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Glad you got a bump and more vacation. It's definitely a vote of confidence in your work.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Glad you got a bump and more vacation. It's definitely a vote of confidence in your work. This right here. Nice!
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Apr 12, 2017 16:53
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Nicely done! The best of both worlds 
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Apr 12, 2017 17:04
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Nice. Grass isn't always greener so it certainly doesn't hurt to do what you did IMO.
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Apr 12, 2017 17:08
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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. Good work.
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Apr 12, 2017 17:11
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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.  Sounds like a great outcome to me, well doneCompletely unrelated after ~9 months of CL and eBay alerts I snagged a rowing machine (Concept 2 Model D) for cheap a couple miles from my house. Between that and getting the trials bike back out it's time to get my endurance back to where it should be. Also means more calories which I'm not thrilled about but :meh:
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Apr 12, 2017 17:12
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Adiabatic posted:Diss Richmond and we're fuckin fighting, though
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Apr 12, 2017 17:16
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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. Excellent! Open communication is a great thing and I'm sure your boss appreciated your honest conversation.
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Apr 12, 2017 17:23
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NitroSpazzz posted:
Nice work! How much did you end up paying for the Model D?
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Apr 12, 2017 18:14
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Word from the shop is $4k for a junkyard motor, $7k for new, plus inspecting for potential transmission damage. As much joy as the car has brought me over the years it's not worth it. Junkyard blocks are about $1k, so even overhauling my original block which I still have it's $3k labor to install plus whatever the machine shop charges to fix it; it needs pistons and rods at a minimum. Time to start looking for a new ride. My mom seems to be guiding me toward taking out a loan for a new car since I'll be graduated in a year, but  . I'm leaning toward a 90s-early 00s beater pickup, I have a short commute and the utility would be nice.Mazda curse claims another one.
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Apr 12, 2017 18:21
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That sucks. Also, don't take out a loan on future employment, granted I got my MBA in 2006, but it took me quite a while to find a job, and it would have boned me hard. Besides, if you get a pickup, you can more easily carry bigger rockets! 
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Apr 12, 2017 18:23
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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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Alarbus posted:That sucks. Also, don't take out a loan on future employment, granted I got my MBA in 2006, but it took me quite a while to find a job, and it would have boned me hard. Yeah I feel sketchy enough accepting the subsidized Stafford loans for school, the idea of having a car payment terrifies me. E: the other thing is interior space. As big as modern cars are they tend to have big fat door panels and center consoles that pinch my legs against the steering wheel and make my feet go numb on long drives, my mom's escape and sister's cx5 both do that even worse than the protégé, and they're crossovers. I put up with it in the msp because hey free car, but if I'm paying real actual dollars for a ride it's drat well gonna be something comfortable. Fender Anarchist fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Apr 12, 2017 |
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Apr 12, 2017 18:35
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Rhyno posted:So uh. tell me about Charlotte NC. My company is moving me there later this year, well they want to anyway. It's a fun town, NoDa, Plaza Midwood have a lot of breweries. If you like the outdoors, the charlotte whitewater center is pimp. Go Pro Motorsports complex is a loving awesome kart track. CCR-SCCA puts on a lot of big autocrosses in town. That said I dont like CCR that much, they are a bunch of serious buisness try hards. They have a lot of national titles, but still, they are kind of dicks. Oh, and the Z-Max dragway is a loving blast when they do 4 wide nationals. That's a level of noise that id consider violent. My big issues with moving to Charlotte for me is the rent price increase. Charlotte is loving expensive if you're single with no roommates. That and i'm grumpy with my company. Ive been doing R&D MechE work with them for 3 years now, but haven't been promoted yet. They aren't planning to give me a raise for moving, and the raise I got this year isn't consistent with the change in cost of living. Also planning on selling my M3 to help with the move. No way I can have 3 cars in Charlotte right now and getting rid of my only car payment would be real nice. Sadi fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Apr 12, 2017 |
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I apparently did mansplaining earlier. It's pretty cool you should try it sometime because people really get riled up about you just talking to them about things that normal human beings have no issue with. I am sure I have over the course of my life and likely do on a regular basis without realizing. This was overt mansplaining though; which is a lot to recognize from someone pretty ignorant to SJW speak Seat Safety Switch posted:I watched the entire thing and I'm not entirely sure why. It makes the Daredevil series feel like high art. DD was good though?  CornHolio posted:making it rain Good for you.
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Somewhat Heroic posted:DD was good though? DD was a slow burning show but after the first half of S1 it got pretty decent. I thought the first half of Iron Fist was ok but then it just went to total poo poo. Luke Cage was just ok but I don't think I'd watch a followup season of either of them.
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Apr 12, 2017 19:08
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Residency Evil posted:Nice work! How much did you end up paying for the Model D? Enourmo posted:Time to start looking for a new ride. My mom seems to be guiding me toward taking out a loan for a new car since I'll be graduated in a year, but
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Apr 12, 2017 19:16
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NitroSpazzz posted:$300, feel like I stole it compared to what I've seen them listed at. It's a bit older with the PM3 vs the PM5 but that doesn't bother me at all. Holy crap you did steal that. I was trolling CL for months helping the wife find one. Model D's never sell for less than $700 here, and any priced that low are sold instantly. The rest sit for longer at $800 or more. We ended up with a Model C with the PM3 for $600. Still a really nice rower though.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I apparently did mansplaining earlier. It's pretty cool you should try it sometime because people really get riled up about you just talking to them about things that normal human beings have no issue with.
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Apr 12, 2017 19:24
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InitialDave posted:Anyone who uses the term "mansplaining" unironically is someone you probably don't want to spend too much time talking to. Yeah agreed. It's called "explaining condescendingly" and anyone with the requisite knowledge and lack of social awareness does it. To add gender into it is, funnily enough, sexist.
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Somewhat Heroic posted:DD was good though? Oh, don't get me wrong. I really liked Daredevil, but it's like "good TV" good. After watching Iron Fist it becomes art by comparison.
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Apr 12, 2017 19:53
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NitroSpazzz posted:gently caress no do not take out a loan, find a $1500 beater Ford Ranger or something and drive it until it rusts apart around you then maybe think about taking out a loan. So many people I graduated with took out loans then either didn't find work or didn't make what they thought they would be. Best thing I did was buying a $1k pickup truck then a few years later splurged for a $3k VW that I'm still driving ~180k and 8 years later. Pro advice right here. I was just looking to upgrade my Civic to something more modern a couple weeks ago, but car loans are getting out of hand, it's so much easier to get a $15,000 loan than it would be to get a $5,000 loan. I don't want or need a car that costs $18k, but even finding a lender to do lower value loans is surprisingly difficult now Even worse than finding a lender is them tanking my credit score with inquiries, only to learn that their loan terms are obnoxious. Best offer that I got was 3 years 21% APR with $1000 down and a $1500 trade in. My credit is average and I'm looking at lower value vehicles, so I'm not expecting "good" terms, but gently caress that noise Anyways, here's a cute dog escaping from the vet https://youtu.be/8A0acTzbFcI
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Adiabatic posted:Yeah agreed. It's called "explaining condescendingly" and anyone with the requisite knowledge and lack of social awareness does it. To add gender into it is, funnily enough, sexist. poo poo wasn't even condescending, they posted a photo of the xenomorph from Alien wearing a tiny bikini posing with a mic and I asked "Is that Grace Jones?", wandered off to find the famous pose it was copying and then posted it next to it. Mansplaining at it's finest 
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Rhyno: look up security jobs. I had no experience and applied for one on a whim thanks to someone here suggesting it. I got started at like $17 an hour just signing people in and out of a data center. It was slow as poo poo so I got to do school work and get paid for it. That's always my emergency gig if poo poo goes south.
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Apr 12, 2017 21:43
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NitroSpazzz posted:$300, feel like I stole it compared to what I've seen them listed at. It's a bit older with the PM3 vs the PM5 but that doesn't bother me at all. Holy poo poo, you did steal that. I have an old Model C that I used when I was home from college, but the Model Ds we used were much nicer. The PM3 monitor doesn't make a huge difference. It's totally fine for training/working out.
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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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Adiabatic posted:Yeah agreed. It's called "explaining condescendingly" and anyone with the requisite knowledge and lack of social awareness does it. To add gender into it is, funnily enough, sexist. Yeah, I'm a girl and I can be a condescending rear end in a top hat just fine, believe me.
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I had a rather sobering day at work today and realized that while I love my job it is no longer a defining part of me. I don't need to be "the comic book guy" anymore and would probably welcome a change. So I hope she does get the NC job, it would be a great kickstart for both of us. That said, time to start ditching all my extra garbage.
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Apr 12, 2017 23:42
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This has to be the lowest effort spam I've ever received. "Worldwide Global Company"?
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Apr 12, 2017 23:48
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Rhyno posted:I had a rather sobering day at work today and realized that while I love my job it is no longer a defining part of me. I don't need to be "the comic book guy" anymore and would probably welcome a change. So I hope she does get the NC job, it would be a great kickstart for both of us. I've found that it's easy to just let inertia do its thing. But then, a big change requires a decision and, if you go with it, it often puts you in a much better place than you were before. Then inertia settles in.
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I mean, if she goes I go. This is my home, most of my family is here and the bulk of my friends but nothing I need to survive. I'm sure I can make friends in Charlotte.
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Rhyno posted:I had a rather sobering day at work today and realized that while I love my job it is no longer a defining part of me. I don't need to be "the comic book guy" anymore and would probably welcome a change. So I hope she does get the NC job, it would be a great kickstart for both of us. Fwiw, Charlotte, Asheville, and western NC has some pretty cool bits (breweries and rafting/water sports), and you're not far from the ocean either if that's your thing. Personally I hate the ocean (or rather the touristy crap that goes along) but anytime I meet someone from the Midwest they assume I visit the beach every chance I get. So.
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I've never been a fan a large bodies of water. This whole mild winter and non rusted cars thing is pretty enticing.
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I've been in Asheville for years and I still haven't been to any of the beaches in NC or SC. My friends back home in Ohio asked me about the beaches constantly. "No, I live on the other side if the state."
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The beach is a Midwest thing?
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MonkeyNutZ posted:I've been in Asheville for years and I still haven't been to any of the beaches in NC or SC. My friends back home in Ohio asked me about the beaches constantly. "No, I live on the other side if the state." What's your opinion about Asheville? I love visiting, not sure I would want to live there.
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In Michigan most of us go to a lake quite often and it's a very big boat culture here
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funny Star Wars parody posted:In Michigan most of us go to a lake quite often and it's a very big boat culture here Likewise in Minnesota
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Personally I hate lakes because they feel grimy and seaweedy and gross but the Great Lakes and especially Lake Michigan and the northern parts of Lake Huron are wonderful
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