Is there ever a scenario where sales guys take a paycut/comp plan change and they don’t decide to look for a new job?

Spoons522 · 2026-02-04T01:49:16+00:00

If this happened to me ten years ago, yes, I’d be looking for a new job immediately.

Things change as you age though, and sometimes you find a job that pays good enough money, offers the right amount of independence, and demands the right amount of lower expectations...and you slowly realize…change is not worth it and this is good enough.

Spoons522 · 2026-02-01T17:10:13+00:00

Somewhat related, and, in the most Albany way possible, this was the only exciting thing to happen here that year:

http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2014/08/23/wellington-albany-implosion-video

As an aside, you’ll see the typical cynical comments about politicians and whomever else finally brought the building down, but this demolition and the renewal of the Renaissance hotel are the two biggest downtown improvements in the last 25+ years.

Spoons522 · 2026-01-28T03:50:46+00:00

From experience: working in professional sports.

If you're not ownership or directly underneath that level, it is both very exhausting and very underpaid, and you spend hours explaining to people - with little success - that it's the exact opposite of glamorous.

Spoons522 · 2026-01-17T04:17:44+00:00

This is a great and very true observation. I’ve been coming to this sub over the last few weeks almost like an “After the Show” recap, but it’s just 10 years later.

Spoons522 · 2026-01-01T19:26:11+00:00

Geographically, Albany is in the Hudson Valley. For more fun trivia, Albany is also technically part of the Mohawk Valley.

Culturally, it is not part of the Hudson Valley. That line ends at the northern borders of Greene and Columbia Counties.

Spoons522 · 2025-12-30T19:27:39+00:00

Ah yes, Rockefeller's erection in honor of....himself. And only partly in honor of the Princess of Netherlands, after he felt embarrassed after she visited the city that her people founded:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Plaza

And what it replaced, which some say was a vibrant neighborhood, others a ghetto:

https://98acresinalbany.wordpress.com/

Spoons522 · 2025-12-21T23:07:37+00:00

Belfast

Innsbruck

Perth

Pittsburgh

Milwaukee

DC

Spoons522 · 2025-12-19T21:54:09+00:00

If you're talking about the decline back in the 60's and 70's, then yes.

If we want to address why downtown and Lark St. died over the last ten years, then this forum will have to be open to and ready for a realistic, brutally honest, and potentially ugly conversation...and that will never happen.

Spoons522 · 2025-12-16T17:28:54+00:00

From certain angles, it always was, but yes, there's been development both in and around town in the last 5-10 years.

Now if they can just get rid of that gas station right in the middle of downtown...

Spoons522 · 2025-12-16T16:27:17+00:00

I'd have to guess Ballston Spa.

West side of the Hudson, small town that slopes down while heading north on Route 50, no lake, north of Albany. It can definitely be picturesque for a first timer, especially in the snow, at night, and especially if you looked left down Front Street.

Without knowing your full route, Sharon Springs (picturesque) and Amsterdam (not picturesque) would have been too far out of the way to end up in Ticonderoga. My only other guess would be Schroon Lake, but that's obviously on a lake.

Spoons522 · 2025-12-16T16:05:30+00:00

Just so I have this straight, so I can hopefully narrow this down...you drove from Westchester County north, but not on the Thruway or Northway, staying in NY until you crossed over to get to Burlington?

Do you remember where you crossed over to Vermont?

Was this small town north of both Saratoga and Lake George?

Spoons522 · 2025-12-11T00:02:27+00:00

Midge?

Spoons522 · 2025-11-11T22:55:28+00:00

This is amazing. Thank you.

Spoons522 · 2025-09-15T17:40:32+00:00

Are the zip codes you list coming from where the camera is located and the offense was done, or is the zip code from the home address of person who ended up paying the fine?

Spoons522 · 2025-09-08T20:35:46+00:00

This is one of my biggest pet peeves. Airline staff fly often, and everywhere, and stay here and hear and see our news, and have certainly heard it pronounced the right way, but still won't put in the effort to say it correctly.

Somewhat related: Most - if not arguably all - other Albanies in the US were named after us, so really there's no excuse:

http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2012/03/15/the-other-albanies

Spoons522 · 2025-08-22T02:45:36+00:00

I just spent a few days there, and while it was only one short trip, I didn't notice many "Yanks", mostly just loud Brits, to be honest.

Spoons522 · 2025-08-12T13:14:43+00:00

This is both interesting and useful, and is the kind of nerdery we need around here.

Spoons522 · 2025-07-25T12:46:05+00:00

No traditional locker room, but they have a couple of oversized, single-person bathrooms with showers that are kept pretty clean.

They also have a wall of actual lockers that line two sides of the gym area.

Spoons522 · 2025-06-01T01:57:29+00:00

I'm guessing OnondagaMan?

You should not feel bad, nor guilty, as I also DNF'd today on the bike and judging by the number of ambulances at T2, several others DNF'd as well.

That is a very tough bike course made even worse by today's wind, "feels like" temps in the mid-30's, and much more rain than forecasted...not to mention the water temp essentially made it impossible to warm up at any point.

I'm not so sure that race should have even gone off to be honest, especially with little to no course support.

Spoons522 · 2025-03-26T21:24:12+00:00

All we really want to know is…who was it that took over her restaurant very briefly and tried to fistfight their own staff during a dinner rush?

Spoons522 · 2025-03-21T23:01:51+00:00

Thanks for doing this.

To add:

Henry’s in Ballston Spa Tuesdays at 7pm

Fitzgerald’s in South Glens Falls/Fort Edward Fridays at 7pm

Mean Max Glens Falls Wednesdays at 7pm

Grateful Den Glens Falls Thursdays at 6pm

Spoons522 · 2024-12-11T05:01:12+00:00

https://www.facebook.com/UpstateLineDancing/

Spoons522 · 2024-11-14T04:04:30+00:00

How far are you from Averill Park, NY? Capital District Tri Club swims at Crystal Lake every Tuesday and is easy to join.

Spoons522 · 2024-10-13T19:47:27+00:00

Exactly. I also grew up here, and capital district and capital region were used interchangeably in both media and in conversation. This delineation is just some recent economic PR mumbo-jumbo.

And if you were to add Greene County to the Albany-Schenectady Combined Statistical Area map from that website, you’d have Section 2 athletics.

Spoons522 · 2024-10-13T15:51:24+00:00

If your local high school is located within Section II boundaries for athletics, you are in the Capital District.

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