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    Abreu Signs 3/$50M Extension

    in Pale Hose Talk

    Posted · Edited by Moan4Yoan

    50 minutes ago, SonofaRoache said:

    Nope, they respect him so much they took his word that playing here long term was the answer. Had we fucked Jose over, I doubt we get these deals done this quickly and team friendly. 

    You have zero proof of this.  Abreu being around could definitely be a contributing factor in these guys wanting to extend but you have zero proof of it being the ultimate reason as opposed to the players simply being swayed by buckets of money being offered to them.

    Job Thread

    in SLaM

    Posted · Edited by Moan4Yoan

    23 minutes ago, Jack Parkman said:

    I have a  Chem E dude. 

    I never intended to work in industry, I always wanted to be a professor. I overloaded myself with too many hardcore engineering credits 1st semester senior year, and tanked my GPA enough that I could no longer get into a decent grad program, and had to shift gears. I was woefully unprepared for that. I had absolutely no preparation for my career, because I never thought I'd be working in industry anyway. By the time I started looking, I was way behind on networking/info/other things. I had one semester to catch up to my classmates  who had been preparing for 4 years. I tried to gain as much info as I could but kept getting conflicting info from books/articles/seminars. I stayed in school an extra semester to attempt to buy myself time. Wasn't enough, didn't work. 

    There's much more to this story, I don't have time to go into it right now.

    So right now, you may not be qualified to be a professor because you would need a Master’s degree or higher.  But you are qualified to be a public high school Chemistry/Science teacher, no?  Salaries start out low but you would still be teaching which it sounds like what you wanted to do.  Eventually, you could make a good salary with enough tenure and also have a great work/life balance with summers and state holidays off, along with winter and spring breaks.  And the pension pays off pretty well in the end.  Have you looked into teaching at all?

    Job Thread

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    Posted · Edited by Moan4Yoan

    Did Parkman actually make that “Gollum” post?  I thought it was some other poster making a sarcastic post falsely under Parkman’s name.  Wow.

    Parkman, no one in this country or world is required to work hard at their respective jobs to share jack shit with you or any other entitled people who share your insane beliefs.

    1 hour ago, SoxAce said:

    Ima go out on a limb and say that 99.9% of this board agrees with you there on Parkman. Call a spade a spade.

    Nailed it.  Your timing was impeccable.

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    Job Thread

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    Posted

    It’s amazing how people don’t understand the concept of taxes and how services are ultimately paid for.  States and governments aren’t just giving out free money.  It’s comes from somewhere (i.e. taxpayers).

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    Job Thread

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    17 minutes ago, Jack Parkman said:

    The bottom line is that if I had the money to do so, I would have gone back to college, studied something else and actively learned from my mistakes 5+ years ago. I can't afford it, so I don't, and the risk of being stuck in this position again is too great for me to take on more debt. 

    I'm trying other ways to gain access to the life that I want. 

     

    Do you have a bachelor’s degree?  If so, in what?

    Job Thread

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    Posted

    11 minutes ago, Jack Parkman said:

    At-will employment is a myth, especially in the United States, where healthcare and employment are joined at the hip. 

    To put it lightly: 

    If you can: 

    Quit your job and do something else AND: 

    Not have to worry about housing while you re-educate yourself

    Not have to worry about food 

    Have access to healthcare if you get sick

     

    Then you're free. 

    If any of the above three things are in jeopardy by making that decision to change careers, 

    Then you're not actually free. 

     

    Believe it or not, there are actually places in the world where this exists, but no, it's not realistic. :rolleyes:

    And guess what....they pay the same or a smaller amount of taxes than we do here. 

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    Job Thread

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    Posted · Edited by Moan4Yoan

    4 minutes ago, Jack Parkman said:

    At-will employment is a myth, especially in the United States, where healthcare and employment are joined at the hip. 

    To put it lightly: 

    If you can: 

    Quit your job and do something else AND: 

    Not have to worry about housing while you re-educate yourself

    Not have to worry about food 

    Have access to healthcare if you get sick

     

    Then you're free. 

    If any of the above three things are in jeopardy by making that decision to change careers, 

    Then you're not actually free. 

    You can obtain healthcare without being employed.  No, it’s not ideal but it’s a possibility.

    Job Thread

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    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Jack Parkman said:

    No, that person is free. They work because the want to, but not because they have to. That's the point I was trying to make. 

    Despite what you guys might think, I actually love working. It's good for my self-esteem and I feel better about myself when I do it. It sure beats sitting around all day being depressed. 

     

    free
    /frē/
    adjective
    1. not under the control or in the power of another; able to act or be done as one wishes.

     

    At-will employment
    “At-will refers to an employee that is free to leave a job at any time for any or no reason.”

    Job Thread

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    Posted

    1 minute ago, ptatc said:

    If this is the definition, no one in the history of mankind has ever been free.

    C’mon, try to answer it from an “intellectual standpoint.”  🤣

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    Job Thread

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    Posted · Edited by Moan4Yoan

    6 minutes ago, Jack Parkman said:

    Yes they are. 

    So any older/retired person that has enough life savings and social security income to live out the rest of their life comfortably but decides to work as a part-time Walmart greeter out of boredom and simply to interact with people on a daily basis is not “free”?  This person could quit at any time.

    Job Thread

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    Posted

    Just now, Jack Parkman said:

    We'll have to agree to disagree. 

    Being “free” and not needing to work are not the same thing.  If you are the rare person that is born to a rich family, wins the lottery, etc., I guess you could be “free” from working.  But those same people could wind up living under a bridge after wasting all of their family’s money, getting cut off by their family, blowing all of their lottery money on drugs, etc.  Are they then no longer “free”?

    Job Thread

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    Posted · Edited by Moan4Yoan

    9 minutes ago, Jack Parkman said:

    See part b) 

    Could you retire tomorrow and not have to worry about anything for the rest of your life? 

    Could you maintain the same lifestyle? 

    If not, you're not truly free. 

    Being “free” has nothing to do with maintaining your same lifestyle.  I could choose to be “free” from working a job, spend my entire life savings, and live under a bridge.  But it would be an awful life “free” of work that I choose not to live.

    Where do you get the idea that maintaining one’s own lifestyle shouldn’t cost anything, like time and effort?  Almost everything in life costs either time and/or effort, but if you truly want to be “free” of working a job, you can always go live in the woods and hunt and eat squirrels.

    Job Thread

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    Posted

    6 minutes ago, Jack Parkman said:

    Way to completely miss the point. 

    If you lost your job tomorrow and couldn't find work for 18+ months could you cover your costs? 

    If you lost your job and couldn't find work for 3 years could you cover your costs? 

    If the answer is no, you are not free and 100% dependent on your employer. 

    Why do you simply assume someone with an education, experience, and ambition couldn’t find a job for 18+ months?  There are also other options currently available:

    1.)  Unemployment for 6 months.

    2.)  Find a new job in your area of expertise.

    3.)  Accept a lesser paying job.

    4.)  If you refuse to do #3, live off some savings until you can accomplish #2.

    FS: What's Driving Mercedes' Power?

    in Pale Hose Talk

    Posted

    1 minute ago, chitownsportsfan said:

    He's almost certainly going to get a shot this year, unless you think Jose and EE play a combined 300 games.  He's a DH/1B only.  You can't have him catch a MLB game based on what we've seen this spring.   I'm not sure why the Sox haven't gotten off the pot on that yet.

    You are probably right but maybe they are trying to evaluate Mercedes / Collins / Zavala to see if they can move McCann like Not Cishek suggested.

    MLB Final Roster Options out of Spring Training

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    Posted · Edited by Moan4Yoan

    5 hours ago, Minoso-Pierce-Allen-HOF said:

    Italics are used to make it easier for the reader/responder to scan down and be able to easily distinguish who the original author of the content was/is.

    In a nutshell that is why it is done.

    It is courtesy for the reader to easily recognize a response to a comment or question from the originator of the message..

     

     

    Honestly, it’s not helping anything and your obsessive use of carriage returns after single sentences is brutal.  You are writing posts, not haikus.  Add in all these carriage returns with your Caufield-length posts and you are making threads absolutely painful to scroll through.

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    TA is the best

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    Posted · Edited by Moan4Yoan

    1 hour ago, Jerksticks said:

    Word.  Just incredible.  I’m rooting so hard for this dude.  His channel is the most interesting baseball footage I have ever seen.  
     

    this is the future

    He has the dopest content ever...  just ask him.  😂

    I don’t understand the appeal.  It looks like a bunch of random video of workouts, batting practice, etc. with zero commentary.

    **World Soxtalk Championship Wrestling Thread VI**

    in A and J's Olde Tyme Sports Pub

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Brian said:

    Not really a bad seat in lower section as long as you stay away from the sections to the sides of the stage.

    I’d check stubhub as it gets closer. Tix will get cheap, especially with college basketball tourney that night.

    Thanks for the response.  Here’s a map of Allstate Arena.  Sides of the stage?  Left and right and top and bottom sides?  Or if you can tell me some good numbered sections, it would be greatly appreciated!

    D2-D783-BA-C108-4376-8-E12-9-BBBFD4-C51-

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