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One time, one restaurant had the brilliant marketing campaign of having taco Tuesdays when Tuesdays are traditionally one of the least busy days in most service industries and an entire type of cuisine benefited from it.

I bet it was like a steakhouse or something, too.

Looks like Google says there are multiple origins to it, too. One says something in 1973, one says Taco John’s in the 80’s.

I bet it was some middle of nowhere 5,000 population town steakhouse.

As a person who is brilliant and unappreciated in their time, I know what this person felt like.

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PARROTHEAD

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3 hours ago, CBears019 said:

I feel like this has been happening a lot lately.  Maybe it’s just being reported more, but i feel like I’ve heard a dozen stories like this in the past year.  And almost all stemming from Pennsylvania.  

Think weve had 2 recently here in VA. One ongoing now itself.

One of the 2 spawned from a guard falling asleep at a hospital. Might be the active one.

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On 9/2/2023 at 7:57 PM, Forge said:

I'm in an interesting predicament employment wise. 

I think most know that I'm an underwriter. Recently, a job opportunity came up within my company for a role in the special investigations team. I'm pretty sure that job is mine if I want it. Its a job that involves a ton of research and the like. Lots of solo time. I think I'd enjoy it quite a bit. Minimal stress, think I'd be good at it, very busy work, but also not driven by production as is. I believe they clearly would like to move me into the role. 

Its a very small group in a division that is mandated by the DOJ, so frankly, job security is pretty damn good even if my company had a downswing or something. Especially given that most of them are heading toward retirement time (lots of 20-30 year vets in that division). 

But, salary wise its lateral and I'd wager I take a loss on the bonus end, so in total, I'd say may lose money. I really like money, guys. Like, a lot. 

 

So I applied for the role...only for the President of Underwriting operations call me after I applied and tell me that while it wasn't public knowledge and asked that I not tell anyone, my boss' boss was taking another role in the company. Which means that one of the underwriting managers would likely take that role and they need a new underwriting manager. He told me that he couldn't guarantee me anything, but that my name is out there and he wanted me "to have all the information I may not know" before making a decision. 

This job undoubtedly comes with a raise and a larger bonus, I have no doubt. If I had to guess, I'd wager a 25-30% increase in pay just based on previous discussions...so it's big.  But I'd say that 20% of that job I would loathe, while 80% of that job I'd like (I do cover for management during the year when they have company management meetings, which typically lasts a week where all managers are not available for work stuff, so i know that there is some stuff I enjoy). 

Unfortunately, the timeline doesn't match up (SIU will likely make me an offer in 2 weeks, I believe and the management job may take 3 months to even post), and of course, I may not get the job. SIU gives me a new wrinkle in the resume in terms of skillset that I can advertise, but management puts me in a higher bucket financially when putting my resume out there. 

 

So I'm kind of just bouncing back and forth having no idea what the hell way I'm going to go there. 

Side note, never knew you were an underwriter.  I'm an Encompass administrator, not sure what LOS you guys use.

I had a similar situation, either be promoted to run the support desk I was on or move into that administrator role.  I ended up taking the management position and I absolutely hated it haha.  I like to problem solve and actually be the one that's doing the work, dealing with employees and everything that comes with that was just not for me.  In the end I was really happy I took the position as I learned a lot about myself but in the end I was fortunate enough to still be able to move into the administrator role after a year or so managing. 

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