Is it safe to eat year old frozen beef?

[DaShi]

I thought Alpert worked at WF. Do they only pay their tellers $7000 a year?

[giblets]

I don't honestly need the food though. A single man with no dependents can live quite well off $7000 in a year.

That's ~$580/month. I pay $320/month rent utilities and cable internet included. That leaves me with $260/month to spend on food and all amenities, which is more than enough.

I am pretty content, actually. Only have what makes you reasonably happy. Anything else is excess.

With that lack of ambition you might stay a single man forever.

[Hauldren Collider]

With that lack of ambition you might stay a single man forever.

I'm just depressed that he got the government to pay for his incredibly valuable college education.

[Al B. Sure!]

You're completely pathetic. Good lord. You complain constantly about how ****ing ****ty the place you live in is, and are like "oh well it's cool I can live it off the government with 7k a year." I am thoroughly contemptuous.

I thought you had a job last year? Or were you still just living off of that injury thing from the Marines?

What living off the government? I wasn't getting unemployment... the EIC gave me what? Like $400? I still paid Philly wage taxes so I paid something for police and fire protection, trash pickup, etc. I may be freeloading off what everyone else in this country gets but I'm not receiving any direct social benefits.

And I had a job. I worked at Wells Fargo, where I made under $5000 in 4 months (10 bucks an hour). I was terminated because I used casual profanity while pitching the benefits of opening an account with Wells Fargo to an 18 year old girl (she complained about the pay card her employer has her use... her employer was my old employer, Checkers, so I told her I'm not BSing her, I know how it is and showed her my old paycard from Checkers. Had new checking and savings accounts in the bag with online banking, paperless statements, and direct deposit... but they didn't like my 'unprofessionalism'). I was top-10 in the region why they *****ing?

Bad call on my part but I always try to be real with my customers, cater to my audience, and talk casually. And yes, I didn't do the half-truths and outright lies they wanted me to do (mislead about credit protection, open extraneous accounts, mislead old people into signing up for online banking, etc.). But I didn't have to resort to that stuff to get my numbers.

[Dinner]

I don't honestly need the food though. A single man with no dependents can live quite well off $7000 in a year.

That's ~$580/month. I pay $320/month rent utilities and cable internet included. That leaves me with $260/month to spend on food and all amenities, which is more than enough.

I am pretty content, actually. Only have what makes you reasonably happy. Anything else is excess.

You're not making enough, dude. The reality is if you had a car you could get a better job and earn much more money. Sign up for the food stamps (it's an extra $200 a month) and redirect the savings to saving up to buy a car. You're a college graduate so you should be able to make much more than $580 a month.

[giblets]

I'm just depressed that he got the government to pay for his incredibly valuable college education.

His brain will be full of facts when it takes a bullet in Afghanistan

[Hauldren Collider]

What living off the government? I wasn't getting unemployment... the EIC gave me what? Like $400? I still paid Philly wage taxes so I paid something for police and fire protection, trash pickup, etc. I may be freeloading off what everyone else in this country gets but I'm not receiving any direct social benefits.

And I had a job. I worked at Wells Fargo, where I made under $5000 in 4 months (10 bucks an hour). I was terminated because I used casual profanity while pitching the benefits of opening an account with Wells Fargo to an 18 year old girl (she complained about the pay card her employer has her use... her employer was my old employer, Checkers, so I told her I'm not BSing her, I know how it is and showed her my old paycard from Checkers. Had new checking and savings accounts in the bag with online banking, paperless statements, and direct deposit... but they didn't like my 'unprofessionalism'). I was top-10 in the region why they *****ing?

Bad call on my part but I always try to be real with my customers, cater to my audience, and talk casually. And yes, I didn't do the half-truths and outright lies they wanted me to do (mislead about credit protection, open extraneous accounts, mislead old people into signing up for online banking, etc.). But I didn't have to resort to that stuff to get my numbers.

I'm sorry you lost your job. That really sucks. But weren't you planning on quitting anyway?

[Hauldren Collider]

You're not making enough, dude. The reality is if you had a car you could get a better job and earn much more money. Sign up for the food stamps (it's an extra $200 a month) and redirect the savings to saving up to buy a car. You're a college graduate so you should be able to make much more than $580 a month.

I don't think he needs a car in Philly.

[Al B. Sure!]

I'm just depressed that he got the government to pay for his incredibly valuable college education.

Oh yeah. I got that, buddy.

Cheers to the US Government

[giblets]

Al I think you might be a RINO.

[Thoth]

What living off the government? I wasn't getting unemployment... the EIC gave me what? Like $400? I still paid Philly wage taxes so I paid something for police and fire protection, trash pickup, etc. I may be freeloading off what everyone else in this country gets but I'm not receiving any direct social benefits.

And I had a job. I worked at Wells Fargo, where I made under $5000 in 4 months (10 bucks an hour). I was terminated because I used casual profanity while pitching the benefits of opening an account with Wells Fargo to an 18 year old girl (she complained about the pay card her employer has her use... her employer was my old employer, Checkers, so I told her I'm not BSing her, I know how it is and showed her my old paycard from Checkers. Had new checking and savings accounts in the bag with online banking, paperless statements, and direct deposit... but they didn't like my 'unprofessionalism'). I was top-10 in the region why they *****ing?

Bad call on my part but I always try to be real with my customers, cater to my audience, and talk casually. And yes, I didn't do the half-truths and outright lies they wanted me to do (mislead about credit protection, open extraneous accounts, mislead old people into signing up for online banking, etc.). But I didn't have to resort to that stuff to get my numbers.

I call BS.

Nobody could possibly be as clueless as you claim to be.

'Fess up.

Who's DL are you?

[Dinner]

My last job paid more per hour than al had ever earned per hour in his life.

If all goes well I will either be working there again this summer, or at a subsidiary of Raytheon across the street. *knocks on wood*

Does that mean you're currently unemployed? BTW wasn't your brother working at Raytheon when he was living in Goleta? As I recall he said he had an internship there. Honestly, it's a great company to intern with.

[Hauldren Collider]

Al I think you might be a RINO.

No. He still thinks killing foreigners is cool beans. He's the real deal, he's just the wrong kind.

[Al B. Sure!]

I'm sorry you lost your job. That really sucks. But weren't you planning on quitting anyway?

Why thank you. That is nice of you to express condolences.

Of course I was going to quit but with the military downsizing, I was not selected for this past January OCS class (only 1 person from the Philly/NJ region was selected). My OSO does not think the summer is realistic even as a reserve contract but he feels confident in my chances in the October class. That would mark exactly 4 years since I first signed up for the Marine Corps and stood on those yellow footprints at Quantico.

It sucks. Have the past 4 years out of college been a waste? Maybe. But I want to do this.

I don't think he needs a car in Philly.

Not really. I couldn't get a part-time bellman job at a '5 diamond' hotel because of my lack of a license.

It sucks. I even applied to be crew at McDonalds but they won't talk to me... drug stores like Rite Aid, nope... Staples, no dice.

I'm going to try to get back at Sodexo. They were paying me $13/hr which was well below the prevailing wage for my position but was more than enough for me. I don't know if they would have openings, though.

[Hauldren Collider]

Does that mean you're currently unemployed? BTW wasn't your brother working at Raytheon when he was living in Goleta? As I recall he said he had an internship there. Honestly, it's a great company to intern with.

Kuci was at a Texas Instruments branch in Santa Barbara.

Glad to hear it's a good company. I have a friend who works there in mentorship (currently a senior at TJHSST) and he can set me up with an interview.

I have a guy who's gonna follow up with me in a week whose company is in San Francisco (job fair was yesterday), but I'm not moving to CA this summer, so I'm probably gonna have to turn him down. It looked like a nice place to work, too.