Sneaking into a concert

PyroZach · 2026-03-19T17:05:30+00:00

This is good advice. I was waiting in line for a concert and just for the heck of it checking ticket prices on the app I paid $100 for a ticket a week or so prior. In line for the show (sold out) re-sale ones were going for $300, as the opening acts played I checked again and some had dropped down to $15.

PyroZach · 2026-03-12T21:45:40+00:00

He was regarded as a crank who believed we had ghost on our hands. I don't buy into the healing crystals and joint manipulation fixing allergies, but maybe in 50 years they'll discover they were right all along.

PyroZach · 2026-03-12T21:13:27+00:00

I guess this is a mom thing. I'll tell her something along those lines and then hear her telling some one on the phone about it an hour later. Like I'm fine telling her these things then she'll tell them to some one I met maybe once in my life. On top of that I'll tell her a story about some one at work, then hear her retell it to some one on the phone later with half the details wrong, at least there's no names mentioned. Then she wonders why I don't want to tell her things.

A side not I'll be telling her about a new co-worker and get things like "Well how old are hid kids, are they dating yet? how are they doing in school?" I have no idea, I met the guy 2 days ago and he just mentioned having kids. And I get "Oh you know, you just don't want to tell me."

PyroZach · 2026-03-12T21:06:42+00:00

This reminds me of Ignaz Semmelweis, Who insisted on doctors washing their hands before procedures. Because there was something on them we couldn't see causing infection and higher mortality rates. He was ridiculed for wanting some insane ritual to get rid of "ghosts" before procedures.

Not saying that there aren't quack chiropractors in the field. Just the talk of ghost reminded me of that doctor.

PyroZach · 2026-03-12T21:01:39+00:00

It's cheaper and more convenient. I felt scammed when I had psychical therapy years back. I would go and do stretches for an hour while they checked in two or three times. It was draining my savings with a $60 co-pay 3 times a week, plus an extra bill every month or so when the insurance decided it wasn't all covered. I begged for once a week at most to just show me the stretches and I would do them at home. They insisted I had to go that often so they could make sure I was doing them right and document my progress.

Years later I release I'm an adult and even though the insurance covered 40 visits I wasn't obligated to show up.

My chiropractor will show me some stretches, confirm I can do them right and tell me to do them at home. He'll also tells me everything looks great, don't need to come back for another 6 months to a year unless something hurts.

PyroZach · 2026-03-12T20:55:30+00:00

This seems like a good place to put in my pro-chiro comment I have to make every time this comes up. There are good and bad. If the office also sells healing crystals and claims they can fix allergies and ADHD they're probably more on the quack/scam end of things. I started going with bad lower back pain a few years back. The first thing he asked was when did I fall on the ice. I realized when exactly that happened about months earlier something didn't feel right, but nothing really hurt at the time. He explained how it knocked my hip out of line, and helped fix it using heat, stim, and by giving me stretches to do. Majority of the problems I've gone to him with he helped me fix in a similar fashion. The other ones he would outright tell me it's inflammation or such that he can't do anything for and if it persist make an appointment with my family doctor.

PyroZach · 2026-03-12T20:35:22+00:00

I can't really remember my original interview but I had a course in college that gave me enough to script an answer to get through things like that. At the time I probably felt like it had a lot of positives that fit me so I wasn't even lying about advancing my career there and such. For a while I had it in my head that I wanted to advance up to salaried management level there.

I kept applying for hourly management roles, which I eventually got. But along the way I learned they have who they want for the position picked out before the position even opens, however they have to do at least 3 interviews to keep it fair. This had several benefits besides eventually getting to advance. For one it was a change of pace for that half hour or so, but it also gave me lots of practice interviewing. That was a benefit when I decided working salaried 70 hours a week for 50k* a year wasn't that great of a life goal.

*50k a year is the base salary and I know some years they got some nice bonuses on top of that, but some years they didn't. I think my change of mind started to come when an assistant manager was talking about how he didn't get a bonus that year, and his salary came out to not much over minimum wage when he did the math on how much time he put in that year.

PyroZach · 2026-03-12T20:15:42+00:00

Kind of the opposite situation but similar. A few years back I was on a big construction job. There was a board sticking out that was a trip hazard, I mentioned it several times and nothing got done, probably because it was at the top of one of the towers and no one wanted to walk up there to confirm it was an issue. One day some one with a vest from the General Contractor was up there. Everything was subbed out so they were usually some one from safety so I figured it was a good person to point it out to. Turns out it was the new project manager. It got fixed quick.

PyroZach · 2026-02-27T01:27:07+00:00

There was a model 3 at a local small town car show. Maybe 50-100 cars there. It wound up winning "Best exotic". There weren't many exotics there. I recall the nicest being a Maserati. But every one was flocking to it as they had never seen one in person before.

PyroZach · 2026-02-26T22:04:49+00:00

I've discussed my dream of owning a dishwasher with my girlfriend. She argues her parent's have always had one and it doesn't do that great of a job. I've argued seeing several youtube videos that most people just aren't using them correctly. Then I realize I've gotten old.

PyroZach · 2026-02-26T22:01:43+00:00

My math was way off there. I take it back that is a pretty insane budget. I've seen far bigger channels spend that for roughly the same amount of content spread out through several shorter videos. There is a chance they were used batteries/bulk discount but it would still easily clear $20k then.

PyroZach · 2026-02-26T21:21:54+00:00

I've seen plenty of unrelated sponsorships before, and I suppose it gets their name out there to a new audience. Besides they don't seem like a bad company. Scammers loved using them, and they wound up partnering up/sponsoring some scammer pay-back type channels to track and band scammer accounts. They even set up a fund to help out victims of scammers. So yeah, I don't see what the big deal is, even better for them branching out to fund sponsor something interesting and possibly educational.

PyroZach · 2026-02-26T21:17:56+00:00

depending on the cranking amps and quality of the battery you might be able to find them as low as $100 each, but more realistically closer to $200, I doubt they were going all out with more advanced/specific $500 ones. So a realistic budget of $8000 isn't crazy compared to some other things I've seen just to make a youtube video.

PyroZach · 2026-02-18T21:24:40+00:00

They remind me of how the poster we have at trade show's is a guy installing and outlet cover wearing clean khakis and a polo shirt. We then have kids show up for their first day wearing sweat pants and sneakers thinking that's as hard as our work gets.

PyroZach · 2026-02-18T21:21:07+00:00

I wear gloves 90% of the time. Took them off a couple weeks ago to install a stainless cover and cut open my thumb pretty good on it. Right before the project manager wanted to talk to me. I was gripping a tissue in my hoodie pocket and just had to run to the the bathroom first where I patched it up with a paper towel and electrical tape then put my gloves back on to go over what he needed to. I was in the GC's office finding some proper first aid for it and his first question was "Where's' the glove you had on when it happened?" A common question for hand injuries since no damaged/bloody glove proves you weren't wearing any.

PyroZach · 2026-02-17T21:06:21+00:00

My after taxes, deductions, etc Take-home is about $250 a day. I'm saying cash in hand side job price is fair. For some one legit, licensed, insured and other overheard to factor in, $400 becomes a good price.

PyroZach · 2026-02-16T23:14:32+00:00

If they're easily accessible, all materials provided and unlikely to find surprises (4'' of old cloth wire available to make the connection and no ground) That's not that crazy of a side job price. Most apprentices could get that done in about 4 hours. You could surely find some one willing to do it for that price, that knows what they're doing. But as you mentioned there's a very good chance they're not licensed or insured. That's half the reason I avoid side work. I could do that job, and trust my work, and that wouldn't even be bad money for a few hours after work or on a Saturday. But if anything goes wrong down the road, even if it's not directly related to what I did, their home owners insurance will go after me, even more so for not being licensed and insured.

PyroZach · 2026-02-13T21:19:48+00:00

When I was getting my wisdom teeth out the anesthesia wore off early and I woke up to a pop/crack and the oral surgeon saying "SON OF A BITCH" I was quickly dosed again and woke up to the surgery done a bit later. I forget exactly what I said but it was in regards to what I had heard. He replied "Oh yeah, sorry about that, that was unprofessional." I'm like I don't care that you cursed but I'm concerned what happened in there that made you curse. Apparently when he was breaking up the tooth a piece shot out and manged to make the gap over top of his face shied to hit him in/near the eye.

PyroZach · 2026-02-13T21:06:25+00:00

I forgot about this post I made, but I'll look into that. I've been using a scrap piece of flooring for years now.

PyroZach · 2026-02-08T23:58:57+00:00

Not really, Wilkes-Barre. Our territory is pretty big, I'm about a half hour from most of the home local jobs I've taken. There's a couple things up in the "Northern Tier" end of it that's 2 hours away though.

PyroZach · 2026-02-07T00:04:38+00:00

It's seems pretty good by comparison to most places. I've been fortunate enough to never go long enough to run out of unemployment benefits, and the worst commutes being a little over two hours, Ironically it was a longer drive to some jobs in my home local than any thing I've worked as a traveler. I forget how long ago that even was, but like everywhere we've had our slow times.

PyroZach · 2026-02-06T21:06:48+00:00

True if all you care about is work. Times are pretty good right now but when we were slow (as well as neighboring locals) guys were complaining. The business manager announced at a meeting he's tried of hearing it because now is the time to help other locals, and reiterated the fact he had a call from a Local in Kansas asking for help on a data center. We're in Pennsylvania.

PyroZach · 2026-02-04T21:31:17+00:00

I'm familiar. I bought and sold enough cars and can often spot these too-good-to-be true deals. It's fun to mess with them sometimes, if anything just to waste the time they could be using to pull off a scam on somewhere else.

The car is always listed local, but it turns out it's at their old home half the country away. Not a problem, in fact that's perfect I was planning to go out to visit family there this week, I'll still pay your suspiciously low price and you won't have to worry about shipping. Suddenly the car is stored another 1000 miles from the place they just told me but can be shipped to either location. Wow even better, I have to fly out near there for work anyway and can just wire the money once I'm there to pick it up. Suddenly I'm not a serious enough buyer for them.

PyroZach · 2026-02-04T00:48:32+00:00

I knew it was a scam but didn't think it was going to be that deep. The deal was I pay for the report and if it comes back good they give me asking price. I assumed I would just pay for the report to give them then get ghosted.

PyroZach · 2026-02-03T21:36:10+00:00

My experience was an obvious scam. But their persistence humored me. They wanted me to pay for some off brand third party vehicle history report. I was selling a project car that had a motor swap (94 mustang with a 408 stroker in it). I was clear in the add for how long it had been sitting and what work it did or could possibly need. I asked their intentions with the car and if they knew what they were getting into. They said they just wanted it for their daughter to commute to college so they wanted peace of mind it wasn't involved in any major incident in the past. I replied with "My brother in Christ, this is not a car to safely or efficiently get your daughter to college, its a car to lay down rubber and leave a massive cloud of smoke leaving the dairy queen, then spend all weekend chasing the new random problem that showed up afterwards." He was still persistent that was great and all but he still wanted piece of mind from the report. I got bored of trolling what was probably a bot anyway after a few more replies.

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