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  • O Oakman

    pimpdog wrote:

    It was either write a letter of resignation or be terminated.

    So by resigning you saved the state the trouble of having to pay you any unemployment compensation. Was that because of your political convictions?

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    Oakman wrote:

    So by resigning you saved the state the trouble of having to pay you any unemployment compensation.

    I didn't know about unemployment benefits back then. I didn't need them anyways because I was living with my dad and I wasn't too upset because I didn't like the job, and I made enough to buy the laptop I am using now. About 3 months later I worked on the regional manager of waffle house 's computer and he offered me a job, I wasn't too thrilled about being a cook, but its all good. He said I could apply at any waffle house in the area and I would be hired.

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    • O Oakman

      Josh Gray wrote:

      Is it even possible to live on $7 an hour? Is there such a thing as a minimum wage where he is?

      Hey don't sell him short! Minimum wage is $6.25. That extra seventyfive cents means that one hour of of his work is worth two six-packs of soda. Or about what I leave as a tip when I take someone out to dinner.

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      Oakman wrote:

      Josh Gray wrote: Is it even possible to live on $7 an hour? Is there such a thing as a minimum wage where he is? Hey don't sell him short! Minimum wage is $6.25. That extra seventyfive cents means that one hour of of his work is worth two six-packs of soda. Or about what I leave as a tip when I take someone out to dinner.

      But can you actually live on that? Would he get health insurance from his employer or have to pay his own?

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        Oakman wrote:

        Josh Gray wrote: Is it even possible to live on $7 an hour? Is there such a thing as a minimum wage where he is? Hey don't sell him short! Minimum wage is $6.25. That extra seventyfive cents means that one hour of of his work is worth two six-packs of soda. Or about what I leave as a tip when I take someone out to dinner.

        But can you actually live on that? Would he get health insurance from his employer or have to pay his own?

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        I can live on it, barely. I can't really live on that right now because I am trying to pay off my credit cards. No health insurance, they would rather use incondesent bulbs that run 24/7.

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          Oakman wrote:

          So by resigning you saved the state the trouble of having to pay you any unemployment compensation.

          I didn't know about unemployment benefits back then. I didn't need them anyways because I was living with my dad and I wasn't too upset because I didn't like the job, and I made enough to buy the laptop I am using now. About 3 months later I worked on the regional manager of waffle house 's computer and he offered me a job, I wasn't too thrilled about being a cook, but its all good. He said I could apply at any waffle house in the area and I would be hired.

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          pimpdog wrote:

          He said I could apply at any waffle house in the area

          Good to know the standards Waffle has for its cooks.

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            pimpdog wrote:

            He said I could apply at any waffle house in the area

            Good to know the standards Waffle has for its cooks.

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            I am actually a very good cook.

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              I am actually a very good cook.

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              DemonPossessed
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              pimpdog wrote:

              I am actually a very good cook.

              Then maybe you could start your own restaurant so you could steal from yourself all you want. You could call it Henize's Home Cooking... until the health department shut it down.

              I'm a Christian: I *know* that I'm perverted. - Ilion

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                Oakman wrote:

                Josh Gray wrote: Is it even possible to live on $7 an hour? Is there such a thing as a minimum wage where he is? Hey don't sell him short! Minimum wage is $6.25. That extra seventyfive cents means that one hour of of his work is worth two six-packs of soda. Or about what I leave as a tip when I take someone out to dinner.

                But can you actually live on that? Would he get health insurance from his employer or have to pay his own?

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                Josh Gray wrote:

                But can you actually live on that? Would he get health insurance from his employer or have to pay his own?

                Depends. My brother-in-law owns five retail places and he pays his people anywhere from $6.25 to $9.00 plus group insurance -- that they have to pay half of. Many other places (Walmart, Big Grocery Chains) around here pay the same, but keep most of their employees hours down to 30 or so, which means they are part-time and do not get any benefits at all, while managers, department heads and favored employees are in a nice plan. By the way, I have retire to rural South Carolina. The pay-scale in Boston, Massachusetts where I used to live is about 50% higher - but so is the cost of everything from food to housing to clothes. Even gas is cheaper here. Up there, $11.00 @ hour is really the minimum for anyone except bums wiping down a car at a car-wash. I doubt that Heinze can be said to be making a living, but since he can stiff his father for the rent, he's probably getting by.

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                  I am actually a very good cook.

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                  pimpdog wrote:

                  I am actually a very good cook.

                  I've only known a couple of professional cooks. They were both making about about 70 thou (and planned on making more). I'd guess you aren't quite in their class, huh?

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                    I have gathered various quotes from the queeran which proves my point about islam. Some quotes aren't terribly intolerant or violent (I don't expect all of them to be) but the ones that are like these... "Slay them wherever you find them...Idolatry is worse than carnage...Fight against them until idolatry is no more and God's religion reigns supreme." (Surah 2:190-) "Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you dislike it." (Surah 2:216) ...prove my point. http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=2605&msg=2572117[^]

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                    And the Bible quotes saying to slay all the heathen nations, not to let the women and children live ?

                    Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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                    • O Oakman

                      Josh Gray wrote:

                      Is it even possible to live on $7 an hour? Is there such a thing as a minimum wage where he is?

                      Hey don't sell him short! Minimum wage is $6.25. That extra seventyfive cents means that one hour of of his work is worth two six-packs of soda. Or about what I leave as a tip when I take someone out to dinner.

                      Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

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                      Oakman wrote:

                      seventyfive cents [is] what I leave as a tip when I take someone out to dinner

                      I see you go to the best places then...

                      Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

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                        I am actually a very good cook.

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                        Then you dont need to eat a 7 dollar burger and risk being fired when you can make your ow for less. How much does a pound of cheap ground beef cost? Add some onions, some sauce, and a bap (what we call the bread roll the burger is in) and there you have a tasty, home made burger. Of course you can always eat a lot of other food which costs less than that. Chicken legs are cheap, Roast one with some garlic salt and onions. Make a gravy from whats left in the tin, and serve with mashed potatoe and whatever other veg is around. Wouldnt cost more than 4 euros here, so probably the same in dollars there.

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                          Then you dont need to eat a 7 dollar burger and risk being fired when you can make your ow for less. How much does a pound of cheap ground beef cost? Add some onions, some sauce, and a bap (what we call the bread roll the burger is in) and there you have a tasty, home made burger. Of course you can always eat a lot of other food which costs less than that. Chicken legs are cheap, Roast one with some garlic salt and onions. Make a gravy from whats left in the tin, and serve with mashed potatoe and whatever other veg is around. Wouldnt cost more than 4 euros here, so probably the same in dollars there.

                          Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

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                          pimpdog 0
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                          I rarely cook at home. If I am not working I will make eggs OM bacon/sausage potato or pancakes, and toast in the morning, and throw something in the microwave in the afternooon.

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                            Oakman wrote:

                            seventyfive cents [is] what I leave as a tip when I take someone out to dinner

                            I see you go to the best places then...

                            Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

                            modified on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 4:24 AM

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                            Oakman
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                            It's okay. I relaise that english isn't your first language :laugh:

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                              I have gathered various quotes from the queeran which proves my point about islam. Some quotes aren't terribly intolerant or violent (I don't expect all of them to be) but the ones that are like these... "Slay them wherever you find them...Idolatry is worse than carnage...Fight against them until idolatry is no more and God's religion reigns supreme." (Surah 2:190-) "Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you dislike it." (Surah 2:216) ...prove my point. http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=2605&msg=2572117[^]

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                              Did you do the same work with the Bible?

                              When they kick at your front door How you gonna come? With your hands on your head Or on the trigger of your gun?

                              Fold with us! ¤ flickr

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                                Did you do the same work with the Bible?

                                When they kick at your front door How you gonna come? With your hands on your head Or on the trigger of your gun?

                                Fold with us! ¤ flickr

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                                Christian Graus
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                                That's what I said.

                                Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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                                  That's what I said.

                                  Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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                                  KaRl
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                                  That's why I voted your post a 5 :) I didn't read all the answer before posting mine :doh:

                                  When they kick at your front door How you gonna come? With your hands on your head Or on the trigger of your gun?

                                  Fold with us! ¤ flickr

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                                    Like I said before I don't work 7 days a week. I didn't get fired although I have learned not to trust my coworkers. I'm just going to go in, keep my mouth shut, do my job, and get out. I'm tired to trying to maintain a friendly relationship with them. It seems like everything I say or do gets repeated to everyone on all shifts. I work with a bunch of girls and they like to start and spread rumors.

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                                    Zhat
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                                    "I work with a bunch of girls and they like to start and spread rumors." You mad because that's all they spread for you??

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                                      No, everything from omlets, chicken, steaks, clubs.

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                                      Zhat
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                                      Then where do you get the burgers?

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                                        Oakman wrote:

                                        It's really too bad you don't have any marketable skills

                                        As I have stated before I am a computer expert. I can fix any computer problem (hardware or software) quickly. I can also write my own software. I worked at CicuitCity as a PC technician, but I had to stand all day, work on a stupid little bench in the middle of the store with loud music and customers asking me questions. I only made an extra 2 dollars an hour of what I am making now.

                                        Oakman wrote:

                                        Well, it seems they don't think you need to be eating for free.

                                        They used to allow it until 3rd shift started eating like pigs making T-Bone steaks and all.

                                        Oakman wrote:

                                        And of course, you won't be able to use them as a reference or even list them as a prior employer since you can hardly get another job after being fired for theft.

                                        I seriously don't think I will get fired, because I'm not the only one. I was told by another cook that cooks can snack on what they want as long as it isn't expensive.

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                                        "I had to stand all day, work on a stupid little bench in the middle of the store with loud music and customers asking me questions." Wow, so now you stand all day cooking in front of a stove in the middle of a kitchen where people are screaming orders at you for food...yea, I'd be giving up that $2 an hour for that...

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                                          I rarely cook at home. If I am not working I will make eggs OM bacon/sausage potato or pancakes, and toast in the morning, and throw something in the microwave in the afternooon.

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                                          Zhat
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                                          Hmm, then besides being a computer expert, your also a home appliance and energy efficiency expert?

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