Such desperation. You're career's over Babe. It was practically dead because you sucked, but then you killed it with this TDS lunacy - doubling down isn't going to give you a better outcome.
Maybe you can look into cleaning houses or going for a cosmetology degree. I hear there's a big demand for dog walking in that part of the country.
Fear in the workplace. Why, it's almost like they're getting a taste of the private sector...
The irony is that it most likely isn't the foreigners offering to pay higher prices - it's their fellow Mexicans seeing Americans as piggy banks to fleece. They get a couple of Americans to pay exorbitant prices and then they don't care what they sell to fellow Mexicans for.
Most Americans think they're supporting the local economy by paying the "Gringo Tax", but it turns out these cultures don't GAF about their fellow citizens or they'd use the windfall to lower prices to the locals or otherwise improve their communities.
In case anyone finds this thread in the future...
Last night, out of desperation, I went to the local clinic. Doc wasn't convinced the thigh pain and fever were related.
Gave me a course of antibiotics as the fever sounded like some kind of infection, and I have a lot of insect bites this year, any of which is a possible vector. Also possible a dormant infection got reactivated by over-exerting. Or there's just a lot of stuff that wants to kill you in the country...
Also gave me Prednisone for the thigh pain and a muscle relaxant to help me sleep.
I took the antibiotic last night and this morning. By 10:30am my fever was gone and hasn't come back.
Took the muscle relaxant last night and it didn't help. I had a restless night again because of the pain. Wasn't going to take the Prednisone because I've taken it before and don't like who I am when I'm on it (it alters my personality) but I've discovered that constant pain, even when it's not severe, erodes your willpower and ability to reason. So I did take the first dose this morning. But within an hour of taking it, the pain in my legs was gone and hasn't come back.
So it's too early to be definitive. I have a 10 day antibiotic course and I can take the Prednisone for as long as 9 days or I can taper off sooner. I don't expect the fever to return if I stick with the antibiotics. I'm not sure if the leg pain is gone for good. Tonight will tell a lot. If I have no pain by morning, I'm going to drop the Prednisone to the 2nd tier, and if I do the same the next day, I'll be off it before the weekend is over.
The muscle relaxant is as needed and it's not a controlled substance. I may try again tonight, but so far it doesn't seem to do much for me.
I guess I'm really never going to know the actual cause. I kind of understand that there's no point in testing for a subset of hundreds or thousands of potential infectors when, in the end, the prescription is going to be an antibiotic. It's more efficient to take the antibiotic and if it fixes it, it was an infection, and if it doesn't, then spend the money for more diagnosis.
I seem to recall from CBO discussion in previous years that Congress statutorily instructs CBO how to calculate its forecasts and that ties their hands even if they know the results are bogus.
That's great and I appreciate it, but that just means you've stopped the bleeding finally. We're just as financially injured even if it isn't getting any worse. I think I'm not alone in this.
My salary review is 6-9 months away and it's probably going to continue to be a pittance that at least might finally cover inflation. I don't see gas prices coming down from the Biden era. I don't see any prices coming down.
Amazing how illegal invaders have standing but disenfranchised citizen voters never do.
I'm starting to think she's a GOP plant. She is constantly making the Republican Party look like the party of sanity by comparison.
Just listening to that dweeb makes me want to punch him in the mouth. In minecraft, of course.
Putrefaction Pass?
GM deserves to die. If there were any justice, the entire executive suite would be in prison.
Two different companies, both with the same name.
The SAIC in bed with GM is Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation.
TSA has always been a performative waste of time and resources. Any security system that actively ignores known risk characteristics in favor of universal mediocrity is just going through motions.
This is starting to piss me off.
I went from rural suburbs, to full blown city life, to some of the ruralist rural in the u.s.
I guess I'm harder on them because I once was one.
Better than an impotent urban asshole.
Why is it that so many city people keep moving out here to be with us poor stupid country bumpkins?
Could it be that everything that the rich, educated, urban elite try to manage turns to shit so badly that even they can't stand living there anymore?
Didn't turn out great for Oldsmobiles either...
I wouldn't be surprised if that was a 'rat idea when the bill was in committee.
You feds gotta learn to be more subtle.
Even setting aside the abortion issue entirely, the idea that more than half the country has been forced to subsidize an organization whose actions they find morally repugnant, and for decades, is itself a moral outrage.
It's as if we were subsidizing human trafficking under the mantra of child welfare. Well, maybe that's a bad example since we already have that.
Dementia is a helluva thing.
I'm salary and I work from home. I'm basically on call 24x7.
The only reason it's tolerable is because I control my environment and don't have to commute to an office.
I get paid pretty well, but I can be out tomorrow for any reason or no reason. I'd have more protection at McDonald's but I'd also be exposed to more risk for less money.
So France surrenders yet again.