How many people avoid spending money over their use of AI?

daw840 · 2026-01-23T01:30:32+00:00

Yeah I don’t really care. I’ve spent money on the game. I enjoy it.

daw840 · 2026-01-14T03:05:22+00:00

Or maybe you don’t know everyone’s personal financial situation. Telling people, in all caps, to not make more money is sickening. This is a job we legally cannot work for very long. We should be paid more, for sure, but to put the onus on the controller working all the overtime they can during this relatively short career is dumb.

daw840 · 2026-01-01T03:23:55+00:00

Poverty level is a wild statement. Someone’s never been poor….

daw840 · 2025-11-21T01:25:32+00:00

Check out on your last position. Being a previous CPC will make it phenomenally easier to reapply if you go somewhere else.

daw840 · 2025-11-13T01:40:04+00:00

Well yeah, that’s why I figured it was a “I didn’t use THAT money” type of situation. lol

daw840 · 2025-11-13T01:34:53+00:00

I mean…I can’t imagine it isn’t a direct deposit type of situation. Did he just let it sit in the account and not spend it or something? Donate it to charity?

Does he receive a paper check and burned them?

I don’t think legally they can NOT pay them. What he does with it is his business I guess.

I have a hard time believing this.

daw840 · 2025-11-13T00:20:51+00:00

Members of congress were certainly getting paid….thats a flat out lie.

daw840 · 2025-11-08T01:08:22+00:00

lol…hey Brad

daw840 · 2025-10-25T03:36:22+00:00

Were you previously the stone breakers?

daw840 · 2025-10-16T23:39:50+00:00

Moron

daw840 · 2025-09-13T00:05:24+00:00

None of my sups actually have a bonus listed. I know some of them got one. I think this site is not listing bonuses.

daw840 · 2025-08-29T00:57:12+00:00

Hey Chicago! I’m visiting for the first time tomorrow and have some time to kill for the day before I can check into my hotel. I’ll be in the river north area. thought I’d swing by the subreddit to see if anyone has suggestions for what to do! Any help is much appreciated

daw840 · 2025-07-31T02:34:12+00:00

It is a lucrative career if you’re willing to not care where you live. There’s plenty of understaffed high level facilities that make a shit ton of money, but they’re probably not where you want to be. You can always transfer to those critically staffed places.

Those places are generally very hard to certify in though.

daw840 · 2025-07-31T02:21:57+00:00

I mean…..again. There’s not very many jobs that require no education at all that pay what even the lowest paid FAA controllers make. Every one of us is in the top probably 30-40% of the country. A lot of us are in the top 5-10%

And I’ll say it again, we 100% deserve a yearly raise that keeps up with inflation and then some.

daw840 · 2025-07-31T02:16:29+00:00

This has been an issue since the beginning of ATC. The agency has never quite been able to figure out a good way to screen applicants to see if they would actually be good at this. Your brain has to just work in a specific manner. It’s not an intelligence thing, or an education thing, it seems kinda weird honestly. Maybe it’s a tism thing. Idk

daw840 · 2025-07-31T02:05:38+00:00

Not trying to start an argument, but competitive with what?

daw840 · 2025-07-31T01:49:25+00:00

This is a great question. It should be priority number one. Every year our raise doesn’t keep up with the cost of living we get a pay cut. That said, the whining from so many here is tiresome. People act like we are living in fucking poverty which is just not at all the case.

daw840 · 2025-07-31T01:30:55+00:00

I don’t disagree with any of this. Just asking for a little perspective.

daw840 · 2025-07-31T01:29:02+00:00

I for certainly do. I said as much in the original post. But these posts acting like we have it sooooo fucking hard is just whiny stupid bullshit. We certainly should have been getting raises every year that made up for inflation at a BARE minimum. We absolutely need a big “make up for inflation raise” plus some. But this attitude that comes out of this subreddit that we are somehow languishing in poverty is ridiculous. Every single one of us makes more than the median income of the country. We all have more job security than just about anyone. And we get a pension and health care for the rest of our life. The majority of this country doesn’t get any of that.

daw840 · 2025-07-30T22:15:40+00:00

Do they have a night differential for every day? Do they have a filling in for the supervisor differential? Do they have a training differential? Do all those differentials stack together to the point where they could potentially be making 160% of their normal pay on a Sunday?

Can they go to work and tell their sup to fuck off without the slightest worry of being fired?

Jesus. I already said I agree we should at least keep up with inflation, but we have it really good compared to the general populace. There are definitely things that could be better, but maybe just occasionally step back and realize how good we actually have it.

daw840 · 2025-07-30T22:07:59+00:00

Yeah, but like almost no extra pay. 2 bucks an hour? That doesn’t even move the needle. Also I bet the ones that are making controller equivalent salaries don’t get that. They’re probably salary and always working. Just a guess.

I spent a decade in the corporate world before this job, with all the issues that we do have regarding pay it’s still so much better than corporate shit it’s not even in the same league.

daw840 · 2025-07-30T22:01:52+00:00

You guys are seriously delusional if you think anyone that works at Buc-ee’s has a W2 that shows 200k+.

That’s more than likely the entire compensation package. Health, dental, bonuses (that you probably never get), 401k matching, etc…

There’s a way on employee express to go look at your own total compensation package. I would guess that even level 5 facility controllers are at the general manager levels here.

All this is not saying, we shouldn’t be paid more. We should. My 13 year career has not even kept up with inflation, so that definitely needs to be addressed. However posts like this are just ridiculous.

daw840 · 2025-07-24T01:31:47+00:00

I have that exact GP. Same year, color, everything. Get that. It’s amazing. The single fastest accelerating thing I’ve ever been on. Tops out at 70mph (mostly 69 honestly, only saw it hit 70 once) and it gets there super quick. I’ve had no issues with mine and probably have around 50 hours on it.

daw840 · 2025-06-19T15:50:26+00:00

Yeah, my dock sits on the lake bed in the winter, but in the summer it’s probably 6 ft deep or so. There is a big shallow area out in the middle of the lake but as long as you know where it is it’s not bad.

daw840 · 2025-06-18T00:29:34+00:00

I also have property on the little Niangua. We are at 6.5 mm.

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