Disgusted with the Biden administration

The media was very quick to bury Biden’s “gaffe.” As each day goes by it becomes clearer that Biden is just as or more racist than Trump is. It’s almost as if racism (and sexual assault) only matters if you have a “R” next to your name.  If this were trump or anyone else on the right, it would be a minimum of a one week news cycle.  Looking forward to the apologists downplaying this.

President Biden refers to baseball legend Satchel Paige as “the great negro at the time."

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— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 11, 2021

Joe Biden is and has been extremely racist his whole life

posted by Fletch

Joe Biden is and has been extremely racist his whole life

Pretty sure that during his campaign he had a few racial type comments leading up to the election.

Poor kids are just as bright as white kids.

well i didn't vote for joe biden. so i ain't black.

Biden is how I found out Obama was the first mainstream African Amercan who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy.

posted by like_that

The media was very quick to bury Biden’s “gaffe.” As each day goes by it becomes clearer that Biden is just as or more racist than Trump is. It’s almost as if racism (and sexual assault) only matters if you have a “R” next to your name.  If this were trump or anyone else on the right, it would be a minimum of a one week news cycle.  Looking forward to the apologists downplaying this.

President Biden refers to baseball legend Satchel Paige as “the great negro at the time."

pic.twitter.com/9SolHPcrng

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 11, 2021

At least he said he was a "great" negro ..................right?

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Race is just something Democrats use to shame minorities into voting for them.  It's much easier than actually earning someone's vote.  What's lost on most voters is because they rely on votes they don't have to work for, this gives them incentive NOT to actually address racial inequities. 

posted by kizer permanente

in a different country? he was talking about federal mandates. 

The mandates only apply to companies over 100 employees, and isn't actually in effect yet.

You said people aren't quitting their jobs because they can't afford to.  There are literally millions of job openings at companies that won't be requiring a vaccination as a condition of employment.

Plus, there's at least a few million people sitting at home on their asses not working.  Somehow they are able to afford that....

Circuit court re-affirmed their opinion Friday night, so it is a permanent stay on the vaccine mandate bullshit pending further court action.  It will no doubt end up at the supreme court. 

posted by gut

The mandates only apply to companies over 100 employees, and isn't actually in effect yet.

You said people aren't quitting their jobs because they can't afford to.  There are literally millions of job openings at companies that won't be requiring a vaccination as a condition of employment.

Plus, there's at least a few million people sitting at home on their asses not working.  Somehow they are able to afford that....

That's true. Though, in my limited amount of job searching, I personally haven't seen people leave larger companies for smaller companies and take a pay increase. Well... not without taking a net hit after benefits are counted. 

posted by kizer permanente

That's true. Though, in my limited amount of job searching, I personally haven't seen people leave larger companies for smaller companies and take a pay increase. Well... not without taking a net hit after benefits are counted. 

I see this ALL the time. Many of my clients leave larger companies for smaller companies to get away from all of the corporate red tape, internal policy BS, etc and many times get paid significantly more. There are many larger companies requiring vaccination "or else" and the people are leaving because they don't want it.

posted by BR1986FB

I see this ALL the time. Many of my clients leave larger companies for smaller companies to get away from all of the corporate red tape, internal policy BS, etc and many times get paid significantly more. There are many larger companies requiring vaccination "or else" and the people are leaving because they don't want it.

You'd definitely see it more than me.

 I've had a few places a recruiter would call me about and the salary was more, but when you calculated out the worse retirement contribution and the monthly upcharge you'd pay for benefits, it's never worked for me. 

posted by kizer permanente

That's true. Though, in my limited amount of job searching, I personally haven't seen people leave larger companies for smaller companies and take a pay increase. Well... not without taking a net hit after benefits are counted. 

I can't speak for other people, but I know it happens a lot in the engineering market, as many smaller firms are more consulting firms and they charge out their engineering time at rather high rates to their customers kind of like lawyers. 

I went from a company once that was easily 5000 employees to one that was 40 employees and got a 20% pay increase and the 401k/health care was basically the same.

That new employer knew they could bill my time out out at about $250/hour on most projects and at least $150/hr on others and I didn't make anywhere near that so it was a win/win. 

Many small engineering firms are consulting/service firms like this and they can and do pay better than large companies if you negotiate. 

The company I am at now, is a large company with about 11,000 employees in the US and easily 30,000 worldwide. 

They were somewhat surprised by how much I was asking for to switch (I was coming from the consulting firm) and had to basically change the position they were looking for to a "senior" position to be allowed internally to hire me at the salary I was requesting. In other words they had to give me a promotion before I was even hired. Basically they were looking for a "Combustion Application Engineer" and changed the title to "Senior Combustion Application Engineer" to hire me. All because I was doing quite well at the consulting firm.

I can not speak for other industries as I honestly do not know if going to a smaller company pays better typically or not, but I do know in engineering it can if that smaller firm is in consulting/service work.

posted by kizer permanente

I've had a few places a recruiter would call me about and the salary was more, but when you calculated out the worse retirement contribution and the monthly upcharge you'd pay for benefits, it's never worked for me. 

It depends.  The theory goes that the blue chip company on the resume has value, so young professionals would make a little less.  I think that probably matches reality. 

People I've seen leave, say middle management, from big companies generally get a big promotion and raise.  A lateral is probably lower pay, and the comp surveys I've seen have always had a strong correlation with company size.  But what is a lateral in this discussion?  Titles really aren't that comparable - CFO of a Fortune 500 vs. CFO of a dealership are completely different on so many levels, like comparing an NFL QB to a high school soccer goalie.

The smaller company generally has less talented people in my experience, but hard to say if it's because they pay lower, or that's WHY they pay lower.  Seems like usually they would try to give a small bump in pay, at least try to match even in the case of a lateral. 

posted by jmog

I can not speak for other industries as I honestly do not know if going to a smaller company pays better typically or not, but I do know in engineering it can if that smaller firm is in consulting/service work.

Consulting/service work is a different animal.  Definitely pays better, but again often comes with tradeoffs which is kind of why it has to pay more.  Not uncommon to see people in-house on contract work, because they have good benefits through their spouse so they opt for the higher contractor pay.

We're probably framing this all wrong.  You're hired and paid based on your experience, and that probably isn't significantly impacted below the C-suite by company size.  The smaller companies can't afford the most experienced people, which makes it look like they pay less but it's apples-to-oranges.

Not sure if it's fake news or just speculation or what, but saw it floated that Kamala is on her way out as VP, like soon.  And the save-face maneuver is going to be a SCOTUS nomination (maybe they convinced Breier to retire?).

But would all 50 Dems in the Senate actually vote to confirm?  No guess, other than I'd guess they have less than 48 votes.

posted by gut

Not sure if it's fake news or just speculation or what, but saw it floated that Kamala is on her way out as VP, like soon.  And the save-face maneuver is going to be a SCOTUS nomination (maybe they convinced Breier to retire?).

But would all 50 Dems in the Senate actually vote to confirm?  No guess, other than I'd guess they have less than 48 votes.

She knows that on November 23,  the AG and Supreme Court will have to take the 11 cases of election fraud during the 2020 election.  

My family and I were sitting around the kitchen table the other day discussing how to cross a bridge in a snowstorm.  The question came up what happens when the bridge collapses and there's a fire on the other side?  It's going to be an extra 10 miles to get to the fire.  People could die.  What about the children in the school buses and water treatment trucks who can't cross.  Will children have to learn from home?  Will the water taste like shit?

Then we all reassured ourselves we have politicians that ran for office to help answer these questions.  Fears assuaged.  Rinse your plates and put them in the dishwasher.