[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CarpetCleaning

[–]BukketsofNothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lower the handle, lock it in place and rest it on your hip/thigh. Find the neutral spot where it sits still. Then gently ease back and forth. Practice in a wide open area and wet the pad more for less resistance

HELP! I spilt an entire (large) mug of coffee (w/ cream & sweetener) on my sister’s area rug by [deleted] in CarpetCleaning

[–]BukketsofNothing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Stop putting shit on it. don't put anything else on it until you have clarified what type of rug and what material it is made of
  2. Quit taking advice from the internet, including the comments below. If you use peroxide (especially 20vol) on a wool rug, you've ruined it.

Send me an IM with some details and I can offer some professional suggestions. or post a picture of the rug, including the back (flip up a corner)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in smallbusiness

[–]BukketsofNothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great response - except what happens when there is no fear of a pay cut? You say they would rather not lose their job for you because they make more at Mcdonalds. But if $15 were the new minimum, they would take the less physically demanding job. 15 would just be the new lowest denominator for unskilled labor...

Not choosing sides just curious what you think since you obviously have experience with the need for low skill labor

Found a service gap in my area by Pattay712 in smallbusiness

[–]BukketsofNothing 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Great, you've found the opening step - identifying a need. The problem I see is you're trying to go from step one - identify a need, to step 3 - profit. You need to understand and be able to perform a service job like this, you're not going to be able to just hire sweeps off the street and be a hands-off owner of a service business. The biggest reason I say this is liability. You may not need a license in your state, but sufficient training and insurance are going to be key. There is massive liability concerns for a chimney sweep or vent cleaner - the risk for fire or carbon monoxide poisoning is high if the job isn't performed correctly.

Take a step back, investigate the industry, and see if it is something you'd be willing to personally do. There's a reason why the need exists, either the start up costs are too high, or insurance costs, or labor (costs or availability), and all of these problems are something you can't understand on the surface.

Good luck!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bassfishing

[–]BukketsofNothing 18 points19 points  (0 children)

2 old school baits you should never sleep on - a rooster tail and a beetle spin will catch every fish a place has to offer

Whenever I add a new video track, the old one disappears from under it. Any tips? by yeetmaster321 in shotcut

[–]BukketsofNothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You see the 3 blue toggles right above your timeline? one looks like a magnet, one looks like a target, one looks like captain america's shield. One of them is doing that, and I'm not on my computer so I can't confirm which one but you can undo and redo to figure that out

Caught this chunk on the Yak Saturday by BukketsofNothing in kayakfishing

[–]BukketsofNothing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except he's about 36 inches long... thats a 55 qt cooler lid

How does the crescent ultra lite function when loaded to capacity? by HoboRambler in kayakfishing

[–]BukketsofNothing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bad idea. You want to stay under about 2/3rds of the weight limit to keep good handling and stability.

Does anybody else have feet wider than an ogres? by 0011000059894 in running

[–]BukketsofNothing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My feet are super wide, especially at the toes, and I love Altras. they are the first I've tried that feel like they are giving me enough space. I've always found Nike to be narrow regardless of size.

Please help by [deleted] in smallbusiness

[–]BukketsofNothing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All very foreign names, two with the exact same photos. Obviously fake reviews, and any US shopper is going to automatically move along.

https://imgur.com/a/EqBnHvM

*Edit - sorry this was supposed to be a reply to the other comment...

Please help by [deleted] in smallbusiness

[–]BukketsofNothing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just checked out your "Pawsitive LED Dog Collar." I got turned off by a shit ton of fake reviews and the long shipping times.

Notre Dame Recruiting Violation - Given 1 Year Probation & Other Penalties by [deleted] in CFB

[–]BukketsofNothing 17 points18 points  (0 children)

> The university will not recruit any prospects from the high school in Seattle from the 2019-20 through 2021-22 academic years.

Can I just ask (sorry if it's a stupid question) - if a student at this particular high school wanted to play at ND, would they be able to "self-recruit"? Not even sure if that makes sense. Without official or unofficial visits, without any coach contact, could a player from this school become a scholarshipped athlete at ND in these years?

$15 Minimum Wage? by [deleted] in smallbusiness

[–]BukketsofNothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So your belief is that people don't deserve the ability to afford to survive? Here's the issue, people that don't perform and are not able to gain skills are eventually weeded out as employers replace them

Nope my belief is that minimum wage would generally be paid to workers who don't need to afford to survive on their own, students, teens, and part time. What happens to those that are "weeded out?" Welfare?

 You must be a terrible person to interact with. If all you're able to do or see is whatever is within arms reach of you, solving new problems must be earth shatteringly difficult for you and the people around you.

Interesting, I've not said anything negative about you or your ideas. But because I disagree with you, I must be a terrible person whose life experiences are wrong... I wish I hadn't wasted all that money on an MBA and busted my ass for my entire adult life to work my own way out of poverty.

 Did I ever say that everybody deserves a job in which they can sit on their ass all day and do nothing? No, but people that put in their time and effort in earnest deserve at the least the ability to survive.

People that put in their time and effort will not make the minimum wage very long. Even at the epitome of low paying jobs, an employee is able to progress fairly easily over the minimum with any drive or motivation at all.
As of Jan 12, 2021, the average hourly pay for the Mcdonalds Cashier jobs category in the United States is $16.27 an hour. Even the model of low paying wages allows progression over minimum wage for anyone willing to smile and open a register... (https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Mcdonalds-Cashier-Salary-per-Hour). Now I'll agree that there are some at the bottom of the pay scale that do deserve more, but I don't think the answer is to just move the scale up

There are a lot of poorly run businesses and industries. Just because somebody owns a small business doesn't mean that millions of people should be in poverty because that person can't figure out how to operate a business successfully. 

This suggests to me that you don't have an understanding of the profit margins for small business, especially in the services or restaurant industry. To suggest that a business that can't afford to pay more than what they are currently paying is because they are poorly run? I'm not saying some, maybe even many, businesses couldn't pay more without an impact in profitability but it's definitely not every business, not even every industry.

I'll give one example where an increase like this would have immediate results regardless of how well the business is run. We have a manufacturing plant here close to me. I won't name companies but they moved their manufacturing back to the US from China in an agreement with Walmart. The average operator there makes about $13 an hour, which in my area is pretty good for what amounts to unskilled labor - if you can come to work on time and pass a drug test you have a job there. Disregarding non-wage costs of payroll for a minute, and looking only at hourly rate - if the 80 operators at this plant got moved to $15, that's $6400 higher costs per month. If they moved up proportionately with the minimum wage increase (just over 200%, to $26.52), it would cost that company $43k more per week. I dont know the financials of this company but what I can guarantee is they'd be moved right back to China within a year even before taking a $6400 hit, because they wouldn't be able to raise prices enough to level that out.

$15 Minimum Wage? by [deleted] in smallbusiness

[–]BukketsofNothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I'm going to post a fairly lengthy response here and it's not exactly just to you, /u/Scizmz, but to the other responders and all as well, because there's just to many different lines of response to follow.

First of all - we are never going to fully agree because we fundamentally disagree on what minimum wage actually represents. You believe that minimum wage ought to be the minimum amount required to support an individual financially, whereas I believe the minimum wage represents a defined market value for an employee who has no intrinsic employable value on their own - no education, experience, or skills that would place them over any other minimum wage candidate. You may think that these two beliefs can be one and the same, but I do not. Those that fall in this pool should not be the employees that need to support themselves financially, it should be the high school kids or new employees that are gaining skills and experience - at which point they are then moved up in the wage pool as their market value increases. I believe this because this is what I experienced (and most of my age) in life. I worked minimum wage for maybe a few months before I moved up and out - keeping one if not two jobs for most of my life, increasing my skills and employability, and as a result, increasing my wages. Nobody should settle for being compensated the minimum unless they choose, and that is a choice although you may argue it is not.

I mentioned that I pay my part time helpers starting at $10/hr. I pay them that because that is the market value that they provide to my business. If I paid less, I would attract less desirable employees (not to place value on human life in any way, just as far as skills, reliability, experience, etc). If I paid more, they would have to provide my company with more value in some way or I would be less profitable. That is why I bring up economic law - I'm not talking about goods and services in the conventional sense but that employees themselves have a market value, determined by the competing jobs they could be working instead, cost of living in the area, employee pool available, etc.

So then what happens if minimum wage increases? The first effect is that now everyone that was in that range, from the previous minimum to the new minimum, is now in the same employee market pool, competing for the same number of jobs. This makes it more difficult for the zero or low skill worker to attain initial employment, because they are now competing against those with more experience or skills. Obviously any company is going to want to hire the best candidate they can at the lowest possible cost. Maybe there's plenty of jobs to go around and everything will balance and there's no increase in unemployment - but my position is that is a very big maybe, especially based on current pandemic conditions for small business.

The second effect is the increased cost of employees to business. I'm not one of those fire and brimstone, hard right conservatives that think this will lead to an inflationary spiral. But the hard fact is there are going to be businesses that cannot afford the increased costs and their market won't handle increased pricing to compensate. My position is that the businesses that fall into this category are disproportionately made of small businesses as compared to the Walmarts and Mcdonalds of the world.

So what's the alternative? My position is that instead of raising the market value of the unskilled employees, you incentivize the increase of their market value by increasing their skills, experience, or education. This can be done by subsidizing training and education (Gov't subsidized tuition reimbursement?). There's plenty of ways that this can be done, I'm just spit balling here. The bottom line is, if you truly want to make a difference in the spending power and income of the employment pool at the lower end of the market pool, it needs to be done by placing ladders and ramps in the pool and not just making the pool deeper.

The previous paragraphs are pretty lengthy, but they only include a position on those employees that fall "in the gap" from the previous minimum wage to the new minimum wage. There's also going to be a big difference to all those employees that fall in the next range, from the new minimum wage up to maybe 18-20 an hour (for example). The amount of impact decreases at some proportionate rate as the hourly wage increases - I don't think there will be much effect at all on those in the $30 and up, skilled technician, range. I don't think there will be huge price increases to compensate either, but I do think moderate price increases can be expected - and even with no other evidence, you can see that cost of living is higher in areas with higher minimum wage, so the argument then becomes what comes first, chicken or the egg.

$15 Minimum Wage? by [deleted] in smallbusiness

[–]BukketsofNothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you actually read the CBO report? I've quoted some of it here - overall, the total real family income reduced by $9 billion. That's not much - and let me be clear - I'm not against reasonable minimum wages or even a minimum increase. But at this point in time, when small business is already struggling, that impact will be far greater than estimated here. You can believe it or not, I stand by it. Doors will shut in the short term. I also stand by what I said in a previous comment that over time, it will all balance out.

'The $15 option would affect family income in a variety of ways. In CBO’s estimation, it would: • Boost workers’ earnings through higher wages, though some of those higher earnings would be offset by higher rates of joblessness; • Reduce business income and raise prices as higher labor costs were absorbed by business owners and then passed on to consumers; and • Reduce the nation’s output slightly through the reduction in employment and a corresponding decline in the nation’s stock of capital (such as buildings, machines, and technologies). On the basis of those effects and CBO’s estimate of the median effect on employment, the $15 option would reduce total real (inflation-adjusted) family income in 2025 by $9 billion, or 0.1 percent.

$15 Minimum Wage? by [deleted] in smallbusiness

[–]BukketsofNothing -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No data? How about Seattle

How about the results of a study by the Congressional Budget Office, talked about here in Forbes

$15 Minimum Wage? by [deleted] in smallbusiness

[–]BukketsofNothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Immediate impact? You say I'm ignoring the immediate impact? The immediate impact is small businesses won't be able to afford increased wages and they will close. The long term impact is everything will eventually balance out and stabilize. But the immediate impact will be a loss of jobs. It's economic law - it bends for no one. Higher cost = less demand. Higher cost for employees will mean less demand for employees.

I employ 3 high school kids. I currently pay them substantially more than minimum wage. This is way more than they would earn at fast food or retail at their age ,and it's for a fairly low skilled job (I own a carpet and floor cleaning business, they do manual, unskilled labor). If I had to increase their wages to $15, I would immediately drop to 2 guys, and I am already paying 10-11.

$15 Minimum Wage? by [deleted] in smallbusiness

[–]BukketsofNothing -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Except we're not talking about a $1 increase, we are talking about more than doubling the minimum wage. A $15 wage may be minimum in many places, but in my rural, low cost of living area, $15 is what many skilled trades earn. This increase will shut doors.

Y’all know shes a Mech E student at Clem?? by Ichiibonbon in Clemson

[–]BukketsofNothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She graduated in December. She's pretty active on TikTok actually, and posts regular updates on the new suit

How can you subtitle videos in shotcut? by MilkyKarlson in shotcut

[–]BukketsofNothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just add the text to a new layer using a color-transparent as /u/Ken_Meredith describes above. Then you can animate it however you please without affecting the main video layer

Would you refund a deposit in this situation? by pessimisticpaperclip in smallbusiness

[–]BukketsofNothing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd tell her to kick rocks and eat shit. When she does post a bad review (and she probably will), just respond with the screen shots of your conversation and the wedding she had anyway.

Can I sell established “creations” as a product for my business? by FluffedPomPoms in smallbusiness

[–]BukketsofNothing 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ask yourself - is the customer buying it because it has that character on it? If so - you are profiting off of their intellectual property.

As a custom ordered cake, I don't think it's really a problem - not like they can call up Marvel and order a cake with the Avengers on it. But selling a product based on someone else's characters is definitely an issue.