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I need to come up with an idea for an information service for a professional or cultural group for a group assignment at school. Anyone have any good ideas? I was thinking about something for incarcerated youth, but that doesn't really fit with professional or cultural group, does it?
Woot!
After getting a very large raise last year, I was all prepared to get a minimal raise this year, which it seemed like it would - a little less than 4%. However, I just found out that something was in the works and I'm getting just under 8% ON TOP OF THAT!
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Sorry to celebrate excessively, but I have to share with someone, and anybody else I wouldn't want to while I'm at the office.
I need to come up with an idea for an information service for a professional or cultural group for a group assignment at school. Anyone have any good ideas? I was thinking about something for incarcerated youth, but that doesn't really fit with professional or cultural group, does it?
maybe vacation information for a language group, like a spanish speaking group?
Woo hoo, Frank!
I love my debit card because it lets me pay "cash" without actually having any cash. Of course, I also love my current job for paying me enough that I can generally buy things I want with money I already have.
Since I am newly working for The Man, what is a low/normal/high raise these days?
Yay raise!
I need to come up with an idea for an information service for a professional or cultural group for a group assignment at school.
A way for professionals to barter skills, like trading web design for accounting?
A way for people who work at home to get together for brainstorming, meet for lunch or share information? (www.workatjelly.com is trying this, but it's a little too casual for me.)
A service that helps small businesses find green products, recycle and reduce their energy use? Big businesses have a clear economic gain doing a lot of these things, but small business doesn't have the time or resources.
My pay days are the 15th and last day of the monthMine too, and I hate it. I loved getting paid every other week, just for those beautiful three-paycheck months. Of course, if we weren't all living paycheck-to-paycheck, it wouldn't make such a difference. Argh. Until embarrassingly recently, it never even occurred to me that someone wouldn't live paycheck-to-paycheck.
Congrats, Frank! Great news!
Megan, it depends on who you're working for. If you've got Frank's boss, you got great raises (congrats, Frank!!). If you've got mine, and you give a decent if not glowing review, you give that employee a 1.5% raise.
Barely a third the inflation rate.
Sucks.
Wowzers. [link]
Miss Brennan had an urgent transplant after a virus caused her liver to fail, potentially fatally, when she was nine years old. But she became very ill nine months later, suffering pneumolysis - a breakdown of the red blood cells.
When tests came back, her doctors were astonished to find the girl's blood group had changed from O-negative, the same as her parents, to the donor's blood type of O-positive. Further tests revealed stem cells from the donor liver had penetrated Miss Brennan's bone marrow - a phenomenon her doctors have described as a natural bone marrow transplant.
They say they were even more surprised when they found the girl's immune system had been almost totally replaced.
I imagine so!
Since I am newly working for The Man, what is a low/normal/high raise these days?
I'd say Kathy's probably closer to how a lot of places are going with raises these days. I've been very fortunate the last couple of years, at least in regards to raises, but some have been job title upgrades, some have been market adjustments, etc. I'd say what I thought I was getting is probably closer to how our merit increases usually go here.