PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Number7 on October 20, 2024, 01:27:50 PM
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You HAVE to watch these videos of President Trump handling the drive thru at the McDonalds in Feasterville, PA this afternoon.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/watch-trump-visits-mcdonalds-pennsylvania-works-french-fryer/
kamela harris lied about working at McDonalds and couldn't provide the slightest evidence so the Real President went there today and made fries, served orders thru the drive up window, and PAID for everybody who ordered.
He is a real alpha male which is why faggots and lesbians hate him so much. Alpha (toxic masculine) males are the enemy to the gender mentally deranged left, so what does President Trump do???
He puts on a McDonalds apron and takes direction from the young people working there, and serves people their lunch.
kamela and the commie crowd will probably have a melt down and want to end McDonlads over this, but who fucking cares what those assholes think?
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Watched this live, talk about a man of the people! Close to my old town.
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I did work at a McDonalds when I was 17/18. It was pretty hard work. We needed to know how to take orders and make change without a register with pictures on it. I think I was making $1.60/hour and I always got lots of OT and night differential. I'll admit my school work suffered a little, but I still got into Ga. Tech.
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I worked at Burger King in High School. And pumped gas at the local airport on the weekends.
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kamala practiced her knee pad skills.
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I worked at Pizza Hut, not exactly fast food but close enough. And many other jobs to get through high school and college. And pay for my flying lessons.
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I worked at Pizza Hut, not exactly fast food but close enough. And many other jobs to get through high school and college. And pay for my flying lessons.
Yes. 10 hours of work got me one hour of dual.
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I worked at Pizza Hut, not exactly fast food but close enough. And many other jobs to get through high school and college. And pay for my flying lessons.
At the risk of sounding like Henning, (who apparently worked at just about everything) I too worked at a Pizza Hut during my first two years of college.
During the last 5 years (yes. Seven years to get a 4 year degree), I had jobs running from bartender to over-the-road tractor trailer driver. Other jobs included working at a UPS sorting facility, mechanic at a full-service gas station (remember those) and a surveyors assistant, as well as several others.
As I said, it took me 7 years to get a 4 year degree, but I graduated with zero student debt.
I suppose if I were in school today it would take me 8 or 9 years.
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I worked at an evergreen nursery during the day and bussed tables at a local restaurant at night.
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At the risk of sounding like Henning, (who apparently worked at just about everything) I too worked at a Pizza Hut during my first two years of college.
During the last 5 years (yes. Seven years to get a 4 year degree), I had jobs running from bartender to over-the-road tractor trailer driver. Other jobs included working at a UPS sorting facility, mechanic at a full-service gas station (remember those) and a surveyors assistant, as well as several others.
As I said, it took me 7 years to get a 4 year degree, but I graduated with zero student debt.
I suppose if I were in school today it would take me 8 or 9 years.
It took me 6 years to get a 4 year degree, a worthless liberal arts double major. Then I continued for another 3 years to get a BS in Mechanical Engineering. At that point I did take on $7000 of student debt so I could cut back the work hours and focus on the course work. My jobs included janitor at a bar. Cleaning cigarette butts out of urinals was always fun. A short stint helping a tree cutting service. I didn’t climb them, just cut them up with a chain saw once down. Retail jobs, babysitting, interning at nuke plants during the summer after I started the engineering degree. I cannot imagine not working and am appalled when I see young people today get all the way through school without ever once having a job.
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Yes. 10 hours of work got me one hour of dual.
$40 bought me one hour with a CFI in a C-150/152 (whichever was available). Yes that was ten hours of work more or less depending on which job. Yep, averaged out about ten.
Those were the days…
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I joined up just for the GImBill.
Otherwise a college degree was an impossible fantasy.
Went to night school and made pizza, searched files for pertinent data at IBM, and worked as a helper in a butcher shop freezing my hands off, just to keep it together. My fucking car was VW Bug, falling apart, with no heat and questionable brakes.
My shoes let in freezing water, my bed was a thin mattress on a piece of plywood, and I helped my disabled father feed my mother and baby brother.
Yep. I was poor and worked like a dog, but I had no debt, a degree that got me a start, and an appreciation for what my parents did to keep a roof over our heads.
When I see pampered pussies whining about having to pay their own mortgages and student loans, I want to kick some sense into their pathetic asses, but it would be useless to try. The democrats have raised a generation of helpless assholes.
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Interesting take from Redstate on how the McDonalds gig worked out for the President. Scroll thru till read Piers Morgan’s comment.
The knee pad whores in the media at pmsnbc are framing this as him being unstable, when it is pure genius. Imagine kamelhair trying to relate to regular working folks. Her fuckwad campaign forced everyone out of a diner in Pa, and replaced them with campaign queers so she could pretend to meet people there and communicate.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/10/20/reactions-to-trump-at-mcdonalds-n2180834
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I joined up just for the GImBill.
Otherwise a college degree was an impossible fantasy.
Went to night school and made pizza, searched files for pertinent data at IBM, and worked as a helper in a butcher shop freezing my hands off, just to keep it together. My fucking car was VW Bug, falling apart, with no heat and questionable brakes.
My shoes let in freezing water, my bed was a thin mattress on a piece of plywood, and I helped my disabled father feed my mother and baby brother.
Yep. I was poor and worked like a dog, but I had no debt, a degree that got me a start, and an appreciation for what my parents did to keep a roof over our heads.
When I see pampered pussies whining about having to pay their own mortgages and student loans, I want to kick some sense into their pathetic asses, but it would be useless to try. The democrats have raised a generation of helpless assholes.
My first car was a 1961 Ford Falcon station wagon. I was privileged in that my parents bought it for me (for $50) when I was a freshman in college because they were sick of driving me back and forth to the dorm. It was also falling apart. Once the steering wheel came off in my hands as I was driving. Fortunately it was slow speed in a residential area near my abode at the time (no longer the dorm) and I was able to get back there by grasping the column to steer. There I repaired it. There were no YouTube videos on how to do stuff back then either. Also taught myself how to change the oil and basic maintenance. My Dad never taught me those things. But my husband made our girls learn it all, including changing a tire in the rain before we let them drive. Yes he waited til it rained then had them go out and change a tire. He’s a better dad than mine was.
Looks like some of us have pizza jobs in common. I was usually the waitress but did make pizza and salads in the back when needed. We were allowed to make ourselves a free pizza after closing at night and could put on as much toppings as we wanted. I always made a small beef, mushroom and black olive with twice as much of those three toppings as we made for the public, and ate the whole thing myself and somehow never got fat.
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Interesting take from Redstate on how the McDonalds gig worked out for the President. Scroll thru till read Piers Morgan’s comment.
The knee pad whores in the media at pmsnbc are framing this as him being unstable, when it is pure genius. Imagine kamelhair trying to relate to regular working folks. Her fuckwad campaign forced everyone out of a diner in Pa, and replaced them with campaign queers so she could pretend to meet people there and communicate.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/10/20/reactions-to-trump-at-mcdonalds-n2180834
That was so boss. And he’s so funny, the lady says, “You took a bullet for us,” and Trump was like, “I guess I did come to think of it,” Hahahahaha!!
So relatable to ordinary people and an incredible contrast to the arrogant elitism of Harris and the rest of the self entitled left. Like she says, “You’re at the wrong rally” to a guy just because he shouts Jesus is Lord, automatically assuming no Christian would be a Democrat. Can you imagine the message that sends to social conservative Christians that are traditional Democrats?
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Worked the evening shift at the Rusty Pelican as a dishwasher in high school. Then moved to computer operator through college. Graduated with no debt and a great job at IBM. That paid enough for flying lessons.
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Worked the evening shift at the Rusty Pelican as a dishwasher in high school. Then moved to computer operator through college. Graduated with no debt and a great job at IBM. That paid enough for flying lessons.
Our generation had great opportunity if we were willing to work hard and many of us have been able to do things like fly, own airplanes, and still have a comfortable retirement. I’m not sure the kids these days will be able to do that. Our country is in economic decline. Even if Trump can provide temporary relief, it now seems inevitable we are headed for national bankruptcy. Not even Trump can cut the bureaucratic monster by the 90% needed to readjust back to an economy that isn’t topheavy with parasitic regulators. Even if the kids had the work ethic, which they don’t, they will face a collapsing system, not like the one we enjoyed where growth is required for the population in general to build wealth. Otherwise it’s just the amoral bullies taking it by force from the rest leaving everyone else in abject poverty.
You need a growing population and local self sustaining productivity. We can’t continue importing what we need to survive from China, which is collapsing much faster than we are. And making up for our declining birth rate by allowing unfettered and unvetted illegal invasion is not the answer; not to replace our people, culture and civic structure with alien cultures based on gang fiefdoms or theocratic authoritarianism.
But there may be no stopping it at this point, Trump notwithstanding. No wonder kids today are depressed and pathetic; they’re sensing all this subconsciously if they can’t exactly articulate it.
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When I was in the Air Force I had a part time job at McDonalds, think it was 10-2 to cover lunchtime. Hated working the register as I was afraid I’d mess up calculating the change lol. Usually I did the fries. And we were allowed to eat as much as we wanted. Helped with my car payment and beer money.
As for flying I had the GI bill to use, and college was a 10 year part time at night deal to get my BS. It took this long because some places I was at either didn’t have classes nearby or didn’t offer Jr-Sr level courses (had a Jr college offer classes).
76 now and just had to stop instructing and care for my wife. Probably started working in 9th grade so been at it awhile.
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I can understand why this was done, the McDonald's did close while Trump was there for his photo op. I suspect the drive thru customers were set up too.
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When I was in the Air Force I had a part time job at McDonalds, think it was 10-2 to cover lunchtime. Hated working the register as I was afraid I’d mess up calculating the change lol. Usually I did the fries. And we were allowed to eat as much as we wanted. Helped with my car payment and beer money.
As for flying I had the GI bill to use, and college was a 10 year part time at night deal to get my BS. It took this long because some places I was at either didn’t have classes nearby or didn’t offer Jr-Sr level courses (had a Jr college offer classes).
76 now and just had to stop instructing and care for my wife. Probably started working in 9th grade so been at it awhile.
Our generation were hard workers. Hubby (70 in a few weeks) finally retired from the full time job and is now getting roped into "management" positions with his fun hobby clubs! He's also considering going Basic Med so he can fly as safety pilot for friends (he's kept up with his Class III so far). Still does all the car and house maintenance. Cooks dinner half the nights, I do the others. He Never Stops. I'm working part time as an independent contractor doing data auditing of rail freight. The day I quit working is the day I shrivel up and die. Work gives you purpose.
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I was a gigolo.
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knocked out about 60 credits over 6 years of active duty. Finished up later on while working over 40 a hours a week while using the extra GI Bill money for my private.
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https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-forced-to-cancel-campaign-rallies-for-next-two-weeks-as-time-off-request-denied-by-mcdonalds-manager
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So boss? Love it! Very groovy Rush. I bartended and worked as a hospital orderly with my roommate in college to pay my room and board. I had student debt, but it was quickly paid off.
Oh yeah, a 1974 BMW 2002 was my first car, hardly a luxury vehicle back then. Nobody knew what it was.
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In fairness, I'd have a hard time proving that I worked at Burger King in the late 70s since the franchisee is long out of business.
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In fairness, I'd have a hard time proving that I worked at Burger King in the late 70s since the franchisee is long out of business.
I'll bet that if you had committed a crime that has no statute of limitations while working there, someone could find that proof for you. (Unless you have been voting D lately).
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In fairness, I'd have a hard time proving that I worked at Burger King in the late 70s since the franchisee is long out of business.
If you had taxes withheld, the IRS has that record. Also, SSA tracks contributions.
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In fairness, I'd have a hard time proving that I worked at Burger King in the late 70s since the franchisee is long out of business.
McDonalds also claims to have no record.
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In fairness, I'd have a hard time proving that I worked at Burger King in the late 70s since the franchisee is long out of business.
It is true that records tend to disappear over time. I would say especially before the digital age, however my family is embroiled in AT&T hell right now over my mother’s land line, and the problem has turned out to be lost and forgotten records from just 12 years ago.
We are trying to cancel her account and move the number onto a mobile phone so we can keep our childhood number, which is the only number any of us still have committed to memory. Just nostalgic reasons; it’s been ours since 1968.
The reason we are making this move: Somebody stole copper wire from the trunk down the street somewhere and our landline went dead.
Step 1: Call AT&T and report it so it can be fixed. AT&T says they no longer repair dead copper-based landlines; we will have to have fiber optic cable installed and change the account to all digital. In response to this, my sister said, no thank you, we just wanted to keep the landline for sentimental reasons and a backup in case I lose my mobile. The guy on the phone said, “I can port that number to a second mobile for you onto your other account at only $5 a month, saving you the $90 a month your copper landline is now costing.” My sister said, “Do it!” and the order was set up.
Two days later she gets a text, “Your new mobile phone can’t be sent because there is a lock on that landline number and we can’t port it over. You will have to call the Number Transfer Department and find out what the hold up is and get it released.”
What ensues is many HOURS of both me and my sister on the phone with AT&T being shuffled around from the “Number Transfer Department” to the “Landline Department” to the “Wireless Department” and back all over again getting no resolution and even hung up on and no answers whatsoever as to why our number is locked.
They also kept asking who the “original” carrier was, because they kept saying the original carrier had all the records not AT&T. We were like, “Ma Bell in 1968? WTF do you mean, you didn’t absorb all the records when you merged with whatever Baby Bell you bought out?” Only to have them be like, “What’s a Ma Bell? Baby Bells? What are you talking about?”
OMFG. Most of these customer service reps are heavily accented Indians anyway, neither of us can understand half of what they’re saying because we are both deaf as hell.
My suspicion was that we had never notified them my mother had died, so I told them that and I was told I had to bring a death certificate IN PERSON to an AT&T corporate brick and mortar store. So I looked up the nearest one of those, got in the car, drove 45 minutes, waited in the store a half hour for someone to help me, only to be told they could NOT accept a death certificate for a LANDLINE death report; only cell phone accounts. I of course pushed back but the manager stood firm and wouldn’t take it.
Livid, I went back home and figured maybe if I register the account online maybe there’s a way to upload a death certificate or report a death that way. So I try to create the account login, using the account number, phone number, address, whatever, and I get, “You’re almost set up, now all you need is the secret code we will send by voice to your phone number.” THE LINE IS DEAD. There is no getting the secret code and no other options appear, so we can’t access the account online. It’s back to trying to talk to humans on the phone.
So my sister calls them back and says go ahead and install fiber optic, get the line working so we can get the secret code so we can log in to the account so we can report the death so we can unlock the number, so we can move the number to my new mobile phone, so we can cancel mom’s account so we can save her estate $90 a month. (Which was being automatically drafted, and I was loathe to cancel the draft with the bank in case that would lose the number before it got “ported” to my sister’s new mobile.)
The guy comes out and spends 5 hours installing fiber optic, he sets up a modem, is all done and says, “Your internet is all up and working but not the phone number, you have to call in and have the phone turned on.”
What!? We don’t want internet, she already has internet with Spectrum on a separate cable. All we want is the live phone line back. So she calls AT&T yet again and is told, “We can’t activate that number because there is a lock on the account.”
UGH!! Twilight Zone. Round and round and round in circles!
My sister goes ballistic and launches into the whole story again from the start. The person says, “Let me get my manager.” And an AMERICAN lady with an honest to God American accent gets on the phone, says let me investigate, comes back and says: “I have been working here 30 years. None of the other people you talked to have been here more than 4 or 5 years and they simply don’t know about this issue. Around 2012 there was a rash of scams where other long distance carriers would call people, get them to say ‘yes’ like ‘can you hear me?’ and then cut the audio into agreement to switch carriers. Looks like that happened to your mother, so after we resolved it and got her account back we put a lock on the account that no changes could ever be made without her expressed authorization.”
Wow. The answer at last! And somehow AT&T couldn’t get a notation about it on the account that any lowly customer rep can see.
So, says my sister, since my mother is dead, what do we do about her needing to authorize the release of the number? Get my sister (me) the Executor to send you the death certificate along with the Letters Testamentary authorizing her to make changes to mom’s account?
“Oh no,” says the lady, “I’m releasing your number right now as we speak. Give it a few days and the line will activate and then you will be able to either keep the new fiber “landline” if you want or go ahead and port it over to a mobile and cancel the mom account.”
“You don’t need a death certificate?”
“Nope, I’m handling it all for you right now. You will NEVER have to call AT&T again over this issue. Furthermore I’m going to call you on Tuesday to make sure the line is active and we can go from there.”
So today is that Tuesday and we shall see…
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Wow :'(
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If you had taxes withheld, the IRS has that record. Also, SSA tracks contributions.
Only if the W2 is still on file somewhere, and even then it will have the corporate name/ EIN on it, not necessarily the trade name. I don't think IRS keeps records going back almost 50 years.
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McDonalds also claims to have no record.
I doubt BK even knew who I was. I worked for the franchise.
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The SS administration has the records of your income your whole life (that paid into it) but iirc only the amount, no information about what company was paying you.
You’re in luck if you kept all your tax returns along with your copies of the W-2s, but how many people do that? I think standard advice is keep them for 7 years. Longer, maybe forever, if they are business related.
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Only if the W2 is still on file somewhere, and even then it will have the corporate name/ EIN on it, not necessarily the trade name. I don't think IRS keeps records going back almost 50 years.
SSA does. And you would be surprised how much data the government retains.
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When I've exhausted all other means of fixing a problem and have to talk to a live person, I've started by asking "Steve from customer service" in a thick Indian accent for a representative in the United States. So far it's worked, and the native speakers seem to be much more knowledgeable about pretty much everything.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/interesting-timing-cdc-reports-e-coli-outbreak-linked/
McDonald’s shares dropped in after-hours trading on Tuesday after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, which led to one death and ten hospitalizations.
The CDC reported 49 cases of E. coli contamination in 10 states, with the majority of those cases in Colorado and Nebraska.
According to the CDC, most people who were sick from the contamination reported eating a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder.
As a precautionary measure, McDonald’s in several states has stopped serving quarter-pound beef patties and fresh onions until the source of the illnesses is confirmed.
Investigators are still working to confirm which ingredient in the Quarter Pounder has led to the outbreak.
After the CDC’s report, McDonald’s shares dropped 9% in after-hours trading.
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Holy crap Rush!!!
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Holy crap Rush!!!
What, the AT&T thing? The lady did not call back. But at 7:30 last night my sister got a call from a robot which said, “Your request to unlock the number has been denied.”
Here’s what we think is happening. The lady had said she was putting in the order but that it would take several days for it to “populate all the databases”. We think it got to one of the databases which said, “Oh hell no!”
We know how these things work, which anyone who has worked with computer programs and databases understands. When an entity creates one, it isn’t necessarily standardized to the ones created by other entities. When you try to merge them, like when companies buy each other out or any other information sharing endeavor, the computers don’t necessarily communicate well. You need humans to go through and mate up all the fields and language so everyone can access the same thing. (This is the clusterfuck that happened when the Feds mandated our doctors to digitize all our healthcare data. It apparently never occurred to them that various software developers and practitioners wouldn’t all write up mutually intelligible systems.)
What probably happened when AT&T bought out Bell South, was they never bothered to mate up the Bell South records to AT&T’s databases, hence why we kept being told that “We don’t handle old copper landline accounts”. And, “You need to talk to the landline people,” or “Who was the original carrier? You need to talk to them.” What they really are saying is, “We left that data in its old format on some old Bell South server which we technically own now, but we have no fucking idea how to work with it.”
I think we only have two options left. A snail mail letter to some VP of customer service, because it’s looking like we need some high level authority to override this thing. Or failing that, to just block the payments with the bank, which should result in closing mom’s account and probable loss of the number.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/interesting-timing-cdc-reports-e-coli-outbreak-linked/
And now three democrat senators are calling for an investigation into McDonald's for price gouging.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/democratic-senators-slam-mcdonalds-menu-price-hikes-rcna176380
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And now three democrat senators are calling for an investigation into McDonald's for price gouging.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/democratic-senators-slam-mcdonalds-menu-price-hikes-rcna176380
Those three are just jumping on the bandwagon (yes it looks suspicious because of Trump’s visit) because that had already been a thing, the communists (Democrats) have been talking about fast food “price gouging” and “corporate greed” for months now.
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The SS administration has the records of your income your whole life (that paid into it) but iirc only the amount, no information about what company was paying you.
You’re in luck if you kept all your tax returns along with your copies of the W-2s, but how many people do that? I think standard advice is keep them for 7 years. Longer, maybe forever, if they are business related.
If the SSA wanted, they can get the information. If this was flipped, and it was Trump making the claim, that information would appear.
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If the SSA wanted, they can get the information. If this was flipped, and it was Trump making the claim, that information would appear.
I’m sure you’re right, they have it buried somewhere just don’t put it up on your accessible login. Maybe I’ll log in later and verify that but I’m pretty sure I’m remembering correctly. You only see yearly total in the earnings table. And it’s SS adjusted too, not the actual amount you earned.
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Rush, my usual MO is to get the Annual Report and get the names of the CEO, etc and make a phone call to corp headquarters and ask to speak to one of the head folks. Another angle is to email investor relations.
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maybe a call to a local news channel or two, the consumer reporter, to see if they can embarass the company into doing the right thing.
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Rush, my usual MO is to get the Annual Report and get the names of the CEO, etc and make a phone call to corp headquarters and ask to speak to one of the head folks. Another angle is to email investor relations.
Exactly!! The VP of Customer Service might get you some attention, but letters to the CEO and Chairman of the Board may get you faster action. It's truly amazing how actual mail to the President / CEO / Chair gets very fast attention. See how quickly President Trump put your suggestions into action!
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maybe a call to a local news channel or two, the consumer reporter, to see if they can embarass the company into doing the right thing.
I already suggested that to my sister and she said NO! She has a thing about cameras in her face and publicity. The news channel would send out a crew to interview her and that ain't gonna happen.
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Exactly!! The VP of Customer Service might get you some attention, but letters to the CEO and Chairman of the Board may get you faster action. It's truly amazing how actual mail to the President / CEO / Chair gets very fast attention. See how quickly President Trump put your suggestions into action!
Yes, I think it's going to come to this. I recently got an excellent response from FedEx with a snail mail letter to the VP of customer service. Snail mail because I got nowhere with email or phone.
I had heard that it's generally better to contact a VP than the CEO maybe because CEOs get the bulk of such complaints and you're more likely to get noticed sending it to the next one under.
In my case I'm gonna research "Bell South" and see if I can identify if there are higher ups still over that "department" which is where it seems the problem is located. I'll cc everybody in any case.
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I already suggested that to my sister and she said NO! She has a thing about cameras in her face and publicity. The news channel would send out a crew to interview her and that ain't gonna happen.
well, speaking as someone that isn't going to be on camera no-way, no-how, I can understand that (I run my Church's livestream mostly so that I can guarentee that I'm not on camera). However, the news channel consumer reporter can still make the report without your sister being on camera. Let the reporter interview the telephone company, let the reporter show the world the runaround that occurs when company A passes the buck to company B, who passes the buck to company C, who passes the buck to company A.
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well, speaking as someone that isn't going to be on camera no-way, no-how, I can understand that (I run my Church's livestream mostly so that I can guarentee that I'm not on camera). However, the news channel consumer reporter can still make the report without your sister being on camera. Let the reporter interview the telephone company, let the reporter show the world the runaround that occurs when company A passes the buck to company B, who passes the buck to company C, who passes the buck to company A.
And the problem is that company A, B, and C are all the same mega corporation. We had a phone monopoly, Ma Bell, which actually worked very well as I remember things, but the government had to break up this monopoly so it got divided into regional little Bells and I guess you could split out the local vs long distance service provider too.
Things became a bit confusing but okay. This forced competition and led to the very scam that caused this whole problem, with providers stealing accounts from each other using duplicitous means.
Then there’s cablevision, a whole nother world. But then the internet happened, and fiber started replacing copper and coax, and companies started realizing they could combine all this connectivity into one big blob, and lo, Big Tech was born. And the Tech Companies saw that it was good (for profits) and they started vacuuming up all the little Baby Bells, and the cable providers, and then on the last day Wireless was made, and the Cell Phones went forth and multiplied, and took over the landlines, and the Big Tech companies saw that it was even more profitable, and bundled all services together, and then began to eat each other, so that we are almost right back where we started: One big monopoly, and what companies haven’t yet merged surely collude at the top levels to keep the masses ignorant and oppressed. And we are worse off than with the original Ma Bell because the interim subdivision left walls between databases. And there is naught now but wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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I see what you did there. 8)