The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

Songbird76

Songbird76

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RedNoseMickey said:
Since everyone is entitled to sick pay if you have a regular work contract the government can check if you are actually sick. They don't contact all people, just random checks on a small number of people, sometime they call sometimes they visit you at home.
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Ah, but I don't have a regular work contract. I am oproep, so I have no hours, which means I don't get sick leave. If I'm sick, I just don't get paid. But they call me EVERY time I call in sick. I think this is the first time in over a year that I've had to call in to work because either I was sick or one of the kids was. So I'm obviously not milking the system, yet they call me every time. It does feel intrusive.
 
Rista1313

Rista1313

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dryerlintfan said:
I live and breathe by my packing cubes, LOL. They keep everything organized. I roll up complete outfits and put them in the cubes, which compress them. So I can fit more stuff in the same space. And because I roll up outfits, I can grab and go in the morning.

Something else that has really helped also is something called a travel capsule wardrobe. I can't really do this for Disney because of the shirts, but the idea is that every top you bring can go with every bottom you bring, so you don't have to bring as many clothes. 5 tops that match all 5 bottoms make more outfits than you can wear in one trip.
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But I have 9 different tshirts for the 9 days we are there, and they are all new, I want to wear them ALL! 🤣:eek::bawling:
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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Rista1313 said:
I've heard this mentioned here and there... but what's everyones opinion on packing cubes? I bought some awhile ago.. but never used them, but with our new luggage coming, I decided I want to give them another try. I watched a bunch of youtube videos on cube packing yesterday, but all the people were like size 3.... and i'm pooh size.... so wondering if any pooh size people find them useful?
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I have not used them. For when I'm not flying, I like space bags. For flying, I prefer packing everything Marie Kondo style (if you have Netflix, watch an episode of her show; I fit sooo much more in my drawers since I started folding her way) and then put everything else in plastic baggies. The reason for this is so that I basically have one layer of clothes and one layer of baggies and the TSA can easily see what's in there and won't feel the need to go digging. Since most of my trips are flying, I haven't invested in the cubes. I'd be concerned about the TSA with the packing cubes. Especially Orlando TSA.
 
Dad 2 M & M

Dad 2 M & M

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Goofyernmost said:
You want to be careful with that because unless they have changed the tax code you can be fined extra for not paying through out the year. You didn't have to pay completely (thus you would owe at tax return time) and they turn a blind eye to overpaying and massive overpaying, but, not pay enough during the year and they levy a penalty on that. This is from experience. I once was on the payroll getting a check from both the centrally owned companies (separate payroll offices) They didn't take out enough with that to cover my total tax requirement. I had to borrow money to pay the difference at the dreaded April 15th sad day. Then a month later I got a letter from the IRS charging me another $200.00 in penalties for not paying evenly through the whole year. Talk about something that makes you want to leave the country, that is it. (The number 80% of required tax sticks in my mind for some reason, but, that easily can be wrong.
That was a lot of years ago, at least 30, so they might have changed that rule, but, I have never seen a rule that gives them the opportunity to make more money be thrown out.
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Ahhh the penalty!! We paid the penalty two years in a row, and while the principle of paying a penalty hacked us off, the penalty $$ was minimal relative to our tax burden. My guess is the penalty was autonomous as it was like yours, divisible/a multiple by/of the even $100....it certainly was an even dollar amount.

The way we’ve avoided (thus far and doesn’t mean they won’t come back with a retroactive penalty) one takes a part time seasonal job in the early part of the calendar, and the other takes a seasonal in the Fall/Winter. Thus has worked so far, as the “man” sees activity during the year
 
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Rista1313

Rista1313

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StarWarsGirl said:
I have not used them. For when I'm not flying, I like space bags. For flying, I prefer packing everything Marie Kondo style (if you have Netflix, watch an episode of her show; I fit sooo much more in my drawers since I started folding her way) and then put everything else in plastic baggies. The reason for this is so that I basically have one layer of clothes and one layer of baggies and the TSA can easily see what's in there and won't feel the need to go digging. Since most of my trips are flying, I haven't invested in the cubes. I'd be concerned about the TSA with the packing cubes. Especially Orlando TSA.
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I wouldn't be taking them thru TSA, so no worries on that. We fly Southwest... so we check luggage.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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Rista1313 said:
My husband is a night owl too. I've always been a morning person. Both my parents were morning people. Were your parents night people by chance?

I was just thinking the other day I wonder how much we get from our parents. A friend and I were talking about tardiness and the fact that my husbands sister is always late, and Scott would be too, if I didn't hurry him along. His mom is never late though. Not sure about his dad. My parents were the opposite. If you were on time, you were late. Must be 5 minutes early for everything. I am the same way.
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my parents were completely different.
My father was a massive night-owl and professional Napper too.
My mother was a very early bird. Waking up normally at 5-6 AM.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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StarWarsGirl said:
Further chronicles of weird stuff that happened to SWG...

Around the time that I accepted this job, another job I applied for sent me one of those notifications that was likethanks but no thanks.

Yesterday I got an email from them, two weeks later, "We sent that email out in error and we wanted to set you up with a phone screen."

Oh the sweet satisfaction to email back and say, "Oh thanks, but I've accepted another job."
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meanwhile.. SWG in her new job watching the other workplaces that denied her.
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donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Cesar R M said:
I remember reading that the insistence of both Japan and Germany in building "the biggests weapons" were their downfalls.

The amount of engineering, manpower and resources needed to build one Yamato battleship, would have been enough to build up to 10 fast battleships.
Or how a single Schwerer Gustav Railway gun could have been used to build at least 100 heavy panzer tanks. Or a bunch of Panthers.

Not to mention multiple ultra big weapons that failed to be fulfilled (like the Ratte, Maus) which the wasted resources would have made them build hundreds of V2 bombs. :eek:

They said the only useful strike of these mega railway guns were hitting a few very strong ground based bunkers. (if the shell hit the place they intended to hit.. nothing survived. Taking down multiple forts and reinforced bases and storage centers).
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Very familiar with the battleship Yamato and her sister ship Musashi, both of which were sunk by our carrier-based planes late in the war.
The German military in particular had always been obsessed with big guns. Everything from tanks to railway guns.
And yes, the Germans and Japanese spent huge amounts of resources to build certain "superior" weapons, but, we just simply out-produced them. "Arsenal of Democracy", and all. As just one example, for every Tiger tank the Germans could produce we could produce several Sherman tanks.
They also needed a lot of their resources from the territories and countries they conquered. The US, not so much.
Once those were taken back and the supply lines cut, things got worse and worse for both.
And, also, as I mentioned in my previous post, Strategic bombing took a huge toll, as well.
Even though bombing raids over Germany started in 1942, it took the island hopping campaign in the Pacific until late 1944 before we had captured islands close enough for B-29s to make round trip bombing runs (sans the carrier-based, and almost suicidal, Doolittle Raid in April 1942) over the Japanese mainland.
And, even though both of those countries built factories underground to protect them from the raids, it still just wasn't enough.
With supply lines cut, being relentlessly pounded from the sky both day and night, etc., who could produce anything after a certain point...?
It all just snowballed on them.

Here's an article about some of the last-ditch weapons the Germans had ideas for during WWII...

https://bearingarms.com/skaufman/2012/07/03/top-ten-strangest-nazi-last-ditch-designs/
 
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