More thoughts on jobs and working

[roguejuror]

 

[Blitty]

He's saying that you should continually force yourself to eat ethnic foods. Eventually you will sercum to Stockholm syndrome and enjoy said foods.

 

[Boner_18]

He means, in the next 6-12 months try Mexican food 6-12 more times. Try some tacos, try another burrito (with different filling), hell eat some enchiladas. Then make your assessment.

Mexican food is my #1.

 

[Matty]

Indian > Mexican > Japanese > Italian > French > the rest

 

[Boner_18]

Mexican > American > Italian >... Haven't thought of the rest... Japanese is low. To be fair I haven't really explored Indian but I've liked what I've had.

 

[Blitty]

Americanized ethnic foods are the best.


Mmm.. tikka masala, stromboli, and orange chicken

 

[MrX]

Where's the Thai food love?

 

[Matty]

Shit, forgot about it. I do love me some Thai curries.

Indian > Mexican > Japanese > Thai > Italian > French > the rest

 

[Blitty]

tom yum soup

Yum.

yum.

 

[roguejuror]

Where's the Thai food love?

i'm on all over Korean these days

 

[reno cool]

I've been thinking I gotta pick up some pelmeni.
Of course when I go to that store I end up getting a bunch of kielbasas and sardines and candies, and all kinds of stuff that's not great for me

 

[Mudcat]

Got my new glasses - courtesy of benefits - and I'm diggin' 'em. These will be the glasses I wear at work - because that's where my glasses are seen the most, and these are the glasses I most want to be seen.

I feel like they make a statement, these glasses - and that statement is: I'm wearing glasses.

 

[eggs]

My boss (one of them, kind of) told me today "you're gonna hit a home run here"

I agreed

 

[Mudcat]

Hmm. So year-end bonus is coming soon and we have the option to make an extra contribution from it to the RRSP. Over and above my normal 6% with 4% match. The 4% match will not change but I can up the percentage of the chunkable chunk if I want.

Seems like something I should do.

Stash that cash.

 

[Boner_18]

If the 4% match is not limited to the normal 6% upping contributions up to the limit of said match are a no-brainer, free $.

 

[Mudcat]

The guy that is working beside me the last little while - he really likes to say bless you when someone sneezes. He needs to. He is insistent. He gravely projects his Bless you's out into the world.

And it doesn't have to be someone close by. Often I won't even hear the sneeze.

I'll just suddenly hear, "Bless you!" like it's the most important thing anyone ever said.

 

[Mudcat]

Arranged a PTO (paid time-off) day for tomorrow. So my long weekend has begun.

Shitload of stuff to do though. Not a relaxing holiday mood, that's for sure.

Nevertheless I picked up a Royal Blizzard from Dairy Queen on the way home - Strawberry New York Cheesecake - and I'm having that RIGHT NOW.

 

[Mudcat]

Incredible news on the work front.

One of the amazing things about this employer is the profit-sharing plan. Every December, every employee gets a dollar for every million dollars in sales. With sales coming in at 4.13 billion, that's $4130. That's up from $3600 last year which has nothing to do with what I'm saying right now except to illustrate: incredible growth, this joint. The future looks bright.

Anyway, having started at the end of June, I was expecting a pro-rated amount, basically half. Couple grand. That seemed logical and in fact I was told that by official people on more than one occasion. And I was damn happy to have it coming, lemme tell ya.

Out of the blue they just announced, everyone who started before Sept. 1 gets the full amount.