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(DIR) Post #Aktkf2Su1fKnr2iXTM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-12T17:51:16Z
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I fixed my teacher's pension by making phone calls and filling out forms! I did it! This should cover my internet and electric bill when I'm old someday! (maybe) Yay! (Please Clap)
(DIR) Post #Aktkld5ImyTdAHoxyC by TrickTim@mstdn.social
2024-08-12T17:52:28Z
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@futurebird Sounds great for your teacher!🤪
(DIR) Post #Aktkn4epl4mUyG86D2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-12T17:52:46Z
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This was harder than getting my masters degree in math by far. Almost as hard as job hunting. (but not quite that hard) Top Ten Hardest Things I Ever Did ... easy and I've done RAGBRAI and the NYC Marathon.
(DIR) Post #Aktkp3N1W0cRYdk71c by kateiacy@med-mastodon.com
2024-08-12T17:53:07Z
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@futurebird 👏
(DIR) Post #AktksBqqRJkEjJBfRQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-12T17:53:31Z
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@TrickTim For the record, there is a reason I do not teach English.
(DIR) Post #AktktkbGjJvAn5e688 by DrHyde@fosstodon.org
2024-08-12T17:53:32Z
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@futurebird 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
(DIR) Post #AktlFTzd9glveiP4c4 by Pollinators@epicure.social
2024-08-12T17:57:46Z
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@futurebird. Congratulations. 👏 👏
(DIR) Post #AktlNpdCaYcN59tTZQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-12T17:59:23Z
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HACK:The things only started working when I started asking the name of each person I talked to, writing down their name and telling each next person I talked who I talked to last and what they said & on what date. This was not a comfortable thing to do it felt very ... peevish... but, if you are struggling with forms and bureaucracy it WORKS. Make a spreadsheet, get a yellow legal pad.Start each call with "Who am I speaking to? Hi ---. I last spoke to --- and they said I needed to ...." etc.
(DIR) Post #AktlQsN6r92uRyonE8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-12T17:59:41Z
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This took THREE YEARS.
(DIR) Post #AktlW3KNY8atsT0e2K by geonz@mathstodon.xyz
2024-08-12T18:00:49Z
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@futurebird Thank you!!! Practicing saying this nicely will be a task I do...
(DIR) Post #AktlYrtqUkLtIqwQTY by queenofnewyork@newsie.social
2024-08-12T18:00:53Z
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@futurebird Geeeeez
(DIR) Post #AktlfLxddoFOH1o8CO by TrickTim@mstdn.social
2024-08-12T18:02:29Z
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@futurebird You are a fantastic communicator, I just rarely resist a joke.
(DIR) Post #AktlhOQ1TRoqTY3Zw0 by ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network
2024-08-12T18:02:46Z
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@futurebird Congratulations! 💪 💰
(DIR) Post #AktljtdsMBzxtOjKXw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-12T18:03:14Z
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@queenofnewyork Part of it was COVID messing up their office hours and the mail. Part of it was my anti-social tendencies making me not good and keeping things moving. I only started the name thing 5 months ago and since then I made great progress. They had me down for the wrong kind of pension. Wrong start dates for when I worked... tons of missing years. It was awful. But I have it all done now and I could cry.
(DIR) Post #AktloC8vVstAQjIssK by alex@masto.digittante.com
2024-08-12T18:04:05Z
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@futurebird This outta be taught in schools.
(DIR) Post #Aktm0PAAvkgSHoi4Q4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-12T18:06:21Z
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@alex Well my students will learn it. I've helped a lot of students with social anxiety by pointing out that it's OK to make flash cards to memorize names. If you know people's name you always have something nice to say to them. "Hi Alex!" I wish someone had told me that when I was 15.
(DIR) Post #Aktm9YNa2BJ9TaLHX6 by queenofnewyork@newsie.social
2024-08-12T18:07:58Z
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@futurebird Major congratulations! That’s a lot to overcome!
(DIR) Post #AktmHgaRP33zFQEfYG by Alon@mastodon.social
2024-08-12T18:09:26Z
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@futurebird I hope it's backdated and you didn't work three years for a government salary with no benefits.
(DIR) Post #AktmNQYduZ9bGw8GAq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-12T18:10:31Z
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@Alon Getting credit for the backdated years was exactly the issue.
(DIR) Post #AktmlXyC0MtVD6aH3Y by caseyjonesed@awscommunity.social
2024-08-12T18:14:51Z
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@futurebird 👏👏👏
(DIR) Post #Aktn9aafuf0aHw32u0 by alec@perkins.pub
2024-08-12T18:19:10Z
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@futurebird you basically have to play middle management from the outside and it’s _exhausting_ but effective. Even if I’m not likely to need it later I note down the phone answerer’s name, at the very least ending the call with “Thanks, <name>” is good for rapport.
(DIR) Post #Akto2t7qhYOzhVvwXI by nirak@hcommons.social
2024-08-12T18:29:12Z
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@futurebird This is exactly what I did when I was trying to get to the bottom of a fraudulent covid business loan taken out in my name too. No one had all the information, but many people knew a small piece of it, and only by writing everything down and telling people what the previous people told me was I able to put all the pieces together
(DIR) Post #AktoNCZM7VTrnPUBhg by DiegoBeghin@mastodon.social
2024-08-12T18:32:48Z
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@futurebird Congrats! Dealing with heavy bureaucracy like that does suck.
(DIR) Post #AktoQJXwdS1sIvJHnc by viq@social.hackerspace.pl
2024-08-12T18:32:58Z
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@futurebird @alex extreme version of it is https://www.monicahq.com/
(DIR) Post #AktocXs1CoTcCgX1KC by paninid@mastodon.world
2024-08-12T18:35:38Z
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@futurebird 🤯
(DIR) Post #AktoeJue4RwDUgbfgu by tfiebig@wybt.net
2024-08-12T18:35:48Z
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@futurebird Speaking as a German (the bogons have been based on us(tm)): Yep. There is even regular reference to this mechanic in German related media.
(DIR) Post #AktpCVQpkVl548xnYO by ienvision@tmi.community
2024-08-12T18:42:06Z
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@futurebird 👏
(DIR) Post #AktpczXgQCsvysnSCG by Scofisticated@socel.net
2024-08-12T18:46:49Z
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@futurebird 😄
(DIR) Post #AktpiZ1NwGdXSuLXtI by Scofisticated@socel.net
2024-08-12T18:47:52Z
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@futurebird 😮
(DIR) Post #Aktq0YE1daGGCzpstU by dogfox@mastodon.social
2024-08-12T18:51:09Z
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*clap*clap*clap*@futurebird
(DIR) Post #Aktr1XGsllpTUgCnzs by gannet@wandering.shop
2024-08-12T19:02:27Z
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@futurebird Applause!
(DIR) Post #Aktsqr0VFfSBQUZvv6 by alec@perkins.pub
2024-08-12T19:23:02Z
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@futurebird @alex I am forever grateful to a previous manager for the lesson of always making a point to learn people’s names, especially folks in service or reception roles that you see every day. Most importantly because it’s the decent thing to do, but it has the benefit that as soon as you need help they will, often eagerly.
(DIR) Post #AktteAbPBaO6OCM4MC by Larymir@chaos.social
2024-08-12T19:15:26Z
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@TrickTim @futurebird I really thought this was about getting somebody else (a teacher) their pension and was confused why this teacher would pay your internet bill when you're old(Not because of some missing apostrophe (I'm bad with them too), but because I'm tired and didn't know that there's something like a "teachers pension")And this joke made me reread the thread and understand it correctly this time. So it was even a helpful joke!
(DIR) Post #AktteBP2D45Qs7ZhiK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-12T19:31:57Z
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@Larymir @TrickTim In theory everyone should have a pension. Not a 401k a real pension. If you are between the ages of 35 or older you may have one and not know it! It is worth it to look into it!
(DIR) Post #AktuT1rjQbuA3tF83E by Red_Shirt_no2@c.im
2024-08-12T19:41:09Z
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@futurebird 💀
(DIR) Post #AktufuzqHM90WQBO7c by FeralRobots@mastodon.social
2024-08-12T19:43:26Z
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@futurebird @Larymir @TrickTim Pension is what convinced me to put off retirement to 64; of I can make it that far I vest at like $450/mo. I know, not much, but it doesn't run out like a 403b.
(DIR) Post #AktwCem7i5OliswNFo by DWTSquawk7600@worldkey.io
2024-08-12T20:00:36Z
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@futurebird 👏👏👏
(DIR) Post #AktyZVjng2ZWGKsaDw by pathfinder@beige.party
2024-08-12T20:27:08Z
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@futurebird 🎉 🎉 💪
(DIR) Post #Aktzs3ppk6kHBE6uy8 by PaulWermer@sfba.social
2024-08-12T20:41:30Z
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@futurebird @queenofnewyork bravo!
(DIR) Post #Aku3RMDzf6FsDEvwRM by shadowsminder@mas.to
2024-08-12T21:21:40Z
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@futurebird with the way companies suddenly sell accounts to other companies, I no longer know where to look for "retirement" funds that are held under my name.
(DIR) Post #Aku46FoUP6hWCWVNlw by GreenSkyOverMe@ohai.social
2024-08-12T21:29:04Z
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@futurebird 👏
(DIR) Post #AkuVHHbcmFqPhxyH4K by Forest@sauropods.win
2024-08-13T02:33:33Z
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@futurebird I'm bureaucracy and I wish more people took notes like this, it's helpful for me to know what they've been told and I think it's good for them to have a written record of exactly what we said they'd need.
(DIR) Post #AkuWGrQIDxMwSS28Tg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-13T02:44:46Z
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@Forest "I'm bureaucracy"A whole bureaucracy in one person! That must be stressful! :)
(DIR) Post #AkudjJo4zGnSH9fzE0 by nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social
2024-08-13T04:08:21Z
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@futurebird @Larymir @TrickTim I'm living completely on the edge. No pension, nothing to fall back on. Society has completely abandoned me as not useful enough because I wasn't born in a good area and am not normal enough (Asperger's.) My best case scenario is probably finding a crappy job that barely pays expenses (really hard to do right now thanks to zero places even caring about COVID-19 -- we don't believe in it) and working the entire rest of my life until I die of cancer or something.
(DIR) Post #AkukB2Ly4Uw1yi7yeO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-13T05:20:35Z
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@nazokiyoubinbou @Larymir @TrickTim So many people I know in this situation many younger than me, but as times goes on this will become a huge issue.I think about these people with nice pensions, social security, and yeah they put in their time but they are pulling up the ladder for the next generation and it makes me livid.If I'd started working just two years later than I did I wouldn't have much of anything. So much has been dismantled and I think we need to get loud about it.
(DIR) Post #AkukOXhWpgVoxxeVxg by nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social
2024-08-13T05:22:53Z
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@futurebird @Larymir @TrickTim I could not possibly agree more. I watch so many people insist that those of us unlucky enough to be different enough or born in the wrong time or the wrong place are just not working hard enough. And honestly, I'd like to carry this further. No one should be required to work -- hard or not -- just to be alive. Work should be for bonuses. Getting nicer things rather than just a roof, electricity, etc.They even think us having a refrigerator is a luxury?
(DIR) Post #AkwnbQA8rOKBWrmwpk by denebeim@mastodon.social
2024-08-14T05:08:17Z
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@futurebird @nazokiyoubinbou @Larymir @TrickTim some of us got kicked off the ladder when it got pulled up.