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RickRussell_CA, 8 months ago to chat in how's your year going, Beehaw

I know I’m lucky – I’m in a senior position in my career, so it’s likely I’ll find something new for the same or similar salary.

Still, it was completely unprovoked. I had nothing but glowing performance reviews, nothing like an HR writeup or anything.

RickRussell_CA, 8 months ago to chat in how's your year going, Beehaw

I’m to be dismissed from my job Jan 3.

I guess I have prospects. Still, it’s a hell of a kick in the teeth, I’ve never been involuntarily terminated from a job in my entire life.

RickRussell_CA, 10 months ago to feminism in Advertisers Don’t Want Sites Like Jezebel to Exist

How do you pay for journalism?

RickRussell_CA, 11 months ago to news in In Singapore, a certificate to own a car now costs $106,000

Your math is off somewhere. Wikipedia claims that NYC has 302 square miles of land, while Singapore has 283.

This article estimates that the cost of owning a car in NYC is $3000-$5000 per month. So, you pay for the privilege, perhaps not as much up front.

But NYC is surrounded by places you can drive to. Singapore is not. The mainland city of Johor Bahru is a relatively poor city of only 500K people, and beyond that it’s farmland until you get to the Malaysian captial, more than 4 hours away. So I wouldn’t expect the two cities to have the same preferences for car ownership in any case.

RickRussell_CA, 11 months ago to news in UK could rent space in foreign jails to ease shortage of cells

It is tradition.

RickRussell_CA, 11 months ago to news in In Singapore, a certificate to own a car now costs $106,000

Is this news? Singapore is a city of 6 million on an island that is only 45km across at its widest point.