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Looking for your $.02
April 19, 2012 at
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Looking for opinions:
If you have a specific skill or trade do you feel it's okay with charging immediate family members for your labor/time. For example, if you are a mechanic, would you charge your son or daughter, father or mother for your labor? Or do you feel like since they're your family (and let's of course say for arguments sake that everyone likes each other and has a good relationship of course
) you should give your help where you're able to and leave it up to the person on the receiving end to give if they should feel inclined?
If you have a specific skill or trade do you feel it's okay with charging immediate family members for your labor/time. For example, if you are a mechanic, would you charge your son or daughter, father or mother for your labor? Or do you feel like since they're your family (and let's of course say for arguments sake that everyone likes each other and has a good relationship of course
) you should give your help where you're able to and leave it up to the person on the receiving end to give if they should feel inclined?
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And sorry about your loss, BR.
And sorry about your loss, BR.
Slayers is a dude. There were two people CCed: the person in charge of the recap team (I wasn't sure if she wanted to be dragged into this so I didn't mention the username, but a lot of you who have been around know who it was, so you can message her to confirm) and former mod Slayers.
And thank you. Even a year and a half later, I teared up a bit when typing this.
Have a flight to catch at 6 in the morning
Self-entitlement doesn't just apply to family members. It also applies to everyone on the internet. We should always make things easy and convienently located so people can just cut and paste all the information into their blogs without giving credit to anyone. And if we don't.......then hissy fits will be thrown.
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a bunch of T-H-I-S, these; and OMFGIMSOMADANDWANTEVERYONETOTHINKSOTOO aren't enough
Self-entitlement doesn't just apply to family members. It also applies to everyone on the internet. We should always make things easy and convienently located so people can just cut and paste all the information into their blogs without giving credit to anyone. And if we don't.......then hissy fits will be thrown.
Slayers is a dude. There were two people CCed: the person in charge of the recap team (I wasn't sure if she wanted to be dragged into this so I didn't mention the username, but a lot of you who have been around know who it was, so you can message her to confirm) and former mod Slayers.
And thank you. Even a year and a half later, I teared up a bit when typing this.
OK, it's late evening, so I guess it's story time. Sitting comfortably? It's not a happy story, but it's a true one.
I too had a father once. My father passed away in November 2010. I had to make an emergency flight to Poland for his funeral.
At this point, we had a recap team for Rite Aid threads and I was a member of this team. Each member had a day of the week assigned for their recap work. It was about half an hour on average, sometimes more if the week was busy.
Obviously, dealing with grief, but also with an unexpected chance to see my mother and sister, I did not want to have to worry about a Rite Aid thread while away. Not to mention I wasn't even sure about internet connection at my Mom's.
Luckily, or so I thought, we had a person who volunteered to be a back up if any of us regular recap people couldn't handle our assigned day. The person was... yes, Supergirl, the very OP of this thread. As soon as I knew of my emergency trip, and that was a few days in advance of my recap day, I sent a PM to her. Never hear a word back. (and the person in charge of the recap team can confirm I sent this message, since she was CCed on it, as was former Mod Slayers).
Supergirl, I will say it loud and clear: you, of all people, have no right to talk about compassion, kindness, helpfulness or other values like this.
No, I don't hate you. I don't hate anyone. But no, I will not forget this, ever.
So there.
OK, it's late evening, so I guess it's story time. Sitting comfortably? It's not a happy story, but it's a true one.
There are actually 3 locked threads in the ds forum that involve the op.
Wow, is it now three locked threads. Did I miss one?
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I guess when he's really old and needs me to run his errands or take him to the dr, or care for him when he can't care for himself I'll ask him what he has to offer me in return or tell him my" discounted family rate". I mean that's the lesson here right. Everyone's time is worth something and acts of love are not forms of payment!