I got a call from the government today offering me a job. I took it.
To set the stage, here’s what Falcon wrote at Birther Report a few days back:
Please discuss your 150 dollar a year Obama stipend for running interference. We all want to know why you are paid less than an intern. Those were your words.
I frankly was puzzled by that remark because I don’t get a stipend from Obama, much less would have said so. I had to search BR comments to figure out what he meant. The context was someone saying they wished they could see my W2 form. I replied:
My W2 for 2014 shows $150 in wages, from being a Poll Manager in the 2014 general election. That’s all my earned income.
And as happens so often in this birther business, a coincidence occurred. This afternoon I got a call from the County Elections Commission asking me to work the polls for the upcoming November 3 general election. I agreed.
Does your County send you a 1099 form for the $150?
No, a W2. I’m a very part time county employee. I even get direct deposit!
This year, though, it will only be $75 because I didn’t have to go to training.
Geese louise man. When I worked elections back in the early to mid 70’s I got time and a half on my regular salary*. You need to join a union or something, you’re way way under paid – even if all you are doing is sweeping up at the end of the day.
* of course I was working at my regular desk and just ‘on-call’ for any software problems with ‘my’ computer – I was the lead systems programmer for the City. But I did have to be there for rehearsals and to take the handover when the counting was done. Oh and I did get to ‘clean up’ the ballot cards to make sure there weren’t any ‘hanging chads’ and turn over any unreadable ballots to the County Attorney staff for scrutinizing.
Poll Workers unite! I don’t think I ever received a W-2. I know that I haven’t filled out an I-9.
You can get a 1099 if the yearly total exceeds $600. Then you really see how much they think of your 19 hour days.
In my youth $150 would have bought 1,000 comics. These were the days.
In my youth I had a 4 year subscription to every Marvel action comic (I left out the girlie ones and the westerns) which included number one issue of a LOT of the characters solo series. I had Fantastic Four number 1; I had Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D number 1; I had Dr. Strange number 1 (or whatever the actual title of his mag was). I don’t specifically remember having Spiderman number 1 but I certainly had low numbers.
When I moved out of the house, I left them (it was a pile about 3 feet high – near enough to a meter) and a big stack of 45rpm records in the closet to be reclaimed later. When I got back to reclaim them, Dad had cleaned everything out and dumped it in the landfill.
For some reason he didn’t throw out the flursluggin accordian though. I don’t know what the heck possessed him – maybe it was Dr. Doom.
That is one of the saddest stories I’ve ever read. My heart bleeds.
In my own case, due to life’s changing circumstances, I have had to sell a number books & comics, then bough them again, then sold them again… There are books that I must have bought (in replacement) three times since i was a kid. I’ve been good for the market. 🙂
I have a similar story, except it was DC comics. I had JLA #1. My stack was only about a foot.
Aaaahhh.. The threat of Starro the conqueror… A menace to rival even that of Donald Trump… Although come to think of it, that was in BRAVE & THE BOLD… JLA #1 was either Amazo or Despero, me memory is a bit hazy and I;m too lazy to google it…