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The standard for full pay retirement in the REAL world is the “Rule of 80” Your age plus number of years employed at the firm must add up to 80, otherwise pension payout is severrely reduced.
The unions will ruin municipal finances just like they did those of many industries here. Amtrak and the Post Office don’t lose hundreds of millions of dollars a year because of fuel costs!!!!
I personally think Grimaldi’s is overrated. Putting aside the 1-hour+ wait, I find their crust isn’t crisp and their sauce is very watery so you end up with a limp piece of pizza that doesn’t taste all that great.
“why you would risk bedbugs is mind boggling to me.”
Rob, Perhaps NOT everyone here has an unnatural fear of bedbugs, like you do.
“*I’m nominating myself for the GOTD for that one.”
And a good thing, too.
JB, I know, but I have a morbid sense of humour.
Thanks, Montrose and DeLepp. Now I guess I gotta work on the fabric choice.
if you are going to get your chair upholstered do NOT get it in done in the city, send it upstate or totally out of state. why you would risk bedbugs is mind boggling to me.
*rob*
Jessi, Kens got to you first. Das is excellent. He is reasonable and very good. Nice guy. On some stuff I wish I consulted with him first on fabric.
Yesterday, I posted on retirement age for NYC fireman as part of the discussion on public pensions. I said that you can retire after 20 years, at 41. I was thinking about that last night, thinking no that can’t be right and checked it out today. It is exactly correct. However, fireman can do something called “vesting out” which is retiring after 15 years of service, so technically they can retire at 36. However, they do not get to collect their pension until 41 (or 20 years after the start date). Firemen don’t make huge salaries, and the standard is 50% of your retirement salary (75% for disability).
A fireman level salary is 60,000 dollars, going higher for lieutenant, captain, battalian chief and deputy chief. Those guys captain and above make nice 6 figure salaries and get the jobs through tests.
If you have one of those higher level jobs and are injured on the job, the pension is disability level and tax free.
“Yeah with all the rest of the ‘tards on the short bus.
Oppps, was that not P.C.???”
DIBS, you can kiss my gold bars