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DarkAngela Fights LightAngela for World Domination (changed by MaggotHex)
Joined: Sep 02, 2005 Posts: 1765 Location: Palm Beach, Florida
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:50 pm Post subject:
maggot_hex wrote:
$10 is where you start, do well for a few months and you can be making $20 no problem.
That kinda sorta makes me wanna barf. I work in R&D, the products we make are responsible for people's lives, and I don't even make that much.
Also, you definitely need insurance. Imagine you get hit by a car and are laid up in the hospital for a month. And that it was a hit & run, so the bastard never pays... [/rant]
Living with an injury is bad enough when you ARE getting proper medical care. You really don't want to live with it if you aren't.
Of course, not everything is covered by your insurance...I've been dealing with a jaw injury (car crash, no airbag, defective seat belt) for over 10 years. The cost has run above $25k. NOT fun. Wish insurance had covered more than they did. [/sob story]
So go for the union job if it's got better coverage. _________________ "A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have." -Pres. Ford
maggot_hex Dug through LoDT and found an old thread with usercodes and XBox Live names of MI users so that people would have this information readily available. This makes Maggot_Hex a true hero in every sense of the word. Be sure to let him know how much you appreciate his digging through LoTD to find that thread so that you could post into it and read the names of other MI users who have handles on gaming networks, because he deserves the praise and accolades.
Joined: Feb 11, 2006 Posts: 6636 Location: Federal Way, WA
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:26 am Post subject:
Part of it is this is Washington. Minimum wage is something like $8.17 an hour, and they raise it every year. Finding a job that pays $9.00 an hour or better is not hard, as long as you don't bore easily. _________________ This post brought to you by Petty Revenge: When not being a jerk just won't do.
DarkAngela Fights LightAngela for World Domination (changed by MaggotHex)
Joined: Sep 02, 2005 Posts: 1765 Location: Palm Beach, Florida
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:38 pm Post subject:
And, alas, that doesn't change the fact that your janitors make more than people with doctorates here (not me).
But then again, I don't have to pay state taxes. _________________ "A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have." -Pres. Ford
maggot_hex Dug through LoDT and found an old thread with usercodes and XBox Live names of MI users so that people would have this information readily available. This makes Maggot_Hex a true hero in every sense of the word. Be sure to let him know how much you appreciate his digging through LoTD to find that thread so that you could post into it and read the names of other MI users who have handles on gaming networks, because he deserves the praise and accolades.
Joined: Feb 11, 2006 Posts: 6636 Location: Federal Way, WA
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 4:46 am Post subject:
DarkAngela wrote:
And, alas, that doesn't change the fact that your janitors make more than people with doctorates here (not me).
But then again, I don't have to pay state taxes.
Yeah, keep in mind WA has the highest sales tax in the nation, and everything is taxed (even some food is taxed). I've never seen anywhere in the US where gas is expensive as it is here; between the state-run monopoly on liquor stores and the additional taxes they throw on there, it's actually cheaper to brew your own. When someone tried to pass an initiative to require all tax increases to be put to a public vote, it was declared unconstitutional. _________________ This post brought to you by Petty Revenge: When not being a jerk just won't do.
maggot_hex Dug through LoDT and found an old thread with usercodes and XBox Live names of MI users so that people would have this information readily available. This makes Maggot_Hex a true hero in every sense of the word. Be sure to let him know how much you appreciate his digging through LoTD to find that thread so that you could post into it and read the names of other MI users who have handles on gaming networks, because he deserves the praise and accolades.
Joined: Feb 11, 2006 Posts: 6636 Location: Federal Way, WA
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:27 am Post subject:
The reasoning was it covered two things, all tax increases requiring a public vote, and $30 car tabs. I don't why they can't do that in initiatives when the legislature does that left and right. _________________ This post brought to you by Petty Revenge: When not being a jerk just won't do.
poisnedcoke The Only Thing Michael Jackson and the Catholic Church Can Agree On
Joined: Feb 05, 2005 Posts: 1668 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 10:21 am Post subject:
Boondock wrote:
Construction workers make a ton of money.
I dunno about a ton of money. Good money, sure, but it's not like you'll see many construction workers pushin beamers any time soon. Lots of people make pretty good money doing manual labor, until their bodies break down and they can't keep it up and have no training for anything else.
Joined: Mar 01, 2004 Posts: 1853 Location: Ohio is for lovers
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 6:33 am Post subject:
Then they just become truck drivers...
I keed, I keed. _________________
I want to see people like me, rising up with hate-filled eyes and smoking genetalia--posessed by ancient volcano gods, waving vast breasts and improbable penises at the secret masters of the world-- brown-trousering the naughty twenty-four hours a day"SJ
GeneK It's, like, TOTALLY time for my custom title now.
Joined: Aug 09, 2006 Posts: 363 Location: New Canada
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:24 am Post subject:
When I was 15 I was a good janitor.. clean 110 year machines with varsol and replaced chain to get them working.. part of the job was cleaning out a room that still had a calendar from 1967 on the wall, not sure why we had to, but I imagine we were trying to kill time at the end of the summer shutdown...
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