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Nice to get the basement renovated but same problem still with getting materials in time. I had started telling the company what I needed in December. Apparently you have to call and tell them they are idiots before anything happens.
FTS, Imma go ski.
Good day, friends!
Have that feeling of impending doom throughout my body, though I don't know when, why, or how.
Have that feeling of impending doom throughout my body, though I don't know when, why, or how.
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Hit the bike trainer again early this morning for a 60 minute ass kicker. 
Slept in until 6 (beats 0315) medium transport load today with easy spacing. I actually have time to enjoy my espresso and read the morning news. win
was planning to go for a ride at lunch but got a 1:00 meeting dropped on me yesterday afternoon. plus the 15yo is being more of a prick than usual. fts. 
Here.
2000s techno mix rocking at work today. Doing some engineering and fab today, should be fun.
Coffee, think, weld.....
2000s techno mix rocking at work today. Doing some engineering and fab today, should be fun.
Coffee, think, weld.....
fuck is it friday yet
Seriously.
Sitting in a staff meeting that's so boring, it makes me contemplate how I'm expected to do this shit for another 30 years...
"Have kids," they said.was planning to go for a ride at lunch but got a 1:00 meeting dropped on me yesterday afternoon. plus the 15yo is being more of a prick than usual. fts.
"It'll be fun," they said.
I'm close. Really close to calling it.
Somebody needs to cover my SS payments. Keep the nose to the grindstone, Junior!!
Carpal tunnel surgery this morning. Arm is still completely numb 5 hours later. Tomorrow I learn to wipe my ass left handed.
i definitely do not have the tolerance or patience another ~3 decades of this horse shit. i have expressed this to my wife. we have agreed that we will reevaluate retirement plans (specifically timing) post lawsuit.
Son was sent home from school after contact tracing found he was in class with a positive case. Of course that means I'm now working from quarantine
Morning Monkeys.
A Clockwork Orange is 50, wow. That's all I got.
A Clockwork Orange is 50, wow. That's all I got.
Ultraviolence is ready for the AARP, but is the AARP ready for the ol' ultraviolence?
Take me with you.
my sister's oldest had the same thing happen. it coincided with them finding out her in laws both tested positive, so they at least only had to quarantine once.
i have a cousin at penn state that just tested positive because one of his housemates is a dipshit.
ridemonkey retirement community and hippie commune
Previous employer aid me off right before Covid kicked off due to the sales team fucking up a few high dollar deals, the owners getting greedy and demanding too high a margin and our new prices costing us sales, and thus they ran out of money to pay me, and about 20 othersd. Now they're blowing up my phone and email demanding I come back because I left projects unfinished, and I left them in a lurch because they have no design staff, and have since lost sales because they can't make updates to current designs. WTF? They laid me off.
My field of fucks is rather fallow at the moment.
Oh well, back to shopping for lasers
My field of fucks is rather fallow at the moment.
Oh well, back to shopping for lasers
what do you is tell them you'll come back under a contract to finish the outstanding work at an hourly rate triple your previous pay rate.
Dude... you should totally tell them you'll come back on a contract basis. Then make your contract rate just RIDICULOUSLY high. $500/hr or something. Make sure you write in the contract that you'll get time and a half for overtime up to 50 hours, and double time after that.
ETA: I really need to finish these threads before responding. @jonKranked
I stand corrected......functional wife. Not legal wife.Wait...
I thought you weren't married.
Between maternity leave and severance, she's getting paid through July though. So that's pretty cool.
If you find a good price and they're functional in space, I need a decent one for my godless heathen space laser defense shield to combat @mandown 's bass attack.
Considered it, but my new gig pays pretty well, enough that I don't actually care about making any more money (Insert monocle emoji here), so that had crossed my mind, but they still owe other employees back pay and unpaid profit sharing, so I'm not sure I'd actually get paid for the work. Giving up my free time to work for a company that may not even pay me seems less than awesome.
Perhaps I'll propose some sort of a retainer system. They give me $10k up front, I bill at $500/hour until the money runs out.
You think a 50w fiber laser would be able to start a wildfire from space? Only one way to find out....
knowing you..... dysfunctional wife
edit: actually, i take that back. you're definitely the dysfunctional one.
Sounds an awful lot like their problem.
Booo. She looking in the mean time? Or trying to ride it out until severance/funemployment ends?
I can keep an eye out, if you want.
I did that when I got a callback from the company I retired from. They got the message.Dude... you should totally tell them you'll come back on a contract basis. Then make your contract rate just RIDICULOUSLY high. $500/hr or something. Make sure you write in the contract that you'll get time and a half for overtime up to 50 hours, and double time after that.
ETA: I really need to finish these threads before responding. @jonKranked
Just got word that one of our local riders died in an avalanche in the Whites...
Tuckerman Ravine?
FUCK. We just had a slide in the San Juans that killed THREE people. Just recovered the bodies yesterday (avy happened on the 1st) - from reports they were buried 20 FEET deep. There was a photo of one of the SAR folks with a chainsaw cutting the snow - just to give you an idea how *solid* that shit sets up in an avalanche.
I saw those pictures, I can't imagine ...FUCK. We just had a slide in the San Juans that killed THREE people. Just recovered the bodies yesterday (avy happened on the 1st) - from reports they were buried 20 FEET deep. There was a photo of one of the SAR folks with a chainsaw cutting the snow - just to give you an idea how *solid* that shit sets up in an avalanche.
We definitely balance each other out in all the right/wrong reasons, that's for sure.knowing you..... dysfunctional wife
edit: actually, i take that back. you're definitely the dysfunctional one.
I got laid off from my first job after school after 5-6 years, and it was the best thing to ever happen to me career wise, fortunately. Hoping the same for her (she was pretty "meh" overall at her work, but the pay was pretty good and flexibility as far as hours couldn't be beat).
She might half-ass look, but timing wise it's pretty OK as daycare worries for womb turd #2 are now pushed out, as well as $$$ associated with that.
I'd like to convince her to get a job at my place making mucho dinero, but the technical side of things scares her. I tried to tell her some folks here at comparable positions have NO IDEA what they're doing and making upwards of ~$200k/yr.....worth a shot.
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Many moons ago the last project I worked on for a company was a high G calibration system the gubment used for accelerometers used in weapons testing. Not only did I ensure the system met all the requirements for that particular customer but I characterized the entire performance envelope so it could be sold to other customers.
A few years later I got a panicked phone call from them. They sold 50 units to the Air Force that needed to ship the following day and they couldn't get the system to meet their new requirements. I laughed as they were trying to reach G levels 5 times what it was capable of. They somehow blamed me. However I still had web access to my email account and I re-forwarded my original report and asked the CEOs secretary to pull the file where the official printed memo was as an officially documented "I told you so".
I really enjoyed that job but I left because I was afraid of getting caught up in their sketchy business practices and going to jail. I celebrated a good life decision with a few beers that night.
i do not miss paying for daycare.