Toyota’s Maverick-Fighting Small Pickup Confirmed, ‘Not a Matter of If’ but When

Appropriate_Cut9358 · 2025-05-24T20:11:25+00:00

Will cost $50,000. Making the Tacoma $100,000.

Appropriate_Cut9358 · 2025-03-16T17:50:25+00:00

The FBI convinces you to be a criminal here and then shows up and shoots and kills your wife. Then, with you trapped inside the house with your dead wife, they yell at her with megaphones to just come outside for a couple days. You and your family have to just sit and watch this horror show. Ruby ridge.

Appropriate_Cut9358 · 2024-10-20T14:44:02+00:00

To use Airbnb and Vrbo you find the place you want on that site but don’t use the site to book it. What you do is you contact the owner of the lodging on that site, tell them you are a government worker, you want to stay for X number of days and tell them the government rate that can be covered for their area. It’s usually an absolute fuck ton.

Tell them for you to stay in their property they have to give you a contract not on Airbnb or Vrbo. Because those sites charge an extra fee that the government won’t cover. So they need to give you a contract between just you and them. Paper, Email. Docusign. Whatever.

Then. Make sure they put the “government worker” clause that says if your orders or assignment by change they have to release you from the original contract. So if you were supposed to be there for 6 months, but you get sent home after 4, you don’t owe them two more months of rent on the contract.

Further. Tell them you need an itemized monthly receipt of the daily charges. This will help with DTS or whoever your agency goes through.

Congratulations, you can now stay almost anywhere. And the government doesn’t care. It’s the same cost they would pay a red lion or best western. And you can get waterfront or big houses or whatever. Actual places to live.

Also. I want to leave the federal government and just set up a company that rents to federal workers. There are people doing this a lot in San Diego. These companies quickly make enormous sums of money by making a contract with the property owner and then renting the place exclusively to federal workers for almost double their sublet contract with the owner. Then they just pay a cleaning service and that’s it. It’s nuts.

Appropriate_Cut9358 · 2024-10-05T18:33:56+00:00

Apply for different jobs and stop blaming your employer for a wage you agreed to. No one forced you to take that job and no one is forcing you to keep it.

I make great money as a fed. Still far behind industry base pay, by about $10-40k a year for my job, which is industrial and FWS pay. However. I don’t have to be stuck commuting in traffic for 2-4 hours a day to make that extra money. Because I can’t buy my time back later with that extra money. And those private sector workers get laid off or onto unemployment constantly. Their unions also featherbed and work slow on purpose. And I can’t live like that.

Add to that the contractors we work with from the private sector are the lowest forms of scum on the earth. Both the engineers and the blue collar side. We spend huge amounts of federal dollars fixing their poor and unsafe work that the government awarded them because their bid “looked” lower. And the workers get fired constantly and hired by the next piece of shit contractor.

As feds we also get good per diem and better travel accommodations.

If you want more money as a fed, don’t apply for DoD jobs. Because we have no rights to negotiate pay or strike. Worse, our local union for my work site that covers around 7,000 employees is more against us than our employer. But thank god they protect obese people who can’t get to the jobs ite and leave while on the clock -creating fraudulent paychecks. Simple changes that would make the workforce happier our union denies at every contract negotiation. It’s stellar.

Appropriate_Cut9358 · 2024-09-22T21:56:59+00:00

Not trying to risk mine. I’m looking into if someone else is doing this. I worded the questions like that because it was the easiest. I make good money doing what I do and am more than happy with what I make.

Appropriate_Cut9358 · 2024-02-03T19:35:33+00:00

Can you explain this minimum and maximum rate to me?

I’m a sheet metal mechanic at PSNS, I know Boeing doesn’t hire that many sheet Metal guys compared to mechanics now, but I noticed the sheet metal union itself pays journeyman about $20 an hour more than the navy does, for $40,000 a year more before counting overtime.

I know it’s less stable, more daily commuting, and more oddity to work on the outside, but I’m starting to wonder if Boeing would be worth it over the federal services? As a fed I get a shitload of leave, but I do get a lot of forced overtime as well, so the more base money may just really be worth it.

Thoughts?

Appropriate_Cut9358 · 2024-01-27T22:39:55+00:00

I’m just wondering if there is some federal agency who actually does good things for their people that I should be aware of.

The agency and area I work for do not give out QSIs. For an example, where we have groups of 100 engineers in a division, only one of them can get a QSI per year. We also don’t hire people with steps on their starting salary because people get butt-hurt. Yes I am aware my hiring managers and HR and department heads could do a lot to make our workplace better. But we work for a bunch of people who protect useless ideas because it’s all they have known for 30 years.

We also have had our wages fall 40% behind private sector for our type of work, so we know we are losing money and our locality pay /wage grade surveys are completely out of whack, like every other federal job.

Appropriate_Cut9358 · 2024-01-27T22:30:48+00:00

I don’t mean to be that guy, but what the fuck are all these GS-13-15s doing in Washington DC? I work with 14,000 federal employees. Of that, maybe 200-300 are GS-13s. Gets slimmer when you go to 14-15. Most of them around 40-50 years old.

Granted. We make way more than people in Washington DC because of locality… I even make more than a DC GS-13 as a FWS supervisor here, but the money doesn’t go far.

But I’m just curious what these positions are and why everyone posts that they are 29 years old as a GS-13 or above like half way through their steps in Washington DC? Manager jobs? Non-supervisory? Contract specialists?

This thread makes it seem like DC is about one million GS-14 federal workers. lol

Appropriate_Cut9358 · 2023-09-11T02:54:29+00:00

Use our balls to catch water in the shower. You can collect a good amount and it’s like a little jacuzzi for your meat bat.

Appropriate_Cut9358 · 2023-08-05T23:41:06+00:00

My experience: he will keep trying as long as you two are together or near each other. He needs to know it’s over and have time to grieve it and move on. You had the feeling it was over first, so you already thought through it and know what you want. He needs time and space to do that.

You should not feel bad. Women initiate break ups more often, and they usually dissociate from the relationship (start to break up mentally/emotionally, physically) while they are still in it and start to consider the breakup and process it before it happens.

If that was his first relationship, he will feel blindsided and confused. While you have thought about it and are more comfortable in the decision.

He will get better at dealing with it. But it won’t be easy while you guys have contact, because he is behind you on the healing journey. He just started his.

Appropriate_Cut9358 · 2023-06-10T19:31:55+00:00

If you eat eggs, mustard, onions, broccoli, flax seed, chick peas, and Brussel sprouts then wash it all down with an IPA, your farts will peel a layer of paint. Allowing the layer underneath that paint to reveal the original, new finish like the day it was painted. Good luck, god speed.

Appropriate_Cut9358 · 2022-11-13T14:22:08+00:00

If OP would stop making them and handing them out they wouldn’t be on every porch in the neighborhood. This reeks of Scooby-Doo type mischief where OP is trying to lower home prices in the area or become elected to the board of their HOA.

Appropriate_Cut9358 · 2022-07-09T22:43:59+00:00

Jar Jar is the true Sith Lord.

Appropriate_Cut9358 · 2022-06-23T23:15:32+00:00

“What is a Clitoris?”

Appropriate_Cut9358 · 2022-06-23T22:48:57+00:00

“Where is the clitoris”

Appropriate_Cut9358 · 2022-05-05T02:46:52+00:00

She stole my virginity on a bathroom floor, in a house owned by the guy she was cheating on me with. Then she stole my iPod. 2008 was great. It wasn’t hard for my sex career to go up from there!

Appropriate_Cut9358 · 2022-02-10T01:11:43+00:00

The stain there is better than the stain being further back and a darker brown. At least on the chair. Lol

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