There are several companies here that pay $12-$15 an hour that can't find employees. And yet I know several drawing unemployment because it pays more. My daughter works 62 hours a week at $12. and could make more on unemployment.
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Seattle enacted a $4 per hour hazard pay for grocery store workers.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...for-grocery-workers-during-covid-19-pandemic/Kroger promptly decided to close two of their stores in Seattle. The people who voted in this bill don't understand economics. anyone who's visited a grocery store realizes all the extra people they had to hire just to keep carts and baskets sanitized, and there are parking spaces designated for outside grocery pickup...... Again this means more employees. I think Kroger did the right thing. Seattle is not getting any less crazy.
I agree with you about the people who are out of work earlier and are working now. a lot of people haven't missed a day of work since his whole thing started and have not been affected at all. The media makes it seem like everything is closed and nobody's working. I'm just saying it ought to be some way to designate money to people that need it rather than give everybody another $1,400. The government cannot keep doing this forever. My thinking is that if 40 to 60% of the people haven't been dramatically affected, they're not sending those people checks would be a tremendous savings to the government.
My work has been more steady for the past year than it has in the last 15 years. Every contractor in town is busy building homes remodeling homes. One city in a county has two homes available for sale because the demand is so high. I live in a town that adjoins another town. Combined population is around 29,000. It's next to impossible to buy a home here because of such demand. It doesn't matter if you're a carpet layer, install tile, or if you're an electrician or a plumber or a framer.... Everything is weeks or months out.
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Long Beach, CA enacted a city ordinance giving an additional $4 per hour for workers at their 4 grocery stores for Covid pay. That same day, 2 or the 4 grocery stores closed up their businesses, saying it was no longer cost effective to keep the stores open. The same people who griped that the workers needed more money are now griping that they will need to drive an additional 4-5 miles to get groceries.
When you go to the grocery store everyone's wearing a mask and every check stand has a plexiglass partition. I'm not thinking that would be any more hazardous than any other job.
I just finished a 2 week job in a customer's home and wore a mask the entire time. carrying tools from the front of the house to the back of the house where I was working is about 50 steps each way. I'm sure I made at least a dozen trips back and forth and each time carrying something it became more of a pain to remove the mask and put it back on. That job just wore me out. Sitting or standing with a mask on didn't seem to bother but working with one on.... What a royal pain. seems like I felt tired all day long the whole time.
This is the first time since covid hit that been asked to wear a mask. The customers were just a man and a wife and they wore them while they were inside their own home and even when going outside to do work.
I just finished a 2 week job in a customer's home and wore a mask the entire time. carrying tools from the front of the house to the back of the house where I was working is about 50 steps each way. I'm sure I made at least a dozen trips back and forth and each time carrying something it became more of a pain to remove the mask and put it back on. That job just wore me out. Sitting or standing with a mask on didn't seem to bother but working with one on.... What a royal pain. seems like I felt tired all day long the whole time.
This is the first time since covid hit that been asked to wear a mask. The customers were just a man and a wife and they wore them while they were inside their own home and even when going outside to do work.
I have always reckoned give a few dollars a day to young people as they will spend it that day on things like ice creams, not oldies who will just leave the money in the bank not helping the economy move again
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Woke up to a full internet outage at Millersville University. I get to monitor from home with Teams. Think I’ll go out for breakfast! 
Daris says Jim McClain died Friday.
Sorry to hear that, Rusty.
Yesterday I went to the grocery store in the evening to get milk & see if they had anything back in stock. Got some meat and cheese. They were still out of a lot of stuff.
Brother cooked something for me last night-- some kind of hamburger steak or something. He forgot to turn the cooktop off and the cats turned it to max sear and warped the pan.
My friend still hasn't gotten his sewer line fixed. Plumber no-showed for a week & I think my friend has given up on getting him to come out. Guy is a jack@$$ anyway. Friend also discovered that the cashier put in for cashback on his debit card (without permission) while he was checking out and pocketed the cash. He was checking his debit statement later and realized it was $60 higher than it should have been. But he can't find the receipt & doesn't know who's in charge of security there anymore. I told him he should go ask them to check the cameras. On the upside, he bought stock in Gamestop very cheap and made a few hundred bucks selling at higher price. He's really hoping the stimulus will come through for him-- although, he never received his last check. They sent it to H&R Block bc they do his taxes & HR&Block is refusing to hand it over. They claim there is some sort of "error". I think it's BS & they are hoping people will forget about it or not check so they can steal their $, but then, I've lost trust in humanity so I'm a bit on the paranoid side. I wish I knew who he could contact to light a fire under their behinds to give him his money. I also wish the courts would actually read his paperwork and realize his ex committed fraud in her claims for child support.
I had trouble sleeping last night-- partially bc of the smell from the burnt frying pan & I think I need a nap soon.
Yesterday I went to the grocery store in the evening to get milk & see if they had anything back in stock. Got some meat and cheese. They were still out of a lot of stuff.
Brother cooked something for me last night-- some kind of hamburger steak or something. He forgot to turn the cooktop off and the cats turned it to max sear and warped the pan.
My friend still hasn't gotten his sewer line fixed. Plumber no-showed for a week & I think my friend has given up on getting him to come out. Guy is a jack@$$ anyway. Friend also discovered that the cashier put in for cashback on his debit card (without permission) while he was checking out and pocketed the cash. He was checking his debit statement later and realized it was $60 higher than it should have been. But he can't find the receipt & doesn't know who's in charge of security there anymore. I told him he should go ask them to check the cameras. On the upside, he bought stock in Gamestop very cheap and made a few hundred bucks selling at higher price. He's really hoping the stimulus will come through for him-- although, he never received his last check. They sent it to H&R Block bc they do his taxes & HR&Block is refusing to hand it over. They claim there is some sort of "error". I think it's BS & they are hoping people will forget about it or not check so they can steal their $, but then, I've lost trust in humanity so I'm a bit on the paranoid side. I wish I knew who he could contact to light a fire under their behinds to give him his money. I also wish the courts would actually read his paperwork and realize his ex committed fraud in her claims for child support.
I had trouble sleeping last night-- partially bc of the smell from the burnt frying pan & I think I need a nap soon.
He brought a bunch of us together when he started TFP.
Who is that?
He wrote American Pie.
......no, he started a flooring site years ago called The floor pro.
......no, he started a flooring site years ago called The floor pro.
And he was a real whiner. Always went on an on about he had 6 months to live and that was 13 years ago. But it got him a lot of donations. Keith knew him. Keith only bought this site because he hated Jim.
I liked the site, but I'd wished he was less 'hands on'. He'll be remembered.
He banned me.
You were a bad, bad boy Rusty. 
I started helping Keith and they hated each other.You were a bad, bad boy Rusty.
That could do it.
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It's sad that he died but also sad that he was petty about his feud with Keith (who is Keith? Is he still around?)
I'm on an FB group where the admins are a-holes & I know they want me to leave but I won't give them the satisfaction. So they look for any excuse to temp-ban me. Like, I posted something that was verified as true-- links, court case #s etc and they deleted it, temp-banned me, and put that it was "bombastic and provably false". Yet other members keep posting stuff that has been proven false. Other members call people names and are jerks, but I once got temp-banned for pointing out that the person was being a jerk & trying strawman arguments. My banning period wore off, but I keep checking back to see if they have banned me again. The one admin looks for any excuse he can find to do it. Not sure why he hasn't actually kicked me out. He kicked out several other members who disagreed with him. He deleted my post and temp-banned me when he replied to a member he knew was temp-banned & couldn't reply & demanded that the person answer him, the claimed the person's silence was a sign they had no argument (nevermind that when they had replied, he deleted it-- I saw it before it was deleted). So I replied and said he knew damn well the guy couldn't reply since he had deleted his posts and muted him.
I'm glad I don't let it get to me though. I just find it funny that people are so petty. Not as bad as when an admin actually edited one of my posts to make it look like I said things I didn't say to use as an excuse for permanently banning me. There was a box admins could check to hide that they edited a post. I used to sneakily correct people's spelling.
Anyway, I went to the post office and got Burger King for mom. She didn't want anything we have in the house to cook and store was still out of stuff. I need to get better at stocking up and meal planning.
Brother discovered there is a hole in the metal screen lining the entire pantry that is supposed to keep mice out. Coming from the attic. I will have to caulk it. It's window screen nailed to the walls. I'm thinking of finding some way to spackle it or something to make it smooth. Mice climb on the mesh and I want to stop that. My brother was supposed to clean the pantry- I'm sure you're not surprised that he didn't do it. I'm getting so frustrated with having to do all of his chores because they need to be done. But, that's the way it's been since we were kids. I should have put my foot down when I was younger but hindsight is 20/20.
I'm on an FB group where the admins are a-holes & I know they want me to leave but I won't give them the satisfaction. So they look for any excuse to temp-ban me. Like, I posted something that was verified as true-- links, court case #s etc and they deleted it, temp-banned me, and put that it was "bombastic and provably false". Yet other members keep posting stuff that has been proven false. Other members call people names and are jerks, but I once got temp-banned for pointing out that the person was being a jerk & trying strawman arguments. My banning period wore off, but I keep checking back to see if they have banned me again. The one admin looks for any excuse he can find to do it. Not sure why he hasn't actually kicked me out. He kicked out several other members who disagreed with him. He deleted my post and temp-banned me when he replied to a member he knew was temp-banned & couldn't reply & demanded that the person answer him, the claimed the person's silence was a sign they had no argument (nevermind that when they had replied, he deleted it-- I saw it before it was deleted). So I replied and said he knew damn well the guy couldn't reply since he had deleted his posts and muted him.
I'm glad I don't let it get to me though. I just find it funny that people are so petty. Not as bad as when an admin actually edited one of my posts to make it look like I said things I didn't say to use as an excuse for permanently banning me. There was a box admins could check to hide that they edited a post. I used to sneakily correct people's spelling.
Anyway, I went to the post office and got Burger King for mom. She didn't want anything we have in the house to cook and store was still out of stuff. I need to get better at stocking up and meal planning.
Brother discovered there is a hole in the metal screen lining the entire pantry that is supposed to keep mice out. Coming from the attic. I will have to caulk it. It's window screen nailed to the walls. I'm thinking of finding some way to spackle it or something to make it smooth. Mice climb on the mesh and I want to stop that. My brother was supposed to clean the pantry- I'm sure you're not surprised that he didn't do it. I'm getting so frustrated with having to do all of his chores because they need to be done. But, that's the way it's been since we were kids. I should have put my foot down when I was younger but hindsight is 20/20.
