Facebook neighborhood groups are the worst thing ever

have they asked ppl to please not smoke

the passengers? yeah but it's big groups, like 10+, of smokers. they just ignore requests. I'm all for jailing the lot of them but the fb group hasn't yet settled on a collective solution that doesn't involve the cops (since the cops aren't generally around)

Guess the neighborhood is getting more upscale, cuz we now have our first (afaik) "Can you believe what these nannies are asking for?!" thread.

I had to ban myself from the thread because I was getting so fucking irate, and I always have to remind myself "these are real people who live in my neighborhood. Their kids may go to school with my kids soon."

Ariella _________

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First time mom smile emoticon:) seeing what's appropriate and fair for potential nannies. Interviewed a nanny last night and she requested two weeks paid vacation and five paid sick days, In addition to holidays.Do people here give their nannies paid vacation, paid national holidays and paid sick days? What about a metro card? Thanks so much! She would be with us 35 hours a week.

Eve________ She's probably part of ilanas nanny network. In my opinion that sounds cushier than my own job!

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Ariella______ Lol I'm in the wrong field!

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Ilana ______ Same! Sometimes I can't believe I agreed to this

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[man alive] Do you make $15 an hour with no health insurance?

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Ariella_____ [man alive] Pretty close to that and I'm on my husbands Heath insurance!

[NO, YOUR JOB AT A HIP NON-PROFIT WHILE YOUR HUSBAND MAKES BANK DOES NOT EQUATE YOU TO A NANNY, AND IN FACT, IF YOU ARE GETTING A FULL-TIME NANNY SO YOU CAN WORK AT A HIP NON-PROFIT, THAT'S PRETTY SWEET]

"Eve" is a dentist btw.

Holy shit, theyre objecting to providing whats effectively a fulltime employee their owed holidays and sick leave? Nannies are workers like anyone else, you entitled shitfucks. If you cant afford it, fucking look after your own damn chilren.

I mean as it is, I always spittake at the news that in the US, it seems the normal "good" job benefit is for only 2 weeks leave a year!?

(we get 4. Plus public holidays which'd be another 10 public holiday days off. PLus average 5-10 days sickleave).

I get more vacation for every year I've worked there. I'm up to nearly european standards by now

I've never had paid vacation at a job ... ever.

I don't even know what a vacation is at this point.

i wd've so killed myself 20 years ago if i lived in the US

I have had vacations ... like maybe 4 weeks of vacation (not counting the one day off before or after Christmas) ... in the last 15 years.

even tho i kinda know that is a thing it still shocks the hell out of me

I max out at 6 weeks before I stop accruing time. So I'm always hitting that limit because it's hard to take time off. A true benefit!

I get to the point of use 'em or lose 'em and wind up taking off every Monday in May and June.

if it makes you feel any better, if I had a full-time job working for one employer that wasn't myself, I'd probably kill ... eh, I'd either quit or get fired within 18 months

can I have a few coworkers who work from home, making it not a big deal when another of us works from home a few days, which has stretched into "I'm working eight hours today from a house on the beach, and will be going to the beach after that time, but it's totally a normal work day, I swear"

uh remove the "can" from that

I get four weeks vacation -- for some reason this is fairly common in my field but not in a lot of fields.

28 days is the legal minimum in the UK for full time worker. I get 21 days plus all the bank holidays (you are not guaranteed all the back holidays but it must be 28 days in total)

(I tried to get my entitlement reduced because I always have spare holiday left at the end of the year and would rather have the money but I was told it was not possible because of this minimum. This didn't stop them taking them off me, unpaid, when they 'expired')

Oh, this thread is massively of topic now, sorry

I work three days per year, of which two I am required to post on Facebook neighborhoods

Just ask a neighbourhood FB group what all their holiday entitlements and report back

http://i.imgur.com/IUx2Fvc.jpg

Chr1$ Le$her fighting the good fight, but it's a fight that no one will ever win.

Jesus.

so does anyone remember sambos??

Yeah, it was where Sherwin-Williams is now.

there is a parody thread going now on my group, sort of nice to remember there are other sane people in the neighborhood.

My group is mostly chill, except some people are a little too comfortable there...

"Do any of y'all know how to sew? I need something hemmed. Can't offer $$$."

I have a new concept for trolling threads on my group, which consists of randomly commenting "Just goes to show you."

Locals are thrilled that the authorities have finally cleaned the graffiti off of abandoned former strip club Wiggles. Pictured is councilwoman Karen Koslowitz.

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We can't help ourselves.

http://i.imgur.com/CPx8fiD.png

they really just need to add some kind of group notice of where sambo's used to be

Make it a whole separate group, imo.

I'll try to post stuff about it later but we have a huge local controversy right now over some nutjob and his Trump sign. Someone stole it multiple times, so the guy posted flyers all over the neighborhood offering a $5K reward plus 10% interest in his "lawsuit" proceeds for info about the thief. However he posted them on a bunch of old-growth trees (which is illegal) and did like $40,000 in damage.

The same guy also apparently ran for local office a few years ago and backed over a child with his campaign bus, killing the child.

oh fuck.

jesus christ

how do you do that much damage to trees by just posting stuff on them? then again, if anyone could figure out how, it's probably that guy

ok, man alive, you beat mine.

IDK much about trees but I guess staples are kind of bad for them?

he also put up a LOT of flyers, like this may have been small amounts of damage to a large number of trees

I signed up for Nextdoor based on this thread's recommendations, since my neighborhood Facebook group wasn't paying off at all in terms of being the worst thing ever. The only suspicious person reported has been a white guy with purple hair, who was actually walking around breaking into cars in broad daylight.

same

nextdoor has actually been pretty reasonable in my area, although I haven't gained anything of value from it beyond an idea of which blocks have people who like online communities

I just joined again, even though they keep putting me in a neighborhood that's not even in my zip code.

But I did see there's a "Nearby Neighborhoods" function, so maybe I can sneak back into my own zone.

Had to use the postcard function. That's cute.

currently mourning the loss of a Haagen-Dazs location

my latest favorite thing on nextdoor is the weekly "anyone know why police helicopter is flying overhead?"

More disturbingly, there are a lot of 'My husband was beaten up walking home' / 'Someone was in our garden trying to get in the back door last night' / 'Saw some sketchy people trying all the car doors down the street' posts which have pretty much stopped me leaving the house or sleeping soundly at night. I'd kind of rather be ignorant of these things.

Lol harbl yes, and in our case it's almost always actually a news traffic helicopter