Unless you are being paid pennies you should not be living hand to mouth.
It's not a money management issue. Many of us were just fine 10 years ago, and could maybe even sock some money away. But now, 10 years later, we make the same salary, everything costs 3 times as much, we've spent whatever we socked away before, sold everything we could, downgraded our lifestyle as much as possible, and are living hand to mouth.
If wages kept up with inflation, this wouldn't be an issue, but unfortunately, most companies don't even give you a COLA that keeps up with the CPI lie, let alone keeps up with the actual increases in the cost of living.
My wife worked at Supercuts for a short time. They wouldn't give her more than about 15 hours, so she had to quit and get another job. They charged her for "training" and threatened to take her to collections if she didn't pay. What kind of legitimate business charges employees for training?
Also, if the cash register was short, the employees had to cover the shortage out of their own pocket, immediately. So, the company required immediate payment for cash register shortages, but they only wanted to pay you at the end of the week.
I don't consider Supercuts to be a legitimate business organization. It is just a scam to feed on it's own employees.
I once bought a house in a subdivision that had a HOA. I never received any kind of information about the HOA and the rules at all. I wasn't aware there was a HOA until the day of closing. I received a HORRIBLY scanned (like black on dark grey) copy of the HOA rules and regulations which contained many items which would have made me not put an offer on the house had I known about them.
I went to a movie last week where the feature had started, and a group of people came in, very noisily, and then when they got into the seating area, which was sparsely populated due to being a Sunday morning show, yelled out "Is there anybody in here"? My friend told them to please keep it down, and then they started backtalking. Fortunately, they went up to the back of the movie theater and we didn't hear from them for the rest of the movie.
However, about 3/4 of the way through the movie, a cell phone started going off a few rows up and to our right. It rang about four times and then, incredibly, somebody picked up the phone, and started having a conversation. I don't know about what, because it was in a foreign language. But this went on for about 3 or 4 minutes, before he stopped. Fortunately, he quit before my friend got agitated enough to go grab the phone from him and throw it away.
Some people just have no concept of common decency.
We should reform immigration law so that for every additional requirement that they put on that is not part of the core job, they have to pay the H1b an additional $20,000. Then suddenly they will find it is cheaper to just hire the local people they have been passing over.
Well, the labor for building and maintaining robots to force humans out of jobs in China is still cheaper than the labor for building and maintaining robots to force humans out of jobs in the United States.
However, it might be more cost effective to build robots and China and maintain them here, just to avoid the shipping cost of the final product that the robots build.
Well since the GP decided to imply that Border Patrol guards are racist, I thought I would point out that in most cases Border Patrol guards are racial. Of course, we live in America where anybody who tries to disprove a supposedly racial incident is labeled a racist.
Depends on the color of your skin and place of birth. My own experience and from stories told to me by other brown skinned people, the US border guards take a great deal of pleasure sending us into the back room for further questioning
I guess it all depends. In my case, the US Border Guards WERE brown skinned individuals. In fact from my experience, minorities also make up a majority of the TSA agents.
The term "tried to conclusion" means that the matter was brought to trial, and the trial has completed, as opposed to being stalled in an endless cycle of motions and counter-motions, or settling out of court, or otherwise not finishing.
Yes, and it also doesn't imply whether he won or lost. What he is probably hoping is that his potential customers will read that and assume he won.
In my company, we have evaluated Java 7, but unfortunately there are still large issues in Java for us. We are also integrated with the local Java community and a lot of open source projects, and the general consensus seems to be that 7 is not ready for prime time yet. So it is unfortunate that Oracle is ending support for 6 without a suitable replacement.
He allegedly used the kickbacks to buy an $8 million residence in Coral Gables, Fla., furnishings for the home and pay his credit card bills, as well as pay for tennis coaching and the use of a hip-hop production company.
“Fiorentino had it all — a lucrative job and a high-flying lifestyle,” said Loretta E. Lynch, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, in a statement. “But his loyalties were neither to his employer nor its public shareholders but solely to himself,” she said.
Yes, and everybody that has an American Express Corporate card uses their reward points only for business related activities, and when they visit a client and are offered lunch always politely refuses. Kickbacks exist from the janitor to the CEO. Either it's all okay or it's all bad.
Now consider the fact that one of the more annoying aspects of owning an RV is that you have to drive it everywhere yourself.
I don't know, I kind of like driving my RV, and my car. The only reason I don't like driving is because the destination sucks, like going to work, or that the starting point sucks, like when I have to drive from work to home.
You would think they had economies of scale, and yet the rental companies bill about 4 times more per month than you would have paid for your own car. Of course, there is profit to be made, but that is an awful lot of profit.
I don't think Title Insurance is any kind of collectible insurance. i think they just charge you a couple of hundred dollars and expect to never hear from you again. At any rate it wouldn't cover something like this. If anything, it would cover if they made some kind of mistake in ownership that lead to you somehow not being the legal owner of the property. And even then, you are probably out of luck because they probably would have closed up shop and opened up under a new name.
Sooo.... people with celphones will be warned about city- or state-wide disasters... but only if they bought a particular product from one particular vendor?
Are Apple customers the only ones worth warning? I know, I know, "even restricting warnings to people owning a celphone w/ service is elitist," but this strikes me as being too elitist when it is iPhones only.
Not at all. The iphone is just announcing it as if this was their idea when other phone systems have been doing this for years.
Great They save 3 or 4 times the cost of electricity, but they cost 10 times as much and last about as long as incandescent. Total cost of ownership might work out to about the same, but it is mostly front loaded, which is exactly the opposite of what you want in an inflationary economy.
Yes, in my state those laws are also on the books, however it has been proven time and time again that an otherwise law abiding citizens who kills a criminal in the middle of an act receives a longer sentence than the criminal would have if allowed to continue their crime, even if that crime was murder. And that is not even calculating in that the otherwise law abiding citizen has a 100% chance of being apprehended and tried, having not actually committed a crime (morally anyway), whereas the criminal has a much lower chance of being apprehended because they would actually attempt to get away, having knowingly committed a crime.
In my state recently, a convenience store worker received life in prison for killing an armed robber who held a gun on him. Also in my state recently, a criminal received 15 years for killing an unarmed man who complied with his order to hand over his wallet.
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Unless you are being paid pennies you should not be living hand to mouth.
It's not a money management issue. Many of us were just fine 10 years ago, and could maybe even sock some money away. But now, 10 years later, we make the same salary, everything costs 3 times as much, we've spent whatever we socked away before, sold everything we could, downgraded our lifestyle as much as possible, and are living hand to mouth.
If wages kept up with inflation, this wouldn't be an issue, but unfortunately, most companies don't even give you a COLA that keeps up with the CPI lie, let alone keeps up with the actual increases in the cost of living.
My wife worked at Supercuts for a short time. They wouldn't give her more than about 15 hours, so she had to quit and get another job. They charged her for "training" and threatened to take her to collections if she didn't pay. What kind of legitimate business charges employees for training?
Also, if the cash register was short, the employees had to cover the shortage out of their own pocket, immediately. So, the company required immediate payment for cash register shortages, but they only wanted to pay you at the end of the week.
I don't consider Supercuts to be a legitimate business organization. It is just a scam to feed on it's own employees.
I once bought a house in a subdivision that had a HOA. I never received any kind of information about the HOA and the rules at all. I wasn't aware there was a HOA until the day of closing. I received a HORRIBLY scanned (like black on dark grey) copy of the HOA rules and regulations which contained many items which would have made me not put an offer on the house had I known about them.
I went to a movie last week where the feature had started, and a group of people came in, very noisily, and then when they got into the seating area, which was sparsely populated due to being a Sunday morning show, yelled out "Is there anybody in here"? My friend told them to please keep it down, and then they started backtalking. Fortunately, they went up to the back of the movie theater and we didn't hear from them for the rest of the movie.
However, about 3/4 of the way through the movie, a cell phone started going off a few rows up and to our right. It rang about four times and then, incredibly, somebody picked up the phone, and started having a conversation. I don't know about what, because it was in a foreign language. But this went on for about 3 or 4 minutes, before he stopped. Fortunately, he quit before my friend got agitated enough to go grab the phone from him and throw it away.
Some people just have no concept of common decency.
We should reform immigration law so that for every additional requirement that they put on that is not part of the core job, they have to pay the H1b an additional $20,000. Then suddenly they will find it is cheaper to just hire the local people they have been passing over.
There should be a "Liar" mod.
Or use one of the 800+ vendors that accept bitcoins.
Well, the labor for building and maintaining robots to force humans out of jobs in China is still cheaper than the labor for building and maintaining robots to force humans out of jobs in the United States.
However, it might be more cost effective to build robots and China and maintain them here, just to avoid the shipping cost of the final product that the robots build.
Well since the GP decided to imply that Border Patrol guards are racist, I thought I would point out that in most cases Border Patrol guards are racial. Of course, we live in America where anybody who tries to disprove a supposedly racial incident is labeled a racist.
Depends on the color of your skin and place of birth. My own experience and from stories told to me by other brown skinned people, the US border guards take a great deal of pleasure sending us into the back room for further questioning
I guess it all depends. In my case, the US Border Guards WERE brown skinned individuals. In fact from my experience, minorities also make up a majority of the TSA agents.
Just because the law prevents someone from blackballing you doesn't stop them from doing it. Your only recourse would be if you could prove it.
The term "tried to conclusion" means that the matter was brought to trial, and the trial has completed, as opposed to being stalled in an endless cycle of motions and counter-motions, or settling out of court, or otherwise not finishing.
Yes, and it also doesn't imply whether he won or lost. What he is probably hoping is that his potential customers will read that and assume he won.
In my company, we have evaluated Java 7, but unfortunately there are still large issues in Java for us. We are also integrated with the local Java community and a lot of open source projects, and the general consensus seems to be that 7 is not ready for prime time yet. So it is unfortunate that Oracle is ending support for 6 without a suitable replacement.
Sigh. From TFA:
Yes, and everybody that has an American Express Corporate card uses their reward points only for business related activities, and when they visit a client and are offered lunch always politely refuses. Kickbacks exist from the janitor to the CEO. Either it's all okay or it's all bad.
Because no one calls it that, and it's actual name is cryptocurrency
Isn't there already something called coin? Like...coin?
Now consider the fact that one of the more annoying aspects of owning an RV is that you have to drive it everywhere yourself.
I don't know, I kind of like driving my RV, and my car. The only reason I don't like driving is because the destination sucks, like going to work, or that the starting point sucks, like when I have to drive from work to home.
You would think they had economies of scale, and yet the rental companies bill about 4 times more per month than you would have paid for your own car. Of course, there is profit to be made, but that is an awful lot of profit.
Taken away, no. Waived, yes.
You can't waive an inalienable right.
Of course you have that right.... but your employer also has the legal right to sue you, and the NDA that you signed would ensure that he would win.
How can a government court agree with a piece of paper that says that you are not allowed to exercise free speech?
Honestly, what did this couple expect by reporting the find?
We wanna preserve our heratage or some crap... Pay us? Nope.. that's gonna cost YOU money..
We're gonna be famous? Yeah i think this is what they were betting on...
Plain ol greed is the only way i can see this happening... And.. it worked out well.
Since of morality?
Desire to obey the law?
Honesty?
Any number of reasons besides greed. Somebody is projecting.
I don't think Title Insurance is any kind of collectible insurance. i think they just charge you a couple of hundred dollars and expect to never hear from you again. At any rate it wouldn't cover something like this. If anything, it would cover if they made some kind of mistake in ownership that lead to you somehow not being the legal owner of the property. And even then, you are probably out of luck because they probably would have closed up shop and opened up under a new name.
Who cares 'what is porn'? Question is, 'How do you work around the blockage'?
I imagine in much the same way that water "works it's way around the blockage" when you drop a pebble in the Colorado river.
Sooo.... people with celphones will be warned about city- or state-wide disasters... but only if they bought a particular product from one particular vendor?
Are Apple customers the only ones worth warning? I know, I know, "even restricting warnings to people owning a celphone w/ service is elitist," but this strikes me as being too elitist when it is iPhones only.
Not at all. The iphone is just announcing it as if this was their idea when other phone systems have been doing this for years.
Great They save 3 or 4 times the cost of electricity, but they cost 10 times as much and last about as long as incandescent. Total cost of ownership might work out to about the same, but it is mostly front loaded, which is exactly the opposite of what you want in an inflationary economy.
Yes, in my state those laws are also on the books, however it has been proven time and time again that an otherwise law abiding citizens who kills a criminal in the middle of an act receives a longer sentence than the criminal would have if allowed to continue their crime, even if that crime was murder. And that is not even calculating in that the otherwise law abiding citizen has a 100% chance of being apprehended and tried, having not actually committed a crime (morally anyway), whereas the criminal has a much lower chance of being apprehended because they would actually attempt to get away, having knowingly committed a crime.
In my state recently, a convenience store worker received life in prison for killing an armed robber who held a gun on him. Also in my state recently, a criminal received 15 years for killing an unarmed man who complied with his order to hand over his wallet.