[Ipg-smz] :-) So, in exploring GlassDoor.com's resources, etc

[Sharon Fisher]

I had a 1946 two-bedroom house on an acre that I bought in 2002 for $139k
and sold last year for $200k plus $25k from the highway department for a
sidewalk. We bought our four bedroom 2876 sq ft house, built in 2009, six
years ago for $269k and it is now assessed at $415k (Zillow has it at
$392k).

On Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 10:15 AM Matt Heusser via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> I have 4 four bedroom house on a half acre with a two stall carriage house
> built in 1871 and it is only worth 160k. I know Because I tried to sell it
> earlier this year.
>
> Eat your .... heart out ... I think?
>
> Haha only serious.
>
> I live in west Michigan.
>
> —heusser
>
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 11:31 AM Tom Henderson via Ipg-smz <
> ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
>
>> Living in Indiana means that by default, I'm a remote worker because I
>> live in a fly-over state. This is a decided benefit, when you can get a
>> 4bdrm house on an acre of land for under $200K with $2500/yr max
>> property taxes. Shhhhh. Don't tell anybody.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> On 12/24/19 10:26 AM, Christine Hall via Ipg-smz wrote:
>> > So this means that everyone who had a job based in Remote was a Remote
>> > worker long before remote working became a thing?
>> >
>> > Christine Hall
>> > Publisher & Editor
>> > FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
>> > http://fossforce.com
>> >
>> > On 12/24/19 9:40 AM, Sharon Fisher via Ipg-smz wrote:
>> >> I have, in fact, been to Remote, Oregon.
>> >>
>> >> In the 1980s, I was working for infoworld , covering networking.
>> >> There was a company called DCA that made Irma, a Micro mainframe
>> >> gateway.
>> >>
>> >> One day, DCA announced that they were announcing a new remote
>> >> product, and they were going to announce it in Remote, Oregon, and
>> >> invited us all to attend. They'd arrange the transportation.
>> >>
>> >> This caused a quandary at Infoworld, because we weren't supposed to
>> >> accept trips. We finally decided that a day trip to Remote, Oregon
>> >> wasn't exactly a week in the Bahamas and anyway, how else would we
>> >> get there? So I got permission.
>> >>
>> >> So bright and early I went to the airport. They had Learjets from
>> >> both San Jose and San Francisco. There were pastries on the plane.
>> >> There was a phone, and we all called people to tell them we were
>> >> calling from a Learjet.
>> >>
>> >> Remember, this was the mid 1980s.
>> >>
>> >> Then we boarded a bus, got a box lunch of seafood, and traveled the
>> >> rest of the way to Remote, Oregon.
>> >>
>> >> As you might expect, this was a big deal for Remote, Oregon. News
>> >> crews filmed us as we got off the bus. We went to the Remote, Oregon
>> >> general store -- where, as it turns out, the proprietor was named
>> >> Irma -- had the press conference, bought post cards, boarded the bus,
>> >> and went back to the airport.
>> >>
>> >> Whereupon the pilot greeted us with, hey, did you hear? The stock
>> >> market fell 500 points today.
>> >>
>> >> So we flew back to the Bay Area, this time with the DCA executives,
>> >> who were drinking Bloody Marys and wondering how they would pay for
>> >> their kids' college educations.
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 6:04 PM Daniel Dern via Ipg-smz
>> >> <ipg-smz at netpress.org <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>     For a piece of an article I'm doing, I registered... and somehow
>> >> (as I
>> >>     just noticed, a week later), I don't know what I typed in for
>> >> "Company
>> >>     Name," but G/D somehow re-interpreted that as UPS, as in, that big
>> >>     shipping courier company.
>> >>
>> >>     That (I know see) explains some of the otherwise mysterious
>> >> messages or
>> >>     recommendations from GlassDoor over the past week.
>> >>
>> >>     Fixed. I think.
>> >>
>> >>     Well, that's better than LinkedIn's interpreting "Freelance" as a
>> >>     humongous company (last I checked).
>> >>
>> >>     One positive about G/D's profile page, so far: "Location" includes
>> >>
>> >>         Remote (Work from Home) US
>> >>
>> >>     but while G/D does good pattern-matching suggestions, pay
>> >> attention, or
>> >>     you'll end up with a location of
>> >>
>> >>         Remote, OR (US)
>> >>
>> >>     (which does, a quick web check shows, exist, at least.)
>> >>
>> >>     Remotely yrs,
>> >>
>> >>     DPD
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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