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old bob wiley
You are right!!
Well i certainly have seen a lot of tricks in how to work the system in this chamber business..
now the kid i worked with in california .. robbed and embezzled about 50 thousand dollars..
When i Got the the Boeing job with Bob Wiley in charge.. john tenbrink demenstrated that Old
Bob is as smart as a fox..
it was ok be be drunk on the job and falsefy your working hours.. and dave drumham called his co-workers “Backstabbers”
if they didn’t agree with him..
Gregory v johnson had … as hil sysbesma said .. ” he had tom bannish around his little finger”..
He said who ever tell tom bannish what ever lies he wants to hear is right..
and tom Bannich encouraged deceit and dishonesty.. with his “Every one is the Manager”
Roger cannady was another idoit who would believe any lies and libel and defraud his co workers
when i asked Thomas Bannach what he ment by that evey one is the manager? he said .. “Well that’s the problem”
(TB really is a disease)
Thomas Bannach is a example why holland michigan church goers — was viewed with distain–
and are called “michigan west coast hypocrits”
religious hypocrites

1 John 4:20 ESV / 408 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Matthew 7:5 ESV / 323 helpful votes

You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

James 1:26 ESV / 316 helpful votes

If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.
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Yes Bob Wiley hired him twice– to be his personal liar and deceiver!
and as he demenstrated when he comes to town there is a new level of curruption..and fraud
gregory v johnson he started his carreer by being the neighbor hood thief and bugler.
. he showed me all the housed he robbed when we were in Pasandia visiting his mother..
Tom bannash loved his lies..he was his pet false wittness
But Enseco Fired him within 6 months.. for robbery.. embezzelment etc..and he left the service job at Montgomery /sears — because of that issue
Mitch Kerr form all temp engineering told me that the word was out and that gregory V Johnson wouldn’t get any work in that valley any more.
He also told me how therMoTron had not payed them for about 50,000 dollars of warrenty work..billed to them..
I told him that with all the different embezzlers and thieves he has worked with .. that does not seem out of character of that company.
greg was typical for a tom bannich pet
it may seem high ..but after Rouloff’s removed the salesman bo bjarno.. then the sky was the limit..his 10 thousand a year went to about 20 thousand..
and he spent the last year at thermotron selling realestate, which he should have stayed in.. because it is a job where u just lie to everyone
ya tom bannish drummed out
5 securtaries, the 2 sales man , and my self told .. bannach about it…
also the people in the seattle office and the LA office..
BEING HARRASSED AND DRUMMED OUT IS COMMON AT THErMOtRON
even though there is a federal law against it..
but i learned a big lesson about that Thermotron management style ..
harrasement, lying, and drumming out people = (equals) basic dis-honesty
You can’t tell a Dummy anything .. “That’s why they are called Dummies”
As tom bannish said”every one is the manager” ..
which of course means there is no manager.. just lying back stabbers.
and spinless guttless wonders
Heck i asked the upper management what they budgeted for thief and embezzelment, and asked if they were some kind of mafa operation. or were a money laundering operation..
But you are right..
If lying , robbery and embezzelment is still the standard than i would not be a fit..
Cheers.. and happy new year
ONE GOOD TRICK on a thermotron miss- leading your co worker, and leading them astray
A man was sitting at a bar whose selling point was that it was on top of the largest skyscraper in town.
Another man walks in and asks the bartender for a Jack Daniel’s. He downs it, and then takes a running leap out the window.
Much to everybody’s surprise, he floats back up and climbs through the window back into the bar.
The man at the bar is amazed and asks the man how he did it.”Easy,” says the man. “Outside this window are some very strong wind currents which can carry you back to the window.””Wow,” says the man at the bar. “I gotta try this.”
He takes a running leap out the window and falls to a horrible, bloody, and flat death.”Goodness, Superman,” says the bartender.
“You can be a real a jerk when you’re drunk.”
HA HA HA.. as Shelly said in parts
it was just politics !!
(she worked with Ester Hamstra) and jerry sinzack, when i met jerry’s wife at the clinic she said–
shelly produced a bastard chile with some guy at thermotron named “caveman” a hairy guy
theRmoTron didn’t give out raises.. they gave people “titles”

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when i worked at thermotron–
Thomas bannach when he replaced tom Patterson– as the National service manager– his 1st assignment– was to harass and drum out Jeff scholtie– out in the Texas office–
Thomas Bannach said it was ok — as a manager to lie ,cheat steal embezzle, defraud and lible and slander your co workers– and lead them astray– to assassinate their character
Because Every one he knows is like that!!
The management motto– is what drove him– as Danile j okeefe– assigned him as the West Coast manager–
he then established dean tripp, hil sybesma, and Gregory V Johnson– as his co conspirators–
and proceded to lible and slander and drum out every one else–
why ?? because it is ok– to lie cheat defraud and steal and slander every – one
so long as you get away with it and blame it on some one else
interesting thing about holland michigan and thermotron, is that the managers i delt with all bragg with liers and deceivers..they are..
when ROn Wiley was the thermotron west coast manager, dispatcher, “good old boy”
I was working at Litton Ind and just set up an test lab for them in Oregon i hired and trained the new staff and when Ron Wiley sent up 3 thermotron field service technicians, all 3 combined barley made up one complete person..
But they have to get their training somewhere.. one customer at time…
Then Ron Wiley dispatehed a unskilled and un qualified employee from washington state to perform the start up on an vibration shaker..
his only training at thermotron was they told him it was “roundand blue ” and it fit under the chamber..
after a week of trying to get it to work.. he concluded that the logic moduel was bad..
40 hours for that..
But he did know where the “Hidden Buttons” were on the chamber temperature controller..
the 3 other field service engineers Ron Wiley dispatched didn’t have a clue..
when i asked if he could do a operational performance over view for the 13 men i had hired in the test lab ,
Ron wiley and Dave waterfield said thermotron no longer does that for customers..
Ron Wiley asked
do you remembered Berry Wright who was a Tom Bannach replacement..
and he quit thermotron when dave waterfield gave him a Dan O’keefe review..
policy .. find some thing they did wrong and make a big deal about it.. so u don’t have to give then a raise.. he quit as the West Coast Manager,
Fred Plont had a lot of backstabbing words to say about that …
but as i said to fred Plont.. “what’sit to u ?” and freds reply was
” Well he won’t be able to find a better job where u don’t have to work very hard”
as fred’s plont claim to fame is being a lazy lying 2 faced back stabber and embezzler..
u can see why he is a long term
Thermotron employee.. he embezzle’s about 10,000 per year– in lou of a raise– steal every thing you can–
Heck.. Bob Wiley hired him twice!!!
any way… because Holland Michigan is know as the West Coast Hypocrites..
and
Thermotron is a great place to see all the different types of liars, thieves and embezzlers,
all of them fit into howard pittmans profile on who is going to Hell..
Howard Pittman’s Testimony
On August 3, 1979, Howard Pittman, a Baptist minister for 35 years, died while on the operating table during surgery and had a near-death experience. After angels showed him the second and third heavens, he was taken before the very Throne of God where he was given a message to share with the world.

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Christmas is the feast of the nativity (the celebration of the birth of Christ) set by the Catholic church to be celebrated on December 25th.

This is a Catholic Holy day (holiday). In fact it is so Catholic that the original Reformers refused to celebrate it. Especially the Puritans who settled the Americas. In fact Christmas was not celebrated in America until the 19th century when scores of Catholic immigrants migrated to America and the holiday caught on, eventually becoming a national holiday.

I know lots of Protestants that take the celebration of Christmas as the celebration of the birth of Christ very seriously. To which I am very thankful.

But I wonder at what point did the Protestants go from refusing to participate in this "Catholic" holiday, to embracing it?
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Christmas is the feast of the nativity (the celebration of the birth of Christ) set by the Catholic church to be celebrated on December 25th.

This is a Catholic Holy day (holiday). In fact it is so Catholic that the original Reformers refused to celebrate it. Especially the Puritans who settled the Americas. In fact Christmas was not celebrated in America until the 19th century when scores of Catholic immigrants migrated to America and the holiday caught on, eventually becoming a national holiday.

I know lots of Protestants that take the celebration of Christmas as the celebration of the birth of Christ very seriously. To which I am very thankful.

But I wonder at what point did the Protestants go from refusing to participate in this "Catholic" holiday, to embracing it?
I'm not sure your statement even comes close to being accurate. 
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Christmas is the feast of the nativity (the celebration of the birth of Christ) set by the Catholic church to be celebrated on December 25th.

This is a Catholic Holy day (holiday). In fact it is so Catholic that the original Reformers refused to celebrate it. Especially the Puritans who settled the Americas. In fact Christmas was not celebrated in America until the 19th century when scores of Catholic immigrants migrated to America and the holiday caught on, eventually becoming a national holiday.

I know lots of Protestants that take the celebration of Christmas as the celebration of the birth of Christ very seriously. To which I am very thankful.

But I wonder at what point did the Protestants go from refusing to participate in this "Catholic" holiday, to embracing it?
It's more complicated than that. Protestants never objected to religious observance of Christ's birth. What they objected to were the festivities and celebrations that have their origins in the saturnalia of the solstice season, which the Catholic Church itself had unsuccessfully tried to stamp out when they put a Christian seal on the season by designating December 25 as the birth of Christ.

Luther did not make Christmas a target of reformed practice. But Calvin did, and his attitude was adopted by the English Puritans. When they came to power in England under Cromwell one of the first things they did was to outlaw festive observance (as well as any other type of observance) of the holiday. The same ban was also put in place in colonial New England (where the Puritans were the established church).

But Puritan opposition to Christmas had little effect on what happened in Connecticut. Likewise, the Anglicans in Virginia made Christmas a time of feasts, hunts, and balls.

In colonial times, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Quakers, and most Baptists ignored the holiday. But Episcopalians, Lutherans, and Dutch Reformed did observe Christmas (albeit without Santa Clause, toys, and Christmas trees). German immigrants, however, did have Christmas trees.

Advertisements for Christmas gifts appeared as early as the 1820s. Alabama made Christmas a legal holiday in 1836, Connecticut 1845, Massachusetts 1855, and by the end of the nineteenth century it was a legal holiday in all states.

What happened in the nineteenth century to dispel hostility of Christmas festivities among Protestants who traditionally did not celebrate Christmas was a combination of consumerism and Christianization.

Basically, merchants and store owners saw the season as a time to make money and they wisely emphasized the religious nature of it to appeal to Protestant sensibilities.
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Christmas is the feast of the nativity (the celebration of the birth of Christ) set by the Catholic church to be celebrated on December 25th.

This is a Catholic Holy day (holiday). In fact it is so Catholic that the original Reformers refused to celebrate it. Especially the Puritans who settled the Americas. In fact Christmas was not celebrated in America until the 19th century when scores of Catholic immigrants migrated to America and the holiday caught on, eventually becoming a national holiday.

I know lots of Protestants that take the celebration of Christmas as the celebration of the birth of Christ very seriously. To which I am very thankful.

But I wonder at what point did the Protestants go from refusing to participate in this "Catholic" holiday, to embracing it?
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The Advent wreath, or Advent crown, is a Christian tradition that symbolizes the passage of the four weeks of Advent in the liturgical calendar of the Western church. The Advent Wreath is traditionally a Lutheran practice, although it has spread to many other Christian denominations.[
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent_wreath

I think you need to check your sources.  The Lutheran reformers never abandoned Christmas, nor the Church calendar for that matter. To the extent that it is a Catholic holy-day, you have our gratitude.

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It's more complicated than that. Protestants never objected to religious observance of Christ's birth. What they objected to were the festivities and celebrations that have their origins in the saturnalia of the solstice season, which the Catholic Church itself had unsuccessfully tried to stamp out when they put a Christian seal on the season by designating December 25 as the birth of Christ.

Luther did not make Christmas a target of reformed practice. But Calvin did, and his attitude was adopted by the English Puritans. When they came to power in England under Cromwell one of the first things they did was to outlaw festive observance (as well as any other type of observance) of the holiday. The same ban was also put in place in colonial New England (where the Puritans were the established church).

But Puritan opposition to Christmas had little effect on happened in Connecticut. Likewise, the Anglicans in Virginia made Christmas a time of feasts, hunts, and balls.

In colonial times, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Quakers, and most Baptists ignored the holiday. But Episcopalians, Lutherans, and Dutch Reformed did observe Christmas (albeit without Santa Clause, toys, and Christmas trees). German immigrants, however, did have Christmas trees.

Advertisements for Christmas gifts appeared as early as the 1820s. Alabama made Christmas a legal holiday in 1836, Connecticut 1845, Massachusetts 1855, and by the end of the nineteenth century it was a legal holiday in all states.

What happened in the nineteenth century to dispel hostility of Christmas festivities among Protestants who traditionally did not celebrate Christmas was a combination of consumerism and Christianization.

Basically, merchants and store owners saw the season as a time to make money and they wisely emphasized the religious nature of it to appeal to Protestant sensibilities.
I stand corrected. Historically I was not aware that Christmas was not celebrated by some Protestants.
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I stand corrected. Historically I was not aware that Christmas was not celebrated by some Protestants.
Yes, but they tended to be the more Calvinistic and Reformed varieties of Protestantism. And I should stress, it was not per se the religious observance that was the issue. It was the festivities and pagan undertones of the season that concerned many Protestants.

Lutherans, Episcopalians, and the Dutch Reformed have always celebrated Christmas. It just hasn't always been as commercialized as it is now.
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Yes, but they tended to be the more Calvinistic and Reformed varieties of Protestantism. And I should stress, it was not per se the religious observance that was the issue. It was the festivities and pagan undertones of the season that concerned many Protestants.

Lutherans, Episcopalians, and the Dutch Reformed have always celebrated Christmas. It just hasn't always been as commercialized as it is now.
It appears the transition to the Christmas celebration has been solid among all Protestant Christians today, right?
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It appears the transition to the Christmas celebration has been solid among all Protestant Christians today, right?
I'm a moderator of a fairly good sized message board and the subject of Christmas (and Easter) comes up quite a bit. There are some more fundamental protestants, and some protestants gravitating to the Hebrew roots movement, who reject Christmas celebrations and traditions as pagan in origin.
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It appears the transition to the Christmas celebration has been solid among all Protestant Christians today, right?
I can't say that absolutely all Protestants celebrate Christmas. However, I can say that in South Carolina, I haven't met any Protestant that didn't celebrate Christmas. Pretty much all mainline and evangelical Protestants celebrate it. It's pretty much standard for all the churches I've been involved in to put on Christmas plays, have fellowship dinners, and some sort of gift giving for children.

Coming from an evangelical background, most churches put more energy into observing Christmas than they do during the Easter season.

There are marginal Christian groups like the Jehovah's Witnesses that don't celebrate Christmas. But I don't consider them Protestants because their beliefs go far, far beyond any conceivable Protestant doctrinal consensus. 
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It's more complicated than that. Protestants never objected to religious observance of Christ's birth. What they objected to were the festivities and celebrations that have their origins in the saturnalia of the solstice season, which the Catholic Church itself had unsuccessfully tried to stamp out when they put a Christian seal on the season by designating December 25 as the birth of Christ.

Luther did not make Christmas a target of reformed practice. But Calvin did, and his attitude was adopted by the English Puritans. When they came to power in England under Cromwell one of the first things they did was to outlaw festive observance (as well as any other type of observance) of the holiday. The same ban was also put in place in colonial New England (where the Puritans were the established church).

But Puritan opposition to Christmas had little effect on what happened in Connecticut. Likewise, the Anglicans in Virginia made Christmas a time of feasts, hunts, and balls.

In colonial times, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Quakers, and most Baptists ignored the holiday. But Episcopalians, Lutherans, and Dutch Reformed did observe Christmas (albeit without Santa Clause, toys, and Christmas trees). German immigrants, however, did have Christmas trees.

Advertisements for Christmas gifts appeared as early as the 1820s. Alabama made Christmas a legal holiday in 1836, Connecticut 1845, Massachusetts 1855, and by the end of the nineteenth century it was a legal holiday in all states.

What happened in the nineteenth century to dispel hostility of Christmas festivities among Protestants who traditionally did not celebrate Christmas was a combination of consumerism and Christianization.

Basically, merchants and store owners saw the season as a time to make money and they wisely emphasized the religious nature of it to appeal to Protestant sensibilities.
I'm not so sure about the Dutch Reformed not having Christmas with Santa Claus, but then maybe I'm confusing the Dutch in America with the Dutch in Het Nederlands.

The Dutch in Holland practically invented Santa as Sinter Claas. All over the Nederlands they have parades with a man dressed as Sinter Class, dressed as a bishop, the real Saint Nicholas. This happens on St. Nicholas day December 6. Sinter Claas rides with Schwarzer Piet a man in black face who will take the bad children to Catholic Spain as punishment. You have to remember that in the 16th century the Netherlands had just won independence from Spain.
Not being racist at all with the word "schwatzer" that is just Dutch for black, their word, not mine.
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I'm not so sure about the Dutch Reformed not having Christmas with Santa Claus, but then maybe I'm confusing the Dutch in America with the Dutch in Het Nederlands.

The Dutch in Holland practically invented Santa as Sinter Claas. All over the Nederlands they have parades with a man dressed as Sinter Class, dressed as a bishop, the real Saint Nicholas. This happens on St. Nicholas day December 6. Sinter Claas rides with Schwarzer Piet a man in black face who will take the bad children to Catholic Spain as punishment. You have to remember that in the 16th century the Netherlands had just won independence from Spain.
Ok. I stand corrected. That reinforces the point I was making anyway. 
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Forgive me. i should have prefaced that the Lutherans did not object to Christmas, It comes from The Calvinists who are the root of American Protestantism. That is the root of my question. Why did these christians start celebrating it when before they rejected it.
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Forgive me. i should have prefaced that the Lutherans did not object to Christmas, It comes from The Calvinists who are the root of American Protestantism. That is the root of my question. Why did these christians start celebrating it when before they rejected it.
"Root of American Protestantism" is an overstatement since the diversity that is American Protestantism does not branch out from a single root.

But the answer to your question is quite simply that Protestant fears of the pagan antecedents of the Christmas holiday and their strident opposition to unstructured time, leisure, and festivity characteristic of the Puritans in Cromwell's day were severely diminished by the nineteenth century, paving the way for Christmas as we know it today.
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It's more complicated than that. Protestants never objected to religious observance of Christ's birth. What they objected to were the festivities and celebrations that have their origins in the saturnalia of the solstice season, which the Catholic Church itself had unsuccessfully tried to stamp out when they put a Christian seal on the season by designating December 25 as the birth of Christ.

Luther did not make Christmas a target of reformed practice. But Calvin did, and his attitude was adopted by the English Puritans. When they came to power in England under Cromwell one of the first things they did was to outlaw festive observance (as well as any other type of observance) of the holiday. The same ban was also put in place in colonial New England (where the Puritans were the established church).

But Puritan opposition to Christmas had little effect on what happened in Connecticut. Likewise, the Anglicans in Virginia made Christmas a time of feasts, hunts, and balls.

In colonial times, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Quakers, and most Baptists ignored the holiday. But Episcopalians, Lutherans, and Dutch Reformed did observe Christmas (albeit without Santa Clause, toys, and Christmas trees). German immigrants, however, did have Christmas trees.

Advertisements for Christmas gifts appeared as early as the 1820s. Alabama made Christmas a legal holiday in 1836, Connecticut 1845, Massachusetts 1855, and by the end of the nineteenth century it was a legal holiday in all states.

What happened in the nineteenth century to dispel hostility of Christmas festivities among Protestants who traditionally did not celebrate Christmas was a combination of consumerism and Christianization.

Basically, merchants and store owners saw the season as a time to make money and they wisely emphasized the religious nature of it to appeal to Protestant sensibilities.
I think you nailed it
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Christmas is the feast of the nativity (the celebration of the birth of Christ) set by the Catholic church to be celebrated on December 25th.

This is a Catholic Holy day (holiday). In fact it is so Catholic that the original Reformers refused to celebrate it. Especially the Puritans who settled the Americas. In fact Christmas was not celebrated in America until the 19th century when scores of Catholic immigrants migrated to America and the holiday caught on, eventually becoming a national holiday.

I know lots of Protestants that take the celebration of Christmas as the celebration of the birth of Christ very seriously. To which I am very thankful.

But I wonder at what point did the Protestants go from refusing to participate in this "Catholic" holiday, to embracing it?
Thought you might like Cranmer's collect for Christmas Day:

Almighty God who hast given us thy only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure Virgin; Grant that we being regenerate, and made they children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit; through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.