Maybe I've always been here.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Gudanov - Apr 06, 2016 2:40:38 pm PDT #19137 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping

That's awesome, sarameg! Congrats!


sarameg - Apr 06, 2016 3:11:25 pm PDT #19138 of 30003

Ok, got all the right numbers, including current base and company retirement contributions:14% more on base, a whopping 21% including the retirement contributions. And the insurance is going down quite a chunk. Jesus. I wouldn't be making that at current employer 5 years from now, the way things are going there.


Sue - Apr 06, 2016 3:16:14 pm PDT #19139 of 30003
hip deep in pie

That's awesome, sarameg.


aurelia - Apr 06, 2016 3:52:36 pm PDT #19140 of 30003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Woo, sarameg!

You know how on Friday I was thinking I would have to fire someone? He gave his notice today. Problem solved.


sarameg - Apr 06, 2016 3:54:37 pm PDT #19141 of 30003

And I will have separate vacation and sick leave again! Starting at 1.5 times the leave I have now, and after the first year, the sick increases and rolls over. Hell, vacation alone is more than my PTO. And I'll be getting a check for my current unused vacation, which is almost a month's salary.

Dancing on the ashes of my soon to be former employer. Well, after I turn in the signed offer.


Susan W. - Apr 06, 2016 4:18:01 pm PDT #19142 of 30003
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Yay sarameg!

I am now the mother of a 12-year-old. In a bit we're taking her out for dinner at the local ramen place and possibly frozen yogurt afterward. This weekend I'll make her her favorite cake, and at some point she'll have some kind of celebration with her best friend. I feel under-planned this year, but Dylan and I lost all of last week to the flu, and AB doesn't really want a big production, so we're good.


Pix - Apr 06, 2016 4:19:35 pm PDT #19143 of 30003
The status is NOT quo.

Sara, that's SO GREAT! Congrats!

And yes, Gud -- you are an expert! With cred! Just don't take something on that is going to make you feel more stressed than you've already been.


SuziQ - Apr 06, 2016 4:32:47 pm PDT #19144 of 30003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

AB is 12????? Unpossible.


Susan W. - Apr 06, 2016 4:39:49 pm PDT #19145 of 30003
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

AB is 12????? Unpossible.

I know, right?! And yet there she is, being all 5'2" or 5'3", being a 6th grader, and planning her career as an animator/game developer. Really not sure how it happened.


Jesse - Apr 06, 2016 4:41:51 pm PDT #19146 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That is amazing. Didn't you just have her??

You know how on Friday I was thinking I would have to fire someone? He gave his notice today. Problem solved.

Ugh, I wish I thought my poor performer were about to give notice.