Daily Dose Sultnpapper 12/01/18> Ho, Ho, Ho… it is SBI Saturday
Damn, we have...
Damn, we have rounded the corner and headed down the stretch to the end of ’18 and we just have a few or so more SBI Saturdays to get this year behind us and stick a fork in it. Oh wait, we did stick a fork in it already and that didn’t work very well if I recall. Today is the first day of the last month and I look forward to seeing this year gone.
Until then though...
Until then though we have some things to take care and one of those are making sure each Saturday the Daily Dose gives away some shares of SBI . We will get to that in a moment but first I have a story that I want to share. I just found out on Friday that one guy that worked for the company I currently work for spend time in prison for a murder.
It turned out...
It turned out that him and two other guys were running a black market blue jean sales operation while they were in the US Air Force and one guy decided he had enough and was going to turn himself and the other two guys into the law enforcement officials.
Well, those two...
Well, those two guys didn’t like what they were hearing so they buried an ax in the guy’s head and then dismembered his body and burned it in a 55 gallon steel drum.
I am not sure...
I am not sure exactly how they got caught but it ended up that the guy who formerly worked at our company plead guilty to second degree murder and was the key witness for the conviction of his partner in the crime.
I had only...
I only had met Mr. Ax-man a couple times and never did have the opportunity to work beside him, thank God for that. But my question is just how in the hell did the HR manager end up hiring this guy?
The company has...
The company has a rule that says no fire arms can be brought onto the property at our locations but I have never seen any rule against axes; so the HR lady put all the rest of the employees at risk by not allowing us to have ourselves armed and protected, yet his weapon of choice wasn’t banned.
The good news is he never hurt anyone that I know of at work and he did quit on his own so chances are he won’t be coming back to settle any scores with anyone, or least it wouldn’t seem like he would.
I know people...
I know people can change but anyone who can even imagine killing someone and then following through with it is not one I would want to take a chance on hiring.
I would like to think the lady in HR would feel the same way. Either she doesn’t or she flat blew it when she hired this guy and didn’t do the criminal background check as she was supposed to do.
A couple of us...
A couple of us were talking on Friday about former employees and where they may have gone to work and this guy’s name came up. When I heard the story I had to google it, and it was right there to be found. I didn’t conduct a full blown criminal background check, so how one of those criminal background checks could have missed it is beyond me.
I need to make a note to myself if I end up staying here much longer to always at least google search new hires names and see what comes up from the bowels of the internet. Have you ever worked with a convicted murderer or had one working where you work?
Speaking of murder...
Speaking of murder, I have been killing it at the Steem Poker League poker game the last couple of nights.
Friday night was the Curie sponsored $20 SBD tournament and coming fresh off of my win on Thursday evening I just wasn’t “feeling it”, if you know what I mean. The tournament pays four places and with five players left in the tournament I was the short stack meaning I had the least amount of poker chips of the five players.
It was a long...
It was a long hard fought battle with several lead changes taking place between the other four players and I just kept plugging along until there were just three of us left.
I hit a couple good hands and took lead by taking out one of the two other players when he went all in. That left me and a guy named Chops to battle it out for the win and the $9 SBD first place prize.
It was funny that the third place guy had mentioned that we just couldn’t kill Chops and get him gone. He was like a cat with nine lives and would hit whatever card he needed at just the right moment to stay in the game.
At one point...
At one point in our heads up battle for the win, and just after losing a big pot to Chops, I messaged him that he deserved to win. I was pretty tired and needed to get this Daily Dose done so I was about to just give up and concede the win by going all in on junk cards and letting him know I was going to do it. He messaged me back saying he really didn’t deserve to win, he had just been lucky.
Well, being lucky...
Well, being lucky is a part of poker, despite what anyone tries to tell you. The problem with most amateur poker players is that they rely on luck and you just can’t be lucky all the time.
Don’t get me wrong here; I am not saying Chops relies on luck; he is a good poker player and if I had to lose to someone I would rather it be him. He doesn’t play junk cards and he makes bets that are in line with the value of the cards he is holding for the most part.
Him telling me that he had just been lucky lit a fire with me and I started playing aggressively. We went back and forth exchanging the lead but in the end; I ended up taking him out and winning the tournament.
When I get in...
When I get in a poker tournament I have one thing in mind and it isn’t winning the tournament. That one thing is to be around long enough to get a piece of the prize purse. With most of these tournaments only paying four places you have to play differently than in a tournament that pays all nine players who make it to the final table.
Being a disciplined...
Being a disciplined poker player is something I take pride in and it isn’t as easy as you might think it would be. Emotions run high in poker games and like the old song says, “you got to know when to hold’em and know when to fold’em”. You can’t let emotions get in the way of making good decisions. (That is also a good life lesson too.)
I probably need to...
I probably need to stop right here on giving poker advice in case some of you decide to come join us over at the Steem Poker League. I would hate to think that some advice I might give you would end up benefiting you and also be keeping me from catching a piece of the purse if you come play over there.
How about some SBI? Saturday SBI is being dealt out right now.
@beautifulbullies is the first recipient of a share of SBI this week. She was sharp enough to take my advice about joining the poker league and I know for a fact that she has won crypto already in just the short week or ten days she has been playing with us.
If you have any doubts about joining the Steem Poker League ask her what her opinion is, I am pretty sure she will tell you it is really fun and good poker is being played there.
Since I am...
Since I am in the poker spirit right now I am going to just keep going that direction with SBI winners and so that guy I mentioned earlier as Chops is actually @chops316 and you have heard what I have to say about him already. In case you skipped the story and jumped right down here, he is a good guy and really good poker player.
@generausd ended up in third place Friday night in the tournament and Gene is no stranger to final tables either, in fact he finished in second place on Thursday night in that tournament that I won.
I don’t chat much during poker games and it really wouldn’t do me very well to chat with Gene because he isn’t an English as a first language person and I am not sure where he is from, but jajajaja Gene.
That seems to be a phrase he uses often, jajajaja, and he explained it once to me but I’ll be damned if I can remember just what it meant now. It wasn’t anything bad though, I do know that, or at least he told me it wasn’t.
So this week...
So this week all the SBI winners have something to do with the poker games and I like that, poker is an important part of the SBI Saturday shares and it is good to include some of the poker members here at the Daily Dose.
Until next time,
@sultnpapper
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Oh my goodness, I bet you felt a bit sick when you found out you had worked with an ex murderer. Especially one who would dismember the victim, yikes. I too believe in giving someone another chance but dismembering.....cannot even imagine the thought. Glad he is working elsewhere...although do those people know? geesh. Congrats on the poker win, sounds like you're having a load of fun @sultnpapper
The first time I heard about him I thought the guy telling me was lying about it or pulling my leg. Then he told me during his interview process one of the people in our company asked him if he had anything in his background like being a convicted ax murderer?
At that point I called "bullshit" on it and he said go ask Charlie, he is the one who asked me. So I phoned Charlie and he sure enough told me the story and said google it yourself.
My sickness comes from the idea that this guy wasn't using a fake name or anything and he gets hired on at the company and then they are "surprised" about it. A criminal background check should have exposed that in a heart beat when just a regular Google search did. That is the sick part for me, along with the murder.
Thanks for the congrats and in answer to your question about if "those people know?" Nobody has a clue where he went to work after he left our company so I don't have an answer for that question.
Awww just read this, thank you so much for the SBI! I really enjoyed our game we just had and I am learning so much from playing with you guys. I have so much fun there! Some days I can't even win 1 hand, but then other times I think you all feel sorry for me ;) So glad I joined SPL and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys poker and wants to play for fun as well as the chance to earn some crypto! Thanks again @sultnpapper!
BB xx
You are most welcome on the SBI and I have to say that was one of the most impressive comebacks I have seen in a poker game in quite some time so congratulations on beating me and taking first place and the prize money.
It is a shame I had to witness it from the only seat left at the table besides yours.
I believe that jajajaja is the same as our hahahahaha. It certainly makes sense in Spanish...
That's a just a gruesome story about the co worker. Made my nose wrinkle up when I read it.
I've worked the trades most of my life, and I know some of those guys have a record. I didn't know of any axe murderers though...
I did work with a guy that I know did two 'bits' for murder in two different states, but those were drunken bar fights in which somebody died. Neither time amounted to ten years and he was a pretty good lesson for sobriety for me.
I did hire a guy in the cleaning business that I knew had a dope record. He ended up in Florence (AZ hard time) because he got his third strike and while he was waiting trial he beat a guard and attempted an escape.
A good guy that basically couldn't keep his nose out of the dope bag. I did have him with me on a federal job and believe me, his jail/prison record was on the disclosure form. He was a good employee and I'd have kept him on even if the feds disqualified him, but they didn't. All employees had to have one of the two owners on site when they were working... The Army and the general contractor were pretty fussy about that. One day I had three guys on the job and got a call that I was urgently needed in town. I had to go to the general's job shack and get one of his foremen to monitor my guys for the probable two hours I'd be gone. Worked out, but for a time I thought I might have to take the crew with me...
Well, I'm glad you've kept the funding source active for the SBI initiative going strong. Congratulations!
You bring up a good point about the federal contracts and the Army in particular. I know that we have a couple of contracts along those lines with Brooks Army base and Randolph Air Force in San Antonio and those would have been in the area he was responsible for working in so he may have just decided to leave rather than get let go if he had left the second degree murder charge off of his employment application.
I wouldn't have a problem or issue working with someone with a dope conviction tagged to them but violent crime is a area I have reservations about.
The first of the month is when you can cash out over at the poker site without having to pay a "rush fee" for withdrawing funds so I had put in my slip for enough SBD to fund December before the game on Friday night. By the time the game ended I had built my account back up over there to an amount just about equal to what I had submitted for cashing out so SBI Saturday is looking good for the next couple of months if not longer.
That makes sense also on the jajajaja, and that does sound familiar now that you mention it.
I haven't knowingly worked with anyone who was convicted of murder, but a friend once confessed that he had served a long prison sentence for it. It wasn't as grisly or premeditated as the one you describe, but it had the same outcome for the victim. I had to decide, do I reject this person, who clearly regrets what he did two decades ago, so that he only has the company of other criminals to associate with, or do I respect the good work that the social workers have done to rehabilitate him into society, while not overlooking the fact that there was a victim involved? I chose to do the latter. If it was my workplace I don't know what I would have done. Certainly, my previous boss was a psychopath, but she has the law on her side!
I don't know that I would have had a problem working with him, I would be more concerned if he had a problem working with me.
My biggest concern in that whole situation was that the company didn't seem to know his background and that is disturbing to me.
That is a good point! And yes, concerning about the company HR.
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Ok... that story sounds horrible. I am glad you had nothing to do with that ax and that you were not on either side of it. Enjoy the weekend! 💚
Yes, not a pretty story, and glad that I didn't ever have to work with him directly. I was in a couple company meetings where he was there but not what I would consider as "working with" him out on some job site like I am doing currently with the pump guys.
You enjoy the weekend as well, Friday night gave me a good start to it with that win in the poker tournament.
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This is funny stuff!! Always a pleasure to read the daily dose. Kind of interesting how your co-worker fell through the cracks, hey?! Especially if a Google search returned information on it. Perhaps he's related to the HR person so caught a break.
Howdy sir sultnpapper! That story about the murderer was pretty amazing. They had to have dropped the ball or just liked the guy anyway but I like your idea of checking every new hire if you stay there. Does it look like you might stay?
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