greg334
Veteran Expediter
I am, sometimes... sort of ...
OK,
What’s this about??
I have to sort of... sometimes.. maybe.. can possibly... agree with Diesel there.
Some of us go a little overboard with beating up of other member sometimes but with that said the openness of the forum has not any relation to the history between some whom are targets of others of the members at large simply because they sometimes bring it on themselves, like me.
I for one sometimes find it amusing to see people having differing opinions or get entertained by trying to figure out why one person is making some comments about another and then learn their history. Overall I usually take something away from most of the posts I read.
But I said this before, EO, like other forums is like a big family, extended family to be exact. There will always be people complaining (me), someone always putting others down and so on but overall when there is a heated discussion, surprisingly there is some good that comes out of it – you have to use your brain to see what is going on and what information you can get from it, nothing is given in this profession or in life in general.
As for a forum being any more friendly, well I won’t go into what I think of other forums in this profession other then to say a few have a h*ll of a lot of problems and their own little click of people who are not friendly at all. I think EO does do a very good job, not perfect but very good. But what floors me the most is the complaints about the posts and no one actually leading by example.
Now one last thing that I have to ask for the people who seem to complain about it, what do you expect? You work and live in a profession that is part of the trucking profession, it is not like doctors and lawyers getting together and conversing in a country club setting. Many who are surrounding me right now are not what I would call Sunday social types, like the guy standing to the right of my truck in his under shorts, shirtless with sandals on - such professionalism there if you know what I mean. I can discuss this at great lengths with a lot of examples and even a few pictures, but don’t forget we, EO members actually try to be above all of that and at times have to vent, which leads to a lot of ‘discussions’.
Ok?
Manlaw, glad I didn’t chase you away but I find something in your post a little funny “I will not participate in the negative attitude, it only leads to MORE negativity.†- should I quote your comment in another post?
OK,
What’s this about??
I have to sort of... sometimes.. maybe.. can possibly... agree with Diesel there.
Some of us go a little overboard with beating up of other member sometimes but with that said the openness of the forum has not any relation to the history between some whom are targets of others of the members at large simply because they sometimes bring it on themselves, like me.
I for one sometimes find it amusing to see people having differing opinions or get entertained by trying to figure out why one person is making some comments about another and then learn their history. Overall I usually take something away from most of the posts I read.
But I said this before, EO, like other forums is like a big family, extended family to be exact. There will always be people complaining (me), someone always putting others down and so on but overall when there is a heated discussion, surprisingly there is some good that comes out of it – you have to use your brain to see what is going on and what information you can get from it, nothing is given in this profession or in life in general.
As for a forum being any more friendly, well I won’t go into what I think of other forums in this profession other then to say a few have a h*ll of a lot of problems and their own little click of people who are not friendly at all. I think EO does do a very good job, not perfect but very good. But what floors me the most is the complaints about the posts and no one actually leading by example.
Now one last thing that I have to ask for the people who seem to complain about it, what do you expect? You work and live in a profession that is part of the trucking profession, it is not like doctors and lawyers getting together and conversing in a country club setting. Many who are surrounding me right now are not what I would call Sunday social types, like the guy standing to the right of my truck in his under shorts, shirtless with sandals on - such professionalism there if you know what I mean. I can discuss this at great lengths with a lot of examples and even a few pictures, but don’t forget we, EO members actually try to be above all of that and at times have to vent, which leads to a lot of ‘discussions’.
Ok?
Manlaw, glad I didn’t chase you away but I find something in your post a little funny “I will not participate in the negative attitude, it only leads to MORE negativity.†- should I quote your comment in another post?
