Well, thats pretty much true.

they usually have like a 90 day to 1 year "probation" period before you are unfireable.

May will be a year.

I will have 7 yrs in next month, guess I am untouchable :lol:

I can retire when I'm 57 with full pension.

nice. i am not sure what pension I get if any, I chose a 403b acct when i started my benefits. Took 5 yrs to be vested in the state and I didnt think I would be here this long. I will also get a few bucks from ups, they bought out my pt pension but not my ft pension.

I've still got a bit in my old 401k thats just now starting to make money again.

Mines actualy doing well. I sat down with a rep 2 yrs ago just as the economy was going in the shitter. We actualy invested more agressively at the time. Took a little hit at the time but have gotten sick returns the last 3 quarters, and am off to a good start on this one.

I want to talk to them again to see if I should reallocate some funds again and be more conservative or stay the course.

I'm still invested sorta aggressive...from when I first started it 5 years ago. Had a decent chunk of change in there before the tank. Now it's getting back to where it was.

Yeah I'm the same, everything I have is in aggressive funds. I might be almost 40 but I look at it as I still have 25+ years to work. My stuff isn't quit back to where it was a few years ago but it's getting there.

At 40 I'll be almost half way to retirement!

Yes but halfway into a 50 year career is still a long way to go.

Right...but, in my case, state gov't employment has it's benefits. And only requiring 30 years of service before retirement is NICE.

Oh yeah, I can get full retirement at 30 years here but why stop working? Statistics show you are going to die within5 years of retirement anyway. Might as well keep working.

No F'n way I'm working after I dont have to.

I'll send nice flowers to your funeral.

Have at it. I'll be dead, send cheap ones.

I will drink all your beer then :lol:

I would even be happy with a semi retirement where maybe I do a few shifts a week and can also live off my investments, thats where were hoping logging all these hours now pays off.

I've not seen any info on Rider's death theory...in fact, I know several people who defy that logic. I'm not worried about it.

I dont have the stats offhand but have heard some companies complain how their pension funds are taking hits because people are living longer. Thats some nerve actualy living after you retire :lol:

:lol: Funny.

Yeah, I got fucked.
Got hired on as a guard federal tech 1 week before our activation, but because I was leaving for a year, they wouldn't do my paperwork. They are holding the position for me when I get back, but I got none of the benifits of being a fed employee this whole time I'm gone.
Missing out on TSP matching, 120 hrs mil leave, 1 "step" of pay, and a year of vaca increase.

I figure it cost me around $7000

Man, that sucks.

No doubt, and taking a pay cut to take this job. But the hours are better.
Still looking for other federal work. Would really like to get into something outdoors. Something either dealing with fish and wildlife, ag, law enforcement, or a combo thereof.

watching the pilot episode of Futurama

sounds better than morel orel

Sounds cool if you can find it.

yeah... keep on searching. It's not like I need it, I do have a job, so I'm in a good position right now.

like this?

close but mine's red. :lol:



And a side note I was just asked if I'd become a Crew chief for my job!!!!! Not sure if will happen yet but I am one of the candidates!!! :rockwoot:

Congratulations

Back to work. This could be my first 5 day week in a while. Suck fest.

This is the first full week since the second week of December

Oh the horror of it all :lol:

Of course I am off today its going to be in th emid 50's and thertes a raging monsoon outside.

Guess I will be downstairs working on my floor.

My basement has a pond in it now. Awesome. And the roads looked like rivers. There are power lines down all over the place. This rain is really fucking things up.


But...my wife is being dismissed at 1230. :wtf:

Awesome! Best of luck to ya!

Watching bruno....wow this movie's nuts

Was a over all decent weekend, got to cover 2 shifts in the main ER, of course I want it to be busy there so I can see and do more stuff but it was relativeley quiet. Did get to watch security throw out an annoying overly beligerant patient. Shes always there and everyone hates her,my director calls her pure evil :lol:

We just got an informational briefing to try to quash some rumors.
It put some truth to some of the rumors, and killed bits and pieces of others.
Regardless, there will be more/new rumors started tomorrow!

We are busy today. Change of pace. :lol:

Glad I am not, I feel like crap today.

My "busyness" at work from this point on will consist mostly of PT. Workouts 9 times a week from here on out.
Our 1SG decided that anyone that failed the running event in a PT test since we got here must join his running group 3 days a week... at 1600.
Never mind the fact that my test was NOT for record, and I had no intention of passing, I was setting a pace for my guys (they are older, and have more time than me to pass), and yet still only missed it by 3 seconds.
If I would have known he was going to pull this bullshit I would have sprinted the last 50 yards and passed. Stupid ass leadership.

SO, I figure fuck them. They want to make a mandatory run group... fine, I'll play along, but I'm not giving up my normal PT schedule. Doesn't bother me to be out of the office more than I'm in it.

Douche move.

them or me?

them for sure.

Agreed.

Watching the best episode of scrubs EVER!! the singing one

Everything comes down to poo!

Wild day at the office...well...for gov't work, that is. Even the craziest day here is still slower than my days in TV. Man, what a life.

You enjoy not doing much, don't you.

hes good at it :lol:

More than you know. I busted my ass for almost 5 years working in TV news. Which I honestly enjoyed at the time. But, shit, I like this relaxed paced guv job. It's what dreams are made of.


It's hard damn work making look this easy.

That's one consideration I am thinking about a great deal.

Some days can be really long and boring. There are days where I literally have nothing to do. And there is little posting on here...so I just sit, bored as hell, at my desk.

this is why i frequent some other, more active boards that have local members, honestly, a good one is the R1 board if you ignore 50% of the crap and stick to the regional threads

I use this and a local forum. Then craigslist, ebay, youtube, etc. Oh and facebook normally up in a different tab.

I'll pass on the R1 board. I've never even rode a R1. :lol:...or any Yamaha for that matter...other than the Warrior 4-wheeler my Uncle had like 15 years ago. :lol

I got a couple regional boards I frequent...and 2 awesome Buell boards. Not Bad Web, fuck that ancient dinosaur.

lol back when I was on the Blast I got on there. Have they ever upgraded the software?

Fuck no. Asshats.

lol I guessed after the "ancient dinosaur" comment, but it was worth a shot. You fuckers used to rave about that place.

I never have. The info is good...but it's soo damn hard to navigate and find anything. The other Buell boards are just as good now, and easy to use.

Nice. The only thing I use R1 forums for is questions on my bike. Way too many d-bags to spend any time there.

bad as gixxer.com?

my friend started a thread about buying a jar of peanut butter and it turned into a 300 post thread. :lol:

That is one of those things that is so sad it's impressive.

hes going on and on on another board in the shoutbox about his epic thread :lol:

i was looking at getting a r1 a few years ago and joined up

some of the guys around this area on that board are ppl i frequently ride with and I am constantly getting asked to do some of their private trackdays at cheaper costs then normal so i stay on to pwhore and find out about rides that they are on, beaverpuncher is from there, dude is quick and better to hangout with then the some of the others in the area

Since coming on this deployment, I have joined 4 other forums to waste time on, since this is the only one blocked on govt computers.

I still quite often end up bored before the end of the day...

I sometimes think I need new hobbies as well because then I can jump on new forums. The reptile forums are prety boring, so its mostly the bike forums for now.

There are a few PA forums out there but I think I am a bit too far off center for most of them :lol:

I'm on a Ford Diesel forum (to learn about the new 6.7)
A can-am forum
an Arctic Cat forum (sleds and quads)
A dog/hunting forum
those are the new ones, then add the Buell forums and random internet searches... yeah.

what kind of hunting is it focused on?

this one the rq forum, fireblades, and a few jeep forums

You three idiots need to post more on Buelletinboard.

its bad enough I have to interact with you here, what makes you think I want to do that on another board :lol:

Bird. Upland game and waterfowl both, but you have to subscribe to Retriever Journal to be a member.

Yeah... I often forget about that one, though I was on the other day.

I'm on there a lot...and Buellxb.com.

I was oh so close to working a full 40 hours this week. But, alas, it's just not meant to be. I'm leaving early today. :lol: Too bad. I had the best intentions.

been a nice do nothing day here so far, but we did do an evacuation drill today. So not onl ydid it interupt my slacking time but I froze my ass off outside since all I had was a pullover sweatshrt and a fleece.

I realy need to talk to the powers that be about this sort of stuff.

I've converted a few files for web posting, thats it. Gonna get a cheesesteak for lunch and call it a day at that point.

Sounds like a productive day, I need to go forrage for our lunch now, this damn drill threw off everythging :lol:

Shit, the cheesesteak was delicious. Hour and a half and I'm outta here, sucka.

Nice, we had a big italian spread and buffalo wings so of course I went totown :rockwoot:

I have 1 chart to finish and a few callbacks to make.

otherwise my goal for today is to see if I can hit 5k posts

I can do some damage on some wings.


And if I was really crazy I might try to get after 13k today. But I'm not crazy.

A bar w ego to has 10cent wings and 20cent ones on sundays durring the games. Me and a friend onc eordered 50 wings after one of our games w eeach ate those and had burgers. Safe to say he was one of the other lineman on our team.

hitting 13k that woul dbe some flurry of posting to hit that. I only need 50 or 60 so me regular rambling and killing time till 11 should make it doable

In my glory day I could rattle off a few hundy a day.

if theres some good or heated discussions its def doable.

On CF yo uused to only be able to put up one pic per post so i could rattle off 10 or 20 just posting pics from a ride or an event

I dont even bother with debates here. I've gotten over that. I dont even read 90% of the bullshit threads here.

not even debates though could just be discussion about anything and if its good/interesting it can add up.

Definately. Or random, useless :pwhore:'ing I'm doing now.

been guilty of that too, but this we get away with because it looks like an actual conversation :lol:

Yeah, don't forget to drop your seed in other threads just to derail the conversation.

Brought that over from CF too. I was prety good at hijacking threads.

Hell we have the same convo going through 3 different threads now.

Well played on our part

We're doing our best, thats for sure.

Esp surrounded by all these damn slackers, we need to find them jobs where they do nothing all day and can help keep us entertained :lol:

No shit. We can't be expect to carry all the weight.

I think everyone here is pretty good at derailing threads.

None better than me and Tom today, brother. I can barely keep up.

Looks like I need to stop what I'm doing and join in the fun.

We are in the zone today, you cant stop us but only hope to contain us :lol:

Get to it. Follow me and Tom.

we are en fuego here.

is that enough witht he espn catchphrases