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WTF People... GET A LIFE!!!

WOW....

Pretty amazing the life this thread has taken on.....

Some of us believe in living to work, and others believe in working to live. We all have our opinions on which way it should be...

I believe we have to do both, but I also believe there should be a balance between the two...

It ended up I didn't have to do anything with the call, and it will be taken care of on Monday.

The point I was trying to make at the beginning, that the problem was a non emergency, and people don't stop long enough to think of others just because they believe in living to work...
 
Andyman said:
I won't disagree with those points, but it is tough to get by one a single wage.

My home is modest in a modest neighborhood, we drive older cars, the "new" one is a 2002, and I scrounge LOTS of stuff from thrifts and garage sales, including most of my clothes. I could save about $200-250/month by dropping cable, cell phones, selling a car, and maybe making the family eat more responsibly, but it still would be hard to cover the bills with my wages alone. Yet our standard of living compares well with those making $20-30,000 more annually because we don't follow the crowd and try to keep up with the Joneses, much to my 14 year old daughters dismay :D
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I am glad you did not take my post wrong. I bought my house in 1994 making $9.00hr. It is a $95,000 house (in 1994). I paid it off completely in 12 years. I study and do my own repairs/maintenance. I cook most of my own food. I drive close to the speed limit, and treat my vehicle for what it is...an expensive machine to fix if treated improperly. My house is a duplex so I am collecting $700 dollars rent every month. I have been unemployed since September 2006. How do I do it? I have never received any type of unemployment compensation . I don't have many bills. Bought a 2001 Tundra in 2001 (paid cash) Bought a economy car for everyday getting around. I have friends that make 2 or 3 times what I have ever made, and they are still paying RENT to live!!! I agree with you. It is tough, but a lot of people are just to lazy to save themselves money. And then when things really do get tough they are even more lost. A sad note is that everywhere I have worked I have moved to the top rung, I am a great worker IMHO. I see people today that have NO CONCEPT of being a valuable employee. They think that showing up entitles them to a paycheck. To those out there struggling...GOOD LUCK...don't give up, but make something happen for yourself. Rant over.
 
bentpencil said:
Dairymen don't get the day off. Cows have to be milked 365 days a year.
Livestock ranchers don't get the day off. The animals have to be fed.
Emergency room doctors and nurses don't get a day off.
Ambulance drivers don't get the day off.
People running the electric generators don't get the day off.
Etc.


Thanksgiving isn't about a day off........:thmbsp::thmbsp:
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Railroad dont stop either, im on call 24-7... I choose to be cause im young and want to work, this world is slowing down... im just thankfull i got a job..
 
RobD8870 said:
We all love to say "it could always be worse!!" But to me that is like saying nothing at all because it could always be better too.
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Well put

Bstable said:
... I bought my house in 1994 making $9.00hr. It is a $95,000 house (in 1994). I paid it off completely in 12 years. I study and do my own repairs/maintenance. I cook most of my own food. I drive close to the speed limit, and treat my vehicle for what it is...an expensive machine to fix if treated improperly. My house is a duplex so I am collecting $700 dollars rent every month.
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Sounds like a very good formula for lower wage workers you have/had there
 
9 bucks equals around 13 bucks now. Not exactly big money. 95,000 is about 140,000 today. To buy a house at that price ratio is indeed a testiment to hard work and sacrifice.
 
We bought our 4.5 acres back in 1996 for $45,000. Three years later they were selling 3 acre lots up the road for $135,000 - that's $45,000 an acre! Had the house built on it in 1998 but could not afford to buy it all today, even with the air being let out of the bubble.
 
similost said:
I'm not trying to be ungrateful at all, and I sure didn't mean to sound that way. I love my job, and take great pride in the service and product I provide. I guess I should feel more for this girl that seems to have nothing better to do than work on a paid holiday, but I just don't understand people that don't think about others... OR.. who knows, maybe it was her way of looking for attention...

Just a mention.. interesting how she used her name as the subject line in the e-mail...
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Maybe......she has the hots for you? Just a thought! :scratch2: :smoke:
 
VinylHanger said:
9 bucks equals around 13 bucks now. Not exactly big money. 95,000 is about 140,000 today. To buy a house at that price ratio is indeed a testament to hard work and sacrifice.
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In case anyone did the math. In 1994 I was renting the other half at $400 a month, and had a roommate at $350 a month. My mortgage was $745. I was buying the house, and made $5 a month. Yes I worked hard. Remodeled my kitchen with new appliances, and put the old ones into the rental kitchen. Did a $20,000 remodel for about $4,000.
 
merrylander said:
We bought our 4.5 acres back in 1996 for $45,000. Three years later they were selling 3 acre lots up the road for $135,000 - that's $45,000 an acre! Had the house built on it in 1998 but could not afford to buy it all today, even with the air being let out of the bubble.
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Merrylander, you posted a pic of your spread recently. One heck of a nice place, you did well.
 
grillebilly said:
Merrylander, you posted a pic of your spread recently. One heck of a nice place, you did well.
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Thanks, Florence and me planted all the white pines down the north side of the property many years ago when they were only 4 - 5 feet high. Planted most all of the trees with the exception of the grove behind the house and the bit more than an acre at the back which had never been cleared. A load of Black Walnut back there in case I need cash some day.

Have to replace a small blue spruce that the lawn rats destroyed but that will have to wait for spring as it is a bit late now. You would think that with a whole forest behind us the damn whitetails could find enough bushes in there to destroy. So far they have taken out three blue spuce, one red maple and damaged a red bud. Got a friend in PA who brings me firecrackers so when I see them in the yard I let a couple off - sends them into the woods real fast.
 
Wow! Did not even notice this until now.

While I value hard work and have done my share of it, I have to go with my friend Simi on this one. Thanksgiving is just that. There are unspoken limits and this is one we should all value.

But I can top it. Back in the day, my mother in law was the HR director at a big law firm. A partner, who later held a fairly high government position, called her at 2:00 am at home on Christmas Eve, or rather Christmas morning, so that she could line up a secretary to go work with him at the office. She hung up on him.
 
Everyone plays the game of capitalism and then complains about it when it bites them in the ass apparently.
 
A wise man once said something that pretty well sums up how I feel about this whole topic.

"That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study it. "
 
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