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Jane S

12:21 AM

@Air Meetings: The practical alternative to work! :)

enderland

12:46 AM

@Air I added that to mine if you don't mind, with citation :)

Air

1:07 AM

@enderland I neither mind nor require citation, but thanks for you consideration

enderland

I had a few others there already that I was adding, it's more useful to have a comprehensive answer than a long comment train...

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Ajaxkevi

8:31 AM

I think the responses from some of the members of this community really scares some people off: workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/50412/…

7 hours later…

enderland

4:01 PM

Q: Where can someone find a comprehensive list of all the information technology jobs?

A comprehensive list of all Information Technology related jobs

hmm, that just might be a little too broad

Air

4:18 PM

@enderland buzzfeed.com/daves4/…

@Ajaxkevi How so?

enderland

I deleted quite a few comments here that were... a bit confrontational in nature. Many were blatantly inappropriate. The summary related to concerns with #1 - telling a young woman who is uncomfortable around someone due to inappropriate comments to talk with the person who makes her uncomfortable 1/1 not necessarily being a good idea. — enderland ♦ 5 hours ago

Air

@enderland I don't understand that. Not your message—I mean the idea of getting all worked up over the suggestion that you could choose to confront the individual.

Anyway, I wasn't sure if Ajaxkevi was referring to deleted comments, or existing comments, or answers, or what

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RhysW

7:06 PM

so apparently today was the first day i had ever used all 40 votes on workplace

enderland

@RhysW so you were the one serially upvoting me (j/k) :)

RhysW

@enderland :P some of them were yours, Jane turned up in a bunch of them, she's everywhere. Aswell as the usual faces, Joe, HLGEM etc

enderland

RhysW

successfully used some advice from this site again this week!

enderland

for more monies?

RhysW

7:14 PM

yup thats the one

figured i should pay the site back by being a little more active

Air

7:31 PM

My wife gave notice at her job this morning... kind of scary. I hope my HR rep doesn't drag ass processing my health enrollment forms.

RhysW

In that middle ground for health coverage then?

Air

@RhysW Hmm? I don't catch your meaning.

RhysW

Yeah i worded that pretty badly

I meant to ask if you were in that gap where your wife doesn't have health coverage and you don't either because you are still waiting on the enrollment forms to be processed

Air

Ah. Then, no, and hoping to avoid it. She's not actually leaving until the end of August, so we're covered for another month.

Worst case scenario is paying for COBRA.

RhysW

Ah, don't have to start wrapping up in bubble wrap then

COBRA?

Air

7:36 PM

Continuation Of Benefits.... something something? In the US you can extend your employer-provided benefits by paying a bunch of extra money after you leave.

Okay, so I was totally wrong about what the initials are for.

enderland

@Air I can see why they made it an acryonmn, hahaha

RhysW

@Air it sounds less like a GI Joe villain now

Air

No kidding.

The State looooooooves acronyms. (That one's Federal, but hey, they love 'em too.)

enderland

7:54 PM

doesn't quite roll off the tongue without the acryonm...

RhysW

that answer turned into a bit of an essay there, got a bit carried away

Air

Hmm, it is quiet extensive, isn't it ;)

enderland

I feel like good answers here often are

because people are complicated

RhysW

people are hard, everyone takes interaction in different ways

Air

or, because OPINIONS

RhysW

8:06 PM

insulting to one is endearing to another

enderland

@Air other people have opinions, I have facts!

RhysW

I've met people like that

Air

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Coen Brothers movies are just full of great quotes to throw at people who are behaving insufferably. Though maybe my appreciation for non sequitur has biased me somewhat.

RhysW

http://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/49099/5305

Just putting this here so i remember to come back tomorrow and upvote

wish i had read this answer 6 months ago!

enderland

@RhysW :)

RhysW

8:20 PM

ah, its a shame the stack exchange app doesnt allow review / tag wiki editing

enderland

I don't bother using the app from my mobile, I just use the full site

RhysW

i have an hour or so bus journey each way, could get a lot done in that time

enderland

Hah. I only have 0.5gb/data per month

RhysW

im not sure what mine is, don't think i've ever hit the limit yet, or i have and ive paid extortionate bills i havent noticed

enderland

Mine's a pretty discounty plan, $10 for cell/texting and $7.50 for data (though I get reimbursed for whatever data I don't use)

RhysW

8:24 PM

thats pretty good, not a lot of places do reimbursal that i know of

Air

My wife and I usually stay under 0.5 GB of data (combined) but our plan lets us go over into the 1 GB bin and pay something like $10 more in any given month. It's handy when we're traveling.

enderland

@Air yeah mine does too, Republic Wireless ftw!

Air

@enderland Are they the ones with the "free" plans via an app that routes everything through wifi?

enderland

@Air I think the cheapest is $5 for that

Air

There's a company that I heard about recently that's claiming to offer free cell phone plans. I think the deal was that they already have an app that routes all calls and SMS through VOIP and MMS, so you can use WiFi, and now they're trying to sell data-only plans

enderland

8:34 PM

I used to have a plan that was basically that, 100 min/texts a month and 5gb data, but getting SIP to work was a huge pain

Air

I've only been using a smartphone at all since the beginning of the year, but I went with Ting and it's fine so far.

enderland

Aww I don't have to convince you to drop the 2-year extortion plan? :)

Air

Ha! I definitely did not want a contract. I got my Moto G for $40 on a deal, and got a $100 credit for first time sign up that allowed my wife to get a refurbished iPhone 5 for under $200

enderland

Ah, I didn't realize you could use iPhones with Ting

Ting must be sim card based?

Air

@enderland I mean, you can, if you want to pay for an iPhone. I tried to talk her out of it but she wanted something that would interface with her laptop.

Ting has GSM and CDMA now.

When we signed up they were still Sprint-only.

enderland

8:37 PM

Ahhh

I guess you could buy a brand new iphone from Apple then, huh

Air

The biggest downside of being on a Sprint carrier is that my in-laws' house is in the sticks where only Verizon has good coverage. But at some point, Ting started offering free talk and text roaming on Verizon, and I decided it was time to get rid of ol' flippy

enderland

Looks like Ting would be slightly more expensive for us than Republic Wireless, I think

@Air RW uses sprint for their networks but offers free talk/text roaming (afaik, it's free) and does allow data roaming, but at a much higher rate

Air

@enderland Is the "base plan" cost with Republic per-person?

enderland

@Air Yeah

I can't find a nice chart of their pricing anymore, but ours is $10 for talk/text and then $7.50 for 0.5gb data (per person) so $35 base for two of us, though I think it'll be more like $25-30 for us

Air

Ting seems best for a group of people with really different usage patterns, and not a huge amount of data overall

enderland

8:42 PM

Yeah, RW lets you go over datawise though and you just pay the same rate (must be $15/gb though)

for us we'd probably be in the 500-1000 minute range, 101-1000 texts, and 101-500mb range

so $12 + $18 + $5 + 12 = $47 total?

Air

Yeah, plus a few bucks taxes

enderland

Yeah, the RW costs I was using also didn't include taxes

Air