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D Wong Whey
Registered User
Username: Dwongwhey
Post Number: 98
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 05, 2002 - 1:46 pm: | |
For the slower and (Non-Latin) amongst us: da locum melioribus: Give place to your betters.
(Message edited by dwongwhey on April 05, 2002) |
Gordon Mathison
Registered User
Username: Lansur
Post Number: 5
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 05, 2002 - 12:14 pm: | |
Da locum melioribus. (check out http://www.sacklunch.net/Latin/index.html for meaning) This is no place for the haughty as I have learned. Thanks Clayton for your words of wisdom. On behalf of DWongie, thank you for the geography lesson. I must say, I enjoy visualizing the bulging cheeks as I read the postings. And Ghostie, if you want a career change, you could always try the Comedy Shop. And DWongie, if you left some quantum meruit in Quebec, send me your receivables and for 10 points I will effect your recovery. But then, how many times were your files reopened? We cannot pay 2 adjusters for the same adjustment now, can we? I would love to oblige the request for the recitation, but, alas, I am only just learning the words to O Canada. I just realized that this is my 5th post. Yet everytime I post, so do you. How can I catch up? While I remain focussed, Clayton, I have spent hours studying the various resources and have got a ways to go. I am merely exercising my skills learned as an adjuster; namely, to sort the wheat from the chaff. To wit, it would likely make little sense for me to invest in software and hardware before knowing what is essential equipment. It makes less sense to sign on with a company that has a bad rep. I want to avoid getting burned as most of us have been in the past. If I can cut my losses beforehand, so much the better. It is to this end I had solicited the wisdom of the experienced membership. Thank you for those that have provided same. And keep your cheeks bulging. (The ones at either side of your noses.)
(Message edited by lansur on April 05, 2002) |
Clayton Carr
Registered User
Username: Clayton
Post Number: 43
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 05, 2002 - 9:15 am: | |
Hey ....buster, heard my name and thought I would look in. Our honorable member from Lala Land on the pacific coast is reaching out like others of us from maple leaf valley have done. I find it amusing now that quite some time has passed from my initial post, when by the time the smoke had settled and I felt bruised; I was welcomed into the burnt tail feather fraternity.
Wong Whey, you need stronger glasses to see a long ways past the wannabe socialite republic of Brit Columbia - a couple of thousand miles, and many cultures departed - from the lilly pad marshes of les Quebecois. I do not know our new member, but please do not hold the vagaries and lingering memories of the Ice over Quebec against him.
Gordo, it's a different world south of the border, but many things remain the same. If you are committed to North American deployment, I would suggest some basics that with your noted experience you will be able to see other directions to pursue from. First, study this site and all its' forums 100%, extract the obvious tips abd benefits and use those as a launching pad for a career that is available and payable in great Uncle Sam dollars. Sell yourself to a variety of vendors, which includes showing a committment to this culture by completing all certifications that you can get exposed to.
Finally, close your eyes and think back 30 years, when you started on the journey that brought you to this point. In reflection, did you not serve for a period as a grunt, and use that opportunity to absorb critical aspects of this industry?
Well Sir, consider this as starting over, obviously at a different point and level, but still there is a period of new critical learning - not policies or reporting, as much as "ways and means" - I'm going to say you know what I mean.
So, grunt is what is necessary, be it one storm or two; but grunt has a different meaning at times - it could be as simple as a mentor relationship for a storm to learn the very different ways things are accomplished in the land of Stars & Stripes. Best of luck. |
D Wong Whey
Registered User
Username: Dwongwhey
Post Number: 95
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, April 04, 2002 - 9:17 pm: | |
Perhaps Gordy can provide a stiring critique of the Quebecois adjusting environment while he is at it just for the 'old times sake' of a few of us who got scorched in Montreal during the '99 Ice Storm? |
Ghostbuster
Member
Username: Ghostbuster
Post Number: 238
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Thursday, April 04, 2002 - 9:08 pm: | |
Hmmmm. Sounds like you've paid your dues. I guess the next step is to get your 'green card' and latch onto the usual vendor suspects by jumping thru the usual hoops.
Now, as part your CADO initiation, please stand and recite a Canadians critique of the South of the Border culture as it relates to storm trooping in comparasion to your own culture.
(If Clayton can do it, so can you.) |
Gordon Mathison
Registered User
Username: Lansur
Post Number: 4
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, April 04, 2002 - 7:54 pm: | |
Hey, Ghostie, we're not accepting private emails, are we not? You just want to meet me in the open. OK. Crawford 72-74, Hartford 74-76, Cunningham as it is now to 81. Self employed and various I/A's to date. From your profile, I would say the quality of claims have been pretty similar. And, yes you are right. Unfortunately the brothels in Vancouver are abundant. How are they in San A? I doubt if any members would tear you up on your insight. You are right on! You storm trooper you. (Is that something like a sailor?) |
Ghostbuster
Member
Username: Ghostbuster
Post Number: 236
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Thursday, April 04, 2002 - 5:27 pm: | |
Sooo, Gordy, just what kind of 30 years experience does you'uns posess? Possibly anything in the way of insurance staff work or independent work?
Honest to Gawd, anyone looking to make a career jump these days would be a lot happier and wealthier as a brothel manager trainee than going into this business. (Allright...go ahead you hyenas out there, tear me a new one for this observation!) |
joseph m lombardo jr
Registered User
Username: Jlombardo
Post Number: 9
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, April 04, 2002 - 1:54 pm: | |
JOHN----what was hard???? |
Gordon Mathison
Registered User
Username: Lansur
Post Number: 3
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, April 04, 2002 - 1:47 pm: | |
Alright, you got me good. (Why did I feel I was going to get flamed?) I have no quams about doing mundane or menial work. I just don't want to be holding your tape measures (or electronic yardsticks).
As for Ghost's 'brother', your grandiloquence is only surpassed by your malapropism. In fact, erudition is in direct contrast with grunting.
Now, will anyone grace me with a constructive reply? Or are the condors going to have a collective squawk while they feed on the most recent carrion. |
John Durham
Registered User
Username: Johnd
Post Number: 45
Registered: 9-2000
| | Posted on Thursday, April 04, 2002 - 1:10 pm: | |
Ghost, you silver tongue devil, I thought I was "gruntin" only because it was hard. Now you got me wondering what I should do with all my silk shirts and ties. |
D Wong Whey
Registered User
Username: Dwongwhey
Post Number: 94
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, April 04, 2002 - 9:33 am: | |
Amen Brother Ghost. Amen.
Thanks for your erudition. |
Ghostbuster
Member
Username: Ghostbuster
Post Number: 235
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Thursday, April 04, 2002 - 8:24 am: | |
Awwww, poor Gordy don't wanta do grunt work...
GRUNT WORK??? Grunt work is our forte, our raison 'd etre, our sole purpose in life out here in the field. Just what do you think storm trooping is? It's doing what most other civilized insurance people WON'T!
Any real storm trooper would drive clear across the continent for 100 'GRUNT WORK' files these days. Gordy, ya might wanta rethink your priorities and career analysis if you consider storm trooping as mere grunt work. There is a reason we don't wear neckties and wool blend suits out here. |
Gordon Mathison
Registered User
Username: Lansur
Post Number: 2
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 03, 2002 - 11:14 pm: | |
My apologies to those viewers who have had to view yet another 'help' plea. (I have searched other forums but fear the advice there may be stale and no longer pertinent.) This however seems to be the best forum where, by the law of large numbers, some valuable advice should be fed back. I recognize I have to start somewhere, regardless of my 30 years' experience, but I also want to avoid the pitfall of being earmarked as a rookie and doing grunt work.
Any tips on how to get decent work with decent firms?
Would it be time and money well invested to attend, say, the claimsacademy?
What is the software of preference (Xactimate or)?
Thank you all for your indulgence and feedback. My email address is adjusterbc@icqmail.com. |
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