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Teeter posted:I caught this gem in an article about an Uber driver arguing with their CEO after giving him a ride. Uhh, to drive for Uber Black you have to do what that dude did and buy a late model luxury car, that's the price of entry. I'd never do it because I wouldn't rely on those promises for my income. And he's complaining to the CEO that he was swindled by the company, because they cut fares to where he can no longer make money. A fair complaint, and directed specifically at the guy who runs the organization responsible. The CEO is essentially saying "you got hustled, take responsibility for your own life"  Nail Rat posted:He's an idiot, but the Uber CEO is still a piece of poo poo and Uber is a terrible company taking advantage of poor people who are desperate. Reminder, this is the guy who called Uber "Boob-er" because he gets so much tail when people find out he's the Uber CEO 
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NancyPants posted:Yup. He loves it. Get him a blue Ikea bag and better games.
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potatoducks posted:She doesn't look fat in her profile picture. If she can afford it, whatever. I would rather pay $40 than brave LA rush hour traffic. The funniest part is that they were getting food delivered from a place that was like, 300 yards away. Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:You left out the worst part to me. Two of the places she regularly ordered from were literally down the street.
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:I worked in retail and $2s were a huge bitch because my cash tray has slots for 1, 5, 10, 20, and 100s so where the hell am I supposed to put this monopoly money you big grinning weirdo nerd Under the tray or under the hundreds, this is a solved problem
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Motronic posted:Seriously - I was wondering where this happened that made it notable. This is literally Werner Vogels reInvent keynote outfit like every year, with the t shirt often being something like a hammered old alice in chains concert shirt. Think outside the man in the box
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I show up to discuss all business, including job interviews, on horseback and stay mounted for the duration of the negotiation. It's part of my Hun culture and I demand this accommodation.
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NancyPants posted:...does that tie really match that suit? I'm usually good at this but I am completely bewildered. You can match either the suit, the coat, or both.
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Is fiancee also in a job that has limitations on jewelry? Consider that in your ring design if so. I know of a number of people in medical jobs who swapped out their big honkin' pointy rock of a ring for something lower profile, so they could wear it underneath gloves. Not being able to wear it at work where you spend half your waking hours can be a bummer. Or just get two, whatever. This isn't the Good With Money thread. I haven't filed a tax return since 2012 (self.personalfinance) submitted 7 hours ago by pleasesayimnotfucked quote:My father always did my taxes, in 2013 he got put into hospice care and suddenly asking him to file all the forms for me wasn't something he could do anymore so I didn't ask him. I work in tech, but can't be bothered to type some really simple stuff into TurboTax online? 
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cowofwar posted:I'm sure clickbait listicle writing pays well. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that they are the creative/dreamer/spender/no salary. She probably made $50 on the article, but the site it was hosted on made $2k in ad revenue
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Kilts: Not even once. She should put a hidden message on the centerpieces that says "the groom spent more on his dress today than the bride spent on hers"
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The entire concept is sort of silly, because like hell a 5 year old is "earning" $100 a week. If you're trying to give the kid an idea of the value of a dollar, giving them $100 for the kind of chores a 5 year old can do is sending mixed messages.
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Devian666 posted:What research shows is that if you buy books like this to help your child your child is more likely to benefit. That is any book about helping your kids not just ones about money. My dad worked in banking, and at a really young age tried to encourage me to open a savings account with the little money I had. In retrospect, I was at way too young an age for it. He brought me into work with him, which looking back was pretty cool because he worked in this huge bank in the old part of downtown. He introduced me to all his coworkers, including one of the senior directors of the bank. They were all telling me the whole spiel, about how the prudent and frugal way was to save and earn money from interest and dividends. I got overwhelmed, worried that they'd take my money away and had a huge meltdown tantrum in front of a bunch of customers, and ended up causing a huge scene. He never took me back there, and stopped working there soon after. As I'm older, I'm pretty sure that he was actually fired, and my behavior in front of the director and customers had something to do with it. All I wanted to do with my money was feed the birds.
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Nail Rat posted:edit: and yeah, always prenup. If I ever get married again I will not listen to "that means we're just getting married to get divorced and I'm not It bugs me that people don't get that there are things that can change in your life that neither of you could foresee. What happens if your spouse gets a traumatic brain injury from a car accident and turns into an abusive drunk? How about if they get caught up in fraud at their job and end up going to prison and having their paychecks garnished for the rest of their life? There are a lot of things that can happen that "our love will solve everything" won't be able to address. (hey, it's more likely that the divorce will be a garden variety one for the "normal" reasons, but shhhh) I didn't get a prenup because my approach was to go into marriage with practically zero assets. 
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Ashcans posted:Well, you could both track the amount of non-discretionary time you spend on/with your children, and whoever has the excess bills those hours back to the household as a childcare expense, based on the lost income incurred as a result. That way the cost is clear, and if the other partner feels that it's too steep they have the option of cutting back their own working hours to take over more time instead. Ugh, not another time-based costing vs activity-based costing derail in the thread
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What's the right amount to spend on a horse boat wedding engagement ring?
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ate all the Oreos posted:gently caress those grubby little bastards if I had it hard you should have to have it hard too I agree with the sentiment but I'm also thinking that getting a "head start" with inherited wealth is going to make their opportunities in 20 years pretty much even with what mine were at their age, starting without any inherited wealth. The ante is getting upped and they're probably going to need some seed money if they want to stay in the middle class for another generation.
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oRenj9 posted:So how much was elevator college anyway? 200k? It can go up or down from there
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Southwest is a budget airline which is why the CEO does things for himself that you'd usually have an Enrique for
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pig slut lisa posted:I have a pretty long leash for derails that are interesting and non-argumentative, but I think radiation technology chat needs to find a new home. I thought it was pretty rad https://np.reddit.com/r/self/comments/61ivzo/should_i_take_amazon_to_court_over_12000/ quote:Should I take Amazon To Court Over $12,000? (self.self) Help my Amazon account got shut down I am definitely not scamming amazon I just have a $12k balance in gift cards and order 30-40 packages a day with a return rate of 7% but this is totally normal behavior and I am not scamming anyone I'm going to take one of the world's largest corporations to court to get it back A comment on the post: quote:I watched a video he made about it and this is from him: I am thinking this will not end well for that dude.
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Jack2142 posted:Is Valve even a Game Dev studio anymore? The last valve game was CSGO like 5 years ago now? DOTA I guess. "We used to make games, now we make money"
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monster on a stick posted:Well when you have law schools using loan forgiveness to get even more money from the Feds then maybe it needed a bit of reform: Well Georgetown once funded the school via slave auctions, so funding the school through a student loan Ponzi scheme suits them well
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Suspicious Lump posted:hhahahah. shoot the rapist donkey was the name of my first band's EP
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https://np.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/63m1l2/returning_clothes_bought_online/quote:Hey there - so I find myself in a bit of a bad spot. I received a box from a company recently, which allows you to try clothes on before deciding what you want to keep and then return what you don't want to buy. In my foolishness I removed the tags while trying the clothes on to see if they would be more comfortable. Out of the £897's worth of clothes I received, I kept one item worth £50 and returned the rest. I wore three items for a full day at the office and the rest only in the comfort of my own home in order to try them on. In the comments, OP says they thought you could remove the tags and wear the clothes for a day and still return them as long as you bought them online.
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This could also belong in a "idiots on social media" or stdh.txt thread.quote:I hate when people complain about 40 hour, 50 hour, 60 hour work weeks... if you're working this much Embrace it, love it, appreciate it ... stop loving complaining! I work 100+ hour weeks and you'll never hear me complain about working. I might complain that my legs and knees are swollen and back hurts, because of my stupid spinal injury, nerve damage and no feeling in part of my leg which I have no control of and I still don't make excuses for it Who is this man, toiling hard for the benefit of society and looking down on the weaklings who would like to see their families or sleep? A captain of industry? A physician? An emergency responder? No! It's a DJ who also makes machine-embroidered baseball hats in his garage.
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cowofwar posted:Here are some mealy mouthed unconvincing articles that try to say economics is a science Uh did you read that third article that said that his criticism of economics didn't apply to microeconomics, but for macroeconomics as a bulletproof predictive and proscriptive scientific model? Because that's not a controversial opinion inside the field. The joke in behavioral economics is "when X happens, people tend to Y, except when they don't." Talking about how demand and supply affects pricing in a city's housing market is pretty solidly in the realm of microeconomics and is pretty well understood. Experiments can demonstrate the principles behind it. I have participated in those experiments. By that logic, one had better throw out psychology with the not a science bathwater too, because you can't possibly control all those variables too!
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Jesus Christ posted:I've recently cut some costs by sharing my girlfriends toothbrush. I normally use just the lovely $1 off-brand types that you end up dropping in the toilet all the time but she's got a nice ultrasonic one and man, it cleans teeth great! Running the shower to cover up a vibrating sound is a good idea, she'll never find out
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Residency Evil posted:I don't know where else to put this, but I feel this thread will appreciate it. I don't think it's a universally accepted truth that Megan Young, 23 year old p.r. woman from Hoboken, NJ is out of her boyfriend's league. Maybe it's a bad picture but I'd say they're pretty evenly matched. Far from this scenario, for sure But people sort of naturally gravitate towards people closer to their own perceived desirability anyway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_hypothesis
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baquerd posted:A very junior guy, making $40k a year, has decided they will be going on a vacation to Sweeden for a Depeche Mode concert. He also doesn't contribute to the 401k because he thinks they will steal his money. Your own personal savings somewhere to grow your wealth financial help
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BigDave posted:The Walking Dead is fun? I thought it was a cannibal-rape snuff film where all hope dies as Carl does something stupid, while driving the new Nissan Altima. I stopped watching a few seasons ago, did anything happen to their immaculately clean and detailed green Hyundai Tucson?!
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https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/66e2w0/help_ford_dealership_threatening_to_sell_truck/ Help! Ford dealership threatening to sell truck out from under me if I don't pay 1,200 a month MINIMUM. (self.personalfinance) submitted 6 days ago * by gypsywizard72 quote:BACKSTORY: So I'm in the US Army and I bought a 2004 f150 from a used car dealership in Clarksville TN, just off post, about a month ago for $4,000. I purchased this truck with a loan from navy federal credit union. After driving this truck for about 2 weeks, I started to notice a small, quiet tick in the engine. I decided to drive it to auto parts stores and mechanics, to ask them what was wrong with it and I was given numerous answers that weren't very consistent with each other. I decided to take the truck to a ford dealership where I assumed it would be given a professional diagnosis and a fix if needed. They told me there was low compression in 6 of 8 cylinders and that it needed a brand new engine. They told me it would cost around $6,000. I told the mechanics that I couldn't afford to pay that within a reasonable amount of time. The man assured me that it's no big deal, they would just hold the truck until i could get it paid off. He literally said "as long as you bring a few hundred dollars in every few weeks, you will be fine" so I said okay go ahead and install the new motor. I went out of town for two weeks, got a call saying "hey, new motor was installed, truck was test driven, everything is looking great". I got back in town three days later and stopped by to chat with the mechanics and I paid $300 and said I would be back soon with another 3 or 4 hundred dollars within the next few weeks. Here's a sad with money story. Guy is an E-2, and earns like $21k/yr.  Amazing that he managed to get screwed by TWO different dealerships for $4k and $6k in the space of 3 months.
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moana posted:I don't think they would cover an overdrafted check for $90k either way, but yeah, that was my first thought as well. I don't know if Alliant can link the savings account to cover, but I'll ask when I call them to waive the overdraft fee Stackin' the bills with romance novels, nice.
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moana posted:It's a one-time event, I now get paid nothing and am vomited on daily. I'll never make that much money again, so I've got to get my humblebrags in when I can. Amber teething necklaces are great because I can look at a kid and immediately know that I am smarter than their parents
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ate all the Oreos posted:Don't bring your loving children on planes until they're old enough to have self control, like at least 10 or 12.  If you didn't want to have kids sit near you on your flight, you should have paid more than $120 for your ticket.
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monster on a stick posted:Hey I found something even more BWM than owning a Toucan. Two can blow your money faster than one can
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3 years ago I embarked on an ambitious project to do 800 sq ft of tiling in my house. I did it all myself, and saved about $2,000 doing so. But I also traded a bunch of weekends, evenings, and missed some opportunities to do other interesting things because I was laying stupid tile in my stupid house. Because I was slow and bad and had to do a lot of rework, it took wayyyy longer than if I would have hired a crew (they'd be done in two days, max) I made a bunch of mistakes along the way, but now I'm actually pretty good at tiling. I did a small project in my parents' house after I was done, and it turned out fantastic. Was it worth it? No. Not at all. If I had the money, I would have hired a crew. But I couldn't afford to, so it was "do it myself, or not at all". Now that I'm good at it and bought a bunch of tools to support it, the cost delta between DIY and hiring someone is smaller which means I'm going to be stuck doing it myself for the rest of my life
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