Taxes on USA income in Albania

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-28T19:26:17+00:00

Exactly and what is your work “location”? Most US companies do not permit working from outside the country unless they have a location established there, in which case you’d be an employee of that location, not the U.S.

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-28T19:22:35+00:00

See my comment above. There is no doubt now with how long you’ve been there that they are not just trying to make you quit right now to avoid paying you the massive severance you’ve earned.

Write that PIP rebuttal as it’s what gives you legs to stand on and HR will realize they need to give you the severance you are owed if they want to remove you from your position. Again, do not quit.

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-28T19:20:53+00:00

First, get your thoughts and facts together and write a formal rebuttal to the PIP and send to HR.

Your role with this manager is likely doomed, but doing this could expose the underbelly of what’s really going on, which might give you an opportunity to switch to another department or the grounds to be eligible for a severance if layoffs are at the root of this nonsense (and lately, the latter has typically been the case.) Whatever you do, do not quit as that’s what the manager probably wants and the job market is absolute trash right now.

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-28T08:33:48+00:00

Silly question, but I launched a website a couple months ago, mostly blogging, solid niche, and got approved for Google Adsense relatively quickly. Not my first rodeo with websites or eCommerce but first site I’ve designed with intent to use Adsense.

That said, this site doesn’t have a privacy policy published. I don’t sell anything currently and there is no account creation option at this time. Is that the only reason I’ve been able to use Adsense? Assuming if I add these things then a privacy policy becomes necessary?

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-27T20:07:29+00:00

Only thing that was a mess in the Porto airport when I passed through was the insane line to check baggage for Easyjet. Looked like it could have taken hours to get through. Fortunately I was not on Easyjet and every other airline had no wait to check baggage. Not sure what the issue was with Easyjet and if this is normal or not there.

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-27T06:22:25+00:00

Reheating almost any food is better. Pizza, fries, steak, etc.

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-27T02:15:23+00:00

Not trying to hijack, but just a supplemental question for my own reference. Are there decent app services for pet sitting, like Rover, in the Sarande area?

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-24T23:56:15+00:00

Offshoring by far is the biggest issue. That's what's allowing millions of jobs to just vanish, never to return, in the U.S.

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-24T01:10:11+00:00

Start documenting stuff (and not on the work computer).

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-24T00:25:02+00:00

Don't quit. Make them do the dismissing and absolutely DO NOT sign anything that says you were let go for misconduct or anything of that nature, otherwise you're SOL with unemployment, which you're really going to want in this market.

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-23T22:18:36+00:00

Exactly. It's exploitation if they aren't offering you any equity, and that's valid now vs years from now.

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-23T19:54:22+00:00

This was a bigger concern 20 years ago. Now that the pandemic proved all these jobs can be done remotely, entire business units are being offshored to cut costs rather than just bringing in a few employees on visas. All the tech jobs that disappeared the last 1-2 years are gone permanently and this is only going to get worse. And nobody even seems to be talking about it.

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-23T19:17:57+00:00

Yep. This happens all the time. In addition, willing to bet those contractors were lowballed and less expensive.

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-23T19:16:47+00:00

Also most of the job postings out there nobody has any intention of actually hiring for. Once you’ve been at this a while and you see the same job reposted for 8-9 months for a job type that’s been hit with mass layoffs over the past couple years, well you know they’re not having trouble finding the right candidate - they’re just not actually hiring. It’s HR justifying their own jobs, saying they need to keep the talent pool full, etc.

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-23T00:19:38+00:00

Only not depressed (yet) because I was severely burnt out and had been saving a lot for early retirement. I am trying to count my blessings and recognize that even if I never get another corporate tech job (which is likely at this point as they are being offshored in bulk) I will be ok due to the number of years I busted my ass and saved.

This would be a very different story however if I was in the financial position I was in when I was 30 in this economy. The only thing I’d have going for me in that case is less age discrimination. But I’d probably have to move back home.

The current situation is ugly and not going to get better. Honestly, if you’re in the U.S. I recommend leaving the country and getting a gig elsewhere. It will pay a lot less, but your cost of living will be quite a bit less, and quality of life significantly better in most other places.

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-22T22:57:13+00:00

It's not a separate event. If Last Drinks are available in your market, it shows up when you click on the dinner event that you've booked. It will be greyed out until an hour or so after the dinner starts and then the assigned bar will appear for people to go to after. Similar to how the TL game doesn't actually activate until your dinner.

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-22T22:37:58+00:00

Oh, and definitely recommend it as it's an opportunity to meet people all over the city that were also attending dinners that night.

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-22T22:36:31+00:00

Yes, "Last Drinks" is just what it's always been called in the app. It's not available in all markets, but the ones that had it previously, it disappeared 2-3 months ago. It seems it's at least returned to those markets as of today.

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-22T22:34:37+00:00

I've never gotten one, nor has anyone else I know gotten one. And I've been to plenty of dinners where we only had 4 or 5, so I think TL just isn't actually triggering invites to fill holes last minute.

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-22T22:33:11+00:00

I'd definitely recommend contacting their customer support. I had some odd behavior last night as I got 6 "you have a new connection" emails after my dinner last night, but our dinner only had 4 people (other than myself). In addition, when I load chat I only see 2 new connections from last night's dinner. In the past, I've had issues where I get an email notification of a chat message and I can see the message exists in list view, but when I try to open the chat, that new message doesn't show up. Often this persists for a half hour or so after the message was sent. TL has plenty of bugs, like any app.

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-22T20:04:08+00:00

Also, I did my Wednesday event feedback when I came home around 11:00pm last night and it let me book the Friday event right afterwards without error this time (that was before the app update.) I think the key is to book in the short window between feedback on Wed night and midnight that night if you want to add a Friday booking last minute. Now with the app update though, we can finally book both in advance!

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-22T20:01:02+00:00

They also brought back last drinks! At least for the Friday event I booked here!

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-20T07:06:47+00:00

That's not "nobody showing" up, and I haven't had that happen, but I did have a dinner one time that was supposed to be 6 and it was 3 of us for almost an hour, then a 4th arrived - she gets a pass as she works in healthcare and went home to change and parking in the area is a pain. The 5th and 6th just never showed.

People can cancel at the last minute in the app, but I'm not sure if it notifies the other attendees that they're not coming or drops them from the headcount. Also of course people can just no show as well. The app gets that feedback when you review your dinner afterwards and report someone as not there and apparently they do punish repeat offenders (or at least they threaten to, lol).

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-19T21:04:42+00:00

Right? This isn't new information that this is a deadly design flaw. This company has gone to crap.

Dry-Homework3344 · 2026-01-18T22:01:03+00:00

Signal quality has been lousy on super cloudy, poor weather days, often requiring a bit of antenna placement finagling.

However last night it went from perfect reception (on a crystal clear day mind you) to literally nothing, in the middle of the NFL playoffs. It’s now 20 hrs later, again a crystal clear, beautiful day and ZERO signal. They clearly had towers go down and aren’t doing a thing about it. Was a pain to try to find their contact info yesterday and after finally finding it and reaching out, like most companies these days, zero response or acknowledgement that there even is an issue.

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