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Nail Rat posted:Jesus loving christ. If you're having trouble paying for you and your kids, stop having more kids. What the gently caress. That makes a lot more sense, I was reading the link and thinking: "huh? it's not the best situation but he sounds like he has a good chance of pulling them through."
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The real BWM in that story is knowing they're low/no income and being scared of going on welfare.
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Not a Children posted:I don't think I'm being too much of a crotchety fogey by saying that anyone who needs to be able to get high while working needs a serious reality check yeah gently caress those three-martini lunches
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Mar 17, 2016 17:38
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:yeah gently caress those three-martini lunches I know, right?  What decade are you from that drinking on your lunch break is still a thing? Reminds me of that story that I think was posted here of the guy who kept ordering beers at a company lunch until he finally got fired.
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Mar 17, 2016 18:02
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Krispy Kareem posted:What decade are you from that drinking on your lunch break is still a thing? Its totally still a thing I promise you.
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Mar 17, 2016 18:16
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Krispy Kareem posted:I know, right? Having a beer at lunch is a totally normal thing in much of the world, and even in the US in certain locales and industries it's not weird.
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Mar 17, 2016 18:17
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canyoneer posted:Having a beer at lunch is a totally normal thing in much of the world, and even in the US in certain locales and industries it's not weird. A beer is one thing. Cocktails or hard liquor is something else. Every corporate job I've had prohibits drinking at lunch. If you have to drink because it's a client lunch you go home afterwards, not back to the office.
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Mar 17, 2016 18:32
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I've worked like 3 jobs over the past 6 years where it's cool to have a beer with your boss on lunch. IT tho so its magic world.
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Mar 17, 2016 18:43
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In a restaurant, vodka&tonic, beer, or wine are going to have about the same alcohol in them. It's always nice when companies let their employees manage their ability to do their (non-safety-critical) jobs, be it from lunch beverages or illness or cold medication or fatigue. Just a little spark of "you are an adult".
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Mar 17, 2016 18:47
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The story in question, iirc, was someone who was explicitly told by the exec to stop ordering drinks at lunch, kept doing it, was told again, kept doing it, and then was fired.
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Mar 17, 2016 18:50
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Tigntink posted:I've worked like 3 jobs over the past 6 years where it's cool to have a beer with your boss on lunch. IT tho so its magic world. I interviewed for a job in software that had a keg in the break room. It was software for financial and insurance companies, too.
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Mar 17, 2016 18:51
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Knyteguy posted:I interviewed for a job in software that had a keg in the break room. It was software for financial and insurance companies, too.
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Mar 17, 2016 19:12
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Where I work it's totally cool to get a couple of beers at lunch, and I imagine cocktails aren't really any different. However, it's definitely worth taking the temperature of the room beforehand.
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Mar 17, 2016 20:10
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Nail Rat posted:Where I work it's totally cool to get a couple of beers at lunch, and I imagine cocktails aren't really any different. However, it's definitely worth taking the temperature of the room beforehand. Rule of thumb is wait to see if your boss or supervisor does it. If you are still nervous, ask if anyone minds.
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Tigntink posted:Rule of thumb is wait to see if your boss or supervisor does it. If you are still nervous, ask if anyone minds. But don't ask if you're nervous enough that your hands are shaking, that will send a very bad message.
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Mar 17, 2016 20:29
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Krispy Kareem posted:I know, right? My friends company (~800? Employees around the world) has 2 kegs and a fridge with cider in the company-stocked break room. It happens. My company is a financial services company with lots of govt contracts and we aren't allowed to drink and return to work. I think some of the call center / claims benefits people do it, but it's definitely disallowed. SiGmA_X fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Mar 17, 2016 |
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Mar 17, 2016 20:36
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Being high is a lot closer to being drunk than what happens when your average adult has one drink with a full meal.
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Mar 17, 2016 20:45
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Yeah but getting just a little high is more GWM than getting a little drunk. Daydrinking: BWM.
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Mar 17, 2016 21:54
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The Mandingo posted:Daydrinking: BWM. Gonna need the numbers to back this one up.
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Mar 17, 2016 22:43
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It's not BWM if it's free beer from the office fridge.
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Senf posted:Gonna need the numbers to back this one up. Hang on, I'll get back to you when my buzz goes away.
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Mar 17, 2016 23:10
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silvergoose posted:The story in question, iirc, was someone who was explicitly told by the exec to stop ordering drinks at lunch, kept doing it, was told again, kept doing it, and then was fired. That was a fantastic story and I really enjoyed it and I wish I had kept a link/copy of it.
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Mar 17, 2016 23:21
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overdesigned posted:That was a fantastic story and I really enjoyed it and I wish I had kept a link/copy of it. No Reddit link handy, but Haifisch shared it here.
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60 Minutes doco on Australian property speculation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ktN_h7-J4
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Knyteguy posted:I interviewed for a job in software that had a keg in the break room. It was software for financial and insurance companies, too. I write software for a company in the finance industry, and we definitely do not have a keg in the break room. We do have three ping-pong tables, and a foosball table, so that's pretty cool. Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:One of my friends worked at a place where you're supposed to drink if you break the build. Oh, my God. We'd all be dead. The operations people would be extra dead, since disk space and permissions issues have broken every build of like four products for the last two weeks.
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Centripetal Horse posted:I write software for a company in the finance industry, and we definitely do not have a keg in the break room. We do have three ping-pong tables, and a foosball table, so that's pretty cool. How's the job? You happy with the place?
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Mar 18, 2016 01:24
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Well gently caress me. I work for lovely businesses then because the closest I got to getting buzzed at work was champagne for an all hands engineering meeting. And there's a good chance that was non-alcoholic. Then again AT&T took free coffee away and banned personal coffee makers. And our floor had coders. We might as well have been Mormon for all the substances we got to abuse.
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Centripetal Horse posted:I write software for a company in the finance industry, and we definitely do not have a keg in the break room. We do have three ping-pong tables, and a foosball table, so that's pretty cool. I work in IT operations for a finance company, can confirm developers are the reason we drink. (testing? that's when we push it to production and it doesn't work, right?)
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Subjunctive posted:This is not novel to millenials. What is novel is that many millenials were explicitly taught by their elders that college equals non-sucky job, then expected to be willing to work lower-class dead-end jobs alongside high school dropouts. Meanwhile, college tuition has been rising at an obscene pace while minimum wage has been nowhere near keeping pace with inflation. So they actually have a perfectly legitimate reason for feeling like they're "too good" for burger flipping.
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Cockmaster posted:What is novel is that many millenials were explicitly taught by their elders that college equals non-sucky job, then expected to be willing to work lower-class dead-end jobs alongside high school dropouts. Meanwhile, college tuition has been rising at an obscene pace while minimum wage has been nowhere near keeping pace with inflation. So they actually have a perfectly legitimate reason for feeling like they're "too good" for burger flipping. Also having a student loan so large that a part time minimum wage job doesn't really cut it with repayments. College students in the US have been enslaved by the baby boomers with no way out.
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"How about taking some personal responsibility for your decisions?" -A baby boomer, after flipping their first house.
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It's funny. My mom used to warn me when I was growing up 'Don't think going to university means you'll get a nice job. Everyone goes to university these days.' Obviously that alone didn't fix my perspective on things, but I think it might be a healthier outlook to take overall.
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CortezFantastic posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/4asa10/33000_in_debt_with_nothing_to_show_for_it/ This is really depressing. I get needing to help out your post partum wife and sick children, but not when it literally means losing your only source of income. Priorities, people! It sounds like the company might not take him back, either. The most depressing part is that she's wondering about getting either a deep freezer or switching to cloth diapers to save money. These are legitimate questions when you are trying to increase your savings ratio when your poo poo is at least somewhat under control. But let me repeat, they have ZERO income. Might as well go all out with the credit card debt at this point, as someone pointed out. Speeding towards a cliff, and her question is about how hard she should be pushing the accelerator... Thesaurus fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Mar 18, 2016 |
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At my job we've got a fridge of booze in the staff room, Friday afternoons after work's done we unlock it and some folks stick around for booze and BSing. This is at a private high school  silvergoose posted:The story in question, iirc, was someone who was explicitly told by the exec to stop ordering drinks at lunch, kept doing it, was told again, kept doing it, and then was fired. Yeah that owned and is enshrined in my personal Hall of Fame for this thread. I really wonder what goes through those people's heads.
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Pompous Rhombus posted:At my job we've got a fridge of booze in the staff room, Friday afternoons after work's done we unlock it and some folks stick around for booze and BSing. This happened when I worked at an ISP - beers and soft drinks on Fridays! Back in the day one guy had to hand a customer over to the supervisor by saying "Sorry, I think I'm too drunk to answer your question". Then had a nap under his desk. Still works there, last I checked. At my current job we normally do a Friday pub lunch. Nobody cares how much you drink so long as you can still drive and finish off the day.
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Redditor thinks that "natural law" says they shouldn't have to finish paying their (Canadian government) student loan. LOL posted:TL;DR : I have been paying an OSAP loan for over a decade. I have re-paid at least $10k MORE than I borrowed, but according to them I still owe about $2k that I really don't have. Is there an "enough is enough" law regarding this situation?
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Trillian posted:Redditor thinks that "natural law" says they shouldn't have to finish paying their (Canadian government) student loan. Looks like college didn't do him much good.
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This has been on my bank's website for months: Is this a 1980's Miami Vice cigarette speedboat best friend kind of guy? Definitely not a pontoon boat friend with a suit like that.
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Mar 18, 2016 14:36
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hanales posted:Looks like college didn't do him much good. They dropped out after 5 years
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