Hi guys, I had to go into hiding briefly as Mr. Lizard’s people were stalking my every electronic move. Or the local guy cut some seriously weird shit into the local meth. Thanks to all of my fellow Glib contributors who took a turn filling in for me. Especially Spud. Welcome to the party, pal.
I know they’ve been running this headline for over 2 years, but they’ve got Trump this time! Or not. A shady lawyer trying to save his own hide told Congress that his boss had asked him to rig some online polls. Which, anyone who isn’t doing that is too dumb to be President. Its a necessary but not sufficient condition. Oh, and they shared some internal polling data that was in no way a state secret or subject to export controls with some Russian people. Maybe. All hail President Pence!
North Korea may be opening a beach resort! I have mixed feelings about this because it disgusts me that the same entity that has made itself responsible for feeding the people of North Korea and failing to do so will probably watch tourists discard millions of calories a week without a second thought, but maybe some oppressed Koreans will be able to sneak out.
Its great to see a man achieve his dream, despite disabilities.
My good friend dated a girl who probably would have done this to him if we had smart-phones back then. She had no problem picking up his cellphone and scrolling through the call logs. How do we apply “don’t stick it in crazy” to arranged marriages?
I watched Supertroopers 2 on the plane last night, so this has been rattling around in my head. All of you can suffer with me.
Fantastic Friday features females with fabulous fronts (and backs)!
http://archive.is/WJFqE
I thought you came to Cali and brought rain with you……
Is someone goin’ back to Cali ?
HEY YUFUS!
Sup trees! Still stuck here…….
/I hate it here
OT (apologies for doing so so soon)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/tulsi-gabbard-a-fox-in-the-hens-house/
“Tulsi Gabbard: A Fox in the Hen’s House”
Libertarian Institute is trolling so hard with this article.
FTA:
“She’s nothing more than Pat Buchanan in leftist’s clothing.
Can you believe this lady, telling us not to be “prejudicial” against Christians?
Sure, Tulsi Gabbard is a young, mixed-race female Hindu immigrant from Hawaii whose been an activist, businesswoman, and soldier who practices vegetarianism, as well as martial arts and yoga. She checks so many progressive boxes that she makes Barack Obama look like Prince Henry.
But, as Vox recently put it, her ideas are “quixotic,” something we’ve all been thinking, obviously.
With these latest comments it’s clear that Gabbard isn’t ready for the presidential challenge and she probably never will be.
She doesn’t realize that, much like Obama displayed while in office, real liberal Democrats actually don’t discriminate when they achieve power.
In fact, Democratic leadership has both indiscriminately and liberally armed, bombed, and double-crossed millions of Muslims, all different kinds of them.
Old, white, Christian generals plotting a pre-eminent strike on Tehran? Well, as long as they’re not referring to their grandson as a ‘queer’, carry on.”
“her ideas are ‘quixotic'”
Meaning she’s not 100% Commie.
Because a green new deal totally isn’t tilting at windmills.
You win the internets for today.
She’s actually bothered to think through and develop her own opinions on a number of issues. She must be stopped.
Can’t have that.
It’s almost like there’s a puppet master pulling the strings.
The same thing happened to Beto (although he deserves it). Amazing. 4-5 highly critical articles come out within a few hours of each other. Amazing.
Their worst nightmare is a Biden/Gabbard ticket. Because Biden is the only one who could beat Trump or Pence, and Gabbard would bring in some moderate swing voters that nobody else (except maybe Webb) could. They’d rather lose than be impure.
I noticed that. And the anti-Beto headline called him a white male!
Dave Smith conjectures she got the business because she is skeptical of the Washington consensus on regime change. Then why Beto? Just to clear the way for Warren, or Hillary?
“Then why Beto”
Beto is an empty suit that the Deep State can do business as usual with. Shove three position papers at him, with two of them being completely retarded, and he signs the third one and goes jetting off to whatever his version of Hawaiian golf is. Then it’s just business as usual in Washington again.
If Gabbard was President she might actually try to change things.
Great. Our own Trudeau. Justo Truedork.
The Twink From the South.
I think they realized that he’s unelectable on a national level, and he’s just sucking up air.
It took a lot of media collusion in the last campaign to hide the fact that he’s a trust fund brat with a billionaire wife. They can’t pull that off on a national level.
Plus…. that Britney Spears style meltdown didn’t help. What a doofus.
It took a lot of media collusion in the last campaign to hide the fact that he’s a trust fund brat with a billionaire wife. They can’t pull that off on a national level.
Indeed, especially not against Trump, who would know what buttons to push (from personal experience).
Plus…. that Britney Spears style meltdown didn’t help.
Que? I haven’t been paying attention to things closely, I guess, as I’ve missed this. What did he do?
I think he told his wife “hit me baby one more time.”
He wouldn’t even need a nickname. Just call him Francis. Or Paddy, I guess.
There was a period of a few days where he got a little erratic. A livestreamed dental procedure and a road trip to find himself, among other things.
We are witnessing the struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party. And their 2020 convention is going to make their Chicago 1968 convention look like amateur hour.
It’s going to be very interesting.
If they keep going they way they’re going, they’re going to ensure their own extinction on the national level (they’ll be fine in CA, NY and Il).
Massachusetts too.
And the major metros in Ohio.
That’s like “you forgot Poland!” from 2004. In my precinct Elizabeth Warren received 88% of the votes last November. The GOP even had a candidate in this race.
You’ve actually had a Republican governor recently.
CA’s last Republican governor was actually a mildly retarded Democrat who commuted by private jet to Sacramento every single day, and now wants to prosecute fossil fuel companies for “first degree murder”.
Are you talking about Mitt Romney?
The current one has R after his name too, but he is actually a sort-of-sane liberal Democrat.
The Governator said that?
And knocked up his fuck-ugly housekeeper. I think you might be right about mild retardation, that’s some two-digit IQ animal lust shit right there, like when your pibby starts humping the couch cushion.
He did.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/12/arnold-schwarzenegger-sxsw-trump-big-oil-me-too-217345
Was it you or tarran a while back that posted about Massachusetts elections having less political diversity than the Soviet Union?
Those are statewide offices though. There are some Republicans outside of 128.
I recall I compared the Mass. elections unfavorably to the elections in Putin’s Russia. To say there’s less political diversity than in the Soviet Union would be a stretch–unless we’re talking about the last years of the Soviet Union (Perestroika) when the elections in some Soviet regions were more competitive than in MA.
Ahh, OK, thanks!
Massachusetts has always struck me as a different sort of democrat.
Sure, they have the academic centers that traffic in a fair amount of bullshit, but it’s nothing like the professors you’d find at Berkeley or Cal State Long Beach.
Yep – they’ll elect retards like John Kerry and Warren to the Senate, but they usually prefer sensible people running the state.
They are doing everything they can to torpedo anyone who might have some appeal outside their insane base. That’s a winning strategy right there.
See above. They’d rather lose than be impure. They really think that they’ll be able to overturn/ignore the constitution and install a president of their own choosing.
My favorite part of this nonsense is they want to change the composition of the senate so it’s more like the house of representatives.
That part of the constitution very explicitly cannot be amended. Good luck tho
But it’s not fair that Wyoming and New York both get the same number of Senators!
That violates one person, one vote proportional representation!
/ignorant prog who doesn’t realize what ‘united states’ actually means
If they want to reach that lofty goal, they’ve got to find a city willing to send in the militia to crack some heads.
There’s no rule saying the convention has to be in the U.S., right?
Maybe they should have it in Istanbul.
“Tulsi Gabbard: A Fox…”
Would.
That shot of her surfing in the bikini would make a great dorm poster.
The Libertarian Institute: “We also plan to publish two or three collections of the great writings of our hero and executive editor Sheldon Richman.”
Hahahahahaha…
Tulsi Gabbard is no different than Adam Lanza.
I don’t want to have sex with Adam Lanza.
Well said
That’s hate speech.
Racist!
I think you mean, “Sexist!”
You don’t get off on alien-with-a-bowl-cut chic?
From what I understand, Gabbard is a no-shit real thing anti-war Democrat. Something not seen since at least 2008. Since the dems have become even more pro-war that the Rs over the past decade, she stands no chance of getting the nomination.
Which is a sad testament to how terrible the Democratic Party has become. She frequently worked with Massie, Amash, and Paul on Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, etc in both the Obama and Trump administrations
rig some online polls
You’re a gotcha behind, this one is about suborning perjury.
If anyone would know about that, its the FBI.
I’ve read about this before.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-a-serial-killer-gang-murdering-young-men-across-the-us
Huh. My friend’s brother died in October after leaving a bar in Saugatuck, MI. 39, good looking, no mental or drug issues. Found him the the Kalamazoo river. There is video of him walking out of the bar and he wasn’t stumbling drunk.
Yikes.
39 seems out of the normal age range, but still.
Was he drinking beer or liquor?
If he stopped to pee near the river….. That sort of thing happens a lot more than you would think.
there are strong similarities brushed off as coincidence and that piques my interest.
Yeah. Though not enough to do a policeman’s “retire at 40” and devote the rest of my life to it. Dayum.
Yeah, I came across that same thing when I was reading about the Brian Shaffer disappearance.
I’m quite skeptical.
Yeah; on the Packer board I spend time on they’d call this the “La Crosse serial killer”.
Drunk people do stupid things and don’t want to admit it.
Goes against the idea of La Crosse being “God’s Country”.
Hi guys, I had to go into hiding briefly as Mr. Lizard’s people were stalking my every electronic move. Or the local guy cut some seriously weird shit into the local meth.
Why not both?
Maybe the “local guy” has been skin-suited by Mr. Lizard’s people.
“My good friend dated a girl who probably would have done this to him if we had smart-phones back then.”
Toxic masculinity made her do it.
No, I think being batshit crazy made her do it. She would definitely have boiled a bunny. She and her mom went to his work and accused him of having improper relationships with employees he supervised and several other things. That was fun for him. Luckily his manager didn’t give a fuck because the manager knew they were crazy. She tried to rope me into some shit over the dog “they” had but she kept, because he moved in with me briefly after leaving her. I made sure she understood that I was going to involve people with badges if there was any further contact with me over that or anything else. She didn’t want to play with me anymore.
What’s “local meth”? Sudafed and Coleman’s lantern fuel?
The fun part is that nobody knows. Probably not even the guy who made it.
IIRC, somebody discovered a “single pot” method that you can do in the parking lot of WalMart, but there’s a high risk of blowing yourself up.
A gateway drug to Local H.
I’d be bound for the floor.
I’d be as good as dead
Pa. cops host a slumber party for ass-beating training .
I watched Supertroopers 2 on the plane last night, so this has been rattling around in my head.
Have some ear blach.
Speaking of music: “Parents have been asking The Wiggles for decades now to write a song about toilet training,” said Anthony, the blue Wiggle, said in a statement.
Yeah, if your child has gone decades and still hasn’t gotten it I don’t think a music video will help.
I was expecting a Carol Channing medley.
First I discover adaptive hockey and now I hear about the porn guy. We truly live in wondrous times.
“Wife burns husband alive”
Umm…. actually, she burned him to death.
It’s one of those odd phrases, I suppose to differentiate from cremation.
I think it was first the one, then the other.
GOP’s Crenshaw would debate Ocasio-Cortez: I’d ask questions ‘you wish journalists would ask’
And that’s why she won’t debate you…
Related: My browser has been dying, dying, for me to read this article, since it’s been showing up in trending every time I open a new tab:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-01-17/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-s-big-ideas-for-taxes-and-medicare
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is the Darling of the Left, Nightmare of the Right”
They may not realize it yet, but they have that backwards.
Yeah, if your child has gone decades and still hasn’t gotten it I don’t think a music video will help.
Nice.
One of these days, the wolf really will be there.
why is deuce pronounced douche? is that some weird British bastardization of our great American language?
OT – Does anyone know of a good Mac OS emulator, specifically System 7.0 – 7.6 – Mac OS 9, for Windows (Win10 64 bit)?
Ocasio’s Razor. The dumbest solution is the most likely one to be pursued.
Management meeting today, huh?
Luckily I’m usually able to talk my manager out of his stupid ideas. He says he finds my honesty both refreshing and the reason why I’m not a manager myself.
I find his honesty refreshing.
From the CNN article re: BuzzFeed:
“Ask yourself this: Why, if there was nothing worrisome or untoward about Trump’s dealings with Russia, would he instruct Cohen to lie about the depth and breadth of the conversations between the Trumps and the Russians regarding a potential construction project in Moscow? You don’t have to lie or cover up things that are no big deal, right?”
The uncorroborated report from the same publication that published the Golden shower Dossier is PROOF, PROOF i say ,that Trump was in bed with the Russians.
Few thoughts:
1. I want to see the emails that show he directed Cohen to lie. No emails, i call bulshit.
2. Immediatly Dems are calling for an “Investigation”. Isn’t there already an investigation? This reeks of a replay of the Dossier. There was the Dossier that was used as proof that Rusians were with trump, and The Russians being with trump was used to prove the validity of the dossier. With the same source corroborating it’s own story in several outlets, leading to calls for an investigation.
3. The only reason Trump would tell Cohen to lie was because he secretly worked with the russians to win the election.
My 2c:
Emails don’t mean shit – they can be easily faked. Recorded phone calls or GTFO.
they can be easily faked.
Not always – we know the Podesta e-mails are genuine because of the Google DKIM signatures. Those can’t be faked unless you have Google’s private key – though I suppose you could find someone at Google to slip those to you if it was Trump they were trying to frame up (though I’d hope they’re using a HSM – you shouldn’t be able to get the private keys off those).
Problem is Faked/not faked won’t matter to 80% of the population, TDS sufferers will believe anything and Trumpsters won’t accept any proof as legitimate. If Trump himself admitted that he did, in fact, collude/obstruct/shoot a man in Reno, his true believers would figure that the deep state got to him. If Mueller comes out and says Trump is squeaky clean and possible the most virtuous man ever to hold the office, the haters and loser will assume Trump kidnapped Mueller’s family.
Hm. OK, maybe I was talking out of my ass again. It happens.
I couldn’t find if these things are widespread or opt-in or what.
Looks like somebody worked over Cohen.
3. The only reason Trump would tell Cohen to lie was because he secretly worked with the russians [sic] to win the election.
Or… Trump knew that having ongoing business with the Commies while running for president wasn’t a good look and lied about it and then, as liars tend to need to do, had to keep lying to back up the first lie until he’s directing subordinates to lie to congress/FBI about things that aren’t even crimes but he built a house of cards and had to keep it propped up.
oops, that was supposed to be sarcastic. I meant it in the way that its convinent to CNN to say that this must be the only reason to lie. Just like only Terrorists care that the NSA is spying because everyone else has nothing to hide.
^I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find that this goes back to him having some sweetheart deal with a Russian oligarch or something for real estate or whatever. Nothing illegal per se, but unseemly enough for him to lie about it.
I’m not a fancy law-talkin’ guy so pardon me if this is a silly question but, does attorney-client privilege not work both ways? That is to say, is a lawyer not legally bound to keep his client communications secret? Why is this Cohen cat blabbing?
Trump is the client, so he is the privileged party. However, Cohen is felon who can’t practice law anymore, so he just doesn’t give a fuck.
Trump could theoretically sue Cohen for violating privilege, but he won’t. There’s no point. The damage is done, and Cohen doesn’t have any assets.
Is this a lie-lie, or is it more like “a video caused the Benghazi incident” explanation?
Speaking of gimp porn…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Is_Fine!_Everything_Is_Fine.
Never seen it, though it’s not for lack of trying. Tough film to find.
Missing from the description in Wiki, the protagonist is a man of normal mental capacity but with severe physical deficits due to cerebral palsy. He spent almost his entire life in an institution for adults with mental retardation because he couldn’t communicate that he was of normal intelligence. Eventually it was identified that he actually wasn’t retarded and he started trying to live independently.
Crispin Glover found him and developed the concept of the film as what he would do with his life in his own mind. It’s an absurd amalgam of him killing various authority figures and having (unsimulated) sex with beautiful women. He died only a month after filming wrapped.
Interesting that WND, etc. aren’t reporting about this murder that was committed by an immigrant. They’re usually on top of such things like white on rice.
“white on rice”
What you did there… I see it.
Thank you.
That photo makes it clear that the guy was a murderer. I mean just look at him he’s got “I’m gonna kill you and laugh while i do” written all over him.
Sounds more like it was aliens.
Odd that journalists would not report such an unusual story.
The seem to think that “allegedly specifically” is a fine turn of phrase. It should only be used when you are orally cunnilingualing.
Woman Didn’t Know Progress On Toxic Masculinity Would Turn Boyfriend Into Such A Weepy Little Pansy
This toxic masculinity thing is at the very least giving the Onion a breath of life.
“Related Articles” on it were pretty good
Woman Finds It Worrying That All Of New Boyfriend’s Previous Relationships Ended In Breakups
“the common denominator in all these failed romances is him.”
About 10 years ago my son was talking about his latest break up (and there have been quite a number) and reminded me of the common denominator. At least he is honest.
I admire him for not leaving a string of dependents behind anyway. Seems like his charisma wears thin after a few years. He is a tough guy to work with because his seeming inflexibility sometimes. Good thing now is he is his own boss and fire himself if necessary.
Gold:
I suppose most of you have seen the lefty Gillette response “I guess they’re no good for sensitive skin”. Yeah, cis-shitlords are so sensitive, not like womyns and pocs. So if someone made a “best a black man can get” ad, chastising high rates of crime and fatherlessness, one could brush off any criticisms as overly sensitive.
Billy Cosby tried that.
Man, I really missed out on the New Coke phenomenon, didn’t I?
You can have my Leonard Part 6 when you pull it from my cold, dead fingers.
That’s o.k. You can be buried with it.
So Kool’s new advertising slogan is “You’ve come a long way, baby”?
You forget black men misbehaving is due to racism.
That response pattern is hilarious to me. They think they’ve done something clever, but the easy response is to just say, “Ok, cool, so you’re alright with saying things people find insulting again? Because we just did a whole big thing about how you can’t call someone “he” or “she” without authorization because that would be assuming their gender, so…”
I’ll tell you what’s infuriating.
Some close to the White House reportedly believe that the only way Trump will stop the shutdown—short of Democrats green-lighting a wall along the border with Mexico—is if the thousands of T.S.A. officials who safeguard the nation’s airports collectively decide to stay home. This would infuriate enough Americans from all parties, the thinking goes, to force Trump to compromise with Democrats.
On Wednesday night, after her shift had ended, I spoke with a T.S.A. officer at Hartsfield. An African-American woman in her early forties, she lives in Atlanta with her adult daughter. The officer asked that I not use her name, fearing retaliation from the agency. For two years, she has worked forty hours a week, for thirty-five thousand dollars a year after taxes. This is slightly more than she made at her previous job as a self-employed beautician, and the work, she explained, is more stable. Or at least it was. Her account, which she provided by phone, has been edited and condensed.
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We don’t get paid as much as other organizations do, but we have this job that puts our lives at risk.
tl;dr- Trump sucks, I hate my job. Gimme more money. Do what I say. Respeck me.
DIAF, TSA bitch. You can’t stay home, because then people might figure out that your job is a pointless charade, and there would be no change whatsoever in the safety of travel if you and all your co-workers disappeared in a puff of acrid smoke.
but we have this job that puts our lives at risk.
Not by terrorists mind you but your fellow Americans.
And correct me if I’m wrong but can’t the airport request to privatize their security? The Obama administration would refuse them but I don’t see Trump doing that.
Even SFO uses private security.
You can’t have private airport security! I mean, those big security corporations would purposely let people
bring bombs and machine guns on airplanes – and probably even sell them at the counter – because all they care about is profits, and letting planes get blown up on their watch is somehow profitable!
/prog
At least they’d be doing it deliberately and not incidentally like the current bunch of assholes.
What, exactly, is the annual on-the-job death rate of TSA workers?
Especially since airport authorities can opt out of TSA screeners I believe.
‘‘§ 44920. Security screening opt-out program”
If the airlines could offer flights with no security, I might fly again.
Why is that relevant information?
Because current year.
Especially since airport authorities can opt out of TSA screeners I believe.
My understanding is that they can’t opt out of the procedures. They can operate with a private work force.
Indeed. CAS at SFO can be as shitty as any other smurf. Or decent.
True. It has to be “equal to or greater than” the statutes requirements…but at least they arent entitled blue shirts
Ahem
http://www.covenantsecurity.com/img/ca/services/spp2.jpg
The only difference is the CAS vs TSA on the epaulets.
If the airlines could offer flights with no security, I might fly again.
#metoo
Czar issues edict
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb made his most direct threat yet against e-cigarette companies Friday, saying they face an “existential threat” if they don’t stop marketing to youth.
Gottlieb said he was horrified at the recent rapid rise in teen vaping. He called out the most popular product — Juul— by name and said his efforts to get companies to voluntarily dial back on candy-flavored products and heavy-handed marketing techniques were not having much effort.
The FDA has the power to stop e-cigarette sales and compel makers to go through the formal FDA approval process. The agency has not done this yet, much to the disappointment of groups such as the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.
Gottlieb said he is about ready to do so.
“I’ll tell you this. If the youth use continues to rise, and we see significant increases in use in 2019, on top of the dramatic rise in 2018, the entire category will face an existential threat,” he told a meeting.
I don’t think it will happen, but Trump ought to give this guy’s chain a good hard yank.
Marketing to children is a poor excuse
There is not a stitch of proof that nicotine has any negative health impacts, and it may have some benefits. My understanding is teen tobacco use is way down, which means they are less likely to have negative health impacts.
And, newsflash, or have you not seen all the lard ass mother fuckers waddling around vaping, but adults like sweet flavors too.
That’s unpossible. There’s no way that companies would be making sweet alcoholic drinks to lure in adults. They’re aiming for the children as well!
I love how the alcohol manufacturer websites make you put in your date of birth. What the fuck can you do on those websites? It’s not like there’s a button you can click and have a few cases shipped to your front door overnight.
You mean Donald “Teetotaler” Trump? That Trump?
What about this guy?
1. not “tobacco”
2. not “advertising to kids”
3. banning them will increase cancer deaths
4. I’m going to stop now before I say something in my current extremely angry state that attracts attention from a DA
By the way- Thanks for that “You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man” link this morning, I0b0t.
I watched it this afternoon.
YAY! You are most welcome.
Trump is set to announce something tomorrow…all bets are on.
I predict orbital bombardment of the southern sector.
He’s making a “major” announcement. “Glad you all made it here today. I rock and Pelosi and Shumer still suck.”
Maybe he’ll stand in front of the camera and say “time for an impression”, turn around, bend over and drop trou, revealing a bare bottom with eyes and a mouth drawn on. Then he’ll wiggle from side to side while saying “My name is Robert Mueller. I think I’m so big! Blah-blah-blah, blah-blah blah!”
Nobody recognizes classic Simpsons references anymore?
Will he invoke the “pen and phone” precedent?
He and Pelosi are getting engaged; Kavanaugh to set up the Bachelor Party?
“I like b̵e̵e̵r̵ diet coke.”
Epic as it would be, I think Chucky would be jealous.
Somebody has to make the train run on time.
“Did somebody say train?”
/AOC
I had my annual review today. First one with the company I started with back in July as a BI/Finance Analyst. I wasn’t terribly thrilled with the job offer, even after negotiations it’s a good 10-15k below what I could reasonably expect to get if i looked elsewhere. However, it is a small company, owned by one guy who’s office is two doors down from my actual, no shit has a window and a door that I can close office. I see him, the GM, and my boss daily, but I’m mostly left to run the BI/Data part of the business as I see fit so the lack of constant bureaucracy, micro-managing, and not having to sit in a corral makes up for that 10-15k.
Small company or not the annual review uses the usual 1-5 rating scale. I averaged slightly over a 4 – Exceeds expectations. They are extremely happy with my work. I can’t say I /love/ the job. It doesn’t make my heart sing, or help me find my bliss. But I get a fair wage for the amount of work I do, and appreciation of my co-workers, and an income that lets me enjoy my non-work hours.
I think sometimes chasing $10k more or that prestige title or company becomes a mirage that simply leaves you tired and thirsty instead of fulfilled.
I’m due up for my first annual review in the next couple of weeks. I started at my new job back in March, and I’m now on my third manager. I’m isolated from most of the company (I work remote and am focused on supporting one client), so I have no idea if this is standard or an outlier. I’ve had no complaints from any of the customers that I support, the account manager for the client I support, or my previous managers… so I’m interested in how this goes. As it currently stands, I’ll probably start looking for the door when I’m close to being vested in my 401k match (3 years).
Good luck! I took this intending it to be a 1 year thing, but I’m happier overall then I’ve recall being for years in other corp. gigs.
Thanks. This job is a step up from the previous one (I no longer dread going to the office every day), but the longer commute is not fun. There is a chance that’ll go away in a couple of months as the job shifts to a work from home one though.
Nice. I think the pay gap is worth the freedom from the bureaucracy. That’s a good trade-off. It’ll help prevent burn out. I’m starting to feel that now.
I have to start my self evaluation next week. Going into it requires reading a 32 page document and 2 hours of training. Completion of goals only matters 40% and my embracing of the latest Corporate jargon that made the rounds in the latest HR magazine is 60%. Any score over 3.0 requires 3 levels of boss approval (no exaggeration) and a knock down fight with HR. I can either say fuck it and give myself all 3’s and be done in 20 seconds or spend a day and half documenting why I exceed expectations.
Yeah, totally. My life isn’t going to be materially better by 15k more a year in salary (or 6-7k after taxes). But the hassle of working in an open office with layers and layers of corporate bureaucracy is soul-crushing. Before my great pot farm adventure, I worked for some fortune 100 companies, even a couple that are fortune 50, and it was not a good fit for me. Will my job be impressive at the 10 year reunion of my MBA class? No, but I think I’ve found a nice balance between ambition and contentment.
I think sometimes chasing $10k more or that prestige title or company becomes a mirage that simply leaves you tired and thirsty instead of fulfilled.
^^
I cant imagine how much worse my life would be right now if I took one of the higher paying offers instead of my current job. My job isn’t the most fulfilling in the world, but at least I get to shut the laptop and go home at a decent hour.
There also is the idea of making hay while the sun shines. You never know if something like sickness or economic conditions lead to tough times. That extra 10K may have been a crucial bit of cash in times of trouble.
Maybe. But I think some of that comes down to the salary level you’re at, budgeting, lifestyle choices, and stress. For someone making 40k, 10k more is a big change. At 100k, if you’re living anywhere near within your means, it’s a different story. Previous job before the pot adventure, I was miserable, 10-20lbs heavier, and snarled at everything, and flat out wasn’t able to enjoy the good parts of my life because of it. I was miserable. If nothing else, my attempt at co-owning a pot farm got me onto a path that is more sustainable and I enjoy my life lots more.
If it isn’t sustainable, then don’t do it. My opinion is that most people I know could easily work more but don’t because they don’t want to push themselves (not including you in that). That which doesn’t kill you…blah, blah has become cliche but it’s true.
No, I agree with that.
As I said above I think the thing is finding a balance between challenging yourself and burning yourself out. I thing I was going too far toward the later for a while.
It sounds like you are in a good place.
I think sometimes chasing $10k more or that prestige title or company becomes a mirage that simply leaves you tired and thirsty instead of fulfilled.
I like money, but I have my limits. I could stay at my current job and milk all the retention bonuses (I have two) and recent stock grants, but I think once I get my first retention bonus, it will be time to leave. I don’t see how it would be worth it after that point.
I had 3 different bosses last year and have already been told nobody is getting raises. Ask me how many fucks I have to give about my review.
We have a new head honcho who doesn’t believe in annual raises. You can almost hear the printers spooling up after that statement.
The old company I was at had one year they announced a pay freeze six months before the annual reviews, and two months after the annual reviews announced record profits. That did not help employee morale.
How’d that profit statement look the next year?
Shockingly, not as good. Of course, every year they would set the budgets in October, only to change them in January.
Almost like the good people starting leaving?
The most ironic thing I think I’ve ever heard uttered by a law enforcement official:
If your federal law enforcement agents are living paycheck to paycheck…But, wait, prosecutors, too?
You couldn’t possibly be living beyond your means or anything. Or just full of shit. And a law enforcement OFFICIAL living paycheck to paycheck? Doesn’t have enough money saved to buy some chicken?
There’s lots of references to investigations being delayed and reminders that these people protect us shitbags from criminals and TERRORISTS.
http://www.philly.com/politics/nation/fbi-other-federal-agents-see-cases-hampered-lives-rattled-by-shutdown-20190118.html
This shit is straight up propaganda.
“That’s one of those real consequences that people don’t think about,” the prosecutor said.
How many drug convictions have you notched up? Fuck you and starve.
Apparently none of them have credit cards, either, that they could carry a balance on, and even avoid interest if they get paid before the due date.
Nope, its 79-cent pasta or rice for all meals, that’s all we can afford!
Someone should send them a recipe for stone soup.
They’re probably leveraged to the hilt.
I love how they complain about having to eat ramen. One of my staple lunches is ramen and a bag of steamed vegetables. $1.17 at Aldi.
That is my lunch right now and I could care less. It’s what people do when you need to pinch pennies…but apparently much of my peers think they are owed steak dinners every night
I’m amazed at the lack of reality in the public sector. I’m sure most of us here have been in between jobs at some point. My wife resigned from her clinic to join a new one being started just for her and a couple colleagues that left with her. The supposed two month gap turned into 8 months before she got full-time pay again. It was a bad financial blow, but we recovered and did better than rice and beans every meal during that time. She caught contract work in her skillset as possible to help out until her job started back up again. I did the same with substitute teaching when I was in between jobs. What’s wrong with these Fed employees that they lack any kind of basic work ethic and financial planning?
It’s almost like federal employees are the people that private companies wont hire.
Bugs the shit out of me. I’ve said it before, I’m FedGov and my family is doing just fine…its tight, but we are living just fine.
Savings account with emergency funds? Check
Regular credit cards for our normal purchases? Check
Emergency credit card if it gets bad? Check
We always erred on the side that if myself or my wifey lost our job(s) we would have our own safety net.
Fuck all these stories about assholes who thought their paychecks were secure and guaranteed
“A veteran prosecutor in a U.S. attorney’s office said she has stomach pains from the anxiety of not getting paid.”
I guess they don’t do a psych screening for that position.
Veteran prosecutor. She’s been in the job for a while. She should be investigated if she’s that broke. She has a sensitive job, and is vulnerable to bribery what with her money problems.
I strongly, overwhelmingly suspect that she’s lying. Propagandizing.
But that’s true of everyone who likely provided quotes for these stories. Even just any relatively lowly FBI agents. There was this strange time when not being good with money was considered a security risk. Actually, I think that’s still part of the whole security clearance process…
Hot dogs and Mac and cheese 2$
Grilled cheese with bacon and tomato soup 8$ serves 5,
They can fuck right off! Welcome to poor but tasty meals bitches!
Workers https://imgur.com/gallery/PG5ncHb
Comments weren’t too supportive there.
The imgur crowd is mostly comprised of slackass dipshit twenty-something socialists by default.
In fairness, I know a couple guys who are still getting UI checks after being laid off last year. They’re in a union, which from what I’m given to understand puts them on standby and so they don’t have to seek another job as part of your UI compensation.
Recently, I missed a day of work cuz I couldn’t bike through snow.
That missing $72.00 means I went hungry last week. I have no sympathy . I don’t get bailouts.
What pisses me off the most about these shutdown sob stories is the implied notion that the government’s number one goal is the well-being of its workers.
I know that’s actually how it operates, but that’s completely contrary to the idea of government laid out by the founders. And it’s pathetic that a large portion of the population just eats it up.
*sigh* One of my friends posted on FB about the “Roswell” reboot on the CW. They thought the original one was lame but everyone should watch this one because the person who created the show is a Muslim woman and there’s a CBP incident early on in the first ep.
It must be exhausting making sure all your sources of entertainment meet your political standards.
My MIL is the same on the other side of politics: she spends the first hour or two of every day flipping between four cable news channels getting outraged. I love her, but kind of avoid her if I’m around in the morning otherwise she tries to drag me into the outrage.
The same Roswell, New Mexico that’s 206 miles from the nearest border crossing? Hmmm…..
Well, ICE does do stops quite a way from the border.
I’m trying to agree with you here.
Sorry, a couple of hours pulling down dry wall, wife sick, and scotch.
My perception is a little shaky right now.
The wife really should let me know when she sets up appointments. Some dude just came to my house and said, “I’m here to clean the pipes.”
Well, maybe that’s the reason she didn’t tell you.
You should at least have a few drinks first.
Wrong. I just had my tall cup of coffee and the morning turtle head is charging the gates. *Clinches butt cheeks* Hurry up, dude.
This seems to be a self-solving problem.
+1 sittin’ on a cigar
Sure it wasnt cable?
/Karl Hungus
I shouldn’t have done this, but I was just looking at some financial and tax stuff of mine, and low and behold, it pissed me off.
I contributed almost 10k dollars to my 401k this year and another 6k to social security.
One of those accounts earned interest this year and the other one is an account that doesn’t really exist and will most likely yield a -100% ROI.
Posses me off. I’d like my fucking money back. I could use that 6k for better purposes, like paying my inflated all to help insurance premiums for the year.
Better purposes than funneling money to some random Boomer that thinks SS was insurance and not a tax? Monster.
One my uncles clued me in to how Social Security really works.
When he retired and started collecting Social Security, he changed his tune about Social Security. He went on and on about, “I just want my money back.”
One day I reminded him of the time he taught me how Social Security really works. He repeated, “I just want my money back”, and never brought up Social Security again while I was around.
He died a few months back. RIP.
I understand his feeling, TBH.
I want my money back too, but the thing is, that money is gone.
I’ve said it before, it’s amazing how quick We went to the moon and We defeated the Soviets turns into They stole my money, like they weren’t the ones spending it. It’s not a perfect analogy but I liken it to a family business where one generation leverages all the assets and credit and builds up a huge debt while flying around in corporate jets and eating 5 star ‘business’ dinners, then retires and says to the next generation oh BTW you’re broke, better tighten that belt and oh don’t touch my golden parachute ‘I paid into that, it’s my money!”
RE: Suthen’s morning thread story:
I bet the little girl—now not so little—remembers. (Unless I’m underestimating how powerfully the mind obscures trauma. I don’t actually know anything about that.)
It’s another “seen vs unseen” phenomenon: like you, the sort of men (people) who behave heroically correlate with those who tend toward humility and even reticence. They’re not going to loudly declare their heroism—to do so would be contrary to the same character that impels them to behave heroically.
Meanwhile, acts of evil, explicit or banal, are (made) extremely visible, even magnified, especially as media are increasingly incentivized to do so. Its actors are not so humble, the acts never fall under the radar. Further, some powerful people want this narrative of toxic masculinity, so it will be ‘confirmed,’ repeatedly, visibly. Lazy induction begets lazy generalities. All men are
SocratesWeinstein.When truth hinges on the unseen, you’re not getting more informed by ‘seeing’ more. You’re getting less. (The media obfuscates by its nature? But I digress.)
Anyway, thanks for telling that story.
I’m still confused about the woman and why she and the girl disappeared so quickly.
She had something to hide
teh human trafficking, duh
I had a discussion with a male feminist from the states last month at the bar. He actually was tolerable and agreed we shouldn’t use government force to change people’s thinking. I asked him to make his case for feminism. He went on and on listing all the disadvantages women had living in the patriarchy. After about ten minutes of listening to him patiently, I told him that I’ve sure he’s a zealot. “How do you know that?” “You didn’t even mention one thing where men are disadvantaged, so of course you aren’t interested in having a balanced opinion.” That shit drives me crazy.
He went on and on listing all the disadvantages women had living in the patriarchy
“You didn’t even mention one thing where men are disadvantaged, so of course you aren’t interested in having a balanced opinion.”
THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!1111!!1!1!!
I’ve been present for one of those conversations. I can imagine your response was well received.
Some white knight listening in on our conversation piped in with something about victim blaming.
“Men don’t have any disadvantages!”
/mic drop
The first step towards agreeing on something to establish terms.
What is the biggest impediment to equality? I would argue that being dead is the biggest impediment.
*checks life expectancy tables*
That and the ability to reproduce your genes. Two female ancestors for every male ancestor. Close the DNA gap!
RAMPAGE!
Wait, that’s how you get another Genghis Khan.
Just got to learn that the girlfriend lost her substitute teaching job. According to the letter she received it was for multiple offenses and/or egregious acts.
/sigh
She used the wrong pronouns?
/hopeful
Sorry to hear that. Get out there and start knocking on doors and handing out business cards. How else are you gonna find a new girlfriend?
Will I be hearing about her in the news down here ?
I doubt it, although she did tell me the story of a teenager who tried to hit on her with the line, “Hey, I’m fourteen.”
…my kid isnt that old yet
Also, The Onion:
https://local.theonion.com/teacher-who-learns-more-from-her-students-than-she-teac-1819576901
Shit dude. Sorry to hear that.
But come on, dish. What were the multiple offenses? If she didn’t screw one of them did she give them alcohol? Call out some little prissy feminist jerk? Encourage a shitlord? Haul off and swat a kid on the head with a text book? Sass the principal?
From what I can gather, and from what I know of her, the odds are she said something critical of one of the teachers she was subbing for to someone who liked the teacher. I suggested she write a letter asking for the details and send it certified mail. No idea if she’ll get a response, but it’s about the only way to get the information. Since she wants to be a teacher after she gets her Masters, I figure she may need this information.
In other words, political.
Possibly, but at this point it’s just conjecture at my point. It doesn’t help that she was just skimming the letter and read egregious as erroneous when she was telling me the reason…
She was only subbing a day or two a week, so it’s not like it’s a hardship, except that it’s yet another job that she’s failed to hold down.
That may not be the worst thing in the world.
/remember teenage self being a real ass to substitute teachers.
Sorry.
Cop who shot Laquan McDonald gets 81 months: https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-cop-found-guilty-of-second-degree-murder-of-laquan-mcdonald-sentenced-to-81-months
I didn’t follow that story very closely. Anybody have an opinion on the shooting?
You misspelled murder.
Shot a guy with a knife sixteen times.
There are guns that shoot knives? Sweet.
How about this one?
Yeah, I didn’t expect that to take long.
There is everything these days.
How long sentence did the guy who hit a lady with a car in Charlottesville get?
The pipes are clean IYKWIMAIKYD.
Extra special bowel movement?
Mueller team just debunked the whole “Trump told Cohen to lie” storyline. Lol!
Link?
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1086419880025284608
If you can’t trust BuzzFeed any more, who can you trust?!
Leah J.
@Ann_E_Nigma
31m31 minutes ago
Replying to @BuzzFeedNews @maggieNYT
Lol not accurate isn’t the same as not true
Whatever Leah. Take your meds.
A response to that was “Not smart does not mean stupid.”
Every once in a while the Onion is still funny.
https://local.theonion.com/woman-didn-t-know-progress-on-toxic-masculinity-would-t-1831869468