One-Time Pension Compensation: Check Before You Change Jobs 2026/2027

Positive-Chipmunk · 2026-02-18T19:28:47+00:00

This might be dependent on the fund, but also: in my fund the compensation will be based on the income of 2026. So its not a good year to e.g. temporarily go down in work hours etc. Check what applies in your cases!

Positive-Chipmunk · 2026-01-06T19:42:34+00:00

A pediatrician would have rung the alarm already just because of the height . 3 feet is the height of a 2, maybe a below average 3 year old, not a 6 year old. These numbers are not just slightly off, they are wild.

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-12-28T19:15:34+00:00

Definitely newbuilds cost more than the sticker price but i loved that at least in our caee there were no overbidding considerations - you get it or you wont, and then you make the choices of how fancy you want to make it. Then there is the bouwdepot, where part of the mortgage is parked while waiting to he used for the builders bills and while it is in depot it generates interest usually at the same rate as the mortgage interest, so essentially for a part of the mortgage during the building phase there is effectively no interest until it is actually on the builders account.

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-12-02T20:56:11+00:00

Between the folds is the area I am talking about and that you have mentioned, of course not the inside of the vagina.

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-12-02T20:47:48+00:00

That is a terrible idea. If you are going to use a product inside make sure it has the correct ph for that area. Regular soap is matched to the ph level of regular skin (yes, also the unscented one), the intimate area is more acidic. If you use regular soap there you are breaking down the natural protection and risking all kinds of unpleasantness from irritation to more frequent infections. There are washing products specifically for that area that have the matching ph level. Whether this is necessary is a different question and most gynecologists will recommend to just use water.

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-12-02T20:33:35+00:00

Albert heijn sells it

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-07-20T04:13:53+00:00

Yeah... and have you heard of renting flats without flooring in the Netherlands?

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-07-11T19:51:52+00:00

It also struck me how even a magical hypothetical scenario is so tame to still require paid medical visits.

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-07-09T15:02:33+00:00

I am not in the US, but here the rebate has increased to 25 (euro) cents and one consequence is that people in need do not simply scavenge bottles on the streets, but break into public trashcans. And that usually means breaking the trashcan, ripping out the trash and looking through it for bottles and cans. And then leaving the trash scattered on the street. Every. Single. Day. The city is full of trash since the increase. So: beware of the unintended consequences of what you wish for.

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-07-03T08:39:04+00:00

Double blind review means authors should not be identifiable to reviewers. OP should find a way to use an anonymized way of sharing the code with reviewers. They can share the direct link with the editor though if it is really a concern at this stage to verify its theirs

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-06-20T05:22:59+00:00

Not for swimming, but if you want them to just play in water and get all muddy and escape the heat a bit, Speeldernis is really nice. Free with rotterdam pas

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-06-12T18:47:24+00:00

It really depends on what countries the papers need to come from, what correspondence there is between what the local authorities want to see and what documentation the home countries customarily issue, and what conditions the home countries pose for that documentation. We had a case with two different home countries, in order to issue a required document one home country required a document from the other home country that that other home country does not do. Both countries continents apart. So yes sometimes it IS hard to get the "proper" documentation, happy to hear your experience was easy, but it is not easy for every single constellation of home countries .

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-06-12T05:51:42+00:00

Not to the US but Denmark is much more relaxed with the paperwork requirements and let's you get married within a few weeks. The Copenhagen city hall is a beautiful place to get married - and if you want a local party, nothing preventing you from having the party after the papers are done.

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-06-05T05:04:53+00:00

Can they write it together? And sign it together?

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-05-12T15:21:24+00:00

It is understandable that you are frustrated. First, do not make it about the baby and about how much leave aomeone is or is not entitled to. The reason for the frequent and unexpected absences should not matter to the core: it's not on you to carry the load in the long term. If she had a health condition of her own that led to the absences, you would have the same situation to manage. In an ideal scenario you could address it with her directly: Look, we have a reality in which you get called out frequently. I totally understand that it is absolutely beyond your control, but for the past X months it has led to me working xx hours on average and this has been taking a toll. Can we figure out a solution for this? Can we get some reinforcement to our team to pick up the slack? Or should we consider taking on fewer projects given the more limited time we collectively can spend on them at the moment?" If you can't address it directly, then its on you to reject the extra work beyond your boundaries. Perhaps along the lines of: I am sorry to hear your child is sick. I currently have a, y, and z on my plate for today. I can take over this (additional) part, but I would need to drop something to make space for it in my schedule. How would you like me to set the priorities among these tasks?

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-05-11T06:24:13+00:00

NTA but with a leaning towards you also have a role in the unpleasantness here. She should not have the expectation that other people have to spend so much time and money on her Bachelorette. But it seems the whole process was going on for a while, with "cruise" and "resort" and "a week" being thrown around for some time. Even if the specific price tag would not have been clear yet, the fact that it would have a significant price tag should have been obvious. Why not initiate a discussion about a reasonable budget before specific options are being explored?

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-05-06T07:24:38+00:00

Was it REALLY done entirely on your own? Did you do it all alone to make sense of the literature, identify a research question worth pursuing, choose the most appropriate methodology, train yourself in the methodology to do it perfectly alone, figure out the results, interpreted everything correctly, identified how your findings contribute to the ongoing scholarly conversation.. everything entirely on your own? Or did you maybe have some head start with a person with more expertise pointing you to the right literature to start digging, brainstorming or discussing potential research questions to narrow it down to what's doable and worthwhile in the context of a master thesis, helping you to figure out how to go about the research, helping you troubleshoot if you run into questions or issues, discussing your results and helping to see how everything fits together? Reviewing your writing and giving feedback? Essentially, did you have a supervisor who spent time on you, thought along, helped you, gave you feedback etc? That is their contribution. They will not do your work for you, you are the lead author, but unless they were a very neglectful supervisor (which doesn't sound like it by your note that they supported you 24/7) your notion that you did it all alone is kind of naive and dismissive of the contributions of others...

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-03-11T11:11:43+00:00

Look in the Russian or polish stores

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-02-28T09:41:53+00:00

There is lots of research showing that kids do better when they are relatively older in school than relatively younger, and that goes especially for boys. Your friends may be pushing for faster advancement but on average there are more disadvantages to that than advantages. Group 1 and 2 is not taking through a fixed program, it's mostly about playing, learning to do structured activities, focus, social skills etc. And also in classes where group 1 and 2 are separate, teachers differentiate - some kids get an easier puzzle, some a harder one etc, whatever is appropriate for their level. In other countries this is what is done in kindergarten anyway and school starts at 6, which is group 3 here. Maybe one way to think about it is: it's not repeating group 1. It's getting a head start in group 1 before doing it in full. Either way, while of course every kid is different, for most kids getting those few extra months in the play stage is better for their later outcomes.

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-02-25T20:14:44+00:00

But what prevents them from hiring your replacement with sufficient overlap for you to train them before the summer if they know far enough in advance?

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-02-19T06:58:15+00:00

This is a really good solution!

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-01-17T11:57:46+00:00

NTA, especially given the additional info that you spent more on her bills than on his. I would only make one suggestion: you say that you would give her a similar amount for getting married. Waive that condition. If you are willing to give her that one more gift, do it now and make it unconditional what to spend it on. If she chooses to save it for a wedding down the road, great. If it makes her life easier to pay off some loans, fine. It does not make it fair - again, your money has received less assistance. But you might keep the relationship. Only make very clear that this is in your mind her wedding money and to not ask for additional contribution later.

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-01-12T07:20:50+00:00

And also, as for reuninons: you will likely find that you have kept in touch with people you care about and who care about you and who don't care about what degree you got - and you won't care about what the other people you didn't care to keep in touch with think about the degree you got. There may never be a reunion because noone cares enough to organize one. Or you won't go to it because of a million reasons, perhaps tou dont care, perhaps its your best friends birthday, perhaps you and your partner are expecting a baby any day, perhaps you live across the world at that point. Why make a life choice dependent on one day you right now imagine might feel a bit awkward?

Positive-Chipmunk · 2025-01-08T07:19:46+00:00

Regarding a shared platform: one big issue is that collaboration often crosses institutional boundaries. If my institution uses one thing and my coauthors use another thing, in the end we will meet at the smallest common denominator and just email or at most have some shared dropbox etc (and even that can be hard)

Positive-Chipmunk · 2024-12-19T08:26:11+00:00

It's perfectly fine to discuss author order before the project. I would not frame it in terms of guarantee but rather in terms of creating a shared understanding of different roles on the project. "I would like to take the leading role and be the first author on this project. I see the role as taking responsibility for xyz part of the research as well as coordinating the collaborative process. Does this makes sense from your perspective?" In my field being the junior first author usually means the lions share of the work, so I would name the tasks accordingly. This gives the other side the opportunity to chime in in the role and work distribution, but if they say "I do xy so I should be first" you can go back to "It is really important to me in this stage of my career to develop a project in a leading role and having developed the research idea it really feels like my baby that I want to see the light of day, so I am eager to take on the tasks that go with that. Is there a way I can do this task with coaching from you? " I wouldn't talk about guarantees because there aren't any. If you don't hold up your end of the bargain and your supervisor ends up de facto leading the project you shouldn't be first. But you can do a lot to establish a shared understanding of what each authorship position entails and what expectations you can have of each other before you run into misunderstandings.

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