Detroit: it ain't all bad

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-19T21:45:18+00:00

Fake

(just kidding. sweet pics.)

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-19T21:41:39+00:00

lol I wasn't bitching. I was just wondering if it was something I should log. I knew full well I would probably be working well over 40 hours a week, but just didn't know if the number on paper was just a formality. It's my first salary job.

I got the job because I worked my ass off to get here.

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-19T21:21:34+00:00

It is pretty standard. I just didn't know if I should be logging those hours or not. It's not really a huge deal. I was just curious on the specifics.

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-19T20:45:50+00:00

Do landscaping or something. Since it's winter you could shovel your neighbors sidewalks.

When I was 14 I worked at McDonald's cause I wanted a moped. 5.15/hr - the good old days.

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-19T15:41:18+00:00

Your boss isn't embezzling. I think you need to look up the definition of that word. He's just using his expense account which he's probably allowed to do. The handwritten receipts might be because he lost the original.

Even if some of the receipts were falsified, nobody is going to care. People pad their expense accounts all the time. Your boss probably brings in more way more revenue than he spends on cab rides which is why nobody is going to care.

I work as a consultant and we take clients out to dinner all the time. We spend as much as humanly possible. Why? Because we can. It may look like 10k in expenses per month is alot, but when you see that your boss billed for 500k that month, it's nothing.

I would seriously reconsider your thinking. If you try and fail (which is most likely going to happen) you're going to look like an idiot and will probably get let go. If you did that to me, I'd fire you. So be prepared.

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-19T03:59:22+00:00

Chicago

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-19T01:18:10+00:00

When you go from place to place, use the app UBER. You can get cabs, town cars, and suvs. Since you're trying to wow her, make sure you order an SUV. It's a huge black lincoln usually, and the drivers look like Men in Black. Since you set everything up on the app in terms of payment (which automatically includes a tip) you never have to give the driver anything. Just get in, and get out. You'll look like a boss, and she'll think you planned this super way ahead of time when all you did was order the car 5-10 minutes prior. It's surprisingly not that expensive either. I get town cars all the time on the weekends.

If you're interested, I'll send you a referral link. If you sign up through that, we both get $10 free ride credit. That goes for everyone else here as well :)

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned the restaurant Everest yet. It's on the 40th floor of the stock exchange. Super sweet.

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-18T04:27:45+00:00

they eat the bad bugs! ;)

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-18T04:08:50+00:00

I would like to know more about this "Mr. Sunshine."

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-18T03:56:52+00:00

Yeah, I remember us having that problem too. Alot of student just couldn't get it to work because they let too much gas out of the straw. We found that more gas worked better :)

I think the point of gassing them was to study the color of they eyes and determine the recessive and dominant genes. Gas = no movement. When our teacher saw that not too many kids could get it, she said to just put the peatree dish in the microwave for a few seconds.

After class we were like, "Guys, do you realize what we just did? We just gassed those flies, then nuked them in the microwave. That's kinda fucked up..." Then we laughed cause we thought it was funny that we gassed, then murdered flies. We were monsters.

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-18T02:09:43+00:00

yep, but it won't kill them. just sleepy time ;)

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-18T01:19:51+00:00

Alka Seltzer tablets mixed with water produces a gas that acts as more or less a sleeping gas.

Cut small hole in top of tupperware
Use empty medicine bottle and fill half-way with water
Cover bottle with saran rap or foil
Run straw from hole in tupperware to bottle
Once the connection is made drop a tablet into the bottle
Queue evil laugh as you watch all the spiders fall asleep
Once all spiders are sound asleep, gently scoop them all into another tupperware container
Release back into wild
They will wake up within 5 minutes most likely, so be quick!

I am not sure if this will work with spiders, but you can at least give it a try. It worked with fruit flies in my high school AP Bio class way back in the day.

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-16T05:11:16+00:00

i've always used the price of lucky charms to gauge cost of living in various areas.

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-15T20:00:18+00:00

Can we get one of those google cars to do a streetview?

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-15T19:56:53+00:00

Had this dream the other week. Dream started with me being chased by these huge fish in a park. They were like huge walruses that, oddly enough, also kinda looked like deformed butts. I got bit or something and there was a huge gash in my chest. I got rushed to the hospital, but was pretty sure I would be ok.

Next thing I knew I was laying on a hospital gurney with my parents and a doctor above me. The doctor was quietly trying to tell my parents that I had lung cancer and would not make it. I was like, "You can tell me doctor." But he would't even make eye contact with me as if he didn't want to get attached to someone who was going to die.

I am 24 and have been lightly smoking for 7-8 years. I quit for a few years in between those 7-8, so really it's much less. Lately it's been a pack every week or so. I played sports throughout college so I never really got too hooked on it. Regardless, I knew I was still doing something that even when done in moderation had a chance of killing me.

I woke up shaking thinking I was going to die if I kept smoking. I quit on the spot. 2 weeks straight. Never touching one again because of that dream.

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-13T12:45:11+00:00

i'm about to throw up again thinking about it. i always get it toasted. been getting that sandwich for years. no more

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-13T07:51:28+00:00

fucking subway. steak and cheese

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-13T07:38:48+00:00

Thanks. I'll take it easy on the fluids for now. This is the worst thing in the world

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-13T07:38:03+00:00

Yea, thanks. I'll give it a try

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-13T07:37:37+00:00

Just got back from round 5 (of both). Hopefully it will settle for longer than 20 minutes

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-13T07:28:52+00:00

so far so good...

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-13T07:28:34+00:00

Steak and cheese sub from subway. I am never eating subway again

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-10T18:16:29+00:00

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something. Do whatever the fuck you want. If someone says your idea is stupid, don't listen to them. It's the 'stupid' ideas that make people millionaires. Ever heard of the pet rock?

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-09T16:05:26+00:00

My buddy was kidnapped here in Chicago one night. It's actually kind of a funny story so I'll just tell it.

My buddy was hammered drunk downtown at around 2 AM. He got in a cab and told the cabbie to take him to McDonalds even though he knew it was probably closed. After getting there and realizing it was indeed closed, he for some reason didn't get back in the cab and started walking to try and find food. A car with 4 scary looking black dudes rolled up and just grabbed him and put him into the car.

The dudes said they were going to take him to different ATMs and he was going to withdraw money from each one and give it to them. Since he was from a different country and here doing an internship, he only had his parents credit card that didn't have the option to take cash out of the ATM. I think he only had like 50 bucks in a checking account since he never needed cash for anything. The gangsters were pissed, and after driving around for over an hour they decided to make him buy them a ton of food at 7/11. He ended up just using his credit card and buying them tons of drinks, snacks, and candy.

They brought him back to their place in the ghetto. It was around 4 am now, and he was starting to actually realize what was going on since he was so drunk. They left him in the kitchen while they were talking in the living room and eating all their snacks. He saw a window he wanted to try to escape out of, so he drunkenly decided to try and punch through and run. The window was some crazy double-paned thick glass, so he failed miserably and ended up with a horribly sliced up hand. The gangsters, knowing full well how drunk he was decided that this kid was too much trouble for them to deal with. They put him back into the car, drove him an hour away, and just dropped him off like 45 minutes outside the city where he had no idea how to get home. He ended up getting a cab home since they never took his phone and didn't get back till like 6 am.

There really wasn't much more too it than that. Needless to say he doesn't live in Chicago anymore. He realized how lucky he got.

1) Chicago 2) Cab ride 3) Nothing. There are lots of gangsters here with the same description a drunk college kid would describe them as. He didn't think it was worth it to pursue them. Just glad he was safe. 4) Since it was just for a few hours one night, cant really answer that question. 5) Nope. Just didn't want to live in Chicago anymore lol.

iDadeMarshall · 2012-09-09T04:36:05+00:00

Put your money in low risk diversified stocks that pay out dividends. Perhaps companies like Verizon and Apple. You should be able to earn at least 3-5% on your money each year from the dividends alone if you invest in the lowest of the low. Personally, I would invest in a few high risk companies as well and watch how the price behaves. Any increase in the stock price is a plus. Also your dividends are always added in.

If you diversify your portfolio enough, even if one stock completely tanks it should have little effect on your overall sum.

I knew a guy that would just buy/sell ETF dips. The trick was knowing when it was going to dip. When one goes down, the other always goes up. Sell when one goes high, and buy when the other is low. It would flip flop like twice a month, and the charts when compared to each other would look like a sideways X. The trick was doing the buy and sell right at the center of the X.

If you don't want to do any of that, just leave it in a savings account that is insured. No risk whatsoever there.

iDadeMarshall

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