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Motronic posted:M, 38, $15k Savings, $670k Debt, $108k Salary HELP!! (self.personalfinance) Subtract the trailer park slumlord element and this is literally the future of one of my classmates. $300k+ on the student loan assuming she doesn't have to repeat a year (which I honestly think she may have to) and now that she has met a nice local boy she wants to stay here (where house prices are insane) and enter an industry that will never pay her more than ~$70k USD equivalent because she's not got the baseline capability to progress further. It's sad. And insane to watch - she's been on at least two overseas trips every year and spends her loan money like its magical monopoly cash.
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BWM/BWL: my sister just told me her mother in law has absconded to Nigeria without telling anyone her plans (including her husband), likely in pursuit of an impoverished Nigerian Prince who just needs some regular cash injections so he can access his fortune and they can be together forever.
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spwrozek posted:I also own gloomhaven, I bought it when I broke my collar bone, and an like 15% done with that. We do enjoy it though. We bought Gloomhaven and didn't open it for 2 years. We've played 4 maps I think?
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I can't make sure my employees never goof off in the office and that is very disappointing, so I will definitely not allow remote working because they will "take advantage of workplace loopholes" I assume. In my experience at one company in particular, the people that asked to work from home on an ongoing basis were coincidentally the people whose productivity just happened to fall off the face of the planet when they weren't in the office. They were often not contactable, fell behind on projects and agreed timeframes, and in some cases just didn't produce anything at all on their home days. It turned out one man was using his WFH days for intensive competitive triathlon training (which would have been fine if he'd made up the workload at other times during the day/week, but he didn't), another woman was using her WFH days to run her own business and would cover off her workplace obligations by sending 1-2 emails. Another man was using his days to be a dedicated grandfather, which was lovely, except he wasn't doing any work but refused to change his contract to part time work which would have been an accurate reflection of what he was actually doing (and not that we wanted him to because the role was full time for a reason). We couldn't fire at will either. Arguably all of the above are actually just performance issues, which the employees were using WFH to mask. Some people that worked from home were extremely effective, but they also did it on an ad hoc basis and we didn't have any issues with them irrespective of if they were in the office or at home. But in my experience there is a subset of people who need the structure of coming into an office to actually be motivated to pull finger and work. I guess it just means that in a post-COVID world of WFH this is just yet another way for that subset of poor performers to manifest their lovely work ethic, and managers need to adapt to new performance management methods to try and keep on top of it.
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IVF and surrogacy is surrounded in so much bureaucracy to prevent exactly these kinds of situations, even to use our own genetic material my husband and I had to sign a serious number of legally binding forms for IVF alone. I can't think for a second that is any more than a creative writing exercise.
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