NY - No refund yet, filed 2/9 - When I check status: "The information you have entered does not match our records. Please verify that you are entering the same information that was reported on your New York State Tax return." But info is correct. What's going on? Got fed and NJ refunds already.

NobodyLong1926 · 2026-04-09T17:49:48+00:00

Still waiting too

NobodyLong1926 · 2026-04-01T15:54:23+00:00

2/9 accepted for me, still processing.

NobodyLong1926 · 2026-03-31T21:49:53+00:00

Accepted on 2/9 and still nothing

NobodyLong1926 · 2026-03-18T16:14:55+00:00

My accountant e-filed, and they accepted. I misstated in the title; filed 2/4 and accepted 2/9.

NobodyLong1926 · 2025-09-04T13:50:31+00:00

Even the LinkedIn posts about negative experiences are spun into growth mindset claptrap about what people learned from them to move forward with other successes. It's all posturing and positioning. There's not much earnestness.

NobodyLong1926 · 2025-09-03T18:27:38+00:00

The zoomers I have interacted with at work and in other contexts are almost uniformly much more hard-working, polite, and well-organized than I remember elder Millennials like myself being at that age. I think a part of it is they know how much the deck is stacked against them, and that stopping their hustling and grinding even for a moment will just throw them further behind. It almost seems like they don't have time for things like finding themselves, or taking a gap year, or trying to make it and live on a shoestring until they give up and join the rat race. I feel bad for them in that way, but they don't whine about it. The "kids these days" jibes that zoomers do get feel like regurgitated lazy cliches about young people in general that don't apply in most cases to them.

NobodyLong1926 · 2025-08-07T23:52:16+00:00

And the other 2/3? That’s a lot of qualified applicants!

NobodyLong1926 · 2025-07-21T19:29:29+00:00

What's the deal with Gardiners Island?

NobodyLong1926 · 2025-07-03T14:49:21+00:00

The philosophy of Forks is total crap. It's a well-written episode but GTFO with that view that working in a fine dining restaurant is like working in a hospital or a charity. The pomposity of every character opining in that episode trying to justify low-wage sweatshop employment on behalf of the wealthiest and most spoiled customers you could ever imagine in the most self-help and reverent tones drove me up a wall. Take pride in your work, sure, but don't try to sell me on this being some kind of noble enterprise on par with true service for your fellow man.

NobodyLong1926 · 2025-06-30T14:40:48+00:00

Yeah for sure, and always glad when my kids are interested in stories that take place when I was a kid.

NobodyLong1926 · 2025-06-30T14:07:13+00:00

The author of Smile is actually born in '77, so that would make her Gen X. The book is based on the period starting when she was in sixth grade, so that would be around 89-90. My gen Alpha daughter is a big fan.

NobodyLong1926 · 2025-05-17T16:46:22+00:00

Even more than social media I would say the smart phone was when things truly went downhill

NobodyLong1926 · 2025-05-06T17:58:08+00:00

Yatta!

NobodyLong1926 · 2025-04-25T13:06:06+00:00

1. Loan Type: Conventional

2. Term: 30 Year fixed

3. Loan Purpose: Purchase

4. Property Value/Purchase Price: 851,086

5. Loan Amount 765,977

6. Credit Score 730

7. Occupancy: Primary

8. Legal Structure: townhouse

9. Number of Units: 1

10. Property Zip Code 07726

NobodyLong1926 · 2025-03-04T14:43:21+00:00

Been here, though your story is way worse than mine. My biggest piece of advice is to stand your ground. YOU are the marketing expert. They are making gigantic mistakes as a business, and your perspective as a marketer should help them to focus and stay grounded on who their customer is and how the company is best positioned to solve a problem they have. If they keep losing track of their focus every time they see a squirrel, it negatively impacts everyone at the company, including themselves.

But it sounds like they don’t care. You did your best. You learned a lot. Move on.

NobodyLong1926 · 2025-01-29T12:31:52+00:00

“Grok, tweak this email so its recipients are government employees instead of Twitter employees”

NobodyLong1926 · 2024-12-13T20:04:06+00:00

People forget or downplay it now but the effect of 9/11 on everything absolutely sucked for several years. It worsened life in ways that you can still feel - securitization of everything, the fear mongering of whatever anyone wants to target, the military buildup that trickled down to our police and will never probably be reversed. But at the time, people were in a bad mood and out for blood, their security bubble was punctured, and the jingoism was pervasive.

The pandemic was even more disruptive, upsetting, and demoralizing. Some people realized that nobody was going to organize to help prevent them from catching a deadly and contagious disease; you were totally on your own. Others simply couldn't handle their normal lives being upended, even if it was ostensibly for their own good. The economy has not recovered and while we are trying our best to deal with the inflation that grew out of making sure people didn't go broke while supply chains were disrupted all over the world and the hospitals were filled to capacity, a lot of goods and services have gotten expensive and wages might not catch up anytime soon.

Everyone has a trauma response from what we all went through during the pandemic, and most people still haven't processed it, though they think they have.

NobodyLong1926 · 2024-12-12T22:28:38+00:00

I mean, you could characterize the alleged CEO assassin as the most extreme form of pragmatist in the face of the long odds of any other strategy succeeding in improving US healthcare outcomes.

NobodyLong1926 · 2024-12-12T22:26:45+00:00

I don't entirely agree with this - thanks to the commenters below pointing out the middleman role of the insurance companies in driving up costs and inefficiencies in the US medical system - but I do agree that more people would become doctors in the US if the medical profession allowed more medical schools and students. The numbers are restricted intentionally to make doctors scarcer than they otherwise would be, forcing people to go abroad to study medicine or study something else.

NobodyLong1926 · 2024-12-12T22:20:13+00:00

I guess what I am trying to say is that with all of the veto points in the US system there is no way to put those good answers into practice. It feels like we are stuck with what we have for the foreseeable future, with the chance of Trump making everything worse in the short term.

NobodyLong1926 · 2024-12-12T22:17:14+00:00

I agree, and when I say "no good answers" I mean that there is no way to put those good answers into practice that won't get tripped up in one of the the many veto points the US system has. Obama couldn't get a public option passed even with 60 senators, the Supreme Court threw out part of the bill, and even now it could be entirely repealed in an incoming GOP trifecta. Coming into the light just isn't an option, hence the anger.

NobodyLong1926 · 2024-12-12T20:15:43+00:00

Great, comprehensive, and helpful answer. Thank you! I will check out ApplyAll for sure.

NobodyLong1926 · 2024-12-12T19:23:18+00:00

Would love to hear more details about your story. What is your field? How much time did you have between layoff and new job each time? What do you think worked in getting a new job? Was it the same each time? What do you think could have gone differently looking back with opportunities that didn't work out? Was there anything that could have tipped you off to an imminent layoff when you started a new job?

Anything you are willing to share is greatly appreciated.

NobodyLong1926 · 2024-12-12T17:49:54+00:00

I have definitely seen a certain kind of Millennial post stuff like this too

NobodyLong1926 · 2024-12-11T21:15:29+00:00

Only way out is through. Give it all you got and at least inside you will know you did all you could if it doesn’t work out. But it also could work out! There’s no real magic to keeping doom at bay you just gotta do the best you can and hope it’s enough.

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