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When Do I Get Virtual Unreality?
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Raytown, Missouri
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For what that guy's getting paid, I'd do anything in an office, up to and including nothing.
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Professor
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: the edge of the abyss
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Boy, the reading I'd get done. Only the most expensive gilded hardbacks, at those wages.
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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At $93,000 a year, you ought to be able to afford a very nice laptop and a satellite internet card, at the very least. Hell, you could start your own business and run it out of your office there.
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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Constitutional Scholar
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Ocala, FL
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I would totally take $94k/year to not work. Heck, they can pay me to not work anytime. The government has been paying farmers not to work for decades.
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If I could bring art and craft projects to the office and work on them during the day, I'd be fine... I'd still be working, just working on something fun of my own choosing. I might work on my writing. It would rule to be paid almost $95k to write and work on arty/crafty stuff! However, I'll say this; my ex was fired from a Dept of the Interior job for too much extracurricular activity, when he didn't have any work to do. Yep. Fired for NOT doing nothing, when there was nothing to do. Many offices apparently have rules against surfing the Web, writing a book, or spinning yarn during office hours. If I had the option of converting my office into a personal art/writers studio and get paid while doing it, I would be hell of on board! If my only option was to read book after book for 8 hours a day, for ten years, I think I would look for a job that paid half as much and actually gave me something productive to do. I love to read... just not THAT much. Or I would learn to sleep in my chair so that I could spend my waking hours doing something interesting. |
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The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
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I think there are other issues besides the lawsuit stigma.
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trying hard to be a better person
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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We have some farmers over here receiving drought assistance while their properties are flooded.
I find that rather interesting.
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polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 24,185
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My bro is on only a little bit less.
He's on a year contract for The Treasury. For the first MONTH he was quite unhappy there. Reason? There was no-one available to train him. Reason? The previous IT guy in his position had quit and the others in his dept were either far junior or far senior. It's sorted now, but he was really peeved that he was being paid for nothing to start with. Oh and that he had to commute for an hour plus in order to do so. |
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lives inside a Mobius strip
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 1,120
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Wow - someone has outdone George Jetson!
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Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 3,338
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I had a job once that barely involved work.
It was at American Olean Tile in Lansdale (the Color Tile people). I was one of 13 data entry operators. We were expected to key 600 entries a day. I was doing okay until I noticed that the terminal allowed me to record keystrokes as a macro, then I could chain them together to form a loop, pausing only to let me enter the two characters that changed from price book to price book. AHA! I went up to 6-8000 entries a day, put the rest of the operators out of work and, once I really got the hang of it, could change every price in two and a half days. My supervisor was ecstatic and assigned me every change there was. He even forgot to add in a pallet charge once and I went back and redid them all (four books worth) in two more days. The rest of the time I read books, took four-hour lunches, even days off (with pay yet). As long as the work was done, he didn't care. Then the end began. He got canned for harassing the female workers in another dept. No one else at the company knew I was there. My desk was away from everyone else and behind a carrel. For two more weeks I kept my head down, had HR sign my pay slips and took a lot of time off. Then someone looked up when signing for my hours, said the job had ended weeks ago and let me go. Darn! I almost miss keying little to nothing for $10.50/hr! Of course, now I have student drivers to drive for me and I get paid for those miles so I can surf while they work and get paid for it, so I can't complain.
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polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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BTW - just got round to watching the Big Train clip, Dana.
The Pegg doesn't have to wank in the office! I'd sit under his desk and service him for free ![]() Nom nom nom.
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
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lol dirty girl!
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in a mood, not cupcake
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Philadelphia
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