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nooneman


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Re: Do I have a tough life? [Re: Plutonian]
#12970133 - 07/29/10 01:15 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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According to my math, OP is only making 9.37 an hour, which is a shit wage. I used to make more than that, back when the minimum wage was way lower than it is now. 9.37 might have been good 20 years ago, but these days you might as well look for other work, because nothing will really pay you less.
Sure, the free room and board is nice, but the lack of overtime pay and lack of benefits sucks.
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Re: Do I have a tough life? [Re: nooneman]
#12970143 - 07/29/10 01:20 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yeah, but he's also an immigrant with no experience in anything else.
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nooneman


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AlmostAsCoolAs said: Yeah, but he's also an immigrant with no experience in anything else.
Yeah, that's true, but I did know a lot of immigrants who worked in factories for over 10 with benefits and overtime.
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Re: Do I have a tough life? [Re: nooneman]
#12970163 - 07/29/10 01:28 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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nooneman said: According to my math, OP is only making 9.37 an hour, which is a shit wage. I used to make more than that, back when the minimum wage was way lower than it is now. 9.37 might have been good 20 years ago, but these days you might as well look for other work, because nothing will really pay you less.
Sure, the free room and board is nice, but the lack of overtime pay and lack of benefits sucks.
nevermind the fact that most places these days won't give you much over minimum wage as it is anyway {and certainly aren't going to allow you to have any overtime regardless}
or have you forgotten that we're about one step away from government food rationing in this country as it is right now
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Re: Do I have a tough life? [Re: Plutonian]
#12970284 - 07/29/10 02:24 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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You're in a better position than 70% of Americans, so I'd say you're doing pretty good.
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Re: Do I have a tough life? [Re: Shroomism]
#12970335 - 07/29/10 02:56 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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i did the math, he's making slightly more than minimum wage. he's getting paid the overtime.
the free food and housing makes it come out to like 10/hr.
i dunno though. i doubt anyone in the thread so far can comment on 72 hour work weeks... i did 50 hour work weeks (like 60 hours with travel) for a couple months i felt like a robot.
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Re: Do I have a tough life? [Re: truekimbo2]
#12970337 - 07/29/10 02:58 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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I used to work 12 hour days. It made me want to shoot myself. The money was nice though. The free food is a benefit, I just can't help feeling that he'd be happier somewhere else, even making less money.
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Re: Do I have a tough life? [Re: truekimbo2]
#12970338 - 07/29/10 03:00 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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ah true I didn't take into account 72 hour weeks. that sucks. Free food, free housing, and 50k in the bank isn't terrible though. Just look at it as a stepping stone
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Re: Do I have a tough life? [Re: Shroomism]
#12970379 - 07/29/10 03:20 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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meh...I was working two full time jobs at one point in time / pulling close to 120 hours a week between the two of em / only bringing in about 2400 or so a month {between both checks} and STILL had to pay rent an shit on top of that
of course - I was also making more then I needed, and it *did* certainly suck being a robot like that all the time...which is why I went back to the single job at less pay after a while, because it wasn't really worth it in the end
but I also kept that crap up for nearly a year and a half before I finally gave in though
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AlmostAsCoolAs said: Wait, what the fuck? You're the same guy that posted this thread.
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/11901074/fpart/1/vc/1
Am I missing something here?
lol, this is in a basement and it ain't even my house, why would I care about being messy? Believe it or not, I grew shrooms and tripped HARD one time in there, and I almost burn the whole room with fire while I was tripping, cause some dude in here suggest that I should get a candle and look at the cool flame while I was tripping, my blanket caught on fire, and that was during the coming up of a trip, so I was able to put it out, but if it was during the climax of that intense trip, I probably burned myself alive in there, I ate like 8g of shrooms.
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AlmostAsCoolAs said: Yeah, but he's also an immigrant with no experience in anything else.
Mind you, I came here 10 years ago, went to middle school, high school and graduated there 3 years ago, I'm pretty good with computers, I even hacked into the school system and I got a referral for that.
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Alabama Slim said: plus if the guy has to go to the doctor without any health insurance just once he could owe more than $50,000.
I went to an ENT doctor last month and I was charged $400 for my rhinitis medicamentosa.
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