59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
If you're in the area I think you're in (and I think you are), you're right on a lake, right? If so, do you know Matt, the Express manager there?
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If you're in the area I think you're in (and I think you are), you're right on a lake, right? If so, do you know Matt, the Express manager there?
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Matt married my former niece so, yeah, I know him.
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
No kidding?? His opening line to his crew when he arrived was something like, "I bet you think I'm waiting for my mom to pick me up from soccer practice" or something like that. Dude didn't look old enough to drive!
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Still doesn't.
I was worried that the boys would walk all over him but it turns out they really respect him.
BTW, he was quite the soccer player in school.
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
His accent is funny, especially for that area. IIRC, he's from VA and is wife is from the NE. She got a job in that area and that's how he ended up there. Worked as a handler at UPS before Express.
Gee, I don't know. But then, you're a precocious 16 year old, right?
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Without giving away too much personal information, she is from this area and went to school in Virginia to get away from her helicopter parents. That is where she met Matt. She was somehow able to convince him to move away from his family and relocate here. Ironically they live two houses down from her parents. She finished her degree, got a really good job and recently had a baby. Matt is doing really well at Express and I definitely see him moving up and also see them moving away. He worked as a handler while going to school in Virginia.
Oldfart
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Glad you didn't reveal too much personal information.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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What were you able to glean from that which would allow you to figure out who we are talking about?
MAKAVELI
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Maybe his first name?
BootsOnTarmac
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A discourse best left for PM (Private Messaging). Just saying.
Actuallly, my birthday was in February. I'll let it slide that you didn't send me a gift; from my understanding, your finances are in quite the state!
There has to be a word for people that keep discussing a scenario to a question never asked and at the same time always centering it around themselves, when it was about others in a different scenario than their own.
All my answers were directed to old timers at Fedex that didn't think much about their retirement. Not if they did the right/best things or not, but could they make it or not by not doing much. They'll make it, yes younger workers, best be thinking more about it, they don't have some of those old-school policies in place anymore.
But yes tell me about your scenario again...
(Picture Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in a posture caring to hear about it)Yeah, right, you're a precocious 17 year old. By the way I'm debt free, how about you? Oh that's right, you live off your parents. That's ok at 17, but you're more likely 37 and living in their basement.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Dano already knew that.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Yawn.
MAKAVELI
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But we didn't.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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...and...?
McFeely
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And now we know there's a guy named Mark who works for X. Very interesting...
Oldfart
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You stated that OLD TIMERS would bring in more than my 4k prediction. I simply stated that you are misinformed. I am as old as dirt and I simply corrected your misinformation. Someone might beat my pension and SS by $100 a month or so, not enough to make a big difference is your quality of life. If you can live on 50% on what you make now, then live on that now and save a bundle for retirement. If you make 50k, live on 25k and invest the rest after taxes. Retirement is the time you should enjoy your freedom, both financially and commitment wise. There are no "do overs" for financial security. If you do not save and prepare for life after you retire, you just might find yourself handing out shopping carts at Walmart when you are 80 years old.There has to be a word for people that keep discussing a scenario to a question never asked and at the same time always centering it around themselves, when it was about others in a different scenario than their own.
All my answers were directed to old timers at Fedex that didn't think much about their retirement. Not if they did the right/best things or not, but could they make it or not by not doing much. They'll make it, yes younger workers, best be thinking more about it, they don't have some of those old-school policies in place anymore.
But yes tell me about your scenario again...
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