Random talk thread: It just keeps happening

[I'm a Puppy!]

Had bacon soda once. It was surprisingly disappointing.

[The Legend of Sunblade]

malwarebytes/super anti spyware run?

Oh man, thanks for this. I've had this incredibly annoying updater pop up every time I booted up my laptop that tried to get me to "update" some of my programs despite them being fully updated. Google search came up with nothing and Malwarebytes didn't catch it, but Super Anti Spyware caught it AND some other stuff. 

[Kara]

I don't know what the person who hired me for this was thinking, there's nothing here. lookitsnothing.gif

They didn't even read the full section of the law they thought might be a loophole, just saw a different paragraph letter and thought it was a loophole.

On the plus side I'm now well versed on a section of tax law I'll never use again.

[toku]

I don't know what the person who hired me for this was thinking, there's nothing here. lookitsnothing.gif

They didn't even read the full section of the law they thought might be a loophole, just saw a different paragraph letter and thought it was a loophole.

On the plus side I'm now well versed on a section of tax law I'll never use again.

never say never

[Kara]

With me? Yeah, you can't.

I found some guidance in the CFR for the corresponding law that allow for a cockamamie loophole. Dat creative spirit.

Gonna tell the person who put me on this that they're daydreaming, but if they want to be cute they can try this loophole and risk pissing off the IRS over a dumb tax to piss them off over.

[Kara]

My final brief was surprisingly plausible.

Gonna so hard if I stumbled onto something legit.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Told my boss that I wont accept a short term extension anymore, he told me that a perm contract is not possible. This despite me smashing targets. He also said good luck with the September target, as if I care about those now lol. Guess im out of work next month.

I made more money for the company in July then I earn in two years basic salary.

 

[Kara]

I made more money for the company in July then I earn in two years basic salary.

 

Dat appropriation of surplus value.

[Rufus]

Gosh, don't you have any loyalty? Tsk tsk.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Told my boss that I wont accept a short term extension anymore, he told me that a perm contract is not possible. This despite me smashing targets. He also said good luck with the September target, as if I care about those now lol. Guess im out of work next month.

I made more money for the company in July then I earn in two years basic salary.

 

Yay for office politics. I'm betting he'd give you the contract if he could but there's some HR/Leadership thing on him telling him he can't.

[Himu]

Working two jobs is tough, but worth it.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Thinking of handing in my 2 weeks notice

[Cerveza mas fina]

I made more money for the company in July then I earn in two years basic salary.

 

Dat appropriation of surplus value.

I don't even know what that means

[Phoenix Dark]

Told my boss that I wont accept a short term extension anymore, he told me that a perm contract is not possible. This despite me smashing targets. He also said good luck with the September target, as if I care about those now lol. Guess im out of work next month.

I made more money for the company in July then I earn in two years basic salary.

 

time to take your talents to a larger market company and get that max contract. you can only rely on endorsement cash for so long.

etiolet annihilated

[Cerveza mas fina]

I also was the number 1 sales guy in Europe in June and that's why I won this

I just won an iPad Air 64GB 

but apparently being number 1 is not good enough for a perm contract now cause Im in the wrong office

[I'm a Puppy!]

Great being pulled into a meeting with a client CFO. There goes the rest of the day   

[Kara]

I don't even know what that means

It means your bosses make money because you aren't compensated equivalent to the value your work.

Didn't they teach you anything in Rzeczpospolita Ludowa.

[Rufus]

Nederlands onderwijs.

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I'm gonna look stupid if this isn't grammatical.

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[Reb]

Goed gedaan jochie.

[Kara]

Shucks, the person who hired me didn't buy my cockamamie argument. "It's outside the scope of the exemption," I believe were there exact words.

IRS and Department of the Treasury making inextricable tax situations.

[Brehvolution]

Have you ever been threatened in the likes of, "Every tax dollar I end up having to pay comes out of your paycheck!"

[Kara]

Clients are usually too uninformed to tell if their tax preparer is actually maximizing their tax savings.

But if and your client gets hit with a penalty / interest because of it it's customary to pay it on their behalf.

Thankfully the IRS penalties are usually just a rap on the knuckles.

Though I do get an adrenaline rush like no other when I make FBAR filings. If those the penalty is something like 10 G's.

[chronovore]

I don't know what the person who hired me for this was thinking, there's nothing here. lookitsnothing.gif

They didn't even read the full section of the law they thought might be a loophole, just saw a different paragraph letter and thought it was a loophole.

On the plus side I'm now well versed on a section of tax law I'll never use again.

never say never

Yeah, "never say 'never'" is a good policy. I remember in 1990 being very, very well-versed in a suite of GUI layout applications when I decided to take a course on book-making. I'd been making books as part of my job for over a year, knew the ins and outs very well, but not the jargon, so this class looked like an easy "A."

The teacher announced that we'd do half the class in the apps of our choice, and half in a markup language called LaTEX, since that's what he was familiar with as an academic. I lambasted him over this choice; it was an ongoing struggle. No-one other than academics and engineers would benefit from this LaTEX thing; I mean, who would ever need to learn a markup language for professional work?

Then 4 years later Mosaic came out and the World Wide Web was born, and suddenly knowing markup languages seemed like a pretty good idea.

[Joe Molotov]

Though I do get an adrenaline rush like no other when I make FBAR filings. If those the penalty is something like 10 G's.

I'm picturing Hugh Jackman with a gun to his head and getting his dick sucked, with 30 seconds to do John Travolta's taxes.

[Kara]

I work with pretty straightforward arrangements of shell companies and that gets confusing sometimes still, I can only imagine what Johnny's CIA misfit lot had cooked up.

[I'm a Puppy!]

What the Fuck is wrong with Livermore that you can never drive pass it without it taking an hour?

[G The Resurrected]

I've been staring at this damn beverage fridge on Amazon for a few days thinking about buying it or not. Today I get a message from UPS that I have a delivery scheduled for tomorrow that weighs 120 pounds. Thing is I didn't order anything, the missus said she went to buy a movie with 1 click and that was it. Apparently it also shipped what was in my cart, I tried to cancel it but it was too late. So I guess I'll be the proud new owner of a beverage fridge tomorrow.

Make sure shit ain't in you cart when you buy shit with 1 click on Amazon!

Conspiracy theory: Amazon knew I wanted the fridge so they pushed the order through based off how many times I was viewing the damn thing all this week. What's next? Are they going to just start shipping you things they think you'll want? 

[Kara]

What the Fuck is wrong with Livermore that you can never drive pass it without it taking an hour?

When they say livermorium is a post-transition metal they mean that Livermore is over metal moving, cars included. Shit's like so yesterday.

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Please end my existence.

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[G The Resurrected]

What the Fuck is wrong with Livermore that you can never drive pass it without it taking an hour?

I blame that outlet mall they built right on the freeway. Thank god I don't live on that side.

[Groogrux]

I've been staring at this damn beverage fridge on Amazon for a few days thinking about buying it or not. Today I get a message from UPS that I have a delivery scheduled for tomorrow that weighs 120 pounds. Thing is I didn't order anything, the missus said she went to buy a movie with 1 click and that was it. Apparently it also shipped what was in my cart, I tried to cancel it but it was too late. So I guess I'll be the proud new owner of a beverage fridge tomorrow.

Make sure shit ain't in you cart when you buy shit with 1 click on Amazon!

Conspiracy theory: Amazon knew I wanted the fridge so they pushed the order through based off how many times I was viewing the damn thing all this week. What's next? Are they going to just start shipping you things they think you'll want? 

You know... there is such a thing as doing a return...

[toku]

All the homies ready to pop off off dumb shit. I gotta get out samll town florida 

[G The Resurrected]

You know... there is such a thing as doing a return...

They make you pay return shipping on large item purchases that aren't defective. I'll most likely complain and see what they aren't willing to do about it. Amazon is usually good about stuff like that.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Simpsons marathon on FXX. Every episode ever made. Most of the way thru season 2 now

[Himu]

All the homies ready to pop off off dumb shit. I gotta get out samll town florida 

What's the dumb shit

[chronovore]

You know... there is such a thing as doing a return...

They make you pay return shipping on large item purchases that aren't defective. I'll most likely complain and see what they aren't willing to do about it. Amazon is usually good about stuff like that.

And then you'll finally order it again in a month.

[Mupepe]

Amazon was actually talking about sending people stuff that they had been looking at or just sending items based on their purchase history.  Ya never know!

[Positive Touch]

my wife spends so damn much on Amazon that they give her free money each month - both for regular items and for digital videos.

buy all your household supplies from the interwebs brehs

[I'm a Puppy!]

Once for Christmas my wife gave me a really nice razor, but when I opened the box she put it in all I saw was the packaging and nothing else. So I sent a nastygram to amazon and they sent me a new one right away.

A week later I was cleaning up and saw that the razor my wife originally bought me had just fallen out of the box and was still in the gift bag. Oopsie.

[lennedsay]

So in the last two weeks, my dad had all his health shit come up, a friend was diagnosed with a rare form of stomach cancer, a friend of the family was diagnosed with cancer and has masses in each lung and in her stomach, another family friend and 20+ year breast cancer survivor is trying desperately to get an appt because she has another lump.

Tonight we have a wedding to go to for some really close friends that my husband grew up with. I probably wouldn't have even started dating my husband had it not been for the groom because we became such close friends when I barely knew my husband. Just found out one of the groom's best friends and bandmates since high school, also a mutual friend of ours, died in a bad car accident. He was supposed to be in the wedding tonight. Jesus fuck. I feel so bad for my husband. He's known the guys forever. Feel so bad for the groom, because they were so close. I'd probably cancel my wedding and live in sin forever. Fuck.

[Mupepe]

Sorry for all the bad news lately Len

[lennedsay]

Thanks bub..

[toku]

All the homies ready to pop off off dumb shit. I gotta get out samll town florida 

What's the dumb shit

just typical chest puffing bs

[Joe Molotov]

Damn Lens, that's awful. Well wishes for everyone involved.

[Kara]

That is a real bad fortnight, Len, sorry.

[I'm a Puppy!]

So in the last two weeks, my dad had all his health shit come up, a friend was diagnosed with a rare form of stomach cancer, a friend of the family was diagnosed with cancer and has masses in each lung and in her stomach, another family friend and 20+ year breast cancer survivor is trying desperately to get an appt because she has another lump.

Tonight we have a wedding to go to for some really close friends that my husband grew up with. I probably wouldn't have even started dating my husband had it not been for the groom because we became such close friends when I barely knew my husband. Just found out one of the groom's best friends and bandmates since high school, also a mutual friend of ours, died in a bad car accident. He was supposed to be in the wedding tonight. Jesus fuck. I feel so bad for my husband. He's known the guys forever. Feel so bad for the groom, because they were so close. I'd probably cancel my wedding and live in sin forever. Fuck.

that's terrible. when it rains it pours.
Even though it's of little matter, this random internet stranger wishes you well.

[lennedsay]

Thanks guys... Wedding is still on... I guess at least all of his friends will be together in a state of drunkenness.

It doesn't help that I'm dealing with some Grade A Asshole type shit at work. I've been ridiculously busy, but I really love my job and my boss and most of my coworkers. But I have a few complete fucktards that have done nothing but irritate the piss out of me all week. One of them is a "friend" too. They're about to see what happens when keeping it real goes wrong.

[milchs evil twin]

And here I just wanted to poke in here to ask Demi whether there are ever any changes in user numbers here...

Sounds terrible all around, lennedsay. Sorry to hear.

[El Babua]

Damn Len, wishing you well. Hope it doesn't get too messy with your asshole coworkers.

[Kara]

I haven't talked to my sibling in awhile (which is unusual) and since I was in my personal email on this computer (again unusual) I read the last email I sent them and was all, "Oh yeah, I said mean real talk-y things to them in my last email, that's why they haven't talked to me in awhile."

[chronovore]

Thanks guys... Wedding is still on... I guess at least all of his friends will be together in a state of drunkenness.

It doesn't help that I'm dealing with some Grade A Asshole type shit at work. I've been ridiculously busy, but I really love my job and my boss and most of my coworkers. But I have a few complete fucktards that have done nothing but irritate the piss out of me all week. One of them is a "friend" too. They're about to see what happens when keeping it real goes wrong.

Wow, the world has not been nice to you and yours lately. I hope you can clear things up at work without too much trouble, but if you need ninjas, the local paper here had a 30% off coupon, so I can get them for you on the cheap.

[chronovore]

That's racist, Chrono.

I can't help it if people of a certain archipelagological extraction are more inclined toward ninja-like activities.

[Madrun Badrun]

Its all that practice stealing strawberries. 

[Himu]

Great. Combined with my sleep troubles I'm now starting to get disorientated at times. Today when I woke up my head just felt WEIRD, like it was scrambled, and I felt a bit loopy sometimes. I ended up barfing today at work and I stayed because the work needed to be finished. More and more evidence piling up that this is serious. Didn't have the time to go to doc this week. Making appointment for next week.

[I'm a Puppy!]

I once had something similar where I was exhausted,  dizzy,  disoriented and sick to my stomach.  Turns out it was exhaustion from sleep apnea. Maybe that's it??

[Himu]

I once had something similar where I was exhausted,  dizzy,  disoriented and sick to my stomach.  Turns out it was exhaustion from sleep apnea. Maybe that's it??

That explains why I'm waking up after like 4 hours of sleep every fucking day.

[team filler]

currently in the process of getting a married woman to cheat on her husband via text message and I know she will. can't wait to smash that married white girl pussy

[StealthFan]

sleep apnea is the pits. I hate that shit. it takes me like six hours to fucking feel awake.

[fistfulofmetal]

I AM SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW holy shit.

[fistfulofmetal]

hahaha i am so done with this job.

[fistfulofmetal]

devo, lenn, himu plz check pms plz