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Aside from the unemployment, this is my wishlist! So while it’s unlikely I’ll be part of a RIF (my company is not a MC, but it is growing), it doesn’t seem that my idea of a fair package is outrageous. @jollystomper: While it is true I’ve been marginalized for what are my least important...

Yeah, it's a little loosy-goosy at my company... Typically everyone just wants to limp over the Sep 30 finish line and then between then and December is when new budgets and KPIs are set, even though theoretically they should be in place by end of October. People are just burnt out in the fall...

I like this! It sounds like my best option. Our fiscal year ends Sep 30th, so I'll quiet myself until then. :) I appreciate all the other frank and reality-based comments, too. The consensus seems to be that, as the great George Constanza once said, "I have no hand!"

Thanks. But my main question is whether anyone, on their own, initiated a negotiation for a severance package and was successful in that? I'm not talking about unexpected offers coming the from the company side (out of the blue) or other mass layoffs. IOW, people who asked for a package...

Thanks for all the replies so far. Yes, I understand the company's perspective. I guess I'm using the Financial Samurai's concept from several (many?) years ago. He even wrote a book on it: https://www.financialsamurai.com/how-to-make-money-quitting-your-job-2/ (Or something close to...

I introduced myself years back, but I didn't know which sub-forum to post this question. If the admin needs to move it, I thank you in advance. I turned 63 in January. First child is now out of college with a good job (just got promoted yesterday, as a matter of fact) and he's still living at...

23.5% YTD, AA of 82/16/2 (Stocks/Bonds/Cash). Investment portfolio is still about 12% down from Jan 2022 high. AAPL comprises a large percentage of my portfolio and is the main reason for bringing my performance up in the last couple months. I've held it since 2013. (I essentially haven't...

I started converting my front lawn over to native plants (Minnesota). It doesn't rain as much as it used to and I'm not going to waste water on a mono-culture lawn. I'm sure the neighbors think I'm nutty.

I recommend ScanCafe. Wait for their 40% off coupons around every holiday (not just the Christmas holiday). Easy peasy. Save your labor.

After handling the estates for both my FIL and mother in the past 5 years, I learned two important things: - Wills do not mean squat and will not prevent probate if no beneficiaries are listed on accounts (where applicable). My mother had one account that didn't have beneficiaries listed and it...

Can I quote myself and say, "Told ya." ? ;)

All the major manufacturer's have tinnitus therapy in their upper technology hearing aids. The two typical technologies are: 1. Tinnitus masking; the user can choose different brownian noise, white noise, narrowband noise etc. to add to one or more programs in their hearing aids, or 2...

OTC will definitely change the game. It already is, because consumers of hearing aids breached the firm wall between the hearing aid manufacturers and dispensers/audiologist about 3 years ago. Consumers (or patients, in old parlance) used to have to go through a dispenser for help with their...

Costco does NOT sell bottom of the line hearing aids. You won't get a better price for hearing aids PLUS follow-up service. Costco takes bids every 2-3 years from the major hearing aid manufacturers. The winning bid gets the Kirkland KS line (I think they're at KS 10 right now?). The KS line is...

Hearing aids are considered medical devices and, as such, it is illegal for this website to sell you the Connexx software, as well well as the Noahlink programming interface. The software from any hearing aid manufacturer is not allowed to be given to any old Joe on the street; only to licensed...

Yes, it is a hassle. You would first have to run the gauntlet of establishing that your hearing loss is service-related. Lots of paperwork and then a long wait to get an appointment to test your hearing loss. Then a fitting appointment. Then a follow-up appointment. If the VA determines you...

Check your eBay messages today. eBay just send out a message with link to a form that will send a letter Congress asking them to do away with the 1099-K for casual eBay sellers. Takes less than a minute to fill out and submit.

I just had an auction sale on eBay. Winning bidder ghosted me on payment. So it was relisted as a "But it Now". Looks like it might have been a bot (2 purchases in their history, fairly recent account creation). I usually try to stay on top of my auction sales, since bots proliferate...

Jiminy, what are you waiting for? Put in your notices tomorrow.

I declared a couple months ago to my wife that I will no longer wait in line at Costco for gas, no matter the cost savings. (If there is absolutely no line whatsoever, fine, then I'll get gas there.) Getting gas at Costco is ALWAYS stressful to me. I always have the worst luck and get behind the...

I envy all you people who love your job (which is low stress, to boot) and have a pension coming. Me? 61 and in a high stress job that I hate...only 401K/investments and SS. I've never been in a job I "loved". Always missing the boat, joining companies only hear the staff say, "oh, you should...

Just stay with Schwab. I use and like them. Switch from the Intelligent portfolio to a three index fund portfolio with the Schwab equivalents of Vanguard Funds. (Laid out it that "other" well-known forum that starts with "Bogl....."). Very minimal fees and up to you how much cash to keep on...

I have two 16:9 27-in HP 4k monitors. They're great. The advantage of two monitors with photo editing is that you can throw the photo you're editing to one monitor in full screen, while still seeing the controls/adjustments on the first monitor. Not really the same on a very large single monitor.

We had a house in the Chicago area, built in 1958 with a boiler (natural gas) and cast iron radiators. BEST heating system EVER. The trick was to know how to set the thermostat so that the radiators didn't get too hot for too long...You sort of had to let them "coast" and give off heat after the...

LOL. Cameras are my financial kryptonite as well. I've been on a bit of a (used) buying spree of late, buying anything and everything that I think I'll want to have in retirement. I have quite the photographic arsenal now! I realized the hobby morphed into the hunt for gear, rather than the hunt...