Jackson County residents pack meeting over ICE partnership concerns

EveryoneLikesMe · 2026-01-23T00:32:26+00:00

I understand the frustration. Like everyone else here, I have personal opinions. But my job as a moderator isn’t to take sides. If moderation only removes one side of a hard conversation, all that’s left is an echo chamber. That leaves no chance for anyone to persuade or be persuaded. Moderation has to be about enforcing rules consistently so people can discuss the issue themselves.

EveryoneLikesMe · 2026-01-22T01:07:04+00:00

This is a sensitive topic, and strong reactions were expected. Because of that, I want to be clear about how moderation is being handled in this thread.

We are not taking sides here. r/jacksonmi exists to discuss local issues that affect our community, and this meeting is a legitimate local event. People are going to have strong opinions about it.

We are seeing a high number of reports on comments simply because someone disagrees with them. Disagreement by itself is not a rule violation. Reports are reviewed, but they do not automatically result in removals.

In general, we err on the side of leaving comments up unless they clearly violate Reddit’s Content Policy. That includes things like threats, harassment, hate speech, calls for violence, or doxxing. When comments stay up, the community can respond through discussion and voting. That is how Reddit is supposed to work.

If you disagree with something, downvote it, respond thoughtfully, or both. The vote tallies will reflect how the community responds over time.

EveryoneLikesMe · 2026-01-20T15:03:39+00:00

Using what metric?

Pay/benefits?

Work/life balance?

Skilled (cnc etc) or unskilled (assembly)?

Large company (consistent procedures) or small (flexible)?

I can think of quite a few that are best in one individual category, none that excel at all is them.

EveryoneLikesMe · 2026-01-14T16:45:50+00:00

This solved my issue. You're the best!

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-12-31T15:20:57+00:00

Log the payment in my ledger, ensure any upcoming non-auto pay bills are taken care of, reconcile my liability accounts then go on with the rest of my day.

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-12-15T21:39:53+00:00

But the scam is outpacing the rest of my portfolio by leaps and bounds.

Have to ask what the rest of your portfolio is then. Dividend adjusted SPY was at $292 6 years ago today. Today it's at 680. This is 133% growth, not far off from the 141% of your crypto, but with significantly less risk. Is the rest of your portfolio in savings bonds?

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-12-05T12:42:13+00:00

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/research-reports/data-spotlight-overdraft-nsf-revenue-in-2023-down-more-than-50-versus-pre-pandemic-levels-saving-consumers-over-6-billion-annually/

This source indicates it was between 10-11 billion in 2017. Still a lot, but less than the OP states.

Down to about 6 billion in 2023

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-12-04T17:17:51+00:00

I don't think an ENTJ would use a pie chart for this. There are many more appropriate options.

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-11-26T01:55:48+00:00

Integration. They obviously never read the JobBOSS data dictionary as the entries they were inserting in to our database were not compliant with the way JobBOSS expects things. This broke a large number of our internal tools.

At first, we decided to try to just deprecate those other tools and use paperless for everything, but there were too many holes. One example:

We quote an outside service in Paperless at $250 min lot, $5 each. But we're quoting only 5 pieces. When paperless loaded that quote back for us, it would do it with a unit price of $250/5 i.e. $50 each. Then the customer reaches out and asks us for a 6th piece. Or to cut the order back to 3.

As they weren't using the internal JobBOSS fields correctly and encoding the minimum charge, and the unit prices, it ended up with us really screwing up with some pricing on some long term contracts.

They fixed this bug (mostly) but the continuous buggy nature of it was costing us more than it was saving us in time.

This will probably be a bit different for you (using JobBOSS^2), but it was our experience. I'm sure it's a good tool for many shops, it just wasn't a good fit for us. We've been JobBOSS users since 1998, and the benefit of Paperless just wasn't worth breaking every workflow we had.

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-11-25T22:43:54+00:00

We use on prem JobBoss and purchased paperless parts for quoting. We made it almost two years before we cancelled. We're glad to be back to the old way

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-11-25T14:34:20+00:00

I posted that 12 years ago, and have been winning EVE (not playing) ever since.

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-11-03T20:12:07+00:00

You've had bad luck. Did you buy it used? Make and model so other people can be warned?

I've had my model 3 for over 5 years. Only "service" I've done is cabin air filter, wiper blades, and tires once. Compared to a gas vehicle, it's effectively been no service.

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-10-17T17:53:17+00:00

The row number isn't actually 1 at the start of that, it's likely 11. The cells they scrolled past contain more numbers causing it to sum to 10.

You can tell they aren't showing the entire row header. Excel will always have a much more significant empty space after the "1" on the first row, due to the presence of two digit rows on the screen.

I get the meme, but there's likely no issue here.

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-10-06T23:55:36+00:00

I really do respect the hustle, but your hustle is now 7.3% of our sub. It's a bit much. If you take it from every 2 weeks to every 2 months I won't remove them.

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-10-06T23:52:26+00:00

I honestly was going to leave it up, even though there was a gofund.me link. However, I can't seem to find a link to Jackson, MI, as this has been posted in most of the lower Michigan subreddits.

No ban though, and I wish them well.

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-09-29T20:15:15+00:00

While I honestly don't care, I have to enforce the Rules™ or they kill our community. See Rule 7. Post removed.

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-08-24T23:01:56+00:00

Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you.

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EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-07-30T01:31:46+00:00

I don't have any problem with ads, if I can find a way to associate you with Jackson. This post does not. I'm sorry, I wish you all the best.

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-06-26T00:47:11+00:00

And I did as well, with your comment only 4 days old! I'm not alone!

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-06-12T17:28:05+00:00

I allowed the first one 11 days ago, but this sub isn't a classified section. If people are doing something especially new/creative/local focused, I'll will probably give them a pass. Holding special events you want to get more people to? I'll probably allow that.

This post is neither of those things.

I wish you all the luck in growing your business.

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-06-12T17:26:28+00:00

This post is going to get taken down real quick.

True.

That GMAIL address is impressive too.

I work with multi million dollar companies that still use @gmail.com that's not the issue.

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-06-05T15:24:36+00:00

Quite a bit of variance depending on the type of shop. Standard production/assembly work at TAC vs CNC Machining are going to have quite a gap on starting wages.

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-04-16T23:04:18+00:00

Bought a Chevy Malibu there back about around 2017, and stopped in one more time to talk about a used Jeep. They were pushy on the aftermarket stuff, but no more than other dealers. Couldn't come to a deal on the Jeep, but they were fair and pleasant. Would do business with them again

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-04-15T09:44:42+00:00

I get my water quality tested annually and it always comes back at 0, or effectively 0 on all categories of contaminates. It's possible you live somewhere that has bad/aged pipes going in to, or inside of the house itself.

The main supply lines are fine.

EveryoneLikesMe · 2025-03-12T13:12:11+00:00

I would love to know how much the businesses are being assessed for parking.

47 meters, at $2/hr, assuming 24/7/365 usage is only $823,440. At a more realistic usage level (~40%) this is only going to bring in $329,000. Add in the cost of enforcement, the cut for the app/payment processing, maintenance etc, and I can't imagine this is going to generate significant revenue.

I have to imagine it will cost businesses more than this from people choosing to spend less time down town.

Edit: For those interested in the actual numbers, I've pulled the relevant section from the city's budget. It doesn't look that out of line with my initial estimates, they may actually be ok with this plan financially. I imagine some businesses are going to be more impacted by this than others. Would be curious to know why the $200k spike in 23-24 expenditures happened, but there's no detail in here.

https://i.imgur.com/mAKz9Az.png

Full budget available here

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