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rokee1998 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:53 am

TAHOE wrote:

Bonus would be nice. My company used to give us all our "earned" vacation on Jan1, I'm up to 4 weeks. now they changed that and we have to earn it quarterly so I worked this whole year to earn ziltch in vacation. Then we got our 401 company profit sharing within the 1st quarter, now it goes in separately each month. They are screwing us at every turn. took away a floating holiday. Oh, and most likely no raise this year either!
GuessI can lok on bright side though, I'm bringing in a paycheck.
I hate being sick... still have sore throat and can't breath!!!... and still have to be in at work

Man that stinks

Sorry your feeling bad, hope u get better soon!

rokee1998 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:54 am

I am pulling all of my 401 k out of the 1st of the year, I have lost boo coo money this year, don't have much left in there :cry:

TAHOE · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:25 pm

I do have to say, the firm our 401K is handled by does a pretty good job of managing our investments. I lost around 20K end of last year when it all crashed, but back up to pre-loss level. I would have done better if I would have got in their "retirement program" in which they determine how to invest my money, I still move it around myself so I lost a little more since I was in more aggressive stuff.
Man, I hope I feel better in the morning, have to replace oil cooler lines on a blazer... ugh, have to drop the front diffy 2 inches to get them out :evil:

Boiler · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:44 pm

I took a beating on my agressive investments too, but I'm about back to where I was 2 years ago. This of course includes two years of contributions....

yodejt02 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 1:05 pm

The last job I had was real big in retirement funds and investing. They set up a meeting for all the new hires with the companies investment firm, mind you this was at the start of the recession. They asked for my money I laughed at them and walked out :twisted:

H0USE34 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 1:56 pm

I just got my bonus. I think it ended up being something like 5.3% of my annual salary. They do something funny with coming to that number and it changes year to year. Its something like they calculate a number between 0 and 2 based on customer retention and other buisness stuff. Than each position has a base percentage(mine being 8%). Than you take the number they calculate times your base percentage and you get the percent you will get in a bonus. So i could get up to a 16% bonus.

BugginKJ · **Joined:** Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:35 pm **Posts:** 4576

I at one time got a bonus, now I just get the bone :shock:

Glad to still have a job though

1996xj · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 2:56 pm

I, recieved my bounus this year !!!!!,

before I QUIT, they LAID me OFF !!! :lol:

For the past couple year's, every time the holiday's roll around I get layed off and Rokee get a hospital visit !!! WTF !!!! :roll:

03CDKJ · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:19 pm

I got no bonus and no job.... :cry:

I'm going to go gingerly inhale some paint! :twisted:

rokee1998 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:29 pm

03CDKJ wrote:

I got no bonus and no job.... :cry:

I'm going to go gingerly inhale some paint! :twisted:

No! say it ain't so :!:

that's a SHOCKER :!:

501 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:37 pm

03CDKJ wrote:

I got no bonus and no job.... :cry:

I'm going to go gingerly inhale some paint! :twisted:

Red Paint?

rokee1998 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:42 pm

Tom, the fun times just kept on going today :!:

Both locomotives went down...

We had a broken rail on our inbound/outbound track, I took the track out of service, the customer was not happy.

The plant almost shut down because of this. The problem was that the break in the rail was in some comp joint bars(these join two different size rails together)comp bars are very old technology.

We started scrambling to find some, the earliest we could get any was Tuesday.....Soooo... I took Rokee on a safari in the yard and found a section of dead track that had the joint bars we needed. Needless to say the plant did not shut down, I saved the customer boocoo money!, and she was very pleased.

After that tradgedy was fixed, I focused all my attention on getting our "new" pos in service, I replaced the part that was over nighted, and alas, the engine still would not work, it would not idle any higher than notch 3, if you put it into notch 4, the loco died.

After troubleshooting with a mechanic in NJ for over two hours by phone, it ended up being the cable that goes from the governor to the throttle control, the contacts were dirty for god's sake! A little lectra parts cleaner and all was good! What a day!

I did however receive my stocking from by buddies in Oklahoma, it weighs over 30lbs, and includes 2 Pepperidge Farms sausage and cheese samplers, Pepp. Farm cookies, animal crackers for Shadow, Reeces Peanut Butter Trees, Cracker Jack, Nutter butters, Oreo's, Chips Ahoy, 2 boxes of Pringles Stix, a box of Star Crunch, a candy pooping dog on a sled, a jar of pub mix and $100.00 cash! the day was not a total loss!

Thank goodness it is Friday tomorrow and payday, But I have to host a conference call for the Ohio region tomorrow at 11am. After which, I will be departing work promptly at 1pm for a mod appointment at the XJ skunkwerks shop in Kettering OH

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:35 pm

501 wrote:

03CDKJ wrote:

I got no bonus and no job.... :cry:

I'm going to go gingerly inhale some paint! :twisted:

Red Paint?

Most likely :lol:

03CDKJ · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:48 pm

Diggerfreek wrote:

501 wrote:

03CDKJ wrote:

I got no bonus and no job.... :cry:

I'm going to go gingerly inhale some paint! :twisted:

Red Paint?

Most likely :lol:

I went with black today..... :shock:

tommudd · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:55 pm

03CDKJ wrote:

Diggerfreek wrote:

501 wrote:

03CDKJ wrote:

I got no bonus and no job.... :cry:

I'm going to go gingerly inhale some paint! :twisted:

Red Paint?

Most likely :lol:

I went with black today..... :shock:

I did that

well never mind :oops:

H0USE34 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:56 pm

03CDKJ wrote:

Diggerfreek wrote:

501 wrote:

03CDKJ wrote:

I got no bonus and no job.... :cry:

I'm going to go gingerly inhale some paint! :twisted:

Red Paint?

Most likely :lol:

I went with black today..... :shock:

Do i need to read back through the last 100 pages to get the paint inhaling?? :lol:

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:56 pm

03CDKJ wrote:

Diggerfreek wrote:

501 wrote:

03CDKJ wrote:

I got no bonus and no job.... :cry:

I'm going to go gingerly inhale some paint! :twisted:

Red Paint?

Most likely :lol:

I went with black today..... :shock:

Are you feeling OK :shock:

H0USE34 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:58 pm

rokee1998 wrote:

House, Chris has a problem, and needs your support...he is a chronic paint huffer, his poison used to be red Krylon, guess its now black

Well on the upside at least hes going with a better color now. And i would go take his paint and take him to rehab but hes way far away from me. But if he comes to the meet and greet we can trick him into rehab...there happens to be a rehab center like 15mins from my house. :twisted:

rokee1998 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:58 pm

wow, he changed colors, guess his nose hairs will be black again instead of red :wink:

rokee1998 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:59 pm

Do i need to read back through the last 100 pages to get the paint inhaling?? :lol:

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House, Chris has a problem, and needs your support...he is a chronic paint huffer, his poison used to be red Krylon, guess its now black

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