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In my estimation, the only sensible course of action is to remit whatever liquidity you currently have on hand, while firmly informing them that they must either negotiate directly with the party responsible for initiating the garnishment—since that individual is also effectively holding funds that don't belong to them—or simply wait for you to settle the balance through the repayment schedule you originally intended. Of course, this assumes you’ll be communicating via snail mail and making appearances at the local Chase branch whenever it suits your schedule.
Otherwise, you are essentially providing these corporations with a blueprint for how to aggressively claw back funds from accounts that are under garnishment but lack any actual cash; it gives them the excuse to claim a "clerical error" occurred during a deposit, allowing bank tellers to act as their personal collection agents to force the debt through. 🙂
goldengull3 said:In reality, if a worker is strictly committed to a standard 9-to-5 schedule, they need to be smart about the career paths they pursue. You look toward civil service or banking—though I’d steer clear of healthcare—and you absolutely stay away from system administration. Those IT types are almost always stuck running system updates in the middle of the night or over the weekend.
If you refuse to put in overtime when there's actual pay involved—and assuming you don't have a toddler waiting at daycare—you are effectively capping your own growth and promotion potential. It shouldn't be that way, but that's the landscape we live in. My advice is to choose a role based on your specific lifestyle needs: an administrative assistant gets fixed hours, an IT specialist gets flexibility, and a contractor gets to be their own boss.
For my part, due to some personal priorities—specifically carving out time for research and writing articles—the corporate grind no longer serves my long-term interests. I'm currently looking for a position within a university or a scientific research institution. Once a suitable opening appears, I'll give my colleagues a polite farewell, shake my manager's hand, and move on to a place where I can spend more time tucked away in a library focusing on my studies. I am fully aware that the paycheck will be smaller.
So, refusing unpaid overtime will indeed stunt your career progression, and even rejecting paid hours won't help much.😬
Let us be perfectly clear here: I make a sharp distinction between overtime necessitated by a specific "event"—such as an enterprise system upgrade, a sudden surge in volume due to xy, or those unpredictable project complications paired with a brutal deadline—and the kind of chronic overtime required just to meet the bare minimum expectations of an employer. In companies where half the staff is working excessive hours on a continuous basis, it is patently obvious that the overtime isn't being properly compensated, whether through cash or time off; if it were, it would simply be more cost-effective for the employer to hire additional staff.
goldengull3 said:In reality, if a worker is strictly committed to a standard 9-to-5 schedule, they need to be smart about the career paths they pursue. You look toward civil service or banking—though I’d steer clear of healthcare—and you absolutely stay away from system administration. Those IT types are almost always stuck running system updates in the middle of the night or over the weekend.
If you refuse to put in overtime when there's actual pay involved—and assuming you don't have a toddler waiting at daycare—you are effectively capping your own growth and promotion potential. It shouldn't be that way, but that's the landscape we live in. My advice is to choose a role based on your specific lifestyle needs: an administrative assistant gets fixed hours, an IT specialist gets flexibility, and a contractor gets to be their own boss.
For my part, due to some personal priorities—specifically carving out time for research and writing articles—the corporate grind no longer serves my long-term interests. I'm currently looking for a position within a university or a scientific research institution. Once a suitable opening appears, I'll give my colleagues a polite farewell, shake my manager's hand, and move on to a place where I can spend more time tucked away in a library focusing on my studies. I am fully aware that the paycheck will be smaller.
Flexible scheduling is often just an inherent characteristic of certain roles, and I don't consider those intense periods where you have to "grind" to be true overtime, provided they are balanced out by a lighter workload during the quieter stretches.🙂 For instance, if you have a systems administrator who spends their weekend fixing a server, it stands to reason they might work shorter days during the week, or perhaps stay home and remain "on call" if everything falls apart again.
goldengull3 said:In reality, if a worker is strictly committed to a standard 9-to-5 schedule, they need to be smart about the career paths they pursue. You look toward civil service or banking—though I’d steer clear of healthcare—and you absolutely stay away from system administration. Those IT types are almost always stuck running system updates in the middle of the night or over the weekend.
If you refuse to put in overtime when there's actual pay involved—and assuming you don't have a toddler waiting at daycare—you are effectively capping your own growth and promotion potential. It shouldn't be that way, but that's the landscape we live in. My advice is to choose a role based on your specific lifestyle needs: an administrative assistant gets fixed hours, an IT specialist gets flexibility, and a contractor gets to be their own boss.
For my part, due to some personal priorities—specifically carving out time for research and writing articles—the corporate grind no longer serves my long-term interests. I'm currently looking for a position within a university or a scientific research institution. Once a suitable opening appears, I'll give my colleagues a polite farewell, shake my manager's hand, and move on to a place where I can spend more time tucked away in a library focusing on my studies. I am fully aware that the paycheck will be smaller.
But at least the paycheck comes from the federal government, which offers a level of security nothing else can match.😉
It is quite fascinating, really; in the rest of the world, scientific institutions are places of relentless labor, whereas here, they serve merely as a safe harbor for the exhausted warrior.😬
mellowraven8 said:I might sound blunt here, but let's be real—if someone can't handle this, they aren't going to last long in that role anyway. It’s clearly just not their scene.
That's just how things work in the real world.
So, you're suggesting that in the real world, an employee doesn't actually get to decide whether they want a life outside of their job, but rather, it's entirely dependent on how well their employer manages their organizational structure?
Honestly, these discussions invariably spiral toward those exhausting extremes—the cartoonishly evil employer versus the pathologically lazy employee.
What if we consider a scenario where an employer demands overtime and is perfectly willing to pay the premium, yet the worker simply values their personal time more than any incremental increase in their paycheck?🤷
Tyler Doyle said:It isn't "dali je," it's "da li je."😉
Actually, it's not "da li je," it's "d a l i j e."😉
Kevin Chavez3 said:While everyone was busy whining incessantly about the lack of free plastic wrap to bundle themselves in, not a single soul thought to offer a word of praise for the complimentary shuttle service circling the festival grounds—a service the organizers were under absolutely no obligation to provide, yet they did so anyway. It was a generous gesture, even if it came from Hitler.
I'll pass on that idea🙂
but honestly, thank God it wasn't scorching hot, otherwise we would have realized the shuttle's AC was underwhelming, and the drinks handed out by the flight attendants—who, by the way, lacked any significant curves—weren't nearly cold enough. And let's be real, the selection was mediocre at best.😢
EDIT: 🙏Wayne Coyne
Dennis Lee87 said:I genuinely had the impression that the crowds were much larger this year 🤷
I felt the same way, though perhaps people weren't sprawling out across the grass quite as much due to the miserable weather, which might skew the perception 🤷
and besides, it isn't as if I can precisely distinguish between 12,000 and 15,000 people in a massive crowd 🤷
but then again, it seemed to me that all three stages maintained a decent level of attendance consistently throughout the event 🤷
and ultimately, screw the raw numbers; my only hope is that there was enough interest to ensure the organizers don't pull the plug, allowing us to see the TBA lineup and the Dubioza Collective return next year.
hollowseal33 said:50,000? Please. That figure is nothing more than a desperate attempt to sum up the attendance from all three days combined, and even then, they likely padded the numbers just a bit extra.
I suspect they simply took the crowds from individual shows and added them together to make the whole thing look massive.🙂
I find myself increasingly weary of the sheer lack of sophistication in modern discourse; it seems we have traded meaningful dialogue for the most pedestrian and exhausted forms of playground insults. To resort to such a primitive, intellectually bankrupt opening is to signal nothing more than a profound emptiness of thought. One would hope for a modicum of wit, yet here we are, staring into the abyss of mediocrity. kaže:
Do I really need to go into detail about exactly which fingers I was holding up when he gave that ridiculous command to "energize your fingertips and shoot the energy into the space"?
🤣
For heaven's sake, will you please just stop being such a killjoy? 🙂
Jose White23 said:So, what exactly is this "silent party" nonsense all about? I mean, what is the actual purpose behind it? It honestly looks like some group of joggers wearing headphones just decided to start jumping around aimlessly because the police blocked off a hiking trail or a dam. It’s absurd.
And here is yet another absurdity for the books. Massive Attack is out there slapping corporate logos right behind them on stage, while T-Mobile logos are just sitting there on the sides, mocking us with their presence.
Well, I must say, those are some incredibly sharp observations you've made there. 😍
Adam Moore As specified by Charles James9:
My greatest regret from the second day—and I mean this with more profound sorrow than missing Caribou—is the sheer, utter incompetence regarding the layout. Why on earth did they tuck that booth away in such a godforsaken corner? I didn't even realize it existed until I had already eaten my fill. WHY?!?!?!?! 😢
I saw the menu right there at the entrance. 🙂
Yesterday was 🙏
Broken Social Scene offered that wonderful, pretentious indie vibe perfect for sipping a beer on a lawn (one where the bacteria had begun to colonize grass that had been neglected for two days, accompanied by a certain stench 😬).
Caribou 🙂
A magnificent man (a mathematician 😍), magnificent music, and a magnificent sight watching how the snare and the drummer synchronize. And the setlist was lovely... if they had played a few more beautiful old tracks, I wouldn't have missed the beautiful new ones so much; the curse of releasing such high-quality albums back-to-back.
After Caribou, I headed over to The Flaming Lips... my expectations were perfectly aligned with what one knows about the band, which is to say, zero. And, frankly, I actually love that Bob Dylan-esque front 🙂 and the way they handle their shows—just show up, play, and retreat to the trailer—but that little circus act they put on was truly beautiful 😍. I don't know how music lovers react to that much rambling during a short festival set, but as far as I'm concerned, they could have just fired off some confetti and spread pure joy and merriment. A beautiful final song, and a loud one right before it. As for the rest, I didn't experience it because I was too busy exploding with happiness.
Flogging Molly was a fine pub session with sympathetic people, but as always with their rhythms, interest wanes slightly after six songs. Though, I won't deny that attending their concert with enough alcohol would result in epic amounts of jumping and adequate muscle fiber damage the following day. Vomiting on tables and people is also a distinct possibility.
Massive Attack... first, I listened while hovering near a little something in the background (actually just a plastic bag), then drifted forward to see what they were doing on stage (mostly nothing). I haven't had any significant encounters with them in the past, so I don't know how it felt at Madison Square Garden, Madison Square Garden, Munich, Bristol, or even Mars (they didn't particularly impress me on a friend's cassette tape), but yesterday was quite impressive and lovely for a quiet set. A lot of people bought merch during the concert though; I don't know if they are the last Americans who still have steady jobs, or if they simply found it underwhelming. Regardless, perhaps they aren't the best choice following the sheer luck of Caribou, The Flaming Lips, and Flogging Molly, but better they were there than not 🙂
Organization: First, it is lovely that they stopped being so anal about bringing in photo equipment. Good shots of performers are recorded by accredited professionals anyway, and I have no desire to mess around with that (nor can I compete with quality from the crowd), but it’s nice to have the right to bring an SLR and immortalize a pleasant hangout with friends and buddies. Three years ago, they were snatching memory cards from digital idiots, so this is a significant step forward for civilization.
Second, the beer at $5.00 and the food ranging from ? to $12 (and $35 for a rather generous portion of delicacies from the brotherly republic of China) are very reasonably priced, and I appreciate that. I drank and ate plenty.
Third, there was plenty of everything, from currency exchange booths to tables for consuming goods and bins for their excretion.
Given how problematic the first and third points were in the past, I conclude that the organizer is learning and evolving, and sometimes that is more important than the performances on an absolute scale.
The festival itself: we can talk trash about the lineup, the Corporation, the schedule, and whatever else we want, but it is nice to have something like this within reach of the local campus area ☕
Elizabeth Torres43 said:Why on earth are we even entertaining this hack's comments?
Well, that is precisely how the man chose to present himself.🤷
Sandra Wilson14 said:I truly regret missing Pendulum, but I have absolutely zero regrets about seeing Idol; honestly, they were phenomenal.
The sheer evaporation of accuracy here: Idol -> fuckin' Idol
🤮
Adam Moore said:There’s absolutely zero discernible difference, unless the guy running security decides to waste five minutes squinting at your bracelet.
Or just dunk your hand in some nail polish remover!
I actually stumbled upon my own little ritual a few years back, inspired by Nick Cave; I was dealing with such a brutal bout of illness back then that I was convinced I wouldn't even make it to tomorrow. In a fit of sheer boredom once the fever broke, after having already handed off a gift card for a round of drinks to some teenager just to ensure a certain girl could have a drink while we were embracing, I sat there with a piece of plastic wrap and a needle—tools I always seem to have lying around somewhere on my desk—and essentially waged war against big pharma 🙂
so that I could ride off on my scooter, or whatever vehicle I happened to be using, the very next day.
That said, I am fully in favor of any solution that keeps things simple.😬
quietcobra said:By the way, I have a bracelet worth something today, but I can't make it, so if anyone knows how to take it off without snapping it, let me know—I'll give it away very cheap 🙂
On that plastic "button," you have a "mushroom" shape that three prongs grip onto. You can gently pry them apart using a needle (I used a histology needle, but a standard sewing needle will suffice, just be careful not to snap it and injure yourself 🙂), one by one, while sliding something underneath them to prevent them from snapping back into place (for instance, a thick piece of aluminum foil from a medicine box or something similar). In the process, you’ll slightly buff down both the mushroom and the prongs, but they will still hold firmly once you snap it shut again.
Just give it to a friend or some high school girl you're writing songs for; trying to sell bracelets is beneath you...
Personally, I found that set to be entirely passable. I haven't actually delved into their discography before, as my tastes lean heavily toward Portishead and I generally find nothing else in that vein remotely tolerable, but there was a certain charm to it—just a cold beer and some rhythmic swaying...
Prior to that, Heroin was predictably solid, and that snippet from The Molesters was equally decent.
And then, LCD Soundsystem absolutely crushed it 🙏
followed immediately by !!!, whose lead singer apparently had his usual run-ins with the police and identified as gay 😍
I listened to Frenulum for a brief period, and I find myself in total agreement with Raymond Barrett12.
As for Billy Idol, he was nothing short of an embarrassment.
The posing 🤮
the stadium setting 🤮
the costume changes 🤮
the sheer pretension 🤮
"I'm Billy fuckin' Idol" 🤮 🤮 🤮 was absolute bottom-of-the-barrel garbage
Despite the fact that his tracks are staples in every "Why We Hate the Eighties" compilation ever assembled, he has genuine hits, and I suspect that if he hadn't been so preoccupied with his own image, he could have been a perfectly respectable act for festivals of this caliber.
Instead, he chose to be a hillbilly fuckin' idol 🤷
feraltrucker5 said:You’ve completely missed the mark here. ☕ An engaged crowd defines a rock concert. People throwing mud? That’s just pure idiocy. ☕
You are harboring some truly delusional expectations of people 😬
feraltrucker5 said:And frankly, I couldn't care less about those idiots who actually thought throwing mud around was a brilliant idea. 🤦 A friend of mine took a hit right in the eye. 😠
Look, this is a rock concert; if my friend wants that kind of polite atmosphere, she should head over to Carnegie Hall to listen to chamber music with that kind of attitude. 😉
Jerry Howard said:I don't get why everyone keeps harping on about them being old, especially since they were actually nominated for a Grammy this year for their live performance.
To hell with the Grammys.🙂
Personally, I couldn't care less about Alice in Chains, but I have to admit their musicianship was remarkably sharp... and as for them being "old," please; it's not like we're planning on repopulating the planet using their DNA.😬
urbannomad30 said:Alice in Chains is worth a listen, though they rarely transcend that specific niche before being utterly crushed by
something far more terrifying
but whatever
and honestly, the singer had a killer t-shirt!
Andrew Martin13 said:Theoretically, if you aren't using it, it’s just a concept. And those concepts vanish the second you actually put them to work. I know plenty of people who let their deficits sit untouched because they realize once they start addressing them, there's no end in sight.
So, by that logic, if I have cash tucked away in my bank account just because I might need to buy a new pair of socks, that money is purely imaginary until I spend it? 🤣
Honestly, we should all just take our entire life savings and set them on fire; that’s the only way we’ll truly break this rigged system.☕