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[Asherdan]

[wombat]

I needed a new laptop anyway, so we used it for that. I've had problems with it, though - I'm afraid the money was cursed.

[CortJstr]

I had mine direct-deposited into my savings accounting to keep it out of sight.

Although it looks like my 3G iPod may finally be dying, so maybe I'll finally buy one of those fancy new ones with a color screen and clickwheel. But it could just as easily be that I just need to reinstall iTunes, as my only problems are with syncing.

[side_show]

I owe money, due to arts grants (which are untaxed).  A painful amount of money.

Thankfully my life has taken such an odd turn that my skills got me a plum job working for a medical microbiologist "in my free time."  See scientists are brilliant, but they don't' necessarily speak English as a first language.  They write papers about how they cure disease, but they don't necessarily know how to use syntax and grammer, etc. to explain to other people how they did it.  They are also more interested in curing diseases than, say, filling out a government form.

The gig apparently pays quite well, double what I make at the children's theatre, for much less actual time dedication.  I'll work in the lab a bit, then I can work from home after things are established.  It's apparently my job to hire my self, and am trying to track down the government sanctioned pay scale information, forms etc to contract myself.

If there is any way I can possibly see the Ebola monkeys, it would be so cool.  I imagine they behave thusly but I'll probably never know.  Too much security clearance.  But I'm good at talking my way into things, so we'll see.

[AugustWest]

  I imagine they behave thusly but I'll probably never know. 

Well golly, that was disturbing.

[jaydub]

For some reason, the baboon was more unsettling than the capuchins.  Maybe the snout?

[wombat]

I was fine till they got to the French bulldog.

[Choop]

I owe Uncle Sam $1201.

My stimulus check will be $1200.

I sent my taxes in with $1.

[jay-ell]

We got some money back this year -- we claim one less deduction than we're entitled to because we had to pay so much one year that I decided it's better to give the government an interest-free loan every year than to underpay even by a little bit.  (Pedro and I had five jobs between us over the course of that year, it was rough.)  So we got back about $700, which is a little higher than I like but it all went to debt anyway.  We put half the stimulus check towards paying off the rest of Pedro's student loans and spend the other half on our fabulous vacation. 

It probably would have been smarter to pay off some credit cards, but I felt it was our patriotic duty to put at least some of it back into the economy. 

[CortJstr]

Everybody at my work just got $100 Visa card as a summer "pick you up." I hate the logistics of using these things, so I think I'm going to use it to buy $100 gift card from Harris Teeter and use it to buy 2 weeks worth of groceries.

[Doc]

This was the first full year ever that I've worked for only one employer for the full year and so was basically taxed exactly right. With getting way over-taxed on casual rates I normally get back close to a grand, this year? $108. That stung a little bit. Then I looked in my savings account and realised it more than balanced out.

[wombat]

Everybody at my work just got $100 Visa card as a summer "pick you up."

WTF. Why don't I ever have jobs where they do that?

[CortJstr]

WTF. Why don't I ever have jobs where they do that?

Well, it's annual review time. So the cynics among us figure we're being buttered up for smaller/fewer raises.

[Golfhaus]

Yeah, the buttered up part sounds aboot right.

Every February we get a reminder to log in to the company health care providers website and complete the health survey. They mail you one of those $100 Visa cards as a carrot for letting them browbeat you with how unhealthy you are and to try to motivate you to do things so you won't die, or at least incur health care costs.

I figure it's a double effort to keep the workers alive and prevent cost from having to train replacements and trying to avoid expensive health services usage.

Wow. They just tell us if we don't complete the forms, they drop our benefits.

[AugustWest]

Everybody at my work just got $100 Visa card as a summer "pick you up." I hate the logistics of using these things,

Yeah, it's hell finding a retailer who'll take VISA.  I mean, who takes debit cards these days?