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Ammoholic |
^^If I was told I had to work for home, I'd be asking my boss how much he was planning on paying me for rent. Giving up valuable living space for company home office, no thanks. I could rent a spare bedroom for $750 a month. I'd want at least $300 a month to lease the space to them. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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Unflappable Enginerd |
Being self-employed, ~50% of my job is and should be from home, or home office, such as it is. But I can't do field work and equipment commissioning without going onsite. I'm sure there are plenty of jobs that can, but that won't work for me or my customers. Where applicable, it's probably a good thing generally speaking, but how will it affect compensation? I mean, the companies have less overhead from a commercial office standpoint, but do you really think they'll pass that along in the form of higher salaries? __________________________________ NRA Benefactor I lost all my weapons in a boating, umm, accident. http://www.aufamily.com/forums/ | |||
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https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/350085 ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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Nothing new and I've seen similar bitches on some of the nursing sites I subscribe to. If you're a traveling nurse, you pay state income tax to the state in which you earned it. That's one reason that contracts in California pay so high, they tax the shit out of it. That and getting a nursing license in California is a major PITA. My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | |||
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| Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing |
This is getting ridiculous! TV commercial produced and paid for by the State of Oregon, "Don't accidentally kill someone today." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPFAC1KMJzE My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | |||
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| Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing |
A little common sense from Mike Rowe. Watch the bide clip in the attached link. Absolutely love the fact that he calls Governor Cuomo, "Well, stupid." https://www.foxnews.com/media/...bkwC1U3Uy2OKb8E-pEjU My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | |||
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Casuistic Thinker and Daoist |
With a bunch of people working from home, companies are soon going to realize there could be a savings by doing away with middle-managers No, Daoism isn't a religion | |||
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| Ammoholic |
My manager is a complete asshole.  My other manager made a surprise appearance during my Zoom interview today. At least he wasn't licking his balls in the background. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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I run trains! |
A lot of HR folks may suddenly become unnecessary as well, which would be a good thing in my opinion. Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view. Complacency sucks… | |||
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Void Where Prohibited |
I've been working from home since the second week of March. My employer has already told us to not expect to be back in the office anytime soon, and is starting to plan for reducing employee density (larger cubicles and/or staggered shifts). Previously, they weren't all that enthused about people working from home. "If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards | |||
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Definitely! IMO, when the name of that department went from "Personnel" to "Human Resources", it became a hinderance instead of an asset to a business. ____________________________ Everybody knows that the dice are loaded | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
I've been teleworking on and off since 1993. There were two periods when I didn't; a three year stretch in the Pentagon and a year stretch at DHS (yes, deliberately written to sound like periods I was incarcerated). I've been full time at it since 2007. The change it made in my life was incredible. I went from spending three to four hours a day on average of unproductive time spent driving to DC. So charge my employer rent for an office in my home? If I spent four hours a day, five days a week in my car that's 20 hours per week. With four weeks per month (roughly, and the delta accounts for vacation, sick leave, etc.) that's 80 unproductive hours per month I save. At $8.00 per hour (roughly minimum wage) that would be $640 per month. At my actual salary, it waaayyyy more. On top of that, I spend less on my car and motorcycle usage, don't have to pay out the nose to park (at DHS that was $18 per day), have greater flexibility in my schedule. I also save on clothing (I started doing the dress trousers optional). So let's say teleworking saved me $1,000 per month. Charge rent? I'd have paid my employer half my commuting costs to telework full-time. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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That's crazy. You only need a desk, and with the money I am saving in gas/tolls/maintenance, I am making out. | |||
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Yep. One of my friends told me he is saving about 400 bucks a month working from home just in gas and less car maintenance. Not to mention less stress with not having to deal with Atlanta traffic. Can’t put a price on that. ——————————————— The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Psalm 14:1 | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
I can tell that my employer is already starting to fall in love with the idea of having a much much larger percentage of people telecommute on a permanent basis. It was always very grudgingly granted in the past, almost like they didn’t trust us. If I were a facilities or maintenance person there I’ll be getting nervous as they won’t need near as many as before. Ironically JUST before this pandemic began we had started on a project to open an overflow building to seat something like 800 to 1000 people because our main building was bursting at the seams and we were running out of desk space!  I half expect to hear any day now that’s been canceled. | |||
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While I agree that we need to get more competitive, I will also add this. It costs a lot of money to transport goods from half a world away to the United States. Reduced transportation costs can be utilized to help offset greater labor costs in the United States. Secondly people are going to have to understand that things are just going to cost more. If our country doesn’t believe in manufacturing without pollution controls (I know I certainly don’t)then we should not be allowed to purchase from other countries that manufacture with no pollution controls. If 3rd world countries had to manufacture with some semblance of respect for the environment then even with the slave wages those countries pay their employees things would not be appreciably more expensive to manufacture in the United States. Factor in transportation costs from third world countries and US made goods would likely be cheaper. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” | |||
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Is there a list or pinned page where the forum has found and vetted reliable data to refute the hype and hysteria being spread by the media? I'm looking for a few reliable sites to confirm or refute 'news' such as the so called public interest story from my state below. https://www.mlive.com/public-i...n-all-of-canada.html Edit to add news article title: Public Interest: Michigan hits 4,250 coronavirus deaths, more than all of Canada I like the chart on the site below, number of deaths in Canada closely match the story, and I can click on headers and see how countries rank by number of tests, and cases per million of population to quickly see that the news article is sorely lacking information to put the story in perspective. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/coronavirus/#4333 Wish I could find more data to question the news story's claim on the daily number of deaths, (confirmed, suspected, etc.) since the daily number reported by the state exceeds the number on the chart for the whole US. If anyone can find issues with the RCP site, or knows where on the site we have a repository of good sources I'd appreciate a link. Thanks, Mark. ________________________________________________________ You never know... | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
This website I found has some good data. https://wmbriggs.com/post/30624/ ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Thank you, good site, bookmarked. I'm also interested in examples like this. https://www.projectveritas.com...h-testing-site-line/ A site with infections by zip code would be nice too. I've tried to find one, but any I find are only for NY, or seem questionable. ________________________________________________________ You never know... | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven! |
Well the Supreme Court declined to get involved in the legal challenge to Pennsylvania’s dictatorial dickhead Governor Tom Wolf, who I think is second only to Gretchen Whitmer in terms of brutality with these EO’s and lockdown orders. I now fully expect to be under house arrest until next year at the very least. This asshole is determined to destroy Pennsylvania in order to ensure Trump does not win the state, which is crucial, it put him over the top in 2016. The sense of despair about being able to do anything is growing.  | |||
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