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spaci1701
replied to your photo “I feel you, Polkadot. I didn’t want to leave the house this morning…”

Because they have siblings and humans and sometimes they just. .. can’t.

ACCEPTABLE. A good reason to sleep with arms over face. 

zorilleerrant
replied to your post “hellenhighwater:
copperbadge replied to your…”

Ooooooh, THAT’s what happens to lottery winners….

Well, lottery winners, like sports stars, face a few unique obstacles that don’t relate to whether the money was “earned”. (I have done some reading on this actually, because I have morbid fascinations.) 

The thing about people who make a lot of money without necessarily having a background in finance or strong financial education – and mostly this is lotto winners and pro athletes, though also sometimes film stars – is that they have to suddenly cope not just with having all this money, but with having all this attention. Family comes out of the woodwork to try and get a piece of it, old friends start calling, that kind of thing, but also the community begins to place demands on them. This is especially true of pro athletes – you start to get people who want you to invest with them, and often you don’t feel that you can say no because these people come from your community, but that doesn’t mean they’re good investments.

Yes, some of it is buying the dream home or the fancy car or going on a shopping spree. But a lot of it is that suddenly they’re shackled with this obligation of carrying everyone else up into wealth with them – but they haven’t had the political, social, or financial education that will allow them to do that while maintaining their own financial stability. That’s not an issue faced by someone who has the business acumen to embezzle money 😀 

butterflyslinky
replied to your post “We’re doing a database audit at work today; basically we’re looking at…”

In terms of workers compensation insurance, the codes do matter, so make sure they’re updated anyway to save yourself the headache later.

Well, this isn’t related to worker’s comp or insurance in any way, but you’re not wrong, the theory still holds – we have to “re-rate” them, so even if the evaluation is the same we re-enter it with a current date, so we know not to look at them again for a few years. 

madamovary
replied to your post “I’m actually kind of *mindblown* about what the anonymous neighbor in…”

the invest-and-return method is SUPER COMMON. it’s barely considered embezzlement. honestly, half the time people enter it into the records of the company of their own volition as some kind of interest-free loan or distribution and just don’t point it out to anyone. if you make a gesture at recording it it becomes sort of not embezzlement even though basic restrictions on intermingling of funds make it an action taken in bad faith if not a crime.

You learn something new about white collar crime every day! Though it doesn’t surprise me that it gets blown off. 

Somday I will write the Great American Crime Novel and I will have to thank you all in my acknowledgements. 😀 

and often you don’t feel that you can say no because these people come from your community, but that doesn’t mean they’re good investments.

If there was one thing I learned from watching Judge Judy, it’s that the supposedly lost values of neighbourliness and extended family are alive and well among the working class, but that in civil court you get to see all the times they go wrong — like about half the cases were “my wife’s second cousin Redflagg was out of work, so we agreed to let him stay with us until he got back on his feet, and we found out when we got the phone bill that he spent his days calling phone sex lines and charging it to us.”