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Cad

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Frenzied Wombat_sl said:
Keep watching, we're about to start $200,000 worth of repairs in a few weeks from all that water damage. Yes, it took us (me, since my neighbors are useless) three months to find someone competent enough to diagnose the problems, let alone offer a solution.. You may end up as a witness to murder when I kill one of our contractors. Problems even before they've started..
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I'd burn it down for the insurance money before I pay all of that and let them gut your place.
 
Frenzied Wombat

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Cad_sl said:
I'd burn it down for the insurance money before I pay all of that and let them gut your place.
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Don't think I haven't been wishing for that. Right now I'm hoping the massive dying Pecan tree the builder never bothered constructing a root barrier around to protect the foundation (which has now cracked) will fall on the property during one these storms and render it a total loss.

To clarify, it's 200K for the whole property, or 40K per resident, but considering it's only seven years old it's still ridiculous. I paid 367K for my unit and even after repairs it will have diminished value because the disclosure will most likely scare most people away unless it's priced attractively to compensate. I just want it fixed so I can move to some highrise apartment and never have to deal with home repairs again. The system is rigged down here in favor of builders and the building code is a joke unless you live in Highland Park where they actually mandate some quality.
 
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Picasso3

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Guy that's hiring me at state job apparently knows one of my references so that worked out well. Praying their offer isn't shit...anything over 60 I think I'm going to do, not filling out a timesheet is worth 15k a year to me alone.
 
Noodleface

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Had a background check discrepancy. After shitting my pants a little bit I realized it was because my company counted my internship towards seniority, but on my form I only used my full-time start date. The real confusing thing was I started as an intern Dec 23 2012, and started full-time Dec 23 2013. Weird.
 
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Tenks

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Nope you failed background because they called me and I told them you're a terrorist
 
McCheese

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Picasso_sl said:
Guy that's hiring me at state job apparently knows one of my references so that worked out well. Praying their offer isn't shit...anything over 60 I think I'm going to do, not filling out a timesheet is worth 15k a year to me alone.
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what kind of government job doesn't require filling out a time sheet? Every government or government-related job I've ever seen has had super strict time sheet requirements.
 
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Government is salary and it takes me 2 minutes to submit my time card every 2 weeks. They default you to your schedule and you just annotate any changes which should be minimal at best.
 
Noodleface

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My time sheet takes 2 minutes every 2 weeks. It would take 10 seconds but the site they make you use is only compatible if you use IE8 and some old-ass version of java, so I have to go to the lab and use the PC there to fill out my card.
 
Slaythe

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Frenzied Wombat_sl said:
Funny, when legal needs a massive e-discovery search the night before some trial and they call me to do some complex query and production to save their asses, they sure do think I'm a special snowflake. I also make more coin than the majority of our attorneys. And to be fair, if IT is a "support" role, so is Legal. When our transactional attorney has some complex financial transaction dropped on his lap from one of our investment guys and has 48 hours to turn around a contract, he's acting as "support" too..
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You just described my life.
 
Heylel

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Noodlemod_sl said:
Had a background check discrepancy. After shitting my pants a little bit I realized it was because my company counted my internship towards seniority, but on my form I only used my full-time start date. The real confusing thing was I started as an intern Dec 23 2012, and started full-time Dec 23 2013. Weird.
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Wouldn't sweat it. Mine was flagged too, because they didn't read the full form. I had two graduation dates, and they couldn't distinguish between them.
 
Tarrant

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I have a job interview tomorrow morning with an old company I used to work for. I contacted my old boss and she seemed excited I was available, so we'll see how that goes I suppose.
 
Tarrant

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Haha.

It's shitty hours for less base pay but with commissions I made more there than I do at my current place. By shitty hours I mean working late and it's rare to have weekends off. But...it's a job and it was one I was very good at so I'll take it if I can get it.
 
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