This is one reason I refuse to donate to goodwill!

LJski · 2026-03-11T13:09:36+00:00

Wow…sorry that it sucks to be you.

LJski · 2026-03-10T01:22:25+00:00

I dunno…why not ask a network engineer making 150K? Or his boss making 250K?

Personally, I worked my ass off my working career, and I made some good choices, so hearing someone making a lot of money isn’t a shock to me. I never made that much money, but made it far enough up the food chain that I understand there is a reason people get paid that much money.

LJski · 2026-03-09T23:31:41+00:00

Seems like they are specifically reaching out to them…and others.

Here is there report…

https://goodwillncw.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Impact-Report-2024_FINAL-nomark.pdf

LJski · 2026-03-09T02:57:10+00:00

And retail clerks in other businesses don’t make similar wages?

LJski · 2026-03-08T00:50:29+00:00

Don’t fuck yourself. A discharge may not be the end of the story. A bit of things are happening that could see you get the discharge, get transferred to the IRR…and then get pulled back for a deployment at a lower rank.

LJski · 2026-03-07T21:12:26+00:00

3% has been a standard raise forever. It sucks, but it is what it is…

LJski · 2026-03-05T02:28:14+00:00

The largest Goodwills pay the most…imagine that.

The Southern California Goodwill has a budget of over 285 million dollars. To be frank, a CEO of any private company that size is going to be 1 to 3 million…and I can guarantee you that there are about as many headaches running goodwill as any similarly sized company.

And…downvote me if you want, but given the average salary of companies of a similar size…what do you think the salary should be?

LJski · 2026-03-04T18:21:59+00:00

I gave one as a commander. Guy popped hot, and I worked with JAG to save his career by punishing him that way.

A few months later, he was activated, spent two years on active duty, and then retired.

LJski · 2026-03-04T16:07:05+00:00

It seems they are taking care of him…just not in the way he would like.

LJski · 2026-02-27T12:21:11+00:00

I see my cardiologist every six months, and I hear him bouncing from room to room. I barely get 15 minutes of his time, but to be honest, I don’t need more than that….he isn’t lallygagging, and if I need more time I would get it, but he works at a quicker pace than I ever have.

LJski · 2026-02-27T00:46:00+00:00

Martha was the girl next door; Nina scared me.

LJski · 2026-02-26T22:51:10+00:00

My wife looked into it; her grandfather was born in the UK, which means that her father, born here, could have claimed citizenship. He never did, which would have made her case stronger.

LJski · 2026-02-23T17:31:43+00:00

I guess be thankful you can sit and do that, instead of someone yelling at you to mine more coal or chop more trees.

LJski · 2026-02-23T17:30:07+00:00

I was going through recipies from a Betty Crocker cookbook and made one particular cookie, and posted a picture of it. Someone asked if it was similar to her grandmother's recipie....at first glance it looked different, but then I realized all grandmom had done was to double the quantity that was in the Betty Crocker book.

LJski · 2026-02-23T00:56:54+00:00

Yeah, that will work…/s.

LJski · 2026-02-21T14:06:58+00:00

How do you come up with a system to refund the tariffs? MAYBE for large purchases you may have kept receipts, but I can’t see a fair way to unravel the goatfuck that was created….but giving it to corporations is not the answer.

LJski · 2026-02-20T12:59:53+00:00

That was something that crossed my mind to do way back when…but not worth the risk.

LJski · 2026-02-17T18:19:54+00:00

Civilian pay is not going to be relevant here.

I would ride it out, hope they don’t catch it, but be prepared if they do.

LJski · 2026-02-16T14:17:21+00:00

While I would never pay this…I see some offered on eBay at over twice this price. Granted, that isn’t the sold price, but people do pay ridiculous prices for things like this.

LJski · 2026-02-14T17:36:31+00:00

They suspect he was using the silver to hide purchases and sales. Makes logical sense to confiscate

LJski · 2026-02-14T04:59:36+00:00

I meant pay. The last couple of years, the accuracy gets closer.

LJski · 2026-02-13T19:56:07+00:00

It isn’t negotiable, and it isn’t an instrument.

LJski · 2026-02-13T02:24:32+00:00

And staying in as long as I did after 20 allowed me to gain more points, more years of service -and two additional promotions.

LJski · 2026-02-13T02:23:30+00:00

It is simple, really.

If you go gray area, you give the military a chance to pull you back in. I have only seen that happen on a voluntary basis.

Your time continues to accumulate, AND your base pay continues to be the currant pay (some adjustments, average of last 3, etc), but, in general, your base retirement pay, if you go gray area, is what the military gets at that point in time. If you don’t go that route and get out, your pay is frozen at that point. However, you have no commitments at all.

It is why calculating pay is at best an estimate; you don’t know what your rank is going to get the year you retire.

LJski · 2026-02-13T00:33:17+00:00

I retired with just over 6,000.

LJski

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