Never Too Old (Page 2): In the early 70's NAS Agana, Guam had a C-121, Connie, that we flew on various logistics flight around SE Asia & Pacific regions. The crew nicknamed our mission...

vj62 Loc: Fairfax, VA

In the early 70's NAS Agana, Guam had a C-121, Connie, that we flew on various logistics flight around SE Asia & Pacific regions. The crew nicknamed our mission as "Short Haul Interisland Transport" flights. So when asked what we did with that silver bird we could reply "We fly SHIT".

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

foxfirerodandgun wrote:

A few years before my retirement, the company that I had worked for implemented a new procedure for newly hired employees. And the acronym for this new program was S.H.I.T. It stood for "Super High Intensity Training. From that point going forward each newly hired employee received their daily ration of S.H.I.T each working day for their entire six month training period. ;~)

I've been given a lot of that 'High Intensity Training'...

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

vj62 wrote:

In the early 70's NAS Agana, Guam had a C-121, Connie, that we flew on various logistics flight around SE Asia & Pacific regions. The crew nicknamed our mission as "Short Haul Interisland Transport" flights. So when asked what we did with that silver bird we could reply "We fly SHIT".

Kinda like 'Sam Houston Institute of Technology'....really Sam Houston State University that has a Technology college.

TreborLow

Sorry, this is a false story. Check Snopes and any etymology page. I do agree that we are never to old to learn something new, but just like kids, we have to be critical thinkers and check real sources. Too much other 'fake news' and 'alternate facts' are already out there....

But it is a fun 'story'.

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

TreborLow wrote:

Sorry, this is a false story. Check Snopes and any etymology page. I do agree that we are never to old to learn something new, but just like kids, we have to be critical thinkers and check real sources. Too much other 'fake news' and 'alternate facts' are already out there....

But it is a fun 'story'.

Geez, never meant to be a 'true story, just a bit of levity...

raferrelljr Loc: CHARLOTTE, NC

I always thought that it was an upper management term: "Special High Intensity Training".

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

Well, there are adjective and adverb usages too. Should a word that has such broad usages really be a cuss word. It always takes a paragraph to get the same meaning across.

JohnSwanda wrote:

Fun story, but not "true" - it has been... (show quote)

foxfirerodandgun Loc: Stony Creek, VA

raferrelljr wrote:

I always thought that it was an upper management term: "Special High Intensity Training".

Not in this case. It was implemented at the hourly employee level because "Upper Management" did not believe that the ones who did the ACTUAL work would know, or understand, the difference. They discovered their error in judgement a bit later when we went on a 15 week unionized labor strike and "Upper Management" failed grotesquely in their attempt to operate the production facilities and lost several large customers in the process. Attitudes changed dramatically after that and the hourly workers were seen, and treated, in a much better manner. Please excuse my rant here, but this has always left the figurative "foul taste" in my mouth (pun intended).

The lost customers eventually re-established themselves with the company after concessions were made on my companies behalf.