Rave: Wildlife at work

[jim]

Ok, so we have alot of ticks where I work. But I'll take the reason we have them, a beautiful 6,800 acre campus with the best fishing around and tons of wildlife. Went for a run at lunch and stopped to enjoy this:

[SHOW]

The bison normally are further out, today a group was hanging around the barn. I would have walked up to the fence to take a closer picture but .... ticks. Like all jobs there the good and the bad, but I genuinely have been grateful for having worked in such a beautiful environment for 17 years come July. The amount of wildlife I see on a daily basis never gets old ... the only mink I have ever seen in the wild was right outside my building. There are too many little ponds to count, most of them teaming with largemouth and smallmouth bass up to 4 pounds.

If I ever leave this place I will so sorely miss this, ticks and all.

[JL21]

I thought this might be about the math nerd genius guy who almost [expletive] his pants all the time. Or the guy who walks around crop-dusting everyone's office with his farts.

[heyzeus]

It's not all vultures here at the 'Zeus Firm LLP. Every late spring, if it's rained that year we're overrun with nasty black crickets that form a blanket of carcasses in the ground floor and stairwells and stink to hell.

[cardinalkarp]

Haven't you posted this before?? We get it, you work at a cool place...other than having to go out to dinner w/ your cohorts.

<----- busting jim's balls

[thrill]

We have stray cats, including one that looks like HItler.

[Fat_Bulldog]

We have nasty geese.

[jim]

It's not all vultures here at the 'Zeus Firm LLP. Every late spring, if it's rained that year we're overrun with nasty black crickets that form a blanket of carcasses in the ground floor and stairwells and stink to hell.

I work on the 3rd floor of a 3 story building, and last summer we had a pair that must have been nesting on the top of the building no more than 150 feet from my office window in plain sight. Ugly but really graceful in the air.

[SHOW]

[Popeye_Card]

So you know how they say you should never try to run away from a bear, because they can run like 35 mph? Well last year while driving to a job site, we stumbled across a black bear running across a meadow, and it had to be going at least 30+ mph. I now believe what they say, and I'm never running away from a bear again. That thing was truckin'.

[jim]

We have nasty geese.

We have thousands and thousand of them. In fact we get a newsletter every month reminding us how aggressive they get in April/May. I searched employee injuries and found four incidents since 2000 that resulted in an injury where the employee lost work time. I've been chased twice, once I was walking on a very well traveled sidewalk between two buildings and I could see it coming - starting hissing and even though I went out of my way off the sidewalk and away from them he decided to chase me anyway. I called our grounds crew and as soon as I started to explain they finished my sentence - apparently the thing had attacked every single person in the past half hour. The other time I was chased I was off the beaten path and I stumbled on a nest.

btw - my dog Dizzy loved the goose turds. She ate them like milk bones dog biscuits. She would have feasted on them if I let her. Dogs mouths are cleaner than peoples you know.

[jim]

We have nasty geese.

We have thousands and thousand of them. In fact we get a newsletter every year reminding us how aggressive they get in April/May. I searched employee injuries and found four incidents since 2000 that resulted in an injury where the employee lost work time. I've been chased twice, once I was walking on a very well traveled sidewalk between two buildings and I could see it coming - starting hissing and even though I went out of my way off the sidewalk and away from them he decided to chase me anyway. I called our grounds crew and as soon as I started to explain they finished my sentence - apparently the thing had attacked every single person in the past half hour. The other time I was chased I was off the beaten path and I stumbled on a nest.

btw - my dog Dizzy loved the goose turds. She ate them like milk bones dog biscuits. She would have feasted on them if I let her. Dogs mouths are cleaner than peoples you know.