What's your pet peeve in RL?

[Murphie]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Tell her she can't come to family events until she can explain magnets?

[Satori]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

WEll my reign of terror as senior charge nurse has come to an end. Back to being a regular whm in slavery.
THing is I've been managing the ward for almost 4 months now "I got temporarily promoted" and now they have finally picked somebody to be the ward manager so it's all back to normal.

I get told I can't actually apply for the position because I've not got the experience even though I've been doing it for a little while and the matron's think I've done very well.
So I'm no longer king of the hill.

What I dont get, is if I lack the experience why am I suitable to fill in when I work alongside nurses alot older and experienced than myself?
Most of all I'm going to miss the bonus to my pay, Only about £500 less but it was fun while it lasted. It got me to egypt and dublin for some good holidays so it wasnt all bad.

[Feba]

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People that make over $200k - they're not exactly Bill Gates rich, but they do make up the bulk of the people that create jobs for other people.

About half of my family is upper-middle class (in excess of six figures); some on the higher end and some on the lower end of that spectrum. The rest is pretty average middle class, and there's a few on the low end and in complete debt/poverty.

None of them are going to be less motivated to go out and get money because they'll have to pay moderately higher taxes-- and none of them are blowing cash hiring people they don't need.

As for the roommate thing - I'll wait for you to get out into the real Real World and not the one you think you've had firsthand experience in.

And I'll take your opinions on taxes for those making over US$200k more seriously when you're not a grown-ass man working at gamestop. I've had experiences with bizarre and uncomfortable people aplenty-- have I ever mentioned the homestay I had in Japan? To give a glimpse into a longer story, Crazybitchmother was terrified that I was gay for my 300 pound housemate, while she would regularly drink herself into a stupor and tell us about her affair with her first homestay guest, who went on to marry her daughter. Crazy people are crazy, yes, most people have experience with that.

On the other hand, they're not so blatantly hypocritical about pretending that other people want to take away your freedoms, while saying "This guy is a total asshole, so I'm going to take away things he likes, and not do anything about the problem of him being an asshole"



also, not really relevant, but you're absolutely out of the loop if you think someone on a 200k salary would personally be paying for any substantial translation work; google translate is putting people out of jobs more than taxes could ever dream of.

[Raydeus]

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Maybe I'm understanding it the wrong way, but wouldn't letting the Bush tax cuts run out fix a lot of things already? Also, don't higher income entrepreneurs get a good portion of that tax money back from tax cuts for actually hiring and other lower income breaks since it's a tiered system?

But then again I don't know much about the tax system in the US.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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But then again I don't know much about the tax system in the US.

Its so convoluted, overregulated and full of loopholes its not easy to understand.

Basically, though, what Obama wants to do is be what we call an "Indian Giver."

Which is to say, "I am giving you this donut. Enjoy it! No, don't eat it, I'll need it back shortly."

Cut companies a break here, but tax the hell out of them somewhere else.

What's stalling job growth is business doesn't know what new bullshit regulation government is going to slap on them next. And there's always more of them.

Historically when we've been faced with situations like the ones we have, we do away with the regulation and tell the government to get the hell out of the way.

That's what Kennedy did.
That's what Regan did.
It's even what Clinton did.

Obama and the Senate want these regulations and taxes for 1% of Americans that pay 40% of the taxes while 47% of Americans don't pay their taxes at all. And then we have almost 20% of americans unemployed. Keep in mind the White House - under any administration - stops counting the unemployed after 99 weeks and will will used any phony inflation (census, Verizon strikers going back to work) as "job growth." So there are still people without jobs, still not able to make money so they can hardly pay taxes.

More or less, Washington eats the rich already. America's millionaires and billioaires are growing fewer and fewer. When Washington says they're going to put more hurt on your income and costly regulations on your business - and you don't know what those regulations are, so you can't prepare for them - how does that create jobs?

Obama once said - and this is Bush level stupidity - that ATMs take jobs away from bank tellers. This sells well to stupid people, but everyone else with a brain knows ATMs have an OS that must interface with a network and a banking branch's computers, so we have people programming for that. Those ATMs must be maintained and repaired, updated and we have people going around doing that, too. There are tens of thousands of jobs created by those ATMs, just like banks need tellers.

But if you send a wave of regulations to banks and they don't know what they are yet, are they going to put up the hiring signs?

But in Obama's word if we just got rid of these evil ATMs, we'd have more jobs for bank tellers.

That's just the political bullshit side, too.

There's the fact that in this long-term recession that businesses have become rather spoiled on illegal workers and, if there are none to be had there, the temps. Temp work is really the only work a lot of people can get these days and its what I'm doing now. Thankfully, this place looks a bit more serious about the "temp-to-hire" line than other have been, but they're a small business and they tend to be a lot more personable.

Hell, I'm treated like I'm part of the team already and love it there for that reason alone. Every bigger business treats temps like a cast-offs because, quite frankly, you are.

Some big businesses these days just show up in places for the tax breaks they can get here and there or the breaks the cities and state will give them on other things. Dell in North Carolina was an example of this. They came in and promised to be an economic center and their presence was expected to help bolster the businesses around them in the small town it was situated in. The two counties Dell was situated between paid for the land, the other for water and utilities.

And out reward for working there? Pretty much get treated like shit.

In the end, Dell used the local goverment, the citzens and other local businesses that hoped to benefit from their presence. In the end, they had legions of temps and very few people taken in for long-term jobs. They pulled out of here after three years of wasting everyone's time and mostly because Governor Perdue got sick of them jerking the state (and its people) around.

But what they paid back to get out was a pittance compared to what they made off of everyone here

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Now, I say all that because YES, big corporations can be evil. There are issues to address with the tax loopholes we give them (GE especially) and there are other issues, but you can't unilaterally punish them all and treat the small ones that do good for a community like the big ones that just leech off the states. Most people are employed through small businesses and some of the regulations made to keep larger corporation in check are harmful to the small ones.

Caterpillar - a construction vehicle business - has come in to replace Dell in my area. They are taking it seriously. They see this location as an investment and want to be part of the community they've joined. I'm sure they are getting some breaks here and there, but they're not fickle about the placement of this plant. This time, the state's investment is likely to be worthwhile and create jobs.

So Caterpillar is one of the good guys here that, along with the little good guys, that may be forced to cut back jobs because they don't know what the future holds. When you are faced with uncertainty, you hold back. Its just natural no matter how wealthy or poor you are.

I just really wish we could get away from this idea that all wealthy people are somehow monsters with ill-gotten gains and all poor people are innocents. Both sides are a potpourri of stuff you can't categorize and its silly to trump up these stereotypes. It sad people still buy into them from politicians, too.

[cidbahamut]

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I don't understand how the specter of regulations is supposed to scare businesses into not hiring people. From what I've seen within my own company, hiring on new employees is based solely on whether or not there's a need for new employees, and has very little to do with whatever regulations, taxes or whatever the government has planned to implement some time down the road.

If there's a need for additional employees you hire people. If you don't need more people, you don't hire them.

But what do I know, I'm just an underling.

[NightShayde]

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Another problem is that so many companies have figured out how to get their work done with fewer employees (increase workload, knowing people won't complain for fear of losing their jobs) -- so now there's no reason for them to hire more people unless their products suddenly start doing WAY better than they're doing right now.

I don't believe that cutting taxes for corporations entices them to hire more people. The extra money goes straight into the pockets of the company big kahunas or to the politicians who are helping them get more tax breaks.

Yes - ending the Bush tax cuts would be very helpful. Those tax cuts have contributed billions of dollars to the deficit -- but the Republicans who complain about how spending raises the deficit conveniently ignore that little tidbit of information.

[Yygdrasil]

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My peeve in RL is snowflakes. God I hate snowflakes.

[Fliegar]

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How can you hate that? It landed on my open window of my car in -30 degree (celsius) weather.

[Nandito]

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My RL pet peeve?

Celsius.

Screw you, Celsius.

[Raydeus]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

My RL pet peeve?

Celsius.

Screw you, Celsius.

Peeve : Nandito's dislike of Celsius.


And in a compleeeetely unrelated note:

Peeve: The Imperial system. It needs to die, nao.

[Yellow Mage]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

New/old peeve:

Since when did "liberal" become a pejorative?

. . .

/ma Barfira <me>

[Raydeus]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Coming this fall. From the creators of the award winning GAY.


LIBERAL

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

My co-worker won't stop talking. Even when she has no one to talk to.

5 o'clock cannot come soon enough.

[Feba]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Japanese classmate to Thai guy: "Naisu bodeii!"
Feba: "...あたしゃホントNICE body body body"
Japanese classmate: ”やめてください”

Japanese classmate's pet peeve from next week on: Feba is going to start every day with a different random pop song.