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My work pays for my commute.
Pretty much all my employers have payed for my commute, either full train/bus, or 19 cents a KM for gass costs. This is bog standard over here. If your employer doenst pay for your commute you either live around the corner, or you shouldnt take the job.
EDIT: nakedness doesnt get you any extra.
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My work pays for my commute.
Pretty much all my employers have payed for my commute, either full train/bus, or 19 cents a KM for gass costs. This is bog standard over here. If your employer doenst pay for your commute you either live around the corner, or you shouldnt take the job.EDIT: nakedness doesnt get you any extra.
Wooooooow...
Nope. I'd love to hear from other U.S. FaWtLers, but I've never met anyone who had a job that paid for their commute. If your company has a parking lot that gives you free parking that's a "sweet perk".
Depends on how you define the commute. When i worked from home for one place, they would pay for plane ticket and rental car to visit the workplace. When I lived in state and worked at the job site, I paid for my 4 mile commute.
Priceline use to fly Jesse to and from work on private helicopter. But that was in the midst of the dot com explosion.
Depends on how you define the commute. When i worked from home for one place, they would pay for plane ticket and rental car to visit the workplace. When I lived in state and worked at the job site, I paid for my 4 mile commute.
Priceline use to fly Jesse to and from work on private helicopter. But that was in the midst of the dot com explosion.
I'd define "commute" as "getting to your regular, daily office".
When I was a technical trainer we had 50% uptime, most of which was on-site. I got reimbursed to travel to an onsite to deliver training. But I never got reimbursed to go to my regular office where my desk was.
I guess that's a good way to put it: "Do you get paid to get to the place your daily desk is?"
Working from home and getting reimbursed to go in once a month doesn't count. Getting flown to and from work in a helicopter every day not only counts, but it's pretty darned impressive!
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My work pays for my commute.
Pretty much all my employers have payed for my commute, either full train/bus, or 19 cents a KM for gass costs. This is bog standard over here. If your employer doenst pay for your commute you either live around the corner, or you shouldnt take the job.EDIT: nakedness doesnt get you any extra.
Wooooooow...
Nope. I'd love to hear from other U.S. FaWtLers, but I've never met anyone who had a job that paid for their commute. If your company has a parking lot that gives you free parking that's a "sweet perk".
No, I’ve never known of a company paying all its employees’ commuting costs in the US, but it might happen somewhere.
Commuting costs can be part of salary negotiation though (if it’s the type of job where salary is negotiable). When I lived and worked on Long Island, my commuting costs were minimal. When I took the job in NYC, I said they needed to pay me what I was making on Long Island, plus my commuting costs, plus enough extra to make it worthwhile to switch jobs.
So if the cost of commuting is negotiated into the salary, it works out the same. But, as I mentioned, a lot of jobs do not have negotiable salaries, and in that scenario you are on your own.
Edit: I should add - way back when I worked in downtown Rochester (as an intern), the company did provide parking to all employees in a nearby garage. But monthly parking passes in downtown Rochester are cheap.
My company pays $6/day for my parking. My office is the only one in the company that does this because all of our other offices have their own parking lots. Mine has to deal with downtown parking decks instead.
Beyond the paid parking situation - which I've had at one other job as well - I have never had a company pay for daily commute costs.
Three times I've had to go to the Cincinnati office, and all three times I drove my own car over there rather than pay for a rental or fly and then pay for a rental. The company will reimburse me for plane tickets and rental cars in those situations. However, since I took my own car, they paid me for mileage to and from Cincinnati, but not for my "daily commute" from the hotel to the office while I was there. They did pay for all of my gas though, but that's no different than if I had gotten a rental car.
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Last night I was reminded that people who are having monitor resolution issues on their personal computers think that calling the corporate IT emergency line is an appropriate solution.
The problem isn't that they do it once, are told stop it, and they listen and don't do it anymore. They just keep doing it, and while I have some pull in this company, I'm not sure that anybody has enough pull to get these people to listen because their bosses are not willing to actually discipline them.
I want the IT department to start charging the other departments on a per contact basis.
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I'd love to hear from other U.S. FaWtLers, but I've never met anyone who had a job that paid for their commute. If your company has a parking lot that gives you free parking that's a "sweet perk".
Our little city has for decades offered free bus passes through your employer if the job is within the Downtown Development Authority taxing area.
I don't know of any employer who *only* offers the bus pass. It's always a choice between free parking or free 'ride all you want'* bus pass.
*no limits on hours, days or number of rides per month
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So this is about as Midwestern middle-aged white guy as it gets...
I had to buy a new weed-eater/trimmer. I found an electric one from the same company that made my electric lawnmower and it uses the same rechargable battery.
The same 80V battery...as my lawnmower...
This is not a weed-eater. This is a personal helicopter. This is a weapon deserving of a name. I shall call it Scourge until the day it deigns to communicate with me.
A high-powered weed destroyer seems a weird alternate form for Galvatron's henchman, but it's still much better than any of the Michael Bayformers.
You gonna get the 80V leaf blower too?...
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I...might...already have it.
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The 80V chainsaw is coming next.
In the movie adaptation, I'd suggest we get Cate Blanchett to play your part.
I'd love to hear from other U.S. FaWtLers, but I've never met anyone who had a job that paid for their commute. If your company has a parking lot that gives you free parking that's a "sweet perk".Our little city has for decades offered free bus passes through your employer if the job is within the Downtown Development Authority taxing area.
I don't know of any employer who *only* offers the bus pass. It's always a choice between free parking or free 'ride all you want'* bus pass.
*no limits on hours, days or number of rides per month
Wow! And that's in the U.S.?!?!?
The closest I've ever seen was that U.C. Davis tacked on a $15 "transportation fee" to every undergrad, and that got them free bus rides for the semester. (Us grad students had to pay $0.50 to ride. The nerve!)
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I got reimbursed to travel to an onsite to deliver training. But I never got reimbursed to go to my regular office where my desk was.
I guess that's a good way to put it: "Do you get paid to get to the place your daily desk is?"
In general, businesses (or employees) cannot deduct commuting expenses. Biking, vanpooling, bus passes, and parking are exceptions. Federal Tax Codes changed in 1993 to allow employers to deduct the cost of bus passes as a congestion-mitgation method and an air pollution reduction tactic.
Prior to that only employee parking expenses could be deducted.
I got reimbursed to travel to an onsite to deliver training. But I never got reimbursed to go to my regular office where my desk was.
I guess that's a good way to put it: "Do you get paid to get to the place your daily desk is?"
In general, businesses (or employees) cannot deduct commuting expenses. Biking, vanpooling, bus passes, and parking are exceptions. Federal Tax Codes changed in 1993 to allow employers to deduct the cost of bus passes as a congestion-mitgation method and an air pollution reduction tactic.
Prior to that only employee parking expenses could be deducted.
That explains a ton, thanks!
Surprising that so few companies around here do it, then...
The closest I've ever seen was that U.C. Davis tacked on a $15 "transportation fee" to every undergrad, and that got them free bus rides for the semester. (Us grad students had to pay $0.50 to ride. The nerve!)
Our local university bus system is free* for everyone, including visitors and townies. And reciprocally, your university ID (staff, faculty, and student) swipes through the farebox for free rides on the city/regional system.
*ie the actual transfer payments are hidden deep in the budget somewhere. No one is charged a tacked-on 'fee' denominated 'bus service' though. [But they smack you hard with parking fees, and have color-coded six levels of desirability with the closest/most desirable being a small fortune per year.]
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Work has never offered to pay for my transport costs, though I have heard of other companies subsidising things like bus/train season tickets, or offering interest-free loans for cycles and whathaveyou, though I think the latter was a government-backed scheme.
Not having to travel into the office, and not being able to go to HEMA, etc., has saved me quite a bit of cash, NONE of which has been spent on swords, which I think is jolly disciplined of me.
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Random tech complaint of the day:
A WingStop order ended up getting my email and phone number sold on the black market (yes, Global Megacorporation provides identity theft protection along with its other benefits, so I'm notified of such things). So far it's been pretty darned innocuous: Accounts have been set up for me at EatStreet (the delivery service that started it, my guess is that a WingStop employee created an account for me to deliver my order), and this week at eVite. (Which is hilarious, because I hate eVite almost as much as I hate Facebook.)
The recommendations were pretty standard: Change your email password, lock down the settings, add two-factor authentication, etc.
*Except*...
...unlike even Microsoft Windows, which allows you to specify which applications to allow and which not to, Google Mail is an "on or off" setting: Either you allow third-party apps to use GMail features, or you don't.
Which is a PITA, because I use Pidgin as my IM client, and I like it very much. And I can't use it with Google Chat unless I allow ALL third-party apps.
Er, Google? I want an exception for ONE application! Not ALL of them! Get with the program! It's not even that hard to implement!
Grr...
EDIT: OK, the "workaround" is to turn on two-factor authentication so that every single time you try to access Google Mail from a browser you have to put in a code from a text message. Which isn't that much of a PITA because I never use a browser to read my gmail.
This turns OFF the "unsafe application" setting and you can generate a password for your application that Google accepts.
Not exactly transparent, but problem solved.
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So, it turns out carrying, mixing, and then troweling 750 pounds of concrete is pretty exhausting when it's 90 degrees outside.
Sure does look nice though!
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The General is mad at me because she's mad at the kids.
I walked the dog and have decided to hide out for the rest of the night.
My work pays for my commute.
Pretty much all my employers have payed for my commute, either full train/bus, or 19 cents a KM for gass costs. This is bog standard over here. If your employer doenst pay for your commute you either live around the corner, or you shouldnt take the job.EDIT: nakedness doesnt get you any extra.
Wooooooow...
Nope. I'd love to hear from other U.S. FaWtLers, but I've never met anyone who had a job that paid for their commute. If your company has a parking lot that gives you free parking that's a "sweet perk".
Not a one.
When I was living in Arizona buying monthly bus passes was one of my primary expenses. Since moving to Tennessee and getting a driver's license and car it became gas. Now it's gas and car payments. And I can pretty much guess that I won't get anything of that sort from any job I get out here in KS.
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The General works s half mile from home, my job is more than willing to supply me with a truck if I need one but I like the autonomy, otherwise we don't really drive much anyway as everything is a quick deathmarch away.
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No. That the Pittsburgh water authority repeatedly forgets that this garage has guards. Pardon my tone, but I'm mildly pissed.Slowly evolving into a camel?Yes, it does. Unfortunately, I have become somewhat used to it.Hello, everyone.
I wish that I could say that it is a good morning, but the Parking Garage has no water, again.
Hi John.
That sux :(
It's completely OK because due to the magic of the internet or rather due to the lack of magic I can't hear tone via text.
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I wish public transportation was more popular in the states. If I could not own a car I would. It's such a sink hole for money.
Is that your "quote of the day"?
Or is it the bourgeois telling you when?
You can cook boujee like chicken. Tasty.
A high-powered weed destroyer seems a weird alternate form for Galvatron's henchman, but it's still much better than any of the Michael BayformersSo this is about as Midwestern middle-aged white guy as it gets...
I had to buy a new weed-eater/trimmer. I found an electric one from the same company that made my electric lawnmower and it uses the same rechargable battery.
The same 80V battery...as my lawnmower...
This is not a weed-eater. This is a personal helicopter. This is a weapon deserving of a name. I shall call it Scourge until the day it deigns to communicate with me.
You mean the ones that breathed millions of dollars into a franchise that was legit dying?
*The PCs have reached a ferry*
Ferryman: "I can take you across for 1 silver piece apiece. But your horses are gonna take up more space. They'll cost 2 gold each."
PC: "No need, we'll kill the horses."
WHAT? Freaking murder hobos. Also a horse is like 50+ gold.
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A high-powered weed destroyer seems a weird alternate form for Galvatron's henchman, but it's still much better than any of the Michael BayformersSo this is about as Midwestern middle-aged white guy as it gets...
I had to buy a new weed-eater/trimmer. I found an electric one from the same company that made my electric lawnmower and it uses the same rechargable battery.
The same 80V battery...as my lawnmower...
This is not a weed-eater. This is a personal helicopter. This is a weapon deserving of a name. I shall call it Scourge until the day it deigns to communicate with me.
You mean the ones that breathed millions of dollars into a franchise that was legit dying?
I never thought I could be bored watching giant robots fight each other until I saw the transformers with Mark whalberg. I mean who wrote the dialogue for that movie. I don't need half the movie to be a lecture on statitory laws. wtf Michael bay.
They were killing their own horses so they wouldn't have to pay the ferry toll. They'd already established that these were terrible horses. "Single-use horses" is how they described them.WHAT? Freaking murder hobos. Also a horse is like 50+ gold.*The PCs have reached a ferry*
Ferryman: "I can take you across for 1 silver piece apiece. But your horses are gonna take up more space. They'll cost 2 gold each."
PC: "No need, we'll kill the horses."
Just memorize the communal mount spell. This upset me. where they at least an evil party of anti-druids?
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My work pays for my commute.
Pretty much all my employers have payed for my commute, either full train/bus, or 19 cents a KM for gass costs. This is bog standard over here. If your employer doenst pay for your commute you either live around the corner, or you shouldnt take the job.EDIT: nakedness doesnt get you any extra.
Wooooooow...
Nope. I'd love to hear from other U.S. FaWtLers, but I've never met anyone who had a job that paid for their commute. If your company has a parking lot that gives you free parking that's a "sweet perk".
Most places let you claim bike commute as car commute (for that 19 cents a KM), as an incentive to get more people to bike into work.
I'm not sure a 3rd level character can cast that spell. And no, they're just having a lot of fun playing a one-shot during quarantine.Just memorize the communal mount spell. This upset me. where they at least an evil party of anti-druids?They were killing their own horses so they wouldn't have to pay the ferry toll. They'd already established that these were terrible horses. "Single-use horses" is how they described them.WHAT? Freaking murder hobos. Also a horse is like 50+ gold.*The PCs have reached a ferry*
Ferryman: "I can take you across for 1 silver piece apiece. But your horses are gonna take up more space. They'll cost 2 gold each."
PC: "No need, we'll kill the horses."
It's second so depends if their prepared or instantaneous caster.
You doing one shot online or in person?
The General is mad at me because she's mad at the kids.
I walked the dog and have decided to hide out for the rest of the night.
Well, that's your kids.
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I shouldn't open GoG webpage... Ohhh... GoG sale!
*click*
*click-click-click*
Actually, I am sort of proud of me. I only bought three seriously discounted games (80% discount, 66% and 60%, or something like that)...
There are more I'd like... Need resist...
^Fallouts were on sale, but I haven't bought them
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Most places let you claim bike commute as car commute (for that 19 cents a KM), as an incentive to get more people to bike into work.My work pays for my commute.
Pretty much all my employers have payed for my commute, either full train/bus, or 19 cents a KM for gass costs. This is bog standard over here. If your employer doenst pay for your commute you either live around the corner, or you shouldnt take the job.EDIT: nakedness doesnt get you any extra.
Wooooooow...
Nope. I'd love to hear from other U.S. FaWtLers, but I've never met anyone who had a job that paid for their commute. If your company has a parking lot that gives you free parking that's a "sweet perk".
Also if you work doesnt offer you free coffee/tea you know its a super shitty place and you probably dont want to work there.
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Yeah...
Uh, I am digging in myself deeper, ain't I?
Anyway, if anyone would be interested in ever playing Lord Of The Rings online, currently there is a code that gives all current quest packs for free, and the expansions are ultra-cheap: Friends Forever. 99 LP can be easily earned in game in a few hours (or less than hour if you know what your are doing, and have a moderately leveled character).
Anyway, if anyone would be interested in ever playing Lord Of The Rings online, currently there is a code that gives all current quest packs for free, and the expansions are ultra-cheap: Friends Forever. 99 LP can be easily earned in game in a few hours (or less than hour if you know what your are doing, and have a moderately leveled character).
DDO is also doing an all content free code deal right now too which is neat. It's just DDOFREEQUESTS. I've been messing around with a Paladin which has been fun.
I am strongly considering getting Maneater on the PS 4.
That's the shark game right? Yeah the trailer makes me want to play it as well.