That is a good point Mike. How many of us can actually tune with both arms? Sounds like something worth learning. Imagine all that stress on only one arm, and then years later paying for it. TODD PIANO WORKS Matthew Todd, Piano Technician (979) 248-9578 http://www.toddpianoworks.com --- On Thu, 2/26/09, Michael Magness <IFixPianos at yahoo.com> wrote: From: Michael Magness <IFixPianos at yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [pianotech] sick customers To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 2:23 PM On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:54 AM, John Formsma <formsma at gmail.com> wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: Lacking choice, he did what he had to, within his capacity, to survive. It's something the "I showed up, eventually, and that ought to be enough" species doesn't and never will get. No matter how wonderful we may think we are or would hope to appear to be, the folks who are honestly trying to do their best for the pay they receive are the ones to look to for role models once the padded resumes and iridescent smoke clouds are sifted out. As I see it... It'll never win you kudos with the sniveling social commentators, enablers, participators, and shameless sharers of lackluster in our day ... but for what it's worth, I agree. -- JF -- It's a judgment call. Would you rather die of the plague, or starve? When you're self employed with nobody paying you for sick days, working sick is the coin of the realm. Ron N Kudos to Ron for putting it into perspective. I have had a few customers(very few) call and advise me that there was flu. bronchitis, etc. in their home. Unless they preferred I didn't come because it was inconvenient to them, I kept the appointment. I have a schedule to keep, a living to earn, a job to do unless I am incapacitated or requested not to, I will be there to do it. When I fell and tore my rotator cuff on the shoulder of my right arm, my tuning arm, a full tear I found out later, I went to the walk-in clinic that day where the doc diagnosed it as a muscle tear. I continued tuning the next day, Nov. 10 right through Christmas season and all of January and finally had an MMR on Feb.1 which showed the full tear. Downtime for surgery is 6 months, I'm self-employed! I'm not a professional sports player, there are no rules against it, so I get a cortesone shot about 3 times a year and I manage. A cold, the flu? A minor annoyance, besides they have these things called flu shots, haven't had the flu in years. Only get a cold every couple of years. Mike I intend to live forever. So far, so good. Steven Wright Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com email mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090226/a183994d/attachment-0001.html>
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