AlecSadler
Is there anything that disables / stops sticky videos when scrolling on mobile?
I get pissed off when I’m reading a news article, scroll down, and their headline video (often just an ad) clips itself to the top 1/3 of the screen.
Probably going to be Lost. I’m 3 episodes in as of 2008 and haven’t gone back yet…if I ever do, it will be the longest to get into for me by far.
In seriousness though…As others have said, The Office and Parks & Rec took me about a season to get into.
Arrested Development, I admit, took me a few episodes.
Always Sunny took me about a season…I think just to get into a groove of the style or something, I dunno.
Help friends & family. Donate to community assistance programs. Donate to other causes. Buy people nice gifts.
There are still…I dunno…probably DNS hops, IP, time’s of day, browser window size, browser user agent…
And if you access any page with any similar parameters on your phone or another household device on any site with FB tracking, it’s over.
It looks like in the last 7 days my phone has cutoff over 150,000 different tracking attempts and that’s just catchable ones and on my phone.
Satisfied enough, I guess. I make a little over half a million a year. Thing is, I burn about $30k/mo right now trying to keep my small businesses afloat (debts from mid-covid, payroll, medical benefits for employees). A little less than $10k/mo goes to my own bills, savings, retirement, health, etc. Rest usually goes back to the community or local charitable causes.
I take zero money out of my businesses and haven’t for 3 years or so now.
What would be great is if I could get back to where the businesses are self-sustaining, but the last few COVID years changed so much that I’m beginning to doubt it’s possible and at the moment I don’t have the heart to just shut them down or leave the employees without a job.
But, I can’t work 80 hours+ a week forever. I have a family too. I think it will help once the debts are paid off, but just trend/trajectory-wise it will still take some additional foot traffic and sales growth that I’m just not sure will happen anymore.
I have 4 different bank accounts that I use primarily (technically 10 total). What I do is split up my direct deposits and/or schedule transfers so that everything is bucketed. One account for fixed monthly bills, one for variable things like groceries, one for savings, and one for whatever I want, etc.
I put a little more than necessary in each account each month, so every so often I may have a surplus for a given bucket, too. This will either go towards the accelerated payoff of something or I’ll split the difference and move half to my fun bucket.
For the most part, this keeps necessary money (bills and savings) out of sight or mind and it’s easier to control my impulse spending when the only account I can/should be spending from has a low limited amount.
3x base salary at least. No-thought commute, so maybe provide transportation for me. I currently live what is about 1.5hrs away each way now and there isn’t a public transportation option.
Commute time should count towards my “8 hour work day”. No distracting desk drive bys. Provided breakfast and lunch or an optional lunch stipend or whatever to cover if I go somewhere near the office.
Not sounding great for the company? It isn’t meant to. It would be nearly impossible to get me to go back to the office, as it should be.
I’m not being unreasonable. I am at least twice as productive since working from home and even simple internal reports can prove that. I’m also 2-3x happier and less stressed, nothing can really replace that.
Going to be honest, not sure how pensions work. Current two businesses have 3 employees each. Paid medical, dental, vision (even through 2020-2022 regardless of hours worked). 6% 401k matching regardless of employee contribution, yes, again, didn’t realize pensions were high demand and happy to look into it.
While I realize I’m not a big company, we do our best to pay a minimum $52k salary (or commensurate hourly because of local law). Plus health benefits, phone/internet reimbursement, 4x10 optional work week, lenient “unlimited” vacation and sick, etc. etc. - I do realize $52k base isn’t the most amazing thing on earth…I take zero money from the business though, it all goes to employees.
All that to say, I am totally open to opportunities to better myself as an employer.
edit:
On the $6500 front, I just don’t know. A full family for us right now costs us about $1800/mo, basically everything and then some is covered but deductibles are like $2000 which I have heard is high…so I guess to your point, we could drop the deductible to $500 but then the monthly almost doubles. To me, it makes more sense to keep the ~$1500/mo increase in lieu of a $1500/hr difference and then pay that back to the employee as best I can.
Again…open to suggestions.