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halogen alchemist (black6@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 10:36:34 JST 
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@freemo @scott_guertin @pies @georgetakei One of the oddities of working for the federal government. Uncle Sam demands his 40 hours a week, but every action has a reaction so he'll pay you for working over. My wage was defined by my annual salary divided by 2080 hours. At first I earned time-and-a-half overtime, then by the time I left NASA I had risen enough in the GS scale that my overtime was just straight time. Better than nothing! -
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halogen alchemist (black6@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 10:29:48 JST
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@freemo @pies @scott_guertin @georgetakei It depends. When I was a NASA engineer on the GS pay scale, I was salaried, but I had to fill out a time card every pay period. Mostly to account for the different programs to which I got assigned, but I also got paid overtime for each hour over the standard 80 I was required to work (two week pay period). When I was a brewer I was an hourly employee, but I earned vacation time. When I was in the Army I had to burn vacation time mid-tour while being on duty for 50 fucking weekends. I was salaried, but effectively earning below the poverty line for the amount of hours I was "at work." Now I'm truly salaried and take as long of lunch breaks as I can get away winh and leave as early as possible to get my effective wage as high as possible. -
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halogen alchemist (black6@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 01:05:37 JST
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@alex An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are all at a defense conference in Vegas. Through a quirk of plot convenience, all three are alcoholics and chain smokers, and all three pass out in bed with a lit cigarette in their mouth.
The engineer wakes up because his bed is on fire. He jumps up, grabs the ice bucket, fills it up from the bathtub faucet, and dumps it out on the fire, putting it out. Now his bed is all wet, so he gets the spare blanket and pillow out of the closet, curls up on the floor, and goes back to sleep.
The physicist wakes up due to his own fire. He grabs the notepad and pencil off the desk and does some quick calculations. He then gets the coffee cup, fills it from the sink, and pours it out on the fire. With the last drop of water the fire is extinguished and his bed is dry, so he climbs back in bed and falls asleep.
The mathematician is woken up by his bed on fire. He, too, grabs the notepad and pencil and furiously scribbles down some calculations. He calculates that he can put out the fire, so he gets the spare blanket and pillow from the closet, sets them out on the floor, and passes out again.
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