You can get as good as that as standard in the UK.
I get 36 days PTO, the legal minimum is 28 days. 25% bonus. Pension contribution, I pay 4%, company pays 8%. Health insurance included, but the NHS will cover most stuff.
This isn’t even a senior level position, it’s bottom level. Seniors get way more.
People need to live within their means. It’s not a human right to go get drunk every weekend. If you can’t afford it, you stay home.
I get paid 4 weekly so get 13 pays a year.
Even better if you keep schtoom about it and automate your work from home job allowing you to just chill for most of the day.
Working my way through “The Mechanic” by Marc ‘Elvis’ Priestley. So far it’s a pretty nice insight into the ins and outs of an F1 mechanic from a perspective below that of the likes of Newey or Steiner (who’s books are also top tier reading).
I joined a " we are family" company and got shouted at by the founder because I wasn’t a mind reader and didn’t do something I had no idea needed done.
Sounds exactly like family, except I was hired into the position of toddler.
Fuck that noise.
In Europe over 60,000 people died in 2022 due to heatwaves.
People are blind to these deaths because they’re not being taken out by a single devastating event, but rather a series of small events the people brush off as “they were going to die anyway”.
It’s one of the reasons I’ve not, and will not have children. This is getting exponentially worse and I couldn’t image the horror that our future will face.
My next door neighbour has a dog that just screams and wails all day. It sounds horiffic, but because it’s got food water and shelter and doing it in the day time when his owners are at work it’s ok (says the local authority).
If you have enough money to support local retailers then absolutely - it’s important.
But if you’re struggling to the extent that you’re envolope budgeting to make sure everything gets a share, then you’ve got bigger more immediate problems than Costco becoming so big you get your law degree from there.
As an autistic adult who successfully masks and is exhausted by conversation, about half of the interaction with my partner are sending memes back and forward because they get a feeling or point across in short format without loads of explanation.
It’s a very good communication format.
The last time my dad called was 16 years ago when my mum was bleeding out after surgery and we didn’t know if she was going to make it.
Other than that, it’s WhatsApp messages, and they’re usually about the dog.
I would 100% think someone had died if my dad called.
The only benefit to an automatic is being able to eat a burrito while driving.
Still doesn’t outweigh the niceness of driving a manual.
I work on websites and have carried out extensive user testing to get the right non-binary honorific, and it ended up being Mx.
Implemented it on every site I’ve worked on now.
You’ll also pay more by going into shops and using cash…
Big bag of dog food from local shop, £65.
Same bag from online only retailer with free shipping? £38.
Cash only is not a good way to budget.
I see you also are a project manager.
It’s always fun to answer the door to JW when you’re a goth. They’re already in a state of panic before you’ve opened your mouth.
It’s clear you have never met a woman…
Source: a woman who beat every other male in every grade in my comp sci degree and is top of the class.
Also has a life because WOMEN CAN MULTITASK APPARENTLY.
The sentiment is different now though around becoming unwell with one of these diseases. They’ll argue they caught it from vaccine shedding rather than naturally so it will just make them even more psychotic on the antivax soapbox.
Andrew Wakefield has a lot to answer for by rocket powering our regression in modern medicine.
I just use my teeth and it horrifys anyone I’m with…
Jokes on them though, because I’m the one with an open beer.