From Barrons:
This Fund Promised Market-Beating Returns. Now It Has Filed for Bankruptcy.
Brian Casey, who was appointed NRIA’s independent manager in late April, said in a first-day motion Wednesday that the Chapter 11 petition aimed to buy the Secaucus company time to reorganize after past overspending on salaries and other financial strains.
The petition’s goal “is to provide the debtors with a breathing spell to prevent a disorderly liquidation of their estates through subscriber redemptions and to reject and/or terminate disadvantageous contracts and other arrangements,” wrote Casey, a Towson, Md.-based real-estate finance expert.
“At the conclusion of the process, the debtors plan to propose a plan of reorganization that will provide a substantial, if not full, recovery to all stakeholders and position the debtors to continue operating as a profitable mid-sized real estate firm,” he continued.
An attorney for NRIA didn’t respond to a request from Barron’s seeking comment on the petition.
NRIA’s principal offering is a real estate portfolio known as Partners Portfolio Fund, which is covered by the bankruptcy petition.
The firm has sought investors for the fund through frequent ads on national broadcast outlets such as Fox News and Bloomberg Radio that promised market-beating returns.
CASH FLOW POSITIVE
I almost invested with them. They were quick to send over to the prospectus and not really want to answer many questions. They wanted a yes or no and how can they get my investment. Very pushy…. After they realized that I had a lot of questions the conversations ended.
Their commercial was a bunch of indecipherable finance-ish sounding jibber jabber. I remember listening to one of them thinking to myself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTRKCXC0JFg
NASDAQ down 23% year to date. Don’t worry, we’re building back better.
Never mind the LA Biden motorcade protestor, it was the cops gun it seems…Empty holster can been seen in this pic.
https://tinyurl.com/4ms6r2x5
re: “building back better”
Saudi Arabia’s economy is expected to grow 9% this upcoming year. The highest in the world it seems. What do they do there for money? Drill for oil, that is about it. Drill, export and collect dollars..
Biden will be there later this month to kiss the ring and plead for another million barrels a day etc. Where else can we get the quadrillions of BTUs needed annually to keep the economy running and growing without having to go hat in hand to them? I dunno Permian, Alaska, Bakken, etc etc etc..
Worldwide Global crude oil exports are a $2.5 trillion business assuming $100 a Barrel when it goes higher well the Saudi’s simply buy more golden swords and expensive yachts with their excess cash they got from your wallet…
NASDAQ down 23% year to date. Don’t worry, we’re building back better.
Freedom isn’t free.
Judges….
A Missouri woman was awarded a $5.2 million settlement against her ex-boyfriend’s car insurance company after she claimed that she got a sexually transmitted disease from him after they had sex in his 2014 Hyundai Genesis.
Next insurance companies must pay child support to the state for pregnancies conceived in automobiles.
The American court system hard at work. Or just hard.
So, what are all the smart people here doing with their portfolios they self-manage? What about the ones given over to a fin-advisor? I’m curious.
Bystander says:
June 8, 2022 at 8:09 pm
“Dating women in NYC as good-looking, employed mature 35 yo male with own apt is a f-ing dangerous game. You are at a premium. They line up for you. I was probably seeing 3 girls at that time…”
If anyone ever asked me what type of guy would vote for Joe Biden and Kamal Harris, I’d say it’s probably the kind of dud you’d find on a real estate blog bragging about his dating prowess a decade earlier. You realize that everyone on an online dating site is seeing three people, right? Epic cluelessness! Let me guess, you also believe that Kamala is really working on solving the root cause of Joe’s immigration fiasco, right?
SmallGov….you suck more than most. Think about the bitterness and twisted logic that feed your pee brain. Viola! There you have The modern Republican movement.
Saudi Arabia… I wonder why? Have to admit, they have some smart leaders. Taking advantage of this runup in old energy, and investing to become the leader in the new energy.
“Saudi transfers $80 billion from Aramco for clean energy projects. The Guardian: Saudi Arabia has transferred shares worth $80bn to its sovereign wealth fund as the oil-rich nation hopes to rival Norway and Singapore’s state-managed funds and invest in green projects.”
Juice Box says:
June 9, 2022 at 9:11 am
re: “building back better”
Saudi Arabia’s economy is expected to grow 9% this upcoming year. The highest in the world it seems. What do they do there for money? Drill for oil, that is about it. Drill, export and collect dollars..
“You realize that everyone on an online dating site is seeing three people, right?”
That’s what Valtrex is for.
And why Roe vs Wade needs to be upheld.
And why car insurance companies are paying out 5.2M settlements to women who get STD’s in the car.
9:27 you can quote that freedom sh:t all you want Eddie underneath the robes,
We’re all the same…
The end is nigh…that’s how selfish society is now. Date for pleasure and no intentions of having a baby. Future is bright people!
“You realize that everyone on an online dating site is seeing three people, right?”
9:27 you can quote that freedom sh:t all you want Eddie underneath the robes,
We’re all the same…
Sorry Ex.
Let me rephrase for you.
Hegemony isn’t free.
The end is nigh…that’s how selfish society is now. Date for pleasure and no intentions of having a baby. Future is bright people!
I do. I have a child. Why shouldn’t I date? Having sex without wanting a child is not wrong unless you are a freak Catholic.
But then again just look at what the priests are doing….
A catholic priest will dissolve any marriage for 4k and give you an annulment.
It’s always about the money. Or the altar boys.
Whatever.
Phoenix,
I’m not putting you down for getting laid with no intentions of having a kid. I’m just pointing out that society is f/ed overall with this type of mindset. Creating conditions where most people don’t get married and have a kid.
Tell you what, not worth getting married with how it is…you will get cheated on. I only know the dating scene from the early 2000s….got married in 2009. Guess I’m a dinosaur. Never knew this was going on.
Ex,
I didn’t post the “Freedom isn’t Free” part.
Eddie, I’ll give you this…..But, he’s just the child of a the President. But I hear ya.
They’d been married for 22 years when Kathleen Buhle (inset) made the appalling discovery in 2015 that her husband, the father of her three daughters, was hopelessly addicted to drink, drugs and sex. While this sort of tale of sordid excess certainly has a familiar ring to it, Kathleen wasn’t married to yet another troubled Hollywood star but to Hunter Biden (right), the son of the U.S. President (left). Kathleen would later learn that Hunter – whom she’d met when they were serving together in their 20s in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps – frequently hired prostitutes, obsessively trawled through internet porn and had such a serious drug problem that she found a crack cocaine pipe in their ashtray. Worst of all, he had an affair with his own brother’s widow – a shocking development even for someone as depraved as Hunter, 52, and a discovery that Kathleen reveals was only made after their children saw incriminating text messages on his phone.
I hope you realize by now we are at the point where no one knows wtf is going on. A bunch of billionaires and fund owners all doing random moves with the hopes that they are correct. Some are pulling back, some are going all in, some are staying idle.
RentL0rd says:
June 9, 2022 at 9:49 am
So, what are all the smart people here doing with their portfolios they self-manage? What about the ones given over to a fin-advisor? I’m curious.
” Creating conditions where most people don’t get married and have a kid.”
Aren’t you the guy who posted that crap where people should be happy living in an apartment?
What woman wants to raise a child in an apartment? Or rent a house from someone for the rest of their lives?
What man wants to take a chance that a freak judge or lousy greedy lawyer is going to cost them thousands or take their children?
Too many women use their children as weapons. Then you wonder why kids can’t finish college?
It’s just like current WFH labor market. No one knows what is happening or if this going to even work. They don’t even know how to deploy it. Cheerleaders are claiming it worked for 2 years and claiming victory….yea, these are your idiots jumping on a short-term trend.
Let’s be honest folks, I’m not as dialed into most of this stuff as you might be. We all live in an echo chamber. I started coming here years ago….many years ago too try to understand NJ Real Estate. Now I feel like most of us are just trying to live into our 40’s and 50’s. Now for the sad part. 2022 would have been the year that I retired with full pension. Instead I came out here, taking an early retirement. I will have just completed the third Charter School that I have worked in in 4 years. yep. First one, DTLA center of skid row. Why? I figured why not. No running water in the room (Art) tk-12. One person. Me. An assistant who was “alumni” and a Jew from Venice Beach. I ended up buying that kid lunch every day. Rats ate the wiring of the ‘leased 330’ .. yeah. I know. Took me 1.5 hours through traffic to get there. “1” rated type school of best schools. I stayed 6 months. 2nd Foothills school with a military approach. Yet if you worked there you were an inmate too. Pay was at scale and that was lucky cause I’d just bought an M3 on eBay for $9000. First repair bill…..$8000.
So after one year distance learning and one year in-person teaching C and D level folks kids Art in a small charter which BTW kid-wise my best teaching experience yet. AP, Yearbook, Art 101. I’m in awe of what the last 2 years did for my portfolio. This was world class. But it did not come without a price. It was the most grueling experience in many ways. Let’s face it though, my “jersey” directness in California. I dunnnno. I need to mentally retool for a while before I head back out into the breach. I’m working on a series of paintings that I am excited about. Mostly coastline and seascapes. Today reminded me of why I am here. Why I gave up that tenured position in a high school. She is why I gave it up. She whose crystalline blue eyes shine and who’s touch has fed my soul for the better part of almost 30 years. That is it. I found G-d when I met her. In the Words of Sturgill.
Sorry, not enough resources to go around to put everyone in a white picket fence single family home. Capitalism is a competition, whether fair or not, and the winners get to choose where they want to live, not the losers. Take away capitalism and then you have everyone living in poverty…so this is the best you are going to get.
“Aren’t you the guy who posted that crap where people should be happy living in an apartment?
What woman wants to raise a child in an apartment? Or rent a house from someone for the rest of their lives?”
Ex,
Nice share. I am glad you found your reason for living. Most people don’t, till it’s too late.
And ex…had no idea you were dealing with those charter schools. They are the answer from God for our education needs. Would love to hear some more of the horror stories.
Man, that’s love….leaving nj public school to go deal with charter schools in california for the one you love.
Ex,
That’s quite a story.
from God?
I was mocking team red that thinks charter schools are the answer from God.
Phoenix says:
June 9, 2022 at 11:10 am
from God?
Ex: That is an amazing story. Thank you for sharing.
Phoenix: As long as you do right by your child, and you certificate are in spite of your Ex, you can live and enjoy your life as you see fit. You owe no one an explanation.
3b
TY.
Was working with a PA that I hadn’t seen in a while. She cut her hours to raise her kids. A real class act, the whole package. She knows my story well.
Told me that she had always heard about divorce and kids from her female friends, but now has a guy friend she knows well who is going through it. Told me it changed her whole perspective.
My ex was a diabetic. Moody as hell. It just got worse, who knows, borderline, bipolar, yeah that can manifest later. I could deal with that. But when crazy calls the police-the police believe crazy over sane. It’s what they do.
It’s why I can relate to the Hot Crazy Matrix video on You Tube. Nothing worse than when you marry a Bunny Boiler and have a child with her. She was normal in her 20’s but who knows what years of low blood sugars do to certain neurons in the brain.
You then have to fight not her, but the system, just to keep your child. For me, roughly 200k just to have my daughter sitting in the front seat of my car every other weekend.
Ex is an example of when everything goes right. That’s the way it’s supposed to be and I am happy for him.
Some things are self determined, some things are luck, some things are timing.
Ex seems to have been firing on all 8 cylinders. That’s the way it’s supposed to work.
Phoenix,
you have to watch out for smart girls that seem sane. The intelligent girls are smart enough to hide their craziness until they get married.
Phoenix: It sounds like you went through hell, but you are still standing. And then your demanding career on top of it. So enjoy yourself in spite of your Ex s still harassing you. I am sure your child when they get older will understand what you have gone through.
BRT,
I have 100 women I work with-interact on a close technical level with. Then eat lunch with them. The stories I could tell. Things that make them happy, that set them off, the relationships- when a doctor makes a comment what they think-and you wonder how they come to that conclusion?
They are complex creatures. No rules apply to all of them. Some have Jekyll and Hyde personalities-like a vial of nitroglycerin. Others are kind and calm. But one theme seems to ring true-the younger ones are way more pleasant. It’s pretty much consistent. I have stayed friends with many of my ex colleagues that are much younger than me and have left. Time really seems to bitter many women-I really hope it doesn’t happen to the ones I have trained. I think it was Bystander made a comment about the ticking clock-yeah that is true as well. Many are waiting longer to have kids or settle down as well- as “capitalistic” pumpy just calls them losers as he goes home from his cushy job these young women are working on weekends, holidays, evenings, no pensions, wanting to have kids but never going to have a lifestyle like pumpy’s in order to raise them.
I have to say they make life interesting-for better or worse.
Phoenix, I think it can go either way sometimes a woman can be a real monster but so can a man. Being a monster/narcissist/crazy person has no gender but you are correct society is much more forgiving and ready to believe a woman over a man. In general women can be much more manipulative than most men, men tend to be more straight forward in their malintent. No one should have to go through that kind of nonsense.
Phoenix: I will take the younger people in general, and to your point especially the females. I have noticed some family members and spouses of friends, all female, who are incredibly bitter and angry. Some divorced, some not. Can’t figure out why exactly. I notice too the older divorced women have a lot of resentment and anger towards other women who are still married. I can’t figure that one out.
I have also noticed some of the ones that appear happy go lucky and post all that life inspiration crap on FB are evil angry people, and engage in vicious gossip. I know some men who are quite unhappy as well , but for the most part although not always, it seems more like quiet desperation.
None of this is scientific of course, purely observational on my part.
3b
My ex claimed I was inappropriate with my kid in order to try to win a custody battle.
DYFS sealed the records-no way to get investigative reports-or anything that would allow me to sue her for slander or libel.
They knew she planned it, and they protected her. At my expense, and at my daughter’s expense. Lazy f k x s didn’t even show up in court to help me fight for full custody. Ex was smart-did it during summer when all of these DYFS investigators go on vacation and pass you around while you are in time constraints with a judge.
Get a prosecutor to charge her with lying- those lazy t ruds? They let out gun smugglers and drug dealers- you think they are going to charge a woman with perjury in court?
The lawyers all know that this is illegal-but they know their clients will never be prosecuted- and the courts only care that your kid gets a check-they are not looking out for your child’s well being, nor are the “heroes in blue.” They are there for a pension and to bang your ex after they throw you out.
Rentlord,
Patience. Scale in, scale out. You never have to be exactly right. Never put all of your eggs in one basket and mitigate risk. All of the same headwinds still exist. You’ll feel it when they shift into tailwinds. You might be blown in the wrong direction for a day or two and that’s fine. Turn off the financial news networks and you’ll learn more.
Lib, this says it all.
“We are either at a market bottom or market top. An inflection point is around the corner.”
Phoenix: What a horror show. I can understand your anger and bitterness.
One other thing:
I find most women like to work-but it has to be a balance. The PA I had mentioned earlier told me this. She enjoyed her job, but she doesn’t have to be there if she doesn’t want to. It’s the balance for her, and she was very happy when I saw her last.
But when you have to slog to work, go in every other weekend, get yelled at over stupid things, get called a “hero” then no raise but a old slice of pizza then back to the grind, well years of that will put a toll on most women. Guys seem to handle that better. My guess is that many women resent the men they married should they not be able to give them the life they feel they deserved. The ones that seem to be the most happy are the ones with the most successful husbands- the doctor’s wives..
Phoenix in general younger people have a better attitude the world hasn’t been sh*tting on them for 20 years. Life isn’t easy and the older you get the more complicated it gets, the more responsibilities you have and the more a$$holes you need to deal with on a daily basis. Some of us are better at compartmentalizing their problems, what I’ve noticed with women is they tend to take the baggage home, they are carrying it around, the issues at work, the issues at home, the issues with their kids if they have them. Men seem to more easily put things aside whereas women ruminate over it and even carry it day over day where men are more likely to put things behind them. I’ve worked with a lot of old men who were bitter miserable curmudgeons as well any older person who feels stuck is not real pleasant to be around. Likely they are there not because they want to be but because they have to.
Lib: It’s going to get worse before it gets better. The party has been going on for far too long. The correction was put off/ manipulated for way too long, and this is the result.
It’s amazing to me that there are some so called experts saying this mess will be resolved by the Fall, and the party will be back on.
Jcer: Agreed. I have seen the cranky old men too, mad at the world. It seems like you can if possible stay away from them. Some of the women on the other hand seem to lash out more, and decide to focus their anger on another person. I have seen it recently from an extended family member whom I never would have expected it from. It’s not pretty.
I didn’t make the rules to the game. Unfortunately, there are winners and losers in this game in the name of efficiency. I did what I had to do to get where I am. I picked a job that would always be around over higher paying jobs. I chose a wife that didn’t need me to survive. I chose to invest at a young age. These choices I MADE in the hopes of a better future. I was cheap as f’k when I was young and put myself in position to buy a house at a time other kids were asking mommy and daddy for money. I knew I was never getting a dollar from my parents and acted on it with hard work and sacrifice at a young age.
“ “capitalistic” pumpy just calls them losers as he goes home from his cushy job these young women are working on weekends, holidays, evenings, no pensions, wanting to have kids but never going to have a lifestyle like pumpy’s in order to raise them.”
And pumpy wonders why women don’t want to have kids.
They have to be picky. It’s expensive to have a child under the best of conditions.
Then boomer wants to extort every last dime from them for a house-but expects a free azz wipe-all while leaving their debt to the youth.
Young men-hell 100k seems like a great salary till you get in the real world with a wife, two kids, and the overpriced house you bought from fat Mary Muppet (fast eddie TM)
Pumps is happy with corporations buying large swaths of single family homes. Well this type of crap contributes to a failure in the social structure of America. Or extorting the youth with massive rent increases.
That’s not capitalism, that’s distorted pathology.
I even paid for my own college. Anyone that wants to put me down…go for it. Put me down for making the american dream happen instead of crying about it.
Rentlord-
I am retired, and self manage my portfolio.
As to what I am doing? Nothing.
At least, nothing different. I have a well diversified 60/40 portfolio. I’ll rebalance if/when I hit my rebalancing point.
I don’t understand why people freak out when stocks drop 10 or 20%. That’s just noise.
Pumpy,
You just lack empathy. It’s okay. You are not alone. Just like your hero Musk.
BREAKING:
Michigan GOP gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley
arrested and charged for participating in
Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
I have empathy. I understand the role of luck. But at the same time, I don’t have empathy for people making bad choice after bad choice and then giving up. Seriously, some people are their own worst enemy, yet they are still blaming everyone else but themselves.
You, I feel bad for. You have bad luck. I hope it gets better.
Phoenix: I can recognize the resentment some women have towards their spouse if they are not living the life they dreamed of. But it’s wrong and misdirected. You know before you get married what your spouses earning potential is, and what type of lifestyle that can afford.
But I sympathize with the younger generations who have been robbed of the ability to stay home if they choose while their kids are young, whether it be the Mother or Father.
Myself and all of my friends and family were able to do that on one income. Now it takes two good incomes for the same house only 30 years older with 4 x the property taxes. Some people think this is a good thing, and damn the younger folks who cares. They got theirs. This in my view is going backwards, not forward.
I know a lot of young people whose quality of life has improved dramatically, now that hybrid/ remote is a reality. And, yet there are some who want to take that from them too. And I feel for the people in the professions like nurses who can’t have the quality of life balance that remote/ hybrid provides.
On NRIA,
I heard their scammy ads for at least a decade on Bloomberg Radio and couldn’t believe that everyone, Bloomberg, the regulators, whomever claims to deal with investor protection, was doing nothing about it. I don’t remember the details but they were saying stuff about guaranteed returns, and nobody gets away with saying that stuff. And there weren’t even any real investigative reports – would have been too much trouble to send a junior NY Times or Bloomberg reporter in between writing up their usual social justice pap, to actually check out what sounds like a blatant scam going on right beneath their noses?
For years colleagues and I have been making fun of these ads. I’m looking forward to learning how many people have been duped out of how much money.
You do realize that the rich kids are on hybrid/remote, right? Other workers have to actually go to work, and to top it off, get paid much less than the remote workers. I hope you realize this. If hybrid/remote sticks, expect the workers that actually have to go in to rebel and demand higher pay. You think the 20 something roofer is happy about this?
“I know a lot of young people whose quality of life has improved dramatically, now that hybrid/ remote is a reality. And, yet there are some who want to take that from them too. And I feel for the people in the professions like nurses who can’t have the quality of life balance that remote/ hybrid provides.”
Oil is so high that Saudi Arabia is paying a lot of aging golfers over half a billion dollars to start a new golf tour to compete with the PGA and European tour. And they are still going to have to pay prizes for the competition purses
.
https://clutchpoints.com/liv-golf-news-the-bonkers-9-figure-bag-of-saudi-money-secured-by-phil-mickelson-dustin-johnson-bryson-dechambeau/
Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, and a bunch of other names are getting old, but Bryson DeChambeau isn’t, and is getting over $100m guaranteed to play golf on that tour.
Small,
Actually I agree with you on point of it coming across as braggard. It was an overshare as I re-lived those memories. Still, it does not change that you are a one-trick pony, boring ass-hat obsessed with some weird masculinity issue. I think most of us can agree with that.
According to Market Insider : Mortgage Applications are in Meltdowns, Housing Prices Threatens.
Bystander: I don’t think you necessarily over shared, and it’s not like you do it on any kind of regular basis. We all on occasion like to look back on our younger days from time to time. There is nothing wrong with that.
By,
It was a good share. It didn’t come off as bragging. Don’t let people get to you on this blog…
And I feel for the people in the professions like nurses who can’t have the quality of life balance that remote/ hybrid provides.
You are starting to see WFH trickle into some of these professions. What might have typically been an all-hands staff meeting, instead being called virtually. Training sessions being done virtually. Hearing that some companies are moving to alternative schedules to provide a bit more at-home time. What was a typical shift in healthcare – the 4×10, seems to be getting some traction, and I’ve ever heard 3×12 come up. Yeah, you might say, same hours what’s the point? But realize the savings on commuting time, and opening up the ability to have more “home days” than just a typical weekend or off time.
So keep in mind traditional in-person based businesses are trying to adapt to this, and they need to do it to be able to attract candidates. Hybrid/Remote is absolutely bleeding into other job categories, where you wouldn’t expect it to work at all.
Not upset at all. Just probably not on point with any particular topic. We all have stories..JJ’s weekend probably looked like my entire NYC dating experience.
I saw a survey a few weeks back on alt schedules, and a surprising number of people would exchange longer days for more time off.
8×5 is an arbitrary construct rooted in absolutely nothing.
In many cases, these extended durations can be BENEFICIAL for employers as well, improving profitability through increased productivity and utilization.
Yea, WFH is all good until the kids are virtual. No, can’t have the kids home…no no.
I’m just busting balls, but it is the truth.
grim says:
June 9, 2022 at 1:41 pm
I saw a survey a few weeks back on alt schedules, and a surprising number of people would exchange longer days for more time off.
8×5 is an arbitrary construct rooted in absolutely nothing.
In many cases, these extended durations can be BENEFICIAL for employers as well, improving profitability through increased productivity and utilization.
Grim: Thanks I was not aware that it was spreading to those areas as well. Good for all those people as well. I can’t imagine how difficult it is to have two people working full time and trying to raise their kids as well. The younger generations need a beak, the new work reality addresses that.
I agree the 8 to 5 concept is antiquated and does not work today. I know a lot of countries in Europe have recently started a 4 day workweek experiment this past week. It will be interesting to see how that goes, and what impact it may have in this country.
All I know, if remote does take hold…be ready to pay top dollar for any service or job that needs to leave the house. Inevitable if remote does take hold…everything will become more expensive from landscaping to the pizza you order for dinner.
You need someone to leave their house to come fix your plumbing…f u pay me.
You need someone to leave their house to come paint your house….f u pay me.
You need someone to leave their house to service your car….f u pay me.
You need someone to leave their house and collect your garbage….f u pay me.
You need someone to leave their house and cut your hair….f u pay me.
You get the point. Future is going to be fun!
Grim,
Where I work many want longer shifts and more days off.
But that interferes with coerced overtime.
Easier to get someone to stay late after an 8 hr shift vs a 13 hr one
Also if you get a sick call a 13 hr shift hurts the employer more.
I would not want to own a business in this environment. Tell you that…
Have customers that can’t afford to pay more, and workers that won’t work for less. Good f’ing luck.
Phoenix,
This video is for you. Some Canadian HR bitch who doesn’t like people who go to the “wrong” protests. Makes full use of the Biden whisper technique.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q66hTP1IjWQ&t=116s
Another ugly CPI number excepted for Friday.
No One,
So much I cannot post. I went through plenty with a Bunny Boiler
Business, right? Capitalism. But these kids ( mostly young women and some men) have heart, at least in the line of work I do. It’s hard not to like them. And being older, I have the perspective of what was vs what is. Accepting this is not the way to go about it, they have lives too and deserve a chance.
The young women mostly complain about the other women. Guys I work with are team players- not in competition- the better we train, the easier and safer everything becomes. I never feel that my career is in jeopardy other than by making a mistake-which you can avoid by having everyone trained to a higher level.
Having colleagues that are higher skilled is for my benefit. I return that favor.
I have trained many who have left. This is how you know you did a good job- no fear- they felt confident they could work anywhere. I keep in contact, they kick a z z where they have gone. One FaceTimed me yesterday. Loving life in Florida. Better schedule, enjoying the beach.
I wish I could join her. But I have a kid in NJ. I’m trapped here by the court system.
Or give up my kid. But that ain’t happening.
As Pumpy says, you made your choices. I did. But I have plenty of regrets.
I have to say….wayne did a good job of getting property taxes under control.
Public tax history
Year Property Taxes
2020 $18,516 (+0.9%)
2019 $18,351 (+0.9%)
2018 $18,184 (+1.4%)
2017 $17,928 (+1.2%)
2016 $17,713 (+2.9%)
2015 $17,213 (+3.5%)
2014 $16,636 (+1.7%)
2013 $16,350 (+3.8%)
2012 $15,746 (+3.8%)
2011 $15,165 (+4.4%)
2010 $14,523
The dumb thing about the Fatal Attraction bunny boiler is that I don’t think Glen Close was attractive. Maybe that was the point and why Michael Douglas just banged her against the wall for a one-night stand.
Unlike a lot of you, I had no hot dates in my youth, just a couple of unrequited dead-end attempts at relationships (in retrospect, at least 2 of the 3 were probably ticking time bombs) followed by a 25 year marriage without much drama, and without even a real opening/invitation from other women for me to get in trouble.
I guess I’m all substance, no flash, like a nega-JJ.
Glenn Close: She was on a roll i recall and one of Hollywood’s it girls at the time.
I remember seeing that with my girlfriend at the time and at the end
of the film having this date look at me and say “seeee?”. To which I thought.
Ridiculous. Like Glenn Close, I Remember Debra Winger as an actress that some people really thought was hot and some did not.
Star Ledger even knew.
https://www.nj.com/crime/2021/12/this-nj-firm-promises-to-make-clients-rich-is-it-too-good-to-be-true.html
Dow down 600 points prepping for tomorrows ugly CPI number.
You know what’s worse than people who WFH two or three days a week? People who get paid to WFH each and every Summer, but don’t even have to work.
F u pay me! See it coming down the pipeline
“It’s Impossible to Find Swimming Lessons Right Now
You’re not imagining it!”
https://slate.com/business/2022/06/swim-lessons-waitlists-pools-lifeguards.html
F u pay me!
Libturd says:
June 9, 2022 at 4:06 pm
You know what’s worse than people who WFH two or three days a week? People who get paid to WFH each and every Summer, but don’t even have to work.
Don’t forget unemployment claims.
Let me post that chart again. Again, this line was drawn in February.
shorturl.at/htEY9
Wait till we are virtual, lib. :)
Remember, going to be impossible to find teachers if all these other jobs are remote or hybrid. Summers off used to attract people, but won’t when they have much better options where you don’t deal with kids, work less hours, don’t have to leave your house, and get paid much more.
Everything has a consequence.
Btw, teachers aren’t paid for summer. Contract runs from sept 1st to june 30th. Just an fyi.
“People who get paid to WFH each and every Summer, but don’t even have to work.”
So no health care coverage over the Summer?
Two late nights until 10:00 this week. Got so much done!! Off to a music session later, with my wife and friends. Time for some fun!!
Well done 3b. Who you seeing? Don’t forget to tune in at 8pm…hah
Some friends of mine they have made a very successful lucrative career in the Irish trad music scene. They all get together this time in June for a session, and others just show up and join them. It’s a great night and a lot of fun. I am happy they have been able to make a career out of their passion.
On another note, I was hoping that Mellencamp would be doing some NY area tours this year, but all west coast this year. We saw him in 2019 at the Beacon theatre it was a fantastic concert. Played all his old stuff, plus a lot of new material. It’s tough being a Mellencamp fan in the land of Springsteen!!
As for 8:00 I will skip it rather have fun and enjoy myself. I hate them all, as we used to say in high school they all blow!!
Do you get health coverage on the weekend? Why wouldn’t i get yearly coverage when I pay into it and it’s based on a yearly contract with the health insurer?
I know you are just busting balls, but lighten up with your hate for teachers. You don’t don’t do this to any other profession. And they are not going to be able to find teachers in short time…it’s already happening. Boomers might have to put off retirement because there won’t be enough workers to take care of them. This tight labor force will only lead to higher inflation.
I remember when subs were getting 90-100 dollars not too long ago pre pandemic. Up to $250 a day now. What do you think is going to happen with teachers in this environment? F u pay me, or they won’t take the job.
Libturd says:
June 9, 2022 at 4:24 pm
So no health care coverage over the Summer?
“Don’t forget to tune in at 8pm…” to watch the Rangers!! Let’s go, baby!!
You get paid an annual salary and benefits to only work part of the year. I do not hate teachers. I love them as they taught me how to read, write and perform arithmetic. Sorry they failed you and you’re failing current students.
Alright, Face.
I wonder if you could last 17 years at my easy part time gig. What’s it’s like to work hard and know it’s for nothing because the student was never taught how to respect an education. You know how difficult that is to keep going for this long in that kind of situation. Constantly motivating yourself and never giving up against mission impossible…it’s not easy. Yet, i keep going because that’s who i am and that’s how I got to where I am. Rocky balboa style.
I was trying to inspire my period 1 class today on the importance of education. The costs of their education related to the idea that nothing is free. Everything has a cost. Well, i look at one of my students rolling his eyes as I’m giving it all I have to inspire him. Boom, dagger through the heart, and you have to maintain a poker face while getting your heart ripped out. You know what that feels like? You know how hard it is to keep going 100% when you know the kid will NEVER GIVE A F’K?
Think what you want of me, but I’m a hard working guy. I do a job and I try to do it correctly. It’s not easy dealing with broken products year in and year out, yet I keep going.
Somewhere there’s a tiny violin playing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecutory_delusion
Face,
Go watch “The Wire” season about education and know that’s the reality. Being a teacher in a high class town is not the same as being a teacher in the ghetto. One is an environment of success and the other is an environment of total failure.
And everyone on this blog loves to belittle me and call me the village idiot. Well, how did I pass up a lot of you in life already? Doesn’t that same something that a kid from clifton with nothing much to start with made it into the top 5% earners in this state and country in his 30s. Yea, that’s a village idiot for you.
Persecutory delusion; Isn’t that an early King Crimson tune?
I love King Crimson. A little bit.
Cheney to fellow Republicans who continue to “defend the indefensible” about Trump and Jan 6:
“there will come a day when Donald Trump is gone.
“but your dishonor will remain.”
Classic Ed.
VSG,
I guess Ivanka is now thrown off cult train, right?
“I made it clear I did not agree with the idea that the election was stolen, which, I told the president, was bullsh–,” Barr said during his deposition–which the committee shared with the public Thursday night.
“It affected my perspective,” Trump said. “I respect Attorney General Barr so I accepted what he said.”
I love when you equate fictional tv shows and real life. The best was when you did so referencing the walking dead. That’s the show with zombies if you didn’t know. Zombies. Epic logic.
When pumpkin gets stuck behind someone in the left lane and then finally passes them, he yells at the window, “Don’t you know I’m in the top 5% of my generational cohort!”
Wow, I did not know you guys were involved..except Small, which I just assumed.
McCarthy says ‘everybody in the country’ bears responsibility for Jan. 6 attack
I watched the Rangers blow it.
I n 2019 the top 5% of nj incomes made a minimum of 250k a year. I did not know teachers make that much money. No wonder people pay 18k a year in taxes for a pos cape.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/21/how-much-money-you-need-to-make-to-be-in-the-top-5-percent-in-new-jersey.html
“As you will see, Rep. Perry contacted the White House in the weeks after Jan 6. to seek a presidential pardon,” she said.
Cheney then added:
“Multiple other Republican congressmen also sought presidential pardons for their roles in attempting to overturn the 2020 election.”