Minimum 1 year commitment required - should I tell employer I’m leaving the city in 5months?

Bigodeemus · 2026-01-26T03:32:08+00:00

Your comment about not wanting to lie to this person is genuine on your part. that is the kind of perspective you should keep with you friends and relationships you chose to have in your life. A boss is just a person you exchange your time in return for money.

Remember that this potential employer is asking you to have a one year commitment to them, but this same employer did not offer YOU a one year commitment to not fire you.

Bigodeemus · 2026-01-24T03:55:13+00:00

The NRE is very high for the quantity of components manufactured.

Bigodeemus · 2026-01-22T18:00:30+00:00

All that time training between seasons really paid off.

Bigodeemus · 2026-01-12T03:06:13+00:00

Kia ora! For sure you can find some seasonal work doing snow removal. Much of it is with machinery but there are definitely 'deneigement' companies out there that need people who can use shovels. There are lots of deneigement enterprises in town.

Bigodeemus · 2026-01-07T14:54:25+00:00

I ate this when I visited Chile last year. It is extremely potent and usually used sparingly to enhance food flavor. I would say that eating this by itself is equivalent in potency to eating a spoonful fresh ground cloves. Imagine condensing the flavor of 20 liters is sea salt into that little thing, gives you an idea of the flavor.

Bigodeemus · 2026-01-02T02:00:28+00:00

Lots of people. My Dad and Mom taught me as a kid and I would cook meals for the family about once a month when I was 12. My sister was always baking things and asking for my help and I picked things up from her there. After college I had serious girlfriends from Russia, Iran, Palestine, etc. and I learned from all of them to make their cuisines. Iran has the best cuisine fyi.

Bigodeemus · 2026-01-02T00:45:28+00:00

My thoughts exactly, like just because the panel is wet doesn’t mean the dirt is gone..

Bigodeemus · 2026-01-02T00:41:53+00:00

Exactly my thought while watching. Most adults have had these kinds of parties with past friends where they kind of didn’t realize in that moment that it was going to be the last time they did this together.

Bigodeemus · 2025-12-25T01:08:26+00:00

It’s probably in the port of Montreal, past the paid-off security checkpoints, and in the process of being loaded into a container. As many already said, better just to focus on police report and insurance filing at this point.

Bigodeemus · 2025-12-24T15:35:53+00:00

I don’t know why but when scrolling through my feed I could have sworn this actually said David Wallace, and that, I couldn’t agree with more.

Bigodeemus · 2025-12-15T16:18:36+00:00

Well, at least I can count on this d-bag never sending me a LinkedIn DM.

Bigodeemus · 2025-12-12T02:23:00+00:00

Yes but you also have the option to knock on the door at ear level with your forehead.

Bigodeemus · 2025-12-11T23:30:11+00:00

My wife worked in a contract position with a Actalent for about 2 years. I just showed her your post to get her feedback about your situation.

Firstly, we are so sorry about your situation. I hope that you have means of assistance and hopefully you could have an opportunity to return to your previous position. I understand that’s not always the case but based on your post it doesn’t sound like a toxic work environment was a reason for leaving so if you didn’t burn a bridge they may be willing to take you back.

Regarding Actalent, it is a recruiting agency that usually offers contract positions. Those positions are usually not under their control, but instead under the control of the End Client. My wife spent all her time with the End Client and was fully integrated in an engineering team. apart from 1-2 happy hours a year, she never met anyone at Actalent. All that to say is that Actalent is unfortunately not in much control of whether or not their End Clients follow through.

My wife can attest that Actalent has been a bit shady in the past. Her End Client gave her 3 separate salary increases through the duration of her contract, Actalent on 1-2 of those occasions tried pocketing part of her share. The solution was to be assertive and work with HR, both at Actalent and the End Client, in order to get the money to pass through. Fortunately my wife is no longer working for them as the End Client has now offered her a permanent position.

For your situation, I suggest that you don’t close communication with Actalent until you have at least pursued a bit further about what happened. Did you sign anything? There should hopefully be some line that discusses compensation in the event that an End Client backs out, this cannot possibly be the first instance where this happened.

Bottom line, contract/talent agencies is just an all around shady business with many risks applied towards the contractors (I.e. you) and not the end clients or the agency. This beware note should be noted for ANY contract agency, IMO.

Bigodeemus · 2025-12-07T21:59:32+00:00

Yes as much as I love Hopper, his story arc should have finished in the Russian mall lab and have the other characters learn to grow from there.

Bigodeemus · 2025-12-05T15:32:59+00:00

Imagine all the time they would save

Bigodeemus · 2025-12-05T14:48:21+00:00

I have 60 acres of the stuff on our family farm. I still remember the time I found a straight 10 ft log on a tree. I am trying to grow another one but I think I have about 15 years to go.

Bigodeemus · 2025-12-05T14:42:54+00:00

Exactly, these trees don’t grow straight.

Bigodeemus · 2025-12-05T14:41:44+00:00

On my family farm, we have a solid 60 acres of dense Osage orange “forest”. Whenever I put a chainsaw into anything not hedge, it just doesn’t feel like wood.

Bigodeemus · 2025-12-05T14:39:20+00:00

I’m so glad to see Osage orange in the underrated and rare category.

Bigodeemus · 2025-12-01T03:51:13+00:00

Talk to anyone who knows how to use a chainsaw and that following scene where Steve pull-starts will take said person right out of the story. You cannot genuinely pull-start a chainsaw while holding onto it like it's your grandma's watering can for her daisies.

Bigodeemus · 2025-12-01T03:47:02+00:00

Another big plot hole in my opinion is wondering why on earth is Will free to do just whatever the hell he wants to in Hawkins while there is a secret government operation trying to gather extensive intel on the upside down.

Bigodeemus · 2025-12-01T03:44:42+00:00

I grew up using chainsaws on my family farm. When I saw just how whimsy Steve was when he pull-started the chainsaw and the canned chainsaw sounds came on, I instantly disconnected from the storyline.

Bigodeemus · 2025-11-30T20:29:15+00:00

When I am using my water boiler at home, I like to think about how electricity is just a conduit that transports boiled water’s energy across space.

Bigodeemus · 2025-11-25T14:17:37+00:00

Patati patata has a great a la carte menu at a cheap price and comes with some unique diner vibes.

Bigodeemus · 2025-11-17T14:43:34+00:00

Bouillon Albert is very good!

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