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chin up everything sucks posted:A train at least gives you a chance to relax and do other poo poo like read a book or enjoy coffee. I used to do an hour each way by train, and it wasn't too bad. An hour DRIVING each way sucked rear end. Oh yeah I'd quit/move/change jobs if I had to drive an hour, gently caress that poo poo.
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powershell talk: I even sent my IBM Power Series admin who rarely has to any kind of administration task in windows to a week long powershell class because of the value from text file manipulation. Other than him, I have sent 3 admins and 2 help desk employees to a week long powershell class because it is such a force multiplier.
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Most days I wouldn't care. Whatever I was doing in those two hours could be done on the train. However, there are other days where I would just completely miss out on doing things with friends and family unless I was able to adjust my work schedule early enough to compensate. But I'm also not a morning person so gently caress that.
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adorai posted:powershell talk: I even sent my IBM Power Series admin who rarely has to any kind of administration task in windows to a week long powershell class because of the value from text file manipulation. Other than him, I have sent 3 admins and 2 help desk employees to a week long powershell class because it is such a force multiplier. My work loves to send us to 2-3 out of office trainings a year and I think I'm going to put in for something like that. Maybe I'll just take a week off to do Powershell in a Month of Lunches.
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Sepist posted:It's a network engineering role at one of the biggest finance companies in the world 240k a year for network engineering? You guys hiring for any other roles?
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Inspector_666 posted:If I recall correctly, this rail commute would involve the LIRR which isn't always the relaxing experience you may think it is. The LIRR isn't bad. Not that I would want a 2 hour commute. IMO the worst part of a long commute is waking up early.
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Is Office 365 availability (Exchange Online) getting significantly worse, or am I imagining it?
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Thanks Ants posted:Is Office 365 availability (Exchange Online) getting significantly worse, or am I imagining it? Probably because we're approaching the holidays. You have to cram as many changes in as you can before the freezes. /s
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My train commute owns because of the Nintendo Switch! Driving to work sucks rear end in Boston
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As a single male with no kids or long term relationship I would have no issue with two hour commute on a train for $240,000 a year. That's an obscene amount of money. If you have a family that you want to keep, declining that commute is absolutely the right thing to do.
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Tab8715 posted:If you have a family that you want to keep, declining that commute is absolutely the right thing to do.
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In my experience, the pay is the main redeeming feature of the financial industry. Everything else about it, particularly the culture, is hot stinking garbage.
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SamDabbers posted:In my experience, the pay is the main redeeming feature of the financial industry. Everything else about it, particularly the culture, is hot stinking garbage.
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I wouldn't want to deal with the stress doing whatever is worth 360k. 140k is plenty. You'd start running some serious diminishing returns with income tax past that anyway. e; just looked at NY's personal income tax rates. $215,400.00+ 6.85% lol
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Methanar posted:e; just looked at NY's personal income tax rates. $3k/year 5% lol.
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Sepist posted:It's a network engineering role at one of the biggest finance companies in the world What kind of role? Security? Be the guy who keeps organized crime and rogue states out?
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240k? gently caress, bank 1/4, be out of debt within a year from 1/4, do whatever the gently caress I want with 120k a year, I’d take a 2 hour round trip train for that no question. For a couple years at least.
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adorai posted:How about Illinois? quote:The Illinois Income Tax rate for individuals has increased from 3.75 percent (.0375) to 4.95 percent (.0495), effective July 1, 2017. The Illinois income tax rate. As in, theres only 1? lol quote:Alberta e; quote:Seven U.S. states forgo individual income taxes as of 2018: Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming. What the gently caress Methanar fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Nov 29, 2018 |
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It just seems like a company willing to make a nearly quarter of a million bucks a year salary offer should also be willing to make certain other concessions and bonuses to help such an employee hammer out a move to somewhere with a suitable commute for them, and some manner of satellite office/work from home stuff in the meantime. Rather than have it be a case where the potential employee flatly turns it down.
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Methanar posted:The Illinois income tax rate. As in, theres only 1? Yes. It starts at $2500/year or something, and is simply 4.95%, regardless of your income. To top that off, we have some of the highest property and sales taxes in the nation as well.
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QC35s help on the LIRR big time but 2 hours means you're way out east and that's got to be total hell. I'm spoiled, I only go one stop from Penn and it's glorious.
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AnonymousNarcotics posted:The LIRR isn't bad. Not that I would want a 2 hour commute. IMO the worst part of a long commute is waking up early. Riding the LIRR isn't bad. If I had to go through Penn every morning I would kill myself within a week.
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Same, except living in NY in general.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Same, except living in NY in general. Actually NYC owns and everybody who doesn't live here is a goddamn hillbilly. 
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You know DAF would take that job, so basically just always do the opposite of whatever DAF would do.
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Inspector_666 posted:Actually NYC owns and everybody who doesn't live here is a goddamn hillbilly. I’m okay with that.
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CLAM DOWN posted:You know DAF would take that job, so basically just always do the opposite of whatever DAF would do. This is a good point.
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Accretionist posted:What kind of role? Security? Be the guy who keeps organized crime and rogue states out? Nope, just a high level network engineer role. Not even architect or design, they are different teams. The technical term for the role is "platform engineer", which means we need to know everything about the hardware we support - ASICs, the path a packet takes from ingress - to backplane - to egress, minor details about the different software versions and features we support. It is a tough job but he could do it. Commuting into Penn isnt too bad but I think you have to have the right frame of mind to do it constantly. I know to check LIRR status before I go to Penn. If it's a poo poo show I go down to Atlantic terminal. My house is in a town with a 3 stop express to and from Penn so my train is never awful unless it switches to local which happens a few times a month Edit: theres also some confusion here. His commute would be an hour-ish each way. And my boss is pretty easy going. I usually work 7 hours a day and work from home once a week. Sepist fucked around with this message at 13:34 on Nov 29, 2018 |
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quote:Seven U.S. states forgo individual income taxes as of 2018: Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming. Methanar posted:
Most of those states have another industry that pays a significant amount of tax to the state to make it so they don't need Income tax. I lived in Nevada, even though gaming tax revenue is down, it's still enough to keep the state running without an income tax. Alaska, people are actually paid by the federal government just to live there, and with Big Oil they don't really have a need for state income tax I guess. As for the job and adding an hour commute to each side of the day. I did that once but not for money, for a chance to not be bored out of my mind every day, and thankfully both the job location, and I moved closer together after about 4 months. I only took that job because I liked the opportunities it gave me from a "what will I be doing" perspective, and actually took a small pay cut to do so (all of which I got back and then some in about a year of being there). Maybe the guy just looked at what he would be doing and decided that it wasn't for him, Its not like he's making chump change now. You could offer me a 100k bump in pay and I definitely wouldn't take it if I would be doing less (or less interesting) stuff than I am now.
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Inspector_666 posted:Riding the LIRR isn't bad. If I had to go through Penn every morning I would kill myself within a week. I've got a high tolerance for commuter bullshit, though. One day I was taking a Friday afternoon train home because literally only one other person showed up in the Time Inc. office. I was on a double-decker train home with this exhausted mother and her two kids, maybe 6 and 3. The 6-year-old found a circuit going across the top deck, down the stairs, back the other way across the bottom deck, and back up the stairs to where her mom was. She did this circuit 20 or 30 times, just yelling the entire way, at the top of her lungs while her mortified mom tried not to attract any attention to herself. Stuff like that somehow never drags down my mood. gently caress the Ronkonkoma line though, it's buses half the time east of Bethpage Vulture Culture fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Nov 29, 2018 |
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Sepist posted:
He's a loving dumbass and you should literally slap him.
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TheFace posted:Most of those states have another industry that pays a significant amount of tax to the state to make it so they don't need Income tax. I lived in Nevada, even though gaming tax revenue is down, it's still enough to keep the state running without an income tax. Alaska, people are actually paid by the federal government just to live there, and with Big Oil they don't really have a need for state income tax I guess. Except we've had state budget deficits for the last 8 years, and the savings is almost depleted, and it's been impossible to fix since any kind of tax is political suicide.
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adorai posted:Yes. It starts at $2500/year or something, and is simply 4.95%, regardless of your income. To top that off, we have some of the highest property and sales taxes in the nation as well. leaving that shithole dumpster fire was the best thing I've done. What a hellhole.
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adorai posted:Yes. It starts at $2500/year or something, and is simply 4.95%, regardless of your income. To top that off, we have some of the highest property and sales taxes in the nation as well. Ah yes, the whole "we'll just tax consumption!" line.
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Vargatron posted:Ah yes, the whole "we'll just tax consumption!" line. Yeah, I thoroughly enjoy the huge taxes on things like food. gently caress me for needing to eat I guess.
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There is more to the decision than the commute. He knew what the commute was before the interview. As a friend I would get some more feedback, maybe there is something you can do for future candidates.
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Vulture Culture posted:gently caress the Ronkonkoma line though, it's buses half the time east of Bethpage I have to take the Ronkonkoma line to visit my parents these days and on the weekend the buses are almost nice, you get an express ride on a pretty-much empty bus direct from Hicksville to The Konk. But oh my God having to deal with a full bus and LIE traffic?  My current biggest gripe with the LIRR is how terrible the scheduling is for the Greenport branch.
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All this commute talk is making me really appreciate my 100% remote job.
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PBS posted:Yeah, I thoroughly enjoy the huge taxes on things like food. gently caress me for needing to eat I guess. Not to get *political* or anything, a tax structure like this shifts the burden onto those who earn the least in a given district. Comedy option: too bad you were born poor right!??!!!
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TheFace posted:All this commute talk is making me really appreciate my 100% remote job.  My company moving to accept 100% remote workers significantly increased our pool of candidates which was great. But it also forced our hr to finally figure out those pesky "local" tax withholding. Apparently in previous years there was no local withholding...
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