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Re: [Tabletop Roleplaying]: You have been forsaken by God
Homeopath cultists/snake oil salesmen?
Polaritie
+5
Re: [Tabletop Roleplaying]: You have been forsaken by God
Albino Bunny wrote: »You could also go with a cheesy "doctors heal, not hurt" kind of mandate where at least for medium or above enemies/anything that displays language skills it's about fixing them up rather than conquest and violence.
"Do No Harm" like some kind of Paladin oath: classic Catch-22 where your party finds a wandering pack of sick cells and you can end the infection right here, but then the Pediatrician would turn on the rest of the party
mrpaku
+5
Re: A thread ostensibly about [twitter] but where we talk about Joe Biden instead
Victory is in our grasp
Re: Can't live with [Jobs], Can't live without [Jobs]
My Wage history for the last decade, best as I can remember
my wife's wage history for the last decade, best as I can remember
2011: Disney World, $7.50 per hour
2012: Hired at university owned hotel, Full time Second shift front desk, $13 per hour
2013: Same, $13.25 per hour
2014: Same, no increase
2015: Same, pay increased to $13.75 per hour
2016: Same, pay increased to $14 per hour
2017: Same, pay increased to $14.25 per hour
2018: Same, pay increased to $15 per hour, that fall went back to college part time
2019: Same place for same pay, dropped to part time and went full time on my education in the fall
2020: Hotel closed due to covid. Various customer service for under $15 per hour while I worked on my education
2021: Winter got a new weekend part time hotel front desk job at $16 per hour
2022: Graduated in May with a math degree (Applied Math, Engineering, and Physics). In October started in my current role as a Thermal Test Engineer for $30 per hour
Present: Thermal Test Engineer, Third-Party Contractor, $30 per hour, in Silicon Valley. Functionally more like a salary with overtime since I am instructed to put 40 hours minimum into the system.
2012: Hired at university owned hotel, Full time Second shift front desk, $13 per hour
2013: Same, $13.25 per hour
2014: Same, no increase
2015: Same, pay increased to $13.75 per hour
2016: Same, pay increased to $14 per hour
2017: Same, pay increased to $14.25 per hour
2018: Same, pay increased to $15 per hour, that fall went back to college part time
2019: Same place for same pay, dropped to part time and went full time on my education in the fall
2020: Hotel closed due to covid. Various customer service for under $15 per hour while I worked on my education
2021: Winter got a new weekend part time hotel front desk job at $16 per hour
2022: Graduated in May with a math degree (Applied Math, Engineering, and Physics). In October started in my current role as a Thermal Test Engineer for $30 per hour
Present: Thermal Test Engineer, Third-Party Contractor, $30 per hour, in Silicon Valley. Functionally more like a salary with overtime since I am instructed to put 40 hours minimum into the system.
my wife's wage history for the last decade, best as I can remember
2012: In May graduated college with an english teacher bachelors of science, by the fall she found a secretarial job at a local high school, $35k salary
2013: Same, $36K Salary
2014: Moved into Special Education partial-masters program paid for by the school (Only needed to complete half the program to for the state to give my wife the license to be a special educator in Wisconsin). Assigned to an elementary school, salary now $45K
2015: Same first half, second half moved back to the high school she was a secretary at, salary now $52K
2016 to 2020: Same position with steady increases in pay, around $62k by the start of the 2019 school year.
2021: Shit went down at the school in the fall of 2019, and then COVID solidified her need to leave the profession. Last day teaching was June 2021.
2022: January she found a position as a Project Manager at a small marketing agency that has been 100% fully "Work From Anywhere" remote since 2010, Salary of $60k
Present: Same place as 2022, recently got done with the yearly review and received a $10k bonus and now making a salary of $63k
2013: Same, $36K Salary
2014: Moved into Special Education partial-masters program paid for by the school (Only needed to complete half the program to for the state to give my wife the license to be a special educator in Wisconsin). Assigned to an elementary school, salary now $45K
2015: Same first half, second half moved back to the high school she was a secretary at, salary now $52K
2016 to 2020: Same position with steady increases in pay, around $62k by the start of the 2019 school year.
2021: Shit went down at the school in the fall of 2019, and then COVID solidified her need to leave the profession. Last day teaching was June 2021.
2022: January she found a position as a Project Manager at a small marketing agency that has been 100% fully "Work From Anywhere" remote since 2010, Salary of $60k
Present: Same place as 2022, recently got done with the yearly review and received a $10k bonus and now making a salary of $63k
Veevee
+5
Re: A thread ostensibly about [twitter] but where we talk about Joe Biden instead
I think that if CEOs really are working a 1000 times harder than their employees hence being paid so much, it is an outrage. they are being worked to death
There duties should be broken up amongst the rest of the workforce, to ease their workload
There duties should be broken up amongst the rest of the workforce, to ease their workload
HeavyVillain
+8
Re: A thread ostensibly about [twitter] but where we talk about Joe Biden instead
There is this disgusting idea that workers at a company should be happy to have that job and should do everything the company asks of them with a smile on their face, while the companies themselves treat you no better than a mercenary to be tossed aside as soon as they don't need you or you're not as efficient etc etc. Like fuck you guys.
I'll always remember my manager telling me I didn't look like I was enjoying myself at work.
"Of course I'm not enjoying myself, I'm at work. Work is work. If I enjoyed work, it'd be called 'fun' and I would pay you to let me do it."
Reynolds
+5
Re: Wembly is selling out the [Wrestling] thread
If an adult man bit me I do not think I would want to work with them, imo
Dex Dynamo
+6