I swear this exact thing happened to a friend of mine last week. She got her review, which has to be rated “excellent” in all categories in order for her to receive the standard year-end bonus. She received all excellents save one, for which she received an “exceeds expectations” (one step below excellent). That…
I think of performance reviews like salary arbitration in baseball.
All around solid advice; I want to expand on/slightly tweak one part, though:
That stock photo is hurting my woodworking feelings. If you can afford a tool that cuts wood, you can afford a two dollar speed square.
I am not an antivxxer, but I am not rushing to get the vaccine when it comes out, especially the ones that were rushed for public use by the Trump Admin. I have no problems with vaccines that went through the standard testing protocols. Of course it helps that I am not an essential worker subject to heightened…
“Excuse me, how much is this box of Cheerios? There was no price on the shelf.”
Re: Challenger - If you were building the same exact thing for 10 years straight, one would expect you to be pretty good at it by now.
My current place of employment is giving me free tuition (i still pay taxes and fees which is still half the bill!), but as soon as I’m done with my MBA, I’m out. They’ll give me a dinky to moderate raise for just having the MBA, but it won’t change my life in a meaningful manner. I learned a long time ago that no one…
My company went to “flexible vacation time” meaning, basically, there’s no set amount you can take, just make sure your manager’s okay with it. This was ostensibly to make it easier for us but of course the real reason is so the company doesn’t have to carry a liability on their books for the accrued time. I used to…
My idea of a well stocked fallout pantry. Of course the choice of liquors may vary.
He ran outta funds, ok. That would explain the next few months, maybe a year, but not 44 freaking years. Did he forget he owned it, or have amnesia, or what?
As for how much to pass on to your kids, Buffett once offered a good rule of thumb: The perfect amount to leave to your kids, he told Fortune in 1986, is ‘’enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing.’’
I’m really not feeling this. I mean, I’m giving James Gunn alot of leeway with this, but it just looks dumb to me. It’s sort of similar to the feeling I got at times watching GotG2, where some of the dialogue was overly-wacky for the sake of being wacky, but really just came across as forced and awkward. All the promos…
Starting a new business is not a retirement.
“Ann was getting a little chummy. When people get too chummy with me, I like to call them by the wrong name to let them know I don’t really care.”
This logic is entirely too sound for the internet. Away with you! But seriously, you’re totally right.
If that was an option I would have done it the day I started earning a paycheck
Just ignore all financial advice that comes from our parents because the world no longer works economically the way it did when they were having kids, buying cars and houses, saving for retirement, getting jobs and promotions, negotiating pay, etc. Wages have stagnated for over 40 years, the economy has become more…
Good timing on this article. I’m soon to close on a house and I just paid off my car in the meantime - and I realized immediately after that it might have an adverse impact on my score, and that my lender might inquire why I closed an account (uh, because I want to have less debt before having a mortgage?)