I was just listening to Rammstein. Not by choice, mind you, although I did find myself rather enjoying the song ("OhneMich") and the video. Rammstein are struggling to climb a scraggly-looking mountain. And when night falls, they light a big kerosene lamp, and sleep in a tent...
Maybe I wasn't enjoying the video as much as the song. Usually, I'm lucky to understand more than a dozen words in a German or Italian song. But this time, the song was so slow and the lyrics so basic that I understood a good third of the lyrics.
I had been listening to/watching TheKooks "Naive". Because it is a cute song, and I fancy the hair, the paleness, and the accent of the lead singer. YahooUK then decided that BritPop and Rammstein complement one another nicely, and played "OhneMich".
My excellent mother today emailed me requesting that I locate for her the USD/GBP (average, I assume) exchange rates for every week of 2005. Says she needs them to complete my taxes. She also ordered me to record the (average?) weekly exchange rates for every week this year.
Of course neither is a difficult thing to do. But using average weekly exchange rates to determine weekly earnings and taxes paid in dollars is a silly thing to do if earnings and taxes are paid monthly. Which mine are. Why not the average monthly exchange rates? Once I'm steadily employed, simply dividing the monthly pay and taxes into weeks is fine and easy. But I've been employed on variable contracts for the past two years. And I'm damned if I'm going to call up my former employer and ask them to send me six months worth of my weekly hours, and then assign the taxes paid in the months to each of the respective weeks, and then convert the GBP into USD according to each of the respective average weekly exchange rates.
It's basic mathematically to do, but unpleasantly time-wasting in the doing, and would surely prove a major pain in my ass. So I refused to do it. That's what H&RBlock is for, not me! I had to do this kind of shite all last year in Nottingham, when I was a B-school student. It came with territory, so I acquiesed. But this year, I am a junior sales assistant in a jewelry store. Filthy watches are my territory, not exchange rates.
Maybe I wasn't enjoying the video as much as the song. Usually, I'm lucky to understand more than a dozen words in a German or Italian song. But this time, the song was so slow and the lyrics so basic that I understood a good third of the lyrics.
I had been listening to/watching TheKooks "Naive". Because it is a cute song, and I fancy the hair, the paleness, and the accent of the lead singer. YahooUK then decided that BritPop and Rammstein complement one another nicely, and played "OhneMich".
My excellent mother today emailed me requesting that I locate for her the USD/GBP (average, I assume) exchange rates for every week of 2005. Says she needs them to complete my taxes. She also ordered me to record the (average?) weekly exchange rates for every week this year.
Of course neither is a difficult thing to do. But using average weekly exchange rates to determine weekly earnings and taxes paid in dollars is a silly thing to do if earnings and taxes are paid monthly. Which mine are. Why not the average monthly exchange rates? Once I'm steadily employed, simply dividing the monthly pay and taxes into weeks is fine and easy. But I've been employed on variable contracts for the past two years. And I'm damned if I'm going to call up my former employer and ask them to send me six months worth of my weekly hours, and then assign the taxes paid in the months to each of the respective weeks, and then convert the GBP into USD according to each of the respective average weekly exchange rates.
It's basic mathematically to do, but unpleasantly time-wasting in the doing, and would surely prove a major pain in my ass. So I refused to do it. That's what H&RBlock is for, not me! I had to do this kind of shite all last year in Nottingham, when I was a B-school student. It came with territory, so I acquiesed. But this year, I am a junior sales assistant in a jewelry store. Filthy watches are my territory, not exchange rates.
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