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I applied for the COVID exception due to furlough and reduction in force. Supposedly that removed the penalty. I’ll find out next year!
I wrote up a thoughtful explanation of COVID withdrawals, and then saw I had been ninja’d by you and Amby.
Glad to see you did this.
It will eliminate the early withdrawal penalty, and let you either spread out the income tax liability over 3 years or pay it back into another retirement plan during that time.
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Taxes were withheld, so hopefully it all turns out copacetic. The severance check also came through direct deposit and had withholding, so I believe we will be fine on our return.
If I can pay it back into the new jobs 401k, even better.
Yeah, the withholding is mandatory, and a good idea in any event.
I'm lucky enough to still be working in all of this. I'm unlucky enough to have had my bank acct compromised. Currently starting the process to recover what I can with the bank today.
Notorious TOZ: nothing but good vibes your way!
I have been there before. I wish you nothing but the best of luck in getting your monies back.
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I'm unlucky enough to have had my bank acct compromised.
Oh no! Aside from the financial losses, and the irritation of dealing with bureaucratic process, the feeling of invasion and violation must be terrible.
You can vent here in this thread, or in Iceland.
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Interviewed candidates most of the day. Well..."candidates". It was bad.
Towards the end of the day I get a meeting invite for "Outlook Issues"...ok...first I'm hearing about "Outlook Issues" in my division that are bad enough to need both my team and the entire Systems team. Hmmm...wonder what's going on...
Oh.
"There are so many issues that have happened in Outlook ever since you started migrating us to the new domain!"
I mentioned this before, but it's been a while. We're in the middle of collapsing 3 domains into the 4th already existing domain. It's a lot like moving 3 entire apartment buildings into one other previously existing and already occupied apartment building. One thing it certainly doesn't actually have any effect on is email and how Outlook works.
Ok...what are the problems?
1) "I need to scan this stuff in and send it to an email address! I can't because it says the size is too big!"
Yeah...we have a size limit on emails that can be sent or received...and it's 35 MB, which is roughly 7-15 times the size of what most companies allow. So we're being really generous. And you knew this, because you complain about it to me at least once a year. And I tell you to stop emailing those files and use a network drive or One Drive or FTP or damn near anything other than email to share these files. Go away.
2) "I have emails in my inbox, and when I move them to this folder, they disappear."
What? Seriously? Oh, you have two different folders...one under your Inbox and one under your Sent Items...with the same name...yeah...ok...so you're putting the emails in that one...and then looking in the other one...
By the way, there's two entire teams of IT professionals on this call to help you handle your organization failure. Just want to remind you of this.
And...by the way...did you ever submit a ticket for this problem, or are you just...no, you didn't. Ah, you were migrated three days ago and you've been noticing this problem for 2 months now but didn't want to bother IT with a ticket on it. Sorry to have questioned you on that.
3) "I'm having troubles with my search bar when looking for emails in my inbox."
Can I hang up now? No? Are you sure? Yeah, fine, I'm sure *this* issue will be substantive and directly related to...nevermind I just can't finish that with a straight face.
Yeah, you're searching for a person's name, but that's not how the person actually spells their name. No, seriously, that's the issue. No, I did not just explicitly call you stupid out loud.
4) "I can't find Calculator."
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Ok, so what's the next question? And is it related to Outlook and issues you are having since you were migrated?
Silence.
Ok. Thanks for your time.
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And now I make the announcement that the planet has completed another revolution around the sun on a particular day of importance to all of you, as it marked the beginning of time in the only way that matters.
Or in other words, it's the first day of the year where LM gets to smirk and gloat and call me "old" until she catches up in 7 weeks.
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In case it hasn't been made clear, I might be in a bit of a mood.
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And now I make the announcement that the planet has completed another revolution around the sun on a particular day of importance to all of you, as it marked the beginning of time in the only way that matters.
Or in other words, it's the first day of the year where LM gets to smirk and gloat and call me "old" until she catches up in 7 weeks.
And I didn’t even bake a cake...
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And now I make the announcement that the planet has completed another revolution around the sun on a particular day of importance to all of you, as it marked the beginning of time in the only way that matters.
Or in other words, it's the first day of the year where LM gets to smirk and gloat and call me "old" until she catches up in 7 weeks.
And I didn’t even bake a cake...
Gee, and here I was all set to jump out of it.
1) "I need to scan this stuff in and send it to an email address! I can't because it says the size is too big!"
One of the biggest professional fights I got into at the first job revolved around this...it was ugly. I had to explain to my boss's boss's boss(person right under the CEO) that I wouldnt be able to send the files they were looking for as a lump because windows was "protecting" us from ourselves. It was a difficult conversation to have.
[b]3) "I'm having troubles with my search bar when looking for emails in my inbox."
Can I hang up now? No? Are you sure? Yeah, fine, I'm sure *this* issue will be substantive and directly related to...nevermind I just can't finish that with a straight face.
Yeah, you're searching for a person's name, but that's not how the person actually spells their name. No, seriously, that's the issue. No, I did not just explicitly call you stupid out loud.
With the number of thick accents, british nonsense, and far flung cultures I have encountered at the first job, I have learned to ask for the EXACT email address and make people spell their own names repeatedly. The agency is for some reason against putting the professional email on the ID otherwise I would ask for that.
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And now I make the announcement that the planet has completed another revolution around the sun on a particular day of importance to all of you, as it marked the beginning of time in the only way that matters.
Or in other words, it's the first day of the year where LM gets to smirk and gloat and call me "old" until she catches up in 7 weeks.
if it helps, you have always been old to me.
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if it helps, you have always been old to me.And now I make the announcement that the planet has completed another revolution around the sun on a particular day of importance to all of you, as it marked the beginning of time in the only way that matters.
Or in other words, it's the first day of the year where LM gets to smirk and gloat and call me "old" until she catches up in 7 weeks.
Me too. But only because he looks old.
Happy Birthday, Vany, ya old codger!
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And now I make the announcement that the planet has completed another revolution around the sun on a particular day of importance to all of you, as it marked the beginning of time in the only way that matters.
Or in other words, it's the first day of the year where LM gets to smirk and gloat and call me "old" until she catches up in 7 weeks.
Happy Thermal Engineer Day!
Just ask yourself, what would a thermal engineer do with it.
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I'm also in a mood.
All week last week co-worker kept saying he had an appointment for his eyeball on Friday, and then last Wednesday he got the call confirming his appointment was actually this week not last week. So all this week I've been working my ass off trying to keep things moving knowing on Friday I'd be working by myself and so I'd be able to move three steps forward without the two steps back that co-worker has been putting me through this year.
Then today at about 5 PM he says the appointment was rescheduled for next week so he'll be working tomorrow.
Someone might be digging a suspiciously deep hole in the corn field tomorrow.
Fortunately, I'm the one with the key to all our axes.
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Co-worker (after I installed my third 600 pound step): I dunno, I think I want to flip it around so the other side is the face
Me (eyes narrowing): I'm going to take my afternoon break and you can see if you still feel that way when I'm done.
He did not.
And now I make the announcement that the planet has completed another revolution around the sun on a particular day of importance to all of you, as it marked the beginning of time in the only way that matters.
Or in other words, it's the first day of the year where LM gets to smirk and gloat and call me "old" until she catches up in 7 weeks.
Habby P-day!
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Gee, and here I was all set to jump out of it.And now I make the announcement that the planet has completed another revolution around the sun on a particular day of importance to all of you, as it marked the beginning of time in the only way that matters.
Or in other words, it's the first day of the year where LM gets to smirk and gloat and call me "old" until she catches up in 7 weeks.
And I didn’t even bake a cake...
Now you're just teasing me.
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The ever-missing steps arrived and... they may well be too short!
I have no idea what happened, but the steps were 28" tall and I measured the hole and got 30" and thought, "Close enough!"
Looks like the hole is actually 36", so on the one hand it's not particularly bad: 7" step, 7" step, 7" step, 7" step, 8" step.
On the other hand, we've ALL spent the last 9 years with the top step level with the hole, so getting used to that drop may result in a few tumbles. I might just put the whole thing on a 7" platform so it all works out.
We'll see.
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And the repairguys showed up and they didn't even charge us for the stovetop (couldn't fix it without drilling out all 18 screws and replacing all 6 burners, so as he put it, "It can be fixed, but with the labor alone you'd probably be able to buy a new stove."), and the dishwasher's a simple valve replacement.
So broken things actually broken properly for once.
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Now you're just teasing me.Gee, and here I was all set to jump out of it.And now I make the announcement that the planet has completed another revolution around the sun on a particular day of importance to all of you, as it marked the beginning of time in the only way that matters.
Or in other words, it's the first day of the year where LM gets to smirk and gloat and call me "old" until she catches up in 7 weeks.
And I didn’t even bake a cake...
yeah it's your birthday, not mine.
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Happy Birthday, Vany! Hopefully you have a better day tomorrow.
It is too quiet in here. I can't bear it.Had some tight deadlines, s!+# at work, and family drama.
Just ran out of steam. Still lurking.
That is bearly an excuse. Fur sure you can come up with a better one. Personal issues? Bah! I am more important than those! Entertain me!
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Happy Solar Rotation Vany!
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Our first vampire session was...meh. I don't think I brought my A game as a GM today.
My daughter was seriously b#&&*y all day. Not her fault: gas and teething and acid reflux all at once.
My best friend (he is in FL) caught Covid. He is doing fine.
These were not the worst events of my month.
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VE, sorry to hear that you have had a sucky month. Hopefully it improves.
have a good night John.
*yawn* back to work.
Schlock Mercenary has ended.
VE, sorry to hear that you have had a sucky month. Hopefully it improves.
Thanks man. I'm sure it will.
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You dragons are always so nice to each other. Humans could learn from you guys.
It's entirely learned in my case. By nature I'm a horridly arrogant a+&+@@* with the social skills of a drunken lemur. It's taken literal decades of study, and purposeful retconning of my own mind to be nice. I even got my degree in psych so I could understand people because "normalcy" is such a damn mystery, and even when not trying I (apparently) come off just... So bad.
Which is funny because as jaded as I am in my privately shared thoughts, past coworkers and such always talk about how I'm so nice, and even then I'm like "no, I'm just a good actor who wants to be nice, but totally isn't on the inside; I actually f#+*ing hate all of you!" (The aforementioned coworkers)
So then we come to the Parthunnax dilemma: "which is better? To be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?"
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In case it hasn't been made clear, I might be in a bit of a mood.
But that was just their way of saying 'Happy birthday, Vany!'
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Happy belated Birthday, Vany!
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Today is going to be long and difficult.
But every minute of it is on over time.
Today is going to be long and difficult.
But every minute of it is on over time.
Gratz?
It won't be too bad, I have a plan for myself and two iPods, a phone with Spotify and new headphones.
I plan is to do my thing and leave by 3.
Good luck, Captain Gone By 3!
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F+~# it
I'm seizing power
There WILL be blood.
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I always knew that, at some point, you and the other Captains would have to step in to restore Order and Stability to El Republico del Construcciòn de Madizon.
Remember: occupying the radio and railway stations should be one of your first priorities. The Presidential palace can wait.
I always knew that, at some point, you and the other Captains would have to step in to restore Order and Stability to El Republico del Construcciòn de Madizon.
Remember: occupying the radio and railway stations should be one of your first priorities. The Presidential palace can wait.
Not political power, just seizing power of the crew.
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Not political power, just seizing power of the crew.I always knew that, at some point, you and the other Captains would have to step in to restore Order and Stability to El Republico del Construcciòn de Madizon.
Remember: occupying the radio and railway stations should be one of your first priorities. The Presidential palace can wait.
But why stop there?
F&$& it
I'm seizing power
There WILL be blood.
run over your rivals with the mini bobcat.