The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[MinnieM123]

Saw this in the NYPost today! Wooba!

Such a cute little face.

Awe . . . he looks cuddly.

 

[MinnieM123]

Cars? Seriously, just "cars"...?!?!?!
They aren't simply cars. They are masterpieces of engineering and technology...
I am completely and totally surprised that so many ladies are not interested in degrees before and after TDC of crankshaft timing, compression ratios, valve lash, back pressure, gear ratios, the difference between turbo and superchargers...

OK, I think I may have kinda' got lost...
WTH was this about, again...

Now, that's "guy speak" right there!

 

[MinnieM123]

You guys are too funny. Models have nothing on you guys.

You mean that @JenniferS and her pals weren't paid models? I thought Disney hired them for the photo shoot!

I couldn't decide which hat was the funniest, so I guess I came up with my top 3:

Tigger, with the "attached" paws!!
Olaf hat
Oversized hats from Mexico

 

[MinnieM123]

Good morning

Now, ya talkin' !!! This breakfast will make me feel better since we were robbed of snow this morning. Thank you, Seahawk!!

 

[seahawk7]

I got gypped with the lack of snow here this morning. There was just a little on the grass, leaves, etc. Now, it's just raining. Boo. I got all excited and ran to the window this morning, only to see that.

 

[seahawk7]

Now, ya talkin' !!! This breakfast will make me feel better since we were robbed of snow this morning. Thank you, Seahawk!!

Anytime Minnie!

 

[FutureCEO]

I got gypped with the lack of snow here this morning. There was just a little on the grass, leaves, etc. Now, it's just raining. Boo. I got all excited and ran to the window this morning, only to see that.

We had a dusting. Like someone spray painted white everywhere. Now it's melting

 

[FutureCEO]

Well color me curious, what kind of article was it?

I forgot but basically it was an article how younger people are not getting jobs for careers, underemployed, lack of paying jobs. Getting a job after college or a year out of college in what you want to do now is a dream for most people.

 

[Gabe1]

How do we explain these?

Ha! They look like expensive well made shoes too

 

[JenniferS]

I got gypped with the lack of snow here this morning. There was just a little on the grass, leaves, etc. Now, it's just raining. Boo. I got all excited and ran to the window this morning, only to see that.

Do you see what I see?

 

[MOXOMUMD]

13 days until Thanksgiving.

 

[Goofyernmost]

I forgot but basically it was an article how younger people are not getting jobs for careers, underemployed, lack of paying jobs. Getting a job after college or a year out of college in what you want to do now is a dream for most people.

Just my opinion, but, to me it is more then that. It is the belief that coming out of college automatically qualifies one for a high positioned, high paying job. For a while it was a little like that, but, most of those positions are currently taken. Now, like decades before, one must work their way up, no automatic anymore. I have found that many graduates just won't take or even apply for an entry level position, it's to the top or nothing. Unfortunately, for a lot of folks, it is coming up nothing.

Underemployment is a word used to cover-up the fact that many are unwilling or unable to let themselves start somewhere other then what they perceive as their personal level of self worth. Lack of paying jobs, means that they are not willing to pay what one wants to get. Many businesses are not willing to pay high salaries for those that have not yet proven their worth in the marketplace. Come in, learn the business, show your worth and then we will talk about position and money.

The fact of the matter is that, just like when I went to college, almost nothing that you have been taught in college actually happens in real business. Yes, you get theory. Yes, you get technical knowledge, but, until you are actually out there in the real world, you don't have a clue about what really happens day to day or how to deal with it. That is an, on the job, learned experience.

 

[SagamoreBeach]

Oh Wow! Six months! Are your kids onboard with not taking their stuff out of the bag for 6 months too? What a great tradition.

I coudn't do that. Wait 6 months...nope. However, I have no problem leaving groceries on the floor waiting to be put away for 6 months.
-T

 

[JenniferS]

I got to sleep in this morning. Apparently there was more snow earlier.
This was taken by my next door neighbour around 8:00 a.m.

 

[DVCPluto]

Send it to me! I can't wait for the morning, because we're supposed to get snow!

I really wish I could! It's so cold and windy here today... not a happy lady!

 

[Cesar R M]

Which would make me do a Happy Dance, I had enough issues with them this past trip. Manners people! But to the Disney bean counters, you have twice the expense and less revenue at WDW or DL. I'd be surprised if it happened.
Then with everything our Cesar says with the Police down there...maybe when and if all that gets under control.

Well.. It depends your point of view.
Mexico is very violent currently due of government abuse.

Then...The violence is usually very localized.. Michoacan for example (a state) is usually the most violent one.
Where I live things are mostly calm.

but one thing is sure.. Narcs defend their turf.. they dont target general people or tourists.

 

[Cesar R M]

Not.
+2C (36F)

not very warm.. yikes!!!

For me:
A useless pic of my new Hello Kitty wallet. My current one is pink, this new one is pearlescent white.
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My Haunted Mansion bookends - took 5 visits to MM to finally score these.
Close up:
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In use:
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Notepads:
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The two previously mentioned blankie/throws. Probably gifts.
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(Also upside down. Clearly.)

these bookends are awesome! definitively useful as well!

 

[Cesar R M]

But I will miss them! On opposite day.

on second thoughts.. a Mexican disney land wouldn't be a good idea.. the insane influx of latin american groups (specially Brazilians) scare me!

 

[Gabe1]

Just my opinion, but, to me it is more then that. It is the belief that coming out of college automatically qualifies one for a high positioned, high paying job. For a while it was a little like that, but, most of those positions are currently taken. Now, like decades before, one must work their way up, no automatic anymore. I have found that many graduates just won't take or even apply for an entry level position, it's to the top or nothing. Unfortunately, for a lot of folks, it is coming up nothing.

Underemployment is a word used to cover-up the fact that many are unwilling or unable to let themselves start somewhere other then what they perceive as their personal level of self worth. Lack of paying jobs, means that they are not willing to pay what one wants to get. Many businesses are not willing to pay high salaries for those that have not yet proven their worth in the marketplace. Come in, learn the business, show your worth and then we will talk about position and money.

The fact of the matter is that, just like when I went to college, almost nothing that you have been taught in college actually happens in real business. Yes, you get theory. Yes, you get technical knowledge, but, until you are actually out there in the real world, you don't have a clue about what really happens day to day or how to deal with it. That is an, on the job, learned experience.

I can agree that the days of auto career positions are always available upon graduation but from what I am seeing first hand with all the recent grad that come through my home the rest is pretty inaccurate. While many of these young adults did not get positions they dreamed of upon graduation not one was not willing to take a job that puts them in that under employed category, which is a real classification by the Feds not some made up excuse.

Neither of my kids upon graduation from college had a career job lined up and my DD though working in a position that had nothing to do with her career finally accepted an offer for a career job in her field. My DD and DS were willing to continue where they worked until career positions became available. My DS friend has been working as a custodian in a school waiting for a elementary teaching job to become available, he was hired this fall after 3 years of not being hired many districts are flat out not hiring or have freezes implemented. My nephew just went back to get his masters because he can't get hired with his architecture degree, too many of them as the industry is just hiring back the proven architects after the recession.

We can look at @Soarin' Over Pgh and how many places she has gone trying to take any position at this point to cover basic needs. I can't do anything but praise her for her fight for employment and her perseverance. Many employers are unwilling to risk hiring a college grad for jobs that teens can fill as they know they will bolt if a better position becomes available. The same thing happened with corporate executives during the recession applying for anything to earn some money doing anything until they could return to their careers. @FutureCEO has said this over the months that retailers have said this to him during interviews. There are many people in this nation that are genuinely under employed, willing to work at positions that payed less than they made earlier in their working years. Now my other two nieces have come out of school and landed high paying jobs in the careers that they were educated in as did my DS girlfriend so that is not out of the question either just far rarer than it use to be when the country was strong vs the shakey ground it has been on this century.

 

[JenniferS]

Right now, here in Ontario, trade school/apprenticeship is the way to go.
Plumbers, electricians, bricklayers, auto mechanics, roofers, welders .... Not too many of them on the dole right now.

Teachers, however, are waiting seven, eight years to get a permanent full time position with a school board. The only exceptions being those with special skills: fully (truly) bilingual, musical or artistic majors, or men willing to work in the primary grades.