Places my order have gone and I have not

@ExtraMedium Hagerstown is rather boring but there arr some great hiking trails and historical sites nearby

@CaptAmehrican @ExtraMedium My mom lived in Hagertown for a while, and I visited their little airport when I worked for a general aviation manufacturer.

@ExtraMedium I only have bad memories of Hagerstown, MD. My former employer has a major site there and my job required me to visit there one time. Then, when I was promoted to a national level in my job, I would have to be traveling there as a requirement for 20% of my time. I ended up leaving the company to go to a competitor that promised me I could work from home and never have to travel. So the last 17 years of employment were because of my experience I had at Hagerstown.

@cengland0 @ExtraMedium So it appears you don’t like business travel, but was there something particularly unpleasant about Hagerstown?

@ThunderChicken It was over 20 years ago since my last visit there so I’ll try to remember some things. The city had rules that you couldn’t have a building taller than 2 stories because of having an airport nearby. Weird but very minor.

The rest of the issues were about the people. This could be a culture thing within my former company but they all resided in Hagerstown so I don’t know.

The management team was all stuck-up. Regular employees didn’t socialize with the managers. At my site, people of all levels ate lunch with the President because he ate in the cafeteria just like everyone else.

All employees worked in cubicles and you could identify the managers in Hagerstown by looking at their cube – it was elevated a couple inches higher than associate cubes. That way, you had to step-up to go inside a managers cubicle. Very silly.

I was a level 6 manager and my office in Florida was at the same level as everyone else’s. I was lucky to have an office with a window but that was only because of a limited number of cubes with windows so when the floor plan was created, they automatically gave those to the higher level managers. My boss was the only person to have a real office with a physical door. The rest of the managers were at the same floor level as their team.

When we hired someone from Hagerstown to come work for us in Florida, it was a promotion for that person. The Hagerstown people said we couldn’t do that and we had to ask permission before we took any of their people. I’ve never encountered that before. You interview people within the company and hire the best person for the job – period. Then you work with their existing manager on a transition period, not ask permission if you can promote one of their people. Obviously there are rules that people on a corrective action plan cannot be transferred as a disciplinary action but that was company wide. Ask permission to promote someone, ha! So stupid.

The Florida site used to be owned by the largest company in America at the time. Then that company divested most of their assets to get cash so they could invest in a new business venture. They are still in that new business today, BTW. Anyway, we were sold off to another company and the headquarters for the North America division was in Hagerstown. We went from being a company that had a “best place to work” motto to being second class citizens such as them not caring about how we currently do things and we must do it their way. We were told this merger would result in the best parts being taken from both companies to create a new stronger company. As it turned out, they disassembled all the things my team worked 10 years to create, that the employees loved to use, for outdated garbage that had terrible flaws.

Claims and promises to implement project requirements exactly as written turned into lies and deceit. Simple requirements such as “Associates must be able to bookmark web pages” were technically implemented because Lotus notes called “Anchors” inside the database as a bookmark or it was MS Word that did and those documents were eventually imported. So associates could never bookmark pages but, by ignoring the spirit and purpose of the requirement and using the techno-mumbo-jumbo-jargon within the documentation for the application, the word bookmark was implemented and signed off as being fulfilled. The site felt like it was being managed by the mafia and you needed to conform to their way of doing things or they would break you into submission.

I don’t want to say that I hate the people of Hagerstown but I will say that there wasn’t anyone there that I liked, except the one employee that we did hire from there. She was so happy to get away from Hagerstown that she paid her own moving expenses to come to Florida.

@ThunderChicken Oh, I forgot to add something. When I got promoted to be the national person and it required me to travel 20% of the time, I would be responsible for the Hagerstown site too. There is no way in hell I was going to take that promotion but it sort of left me without a job. I had to take it or else kind of situation. So I had friends working for our competitor recruit me there and I worked for the competitor for another 17 years and then retired.

@cengland0 @ThunderChicken It sounds like maybe a cultural thing at the office there. The rest of the people might not suck. Although I can never say the word Maryland without putting a mental fucking before it. But I spend my time in a different part of the state.

@sammydog01 Yes, probably a culture thing not related to the location but to the company at the site. Everyone else from the other non-Hagerstown sites that were also bought up by that company were very pleasant to deal with.

@yakkoTDI Also, my shirts left PB’s shipping facility in Grapevine on Dec. 9th with no updates since then.

@yakkoTDI grapevine tx brags it is the cantaloupe capital of the world. This alone is an odd enough brag to make it interesting

@CaptAmehrican @yakkoTDI But not grapes?

@CaptAmehrican @yakkoTDI I’ve been to the Artichoke Capital of the World, AND the Garlic Capital of the World.

@blaineg @CaptAmehrican @yakkoTDI I’ve been to the broom making capital of the world. Even bought a broom. Still have it years later as it was well made.

@lisaviolet gilbert az was the 7th ranked best places to raise a family in 2019.

@CaptAmehrican Yeah, because that’s where Scrapbook.com lives.

Crafting makes like good.

@gogrrl it is wine glasses of course they like grape vines. Wine is just rotted grape juice

@CaptAmehrican
Makes sense. In that case, i hope they make their way back to Grapevine someday.

@LordRegent that is some fast traveling

@sammydog01 archeologists say Montreal area has been occupied for over 4000 years

@sammydog01 oh nooooooo.

@sammydog01 Things are so bad here even our packages are trying to escape.

@rockblossom @sammydog01 They have good food in Quebec but it sucks if you can’t speak French. it’s just funny if it’s actually your regret kit that ended up there. Hopefully it speaks French.

@sammydog01 It’s making a break for it.

@pmarin @rockblossom It made it out to Hagerstown and is out for delivery. Except the Fedex people lie so I’ll believe it when I see it. I still would like to see Montreal as an adult.

I just remembered I went to the World’s Fair there when I was a kid. I remember it was cold. Soooooo cold. Standing in insanely long lines outside in the cold. The highlight was a cup of hot cocoa because my hands were frozen. The rest is gone from my memory. Kid of sad actually- I bet it was amazing. I should go look at some photos.

Looks like here i can visit the Barn at Snider Farms, the Denmark Presbyterian Church, and the Britton Lane Civil War battlefield.
Think I’ll just live vicariously through my package on this one.