Nester
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What do you do?
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
taebin
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I'm unfamiliar with the average number of yearly hours lawyers typically bill.I got a low six figure bonus and I only billed 2200 hours this year! SUCK IT, PEASANTS! HAHA!
52 weeks a year x 2 days a week for weekends = 104 days a year of weekends.
2200 total hours / 8 hours in a workday = 275 days. 275 work days + 104 days of weekends = 379 days.
Either:
1) You consider your workdays as much > 8 hours
2) You're working every weekend
3) Billing for hours you aren't actually working
4) Fucking lawyers
Vinen
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Cad
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Yes I often work greater than 8 hours a day, and now and then I work 3-4 hours on a weekend.
General Antony
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Nester
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I am in Canada so our paths most likely wont cross, i do a handful of personal lines VIP clients, the year after year 15% bump is killing me ! Sure the commission is nice, but the stress and TIME is not worth it ! Please help me and crunch your numbers in a way that creates stability in our market !
Joeboo
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If it makes you feel any better im an insurance agent in the US and our personal lines property rates have been raising like 15-20% a year for the past half decade. Basically most people's homeowners insurance has doubled in the past 5-6 years. There's only so many times you can talk to a customer and placate them about massive hikes every year.
Then we got the news that instead of an increase for 2014, agents are getting a 10% commission cut each year for the next 3 years. Yipee fuck.
Time to look at striking out on my own and becoming a broker rather than a captive agent for 1 company only
Heylel
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Well shit. Two months of interviews and effort later, I am the alternate choice for the position. If they can't negotiate terms with their first pick, they'll call me.
I was informed in person, which was nice. It sounds like the individual they chose had a much deeper resume with 20 years of experience, which I simply can't compete with. I'm not at all sure why someone with 20 years would be interested in the title or the salary, but that's just a mystery I suppose.
I was informed in person, which was nice. It sounds like the individual they chose had a much deeper resume with 20 years of experience, which I simply can't compete with. I'm not at all sure why someone with 20 years would be interested in the title or the salary, but that's just a mystery I suppose.
Heylel
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I know the director very well. He and I have worked together for the last 7 years. He wanted to tell me in person that I wasn't receiving an offer out of respect for our previous work history.
Besides, it's not like I won't find out. I have two other projects with that office, one of which was my reason for being down there in person today. I'm going to have to work directly alongside whomever they hired instead of me.
Besides, it's not like I won't find out. I have two other projects with that office, one of which was my reason for being down there in person today. I'm going to have to work directly alongside whomever they hired instead of me.
Vanderhoof
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I start my first nurse practitioner job Monday. It's at a local community mental health clinic (I specialize in psychiatry); all my experience is on inpatient units. I am both nervous and excited. I am making 115k/year, which is pretty much Oprah-rich in SW Missouri. Considering it took me 7 years to get my associate, bachelor and master's degrees in nursing (this is after I got two worthless humanities degrees during my first stint in college) and pass the certification test, I guess I'm more relieved than anything.
Vanderhoof
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Haha, I've lived in Springfield for 25 years. Joplin sucks but it is nothing compared to my ancestral homeland of Exeter, MO (the shittiest town I have ever seen).
Joeboo
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I would say so, only because of the unique flavors that Andys comes up with, I think they have more variety and are more creative than Ted Drews, but the basic frozen custard is probably on par at both, both are damn good. Like the Key lime pie mentioned above, it isn't just flavors added to simulate key lime pie, they actually take a piece of key lime pie and blend it up into the concrete(although they may add extra flavors too, I don't know, but theres legitimately chunks of crust and pie in it)
Noodleface
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Tough break, but it sounds like you went through a pretty positive experience and seem to work with people that care about you. I've been passed over on promotions and basically come into work to seeing someone working as my new boss without anyone telling me, and it sucked.
Heylel
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Yeah, it sucks but there isn't much I can do. I feel a little like I got dumped after two months, going back and forth between being really bummed out and a little angry.
The upshot to all of it is that a lot of the right people now know who I am by name and will recognize it on projects. A year from now, that might do me considerable good. There could be additional openings or projects available to me that I wouldn't have known about otherwise. I feel like I made a very good impression.
The downside is that if someone comes to me again and encourages me to apply for something in that office/division, I am going to be a lot more hesitant to go through the entire process again just to be let down.
Vanderhoof
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