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swickles posted:I saw a pair of Timberlands that I like and want to know if they are worth it? I’m not sure if Timberland has a fancy line but Danner and Red Wing are definitely fancy ones as well. seiferguy posted:So I'm sort of stuck at this well-paying job that is unfulfilling, but at the same time, I can kind of half-rear end it, get good marks, and do other stuff. This is very underrated as a way to live life, especially if you can travel/have hobbies/do whatever you want off that paycheck. It’s roughly how I’m doing in my position and company.
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Ports gave us a $200 a year voucher for Redwings. I still have a couple I used for other various warehouse work walking for 10 miles a day and one pair I use only for hiking. Still in great shape, just well made footwear.
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a sexual elk posted:Ports gave us a $200 a year voucher for Redwings. I still have a couple I used for other various warehouse work walking for 10 miles a day and one pair I use only for hiking. Still in great shape, just well made footwear. Can vouch for these. Still got my first pair I've been wearing for years, originally as ten hour a day warehouse work.
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harperdc posted:I’m not sure if Timberland has a fancy line but Danner and Red Wing are definitely fancy ones as well. My old job was sort of like this with the severely overpaid IT job, but with the added bonus of being on call 24/7 and never truly being able to log off, even on vacation. I definitely had regular, dark thoughts about how it would just be easier to take the massive life insurance payout so I wouldn't be depressed anymore but my fam would still have the house paid off I took an almost 60% pay cut to go to my new job and, yeah, I definitely miss the check, but I work 2 24 hour shifts a week and have the rest of the time to do whatever I want. My mood did a 180, family notices I'm smiling more, and my stress level is significantly less. Money is great, but holy poo poo if someone is miserable and can make it work for less and be happy in their career, highly recommended.
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GD_American posted:Today I had to make a phone call that has me seriously doubting I want to keep doing this job. Jesus gently caress.
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Jan 18, 2024 06:27
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GD_American posted:Today I had to make a phone call that has me seriously doubting I want to keep doing this job. I hate this country so much.
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Jan 18, 2024 07:02
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Had to wear a windbreaker on the boat during my way home from dinner. Chilly indeed
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Amy Pole Her posted:Had to wear a windbreaker on the boat during my way home from dinner. Chilly indeed Didn't need it today but I broke out an Army/Navy Surplus Parka I got when I was like 17 the last few days and that thing is still money. Hands cold without gloves (or being in any of the many pockets), everything else toasty.
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Amy Pole Her posted:Had to wear a windbreaker on the boat during my way home from dinner. Chilly indeed Was the fur coat in the shop?
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How many of you make $200k or more? To IT goons, how much do you make and how much does IT pay? Most of the IT folks I know have a wide range of incomes and work titles that seem almost completely unrelated to the scope and difficulty of their work responsibilities.
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Amy Pole Her posted:Had to wear a windbreaker on the boat during my way home from dinner. Chilly indeed I turned my heater on when it dropped below 60 tonight. Brrr.
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GD_American posted:Today I had to make a phone call that has me seriously doubting I want to keep doing this job. Being raised poor and being poor you just get used to it. (Redacted several paragraphs) I’m not going to get into it but I’ve understood how this place works for a very long time. a sexual elk fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Jan 18, 2024 |
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Ornery and Hornery posted:How many of you make $200k or more? No IT people I know make $200k, unless they're heavily into network security. IT meaning "the people who do hands-on setup of Hardware" as opposed to people in Engineering, which probably takes Senior Engineer II and above (or like Senior Product Director) to get close to that. Engineers do far less work than product managers. I work at a company that is heavily reliant on tech but is not traditionally a "Tech" company aside from all the weird perks they offer us. We had daily Juicero deliveries for 2+ years!
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don't make goons say their salary because then their opinions on Democratic socialism will be null and void. To be clear I make less than 200
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Jan 18, 2024 07:57
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My wife is English and I've received medical attention in both Spain and Greece for like 10 euros each time back before England decided to lose EU benefits, so my socialism bona fides are very big, and very strong. That poo poo rocks I also started my current employment in the mail room delivering mail to executives, just like Michael J Fox and doing whatever odd job came up, so I side with labor every time.
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Ether Frenzy posted:No IT people I know make $200k, unless they're heavily into network security. Oh okay then yes maybe I just don’t know what IT is in this brave new world. One of the people is basically on call 24/7 like that other goon said and they do some hardware fixing but mainly software fixing and they make good money. But I wish that they had more free time 
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Jan 18, 2024 08:12
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It is weird to work for a company that was absolutely central in trying to gently caress over unions. Most of the people I work with side with them, and then our company does things like cut down the trees, so the marchers are standing in the hot sun or like try to commit them to give up their likeness to AI and ruin their career. It’s kind of hosed up.
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I'm definitely goin against the wall and I'll tell you all to Establish the Run before they fire.
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Ornery and Hornery posted:Oh okay then yes maybe I just don’t know what IT is in this brave new world. One of the people is basically on call 24/7 like that other goon said and they do some hardware fixing but mainly software fixing and they make good money. But I wish that they had more free time Yeah, I think if you are the one point of solutions for a system the company is highly reliant on (smaller companies), there's a variety of ranges for an IT someone who maintains some weirder piece of infrastructure you can't just call a vendor to fix for you, but that caveat also applies to engineer positions and there's generally more opportunities in that field for "ownership". And then you're definitely going to be that 24/7 on-call person who *rarely* gets bothered, until the week you try to take a vacation in which case everything will break at once.
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lol Stephen Knight is gonna walk from his lucas film deal after extensive interference and notes from the star wars division and they've shelved the Rey movie indefinitely. Its what, 2 weeks since they announced the director? Echo loving suuuuucks, Ashoka was pants on head dumb Does Disney do anything right anymore.
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They came up with that grotesque Swingers on Main Street App... also they bought distribution rights to Welcome to Wrexham ?
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Ooo yeah Wrexham was good. Probably because they had no involvement with the production.
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BlindSite posted:lol Stephen Knight is gonna walk from his lucas film deal after extensive interference and notes from the star wars division and they've shelved the Rey movie indefinitely. Its what, 2 weeks since they announced the director? Their resorts are still ace
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a sexual elk posted:Was the fur coat in the shop? The windbreakers made from recycled oysters how DARE u
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Ornery and Hornery posted:How many of you make $200k or more? I think the only IT people that make $200k+ are the ones that are committing blackmail on executives whose emails they've read.
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You can get up there being a data nerd or a systems engineer but 200k is a bit far off.
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Been butting heads with the daughter lately. She’s 7 and in the second grade but extremely smart, reading and math at a 4th grade level and I get her frustration, but hell everything is a fight and the last word. And the boy, he’s as smart at 3, he talks nonstop but it’s like his tounge is to big for his mouth and then he gets frustrated and he’s trying to make a point while I’m cleaning slobber off the couch
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Ether Frenzy posted:My wife is English and I've received medical attention in both Spain and Greece for like 10 euros each time back before England decided to lose EU benefits, so my socialism bona fides are very big, and very strong. That poo poo rocks I'm actively involved with the union at my workplace  plus we have the whole "kids' healthcare is basically free" thing too.
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Got a Looft lighter in my monthly “man box” or whatever it’s called. This thing loving rules.
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BlindSite posted:lol Stephen Knight is gonna walk from his lucas film deal after extensive interference and notes from the star wars division and they've shelved the Rey movie indefinitely. Its what, 2 weeks since they announced the director? Read this as Stephen King at first and was very curious about this Star Wars collab that I hadn't heard of. Alas.
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C-Euro posted:Read this as Stephen King at first and was very curious about this Star Wars collab that I hadn't heard of. Alas. Star Wars already has a magical black guy, Stephen King wouldn't know what to do.
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GD_American posted:She understood. I'd have felt better if she called me a piece of poo poo. You know, I walked into public service as a sheltered, white libertarian dipshit and was radicalized within weeks. All the “moochers” I’d been hearing so much about were actually quite destitute, desperate and very much human. I didn’t grow up rich (at all) and was raised on a single enlisted salary, but I did grow up in the south to mildly conservative parents and that messaging definitely seeped in. I’m still ashamed, to this day, of how easily I accepted that alternate reality of dehumanization. The second you see the actual reality of their living conditions and all the mechanisms that keep them from getting ahead, buddy, it makes you want to burn everything down. kiimo posted:don't make goons say their salary because then their opinions on Democratic socialism will be null and void. To be clear I make less than 200 I dont fault socialists for earning a lot of money to insulate them from the evils of this system of capitalism. It’s almost necessary for survival. That feels suspiciously close to conservatives just telling them to send all their money to the government if they love taxes so much.
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BlindSite posted:lol Stephen Knight is gonna walk from his lucas film deal after extensive interference and notes from the star wars division and they've shelved the Rey movie indefinitely. Its what, 2 weeks since they announced the director? 
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Loki season 2 wrapped everything up and it feels like a good coda for the titular character. I still haven't seen Ashoka because mentally I thought I should watch Rebels first and I'm too lazy to start Echo. I completely forgot season 2 of What If…? started as well.
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This trailer is so loving crazy I kind of want to see the movie https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1747635372345934082?t=-W-7JNTMtWFt2qSxXpAlVg&s=19
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She's trying to figure out how to make a movie bomb harder than Gigli it seems
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Already my friends, after having sunk hundreds of fun hours into Crusader Kings 3, I am ready for a new grand strategy game. Has anyone played HEARTS OF IRON 4?
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Rogue Elephant posted:She's trying to figure out how to make a movie bomb harder than Gigli it seems Yeah, but this at least seems interesting instead of boring mush. Like she is going down swinging as hard as she can with this one.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Loki season 2 wrapped everything up and it feels like a good coda for the titular character. What If season 2 is a lot of fun. There are some truly great episodes that really are in the spirit of What If and just straight enjoyment. Echo is also only like 5 episodes with a total runtime of maybe a long movie. Its also really easy to watch and it catches you up on what you need to know (Echo was a person in Hawkeye who shot Kingpin in the face at the end of Hawkeye). Good fight scenes and not a paint by numbers MCU entry. Rebels is great, but I get the idea of starting a multi-season show being a slog and its a terrible way to start something. Just start when you feel like it.
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