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  1. Parental advice for Teens after an accident

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    So we thought we did everything to help Lynden understand safety with cars. We took her to Mid Ohio’s teen driving program, she drove as a temp driver the entire year of Covid- we took her to the drag strip and let her do a “run what you brung” to learn there are ways to go have fun in your car safely…

     

    And yet her dumb ass still tried to “drag race” in a school parking lot in her 2.5NA forester against an 86 Monte Carlo about and ran into him. She was busy showing off to the boys that is hanging out with… (and not where she was supposed to be- no big surprise- teenagers will teenage)

     

    Nothing bad, but still an accident…

     

     

    So what now?

     

    She’s been grounded from phone ans car for two weeks… but I’m sort of at a loss to really drive this home.

     

    I do NOT think she has learned anything from this…but I can’t keep her from driving forever.

     

    So what would you do? How did you handle your teens getting into a stupid accident that was purely from acting stupid and not just “omg I didn’t see them and turned into them!”

  4. Texas

    in Dumpster

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    If i hadnt met Nathan 17 years ago, i would be living in San Antonio right now. I loved it there, i was in thr process of buying a house and relocating via GM

     

    People are friendly, lots to do, its beautiful weather..

     

    maybe one day when we retire...

  7. General Motors strike

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    Wooo.. I have a lot to catch up on..

    So, I get a rare post about something going on.

     

    My dad and my aunt are still employed (and VERY near retirement) from GM.

     

    I quit GM back in 2006, shortly before Mansfield closed.

     

    My dad is walking the picket line today. He walks it Every Tuesday.

     

    My Uncle was part of the National Committee in the 70-90's for renegotiations (in other words, he was one of the guys negotiating directly with GM)

     

    I have LOTS of friends still employed (currently striking), I have many family members retired. My sister took a buyout about 8 years ago (maths are hard, not totally sure when.. but it was when Delphis was closing plants)

     

    So.. I have LOTS of ins and outs of all of this.

     

    Final note.

     

     

    I fucking HATE GENERAL MOTORS AND THE UAW. I quit because of the golden handcuffs they offer.

     

    My dad (a tool and die maker) has been ROYALLY screwed over retirement wise since he was semi-forced to transfer halfway across the country and told he would get to carry on his seniority/retirement date at the new plant. They didnt. They took away 5 years of his life/time towards retirement, so he's having to work an extra 5 years due to pension shit and the union/gm lying to him ..

     

    its a whole story, i dont feel like getting into, just know that my dad lives 6 hours away from the place his entire family has lived since the 40's, and he's stuck on second shift and works mandatory satrudays and sundays most week, and sometimes doesnt have a day off for weeks on end.

     

    Also - this contract has NOTHING that will help him with this retirement issue and he will be able to retire at 72 now, instead of 67.

     

     

    Im adding responses to the quotes, and am willing to answer as many questions as I can.

     

     

     

    If you think anyone, I mean ANYONE should be paid 100K+bennies (great bennies too) to bolt on water pumps for 8 hours a day, you are part of the problem. Period.

     

    I promise you.. thats not all I did; i hated every minute of every fucking day there. I worked in two different plants. I worked for Delphi in Dayton, where i made the brakes for basilly all of hte cars for GM.. From Pistons, to calipers, to the whole brake assembly. Im permanently injured, (while minor) from the work i did.

     

    the most I ever made was $67K, and they are operating under the same contract (basiclly) that was in place when i left in 2006. There has been no "raises". I worked Mandatory Saturdays and overtime most nights.

    I worked EASILY 60 hours+ a week, on fucking miserable 2nd shift.

     

    I was a "Temp" for 2+ years.. That meant No vacation, No sick days, no benefits. You missed a day, you were wrote up. You had a sick kid.. hope your significant other could take care fo them, You risked losing your job for EVERYTHING that could possibly go wrong in your life.

    Why? Because you were a temp. THIS is a HUGE sticking point for the contract right now. They want some sort of guarantee for those employees to be hired on as full-time employees.

     

     

     

    If you all wanna know what they make an hour-Look at the actual contract. Its not hard to find. Ive read this book 4 times in my life.

    https://uaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/64171_UAW-GM-Hourly-Highlights-Revp-11-final.pdf

     

    You are Paid based on the Type of Job you have.. Fork Truck drivers make more than line people, Line Leaders make a bit more as well.

    Skilled trades are paid better as well because they are EDUCATED. They have degrees, certifications, ect.

     

    I have friends who have gone through the "education" programs to get into the skilled trades, but GM has put a "hold" on these things, so while they have finished their classes, they dont have a journeymans card or anything that would help them outside of the plant because GM doesnt want to convert them, despite training them. That, i find, very weird.

     

    My experience with how unions operate at GM, I was sent to GM Powertrain in Defiance to install and calibrate a machine they had moved. I needed the machine plugged into a 110v wall outlet in order to turn the machine on. I was not allowed to plug in the machine because of union rules. My company scheduled me 2 weeks out, they knew I was coming for 2 weeks. After 3 hours, someone finally came by and plugged the machine in for me.

     

    I asked what would happen had I plugged in the machine myself. I was told that if I did, the electrician could file a grievance against me (which would have been a certainty), and I would be walked out for the remainder of the day. The electrician would get paid their regular 8 hour shift, plus 8 more hours for the "work I was taking from them", all for plugging in a machine to a standard outlet. Yeah, unions can go fuck themselves.

    Bullshit.

    Im calling complete bullshit. The only thing i can even remotely fathom is that someone dropped the ball on actually calling an electrition, or that there was more setup than you are letting on. Its also possible that there was another reason you werent allowed to do it, (such as a safety factory of stuff around the machines- im spitballing here) and they wanted to make sure your equipment wouldnt be fucked up by being plugged into a wrong outlet.

     

    however, im still calling bullshit.

     

    I had a friend that started a design job at a union. He walked into his office on the first day and his computer was sitting there not hooked up. So he started to put it together, someone let him know he can't do that.

     

    He sat there for 3 weeks waiting on someone to plug his computer in.

     

    Efficiency FTW!

    Bullshit again. This is just pure bullshit.

    For the techs getting dicked, this isn’t UAW’s fault, it’s GM’s fault and your fault for letting them walk all over you.

     

    God forbid UAW asks for better wages and benefits right!

    While this is kinda true, its not totally true.

    I firmly believe that part of all of this is because there is a corruption investigation into the UAW President, and some of his cronies as a diversion tactic as well.

     

    GM has been making money HAND OVER FIST, so they arent all right either.

     

    I have so much more i could type up about all of this, but its 2am, and i have to work in a few hours.

  8. Anthony

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    When my brother was at select I would take him in food since he had no restrictions. Subway, burger King, Bob Evans biscuits/gravy, ECT ECT. My son was in charge of picking out candy. He took my brother in couple full sized Snickers. A year later my brother still has a full size snicker addiction haha....he said it was the best thing he'd ever tasted at the time and it's stuck with him awhile haha

     

    Diet after pancreatitis can be very restrictive.

    I’m curious to see what is said about this.

  10. Anthony

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    WTF?!?!?! That's an awesome development!

     

    April 28th - bedridden

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    May 20th - punched an orderly and left his room.

     

    Can we really expect anything less out of the man?

     

     

    Trust me, Ant doesn't have a gag reflex. I know from experience. :gay2:

     

    Probably because you couldnt reach it. :p

     

     

     

     

     

    *side note- are chicks allowed to make small dick jokes? I dont know the rules for this. :shrug:

  12. Contractor Recommendations

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    Can i tack onto this?

     

    I need someone who can help us remodel/expand our laundry room into a mudroom/laundry room area. Will include putting up new alls and drywall and possibly a window installation

     

    Looking for someone who can handle the design/layout idea part of this as well.

  14. Buying a house with foundation issues?

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    I can't see why you would ever buy unless you could fix and save enough to come out ahead.

    Not to mention, if this went unfixed.. what else wasnt fixed/maintained properly..

     

     

    ^^ this. Life tosses enough curve balls my way to want to even look at a house like that. Way too many homes out there to justify looking at one with foundation issues.

    Unfortunately this isnt true in the current market.. Its rough to be a home buyer right now O.o

  15. Anyone do foster care?

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    What a great way to help some kids who desperatly need a foundation, support and care in a rough time of their lives.

     

    its never going to be "easy" but it will be rewarding in the long run.

     

    iirc in Ohio, a majority of kids in foster care are children will ultimately end up back with their families as their lives improve or court cases are finalized.

     

    Its not always the easiest situation to deal with, but you can be the biggest help to someone who is going through a very rough time.

     

    Will you be fostering with an intention to adopt? Or fostering only?

  17. SpaceX - Falcon Heavy put a Tesla Roadster in space

    in Passing Lane

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    I quite literally cried when the boosters landed like that.

     

    I was already welled yo when that thing took off.

     

    It was SO FAST like astonishingly fast.

     

    I have no idea how it compares to to to others like Saturn 5 but all i could think is how in our lifetime it’s possible we could see the possible first commercial space flight of humans.

     

    I don’t think it will happen soon but I’d like to believe it will happen before I die.

     

    Think about that.

     

    Elon is like a cult leader too- look at everything he does and the following he has created.

     

    He’s a genius.

     

    I’ve watched I think most of the publicized rocket launches on Space-X and each time I get goose bumps.

     

    I can’t imagine the feeling my dad and the rest of our parents had watching Man walk on the moon the first time but I feel like we are so close to another planetary touchdown with humans we might have an iota of that feeling.

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