Vegas_Millennial

My union contact rewards company loyalty with increased paid time off (PTO) for employees who remain at the company for longer than 20 years (which I have done). At 20 years, one earns 44 days PTO including holidays (13), sick (10) and vacation (21), plus an extra 1 day vacation bonus if one calls in sick no more than 3 days in a year. Plus, instead of getting paid the standard 1.5x for working overtime (OT) when I'm needed to meet a deadline, I can (and do) choose to get paid in TILO (Time In Lieu of Overtime) which credits me 1.5 hours of additional PTO for every hour of overtime I work, to use at a later time in the year when we are less busy. Right now, only government employees are allowed to choose TILO instead of OT pay. Congress proposed allowing private employers to offer that option to employees a few years ago, but it was aggressively opposed by one political party 😢. The typical employee at my organization doesn't use all of his earned PTO and chooses to sell back his unused PTO at the end of the year. I am one of the few who never sell but always use my PTO.

For me it was the post office. Once I learned to never give out an email address or phone number for anything (not even for doctors or companies I do business with), my daily life is free from notifications and spam. I check the mail once per week at the same day and time, and have little stress when I do so. I have so much less stress now than I did when I was "paperless" and overwhelmed with emails and text notifications.

My doctor didn't even ask me how often I jerked off... He just told me that I should stop masturbating. I asked "Do I need to stop masturbating forever?". To which he replied, "No, just until I leave the room."

When I die, I hope people say just one thing about me: "That guy sure owed me a lot of money"

I wonder what stationary Hyacinth would use for such an invitation?

Vacation abroad this summer! In 2 months, I travel to Lisbon, 3 nights in Lisbon, 14 nights cruise on an all-Gay charter on Azamara Quest, then 2 nights in Barcelona. I booked my business class flights the week Iran started its current war, just one day before flight prices jumped. My cruise and hotel prices were locked in last year.

The 5 times I've been to BuffDaddys at Red Eye (twice last year, and thrice last month), there was never a fog machine and the music was low enough to hold a conversation at the bar without shouting. I recognized some 80s hits. I visited on Fridays and Wednesdays.

There's no such thing as a rate that is too low. I once hired an escort who enjoyed sex with me so much that he decided to pay ME at the end!

I started looking into beneficiaries at age 21 when I had to choose a survivor beneficiary for my pension. I mentioned the need to create a trust to a friend of mine at around age 25, and he offered to help because he was an estate planning attorney. However, when we began the process it felt very rushed and not thought-through so I stopped. Finally, at age 33, I met with a different attorney and created a will, trust, power of attorney, healthcare directives, etc. So, I've had everything in order since age 33. I figured Jesus didn't live past 33, so what makes me think I could?

I agree about the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I enjoyed my visit to Times Square more before Broadway was closed to vehicles and overrun with peddlers and knock-off costumed characters harassing for money. I agree now it's best to stay away from it I disagree with the assessment of the Pyramids and the White House. I visited the Pyramids and was pleasantly awe-inspired by them and their surroundings. Surprisingly, I was underwhelmed with Buckingham Palace. I found the White House more inspiring, even if it is more "quaint" than Buckingham Palace, because of the notable history of events that have taken place in each room. But I attribute much of my impression to my national bias, and unfamiliarity with the monarchy. I did enjoy touring both the UK's Parliament and the US Capitol. Based on this and other feedback confirming Pisa as a disappointment, I will spend my day visiting Florence instead of Pisa on an upcoming gay cruise later this summer.

When I was young and inexperienced, I once had a connecting flight on Frontier. NEVER AGAIN! Based on my brief experience with Frontier, wouldn't even think of booking a low-cost airline like Spirit, Frontier, or Allegiant.

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These statistics are for the share of mobile phones that are "iPhone". It's not including Android smartphones or the very popular (back then) BlackBerry. Nearly 20 years later, I still don't have an "iPhone".

About 20-25 years ago, I lived in a house with all Whirlpool appliances. Several plumbers told me then they charged an additional $50 service fee to service a Whirlpool appliance, because they had specialized replacement parts that weren't generic to the other brands. I've had good experience with GE and LG appliances (all of them lasting over 18+ years in my current home). I purposefully purchased appliances with as few sensors and moving parts that could break (no water/ice dispenser in the fridge to cause leaks, freezer beneath the refrigerator to reduce strain on the compressor, front loading washing machine to reduce strain during the spin cycle, fewest possible bells and whistles on the dishwasher, etc.).

IRA investment options? That's so unexpected 😂😂 I've had several young men at several strip clubs remember me and thank me for pushing them to open a Roth IRA when I visited them a year later. I can't get past a 5th song during a private dance with someone without asking him how he's planning for his retirement.

At only $400 for a session, one can't expect much more than a $100 hotel. If one is picky, then one should book and pay for the hotel himself, giving the full $300 rate to the escort for him to keep and not have to pass on to the hotel.

Discussing Roth IRA investment options with young men just starting out as strippers

Yes! Sex is a Pleasure/Risk calculation. One must derive more Pleasure than Risk from the experience in order to want to do it. If I'm not going to feel the bare skin, then it becomes so much less pleasurable to me that it is no longer worth the risk of herpes/warts that are still transmittable with a condom. I'd rather go without sex. Sex IS a mental thing! Yes, that's what I would do as a bottom. I would say "Let's do not do anal if you're gonna put on a condom. But, care to take a piss on me?". I'll derive more pleasure from feeling my partner's fresh warm piss on me than I would feeling a latex membrane in my ass, and it's much safer for me too l. Yes! Even us cumdump sluts have a right to say "No". No bare, then no use of my hole. Let me keep it in shape for those who want to appreciate its natural feel. I don't hate or disrespect others who want to use condoms. You're just not going to use them with me. I don't enjoy giving a blowjob to someone with a condom on, and if I don't enjoy it I'm not going to do it. The same with anal sex. You don't get to use me if I'm not going to enjoy it.

Agree 💯! Thank Goodness escort rates aren't set by law! And as Jamie pointed out, it's the US's legal restriction on sex work (Nevada excepted) that keeps escort rates higher than in the UK or Europe. There have been pushes in Nevada to remove the remaining restrictions from sex work in Nevada (we've had several prominent working girls serve in the state legislature), but the bills can't progress out of committee. 😢

Ah, that makes sense. NYC would expect to see skyrotting inflation this year for historically low-cost items and services, such as neighborhood restaurants, that are more affected by recent local increases in minimum wages. Whereas higher-cost items and services, including more luxury services provided by escorts, are less influenced by the increased minimum wage and therefore are not experiencing the same increase in prices so far.

Actually, the point remains that statistics prove otherwise. We all agree that inflation and cost growth were out of control post-2020, but I think @BOZO T CLOWN views "recent" as 2025-2026, and inflation is much lower and more stable now than the worst inflation of 2021-2023. If one takes "recent" to mean all of post-COVID, then yes prices rose a lot but most of the price increases occurred prior to 2024. I've observed the same with escort rates. A lot more $400 rates appeared around 2023, but they haven't climbed much since. Most that I hire are still around $250-$350.

Since 2020, the most common board game I play is Pandemic. I've played it about a dozen times this week alone with visiting house guests. I have several expansion packs to the base game, to make it different each time. Another recent favorite board game is Wingspan.

I found this description to be accurate of Mike Gait when I hired him in 2019. With me he was not shy or awkward at all. He took charge, and even arranged a 3-way with his husband. I very much enjoyed his versatility and masculine, take-charge personality.

Agree! Maybe the city should focus on diverting beggers and campers away from the sidewalks and repurpose some of that valuable roadway real estate for additional on-street parking to combat the high cost of living and working in that city. Never mind the gas prices... Focus on reducing parking prices.

Remember the 80/20 rule for sustainability. 80% of the income should come from 20% of the customers. Find a few regular clients and focus on retaining each of them for repeat frequent visits, instead of chasing a new client every day. The same ratio is found in nature. On peas, 20% of the pods produce 80% of the peas 🫛 In a business, 20% of the employees perform 80% of the work. Hang on to those 20% employees! At a charity, 20% of the donors make up 80% of the donations. Maintain good relationships with those 20%. In a state with a stable economy, 80% of taxes paid already come from the highest 20% of income earners. Don't piss off or try to squeeze more out of the highest 20% or they'll leave, and then the state can't sustain itself.