Adam and Lisa's Blog: Recent Comments

Comment on The Funniest Game EVER

2008-11-03T16:45:07Z

Probably so. After all, eight years of trumpet-playing every day is pretty good for the lung capacity. It also helps that one of the first things my junior high band teacher (Mr. Purvis -- he was awesome) taught us was how to breathe deeply enough to play effectively without taking little breaths all the time. Use your diaphragm, etc. So, that combined with genetics results in me being able to launch a Halloween-candy-sized box of Red Hots eight or nine feet without really trying all that hard. I am sure my ancestors and band teacher would be proud.

Comment on Changes for the New Fall Season

2008-11-03T16:40:31Z

Papa Johns employees do indeed get a discount on pizza. However, the real benefit in that category is that if anyone cancels their order after the pizza is made, or if they are dissatisfied with a pizza, it gets devoured by pizza store employees. After all, it's not like it could be sold to someone else or anything.

I have not used either the discount or the free pizza benefit yet, since I am usually out on a delivery run while the in-store kids are attacking unwanted pizzas, and I wanted to earn enough in tips to pay for the GPS unit I bought to make the deliveries before I spent any of my tip money on my own pizza addiction. I am only $20 away from paying for that unit, by the way, after four days of delivering pizzas. Good times.

Comment on Changes for the New Fall Season

2008-11-03T00:35:21Z

I saw your comments on my blog. Thanks!
I agree, I too don't care for Halloween. I can't imagine delivering pizza Halloween night with kids running around the streets. It must have been crazy! We only have one boy come to our door Halloween night. By the way, does Papa Johns give you a discount?

Comment on The Funniest Game EVER

2008-11-03T00:27:02Z

He does have the cutest laugh ever. Adam I think that game is really good exercise for your lungs. I bet you have a very large FEV1.

Comment on Changes for the New Fall Season

2008-10-31T14:14:19Z

I agree. I am not a Halloween person. I would rather it just didn't occur.

Comment on Changes for the New Fall Season

2008-10-30T22:21:47Z

Adam,
Now I am pushing the "subscribe to this blog" button so we will see if it works!

Comment on Changes for the New Fall Season

2008-10-30T20:29:53Z

Yeah, you would think that FedEx would be better to its employees. Actually, I found out something interesting about FedEx and UPS. It used to be really great to work for those companies both as a driver and as a plain old package handler. My last direct manager at FedEx talked about how the shipping industry is frozen in time. He started as a package handler at UPS twenty years ago (in 1988), and the starting wage was $9.50 an hour for the day shift and $10.00 per hour for the night shift. That was an awesome wage at the time, and it was really tough to get a job at UPS or FedEx because the pay was so good. Drivers and package handlers both made great money and were therefore pretty loyal to the job and the quality of their work.

Would you like to guess what the starting wage is today for package handlers at FedEx? $9.50 per hour for the day shift and $10.00 per hour for the night shift. That's right. 20 years later, the starting wage is exactly the same. And for some reason, it's incredibly simple to get a package handler job there. All you really have to be able to do is read basic English and be able to lift stuff. Drivers still make pretty good money, but package handlers get treated like riffraff because management knows they can easily replace any package handler almost instantaneously. How has this affected employee loyalty and dedication to quality work? Well, let's just say that while throwing packages is supposedly discouraged, I don't know a single package handler that didn't regularly do it. Slapping a "FRAGILE" sticker on a box did absolutely nothing. In fact, it probably made people see just how fragile the thing in the box really was.

Comment on Changes for the New Fall Season

2008-10-30T17:34:23Z

Congrats on the new job! Isn't it amazing that you can make MORE money delivering pizza then doing grunt labor at one of the most successful companies in the world? Wow!

I am excited this year to be in our house and hand out candy. In our old place we only had about 4 trick-or-treaters, so I am exciting to have more this year. With that said, I totally agree with you that there is a limit! We bought 4 bags of candy, and when those are gone: the lights are going off and nothing else will be handed out! It is interesting so many people bring their kids to your particular neighborhood- don't they have tirck-or-treat streets at the local high school or mall or zoo or anywhere? Oh, well- I bet when Joshua is older you will enjoy Halloween again!

Comment on The Funniest Game EVER

2008-10-29T16:05:24Z

It's pretty much the cutest laugh ever. I particularly enjoy it when I can get him to do that via tickling. However, he tends to pay more attention to the camera than the tickling when we try to catch that on video. I am glad we got this game on video. We are both delighted by it.

-Adam

Comment on The Funniest Game EVER

2008-10-29T16:00:52Z

I love that laugh!!! I will have to get Ben to play this "game" with Audra-I think she will love it as well!