OT: 110th Obsequious Banter Thread: Giving 110% and more

[Embiid]

Apart from the loser who used his 3 day weekend to see a Penguins game, this movement is gaining legitimacy but who really works an honest 5 day workweek...especially the people on this forum...lol

A 4-Day Workweek Gains Lawmaker Support in Some States • Stateline

The Original Oyster House, billed as Pittsburgh’s oldest restaurant, found itself in crisis during the pandemic. Down to seven employees — including owner Jen Grippo and her mother — the staff worked six or seven days a week to keep up with orders. Grippo closed the Oyster House entirely in...

www.pewtrusts.org

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Apart from the loser who used his 3 day weekend to see a Penguins game, this movement is gaining legitimacy but who really works an honest 5 day workweek...especially the people on this forum...lol

A 4-Day Workweek Gains Lawmaker Support in Some States • Stateline

The Original Oyster House, billed as Pittsburgh’s oldest restaurant, found itself in crisis during the pandemic. Down to seven employees — including owner Jen Grippo and her mother — the staff worked six or seven days a week to keep up with orders. Grippo closed the Oyster House entirely in...

www.pewtrusts.org

I'll be honest, even if I still had to work 40 hours a week, but could work 4 days of the week, I'd do 10 hour shifts. Having that extra day off could mean the world of difference just in sleep, getting things done at home and working on yourself.

 

[trostol]

Apart from the loser who used his 3 day weekend to see a Penguins game, this movement is gaining legitimacy but who really works an honest 5 day workweek...especially the people on this forum...lol

A 4-Day Workweek Gains Lawmaker Support in Some States • Stateline

The Original Oyster House, billed as Pittsburgh’s oldest restaurant, found itself in crisis during the pandemic. Down to seven employees — including owner Jen Grippo and her mother — the staff worked six or seven days a week to keep up with orders. Grippo closed the Oyster House entirely in...

www.pewtrusts.org

I work 5 days a week...and when I say work I mean I go in and sit in the office most of the time lol

 

[Embiid]

I'll be honest, even if I still had to work 40 hours a week, but could work 4 days of the week, I'd do 10 hour shifts. Having that extra day off could mean the world of difference just in sleep, getting things done at home and working on yourself.

Fed jobs have alternate work skeds like that. Many couples who met on the job and got married stay with the Fed for this reason and alternate their schedules if they have kids. Definitely makes up for the lower salary. It's actually the total compensation that matters with benefits, flex time, telework, holidays, generous leave policies and other perks.

 

[Starat327]

I am happy. Last retirement system reform talked about age of 69 to me so its a nice improvement

I, too, typically retire at 69.


I'll see myself out.

 

[Kermit the Prog]

I'll never stop working until I am dead or incapacitated. No desire to stop, either.

Yeah, I'm THAT guy.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

I am retiring at 63. That will be 43 years in manufacturing. My body is already telling me it’s getting closer.

 

[Cody Webster]

@VladDrag

 

[BernieParent]

They might be using a block list based on who you follow, sometimes certain people don't want people following certain accounts to follow them.

You might have to pay a Nigerian Prince to get unblocked.

Probably got tired of my endless hockey tweets.

 

[Lord Defect]

I'll never stop working until I am dead or incapacitated. No desire to stop, either.

Yeah, I'm THAT guy.

We had a woman at my work retire with 50 years under her belt.

 

[swami24]

There are two high rankings folks in the NJ dept whose systems I support who have 56 years in. With pension rules, they literally have been paying to come to work. Max possible benefit is 55 years, retiring at same salary as they get now. When you consider taxes and pension contribution, the break even for people can be as low as 38 years.

Some NJ state workers and some contactors are in a pilot program working from home 2 days a week. The Trenton mayor wants it to stop so that workers will patronize Downtown businesses, which a complete joke. There are few left because of the high crime. No one wants to be anywhere near downtown after 5 pm. Maybe he should address the crime, ya think!!!????

Fyi I will retire somewhere between Aug this year, at 59, and Nov 2025, with over 65% of current salary.

 

[BernieParent]

Mrs. Parent is in the last 5 years of her teaching career, so she is getting everything ready to bow out. I am one of the youngest at my work, still, so I think I will likely take a body-bag retirement package.

 

[VladDrag]

@VladDrag

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So f***ing sick! Assuming those are the zx7 mk II’s?

Did you hit them and like them? They looks awesome!

 

[Lord Defect]

 

[Rebels57]

Ted Lasso has been incredible so far this season

 

[Cody Webster]

So f***ing sick! Assuming those are the zx7 mk II’s?

Did you hit them and like them? They looks awesome!

They are the zx7 mkii's. I never did hit them. I got them for $800, so I couldn't pass it up. If I don't like them, I shouldn't have any problem recouping my money. Taking them to the simulator tomorrow night. I can't wait. I got the shafts that i was fitted for when I got the TM's, but I ended up getting a different shaft because the wait time at that point for the KBS's was like 6 months

 

[Embiid]

Inflation.....not all it's "cracked" up to be. Eggsample of excuseflation...

Egg producer reports 718% increase in profit

You already know that egg prices are at crazy-high levels because of bird flu, which caused millions of hens to be put down. But that won’t leave you feeling over easy when I share that the c…

ktla.com

 

[BernieParent]

Inflation.....not all it's "cracked" up to be. Eggsample of excuseflation...

Egg producer reports 718% increase in profit

You already know that egg prices are at crazy-high levels because of bird flu, which caused millions of hens to be put down. But that won’t leave you feeling over easy when I share that the c…

ktla.com

It's a shell game.

 

[Embiid]

More 3rd world stuff..

Homes are evacuated after train carrying ethanol derails and catches fire in Minnesota

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/us/raymond-minnesota-train-derailment/index.html

 

[Embiid]

The hair has to be an AI fake ..just has to be!

This viral ‘photo’ of the pope in a puffer jacket fooled the internet. How can we spot AI deepfakes?

An AI-generated image of Pope Francis in a Balenciaga jacket fooled the internet this week, convincing many it was real. Could you tell real from fake?

www.thestar.com

 

[ellja3]

Re: work hours, no one gives a crap when I work as long as the work is done and I have hand on the pulse when it comes to my topics. For example, I did a TON of work during the TBL-CBJ endless OT game, then just sent it when game ended (at 5am) sorry not sorry,

 

[Embiid]

Re: work hours, no one gives a crap when I work as long as the work is done and I have hand on the pulse when it comes to my topics. For example, I did a TON of work during the TBL-CBJ endless OT game, then just sent it when game ended (at 5am) sorry not sorry,

That's the way it should be if you are responsible for project type work. Lots of places still micromanage their workers. It just all depends on the type of work one does. I am autonomous and my own boss basically but I do have to work 4 or 5 days a week. I just do straight 8's 5 days a week but there are people who work 10 hr days with 1 weekday off per week or 1 weekday of biweekly if they work 9's and do one 8 hr day..

 

[Danko]

Doesn't surprise me at all...Hockey is to expensive and a lot of the kids that are actually playing at advanced levels are from families that are wealthy, can send them to expensive camps, buy fancy equipment, live in wealthy areas that have good hockey programs.

Hockey's biggest issues arent fighting or marketing but the entry into hockey...if all kids could play hockey and it was an equal playing field then you'd see it grow like crazy.

Soccer is huge, all you need is a ball, shin pads and spikes.

 

[Kermit the Prog]

I worked at a bank that shall not be named in the 1990s (which has since been bought out by a super bank) that was notorious for work-shaming people. When I'd leave at 6:30pm, others would ask me, "So, taking a half day, eh?"

The toll was definitely taken, even by middle management who were "enforcing" this culture. The irony was the company was constantly touting a work/home balance. One night, my car was hit by a semi on I-95. Pinballed my car all over the highway. Remarkably, my girlfriend and I escaped with minor injuries. Cell phones were not very common at that time, so when I finally got a chance, I called my boss from my hospital bed to tell him I wouldn't be in the office the next day. Called him before calling any family members. I knew then my life priorities needed a re-calibration.

Today, I work constantly - 40+ hours at my banking job and sometimes 60+ hours on my photography business every week. That's why I say I'll never want to stop working, because I love my work.

 

[Embiid]

I'll never stop working until I am dead or incapacitated. No desire to stop, either.

Yeah, I'm THAT guy.

Goal is to be out by 58....if AI, the market, health, life altering world events like a pandemic, wars, etc. allows it.