Everyone makes mistakes. That’s why forgiveness is so common. We know how hard things can be, so as long as someone is willing to apologize, things are usually okay.
But some things just aren’t forgivable, y’all. And then people start to get fired.
When it comes to the food we put in our bodies, McDonald’s is far from the healthiest choice. That said, it’s cheap, it’s easy, and most of us are going to end up there every once in a while, good intentions be damned. So, the next time you find yourself under the golden arches, why not use these hacks to make the experience as tasty as possible?
Seriously, even employees might not have thought of some of these hacks – though I bet they wish they would have!
The cost of childcare for one child tops $10,000 a year nationwide. This is despite the fact that early childcare educators – the people who staff childcare and preschools across the country – barely make more than the national average minimum wage ($11-$15/hr),
It’s easy to get angry about how much it costs to leave your child with someone responsible while you go to work, but if we break down the income and expenses, the truth is that no one is really winning in the current system.
We’ve shared a video below that was put together by the national advocacy group Child Care Aware of America that reveals how the numbers may seem crazy, but really aren’t. In their hypothetical child care center there are 40 full-time children enrolled for 10 hours a day, with each family paying $10k/year per child, meaning the center starts the year with a budget of $400,000…which seems like a lot more than it really is.
First, they’ve got to pay the basics of rent, utilities, and maintenance, which adds up to around 12% of their budget, or $48,000.
Church basements and people’s homes offer the lowest overhead, which leaves more cash for the other necessities on this list, but often parents prefer centers that are located centrally to high-traffic areas on their way to work.
Next up, classroom materials, food, and administrative costs – 23% of the budget, or $92,000.
Parents want to leave their child in a nice, clean classroom that provides age and developmentally-appropriate toys, snacks and/or lunches. This category also includes insurance, licensing, and accreditation fees, plus staff training and continuing education, all of which are necessary evils.
You’ve got to pay your staff, and it eats up 65% of the budget, or around $260,000 a year.
Regulations require a certain number of workers per child, and taking care of babies and toddlers all day requires a lot of eyes and hands. The base ratio is one teacher for every three infants, and one teacher for every four children 1-4 years old.
In the example in the video, the salaries are divvied up between a director ($22/hr), three lead teachers for each of the three classrooms ($13/hr) and six assistant teachers scraping the bottom of the barrel at $10.50/hr. And that’s a minimum.
This doesn’t include medical benefits or paid vacations, incidentally.
A kindergarten teacher – responsible for the education of children just one or two years older – makes an average of $36,000 more a year, and receives retirement, medical, and vacation benefits.
Right now, there doesn’t seem to be a good answer to the problem, though some states are working to provide at least one or two years of publicly-funded preschool. Offering that across the country is a far off prospect, however, and maybe a pipe dream.
After watching the video below and checking out the numbers, you’ll see that the people caring for your child are doing their best with very little.
So maybe cut them some slack, no matter how much your wallet is hurting at the end of the month.
We’ve all got problems, they just get different with the more money you have. Below are 15 problems that might not look like problems if you aren’t swimming in your dough like Scrooge McDuck.
But hey. We’ve all got our crosses to bear.
#15. Too many.
“Too many bottles of this wine we can’t pronounce Too many bowls of that green, no Lucky Charms The maids come around too much Parents ain’t around enough Too many joy rides in daddy’s Jaguar Too many white lies and white lines Super rich kids with nothing but loose ends Super rich kids with nothing but fake friends.”
#14. Never knowing.
“Never knowing if others are “just in it for the money””
#13. Devastating personal cost.
“They have to, likely at devastating personal cost, donate to and help elect the most corrupt people on the planet. Otherwise, they might end up with a pol who makes them not pollute or sell stuff that is safe.”
#12. Somehow compensates.
“1.) You will never know who is in your life for you, and who is in your life because you have money, including your significant other. There will always be a nagging doubt.
2.) Many people hate you because you’re rich, and that hurts.
3.) Many people discount your very real problems, anxieties, depression, etc because they think having lots of money somehow makes you immune to them, or somehow compensates.
4.) People don’t respect your things, because “you can just buy another one”. This happens with all sorts of “hangers-on”.
5.) People expect you to pay for their shit, when they’ve no right to expect that at all. Go hang out with a group some night, and yeah, you’ll be footing the bill.
6.) People automatically assume your life is perfect and cannot imagine that you could ever have problems or pressures just like they do.
7.) You walk around insanely conscious of how you’re coming across, all the time. If you do one thing even slightly wrong, no one considers that it might be out of social awkwardness, but instead they chock it up to you being a “rich asshole.” This goes hand-in-hand with being very careful to not drive too nice a car, or show off your cool stuff. Have a sweet boat? People think that’s cool. Be rich and have a sweet boat? You’re a rich, flashy asshole showing off.
8.) You’re probably rich because you’re a workaholic and struggle with work/life balance.
None of this is meant to make it sound like rich folk have it bad, necessarily, but having money can’t solve everything.”
#11. FFS.
“Gold sprinkles all over you food ffs.”
#10. Not enough arms.
“Not enough arms to carry all their hundred dollar bills.”
#9. Experience.
“Based on my own experience:
Ensuring that what you have is “working hard” enough. Is this investment worth it? Should I stay in for the long haul/ride it out, or jump to something potentially better?
Hiding your wealth from friends and family, who may become resentful at your success our your perceived lack of charity. The people in my life know I’m financially comfortable, but if they knew the whole truth, it could get very uncomfortable.
Fishing out scams from people who present you with investment opportunities.”
#8. Unions and stuff.
“Tfw your wage slaves start to unionize so you export their jobs to starving children in Cambodia.”
#7. It blends with the cabinets.
“Finding the fridge while wasted bc it blends with the cabinets.”
#6. Your depression.
“Feeling like your depression isn’t justified.”
#5. Them for them.
“They never know if someone really loves them for them.”
#4. Resentful people.
“Resentful people when they show off their wealth. It’s no joke, a friend took me for a ride in his Lamborghini, people at stop lights and on the street were insulting him for no reason. They were calling him a capitalist pig, chanting to crash, one of them said he was the problem with the country. He says things like that happen every time he goes downtown and he’s used to it.”
#3. It’s a real problem.
“Where to hide the dead bodies.”
#2. Social stress.
“So I don’t consider myself “rich” but my wife and I both are within the 95th percentile of income in the US. I grew up poor by middle class standards. Our rent was a week or more late, lived off white bread and peanut butter, I wore my dad’s old shirts to school, and my brother would wear the ones I didn’t.
One major thing I noticed was that as the stress of not paying your bills went away, social stress replaced it. all the politics in middle and high school it get worse as your wealth increases. People buck for different types of leverage in different ways for different motivations.”
It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a timeless Halloween classic. Despite the facts that I never really got into Peanuts and kind of think most of the kids are horrible bullies to Charlie Brown, I still watch it every year without fail. Heck, I’ll probably make my son watch it, too – at least as long as his grandfather has anything to say about it!
If this sounds like your childhood – or adulthood – then you might be interested in these 7 fun facts about the special!
#7. The voice of Violet puked after every recording session.
For many Peanuts specials, children were used to voice the characters instead of adults. Anne Altieri, the voice of both Violet and Frieda, was so anxious that she threw up every time she had finished a session.
Schulz told the Schenectady Gazette in 1968 that he’d received letters from academics asking where the story of the Great Pumpkin had originated. Schulz reportedly told them to broach the topic with Linus instead.
The Great Pumpkin was conceived as a metaphor for the hope and disappointment associated with Santa Clause – Schulz was particularly concerned with the children whose parents could only afford small or scant gifts, despite their being “good” all year long.
#2. It was the first time we saw Lucy snatch the football from Charlie Brown.
…at least in animated form. Schulz, producer Lee Mendelson, and director Bill Melendez were discussing how Lucy’s habit of pulling the football away from Charlie Brown had never been seen in animation and thought they would give it a try. The same went for Snoopy’s World War I Flying Ace.
Both scenes, as you know, went over quite well.
#1. The show’s composer was found naked by police.
Composer Vince Guaraldi locked himself out of his house naked after a shower, having heard noises and gone to investigate. Police arrived to find him climbing a ladder to his second-floor window, and when he shouted, “Don’t shoot, I’m the Great Pumpkin,” they did not exactly understand the humor.
The ’90s and ’00s were totally bangin’…and if anyone disagrees, then they probably weren’t a kid during that time. So, if you want to reconnect with your childhood through some photos that’ll make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, scroll through the list below!
1. The Russian roulette that was renting from your neighborhood video store
Will the movie you’ve been waiting weeks to see be available? Did you REWIND??
