Random thread: Where's your postcount now, (tpd) bitch

[Aaron]

So I have my resume back. And I am gona do the last little things to fix it up and make it goodly.  I am also thinking of changing jobs. I want to be an unloader.  Its hard work physicaly. But there is no mental to it. ( well othe then matching up department numbers...) If I was in the truck most nights I would lose weight. However I would work 4pm to 1am. And the bus I would end up taking home it would take me till 5 am to get home. It would take me less time to walk. I would buy a bike and ride home (google maps says 1 hour and about 9 miles.) It would pay a bit more but I wouldn't really do it for the money. (if I lost pay I wouldnt.)  I fucking hate where I am. Like the people I work with directly are all cool. The department manager is fucking awesome. Its the other bosses I have to deal with that piss me off to no end. And the switch would be awesome. Cuz its always busy work. And time flies by hella fast. And they get lest alone kinda. Well other then the management telling then to hurry up... I am well liked by the people that do it and the lead would put in a good word for me I'm sure.

I'd have to get a back light, helmet and figure out a way to rid my flash light to the front. Other then just taping the damn thing on.   And a bike... But I could just get acheap one at work and a better seat. My fat ass needs a bigger seat...

[r00]

is there anyone with the same shift and a car that could give you rides in exchange for gas money?  Biking 9 miles would suck in the rain.

[Aaron]

Uh. Maybe. And ya I thought that like third thing. Or at lest he could drop me off a lot closer...  I put in for the job last night so hopefully I get it...

[luna]

[r00]

LOL!

I'll add another!

[luna]

[Aaron]

Just counted. Hoping that the irs didn't slow down I should have my tax return pretty much any time now... Wooo.

[luna]

I had to pay almost $300 on my taxes

[Aaron]

Suck. I have never had to owe thank fully....

[Naylzie]

rodney dangerfield? what are we? in the early '90s?
:p

Realizing this quote constitutes a form of thread necromancy...  consider where you are.  'nuff said :p

I wish they taught how taxes worked in school.  Not just like sales tax and basic percentage crap, but actually your state and federal TAXES.  THAT should be an elective math class.  And/or social studies.  It's kinda both, really.  I've never owed either, but that is because I have been dirt poor since I started having taxes to file.  I don't know how you end up owing, and I don't know how to avoid ending up owing.  The idea of being told in April "Hey, you owe us an extra goddamn paycheck, cough up!" and not knowing WHY I have to cough up does not make me very happy.

[videodrone]

This year I'm getting penalized for not having health insurance for four months due to that brief unemployment period and the 90-day "new hire" waiting period for benefits at my current place of employment. I'm bullshit because this is the first year I've ever actually owed money on taxes (granted it's being deducted out of my refund, but still). I was really hoping to be able to pay off my middle class, mediocre piece of shit car with this money, but I don't know if that's a possibility now. Fuckers.

drone

[Naylzie]

Wait, they're dinging you for not having insurance?  I am so fucked next year    There's no chance I'm going to be insured through work before next year... FML 

[Goose]

Man, I'm not even in your country and I knew that's how the Affordable Care Act was going to work.  If you don't have even the cheapest of possible insurance, you get dinged on your taxes.  Hell, it even went to the Supreme Court for a ruling and was all that was in the news for nearly a week.

[Aaron]

Oddly enough I didn't have to show shit for mine. My folks told me. But I do have health insurance from work... So enh...

[Naylzie]

Oh. Heh.  March 2010?  Yeh.  Not surprised anymore that I missed that.  I'm usually pretty good at keeping up on the news, but at the time, I just cared that it meant I was covered til I was 26.  I didn't follow the news because that was the period right after I graduated college where I barely got out of bed because I was so depressed.  And insured at the time, I REALLY should have gotten looked at, but I kept shrugging it off because what did it matter anyway?  It doesn't excuse my ignorance, but at least I know how I managed to miss the details.  I didn't get my head out of my ass until probably January 2011, and that's when I was first starting to consider leaving my ex, which still didn't happen for almost a year after THAT.  More than a year?  I don't even know.

I am, however, educating myself now so that Brian and I can hopefully avoid getting railed next year.

ETA:  Granted, I'm consulting crowd-sourcing here, but the initial brush up suggests that that provision is not yet in effect:

Under things that are effective by January 1, 2014:
Impose an annual penalty of $95, or up to 1% of income over the filing minimum,[101] whichever is greater, on individuals who are not covered by an acceptable insurance policy; this will rise to a minimum of $695 ($2,085 for families), or 2.5% of income over the filing minimum,[101] by 2016.[19][102] Exemptions to the mandatory coverage provision and penalty are permitted for religious reasons, members of health care sharing ministries, or for those for whom the least expensive policy would exceed 8% of their income.

And, most likely, I currently fall into that last exemption category.  Brian may not, but I make just this side of jack shit right now.