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Doggles posted:Time for another one of these articles. One Weird Trick To Retire Early: Hit The loving Lottery
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geaux NCAA grift!
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Nov 2, 2020 00:14
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Amazing how so many of these stories about Millennials making bank or Xers retiring early boil down to "I found a way to avoid paying rent." So you're telling me it's easier to manage your money when 50-75% of your monthly income isn't vanishing into a void? Incredible!
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Skippy McPants posted:Amazing how so many of these stories about Millennials making bank or Xers retiring early boil down to "I found a way to avoid paying rent." but it’s even more than that because every single one of these has the part where they got thousands of dollars from a relative
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Nov 2, 2020 01:21
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There was also that one a while ago about the twenty-something living who was saving several thousand a month and he was pulling it off by paying $500 for rent in a major city because he lived with something like seven roommates.
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Nov 2, 2020 01:25
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I think my favorite was the person who was gifted a house for her and her husband, they then rented it out and moved in with gramgram rent free and used the savings to pay off their student loans in three years
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Nov 2, 2020 01:28
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Hey now they don't all get money from their parents. Sometimes their parents just give them an entire business to run for free, or like that one guy who founded a startup that happened to do 90% of its business with a large corp that was owned by his dad.
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Nov 2, 2020 01:30
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And they get so salty if you point out their luck/privilege/definitely-not-common situation. "What on earth are you talking about? I accomplished all this through my own hard work!"
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Nov 2, 2020 01:32
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Weatherman posted:And they get so salty if you point out their luck/privilege/definitely-not-common situation. "So how much student loan debt did you have?" If their parents are rich, they wouldn't have qualified for student loans One weird trick to make rich kids shut the gently caress up
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MorrisBae posted:"So how much student loan debt did you have?" Guillotines?
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Len posted:I think my favorite was the person who was gifted a house for her and her husband, they then rented it out and moved in with gramgram rent free and used the savings to pay off their student loans in three years She also got a high paying job at a nonprofit her mom ran
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Nov 2, 2020 02:38
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bing bong so easy!
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Accretionist posted:One Weird Trick To Retire Early: Hit The loving Lottery That's currently my retirement strategy.
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Shame Boy posted:"Prioritize time over money" by having more total time by being born earlier in a place before it becomes expensive, simple. If he didn't deserve that money, how could he have earned it?
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Nov 2, 2020 05:36
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Nov 3, 2020 01:10
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just give him five bucks to do chores like every 90s sitcom jeez
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sign that freeloading gently caress up for BusyKid
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https://twitter.com/thegamerwebsite/status/1323668040005898241quote:The winner of the challenge will receive an Echo 8, Echo Auto, $100 VISA gift card and 10 additional labor hours to use during Black Friday week!
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Nov 3, 2020 19:54
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unless something changed, gamestop employees aren't on commission so working an extra 10 hours during one of the busiest weeks of the year is basically punishment
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I thought it was winning 10 hours of paid vacation.. I'm way too optimistic
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Nov 3, 2020 20:16
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Doggles posted:https://twitter.com/thegamerwebsite/status/1323668040005898241 I was curious: the Echo 8 and Echo Auto combined retail for $85. They're spending $185 on a holiday marketing campaign, and their employees do all of the labor unpaid for a chance at winning that.
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taqueso posted:I thought it was winning 10 hours of paid vacation.. I'm way too optimistic If it were vacation hours it wouldn't be called labor hours now would it 
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Now now, they're not paying retail prices, the actual cost is much lower. Especially if they bothered to get the prizes sponsored, but that hardly seems worth it.
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Thanatosian posted:I was curious: the Echo 8 and Echo Auto combined retail for $85. They're spending $185 on a holiday marketing campaign, and their employees do all of the labor unpaid for a chance at winning that. they're hanging on by a thread, so that might be all they can afford  i'm sure their recent deal to do something with azure and the surplus surface tablets that microsoft can't sell will turn things around though, especially in an age where a huge chunk of new game consoles sold will be discless thus killing their primary function of being an upscale pawn shop e: maybe they will offer services such has matching people to their ideal funko pop or something like that The_Franz has issued a correction as of 21:07 on Nov 3, 2020 |
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Nov 3, 2020 21:02
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doesnt that mean the manager can schedule 10 extra hours of an employee so they are less chronically understaffed?
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Nov 3, 2020 21:02
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buying a few hundred of these to make my own hollywood shootout body armor kit *gets shot in the thigh by a high caliber rifle, bleeds to death*
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boar guy posted:doesnt that mean the manager can schedule 10 extra hours of an employee so they are less chronically understaffed? Bingo. And I'd be surprised if any of the other prizes ever made their way to the floor staff.
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it finally happened, several employees who were "furloughed" back in April were finally officially laid off. Their responsibilities chopped up in into several pieces and sprinkled about to pile on top of a bunch of other co-workers. Instead of having an HR department like most normal companies, now we have an HR person for each department. Aka the office manager who now does HR stuff in addition to their normal job. It is both depressing and completely unsurprising
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A New Item on Your Medical Bill: The ‘Covid’ Fee https://nyti.ms/34WVJ9a i tried this link in a private window and it loaded the farticle so i do not apologize if it is paywalled 4 u
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other people posted:A New Item on Your Medical Bill: The ‘Covid’ Fee https://nyti.ms/34WVJ9a Can't be a surprise fee if everything on a medical bill is a surprise.
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Medical bills in the US are like the reverse lottery. Maybe your insurance will cover everything, maybe you owe $200k. Who knows!
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bike tory posted:Medical bills in the US are like the reverse lottery. Maybe your insurance will cover everything, maybe you owe $200k. Who knows! Like most things in America, you can just pay more and have it not be a problem. You're perfectly free to buy the much more expensive insurance plan your employer may or may not even offer, therefore there's clearly nothing wrong and we don't have to change at all.
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Shame Boy posted:Like most things in America, you can just pay more and have it not be a problem. The last time it was open enrollment time at my last job they were offering add-ons to the plans that paid out an extra couple hundred bucks in case of sudden emergency ambulance trips and hospital stays to the tune of an extra like $20-$40 to your premium every two weeks. I mean I already knew that the fifth of my paycheck I was already losing wouldn't adequately handle a real emergency but to have it laid bare like that with an obvious cash grab was pretty galling.
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bike tory posted:Medical bills in the US are like the reverse lottery. Maybe your insurance will cover everything, maybe you owe $200k. Who knows! Medical bills in the US are basically the first offer your agent throws out to be able to start at a high negotiating point
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Shame Boy posted:Like most things in America, you can just pay more and have it not be a problem. Even people with good insurance can get hosed! Someone was telling me just the other day about a friend who had emergency surgery and it turned out the specific surgeon who ended up operating was not covered despite the hospital being covered. $140k bill or some poo poo. And that was with a good insurance plan!
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