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April 24, 2014 at 9:13 PM in reply to: Never Ever Take a Car With Rims You Care About to Costco Tires #773304April 24, 2014 at 8:25 PM in reply to: Never Ever Take a Car With Rims You Care About to Costco Tires #773301
CoronitaParticipant[quote=spdrun]I understand your irritation, but driving a car with 30-year-old hubcaps on NYC roads, I probably wouldn’t have notice a few more scratches. This being said, I tend to stay away from any chain oil/tire/service places (including CostCow), opting to have my car worked on by independent mechanics when needed. Much more consistency than the chains that hire any h/s dropout.
I’ll make a slight exception for STS Tire in NJ, which always seemed to do a good job for family (and myself, when I used them).[/quote]
Honestly, it’s more irritation more than anything else. To be fair, the folks that work @ Costco are very friendly and courteous. It’s just I wish they were more careful. I mean, it’s really impossible that sort of scratches to happen on the road. It’s not like the rims are curbed… And furthermore, some of the gashes are too deep to have happened from a simple car wash… Not to mention the car is washed by my detailer, whom I always go over the car over with after he is done…
Oh well. 1st world problem.. You know…
(Hey, I’m not one of those ridiculous costco shoppers that try to return a half eaten chicken, or return a plant that dies a year or two later…Sheesh… I’m actually sensitive to retailers, since it isn’t easy being a retailer in the U.S.)
CoronitaParticipant[quote=Thibault]Thanks for all the great feedback! I will try to reply to some of the questions a little later.
My desire was not to go back to France just for the sake of going to France. It is mostly to see my family and my friends on a more regular basis.
In the past 10 years or so, I have only been to France about every other year and usually for 10 to 12 days at most. It is not even what I would call a vacation. It’s essentially a quick tour to see as many as people as possible.
I guess going back to France with my daughter just once a year but 2 or 3 months at a time would be a great solution to my problems. But with the job I currently hold, that’s not feasible. My company would problably let me know do that once as unpaid time-off but I already know for sure they won’t let me do that every single year.
So I am basically to find a job that would accomodate that. And it’s not easy.
I will defnitely explore some of the options you guys suggested.[/quote]At my company, there are a lot of people who have family in India and the Far East (Korea,China,etc)…
Typically, for those employees, they tended to schedule 4-5 weeks of vacation off during the summertime to see family.
Previously, when my employer use to offer paid vacation days, people would accumulate their vacation time until they hit the maximum/cap and then they would plan ahead to take time off….
Since then, my employer eliminated vacations in the old sense and made vacation policy technically “unlimited” subject to deadlines/etc… They did this as a cost saving measure so that people who never took vacation couldn’t cash it in for money at the end of their employment etc/etc/etc. So what ends up happening now is people just schedule vacation time in since it’s a use it or lose it policy now.
Assuming you are a full time employee, you should have either accrued vacation or the new type of “vacation” policy….
CoronitaParticipantThis one is pretty good too..
CoronitaParticipantAMD Beat.. Bam!
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CoronitaParticipantCoronitaParticipant[quote=dumbrenter][quote=Thibault][quote=spdrun] What area of town are you in? [/quote]
I live in Carmel Valley just off the 56 freeway.
It’s nice and clean but overall very sterile.[/quote]Now, that could be the source of the problem!
Carmel Valley is the total opposite of Paris. As other posters suggested, why not move downtown/hillcrest?It will not make you feel any better, but I hated every minute I spent in Paris (had to for work reasons). A collection of rudest and most inconsiderate people ever to be found in one place. Couldn’t wait to get back to carmel valley: the land of shallow people and polite facades, people just like me.
For somebody who likes paris, I can see why carmel valley would make you homesick.[/quote]It’s not *that* bad…. I only almost got run over by a soccer parent in a big SUV twice this week…Down from almost every other day….
CoronitaParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]
I would really like to have a friend. I had a friend but failed to maintain. maybe i could try again.[/quote]Dude, with my personality. I would settle for just not having enemies 🙂
CoronitaParticipant[quote=Thibault][quote=flu] You probably don’t *have* to work long nights if you’re willing to cut down on your expenses somewhat…Don’t worry, when you get older like me, you begin to care less about working…sort of…[/quote]
I didn’t have a choice. Being in charge of software configuration, I have to be available during code deployment to production which usually occurs at night to minimize impact on customers.
And working extra hours in my job doesn’t make me more rich. I am not a hourly employee.
Sure I start to care less about working… but I still work as much as I use to when I just started![/quote]Can I have you talk to our configuration management/release team?
Because for them, they “work from home” more often then work in the office. And when they are “working for home”, sometimes their “on-call” cell phone during normal business hours between 8am-5pm goes unanswered for like 3-4 hours..
But in all seriousness, sounds like the perfect reason to push for CM/release management automation….
CoronitaParticipant[quote=Thibault]Great post scaredy, even though I have never smoked and I despise Le Monde.
When I first came here, my plan was never to stay in the US forever. I just got stuck in a situation I couldn’t get out of.
The first few years in San Diego were exciting. It was a period of discovery and fun: the nice weather, the beaches, the desert… everything was new to me.
Now I look back and ask myself: what did I do in the past 10 years? All I can see work. Long days at work. Nights at work, too many weekends at work. When I don’t work on the weekends, I just try to recover from exhaustion.To me France is a real place. It’s the place where my family lives. It’s the place where all by best friends live. In 15 years in San Diego, I have never been invited once by my neighbors. I don’t even know them to tell you the truth. I can count on my 2 hands the number of times I was invited for a dinner by some friends. I might be wrong or out of touch but it’s almost like what is really missing here (and I don’t know if it’s specific to Southern CA) is the fact that most people are not interested in strong and long-lasting relationships. I feel like people don’t need to have friends. They do just fine by themselves. Human relation don’t motivate them that much.
It’s what I miss about France. Being able to sit at a table with a good friend and a nice bottle of wine and talk all night about anything.It will be hard to convince my ex-wife to move back to France. But I can give it a try.[/quote]
You probably don’t *have* to work long nights if you’re willing to cut down on your expenses somewhat…Don’t worry, when you get older like me, you begin to care less about working…sort of…
CoronitaParticipant[quote=spdrun]Yeah, I’d imagine there are a lot of moldy married suburbanites out there … could you sublet your house and rent an apartment in a more urban area to try things out a bit? Then sell the house and buy a condo or small house if you like it in town.[/quote]
Lol.. This is coming from someone from Jersey? Seriously????
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CoronitaParticipant[quote=spdrun]Sounds like the American firm will miss its office more than the French will — unless they can live without the connections that it supposedly provided. Good riddance.[/quote]
No, they just decided to stage the industry out of an adjoining country with less taxes and more competitive cost…. Flight time to customers in Europe is pretty much the same.
CoronitaParticipant[quote=spdrun]Bet the French won’t miss an American company with slave-driving work ethic.[/quote]
Actually, considering it’s high tech and provided doors into businesses in Asia and Europe, I think you would be wrong.
And I think the other offices that opened elsewhere in Europe were pretty happy about the increased headcount.
CoronitaParticipantI know this isn’t going to make you feel better ,but look on the bright side…
About 2-3 months ago, we shutdown our office in France. A lot of folks affected.
I guess what happened was (1) cost was too high and (2) labor/union rules that didn’t allow easy employee management.. So they closed the entire office since it was easier to do that than to actually let go individuals…I suggest maybe looking into a government job? Seriously…..The hours should be better.
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