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a community collage spending upwards of 200,000 buckaroos for a police captain how can i get this job i can be a cop for that amount of money, what do i gotta do harass some teens and eat donuts and poo poo my pants climbing the stairs?
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:cops tend to make a shitload of money, and that's before overtime, pensions, etc Lets not forget they have the fringe benefit of being able to rob people without reprocussions.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:cops tend to make a shitload of money, and that's before overtime, pensions, etc Urban cops make money. rural cops don’t make poo poo. guess where failed city cops go.
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hobbesmaster posted:Urban cops make money. rural cops don’t make poo poo. Nope, the local high school bullies have that locked down after graduation.
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hobbesmaster posted:Urban cops make money. rural cops don’t make poo poo. depends on whether it's some little township that actually has a local cop to run speed or whatever, or the county, because most rural areas are policed by a county sheriff's office which tends to pay just as much for a sheriff as a city cop captain (usually they're elected tho) but yeah rural sheriff's deputies typically make less than the nearby city rank-and-file cops
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:depends on whether it's some little township that actually has a local cop to run speed or whatever, or the county, because most rural areas are policed by a county sheriff's office which tends to pay just as much for a sheriff as a city cop captain (usually they're elected tho) Where I used to live, there was a landlocked wealthy fiefdom, that declared itself a city, within in the bigger city. They had cops, and woe to thee who drove faster than 15 mph through there. They loving knew it was the fastest way between a couple areas too, so there were always loving speed traps. They were always feuding with the surrounding city as well. Both PDs wouldn't cooperate with each other, and at one point, they were threatening to gate off all the roads through it. The gate thing got nixed with the city said it would no longer allow them to use their fire department, ambulances, and they'd have to get their own water supply.
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Iron Crowned posted:Where I used to live, there was a landlocked wealthy fiefdom, that declared itself a city, within in the bigger city. They had cops, and woe to thee who drove faster than 15 mph through there. They loving knew it was the fastest way between a couple areas too, so there were always loving speed traps. This also exists in the metro area I live in. There's little a "city" completely surrounded by the actual city made up of almost exclusively millionaires. It has a population of about 1,000 people and the median house price is just south of $1,000,000 (and this is in the Midwest). Apparently in the early 2000s they decided it wasn't fair that their property taxes were helping out you-know-whos and they just seceded into their own town. I met their mayor, who was a super nice woman, and she told us about how incensed this town hall meeting got because there were several different families living in this 6-bedroom home, and they wanted to pass a local law to make it so each house could only be inhabited by "immediate family" of the owners.
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The village I grew up in used to have a chief of police as our police force, but he got in some sort of pissing match with the mayor and quit. Last I heard they were borrowing cops from the next village over. Small Town drama is the most insane poo poo
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:This also exists in the metro area I live in. There's little a "city" completely surrounded by the actual city made up of almost exclusively millionaires. It has a population of about 1,000 people and the median house price is just south of $1,000,000 (and this is in the Midwest). Apparently in the early 2000s they decided it wasn't fair that their property taxes were helping out you-know-whos and they just seceded into their own town. So, Eagleton?
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:This also exists in the metro area I live in. There's little a "city" completely surrounded by the actual city made up of almost exclusively millionaires. It has a population of about 1,000 people and the median house price is just south of $1,000,000 (and this is in the Midwest). Apparently in the early 2000s they decided it wasn't fair that their property taxes were helping out you-know-whos and they just seceded into their own town. Houston has like 3 of these.
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hobbesmaster posted:Urban cops make money. rural cops don’t make poo poo. They go freelance like Joseph James DeAngelo.
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Len posted:The village I grew up in used to have a chief of police as our police force, but he got in some sort of pissing match with the mayor and quit. Last I heard they were borrowing cops from the next village over. Hey this happened a couple towns over (Indiana). Little town with a population of <1000 had their Marshal quit so now their Marshal is a part time officer from a town 5 miles away.
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What they call it: supporting small businesses by providing easy access to capital What it actually is: payday lending
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la cosa nostra figured that out 100 years ago. alas, they fell victim to RICO for thee, not me.
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The Nastier Nate posted:Better than Walmart I suppose I don't know if it's still true but walmart used to do this as like a company event; like I went to work with my mom once and got a name tag and got to help out and everything (for no pay, because it was just fun playtime for the kiddos!)
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"you get money now in exchange for some of your future earnings plus a small premium" lmao I assume that means "you get money now instead of later and in exchange pay some of your future earnings and also a premium"
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lancemantis posted:I don't know if it's still true but walmart used to do this as like a company event; like I went to work with my mom once and got a name tag and got to help out and everything (for no pay, because it was just fun playtime for the kiddos!) The Strong Museum of Play in Rochester has (had?) a scaled-down Wegmans for kids full of fake products and barcode scanners and checkout lanes you could operate and that was the coolest loving thing because you get to make the conveyor belt thing move and shoot stuff with the barcode scanner laser. I mean it's corporate and dumb in retrospect but when you're like 5 you don't care you just wanna shoot stuff with the barcode scanner  e: Apparently it still exists: https://www.museumofplay.org/exhibits/wegmans-super-kids-market They've even modernized it a ton in the like 2 and a half decades since I was young enough to go there, now you can: quote:Shop for organic and gluten-free products at Nature’s Marketplace.  At least kids can still shoot stuff with the barcode scanners 
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Shame Boy posted:"you get money now in exchange for some of your future earnings plus a small premium" lmao So go into massive debt to your employer and then they can't fire you. Checkmate. 
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Shame Boy posted:"you get money now in exchange for some of your future earnings plus a small premium" lmao i did a couple of paypal working capital loans last year, depending on how much you borrow and how quickly you choose to pay it back, it's not at all unreasonable borrowed a grand, it cost me $143 + 10% of invoices until it was paid off then i borrowed two grand, it cost me $141 + 30% of my invoices until it was paid off i gotta tell ya, it saved my rear end and 7% and 14% are cheaper than any payday loan
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GM and GE figured this out in the 80’s, number went up, then they spun off their finance departments and number became very angry and it almost destroyed gm and is currently destroying GE. Fortunately these tech companies like making less money and accelerating the timelines so itll be fun watching their finance arms rot them from the inside in the next 5 years
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:GM and GE figured this out in the 80’s, number went up, then they spun off their finance departments and number became very angry and it almost destroyed gm and is currently destroying GE. 
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https://twitter.com/kari_paul/status/1229214223227478016 The company's response: 
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Wouldn't the best experience for them be not dying in the middle of loving nowhere because the car needs a reboot?
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They also told them to sleep in the car until they could send someone out to help the next day lmao
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Inceltown posted:Wouldn't the best experience for them be not dying in the middle of loving nowhere because the car needs a reboot? apparently it wasn't a bad enough experience to lose them a customer https://mobile.twitter.com/kari_paul/status/1229824630724022273
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Main Paineframe posted:apparently it wasn't a bad enough experience to lose them a customer They deserve each other.
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Main Paineframe posted:apparently it wasn't a bad enough experience to lose them a customer people will go "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" to justify their using these services but i will always shoot a nasty glance at anyone who just uses these things anyway knowing full well what's the story behind them
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Inceltown posted:They deserve each other. I will continue to use this app car which stranded me, but now only in locations where I can summon a second car through a second app to rescue me.
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Shipon posted:people will go "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" to justify their using these services but i will always shoot a nasty glance at anyone who just uses these things anyway knowing full well what's the story behind them This doesn't even sound like an ethical consumption thing this is just stupid
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Main Paineframe posted:apparently it wasn't a bad enough experience to lose them a customer Tolerate the car
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Spazzle posted:Tolerate the car Tolerate the car, love the app. Well so much for those people saying that technology is making life overly convenient! One startup is working hard to add some excitement and uncertainty back to your life!
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I value convenience which is why I will continue to use a product that stranded me in the wilderness
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These are called "merchant cash advances" and they use completely made up terminology to make it both confusing and not seem like a loan. Amazon oes them too. If you look at a MCA as if it were a loan though they tend to have interest rates of 300%+. It's absolutely worse than a payday loan and financing from ANYWHERE else will be cheaper. The only reason to get one is if you need money now now now now now AND know you can pay it back asap. I work with a lot of credit unions and non-profit microlenders and something like 25% of their portfolios have become 6%-8% loans refinancing people out of their 300% debt traps. e: oh yeah and because they come from your POS system, the issuer is usually tied directly into your bank account and they take a portion of your sale as it happens. This makes the cost seem much lower than it really is. boar guy posted:i did a couple of paypal working capital loans last year, depending on how much you borrow and how quickly you choose to pay it back, it's not at all unreasonable um. i hate to tell you this, but those numbers don't translate to 7% and 14% apr. What are your monthly card sales? Plug that into this calculator and report back lol. Getting that fast cash right away might have saved you, but now that you're not in that situation you should apply for a microloan, line of credit, sba loan, credit card, really anything else but an MCA. El Mero Mero has issued a correction as of 08:38 on Feb 20, 2020 |
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Sorta me complaining about my job, but it's also capitalist as gently caress. As an Amazon employee we used to be able to get 10% off our Amazon orders, up to a max of $100 a year. They've since changed it to be 10% off Amazon items. During holidays Amazon will typically host contests where an employee takes a selfie of their costume or whatever. Prizes used to be gift cards (e.g. Target), Alexa garbage, and even a television once. Now the prizes are solely I've been a part of this shameful shitfest for almost two years. At some point they stopped hiring employees and started hiring everyone as seasonal employees, who seem to have even less access to poo poo than regular-rear end employees (me). I can barely speak to the overseas HR department without arguing that I'm not a loving seasonal employee.
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That Old Ganon posted:Sorta me complaining about my job, but it's also capitalist as gently caress. This whole thing is hilarious. I'm so sorry. A $100/year discount limit rofl. And that was the good scenario. Also a bit weird for amazon to give out target gift cards. Like isn't the whole point that amazon surely sells anything target does and then some? amazon has to be one of the worst companies on earth.
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Associate Christ