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CoronitaParticipant…(Mr. Rogers theme song playing…) It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day in the neighborhood… wont you be mine? …
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CoronitaParticipant[quote=Balboa][quote=Coronita][quote=Balboa][quote=Coronita]my primary home is currently insured with “American Modern Insurance”… Found cheaper than my previous allstate insurance
have you checked with costco? They offer home and auto, and at least with auto, it was very competitive.
I just switched my 3 of my cars From allstate to costco’s provider and for those 3 cars, my insurance has better coverage and the premium is lower by almost $600/year
The other two (old audi and miata) would have been cheaper at costco too, but i found out those two can be insured for really cheap by Hagerty as a classic car and so its like $350 for both of them per year with the max liability, collision, comprehensive,. and special provisions for parts write off worth more than the car itself…[/quote]
Costco is a good idea I never seems to have. I’ll definitely check it out since I’ll be cancelling my Progressive for auto after this.
I wish I was insuring a Miata![/quote]
Miata’s aren’t that expensive to have.
NB’s go for around $5-7k and pretty cheap to insure and pretty cheap to fix.https://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/cto/d/san-diego-1999-mazda-miata-mx/7352900045.html%5B/quote%5D
It’s true. But I need an automatic (I know, I know) and those are harder to come by. Learning to drive stick should have been my pandemic project![/quote]
automatic miatas are much easier to find than manual, because most people prefer manual. So if you want an automatic, far less competition and probably far less abused since they probably dont end up at autocrosses and track days.
This one looks like its in pretty good shape, and 100k miles…if its true…
https://sandiego.craigslist.org/nsd/cto/d/oceanside-2002-mazda-miata/7358395844.html
PRHT NC miata automatic.
https://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/ctd/d/san-diego-2011-mazda-mx-miata-grand/7358146721.html
if i was getting an automatic, id probably get the NC hardtop
ND hardtop
https://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/ctd/d/san-diego-2017-mazda-mx5-miata-rf-grand/7360254184.htmlAlso John Hine Mazda is closing down for good in September 6. (owner sold to Carvana and carvana doesnt want to keep the mazda franchise). im told their remaining ND RF miatas are all automatics. (my colleague wanted to get a manual). You might be able to get a deal on one.
Sorry, im a bad influence.
CoronitaParticipant[quote=an][quote=deadzone][quote=an]
As for pay, who here is suggesting that you’ll be getting paid bay area pay living in Montana?[/quote]Common theme on here pushed by several people is that Bay area folks are moving to San Diego while keeping their Bay Area salaries and that is somehow the main reason behind SD real estate prices going up.[/quote]
Why did you assume that people will get to keep their bay area pay?[/quote]well, qualcomm is paying a good deal of money to poach apple people from sunnyvale/cupertino to here to work on the snapdragon… i am confident that they were not asked to take a pay cut.
CoronitaParticipant[quote=an][quote=deadzone]yes Linkedin is a popular and useful service. But at the end of the day it is just a website. How many Engineers to you really need to maintain Linkedin? A negligible number compared to a real company like say Apple or Tesla.[/quote]
OMG, that’s the funniest $hit I’ve heard in a very long while.[/quote]lol… i know.. its just html…
CoronitaParticipant[quote=deadzone][quote=an]Looks like LinkedIn productivity will decrease by 75%.
https://nypost.com/2021/07/29/linkedin-says-most-employees-can-work-from-home-forever/%5B/quote%5D
Perhaps, but then again what does Linkin actually “produce”?
I thought the more interesting thing is the companion article about folks leaving Silicon Valley to work remotely in other parts of the country having their salaries adjusted downward. Folks on this site seem insistent that pay is not going to be adjusted based on where the they person lives. Mark Zuckerberg begs to differ:
“We’ll adjust salary to your location at that point,” said Zuckerberg, “There’ll be severe ramifications for people who are not honest about this.”[/quote]
lol linkedin connects a lot of people woth opportunities. and a linkedin profile vetted usually is enough and a replacement for a resume. ive been hired from linkedin contacts and ive reached out and poached people from linkedin. Also, it serves as a prescreen for who your peers and boss will be which could sway you decision to join company or not…Also, as one hiring vp one pointed out…Someone with 500+ connections probably isnt a fraud. Someone with 10-20…maybe more suspicious….
total game changer.
CoronitaParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]Why not require an oath of fealty prior to employment?
Becoming a serf
A freeman became a serf usually through force or necessity. Sometimes the greater physical and legal force of a local magnate intimidated freeholders or allodial owners into dependency. Often a few years of crop failure, a war, or brigandage might leave a person unable to make his own way. In such a case, he could strike a bargain with a lord of a manor. In exchange for gaining protection, his service was required: in labour, produce, or cash, or a combination of all. These bargains became formalised in a ceremony known as “bondage”, in which a serf placed his head in the lord’s hands, akin to the ceremony of homage where a vassal placed his hands between those of his overlord. These oaths bound the lord and his new serf in a feudal contract and defined the terms of their agreement.[19] Often these bargains were severe.
A 7th-century Anglo Saxon “Oath of Fealty” states:
By the Lord before whom this sanctuary is holy, I will to N. be true and faithful, and love all which he loves and shun all which he shuns, according to the laws of God and the order of the world. Nor will I ever with will or action, through word or deed, do anything which is unpleasing to him, on condition that he will hold to me as I shall deserve it, and that he will perform everything as it was in our agreement when I submitted myself to him and chose his will.
To become a serf was a commitment that encompassed all aspects of the serf’s life.
Moreover, the children born to a serf inherited the status of the parent, and were considered born into serfdom at birth. By taking on the duties of serfdom, individuals bound not only themselves but their future progeny.[/quote]
Lol…. That reads like an employment contract at a defense company or public sector with a 2-3% COLA guarantee…
Wasn’t capitalism suppose to replace serfdom?
August 3, 2021 at 11:56 AM in reply to: Recs for home insurance? Progressive just dropped us #822799CoronitaParticipant[quote=Balboa][quote=Coronita]my primary home is currently insured with “American Modern Insurance”… Found cheaper than my previous allstate insurance
have you checked with costco? They offer home and auto, and at least with auto, it was very competitive.
I just switched my 3 of my cars From allstate to costco’s provider and for those 3 cars, my insurance has better coverage and the premium is lower by almost $600/year
The other two (old audi and miata) would have been cheaper at costco too, but i found out those two can be insured for really cheap by Hagerty as a classic car and so its like $350 for both of them per year with the max liability, collision, comprehensive,. and special provisions for parts write off worth more than the car itself…[/quote]
Costco is a good idea I never seems to have. I’ll definitely check it out since I’ll be cancelling my Progressive for auto after this.
I wish I was insuring a Miata![/quote]
Miata’s aren’t that expensive to have.
NB’s go for around $5-7k and pretty cheap to insure and pretty cheap to fix.https://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/cto/d/san-diego-1999-mazda-miata-mx/7352900045.html
CoronitaParticipant[quote=deadzone][quote=Coronita]
Dude. It’s 10am PST. You should be working at your job. You shouldn’t be moonlighting on the internet on a real estate blog on company time, especially if your company is so inflexible and requires you to account every work hour between 8am-5pm and expects you to have your butt in your workseat during this time even if you don’t have enough work to do because your boss totally underestimated your workload and didn’t give you enough work to occupy your 8 hour/day workshift with 1 hour lunch break.
Only people like me and my team members can do this because I trust they will get their work done if even they decide to take a short 1 hour break and do nothing, as long as they meet their deadlines. And if they get it done earlier, I don’t care what they do for the rest of their time.
Get back to work and complete your work hours and timecard accurately deadzone![/quote]
I’ve already established the fact that most of the white collar work force, myself included, have been mostly jerking off during the Pandemic. That’s the problem. Can’t go on forever. But sure for now it is great, I make good money, do maybe 25% of the work I used to do for the same pay. Get to go surfing or ride my bike at random times during the “work” day. What’s not to like?
Also I am a manager, nobody is keeping track of my work hours. I just have to make sure the folks that work for me get their shit done.[/quote]
You and your company might be jerking off during the pandemic because as I mentioned, your american employer might be one that is in an industry that can digest a bloated operational model riddled with inefficiencies like the defense sector or public sector, but for many companies, we’ve been pretty busy trying to acquire companies during the lockdown. Most of our software and tech we had to quickly re-invent for use in contact tracing and guest tracking in the post-covid economy, so for us many folks had to be on site testing the location technology we are building (field engineers at least). So that’s why we’ve needed to add headcount, because we’ve acquired 4 new major customers and our delivery rate is now roughly 8 mobile apps on each mobile platform (Android and IOS) per quarter, bringing our total apps to about 28 in a year and half of work. So again, maybe that’s the disconnect. You and your coworkers at your employer is jerking off and probably got COLA adjustments and haven’t really seen any additional pickup in business (again, maybe because it’s an inefficient defense or public sector)…But for some of us, we’ve had to add headcount to keep up with the business demand after companies started spending a lot again….The trick is to avoid burning out people so they quit to support all this new work.
CoronitaParticipant[quote=deadzone][quote=Coronita][quote=deadzone][quote=Coronita][quote=scaredyclassic]If a remote employee in an RV gets in a wreck while on the clock, is the company liable for those damages?[/quote]
No because, technically i dont know about it officially and dont officially recognize it. its like giving someone under the table comp time. i make them fill out the timecard with a PTO request and they take the comp day off. if something happens to them , I approve and process the pto request, and then its on them… if nothing happens, when they get back, i reject and delete the pto request so it doesnt count against their balance. Same deal, i habe them fill out s month worth of PTO at a time, and if nothing happens i reject it at the end of the month. and open a new one for the next month. while the pto request is pending, no one else. sees it except me. And if anyone asks, ill just say hes planning to take an extended pto, but we are working out the details….
This isnt rocket science.[/quote]
Good luck explaining that to the lawyers[/quote]
why would this be any different from you driving a car on a lunch break and get into an at fault accident becaise you were dumb enough to check your email while driving? Is your employer legally liable?
I think you are just pissed that the world is changing , and others are able to take advantage of the new opportunities that for whatever reasons either you arent available to you or for some reason you are hell bent on sticking with whst you are currently doing and cant get over the fact theres better ways to doing things than just to camp out on the same thing unappreciated getting that COLA adjustment each year and then complaining about it not keeping up with rising cost of everything.
the bigger threat to remote workers is employers are no longer suck with locale mediocre talent and paying them higher socal wages to do the work. so that. money goes a lot further in ehat you can get.[/quote]
All of this talk of entitled workers attitudes is so reminiscent of the .com bubble. Late 90s engineers had their pick of jobs, all chasing the next startup. And it didn’t matter how good they were since VC money was flowing like the Niagara Falls. The only difference now is the money is slowing even more thanks to the Fed. So sure the world is changing at least temporarily since there is so much easy money companies don’t have to worry about being productive. But at some point, when the music stops, these lazy remote working, entitled workers are going to be in for a rude awakening.
And by the way, outside of my Pandemic related boredom I actually like my job, my work and the people I work with. I feel sorry for folks like you that have a very bad attitude towards your work. As much time as you spend posting on this web site constantly complaining about your work and financial situation demonstrates that regardless of how much money you are making you are unhappy even though you are likely a 1 percenter.[/quote]
Dude. It’s 10am PST. You should be working at your job. You shouldn’t be moonlighting on the internet on a real estate blog on company time, especially if your company is so inflexible and requires you to account every work hour between 8am-5pm and expects you to have your butt in your workseat during this time even if you don’t have enough work to do because your boss totally underestimated your workload and didn’t give you enough work to occupy your 8 hour/day workshift with 1 hour lunch break.
Only people like me and my team members can do this because I trust they will get their work done if even they decide to take a short 1 hour break and do nothing, as long as they meet their deadlines. And if they get it done earlier, I don’t care what they do for the rest of their time.
Get back to work and complete your work hours and timecard accurately deadzone!
CoronitaParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]Part I: Duties of Employees to Their Employers
Current employment law evolved from the feudal relationship between the lords and the peasants. In many legal indexes this is still termed the law of the master-servant relationship.[/quote]Ah yes, the W2 salaried serfdom…When you get a salary (taxed up to 30% if you include federal/state/social security), that is 2-3% COLA adjusted, which you can use to rent a piece of property, that allows you to sleep in, so that you can wake up every day and go back to work to do the same thing, so you can pay for the cost of that place you eat and sleep…over and over again…while rent and home prices adjust by, how much again??? Serfdom??? I think it’s borderline indentured servitude more like it.
Maybe that’s why so many people are doing side hustles…
Rise up, workerbees!
CoronitaParticipant[quote=deadzone][quote=Coronita][quote=scaredyclassic]If a remote employee in an RV gets in a wreck while on the clock, is the company liable for those damages?[/quote]
No because, technically i dont know about it officially and dont officially recognize it. its like giving someone under the table comp time. i make them fill out the timecard with a PTO request and they take the comp day off. if something happens to them , I approve and process the pto request, and then its on them… if nothing happens, when they get back, i reject and delete the pto request so it doesnt count against their balance. Same deal, i habe them fill out s month worth of PTO at a time, and if nothing happens i reject it at the end of the month. and open a new one for the next month. while the pto request is pending, no one else. sees it except me. And if anyone asks, ill just say hes planning to take an extended pto, but we are working out the details….
This isnt rocket science.[/quote]
Good luck explaining that to the lawyers[/quote]
why would this be any different from you driving a car on a lunch break and get into an at fault accident becaise you were dumb enough to check your email while driving? Is your employer legally liable?
I think you are just pissed that the world is changing , and others are able to take advantage of the new opportunities that for whatever reasons either you arent available to you or for some reason you are hell bent on sticking with whst you are currently doing and cant get over the fact theres better ways to doing things than just to camp out on the same thing unappreciated getting that COLA adjustment each year and then complaining about it not keeping up with rising cost of everything.
the bigger threat to remote workers is employers are no longer suck with locale mediocre talent and paying them higher socal wages to do the work. so that. money goes a lot further in ehat you can get.
CoronitaParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]If a remote employee in an RV gets in a wreck while on the clock, is the company liable for those damages?[/quote]
No because, technically i dont know about it officially and dont officially recognize it. its like giving someone under the table comp time. i make them fill out the timecard with a PTO request and they take the comp day off. if something happens to them , I approve and process the pto request, and then its on them… if nothing happens, when they get back, i reject and delete the pto request so it doesnt count against their balance.
Same deal, i have them fill out a month worth of PTO at a time, and if nothing happens i reject it at the end of the month. and open a new one for the next month. while the pto request is pending, no one else. sees it except me. And if anyone asks, ill just say hes planning to take an extended pto, but we are working out the details….
1 month doesnt raise eyebrows, because thats usually how long someone overseas like from china or india take their pto…longer than 1 month gets sketchy, because technically with the exception of CA employees other state employees cant rollover their vacation balances and there is a maximum of 6 weeks vacation per year for the employees with the most seniority.This isnt rocket science.
CoronitaParticipantmy primary home is currently insured with “American Modern Insurance”… Found cheaper than my previous allstate insurance
have you checked with costco? They offer home and auto, and at least with auto, it was very competitive.
I just switched my 3 of my cars From allstate to costco’s provider and for those 3 cars, my insurance has better coverage and the premium is lower by almost $600/year
The other two (old audi and miata) would have been cheaper at costco too, but i found out those two can be insured for really cheap by Hagerty as a classic car and so its like $350 for both of them per year with the max liability, collision, comprehensive,. and special provisions for parts write off worth more than the car itself…
CoronitaParticipantWhat people who are anti-remote dont see, is that even if you dont want to be a remote worker, it is still benefiting you because it is certainly equalizing wages across the US. Companies can longer as easily pull the “lets hire cheaper workers in FL or TX or other parts of the US” card out out as often… because good people in FL TX etc are no longer cheap, given that they no longer have to accept a shitty local job with a shitty local pay that local companies in those cheaper areas use to get away with. Suddenly paying someone SD wages doesnt look so bad and moving engineers to cheaper cost FL or TX is no longer really a viable option…. in fact, unless you are in an defense or public sector, tech wages are finally starting to normalize across the US, because of remote opportunities. Silly Valley and Silly Alley are starting to plateau, everywhere else is starting to move up…Long term,.the economy will contract, and remote work abuse will be reigned in. But remote opportunity wont go away. Because the upside is you can get good remote workers and not be stuck hiring less than ideal local workers and paying them SD wages for subpar work
But if local companies dont start moving their wages up, (a) they are going to have a really tough time attracting new talent, and (b) have trouble keeping top talent unless you offer something else that they cant find elsewhere… Take my most senior IOS engineer. He and I know that he could easily find a job that pays $25k more at least, in the $180-190k range probably more. Why hasnt he left? Well because he likes team and Im pretty flexible. A few months ago, he decided he wants to go travel and live out if his RV, so for the past few months hes working out of his RV as he travels around the US and uses a satellite link to dial into meetings and upload code to github, code reviews with others people work over zoom and slack , mentors some of my junior engineers over zoom, interviews people over Hackerrank, And does sprint/scrum planning snd defect triaging over Jira…no different than my other engineers that work out of UK, Australia, San Diego, Mexico City, Utah, Texas, Indiana, Tennessee, Florida, and South Dakota. He just has to share a bunch of pictures of his journey along the way….something that all of us with families with kids that (hopefully) will return back to in person school cant do… serious envy….
When he approached me a few months ago, he was ready resign thinking he had no options. I gave him the option to work remotely via a satellite link.
He stayed on , still a productive engineer. (The main issue is the satellite tech is still a little premature , hopefully something Starlink from SpaceX can solve when they are finally operational…) I get him for less that other companies would pay for him, and he wont be going anywhere else as long as he still reports to me. I get to test out this extreme version of remote work with a trusted colleague and learn what works and doesnt work so that for the next gig, i have a lot more ways to build and manage a team. And when i finally leave my current company, he isnt going to stay at the company if they dont allow him to continue this way, especially if i offer the same work conditions wherever i end up.Loyalty no longer lies with the company… it now lies with the people who can put a team together and create a work environment better than what normally they can get from a traditional “job”
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