It has many a time. You live around here?

I ask cause I'd like to get a weekly F2F game going if I can find enough of us willing to come in. Mt. Healthy has a game store that will let us play or we can use my place in Fairfield or even rotate around between people with enough rooms for slipping off to negotiate.

Draug - I'm primarily recruiting software engineers for metro-Detroit. I have manufacturing positions open in Alabama, Indiana and Mississippi...

Yes....manufacturing in the United States is alive and well despite all the bullshit rheotirc from our assholes in Washington.

Didn't you guys once do a F2F on line?

There was one or two some others did, but I wasn't in them as the timing was wrong.

I know you live there. It comes up a lot. I'm making fun of you.

For what it's worth, I don't live anywhere near Cincinnati. Thank God.

This thread has basically turned into the "who has a better job thread."

So my job is to clean up the shit you don't eat and the crap you throw up in the toilet, bring you food that you pay for, and refill your drinks every once in awhile. All in all I probably make $20 an hour on a busy day. And pay no bills. Fuck you all.

Bo - good for you, and I mean that. Because the idea is that you work a shit job now, and never have to again.

That's why the whole "minimum wage" argument is such bullshit. I expect if I talk to you 10 years from now you will be making decent money and on your way to a comfortable life, because you APPLY yourself and have personal goals.

So everybody who doesn't live a comfortable life is not applying themselves? It must be real hard to work in a bullshit office job where you get to play solitaire all day and charge people for stuff you don't do.

I love it how people who've never had to work for a thing in their life have these kinds of attitudes.

"For what it's worth, I don't live anywhere near Cincinnati. Thank God."

Yeah you live in Illinois, which you've said so many good things about.

I tutor people in economics privately. I make $20 an hour.

Hey Bo, you may have a few more while you work through college (I worked as a clean up person at Kings Island for a WinterFest one holiday season cleaning up puke and nasty toilets and all other kinds of stuff for $6 an hour way back in the day), but they build character and you really appreciate it when you finally make it.

That's a nice gig I don't know what Bo is complaining about, especially with no bills.

Character? Fuck it, I actually enjoy it. I'm working with other people my age that are easy to get along with.

@krellin ... I make $2.10 an hour. At my weekend job I make $3/hour. I have never experienced minimum wage.

Not complaining, Putin. Just saying you all should become waiters.

Krellin doesn't know what minimum wage is, so please forgive him.

"Just saying you all should become waiters."

No thanks. I'd take autistic children over snooty, lazy, restaurant customers who like to pay 15 dollars for a sandwich or warmed over pasta any day.

"I love it how people who've never had to work for a thing in their life have these kinds of attitudes. "

Coming from Mr. PhD, that is priceless. You know I'm back in school working on my *Bachelor's* because I had to pay for my Associate's the first time around, right? Middle class household most of my life until my father broke the non-degreed Engineer glass ceiling, then we move to upper middle, at best. I bought my bass trombone by working a flea market at 13 and 14 and saving the money. Yeah, life of privilege. Uh huh. What shit job did you ever work before you lost your cushy university job because they "cut the funding" (I still think you got fired for your attitude, but you won't admit it if you did). What did you ever buy for yourself in junior high or high school and I'm not talking that mommy and daddy gave you money to go buy it. Your $100 per week allowance isn't earned money. I didn't get an allowance growing up.

I deal with both. The SOBs at the restaurant and the kids with disabilities on weekends...

@Bo , $2.10 or $3 an hour is below minimum wage. Somebody is ripping you off.

The $2.10/hour job is compensated by tips. It's legal. The $3/hour one is with a non-profit and I don't do it for the money anyway.

The minimum tip wage in Indiana is $2.13 per hour. You should really talk to management.

http://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm

You can check it here.

Add people who eat at restaurants to the list of arbitrary things Putin33 hates.

"Middle class household most of my life until my father broke the non-degreed Engineer glass ceiling, then we move to upper middle, at best. I bought my bass trombone by working a flea market at 13 and 14 and saving the money. Yeah, life of privilege."

Sounds like it.

"What shit job did you ever work before you lost your cushy university job because they "cut the funding" (I still think you got fired for your attitude, but you won't admit it if you did)."

Grocery store produce clerk, grocery store cashier, gas station cashier, dishwasher. All minimum wage.

Go to hell.

Well, just one more thing for him to hate about me. I eat out more than I eat in, and I always tip well (15% for average service 20% or more for excellent service at lunch and 20% for average and as much as 35% for excellent service at dinner).

So he hates me for giving my money to the hard working wait staff. Good to know.

"The SOBs at the restaurant and the kids with disabilities on weekends..."

Really, you're working with kids with disabilities today?

" I eat out more than I eat in,"

Not concerned much about your health I take it.

Uh, you can eat healthily at restaurants without much effort at all.

Whatever, Draug. I don't really care about 3 cents. Hate me for it if you want.

But tip me well.

@Putin ... yes, I assist at my religious school on Sunday mornings. I am typically with first grade but I've had special needs classes before (I hate that term). This is my fifth year doing it. Likely my last if I go anywhere outside 10 minutes away for college.