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sparkmaster posted:This is incorrect. The feds will hire felons. No special licensure is required to be a wildland firefighter. Calfire may have different requirements, but not the feds. Oops - you're right. It's Calfire, not the feds. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Appeals-court-upholds-California-rules-preventing-17231868.php Sorry - I'll edit my post to fix that. 
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Sundae posted:It's not hard to become a firefighter. Just come to California and rob a convenience store or something. Hah! Beats colorado, where apparently now you just get put on bird-flu chicken-culling crews: The first human case in the US, 2nd in the world from huffing all that crap inside one of those coops. I can't imagine they are getting a lot of useful work experience, just pure lung damage with the occasional zoonotic viral spillover. I suppose getting convict labor to help your agribusiness out is "good with money". I wonder what the terms were there. Hey, new rules thread up here. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4021411 This thread is our (potentially) most helldump-ish, but hopefully we can keep the mockery pointed off-forums and continue to not be (huge) assholes to each other here. Baddog fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Jan 8, 2023 |
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I shoulda been a firefighter, drat. Sit around and watch TV for 48 hours and claim it all as OT. Sweet gig.
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acidx posted:I shoulda been a firefighter, drat. Sit around and watch TV for 48 hours and claim it all as OT. Sweet gig. My roommate in college was a volunteer fire fighter. Very BWM if you can't count time sleeping in the firehouse.
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Cacafuego posted:Crosspost: At least they aren't dumb enough to put it all in writing and send it to an online news source, right?
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Cacafuego posted:Crosspost: my_crimes.draft
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Sundae posted:Oops - you're right. It's Calfire, not the feds. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Appeals-court-upholds-California-rules-preventing-17231868.php I’ll have to take responsibility for that mistake, it was my suggestion that the feds also barred it.
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Cacafuego posted:Crosspost: I’d probably call her bluff. Hell there’s a decent chance they get found out either way, so might as well take her with you. That’s some accountant though, and I’d assume they’re in some legal trouble here as well.
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Bird in a Blender posted:I’d probably call her bluff. Hell there’s a decent chance they get found out either way, so might as well take her with you. That’s some accountant though, and I’d assume they’re in some legal trouble here as well. Take the accountant too: "my wife and I jointly, upon our accountant’s advice, defrauded the government by hiding income" Of course this could very possibly be the a case of the accountant saying "I need some paperwork to correctly file taxes on your business income" and what they heard was "if you dont have any paperwork for your business income, you dont have to pay taxes on it".
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drk posted:Take the accountant too: "my wife and I jointly, upon our accountant’s advice, defrauded the government by hiding income" Even if he could find documentation or evidence that the accountant knew what they were up to, I don't see how it absolves either of them from knowingly hiding assets to evade taxes. This has to be fake, right? I fully believe someone could be cheap enough to expose themselves this way to avoid paying a lawyer, but I don't know if I believe that same person would get away with it for that long if they were that stupid.
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BonerGhost posted:Even if he could find documentation or evidence that the accountant knew what they were up to, I don't see how it absolves either of them from knowingly hiding assets to evade taxes. This has to be fake, right? I fully believe someone could be cheap enough to expose themselves this way to avoid paying a lawyer, but I don't know if I believe that same person would get away with it for that long if they were that stupid. I think you're forgetting to factor in the brain-breaking power of divorce. The amount of trouble someone is willing to put themselves through just for the chance to also make sure their ex also faces similar troubles can be staggering. During his divorce from his second wife, my dad admitted to a ton of tax shenanigans and declared bankruptcy, specifically so that his ex would also have her tax shenanigans discovered and face an IRS lien on her assets. There wasn't even any alimony or child support at play, it was just lovely people going through a lovely divorce.
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LanceHunter posted:I think you're forgetting to factor in the brain-breaking power of divorce. The amount of trouble someone is willing to put themselves through just for the chance to also make sure their ex also faces similar troubles can be staggering. During his divorce from his second wife, my dad admitted to a ton of tax shenanigans and declared bankruptcy, specifically so that his ex would also have her tax shenanigans discovered and face an IRS lien on her assets. There wasn't even any alimony or child support at play, it was just lovely people going through a lovely divorce. Oh that part I think I get, sometimes a pyrrhic victory is still a victory in my book because I'm petty, mean, and shortsighted. I'm just questioning the realism of this dipshit writing in to MarketWatch and not just getting a lawyer. Would a guy who would do something like that be the kind of guy who could successfully hide all those assets for that long? Am I vastly overestimating the difficulty of tax evasion?
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You’re definitely overestimating the difficulty of tax evasion for business owners. There are only a few specific categories of income that can be checked automatically by the IRS, like anything reported on a W-2 or a 1099. Those are very important categories, but pretty much all business income falls outside of them. Otherwise, some accountant has to sit down and carefully go through your cash flows and apparent spending and compare that to your declared income, and the IRS can’t do that passively; they have to audit you and your business. If you haven’t really done anything to hide your extra business income — like, you’re just depositing it in your main checking account — that audit will probably reveal the fraud immediately. But the IRS has to specifically audit you, which generally means they have to think there’s a good reason to audit you. There are probably ways they could automatically find people like the OP — getting a list of people who own multiple houses would be a good start— but they’d still have to do the audit, which they’ve been underfunded for for a long time. (If you control payroll, you can also lie about the wage income on your W-2. But it’s a whole lot easier to use a proper payroll service and just pay yourself extra off the books.) rjmccall fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Jan 8, 2023 |
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Agents are GO! posted:I know it's a typo, but: Thing is, he's well equipped to fight that firing.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Sure, but it's a special kind of poo poo that involves not being able to be with your family during times where your spouse and kid will expect you to be spending time with family. I've seen that specific situation and it pretty well mirrors OP's. It's the kind of thin that is a lot easier to do when you're single and 25. My brother is a fire fighter and it's common knowledge that in the last 3 years of your career you pretty much bank all the over time, hyper inflating your last 3 years of income creating a massive retirement check. This is in a major US city where the city managers and leadership are well aware of this practice and turns and blind eye due to the nature of the job and difficulty getting younger fire fighters.
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Rythe posted:My brother is a fire fighter and it's common knowledge that in the last 3 years of your career you pretty much bank all the over time, hyper inflating your last 3 years of income creating a massive retirement check. This is in a major US city where the city managers and leadership are well aware of this practice and turns and blind eye due to the nature of the job and difficulty getting younger fire fighters. That’s interesting, wonder if part of the issue is firefighters have strong public good will and attempted reform, especially in a city, would likely push firefighters to switch to neighboring cities that aren’t changing their plan but do have a labor shortage.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:That’s interesting, wonder if part of the issue is firefighters have strong public good will and attempted reform, especially in a city, would likely push firefighters to switch to neighboring cities that aren’t changing their plan but do have a labor shortage. Inflating your salary for the last few years is a common tactic in a ton of public sector jobs, not just firemen. Police do it, teachers & school administrators do it (although not nearly to the extent fire and police do). It's just the way most pensions are set up, and reforming that would be extremely difficult.
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Rythe posted:This is in a major US city where the city managers and leadership are well aware of this practice and turns and blind eye Public pensions are a great thing overall, but allowing some politically convenient categories of employees abuse that system kicks the can down the road and risks solvency for everyone including the non-special employees.
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Yeah, there's a reason that the pension calculation for feds doesn't include overtime...
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Hyrax Attack! posted:That’s interesting, wonder if part of the issue is firefighters have strong public good will and attempted reform, especially in a city, would likely push firefighters to switch to neighboring cities that aren’t changing their plan but do have a labor shortage. It also might accidentally be good policy. Firefighters get more money, and good for them, and the city gets the most experienced firefighters putting in a lot of hours fighting fires and showing the newer ones the ropes.
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lifg posted:It also might accidentally be good policy. Firefighters get more money, and good for them, and the city gets the most experienced firefighters putting in a lot of hours fighting fires and showing the newer ones the ropes. I think you would be surprised how little time Firefighters actually spend fighting fires. Last time I looked less than 10% of the calls my local FD responded to involved a fire. Most responses were as medical first responders.
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skipdogg posted:I think you would be surprised how little time Firefighters actually spend fighting fires. Last time I looked less than 10% of the calls my local FD responded to involved a fire. Most responses were as medical first responders. time to get that rate up to 50%. you know what you have to do.
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skipdogg posted:I think you would be surprised how little time Firefighters actually spend fighting fires. Last time I looked less than 10% of the calls my local FD responded to involved a fire. Most responses were as medical first responders. Set more emergency first-response patients on fire before calling 911. Gotcha.
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lifg posted:It also might accidentally be good policy. Firefighters get more money, and good for them, and the city gets the most experienced firefighters putting in a lot of hours fighting fires and showing the newer ones the ropes. Meanwhile it becomes that much more difficult to retain social workers or clerks or healthcare professionals because oops, there's no money after the overweighted police and firefighter pensions are budgeted for, so pay drags way behind the private sector. In a better world there would be enough to go around, but the current prioritization towards politically visible public safety workers isn't necessarily a net good for local governments.
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OK but what are pensions like for derail birds these days?
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Can we make that a firefighter toucan?
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Please drip water from that toucan's beak onto a fire below, so that it can be a fire fighting toucan
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https://twitter.com/macrocephalopod/status/1613184233463324672
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there are apparently matt ygelsias defenders saying the equivalent of, "bips are percentages, so he's not wrong."
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Strong Sauce posted:there are apparently matt ygelsias defenders saying the equivalent of, "bips are percentages, so he's not wrong." If he has any fortitude he would cover this gently caress up on his next episode of Bad Takes.
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Strong Sauce posted:there are apparently matt ygelsias defenders saying the equivalent of, "bips are percentages, so he's not wrong." To be fully pedantic a bp is not a percent, its a permyriad which is a much cooler term than basis point
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Death recorded.
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drk posted:To be fully pedantic a bp is not a percent, its a permyriad which is a much cooler term than basis point This is indeed a much cooler way to say this.
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This is great because I was worrying the other day that someone was gonna bust out a question about bond pricing and clean Vs dirty price on me as part of potential interview and it's been 15 years since I did any of that stuff. But at least I know what basis points are lmao.
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as someone pointed out in the replies, this certainly explains that insane book take of his, One Billion Americans now why he'd want us to go down to 10 million americans, who knows?
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Strong Sauce posted:there are apparently matt ygelsias defenders saying the equivalent of, "bips are percentages, so he's not wrong."
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