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Rep Retirement Lodge #154: Olympics

Rep Retirement Lodge #154: Olympics

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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #154: Olympics

goldy_331 said:
Uh, could you tell me again about the thing with ...thing?? :confused:
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That's the crux of the problem, the company whose system we use understands about as much of the system as you do now. What else should I expect from a company based in Pennsylvania?

Basically, our trust accounting database/processing system was setup by a thousand monkeys sitting in front of a thousand computer terminals. The provider never fully documented its system's data transmission processes or properties, and thus causing me problems. What's more is that there are only a small handful of companies that provide this sort of accounting system in the USA and the others aren't much better, if at all.
 
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St. Clown said:
That's the crux of the problem, the company whose system we use understands about as much of the system as you do now. What else should I expect from a company based in Pennsylvania?

Basically, our trust accounting database/processing system was setup by a thousand monkeys sitting in front of a thousand computer terminals. The provider never fully documented its system's data transmission processes or properties, and thus causing me problems. What's more is that there are only a small handful of companies that provide this sort of accounting system in the USA and the others aren't much better, if at all.
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If its tertiary, you aren't relying on it i assume. So why is it a big deal? Should give you the time to fix or replace it.
 
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gmann said:
Tell your sister to stop listening to country albums backwards.

Seriously.......doesn't sound like to much thought went into that move. Unless of course her boyfriend is a wealthy doctor, farmer, lawyer, drug dealer.............
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I don't think she listens to much country. I think she listens to crappy music instead. The boyfriend has a job, but he's not exactly weathy. He's just graduated from school a few years ago and this is still his first position out of school.
 
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Almington said:
It's your sister's life to live the way that she wants to. Unless she owes your parents a pile of money, is living at home with them, or they pulled some strings to get her the job originally, they don't really have any reason to be upset with her about the whole situation.
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They're upset because it was a stupid decision to make. And now it is a virtual guarantee that she's going to get mad about not finding a job and call my mom everyday to complain about it, just like she did before she found the job she just quit.
 
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Quitting a job before you have another is not the smartest thing to do even in a good economy. It would of been easy for me to quit, and justifiably so after some of the things i've gone through at my job. But I couldn't do it.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
Quitting a job before you have another is not the smartest thing to do even in a good economy. It would of been easy for me to quit, and justifiably so after some of the things i've gone through at my job. But I couldn't do it.
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Exactly. Because you're not an idiot.

My mom's argument was, if she wants to move back home, she needs 1 of 2 things, either another job to start when she gets home, or a ring on her finger.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
If its tertiary, you aren't relying on it i assume. So why is it a big deal? Should give you the time to fix or replace it.
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It's tertiary because it's not part of the main trust accounting system. It's "core" in terms of us moving sell trades out to our contra brokers, the trade settlement process.
 
bigblue_dl said:
Exactly. Because you're not an idiot.

My mom's argument was, if she wants to move back home, she needs 1 of 2 things, either another job to start when she gets home, or a ring on her finger.
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If you liked it you shoulda put a ring on it
If you liked it you shoulda put a ring on it
If you liked it you shoulda put a ring on it
Whoa ho ho. Whoa ho ho.
Whoa ho ho. Whoa ho ho
 
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If you start to do that dance, I will hit you with a shovel.

Is it bad that "shovel" appears in suggested words on my phone?

Found out my 20-year reunion is this weekend.
 
Hammer said:
If you start to do that dance, I will hit you with a shovel.

Is it bad that "shovel" appears in suggested words on my phone?

Found out my 20-year reunion is this weekend.
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That was one of the highlights of my time seeing The Dan Band :)
 
bigblue_dl said:
Speaking of unemployment, my extremely foolish little sister just quit her job, her very well paying 6-figure starting salary job, to move back home and move in with her boyfriend. She never found a new job before quitting, so now she's sitting around, doing nothing, spending the money she saved up over last year in her good paying job. Needless to say, my parents are quite ****ed off about the whole deal, rightfully so. It was a stupid, stupid thing to do. On the bright side, for the first time since my sister was born, I am the favorite child. :D
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Six figures? Having a hard time not going all rage-y and stuff.

Edit: I remember reading an article once about successful women who do things like give up their job and money to follow their loser brooding boyfriends and the bands they play in and crap like that.

I suppose my being angry about not being able to move up in this economy is ticking me off. If you are young and have that kind of job and not burned out... There are no words... This is why I went to school for so long.
 
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Patman said:
Six figures? Having a hard time not going all rage-y and stuff.
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Well, if it makes you feel any better, her job sucked. She had to work outside in New Mexico and West Texas, 6 days a week.

Oh, I forgot to mention this part, when she put in her 2 week notice, the company asked her to reconsider, and said they'd relocated her anywhere that they had oil/gas fields, and she could "name her price" for the amount of vacation (to a certain extent). So she could have gotten as close to home as North Dakota, and gotten 5-6 weeks of vacation/year, and maintained her big salary. She still turned it down. So stupid.
 
bigblue_dl said:
Well, if it makes you feel any better, her job sucked. She had to work outside in New Mexico and West Texas, 6 days a week.

Oh, I forgot to mention this part, when she put in her 2 week notice, the company asked her to reconsider, and said they'd relocated her anywhere that they had oil/gas fields, and she could "name her price" for the amount of vacation (to a certain extent). So she could have gotten as close to home as North Dakota, and gotten 5-6 weeks of vacation/year, and maintained her big salary. She still turned it down. So stupid.
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Being in the middle of nowhere is a drawback... But if you are supposed to be so good they throw 6 weeks at you then you should be able to land a job anywhere.
 
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Patman said:
Being in the middle of nowhere is a drawback... But if you are supposed to be so good they throw 6 weeks at you then you should be able to land a job anywhere.
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Its not just the middle of nowhere, its working outside somewhere its 120 degrees for 4 straight months.

Her last job was too specialized, she was valuable to that company because they put her through 4 months of training in Abu Dhabi, that training is only valuable to a few, select companies in the oil and gas world, and maybe only her former company and no other. That experience isn't going to help much in getting her a job outside that field.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Its not just the middle of nowhere, its working outside somewhere its 120 degrees for 4 straight months.

Her last job was too specialized, she was valuable to that company because they put her through 4 months of training in Abu Dhabi, that training is only valuable to a few, select companies in the oil and gas world, and maybe only her former company and no other. That experience isn't going to help much in getting her a job outside that field.
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She really didn't think it through that much did she?
 
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Howdy Lodge. Back at the hotel after a day out and about. Spent late morning/early afternoon at Oakland Hills CC. Going to have dinner and call it a night. Not going to gamble. Did that last night. It didn't go well. We need to getup and out to the airport early. For you Michiganders, is there any road in this state that is NOT under construction?
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #154: Olympics

bigblue_dl said:
Its not just the middle of nowhere, its working outside somewhere its 120 degrees for 4 straight months.

Her last job was too specialized, she was valuable to that company because they put her through 4 months of training in Abu Dhabi, that training is only valuable to a few, select companies in the oil and gas world, and maybe only her former company and no other. That experience isn't going to help much in getting her a job outside that field.
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With her training there's like 3 big companies that she could work for and I happen to drive past the world headquarters for the 2 she didnt work for this morning leaving houston. Apparently it's pretty common for engineers to switch to competing companies.
 
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My former next door neighbor is a former petrol-chemical engineer. Once his wife got through her residency as an MD, they realized they didn't want to live anywhere he could get a job, so he became a house-husband (with no kids for most of their married life). Tough job, but someone has to do it, I guess.
 
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Good evening Lodge.

Today is my Friday.

Currently on the deck soaking in a beautiful evening with the boys. Each of us are enjoying a tall Shirley Temple on the rocks.
 
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