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#2607879 20-Nov-2020 23:41

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Put the car on a trailer, cart it to a workshop and pay someone else to do the job. Then try to erase unpleasant memory of abject failure with beer or counselling.

This is my go-to (sans counselling).

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#2607880 20-Nov-2020 23:44

Geektastic:
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Its quite straightforward: the spline terminator on the excrusion bracket is munted.

Should be fine as long as the Flux Capacitor is still....fluxing.

Ha! You obviously know nothing about temporal metaphysics. The Flux capacitor cannot flux if the gravity well is not deep enough. Even Biff Tannen understands that!

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#2607892 21-Nov-2020 05:52

We live in an apartment practically by Hagley Park and there's a sweeper truck every Saturday that gets to our apartment at 5:50 in the morning.
Wakes me and the fiancée up. Its the weekend let us sleep.

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#2607997 21-Nov-2020 16:11

Something small that really annoys me is thinking of something small that really annoys me while outside painting and then forgetting what it was by the time I get inside to post about something small that really annoys me.

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#2608297 22-Nov-2020 09:33

Not so much small, but obscene. From the Guardian -

'The pay levels of US chief executives have increased by an average of 940% since 1978, compared with a 12% increase in workers’ pay, according to the Economic Policy Institute thinktank.'

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/21/shocking-inequality-why-san-francisco-voted-for-overpaid-executive-tax

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#2608355 22-Nov-2020 12:27

rb99:

Not so much small, but obscene. From the Guardian -

'The pay levels of US chief executives have increased by an average of 940% since 1978, compared with a 12% increase in workers’ pay, according to the Economic Policy Institute thinktank.'

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/21/shocking-inequality-why-san-francisco-voted-for-overpaid-executive-tax

The source paper quoted in that link says:

”From 1978 to 2018, CEO compensation grew by 1,007.5% (940.3% under the options-realized measure), far outstripping S&P stock market growth (706.7%) and the wage growth of very high earners (339.2%). In contrast, wages for the typical worker grew by just 11.9%.”

Although there is merit in what they’re trying to do in California, that 11.9% growth over a forty-year period surely can’t be correct.

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#2608356 22-Nov-2020 12:38

I don't know, but assumed its wage growth after inflation. Unless you're saying thats incorrect.

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#2608628 22-Nov-2020 19:35

rb99:

I don't know, but assumed its wage growth after inflation. Unless you're saying thats incorrect.

I don’t know - TBH it’s nothing more than a gut feeling comment. Even if they’re saying real growth/after inflation, it doesn’t sound right at 12% growth over 40 years.

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#2608658 22-Nov-2020 20:56

Very high earners are quite likely to be very clever or possess rare skills and abilities or be taking risks either personally or financially.

Comparing their remuneration to the average in this way would not be a terribly realistic comparison because there will be complexities that are not accounted for.

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#2608661 22-Nov-2020 21:12

That is the BS argument they use to justify it. Maybe their special skills or abilities are worth twice as much, or three times as much. They are never worth hundreds of times as much. That is sheer greed talking.

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#2608723 23-Nov-2020 07:35

Geektastic: Very high earners are quite likely to be very clever or possess rare skills and abilities or be taking risks either personally or financially.

If you considered being a psychopathy are rare skill or ability, I'd agree that many CEO's have these skills.

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#2608729 23-Nov-2020 07:58

Geektastic: Very high earners are quite likely to be very clever or possess rare skills and abilities or be taking risks either personally or financially.

Comparing their remuneration to the average in this way would not be a terribly realistic comparison because there will be complexities that are not accounted for.

I read it that the "very high earners" are salaried. No doubt that are clever and have skills and knowledge, but I don't see it as risky.

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#2608731 23-Nov-2020 07:59

Companies that only accept feedback by an online form!

You spend ages filling it in, it disappears, they harvest your email address?, and you usually get no form of email confirmation, or a copy of what you wrote for your reference!

(Let alone a reply!)

Multinational ones are especially bad, from my experience!

(One I just did - received a receipt confirmation, but not a copy of what I wrote!)

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#2608742 23-Nov-2020 08:26

Geektastic: Very high earners are quite likely to be very clever or possess rare skills and abilities or be taking risks either personally or financially.

Comparing their remuneration to the average in this way would not be a terribly realistic comparison because there will be complexities that are not accounted for.

So these exceptional people didn't exist in the 60's or 70's then ? Far as I'm concerned, the only exceptional things about them are their greed and the ridiculous stock options that go to them.

Another quote that caught my (completely unbiased( eye from that report - 'It is useful, in this context, to note that wage growth for the bottom 90% would have been nearly twice as fast over the 1979–2017 period had wage inequality not grown.16 Most of the rise of inequality took the form of redistributing wages from the bottom 90% (whose share of wages fell from 69.8% to 60.9%) to the top 1.0% (whose wage share nearly doubled, rising from 7.3% to 13.4%).'

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#2608743 23-Nov-2020 08:26

Stupid Capcha...

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