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keykey posted:In CA you have to have a 1 million umbrella and in stipulations, ride along are mandatory otherwise you could lose insurance. Doesn't seem to be the case in AZ. When I was shopping for a Focus ST I was concerned about how the seat would work for me (I'm wider than I should be, and the seat is narrow) over my long hour+ commute each day. I was at one of the largest and most reputable Ford dealers in the area and the sales manager got a copy of my ID, gave me the keys to a brand new FoST and at about 1pm on a Saturday said "get it back here before we close at 7pm". The other Ford dealership I have purchased cars from her has never sent a salesman on a test drive with me and I've bought 3 cars from there now.
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NitroSpazzz posted:First big Cars & Coffee of the year ended with a bang That guy was flying. Kind of glad he wrecked his car while managing not to hurt/involve anyone else.
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Well, followed a drunk driver while chatting with 911 tonight, but sadly other traffic got in the way and I lost them when they entered a subdivision. I'm hoping that the cop that had almost caught up with me and entered the subdivision 60 seconds after me had an address from the plate number and went to their house and got them getting out of the car. If not, oh well, I tried, and it was totally worth the 10 or 15 minutes out of my life the detour cost me. I'd post the dash cam, but it would be really boring. Boring enough that I'm not even planning to pull the chip and save the footage. Once they got off of the interstate they drove fairly normal, if a bit fast, but on the interstate they were doing a lovely slow motion S-curve from about 2' outside the lane to the left, back to 2' outside the lane to the right, and varying speed somewhat randomly +/- 10mph of the speed limit.
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Apr 2, 2017 05:28
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SCA Enthusiast posted:What I'm saying is people are dumb Fixed that.
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Apr 4, 2017 03:39
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The Midniter posted:God drat STR you are your own worst enemy. Have you ever considered using a check register? At some point you may have to come to the realization that maybe it's not the bank(s). The other way (which I realize is simply not possible for someone in STR's position) is to simply not drain your checking account to near zero monthly. I make sure that after all my bills are paid for the month, I'll have at least a thousand left in the account so that I never get near the overdraft issue. The trick is to manage to get to that point when your finances are already on a paycheck to paycheck basis, and then not spend the money that you know is there. the spyder posted:I cringe how much money I could have recouped instead of tossing something in a closet just "because some day...". I just pulled my old NAS out. I spent $1800 four years ago on it, used it for 2 and then upgraded to a bigger Synology. It's maybe worth $500 if I'm lucky vs the $1200 two years ago when I stopped using it... Ugh. Yea, I would probably hate to know how much money I would have made over my life if I'd always sold stuff as soon as I stopped using it, instead of letting it sit for years until ending up in the trash bin.
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Apr 5, 2017 19:56
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I understand what happened STR, and it sucks and seems like your paperwork would back you up and the bank should cover all your expenses. I was just saying how I avoid that personally by keeping enough buffer that even my biggest bill (mortgage) would be covered if I somehow forgot about it. Given the terrible rates on savings accounts right now, I don't see much benefit of keeping my money there vs. in the checking account which also gets a miniscule amount of interest. Like the others above, I also pay every bill possible (including my day to day living) on a cash-back credit card and pay it off monthly. Yet another thing that our society tends to deny to people who live paycheck to paycheck since they typically can't qualify for one.
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Apr 5, 2017 23:26
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Rhyno posted:i think the scale is going to say 195.something tomorrow which is a 10 lb loss and i will lose my poo poo Losing your poo poo can be good for a pound.
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Apr 6, 2017 07:10
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Ugh... cats. I can feel my allergies firing off just seeing them.
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Apr 6, 2017 16:40
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Rhyno posted:I've been ingesting many protein shakes and weight training starts Sunday. I'm gonna try to get on a proper schedule with my workouts but the only free time I have to do this ends up being 10pm nightly. Muscle is denser than fat, so be ready for your weight loss to stall, or possibly even reverse if you start lifting seriously. Start measuring your progress by your pants/belt size in this case, as you could easily gain weight while actually losing fat and inches. When I started lifting I was on the very last notch on my belt and weighed about 230. After 6 months I was 235'ish, but I was 4 notches in on the belt, so I was perfectly fine with that, although absolutely need to shed about 40 pounds long-term.
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Apr 6, 2017 17:37
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Walmart chat: I decided a long time ago that I don't care for them as a company and disagree with how they do business, so I did the only thing I personally can do, and chose to never step foot into one of their stores (and now, buy online from them too I guess). Voting with my wallet.
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Apr 8, 2017 20:18
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:I have found a new time vampire. Dude buildin' a boat. Welp... didn't want to accomplish anything today anyway!
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Apr 8, 2017 20:27
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slothrop posted:The world got a little less funny today. We're out of time, Goodnight. Bummer. RIP.
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Apr 10, 2017 05:16
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CornHolio posted:Just got the formal letter and their benefits information. Which place is better for your future long term? It sounds to me like this is a great time to move, given the known pattern of layoffs and poor management at your current place. The commute is an issue for sure, but if the starting pay is already a nice raise, and the vacation and medical is better, it sounds like a better place to work in general. Ultimately you should do what is going to be best for you, as there is no such thing as company loyalty to employees anymore.
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Apr 10, 2017 21:34
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Jebus, those insurance premiums and deductibles. Everyone in my company bitches about the current health plan, because the premiums keep going up, and so do the deductibles max OOP, but after seeing the stuff in the last page or two, I think I'm pretty happy with it. $70/month premium, $800 deductible and approx $2000 max OOP (I forget the exact number, but it's near there). Standard doctor co-pay is $25 and specialist are $40. That's where the biggest percentage increases have happened, just 4 years ago it was $10/$20 for PCP/Specialist.
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Apr 11, 2017 03:41
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CornHolio posted:So, I sat down with my boss (who is a pretty swell guy) and told him I had an opportunity. He went and got approval for a pay increase - $77,000 to $82,245 plus a third week of vacation. Congratulations and well done. That vacation is pretty big if you calculate out how much it's actually worth on top of the pay raise.
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Apr 12, 2017 18:29
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The Door Frame posted:Anyways, here's a cute dog escaping from the vet https://youtu.be/8A0acTzbFcI Good doggie!
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Apr 12, 2017 22:39
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I'm old, never married and no prospects for marriage, although I do live in a house I pretend is mine (it's the bank's). Most days I am pretty happy with the situation.
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Apr 14, 2017 02:32
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You Am I posted:Kinda the same, but renting. I often wish I was renting, as I'd be able to move much closer to work and get back many hours of commute time per week, not to mention the fuel/vehicle costs. On the other hand, there are a lot of nice things about owning a home, like my own garage to park in, and the ability to turn an entire room into a hardwood floored hobby room.
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Apr 14, 2017 04:18
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Enourmo posted:God loving dammit. So I've been getting rides from classmates since my car died. One of them was supposed to get my this morning at 7, way earlier than I normally wake up (he has 7:30 class); I set three separate alarms with overlapping snooze repeat times, so it would slowly build to an endless cacophony. You were only late to class, no biggy. As was said, apologize and move on with your life. I've done that when I was supposed to be at work for an important meeting. Life goes on, and people sometimes sleep through their alarms.
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Apr 14, 2017 14:50
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Good to see the CU and insurance both making things right for you STR. Nice to have things go right once in a while. Was the letter enough to get you to stick with the CU, or you still bailing on them?
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Apr 14, 2017 22:51
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:You know what's nice? I'll have you know that my empty house is always happy to see me when I get home!....  Seriously though, I'm glad you got out of the situation you were in, and things are working out well. Hope it works out long term.
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BigPaddy posted:I have one wisdom tooth that is impacted and they want to take it out. It doesn't hurt and I am in my 30s so I just want them to leave it the gently caress alone but they keep going on about it. Yea, if it's not bothering you or demonstrably the cause of some other issue, tell them to gently caress off. 3 of my four wisdom teeth never erupted from the gum-line and quite literally point forward into the molars ahead of them. Every dentist I've ever had prior to my current one was all 'those should come out'!, but since they never bothered me I declined. After my 51st B-day the one wisdom tooth that was actually in the 'correct' orientation managed to develop a cavity where the dentist couldn't properly fill it, so I got it yanked out. I still have the other three and they still cause me no issues, and I'm not in a real hurry to have the oral surgery required to have them removed just because the dentists don't like how they look on my x-rays.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Same here. Until one was breaking pieces off, and another beginning to do the same. The dentist said there was nothing he could do for them. So I decided gently caress it take them all because I don't want to be back, and just having just two staggered would feel weird anyway. If I have one of the three unerupted ones needing to be taken out I'll probably go for all three, since it's full on oral surgery at that time, but for the one I had taken out, there was enough of it there that by taking care of it quickly before it rotted, the dentist was able to do it as a simple in-office extraction with local. Not looking forward to the day I start having issues with any of the three left, as the recovery will probably suck, even if I am completely out for the actual surgery/extractions.
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BraveUlysses posted:ugh hundreds of layoffs coming around on friday this week Good luck dude.
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Geoj posted:Job chat - eagerly awaiting a call back from the place I interviewed with in February and again about a month ago, their own deadline for deciding was end of last week. Fired off an email early Friday afternoon politely asking WTF, they responded Monday with "by the end of this week." Given that they haven't held to any of the previous timetables I'm not sure if I believe them but I still have my fingers crossed. Since the job you don't want, but would pay the bills is a contract gig, can't you just walk away from it if the other place makes a good offer?
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Somewhat Heroic posted:This is awesome. Living in suburbia in Utah we get an absolute shizton of door to door sales. The most egregious is the solar panel sales. It is out of hand between phone calls and door knocks i am losing my mind. A friend from high school made this sticker, which I purchased: I have solar, which is clearly visible to anyone that doesn't need a white stick to find curbs, and I've still had someone ring my doorbell trying to sell solar. Really dude?
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CornHolio posted:Kind of relevant. As discussed, I had an offer from a competitor recently. Today I got copies of all the documents I signed when I started back in 2012, which includes a non-compete. What does the non-compete actually say? At your level I would think it was something that prevented you from working for a competitor at the same time as you worked for the company you signed the agreement with. I can't imagine that a lower-level employee would be held to something stupid like a 1-year from termination sort of agreement. Even if it is a valid non-compete, I think (note that I'm not a lawyer) that in order to actually go after you for taking a job with a new company, they would have to somehow prove that your employment at the new company was somehow harming them based on you sharing proprietary company information at your new job. Computer janitor work isn't something that is going to harm the old company so I would think enforcing a non-compete to keep you from getting employment would be fairly sticky for them legally. I might be completely confusing what you actually do though.
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CornHolio posted:Yeah, I'm an engineer that has an intricate knowledge of our product and manufacturing process. There is one other company that makes the product we do, and that's where I had the offer from. Then again, they kick our rear end handily because we outsource almost all components while they make them all internally, so their product is cheaper. And so they sell 4x as much. Yea, in that case please ignore everything in my previous post and go talk to a lawyer. 
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Apr 19, 2017 22:27
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Darchangel posted:So was in Hobby Lobby with the wife the other day (holy poo poo did plastic models get expensive!) and spotted this: You seem to have lost my way my friend. You should go to this thread of enlightenment to find your true path. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3148869
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Darchangel posted:Nope. There have been a bunch of those little metal kits in that thread.
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Apr 21, 2017 05:04
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Rhyno posted:Then Sunday I'm going to attempt to bear trap the lady with this round metallic thing. My condolences if the trap is successful.
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If I could find a woman who didn't repulse me, and would put up with me long enough to marry, who also made significantly more money than I do (or hell, even close to as much as I do), I'd be happy as hell!
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Previa_fun posted:Whatever happened to Used Sunlight Sales? Dude owned a bunch of land in the midwest (I want to say KS or OK?) and made some good posts detailing the machines and tools he used. Maybe his crazy wife killed him? I used to enjoy his thread on running the ranch and fixing stuff and dumptrucking.
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everdave posted:Whatever happened to Toaster Pastry and his Echo? Speaking of the Echo... I found out tonight that if you ask Amazon to "Play artist Pink" (I was in a weird mood) you get a really bizarre playlist that alternates between Pink, and Pink Floyd. Apparently Alexa/Echo thing can't figure out that one of them is one word, and one is two words. Of course I've bitched for over a year to Amazon that it can't find music that I own in my own music library (group called Delain) no matter how I pronounce it or ask. I don't think I have to worry about our robot overlords taking over with their fantastic Artificial Intelligence in my lifetime.
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cakesmith handyman posted:If it is then great, this is the first place I've worked that implemented it, but they refuse to call it TOIL because that has negative connotations In this area I've always heard it called "Comp time". The Phoenix Police department used to have unlimited comp time, but the officers work so many OT hours on the regular (or used to, not sure about now) that they eventually had to cap the comp time and force the officers to take OT pay after a certain point because there was so much built up comp time that scheduling was becoming a real problem, which of course led to even more comp time as everyone covering for the people taking time off was working OT. I'm salaried, so I get jack for working OT. I actually prefer salary though, as long as the management is cool, because I don't have to worry about how many hours I work as long as I get my job done. Taking time out for doctor's appointments, visiting the DMV, doing a charity event, etc. do not impact my pay, and as long as I let them know in advance everyone is fine with it. There have been a few fairly short periods where things sort of went to hell and I put in stupid hours for a bit, but overall I think it balances out. Several co-workers and I go out for lunches pretty regular and usually don't get back to the office for 90 minutes or even 2 hours on Friday's, and nobody cares because we aren't punching a clock.
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Ether Frenzy posted:They used to give out musclecars for $3500 and houses for $8k so don't begrudge me my 6 weeks vacation that everyone could potentially maybe earn if they are just willing to spend 15 years shackled to a corporation. Takes me 30 years for 6 weeks. Schedule: 2 weeks to start (pro-rated on when during the year you get hired) 3 weeks @ 3 years 4 weeks @ 10 years 5 weeks @ 20 years 6 weeks @ 30 years. So yea, I'll be 75 years old (if I'm still alive and working here) when I get my 6th week. Still, decent benefits, good insurance, the sick time is separate from vacation (2 weeks per year), plus 10 holidays (including 3 floaters) and good management that lets me work 4 x 10's and take off on Friday for an extra day off once in a while if I'm leaving town. Also have 6 weeks of major medical time off per year (which I hope I never use) and they are great to reservists, paying the difference between their salary and military pay while they are deployed. They also pay my full salary if I'm on jury duty.
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Raluek posted:Speaking of people we haven't seen around recently, has kastein been posting? I got so used to seeing him around every thread, but I don't think I've seen him post recently. His smackdowns are always both entertaining and educational. He posted on his house building thread about an hour ago in DIY. My guess is that project is keeping him fairly busy.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Okay so I've been fighting the most nightmarish battle of my adult era. Besides clearing out your home, call the city and tell them you have a sudden roach infestation and ask them to come dust all the sewer manholes in your neighborhood. I think you are in Phoenix, and they used to be really good at fast response to roach issues if the MHs in your area haven't been treated in a while. If the sewers are infested your battle will be never ending.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Whoever it is at the city who has to go into a sewer system packed with millions of roaches doesn't get paid enough. I've never seen them go into them here when treating for roaches,. They use a spray rig, pop the MH lid and inundate starting at the bottom using a long wand like a pressure washer, but with powder instead of liquid. They coat the entire inside and bottom of the lid. They still don't get paid enough as they have to wear a full suit and mask to do this, in Phoenix.
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