Well, I like my work, so?

...and apparently I like pigeons too?

/Weeners, read then...then post again

Have you seen the unemployment rate in Germany?

That guy's a sucker. He should have put the money in an illegal tax shelter and run off to Monaco.

"After he was told he had won the jackpot, he said he didn't have time to chat because he would get into trouble with his boss," a lottery spokesman in the western city of Muenster said. Instead, he rushed off to catch a bus to work.

I'm sure he had some details to take care of, such as deciding whether or not he wanted to buy his place of employment.

Actually, after taxes, a 20 million Euro jackpot would be what, about 100 bucks?

--h

2005-03-18 09:23:38 AM branded00

Have you seen the unemployment rate in Germany?

Considering how many Germans would probably kill for his job (scary thought), he could at least be a good citizen and live off his wealth while giving someone else his job.

Ferrari 430 Convertible
Bentley Flying Spur
Castle in Bavaria
Seat on the Board of Direktors for BMW
Condo in Monaco, overlooking the course, and the water.
Sportboat.

I don't think this is strange.

If I won a large sum of money, I would continue working. I'd feel like a useless sack of shiat otherwise.

That and work woul dbe a LOT less stressful.

branded00

Have you seen the unemployment rate in Germany?

Yep.

<sarcasm>
Ain't social democracy great? We ought to try it in Amerika.
</sarcasm>

Ya have to admire the guys work ethic.
/rolls eyes.......


Reminds me of the 21 year old guy, working on an assembly line who was the only winner of a 21 million $ jackpot. When asked, he said he would keep working. Yeah, right....

Clueless people like that don't deserve to win........

20,000,000.00 EUR = 26,566,239.38 USD

My My look at that theres another currency stronger than the USD

/whodda thunk!

Actually, after taxes, a 20 million Euro jackpot would be what, about 100 bucks?

Seen the US dollar? The joke is its closer to 100 million bucks.

> $

I'd keep my job too...social needs.

hdhale Actually, after taxes, a 20 million Euro jackpot would be what, about 100 bucks?

1 Dollar is 0.747775 of a Euro, which means he won $26,570,000. Lucky bugger...

raysun2be:

Reminds me of the 21 year old guy, working on an assembly line who was the only winner of a 21 million $ jackpot. When asked, he said he would keep working. Yeah, right....

Clueless people like that don't deserve to win........

Why- if he likes his job? Maybe this might be a married people vs not argument but I would keep working too, just might get a more enjoyable job.

I submitted the same article yesterday and while my headline was not paticularly funny this one is not all that funny either.

He proably either has a very strong work ethic or was very slow to adapt to the reality of his new situation.

2005-03-18 09:26:24 AM
Programmer Cat

branded00

Have you seen the unemployment rate in Germany?

Yep.


Ain't social democracy great? We ought to try it in Amerika.

Maybe you should. (no sarcamsm)

For one thing is there a world of difference between being unemployed in the US and being unemployed in Germany and for another having a job is different in socialist europe than it is in the US. You also have to remember that you can't simply comapre unemployment rates like this.

Governments like to indulge in creative accounting to make such number look nicer. And the way they do that in the US is different than they do it in Germany. If you looked at the true percentage of people who have no job, you would find that the numbers are much higher and closer together.

2 chicks at once

A man who loves what he does for a living is rich already.

Now that he's worth about $20 million? Even better.

programmer cat:

Ain't social democracy great? We ought to try it in Amerika.


Socialism seems to work fine in Scandanavia...

Unemployment in Uzbekistan is incredibly low (0.15%). Perhaps we should adopt their system?

yeesh

The lottery winners that don't end up broke are the one that keep their current friends, jobs, etc.

It's the fools that try to get new friends, spend all the cash etc. that are in trouble after just a couple of years.

Right Mr. Whitaker?

Those crazy Germans and their work ethic. Thank god I don't work in a country like that or I would have been fired a long time ago.

20,000,000 Euros... Man, at today's exchange rate that's probably something like a trillion dollars.

* Military-issue humvee that I will actually use for OF ROAD driving. ( Hobby! )
* Colonial-style manor just outside of Sydney
* CH-64 Chinook helicopter with bubble-bath and bar on board. Yeah baby!
* Stupid brunette broad that will let me bang her up the arse every hour for living of my wealth.

pigeon-lover?

johnnovak

Socialism seems to work fine in Scandanavia...

Scandinavia != the United States, remember? For one thing, the US is physically bigger, and its population is heterogenous both physically and ideologically. You can't honestly expect a guy in Texas to be genuinely willing to pay taxes to Washington, D.C. to support bums in New York City, can you?

Besides, we already have socialist policies in the US: Social Security, welfare, progressive income taxes (which are utterly corrupt as the rich rightly use any means necessary to legally keep what's theirs). They don't seem to be working too well, mainly because the US is too farking big.

Loki-L

He proably either has a very strong work ethic or was very slow to adapt to the reality of his new situation.

Either that, or he just hasn't had time to give his two weeks' notice yet. Me, I'd be tempted to stay at my job until the end of the year (and help train my replacement), with the proviso that I'd walk out if anybody pissed me off. Having a few million worth of fukk you! money makes life a lot easier.

Programmer Cat:

They don't seem to be working too well, mainly because the US is too farking big

Might be that- definitely a factor. Access to education I think might be the biggest factor and not just University costs. Moving to NJ I was shocked about the energy my US counterparts spent trying to get a house in an area with 'good schools'

Well naturally you'd want to continue working normally untill the cash is actually in your hands. You would be foolish otherwise, particularly if you hadn't checked the ticket yourself yet and were just going off what your local lottery vendor told you.

That said, theres no way in hell I would work after I won 30 million dollars. At least not a real job. Maybe id work my hobbies like a job. Competitive stuff, cause you always need goals, otherwise life is pretty damn boring. *sigh* I want to win the lottery :(

I'd stay at my job long enough to sleep with all the hotties who would be into my funds.

Once again, the rules for winning the lottery (as put forth by myself)

1. Win the lottery (hardest part)
2. Hire a lawyer on retainer and a good financial manager
3. If you can, have your lawyer claim the prize for you so no one knows who you are. This may ameliorate the need to do some of the following steps, it may not. Depends on how stupid you want to be.
4. Sell every piece of real-estate you own, unless it has sentimental value, then transfer it to someone you trust. This way no one can cut themselves or kill someone in your house and sue you (or have the victims family sue you).
5. Get rid of everything you can, or quietly and under the cover of darkness, have it put into storage.
6. Travel. Optimally leave the country. Don't live extravagantly. Just have a good time, see the world.
7. Wait until someone else wins a huge jackpot.
8. Move back, not to your previous residence if possible (if you really like it, use it as a vacation home or something). Move to another part of the country where you aren't really known.
9. Enjoy the rest of your life you bastard. I hope you do something good with it.

Alonjar:

That said, theres no way in hell I would work after I won 30 million dollars. At least not a real job.

A shop would be cool. I used run a computer/games store and if there was no pressure to make money (just not lose it) I could do that for a long time with pleasure.

This is turning into a socialism vs capitalism debate very quickly...

When the salesman, who was not identified by WestLotto, arrived on Thursday to buy his weekly lottery ticket at a shop in the industrial Ruhr area he was told last week's 12-euro ticket that he hadn't bothered to check had won the jackpot.

Well this is just great because when I win the lottery I'm going to, buy everything I can and I, will donate to charity and sometimes maybe I'll even pause for a breath but maybe I'll buy a Ferrari perhaps even a jacuzzi and hey do you like my new tie because I sure, do it's pretty nice maybe you should go buy a lottery ticket you could probably win someday and then you'll have as much hey look at the kitty!

miss niki: Congratulations, you've mastered the calculator. Now try it with Loonies.

I would quit my job and do some traveling. After I got bored with that, I would volunteer somewhere. Back in high school when I had time to volunteer at the homeless shelter and humane society I loved it. Now I have no time. I'd probably go back to school just for the hell of it. Work on a useless degree. Just learn about things I've always wanted to know.

This is all because I don't so much like the line of work I'm in. If I loved my job I'd stay.

I'd go back and not tell anyone I'd won. I'd then be as obnoxious as possible to people and see how far I could push it before I got fired.

...I have never been able to understand the mentality of people who continue to work a job after they win the lottery.

A job and a career are two entirely different concepts in my book. If you want to hang on to your career because you love what you do - fine. ...but a job? A job is what you have to do to pay the bills. You play the lottery so you can win money to pay all the bills, thus eliminating the need for a job, and freeing up your time to find out what you actually love to do, perhaps start a new career... like managing your wealth.

miss niki: Oh and let's not forget:

26,566,239.38 USD = 2,786,013,729.26 Yen.

So America's currency is approximately 104 times "stronger" than Japan's, right?

There's no need to be snide unless you have a real point.

New York has had a few millionaires who THEN won the lottery. I mean if you're already worth a few million bucks what's a few more. Better to keep working.

But honestly I feel for a couple who many years ago won about 2.5 million dollars in the Illinois lottery. They were like 20 years old and it's really not practical to NEVER work again if you are 20 and you just came into about 1.6 million net of taxes. So they both had to keep working. Kinda sucks.

If I won something like that, I'd go in to work with wads and wads of cash and start handing it out. Well, maybe not that obvious, but I'd see to it that my favorite co-workers each got say ten grand in cash to play with. Spread the joy, that makes it more fun. I wouldn't go nuts and give away a significant percentage of my prize, though.

Yes, travelling would be one of the first options, right after I bought a Ford GT or a Ferrari Enzo and drove it around for a bit. Just once I want to experience driving a supercar.

If I had a million dollars... If I had a million dollars...
I'd be rich!

You could technically turn yourself into the ultimate ladies man. My plan would be:

Personal trainer every day
Training at Le Cordon Blue in Tokyo or Paris
Back to the U.S. to work some time in a vineyard
Flip over to working in a brewery
Probably live outside of San Francisco, pickup a few degrees (and a few ladies) at Berkeley or Stanford
Learn to play an instrument (this is like Groundhogs Day)
In addition to gleaning whatever else you can from women about what they want in a guy.

Although the absolute first thing I would, buy a new motorcycle, and just disappear into America for a while.

Should have the Dumbass tag.

If you wanna keep working after winning the lottery start your own business.

wgb423:

A job and a career are two entirely different concepts in my book. If you want to hang on to your career because you love what you do - fine. ...but a job?


Depends- it can be the other way around too. A career somewhat defines you and is a signficant part of your life. A job is a more casual state- you are correct in that it is often because there is no future to it and you are there for needed cash.

The US is more socalist than you dare to think. Some social programs in the US are less strict than those in Northern Europe.

Don't forget that the US has alot of liabilities to war veterans. You don't have that in Scandinavia.

HarveyBrooks: If you wanna keep working after winning the lottery start your own business.

'if you work for yourself, then you boss is a jerk'...

DrZombie: Once again, the rules for winning the lottery (as put forth by myself)


Best Rules buddy!

/Kudos DrZombie!

First thing is I'd create trusts for the kids. Then I'd pay off the mortgage and buy a second home. Then I'd create a foundation to give a portion of it away.

Actually, after taxes, a 20 million Euro jackpot would be what, about 100 bucks?

Are Germans taxed on their lottery winnings? Not everyone is, you know.

I'm sorry, but maybe if the current administration wasn't so quick to support companies that move jobs out of the U.S. we would have lower unemployment. It's getting to where technical jobs aren't paying well anymore because there are so few of them left. So even if you're lucky enough to find a job here it sure doesn't pay like it used to.



/Fondly remembers the much better job market from 1992-2000