They treat it like you cashed it out. He’ll take the tax hit for it but he won’t have to worry about that until later - and because he’ll be a full-time student, there might be workarounds.
Changing the code requires going through release management, is the short version … There’s a web page used internally at my company which includes an ‘entry submitted by’ drop-down listing all of the authorized users of the application, which is coded this way. I grit my teeth every time I have to ask the owners to add a new authorized user, because I know it will take six weeks when it shouldn’t take six minutes. (Laying aside the fact that it shouldn’t even have a drop-down–it should just read the user ID from the network …)
That said, I coded a similar page that way, once upon a time, when I was positive it would be static. I’ve learned better, I swear.
All of the big plants scattered around the office were repotted recently. The one next to my desk looks great, as do some of the others. There’s a large one in the document control room that didn’t make it though…it has turned many shades of yellow and brown (though the tallest part still has some green), and it’s really starting to stink.
Hey flatlined, I think one of your RatKing’s minions has made their way to my workplace. I got a call today from one of the parking lot booth cashiers saying that the gate arm at the booth wasn’t working. So I tell the service guy, who heads out to the booth to see what’s wrong.
He opens up the service panel and startles a rat! He said he didn’t know who jumped higher, him or the rat. Apparently there was a strategically placed pile of rat turds that was interfering with the gate arm functioning. Cleaned out the turds and the gate starts working again. For now at least, until the RatKing gets word of this and sends reinforcements… :eek:
For you and anyone else who wants to know: I had an interview with the boss at the company and he sounded very positive and that he needed to talk to a few people but at this time he saw no reason not to hire me. Then he mentioned the hourly rate he was thinking of and it’s almost triple what I’m currently making an hour. To be honest, I had a hard time focusing after that. I’m not counting on anything until the inks dry but it sort of looks like I may actually be on the cusp of a real, adult job. I’m excited and nervous and someone pinch me because I must be fucking dreaming!
Congratulations inner stickler. My hitch is about my Sgt. This is a guy whobwas a shifty coward of an officer who took the test. He immediately looks at any situation as to how he can cya and get out of it. The other day we had a major situation involving a off duty drunk officer…the idiot drove the wrong way on a major interstate and hit a vehicle. I.had to come out and run the whole shebang. It’s getting a little tough to tell the younger guys to respect the rank. And not to be nasty…at 320plus lbs its not like he can do anything in a crisis.
My dad always used to leave with a line “Write when you get work!”
Well, congrats–write when the ink’s dry!
Thank you for your service to the community, Chicagojeff. I hope there were no serious injuries. Be careful out there.
P.S. Keeping my fingers crossed for you, Inner Stickler! Keep us posted.
Fingers and toes crossed for you, Inner Stickler. I had a contract job once where the guy offered me about three times what I normally make for office work, and asked me if that was okay. I felt the same way - “Holy shit, dude, do you know how much officer workers normally make? Hell YEAH it’s okay!”
Hi new colleague. Nice perfume. Am I detecting the plesant, floral hint of a drop behind the ears? Am I hell. You’ve applied it like a marinade, and the reek is so bad that your other colleagues are snorting lines of printer toner just to sanitize their nostrils.
Hey spotthegerbil, I think we share a workplace! I had to sit through a lengthy meeting this morning sandwiched between two perfume-bathers. My sinuses were on fire.
A workplace mini-rant - when you need to line things up, use a properly set tab, not spaces and just hitting tab until it lines up (sort of). Also, make lines with either a line tab or a drawn line, not hyphens. Sheesh. I spent an hour today cleaning up headers and footers with crappy formatting.
And while I’m at it, if all the other headers and footers are Arial, don’t use Times New Roman for a handful of them.
Our headers and document bodies are Arial; footers are Times New Roman italic. Indents are typically performed with a long string of tabs and spaces; sometimes, someone will try to make things line up using a table with invisible borders.
Don’t get me started on line spacing…sometimes it’s 1.5 spacing after the headers, and sometimes it’s 3 pts after the header. I’ll admit that you can’t always see it on the screen, but the mixture looks horrible when printed.
Be afraid. Be very afraid. The snakes will be next…
You’re giving me hives. {Shudders}
I aim to please.
There’s been snakes too. It was before my time there- someone found a snake in the warehouse. :eek:
Speaking of snakes, you guys remember the crazy snake oil lady I work with who thinks that essential oils cure everything from hiccups to cancer? Well today she came up with a real doozy.
She told me today that sunscreen causes cancer. “All those chemicals can’t be good for your skin!” Her theory is that people in the old days didn’t have sunscreen, and they didn’t get skin cancer either and they spent way more time outside than we do now.
Of course to her eating sugar causes cancer, wearing makeup causes cancer, eating meat causes cancer, drinking tap water causes cancer… Some days I wonder why she doesn’t just seal herself into a bubble.
I have heard this too, and was actually supplied with some decent supporting information (i.e. a couple of articles from peer reviewed journals) when I questioned it. I’ll see if I can dig it up.
Here’s a wiki on it: Potential Health Risks of Sunscreen.
What the person was focusing on was the increased cancer risk (malignant melanoma) related to the use of oxybenzone, benzophenone, octocrylene, and octyl methoxycinnamate in sunscreens, as quoted in the wiki. A couple of studies have found that the incidence of this type of cancer is higher in sunscreen users.
ETA: All that said, I think sunscreen is a good idea. Benefits vastly outweigh the possible negatives.
Bubbles causes cancer too.