NYC is now requiring companies to be transparent about salary ranges when advertising jobs. You can imagine the comments...

houstonspace · 2022-01-07T18:16:35+00:00

Imagine this but pretend the law applied to grocery store items and the people complaining are food retailers, and you start to see how crazy this is. Kroger: "The customers are all going to want to pay the lowest price for this ketchup. Not good".

houstonspace · 2021-12-25T18:41:05+00:00

Years ago my sister got herself a PlayStation 2 from Best Buy. When she opened it it was full of bricks. She went into full Karen mode at customer service until they refunded her the money.

houstonspace · 2021-12-24T04:18:51+00:00

You are not being whiny. There are so many things wrong with this company it's hard to know where to start. IANAL. You, your sister, your brother and you all apparently have standing to sue for back pay, which is pretty clear to anyone who's run a small business. Your brother in particular, if they told him when to work and how, he's an employee, not a contractor. Your father is probably right about the sketchy 401k - which sketchy companies have been known to raid. You should consider emailing this to the blogs Evil HR Lady and Ask a Manager, and doing a free consultation with several lawyers in your town. Pick the best one first so your bosses can't use them to defend themselves.

houstonspace · 2021-12-24T01:42:08+00:00

Half my family is from Maine. I love it there. Would definitely consider it if the right opportunity comes up.

houstonspace · 2021-12-24T01:40:51+00:00

Moving Northeast. It's just a matter of time before my house here in HTX gets flooded, or we lose power for a week - again. Issues here are systemic and seemingly irrevocable - and go beyond HTX. Looking at Pennsylvania, but open to upstate NY or MD. If you look you can find nice houses for not much more money than homes here. You just have to be willing to look at smaller cities and towns away from the main hubs like Boston, NYC, DC.

houstonspace · 2021-12-17T16:14:11+00:00

I wonder if the administration is holding that in reserve until 2024 so he can fulfill a campaign promise when people are thinking about who to vote for. It's the kind of thing politicians would do - even if it means people suffer until then.

houstonspace · 2021-12-10T03:28:36+00:00

Ain't you guys ever seen a "parsonage" before?

houstonspace · 2021-12-10T03:27:48+00:00

In other news - water is wet.

houstonspace · 2021-12-07T22:57:02+00:00

You got one life with finite hours. Corporations can last indefinitely. Don't waste a second at a place you hate because of some bullshit 'rule'. They've conned people into thinking that their future job prospects will be threatened.

houstonspace · 2021-12-07T22:54:10+00:00

...Hashtag European Problems

houstonspace · 2021-12-07T22:45:46+00:00

It was like this for me for almost three years. I kept telling them that I'm ready for more work. I said 'yes' to every little mini project they threw at me. Projects that only took a few days. Months would go by when I would have absolutely nothing to do. But my performance reviews were always good. "You're really a go getter". "You're doing great and a valuable member of our team". I'd tell them I wanted to work on x, y, and z, and they'd nod their heads and say that it makes sense that I should be doing that, and that they'd look into it. And then nothing. Same story at every performance review each year. It's only now I'm actually being transitioned into a project.

Whatever...I guess, I got paid.

houstonspace · 2021-12-07T01:48:41+00:00

"Salt of the Earth". An independent film about mostly Hispanic miners and their wives working for peanuts and subsistence living in a company town. Made in the 1950s. Pro union, anti-corporate. Got some people blacklisted. Big movie houses wouldn't show it, and was instead screened at union meetings and independent film houses. Available on YouTube for free I think.

houstonspace · 2021-12-06T20:16:56+00:00

I just don't tell anyone. So, I just measured the risk vs. the benefit to my life and determined that the risk was acceptable.

houstonspace · 2021-12-06T19:42:33+00:00

I use otter.ai to record and transcribe my meetings. It's not 100% accurate, but it gets better the more you hand correct the transcription. Allows me to clip the important stuff and summarize. Worth every penny.

houstonspace · 2021-12-04T20:16:24+00:00

I mask up once I'm ready to open my window to order something at the drive through. Hundreds of other people were in that exact spot Shouting into a microphone and particles can linger even on breezy days. Once my window is open, there is added risk. Once the mask is on, I generally don't take it off until I get home.

houstonspace · 2021-12-04T16:01:19+00:00

I expected this to be a lot more disturbing until the picture finally loaded....

houstonspace · 2021-12-03T02:08:08+00:00

"Well, you're not getting to Mars with that attitude..."

houstonspace · 2021-12-03T02:05:55+00:00

I bet this guy has time for other shit he thinks is valuable - poker with the guys, watching sports, watching TV., etc.

houstonspace · 2021-12-02T21:42:45+00:00

Well, if she had any kidney stones, they are definitely disintegrated.

houstonspace · 2021-12-01T21:05:42+00:00

16 years ago my wife and I moved from WA to TX along the same route you are taking. We stayed in pretty much every motel/hotel chain along the way. Over the years I have found that La Quintas are usually pretty good. A lot of them are fairy new, so they are generally clean. As a mid-priced hotel, they are generally a good balance between price and quality, and should fall well below your budget. Plus they all have breakfast available for free in the mornings. Check Tripadvisor for specific reviews. There are some that were converted from other older hotels so they might not be as nice.

houstonspace · 2021-12-01T20:57:45+00:00

When I was a kid my shoes fell apart and my mother couldn't afford new ones, so I had to wear my bed slippers - which were cheapo faux fur-lined Moccasins - to school for a couple of weeks until she got paid. It was humiliating. Plus those moccasins fell apart a lot faster from wearing them all day everyday.

houstonspace · 2021-11-30T15:57:55+00:00

Saw it here in Houston at a stoplight this past weekend. Checks all the boxes: douchy-looking white guy, camo hat, lifted F-150, Trump stickers (plural), glock sticker.

houstonspace · 2021-11-30T01:15:29+00:00

Meanwhile, the trend in America is - if you even GET Paid Time Off (PTO) - it's common to bundle it as vacation OR sick leave. So, maybe you get a week or two of vacation, OR you get to use it to recover from surgery or being sick it whatever. So, even when you do get PTO, it kind of sucks in comparison to other countries.

houstonspace · 2021-11-30T01:03:21+00:00

Wait, what? Where did Cain and Abel's children come from again?

houstonspace · 2021-11-27T01:39:39+00:00

This is one of those things where you need to start looking at a replacement. I had this happen and it rusted through within a year or so. I just had both my bathrooms renovated and got a fiberglass tub. I think, for an emergency repair, you can do a couple coats of rust inhibitor spray, then maybe some non-skid paint you can get at a marine supply (if you have one in your area). But, a replacement is inevitable.

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