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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
Joined: Dec 17 2007
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I work 20 hours a week and we get paid bi-weekly.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| Also, what part time job pays you bi-weekly? That's fucking bullshit. |
Mine does.
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King
Title: CTE
Joined: Apr 27 2008
Location: Harrisburg, PA
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I too work 20 hours a week while back in school currently and get paid bi-weekly
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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Honestly I think my rambling attempt at a point last night was that I see / know a lot of people that don't seem to want to expend the energy to try and succeed, rather they expect it to happen magically and wow the world sure sucks and is a big meanie when said magic doesn't happen for them.
They constantly complain about not having enough hours / or wanting a raise, but when we offer them a raise in trade for some more responsibility or even some simple overtime they turn it down, often vitriolically and with adamant speeches about how they don't want the stress or responsibility that a raise entails, or that overtime is sooo unfair.
The reason I brought them up is that I think that these are the same kind of goofballs who would choose painkillers over antibiotics. Which has what to do with the topic? Pointing out that people can be stupid and lazy?
Actually in retrospect I think I unintentionally derailed the topic to vent about stupid people I know. My bad! 
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Undeath
Title: Facepuncher of Asses
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: Here
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I've seen firsthand what dependence on painkillers can do. It killed my mother three years ago. That influences my decisions A LOT when it comes to medication. Antibiotics? I'll take them. Painkillers? Eh, I'd have to have lost a limb before I'll even consider taking Tylenol, which does suck ass when it comes to the fact that, at any given time, I have terrible migraines (and the doctor prescribed muscle relaxers for it, which I don't understand at all), horrifying acid reflux causing ulceration in my esophagus and stomach, and knee pain from botched cancer surgery when I was 15.
Still, I don't like being in pain at all, but I'd rather suffer than even take a chance at getting addicted to painkillers.
Semi-related, this is also why I don't like what I call "goofy" medicine, and by extension drinking too much. Being tipsy is AOK with me; my friends seem to universally agree that all being buzzed does is remove the filter between my brain and my mouth and I get HILARIOUS when I'm tipsy, but drunk... I equate drunk with losing control and being sick, neither of which I like. Painkillers give that same sense of loss of control. I'm still me, but I'd be doing things I'd never do or even think about letting myself do if I have control of myself. I get funny when I'm buzzed. I get embarassing when I'm drunk.
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"MARGARINE IS ONE MOLECULE AWAY FROM PLASTIC."
Not only is that not right, that's not even wrong. It's a meaningless statement. Saying something is "one molecule away" from plastic is like saying a farm is one letter away from a fart. Water is "one molecule away" from being explosive hydrogen gas. |
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Hacker
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
Hack, you realize that minimum is only supposed to provide a living wage for full-time employees, right? If you're only working 8 or 9 hours a week, no reasonable minimum wage in the world can help you.
Also, what part time job pays you bi-weekly? That's fucking bullshit. |
Back then I was cashiering and bagging groceries.
Now I work 24 hours a week, at the same place, still a quarter above minimum in Utah ($7.50/Hr until they make a full decision on whether or not they want to give me a raise)
The main difference is that now instead of bagging groceries and cashiering, I stock all the frozen meat stuff and put out the fresh fish.
I'm not sure why they do it bi-weekly though... All I know is that I get paid for last week and the week before on Friday, and this weeks work will be paid in two weeks from now
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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It is unheard of for a retail store in Massachusetts to pay you bi-weekly. The only part time jobs that I can recall anyone I knew having where they got paid bi-weekly were:
1. landscaping (where part time is rarely ever part time)
2. bank
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@om*d
Title: Dorakyura
Joined: Jul 10 2010
Location: Castlevania
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I know people who work at the local Wal-Mart here and they get paid bi-weekly. I am not sure if that is the same throughout the whole company, though. And that was for people who were both full time and part time employees.
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Fighter_McWarrior
Title: Gun of Brixton
Joined: Jun 05 2011
Location: Down by the River
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| atomjacked wrote: |
| I know people who work at the local Wal-Mart here and they get paid bi-weekly. I am not sure if that is the same throughout the whole company, though. And that was for people who were both full time and part time employees. |
It is. I've worked at a couple of them and they all pay bi-weekly.
All my campaign work was too, but that was NOT a part time job.
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Hacker
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
It is unheard of for a retail store in Massachusetts to pay you bi-weekly. The only part time jobs that I can recall anyone I knew having where they got paid bi-weekly were:
1. landscaping (where part time is rarely ever part time)
2. bank |
Both full time and part time get paid bi-weekly.
It's corporate policy. I'm not sure why they do it but I think it has something to do with giving the people who run payroll more time to do so.
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King
Title: CTE
Joined: Apr 27 2008
Location: Harrisburg, PA
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Every part time job I have ever had has been bi-weekly, that being professional, as it is now, or any of my high school jobs (JC Penney's, local convience store, Boy Scout Camp, Warehouse work, Plant operations (landscaping and clean up) at a college etc.) The only time I was not paid bi-weekly ever was working on Contract Full Time in a professional setting, because the company I was contracted through paid all employees that were not internal weekly, as it was explained to me, because it was on a seperate set of books and when added into everything else worked out better for accounting, if that's true who knows.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
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| Hacker wrote: |
| Syd Lexia wrote: |
It is unheard of for a retail store in Massachusetts to pay you bi-weekly. The only part time jobs that I can recall anyone I knew having where they got paid bi-weekly were:
1. landscaping (where part time is rarely ever part time)
2. bank |
Both full time and part time get paid bi-weekly.
It's corporate policy. I'm not sure why they do it but I think it has something to do with giving the people who run payroll more time to do so. |
Bi-weekly payroll is cheaper to do. That's the main reason companies do it.
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Mr. Spidersquid
Title: title?
Joined: Jun 28 2011
Location: In your mind
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Yeah see this is why I am trying to get a full time job so I can get my oral surgery done! I have 5 wisdoms teeth that need to come out but no insurance. Oh Well at least I know not to get painkillers over antiboditics.
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Zim: "I put the fires out!"
Tallest: "You made them worse!"
Zim: "Worse or better?" |
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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Imagine getting paid daily, in pennies.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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five wisdom teeth? I thought four was the maximum?
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LordHuffnPuff
Title: Mahna Mahna
Joined: Jan 12 2009
Location: Fairyland
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| Optimist With Doubts wrote: |
| Syd you can't start a thread with THIS IS YOUR FAULT LIBERALS and then bemoan the state of the internet. |
I didn't take it as him attacking liberals. I saw it more as throwing some meat to the libs and then seeing what would happen. I decided to ignore it because it's futile discussing politics with the uneducated, ignorant morons on this board who rely almost entirely on anecdotal evidence to back up their irrational beliefs.
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Hey, one time I relied on anecdotal evidence, and things worked out great!
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Klimbatize
2010 NES Champ
Title: 2011 Picnic/Death Champ
Joined: Mar 15 2010
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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| Klimbatize wrote: |
| Optimist With Doubts wrote: |
| Syd you can't start a thread with THIS IS YOUR FAULT LIBERALS and then bemoan the state of the internet. |
I didn't take it as him attacking liberals. I saw it more as throwing some meat to the libs and then seeing what would happen. I decided to ignore it because it's futile discussing politics with the uneducated, ignorant morons on this board who rely almost entirely on anecdotal evidence to back up their irrational beliefs.
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Hey, one time I relied on anecdotal evidence, and things worked out great! |
Ha, that legit made me laugh.
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Mr. Spidersquid
Title: title?
Joined: Jun 28 2011
Location: In your mind
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| five wisdom teeth? I thought four was the maximum? |
Yeah one is underneath another. So pretty much I am dead.
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Beldantazar
Joined: Apr 13 2011
Location: 127.0.0.1
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You know, I'm feeling like i'm one of the only people here who actually has all four of his wisdom teeth, without them causing any problems.
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