Yay, vw!
Do you know what else has blood in it? Blood.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Spike's Bitches 38: Well, This Is Just...Neat.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
sj - Dec 13, 2007 7:46:05 am PST #8173 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Polter-Cow - Dec 13, 2007 7:49:20 am PST #8174 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Laura - Dec 13, 2007 7:50:56 am PST #8175 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.
Yay for snow days! All of you in stormy areas, please be careful.
We are getting a couple days of much needed rain. Remnants of Tropical Storm Olga. Bring it on! I don't think we are going to get much, but we'll take it.
JZ - Dec 13, 2007 8:50:31 am PST #8176 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Panicky new-job question: The accounting people at the new job just ran the numbers on my new salary with the various withholdings and insurance and whatnot. Hec is currently temping and EM is not working, which means that for the time being I need to carry both Hec and Emmett on my insurance. And, with all that, even with the 5K/year increase, my net will be $350 less per month than I'm making now.
So now what do I do? We can't survive on that. I mean, there'll be regular reviews and raises, but my original misgivings about the increase being smaller than I'd hoped for and ultimately problematic were dead on.
Trudy Booth - Dec 13, 2007 8:52:37 am PST #8177 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
My whole building just shook!
Turns out ConEd blew another manhole cover.
Between the car fire last week and the nerve gas a few weeks ago and the steam pipe at Grand Central a few weeks before that...
Laura - Dec 13, 2007 8:54:04 am PST #8178 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.
How do you feel about the job itself, JZ? Insurance is crazy expensive, as is child care, and living. But the first thing you need to consider is how you feel about the job and the people, because work takes up so much of our lives. If you feel good about the job and the coworkers then the money issues will work out somehow. If you aren't that crazy about the job then the $ becomes a much bigger deal.
Laga - Dec 13, 2007 8:55:41 am PST #8179 of 10002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
w00t
oh great. so now you can put numbers in and still call it a word.
Stephanie - Dec 13, 2007 8:58:11 am PST #8180 of 10002
Trust my rage
JZ, how long until the "regular review"? Of course, I don't really know your situation, but if it's 2-3 months, can you survive? What if it's 6-9? Any chance you can fiddle with the withholding to get a bit more now? Also, is the insurance more by adding Emmett? I'm just asking because I know in many situations it's self or family, but size of family doesn't matter.
Glamcookie - Dec 13, 2007 8:58:34 am PST #8181 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Could EM kick in a little to help cover Emmett? Every little bit helps...
JZ - Dec 13, 2007 8:59:50 am PST #8182 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I do feel good about the job and the people I'll be working for (co-workers? no idea, haven't met them yet). But we're about to get hit with a $200/m increase in day care.
I think I'm going to have to tell them that I know I've already signed the agreement and my start date is in four days, but I'm going to have to withdraw unless they can offer me enough to at least match my current net.
Fuckity.
eta:
Could EM kick in a little to help cover Emmett?
Nope. She's got nothing right now. P/T work with no insurance, outside help to cover the rest of her expenses, nothing extra at all. Hec and I have been figuring that we'll probably have to budget a bit in every month to support her until she gets another job.
If the review is in 4 months and there's a chance at a further increase then, we could probably tough it out. If it's six months to a year, I don't know how we can manage. How should I word this email?