PFSIKH Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 ^ Apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFSIKH Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 FuuckA$$!!!! 4 more hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindy Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 home and still in jammies. tomorrow gonna suck tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFSIKH Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Word about tomorrow. I did not see the benefit when it happened, but it is a good thing we had an issue a few weeks back. Otherwise all the work I am doing today and tomorrow would be done already and I would really be bored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindy Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 (edited) i've had a brain issue for a while at work but... this is not a good work brain time of year. the NY thing bottlenecked a lot of the mail besides and now it's just raining down. i'll never catch up. it's starting to get depressing. they do this to our workload on purpose when they want to get permission to hire but ouch. Edited December 27, 2012 by cindy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFSIKH Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 To quote Peter Gibbons, " it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care." The people that have been here awhile, I used to mock, but now I understand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindy Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 i love to watch the smiling new faces become disgruntled and apathetic with the passing days.... i smiled for at least 3 months when i first got the job... if i'm smiling at work now i am very well medicated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFSIKH Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 I honestly do not see how people do it. Granted it was driven by being in the military, but I have never gone to the same work/school same establishment for 42 months straight since I was in High School. And realistically, I have another 200+ to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindy Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 (edited) until i started working for the state i never worked anywhere except my mom's office while i was going to school for more than two years. i never had a job i couldn't huff off and find another one as good when i ran out of unemployment. they got me. they know it, too. you can tell by how they treat you, they know they have your price and you can't walk away. hate it more every day, there's no bottom to that. um... cheerful thoughts cheerful thoughts... we're as likely to drop dead any given night as not? Edited December 27, 2012 by cindy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 I honestly do not see how people do it. Granted it was driven by being in the military, but I have never gone to the same work/school same establishment for 42 months straight since I was in High School. And realistically, I have another 200+ to go. You're in pretty big trouble if you're already counting the months. One day at a time. Otherwise the monotony and the sheer volume with crush your soul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFSIKH Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 @Dom - Yeah I am screwed. It is not so much that I am counting, but that I cannot see, anytime soon, me not being here. I have a 'pipe' dream about doing a tour in Europe before I retire, but you now what they say what wishes. @Cindy - You know right. I actually looked at something last week I know I would like to do and the pay cut would have gotten my ass kicked at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Europe is a good pipe dream. I may go back. They keep wanting people to go AIP or danger posts. I'd consider Paris or Vienna, but Kosovo? Nah. D.C. is bad enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindy Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 it's 5:00 somewhere time again isn't it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFSIKH Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Paris would be nice. No AIP for there? That is some BS. Unfortunately it is not 5 here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Paris would be nice. No AIP for there? That is some BS. Unfortunately it is not 5 here. Haha. AIP is Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan. I thought you guys used the same terminology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFSIKH Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Haha. AIP is Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan. I thought you guys used the same terminology. No....it was a joke. Yes, we had it as a soldier. I guess we have it as civilians if we went over there. From what I hear they do not get the tax breaks like soldiers, if they did not get AIP, I think you would have to kidnap at gun point to get a civilian to go there. Or grossly overpay a contractor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 No....it was a joke. Yes, we had it as a soldier. I guess we have it as civilians if we went over there. From what I hear they do not get the tax breaks like soldiers, if they did not get AIP, I think you would have to kidnap at gun point to get a civilian to go there. Or grossly overpay a contractor. We do both! Sorry I didn't get your joke. That usually means it was very funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFSIKH Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Really? We have had two go over there in order to go upto the next grade. Hmmmmm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindy Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 we get extra pay if we work in NYC but no way is it worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Really? We have had two go over there in order to go upto the next grade. Hmmmmm. I don't have that many grades left! Now the key is to hold on. They will be trying to pry me out of here when my term is up. I think I see the marks the guy before me's fingernails made when they dragged him out! we get extra pay if we work in NYC but no way is it worth it. I wish. DC is expensive and provides very little that I care about. I'd save a ton of money if I could live in Brooklyn and still get my COLA/locality pay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindy Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 it's like an extra thousand... that wasn't a months rent on my moms sublet in yorkville in the 80s... can't imagine trying to survive in the city on that. can't imagine dealing with the population density... tho... it didn't feel as crowded as it seems here when there are a lot of people around. too much eye contact I think... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 I thought it was like 24%. $1,000 a year? That's insane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindy Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 it's a little over 1K but that's the location differential. here I'm upper middle class. there I'd be working two jobs to make the rent and probably need a roommate. god forbid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindy Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 and by upper middle class I mean I live in a hovel but I can get all the toys I want, drive a decent car and help my family out. if I bought a house I'd be screwed here, too, but thankfully backed out before closing last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 I didn't think there was an upper middle class anymore. I was doing closings last year. We used to do 10+ a week. Last year I had about 15 and 8 busted. Nothing like doing all the work and then having somebody back out. I was building the business back up, so most of the time I couldn't even hit them up for fees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindy Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 i backed out on a real bad inspection. would have been insane. but upper middle class here is not what it is there, believe me. bank was telling me i could spend about five times what i could afford, and i knew this place was wrong after she accepted half asking. if i do buy it'll be a condo closer to work, but... as little as rent is i don;t see it making any sense at all. i wanted to buy land and put a modular on it but you can't buy land with mineral rights now because of the gas leasing, bank won;t touch a loan without mineral rights, and over the border where you can still buy land... the taxes are minimum 4 times higher, so... gonna just stay here until the place falls down or the drive kills me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFSIKH Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 it's like an extra thousand... that wasn't a months rent on my moms sublet in yorkville in the 80s... can't imagine trying to survive in the city on that. can't imagine dealing with the population density... tho... it didn't feel as crowded as it seems here when there are a lot of people around. too much eye contact I think... Locality for NYC is $1K a month? Wow. If so, that is not much better than my KY/TN rate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindy Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Locality for NYC is $1K a month? Wow. If so, that is not much better than my KY/TN rate. a year, a little over 1K extra a year. thank god or my family would never stop whining at me to move down there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFSIKH Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Ok my locality pay is a lot better than NY, realizing I am above the state level. That is insane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindy Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 for an extra 12K i'd go to AIP... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindy Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 they want to encourage that office to close... they do it by starving them out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFSIKH Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 AIP is a not a place, but incentive. We made more than 12K as soldiers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindy Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Im cheaper and want out more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFSIKH Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 I highly doubt you are cheaper. F'ing yeah....another 9.5 hour drag beginning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Not sure about Cindy. Our New York locality pay is 28.72% and DC is 24.22%. Hopefully that would be more than $1K a year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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