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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 14, 2017 20:37:08 GMT -5
What do you mean "today's version?" I know, but making a profit does not necessarily equate "make as much profit as you can even if it means screwing everybody over, including your employees and customers". It seems you're not accounting how companies treated employers before unions, anti-child labor laws, and anti-monopoly laws took effect. However bad it seems to be now, conditions were much worse, at least in the U.S. 100 years ago |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 14, 2017 20:47:58 GMT -5
I know, but making a profit does not necessarily equate "make as much profit as you can even if it means screwing everybody over, including your employees and customers". It seems you're not accounting how companies treated employers before unions, anti-child labor laws, and anti-monopoly laws took effect. However bad it seems to be now, conditions were much worse, at least in the U.S. 100 years ago That is true, but I wasn't around in those days. I do remember a time, though, when CEOs did not make 300 times the salary of ordinary employees, and when tax laws made it so there were fewer incentives to behave like a rapacious predator. Or was it that people in charge were more decent? I can't believe that... I don't think people change that much. Maybe nobody had yet figured that there were legal ways to really abuse everyone and get away with it. There were great examples of progress in the last century, true... but so many well-funded politicians have tried to set the clock back since the Reagan years, and are still trying today. Always two steps forward, one step backward. Or two. Or even three. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jan 14, 2017 21:24:35 GMT -5
I know, but making a profit does not necessarily equate "make as much profit as you can even if it means screwing everybody over, including your employees and customers". It seems you're not accounting how companies treated employers before unions, anti-child labor laws, and anti-monopoly laws took effect. However bad it seems to be now, conditions were much worse, at least in the U.S. 100 years ago The Robber Barons of the late 19th century were certainly bad, but today's CEO are only a few shades less worse. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 14, 2017 22:51:22 GMT -5
Ordered a microphone for my computer today. It should arrive mid-week. A day or two to acclimate myself to Windows 10's speech recognition utility and I'll be back in business.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 14, 2017 22:57:37 GMT -5
Ordered a microphone for my computer today. It should arrive mid-week. A day or two to acclimate myself to Windows 10's speech recognition utility and I'll be back in business. I speak to Cortana almost everyday. You can teach her to address you by your name, sing a song, tell a joke and she knows lots about comic book history as well |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 15, 2017 0:15:45 GMT -5
Ordered a microphone for my computer today. It should arrive mid-week. A day or two to acclimate myself to Windows 10's speech recognition utility and I'll be back in business. I speak to Cortana almost everyday. You can teach her to address you by your name, sing a song, tell a joke and she knows lots about comic book history as well I just want it to take dictation, not be my girlfriend. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 15, 2017 1:27:08 GMT -5
Catching up -
Hondo, hope things go well for you and your wife and you can begin the next chapter of your life in a good place.
Guardian, good luck with the job. My brother works retail and is one of the many former Radio Shack employees out in the world. He's now with CVS and was recently promoted. I hope things go as well for you.
Kurt, glad you're going to be able to write again, and I hope the dentist can fix you up quickly.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2017 11:20:01 GMT -5
Ordered a microphone for my computer today. It should arrive mid-week. A day or two to acclimate myself to Windows 10's speech recognition utility and I'll be back in business. That's wonderful and thanks for telling us this great news! |
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Post by hondobrode on Jan 15, 2017 12:04:55 GMT -5
It's small potatoes compared to what some are going through right now but I may be losing my job next week. The company has decided they don't really need department managers so they are doing away with the position; we have first shot at the new position of service manager but there are only 5 of those and 14 department managers going in for them so it's going to be tough. Anybody had better luck at a particular job search site over another? LinkedIn is better than most. That's where I got my next job. The manager reached out to me. Best of luck to you thwhtguardian |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2017 19:16:17 GMT -5
I'm feeling kinda proud...I did a crash 4 week course (normal course duration is 5 months at accounting college) with 6 students. 3 had vague knowledge and the other 3 were clueless. Advance email results were released today and 5 passed. The one student who failed missed it by 7 marks but will repeat the paper in March. I'm being taken to a restaurant tomorrow as a thank you...  |
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Post by impulse on Jan 16, 2017 11:48:22 GMT -5
Ouch, this one hurt. I had to cancel my 15+ year sub at my comic shop today. My wife was laid off a while back, and we've been adjusting our budget accordingly, and I just can't justify my books in the current iteration of budget priorities. Practically, it's not a huge impact since I am months to years behind on my reading, but it's a sentimental impact. Comics and that store specifically are associated with a lot of good memories that got me through some rough patches in my transition into the workforce and being a real grown-up. Hopefully one day when time and money are more plentiful I can resume and catch up, but for now, have to let it go.
Adulting sucks sometimes.
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Post by wickedmountain on Jan 16, 2017 11:57:07 GMT -5
Ouch, this one hurt. I had to cancel my 15+ year sub at my comic shop today. My wife was laid off a while back, and we've been adjusting our budget accordingly, and I just can't justify my books in the current iteration of budget priorities. Practically, it's not a huge impact since I am months to years behind on my reading, but it's a sentimental impact. Comics and that store specifically are associated with a lot of good memories that got me through some rough patches in my transition into the workforce and being a real grown-up. Hopefully one day when time and money are more plentiful I can resume and catch up, but for now, have to let it go. Adulting sucks sometimes. Best of luck in getting new jobs friend and don't worry once things level out to normal you will be back at your good memory place. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 16, 2017 12:20:25 GMT -5
Ouch, this one hurt. I had to cancel my 15+ year sub at my comic shop today. My wife was laid off a while back, and we've been adjusting our budget accordingly, and I just can't justify my books in the current iteration of budget priorities. Practically, it's not a huge impact since I am months to years behind on my reading, but it's a sentimental impact. Comics and that store specifically are associated with a lot of good memories that got me through some rough patches in my transition into the workforce and being a real grown-up. Hopefully one day when time and money are more plentiful I can resume and catch up, but for now, have to let it go. Adulting sucks sometimes. Sorry man, I did the same thing in the early 2000's. My first wife left me and I was forced to maintain a house and all it's bills on just my salary. I even started to sell parts of my collection to bring in some cash. I hope things work out for your wifes employment situation. |
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Post by impulse on Jan 16, 2017 16:56:14 GMT -5
Thanks, gang. We're all right, my job covers the bills and some comforts, and she's working on something new. We've made lots of budget cuts, but this one was personal.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 16, 2017 17:25:36 GMT -5
Ouch, this one hurt. I had to cancel my 15+ year sub at my comic shop today. My wife was laid off a while back, and we've been adjusting our budget accordingly, and I just can't justify my books in the current iteration of budget priorities. Practically, it's not a huge impact since I am months to years behind on my reading, but it's a sentimental impact. Comics and that store specifically are associated with a lot of good memories that got me through some rough patches in my transition into the workforce and being a real grown-up. Hopefully one day when time and money are more plentiful I can resume and catch up, but for now, have to let it go. Adulting sucks sometimes. It does sometimes doesn't it? While mine was back in 2005-2006 or so, I still go back to the shop, and the owner still knows me by name, and me by his. I've gone to almost every FCBD and one time I told him, I felt back coming only to get free comics. He said he was glad to know I was still doing well, and that my boys want to come and get comics. So I think now more I go for the social aspect and we update each other on life, and the boys go for comics. Like you, instead of lots of pilled up new reading material, I've been going back and reading things, I know I like to read again, that I own, and digging out stuff I have no recollection of and reading it again like it was new. Plus our local library has a lot of stuff in TPB form to read. In fact, 3 to four years ago I finally read Sandman, all from the library. Now if they would just get Cerebus, I could finish it!! |
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