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They also have the best commercials, IMHO.
/ravi
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Agreed - I get a live person within a ring or two that actually speaks English and is very pleasant to talk with. Great customer service!
Marc
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I dropped them for Liberty Mutual - cheaper. Given a chance, some years later, to get me back with teaser rates, Geico didn't even match Liberty Mutual.
"Hurricane" Sandy: Liberty paid me in a couple of weeks - my father's Geico took well over a month along with several visits to their little emergency-trailers until they got it straight. I was there for all of it.
As for the commercials: cute -> uh uh -> enough. Maybe if they advertised less and used the money to lower their rates?
FWIW: I hate Allstate.
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I've been using Liberty Mutual for the last dozenish years and have never been disappointed in the quality of their service and price. My parents have been insuring their cars with LM for at least 20 years (probably a lot longer); and moved their home insurance over after having problems with their prior company for that a half dozenish years ago.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Karel Čapek wrote: Oh, and cheaper than everyone else.
I guess not for everyone I had them for a while until I found the one I use now which is 1/2 the price Geico charged.
I'm retired, I've had one ticket in 45 years of driving and no accidents. It should be pretty freaken cheap!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Looks like I might be trying my hand at a bit of wordpress plugin development. Anybody done this before? How is it? Awesome? Horrible?
How was the learning curve? And do you have control over URL routing etc the same way you do in MVC?
Cheers
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I've made / modified custom WP themes before, but never developed my own plug-in for it. From that standpoint, I know the architecture wasn't bad. Can't say it's spectacular either, but not bad. However, there is plenty of documentation online (thank you Google) to make the mojo happen relatively easy enough, with a theme at least.
Jeremy Falcon
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Wordpress plugin development is relatively straightforward depending on what you are doing. There is a decent api for managing settings, custom post types and the like. I haven't written any that add extra public pages, I usually do those in themes.
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So, as some of you may recall, I am now an employee rather a contractor (same organization).
This commenced on Dec 22 2014.
So
Week 1: Mon, Tue full days; Wed early off; Thur, Fri: closed
Week 2: Mon, Tue full days; Wed early off; Thur closed.; Fri early off
Counts as ten paid days!
Damn - so this is what it's like to work for a living?
If only I had known . . .
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I can beat that... Starting December 22...
Week 1: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri... Poolside on vacation in Florida
Week 2: Mon, Tue full days, Wed early off, Thur closed, Fri full day.
And that was ten paid days 
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Perhaps you miss the point:
This is my first two weeks as an employee.
I worked roughly 6 of ten days for ten days pay.
I didn't use any vacation or other personal leave.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I'm aware. I just had to counter your gloating somehow, because I didn't get to go home early on Friday 
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Quote: Damn - so this is what it's like to work for a living?
Enjoy the good timing - perhaps (if in America), you're like a lot of us here, however, in that our next company paid holiday is the last Monday in May (Memorial Day), so there's nearly five months with nary a day off.
"Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses." - Arthur C. Clarke
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You don't get Presidents' day next month?
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Well, if you expect every week to be Christmas and New Years, you're in for a big disappointment.
Well, actually, you're in for a big disappointment regardless. 
Marc
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Counts as ten paid days!
... But when you get your salary slip, they'll feel like unpaid days again.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well, as a contractor I had to fill out the ever-popular SEP (Self Employment Tax), and prepay my taxes quarterly. The pain is much sharper when you consciously send off that money rather than have it slipped out of the pile before you ever really see it.
I'd say "all the same in the end" - except I don't have to fill out all the business taxes (after FY2014) before I can begin my own and my total take-home will be increased by the SEP I don't have to pay. They let me keep the hours I set up for myself.
All considered well in advance. (That is (or should be) what we do for a living).
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Well this is going to piss you off! I am a contractor and I get holiday pay, 22/12 - 4/1 spent in Cairns with the family without using any vacation days!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Nah - doesn't piss me off.
If someone gives me a doughnut I don't complain about the whole in the middle. If someone else is given a bigger doughnut, that doesn't diminish my gift.
And the biggest and best 'besides': I have fun coding and solving problems. In reality, I'm paid to play for a living . . . and I appreciate it.
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I'm always astonished that they pay me to have such fun.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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All counted in the Cost To Company. There are many extremely 'packed' months without a single holiday. These months kind of compensate for those.
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Can't begin to say how poor the customer service is. Appalling doesn't even touch it. Waited 45 minutes to get connected and the woman hung up saying she couldn't hear me. Got through after another 45 minutes to solve a truly trivial issue. Yuk! 
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Karel Čapek wrote: woman hung up saying she couldn't hear me.
It's not the bank, although they do suck, it's the customer service. Funny though, most of the customer service is done in other countries these days, by people named Fred, Mike, and Nancy.
Weird.
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Customer server can be varied at a company. I recently had to send one of my kids' Nintendo 3DS back for repair. I filled out the forms online and it appeared to have succeeded, but I never got the mailing label. I called support. The person was polite, but next to useless. She said the claim had been rejected (their web site didn't relay this), said she'd changed something and to try again. I filled out the form again, same result.
Next morning, I called their support again. This time I was assisted by a marvelous support person. She was friendly, polite and knew what she was doing. She pulled the logs from the transaction and figured out that somehow two accounts had been created for my email and it was causing the failure. She deleted the old accounts and created a new one and everything worked. She told me each step as she went through it and verified all the information. Since some steps took a minute, we had a pleasant conversation.
Nintendo said it would take up to three weeks. It took exactly a week (turn around was 24 hours once the unit arrived AND they replaced the screen cover as well as the case. Needless to say, it left me rather impressed.)
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