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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #33990 on: June 19, 2013, 04:19:58 pm »

I was paid 38 cents a mile for delivering vitally-needed blood to hospitals. This translated to maybe 100 dollars a week if I was very busy, most of which went to gas.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #33991 on: June 19, 2013, 04:21:50 pm »

... A hundred... a week!?

At minimum I get 250 a week o-o

And I'm just a security guard. @_@
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #33992 on: June 19, 2013, 04:22:37 pm »

Same, I get 250 a week-ish.
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« Reply #33993 on: June 19, 2013, 04:23:18 pm »

I could get more but I only work part time, 24 hours a week.
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« Reply #33994 on: June 19, 2013, 04:24:18 pm »

That was a midrange amount. Usually we wouldn't be very busy and I'd make maybe 30. I think one week I had to do a lot of late-night deliveries (they paid more) and I made closer to 150.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #33995 on: June 19, 2013, 04:38:50 pm »

...I get $19-something an hour as a supermarket checkout chump; granted, it's Australian money, and we're currently a little bit lower, and it doesn't go as far as the same amount in America, but Christ almighty there is a good chance that I was being paid more than a lawyer in a capital case.

(that is a casual rate that translates sick leave etc. into bonus pay (to the tune of 20% I think), though, and I tend to get at the very most 15 hours a week, so eh.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #33996 on: June 19, 2013, 04:44:46 pm »

$18 an hour translates to about $36k a year in salary, not counting any payed benefits. Which is less than my starting pay as a fresh out of school monkey in a low cost code farm in rural Mississippi in 08, plus I got paid vacations, insurance, sick time, 401k matching, etc.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #33997 on: June 19, 2013, 04:57:59 pm »

$18 an hour translates to about $36k a year in salary, not counting any payed benefits. Which is less than my starting pay as a fresh out of school monkey in a low cost code farm in rural Mississippi in 08, plus I got paid vacations, insurance, sick time, 401k matching, etc.

Did I mention appointed counsel (more or less public defenders, sorta) are self employed (pay more taxes) have absolutely no benefits, retirement packages, or sanity after dealing with the drek of society like a man who murdered 11 women while beinf viewed as a villain yourself...? Also the state doesn't pay for professional licensing, mandatory continuing legal education courses (which you get suspended or disbarred for not taking), professional insurance, vacation (ha, what's that?), sick leave, or really anything like they do for the prosecution? Also they don't pay for staff or support or secretaries or anything like they do for the prosecution, who by the way has the police department essentially at their beck and call in many places?

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #33998 on: June 20, 2013, 02:48:08 am »

The Daedric on the top of Morrowind's launcher says "DRES".

Dres? I was expecting something a bit more significant :P
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« Reply #33999 on: June 20, 2013, 03:12:49 am »

It's the elder scrolls dres. What else did you expect?
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« Reply #34000 on: June 20, 2013, 03:13:35 am »

Hehe, translated a second one and it said REDORAN. Welp solves that mystery!

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« Reply #34001 on: June 20, 2013, 03:15:55 am »

I was kinda hoping it would be a slight typo in "res plz."
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #34002 on: June 20, 2013, 11:22:37 am »

The ads in Pandora at my school are suddenly all in spanish. What...?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #34003 on: June 20, 2013, 11:56:14 am »

Those are Taco Bell commercials.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #34004 on: June 20, 2013, 12:15:17 pm »

The Daedric on the top of Morrowind's launcher says "DRES".

Dres? I was expecting something a bit more significant :P

The text on the cover are the names of the Great Houses of the Chimer/Dunmer. The ones which players could join were House Redoran (Law, military power, tradition, and the warrior code), House Telvanni (Ambition, trechery, magic, and research), and House Hlaluu (Diplomats, merchants, and opportunists).

The others from the lore were House Dres (Xenophobic, anti-Imperial Dark Elves, with ties to agriculture and the slave trade), House Indoril (Conservative Dark Elf Nationalists, closely connected with the Tribunal Temple, and the one Nerevar Indoril came from), and House Dagoth (The lost house, headed by god-king Voryn Dagoth, AKA Dagoth Ur, and destroyed for their betrayal long ago).
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