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Your Pay Is About To Go Up (gawker.com)
The Department of Labor's overtime rule is expected to be updated some time later this summer, and when it does, you will soon be entitled to overtime pay if you make less than $50,000 per year. According to Gawker, "It now appears that even if you are a salaried employee or some sort of 'manager,' you will still be entitled to time-and-a-half pay for working more than 40 hours per week, as long as your total salary falls under the threshold." How did they come to this conclusion? Gawker points out that the Department of Labor promotes a Wall Street Journal story which says that "The threshold would be increased to $970, or $50,440 annually. That level is about the 40th percentile of weekly earnings for salaried workers." Hamilton Nolan writes, "This rule has been a matter of political contention for years. But now that it is actually approaching, its import is becoming clear: overtime pay, which has long been isolated to a minority of workers, is about to be extended to almost the entire middle class."
App guy, look up "fiat currency." All you did is trade money for money. You should write a new app, App Money! You can app it wherever apps app, right?
Maybe you shouldn't have taken Smoking Dicks as a major?
Probably not, but it's my passion.
You've one been laid off twice?
Hell, I get laid off every 2 to 3 years and every time I end up with a new job paying 30% to 40% more. Now when the boss tells me there has to be layoffs, I smile and ask if I am getting two weeks plus a severance package, or are they just going to hand me a box.
The last boss to do it laid off the whole team (With a two week notice). When we were leaving, he asked why everyone was smiling.
I looked right at him and said,
1) Your idea of outsourcing all the L3/L4 people to India is doomed to failure,
2) Every one of us is stepping out of this place and into a new job making 30% to 50% more, We all start at our new jobs tomorrow,
and 3) We never have to deal with your stupid ideas again.
So everyone is happy!
It was funny when 6 months later they had to bring the jobs back, had trouble finding people to fill the positions, and started calling the old team to try to get them back. Guess that is what happens when you outsource a GOVERNMENT "NO OUTSOURCE" CONTRACT!
$1700 a month child support!?!?!?! Holy shit!!! I pay that much per child and then also have to spend time with them and raise them and stuff too. That sounds like a fucking great deal. I'm calling my wife and asking for a divorce and making her take the kids.
Me and the two brats are taking a trip (just the three of us) from Norway to Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York, to London and back this summer... just the business class tickets and hotels in Tokyo and London have cost me about $14,000 so far. By the time I pay for the beach house in New York, the rental car, food, taxis, etc... I expect to be well over $20,000. That's $10,000 per kid burned in 2 weeks just to give them a nice summer vacation. And worst of all.. they'll probably want me to spend time with them and talk with them and bring them all over to see stuff. So... add the pain and suffering on top of the financial cost.
Dude... you've got a sweet deal. I've been threatening them for years to dress them in paper bags and duct tape... then to "stuff me", I came home and found them both sitting around dressed in paper bags and bunny rabbit print duct tape... smiling!!! BRATS!!!
Bah! I get laid every 2 or 3 years too!
Every two or three years? LUXURY! I get laid off every week, two days before my first day, and every holiday my boss stabs me to death and stashes me in the trash bin.
I was working one particular Fed contract, which, after several appeals by the current prime, was finally awarded to the competitor.
Who promptly announced that everyone could keep their jobs. . . at 20% less. Contract handover was two months later.
My shop had a total of 34 contractors. Inside of a week, we were down to 9 of us, and I left the next week (12% raise). I'm told the last guy left 2 weeks later, one month out from handover.
And the new prime had exactly ZERO acceptance from current contract staff. New prime was reportedly going crazy, because NOBODY would accept a pay cut.
They called a meeting of all the previous contractors. Nobody showed. They called another, with the bait of a free $50. Amazon card for attending. . . .they then offered a 5% cut instead. We started walking (not that I was going to accept anyway). . . .they offered par. We kept walking.
Eventually, they offered +10% and signing bonuses, but pretty much everybody was settled in elsewhere. They ended up having to bring the old prime on as a sub, to get it manned. . .
Jack and Jill both came up for performance review. The PHB had just had his budget slashed, and corporate instructed him to cut a staff member. During Jill's review, the PHB sighed, and gave her the bad news. "I'm sorry, Jill, but I've got to lay you or Jack off."
Jill responded, "Can you just jack off? I've got a helluva headache right now."