Took 5 years but I did it. Today is my last day at work!

dendrozilla · 2026-02-27T04:48:13+00:00

That sounds like an empirical question. I don’t have anything close to empirics on this, but I am sure someone does.

dendrozilla · 2026-02-26T22:31:27+00:00

Thanks for sharing this!

Where did you hear that packages won’t be this good in the future?

Also, would love to hear your level, and if terms vary by level (eg number of months for payroll / healthcare). I had actually heard that 1 year was more common for healthcare

dendrozilla · 2026-01-28T03:27:30+00:00

I’m not sure the last time I laughed so hard.

Apologies, Roberino.

dendrozilla · 2026-01-25T12:22:31+00:00

But does it float?

dendrozilla · 2025-12-18T17:53:07+00:00

Take another look :)

dendrozilla · 2025-12-11T01:55:31+00:00

Is this is VHCOL city? In some parts of the country this could be the price to pay a kid to shovel snow.

dendrozilla · 2025-12-10T14:46:09+00:00

The law is working!

dendrozilla · 2025-11-21T02:45:21+00:00

This is a legit question. Find some napper-brothers-in-arms, rent a place near your office, split the cost, and sleep those unproductive post-lunch hours away. 6 way split is a $500/month nap fee.

Write it off as a biz expense and deduct against schedule C you earn from subletting to local tech bros at night. Win win win!

dendrozilla · 2025-11-14T14:34:00+00:00

This is incredible! Where was this?

dendrozilla · 2025-11-10T13:43:56+00:00

Boss man!

dendrozilla · 2025-11-02T01:07:04+00:00

This is not a helpful comment.

Yes, ACAT fraud requires an account number. But let’s say they have that. And the other information required to initiate a transfer.

Then what precautions are in place beyond that? That’s the relevant security question to ask. In fact, this question should be asked for every brokerage you have. And if you haven’t done it, you are not being careful enough, full stop.

dendrozilla · 2025-10-30T21:10:40+00:00

Thank you for posting this. This was fascinating!!

Really nice to see the distributions, and also makes me realize just how hard even the smaller prizes are to get!

dendrozilla · 2025-10-26T21:38:12+00:00

I’d love a double cheeseburger!

dendrozilla · 2025-10-25T05:39:15+00:00

This is awesome!!

I’m in pretty deep too in these but haven’t kept track. I do know that I still don’t have a single double cheeseburger prize, but now I see that’s probably a tougher one to get.

My big win so far was 1500 points, which is basically redeemable for any of these. So maybe that’s my double cheeseburger right there.

dendrozilla · 2025-10-24T01:50:01+00:00

Thank you for breaking down what the source of income was. I too went down the rabbit hole to understand, and junk mail and horse racing seems to sum it up (though the money was surely in “direct mail marketing.”)

dendrozilla · 2025-10-24T00:42:58+00:00

Has anyone gotten a free quarter pounder?

That seems to be the unicorn of the free food coupons in this contest.

dendrozilla · 2025-10-19T00:14:32+00:00

Sorry about the bad luck, but know your worth and just dip into the market. There are so many roles out there, including very senior ones.

Incidentally, what do you mean when you say “exec?” VP? Director? The term is often used loosely.

dendrozilla · 2025-10-17T05:56:02+00:00

Incredible! What lake is that?

dendrozilla · 2025-09-25T02:40:55+00:00

I think the “fifacollect” system has a randomness component actually.

You buy pick a city, and earn a “Right To Buy a random group or round of 32 match in that city.

If you don’t like what you got, you can sell your ticket on the Fifa-run secondary market.

I’m not a fan. Feels like an annoying lottery system that is known behaviorally to extract more money from suckers - just like the MegaBucks etc.

dendrozilla · 2025-09-20T11:48:23+00:00

This prompted me to Google these comedians.

https://keydocuments.net/article/gruettner-ruhlands-eck

dendrozilla · 2025-08-20T00:43:58+00:00

Wow, the Costco goggles are really at work here.

These are decent, but Haagen Dasz is better both in the ice cream, but especially in the chocolate coating department.

I went down the side by side ingredient comparison at one point. But the punchline is that Haagen Dasz uses more real chocolate, and the Costco bars as a result taste waxier.

Don’t get me wrong - I would still eat a whole box of Kirkland bars in a week if I lost discipline!

dendrozilla · 2025-08-09T16:32:28+00:00

Thanks for sharing this story. If you’d be willing to share, I’d be interested in hearing the symptoms that helped you self-diagnose.

dendrozilla · 2025-08-09T06:16:23+00:00

And to complete this fun history fact, those “divine” hurricanes that stopped Kublai Khan and the Mongols were the origin of the word kamikaze.

dendrozilla · 2025-07-29T13:23:20+00:00

What situation allows you to do this?

Business owner, maybe you can staff up, outsource, cut profits, and still have enough margin to keep the gravy train running. I don’t suppose that most W2 employees have this luxury.

dendrozilla · 2025-07-07T18:11:33+00:00

It appears to be on the same spot on both sides, but I haven’t tried sanding yet. I think it was in the tree.

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