs? If anyone has not heard I am now Sweep & Cert. Manager in Little Rock, AR. The site had it's problems for the first 30 plus days but it off and running! Looking forward to testing the ability of these "Sweep god's" I keep hearing about! HEY SPLICERLIFE? How's the Chat going? Sorry I have not been able to participate lately. Been to darn busy with the start-up of this Sweep department. If you don't mind I'l drop by soon! Did the Max. 10 people ever get worked out? Hey all! Have a good one! Let's work together! Later
CableIsMyLife
11/24/2000
Hey Whitfield, it's funny you mention books because from what everyone says you haven't read a book in your life, except the one the judge threw at you. As far as your threats... they are weak.. Especially from someone known as the "Sweetheart Of Cell Block C." This is the real world pal.. mind your own business and you will be a happier man. Trust me, you have no clue as to who I am. Spending time in prison shouldn't be something you should be striving for.. hurt and alone isn't a way of life so please take your pulpit and your chip on your shoulder and take it someplace else because no one is buying it. Have a blessed day.
Gerald Whitfield
11/24/2000
I'm back good or bad,like it or not.Yesterday I told all that I would speak my opinion of Protel.Well here it is, I'll start with Jim
Shindledecker, I have the upmost respect for this man.He does not bow when he is under pressure.He knows his job,and performs it well. He has raised a daughter,who is a nice young lady and he should be proud of her.Mike Keizer, the head man of the team is nobodies fool, and he will not keep abrasive people in his organization,it's Mike's way or the highway. He has plenty of internal snitches close to him, which is good from his standpoint.Lenny Bess,my Mama told me if I couldn't say something good about someone don,t
say anything at all,so I won't. Eli McKay, I read some pages back,someone called Eli a liar,all I can is if Eli lied to you,then somebody lied to him in a circumstance where he could not control the outcome. I have known the man for about 10 years and would not hesitate to go anywhere if he called me and asked me to go.Protel as a company,as far as I am concerned
is well run. The Tucson project was under alot
of design problems due to the mother company.They did not check the as builts, they were wasbuilts, things had been changed and not recorded, that made the old design fed into the CAD wrong and some of the new design wrong also. Protel always paid me to the dime ahead of time. It was myself that caused my demise.You can't expect to run around in the state of mind I was in. I admit I was wrong. I'm a big man and three and a half years ago, I got hurt on the job and had to have an anterior dysectomy on C5 and C6 in my neck. I lost alot of muscle mass to the point someone called me Slim. I couldn't take it anymore, so when I went to Tucson, I got on steroids. They put the the muscle mass back on me, but they also made me fly off the handle in certain situations. Protel made the right decision to let me go at that time. They actually did me a favor because now I'm off the juice, and was lucky enough to retain about 40% of mass and I'm happy being 265,I don't have to be 300lbs. In the longrun , it probably saved my life. Steroids are destructive, and I don't care to use them again. I'm glad to be back on the East Coast. It's nice to be able to go home on the weekends to be with my family, rather than be stuck in a motel room far away from home. Sometimes its hard to be an abrasive person in
this business, and by that I mean a contractor that won't put up with bullshit from anyone for any reason. Don,t get me wrong, I have no problem doing things someone else's way, if it's the right way, but I be damned if some punk in a supervisors position,who's mama was still wiping his ass when I started cable, is ever going to cause me to do something the wrong way because it's the way he wants it.I get along well with other people most of the time, but a relationship goes quickly to shit, if you lie to me,cheat me, or go behind my back to do something against me. Don,t expect me to do free work either. If you didn't bid the contract correctly so that everything has a price,we have a problem. I'm going to close for now! I'm getting ready to go deer hunting this evening and enjoy my time off. Wish everyone the best. See you later!"Whitfield"
flinhouse
11/24/2000
Is the correct spelling Cable Dog or Cable Dawg?
CableIsMyLife
11/24/2000
Oh, By The Way Gerald, your parole officer has been informed about your threats. I think using terroristic death threats and signing your name to them ranks you up there with Jethro Bodine. None of this was any of your concern but may have cost yourself more prison time Whitfield for getting involved in something thats none of your business.. now look at what you've done, you've opened your pie hole and now you just may have cost you. The last time I looked, making death threats especially on-line was a serious crime.
