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(Washington City Paper)   "One mom posted that she and her husband made $750,000 a year. She made the bulk of it but her husband threatened to kill himself if she quit or reduced her hours, because he couldn't stand to live on anything less"   (washingtoncitypaper.com) divider line
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cretinbob [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2011-01-25 12:41:07 AM  
fark, I could live off $750k over the next 10 years and not know what to do with all of it.
Dude, please go kill yourself.
 
torch
2011-01-25 12:52:36 AM  
Sucks, doesn't it missy? Men have been hearing this shiat for a long time.

/runs
 
Wrong_Intentions
2011-01-25 12:55:50 AM  
I actually already ate some popcorn tonight, so I'm just gonna bookmark this thread here for the ensuing whining, moaning, and sexism, both real and hypocritically imagined.
 
gadian
2011-01-25 1:04:47 AM  
Sounds like its time to wave Buh-bye to that attention whore husband. That website seems a lot like fark, but with the automatic hyper-critical judging and defensiveness of being a parent. Gah. fark you if you judge me by what kind of stroller I use, I don't care.

/actually, don't have a stroller. If the kid is too big to carry, they're big enough to walk.
 
Mentat [TotalFark]
2011-01-25 1:05:14 AM  
That actually sounds like an awesome place to troll.

"I was thinking of entering my toddler in a beauty pageant. Should I make her wear pumps or platforms?"
 
Bathia_Mapes [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2011-01-25 1:12:02 AM  

cretinbob: fark, I could live off $750k over the next 10 years and not know what to do with all of it.
Dude, please go kill yourself.


Exactly.
 
FirstNationalBastard
2011-01-25 1:40:35 AM  

Wrong_Intentions: I actually already ate some popcorn tonight, so I'm just gonna bookmark this thread here for the ensuing whining, moaning, and sexism, both real and hypocritically imagined.


Let me try to get things started...

Good!

It's about time that the broads who biatched for equality have to live like men have been living for ages!

You go, guy!

/good enough?
 
WhyteRaven74
2011-01-25 2:11:19 AM  
The whole town's talking about the Webb boys, the Webb boys....

/a nice old commercial earworm for my fellow Chicagoans
 
Gig103
2011-01-25 2:30:52 AM  
I'm just another poster chiming in that this isn't anything new, except the gender reversal.

CSB time... My wife's friend got into a relationship with someone who was cheating on his controlling and greedy wife. He gets a divorce and promptly takes a huge pay cut to be a teacher like he always wanted. The friend and guy get married, and have a kid. As soon as her FEMA time (12 weeks) are up, my wife's friend decides to be a stay-at-home mom, and the guy was forced to go back into the soul-sucking sales position he resented his first wife for forcing him to stay at.

I give them less than 5 years, if he's not already cheating on her.
 
Petit_Merdeux [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2011-01-25 2:39:41 AM  
Guys, gals; there's a lengthy article if you click on the link to the left of the headline.
 
WhyteRaven74
2011-01-25 2:54:25 AM  
WhyteRaven74: The whole town's talking about the Webb boys, the Webb boys....

/a nice old commercial earworm for my fellow Chicagoans

d'oh wrong thread
 
GreenAdder [TotalFark]
2011-01-25 3:16:35 AM  
This article could be called "reasons to stay the hell away from Washington DC."
 
gothelder
2011-01-25 3:18:54 AM  
Her response should have gone along the line of "Well, make sure you make it happen in such a way that it looks like an accident so the insurance will pay out"

And then at least once a week en-quire on how project "6 feet under" is going.

He will either, find a better job where he can equal or surpass the missus in income, kill himself, quit being an immature little twat-waffle and realize its a partnership not a competition.
 
1nsanilicious
2011-01-25 4:16:25 AM  
I find it hard to believe that a company would pay that kind of money to a woman/guy who:

1. Was that daft in the head that she would stick around with a selfish glut who made self death threats.

2. Would post her salary and income on a retarded website.

Me thinks she is a troll.
 
Mock26
2011-01-25 4:16:49 AM  
Wait a minute, some people are being assholes on the internet? I do NOT believe it!
 
The Ghost of Tom Ace
2011-01-25 4:22:37 AM  
Let's go troll that site and ruin it from the inside. Who's with me?
 
FatherDale
2011-01-25 4:23:14 AM  
Sounds like a pile of people who need to be neutered.
 
The Ghost of Tom Ace
2011-01-25 4:26:12 AM  
I find that the DCUM acronym is surprisingly fitting. These wives' husbands must be completely testosterone depleted.

/OK, that's all I got...but someone had to make a DCUM joke.
 
NicoFinn
2011-01-25 4:31:06 AM  
Damn, DCUM is like FARK for mommies.

The Ghost of Tom Ace: Let's go troll that site and ruin it from the inside. Who's with me?


It's already ruined. Have you read some of the sh*t those evil b*tches are posting?
 
ImFromTheFBI
2011-01-25 4:38:13 AM  
Sounds like the Author has two choices:

* Move out of the DC area so you can raise you kids far far away from self-absorbed, petty rich snobs - OR:
* Grow a pair, and ignore the wealthy jerks, what they may think of your "cheepo" $200 stroller, and raise your children to understand the importance of charity, morality, and that even though money can buy a lot of things, it can't buy you class.
 
antialias
2011-01-25 4:42:03 AM  
The real tragedy is that they will most likely not suffer the pains of their self-absorbed greed...others will.
 
SpaceLord
2011-01-25 4:43:01 AM  
So, the article says they have IT guys that make 300k? What? Most consultanct-worthy guys top out at around 200/hour, and that's only billable hours. Unless they are meaning C-level management, CIO/CTO. And CTO/CIOs are no longer "IT."
 
fanbladesaresharp
2011-01-25 4:50:17 AM  

The Ghost of Tom Ace: I find that the DCUM acronym is surprisingly fitting. These wives' husbands must be completely testosterone depleted.

/OK, that's all I got...but someone had to make a DCUM joke.


Nah. Just change your approach. D....CUM... could also be like D Nuts. Which might also just be D issue.
 
Belatryx
2011-01-25 4:51:47 AM  
So it's fark with actual women?
 
Enormous-Schwanstucker
2011-01-25 4:54:46 AM  
I for one applaud the new heightened standards of the husbands of this country...or not. Won't someone please think of the hubbies?
 
Petit_Merdeux [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2011-01-25 4:59:18 AM  

1nsanilicious: 2. Would post her salary and income on a retarded website.



It is in very bad taste.

Indeed, I would never post my $650,000 a year salary. So tasteless!
 
LavenderWolf
2011-01-25 5:00:40 AM  
Parents who are obsessed with parenting are, I think, the single worst thing to happen to my generation and after. Learn to f*cking let go.
 
Virulency
2011-01-25 5:01:20 AM  
sounds like money they has it.... class and respect not so much...
 
dewihafta
2011-01-25 5:03:13 AM  

GreenAdder: This article could be called "reasons to stay the hell away from Washington DC."


Unfortunately, that mommy competition crap exists all over.

/what does it say about me that I got the more expensive Graco?
 
picturescrazy
2011-01-25 5:05:41 AM  

Petit_Merdeux: 1nsanilicious: 2. Would post her salary and income on a retarded website.


It is in very bad taste.

Indeed, I would never post my $650,000 a year salary. So tasteless!

650k? Don't worry, someday if you work hard you'll be promoted and finally make a livable wage.
 
Mythunderstood
2011-01-25 5:11:50 AM  

dewihafta: GreenAdder: This article could be called "reasons to stay the hell away from Washington DC."

Unfortunately, that mommy competition crap exists all over.

/what does it say about me that I got the more expensive Graco?


Meh. It's still a Graco. The least expensive Mclaren gives you more yuppie mommy points than the most expensive Graco.
 
Mythunderstood
2011-01-25 5:13:32 AM  

Mythunderstood: dewihafta: GreenAdder: This article could be called "reasons to stay the hell away from Washington DC."

Unfortunately, that mommy competition crap exists all over.

/what does it say about me that I got the more expensive Graco?

Meh. It's still a Graco. The least expensive Mclaren gives you more yuppie mommy points than the most expensive Graco.


Maclaren, even.

/Guess who used a sling?
 
GoodOmens
2011-01-25 5:14:29 AM  
Ehh I could see it. One of our subcontractors works for himself and is only part time on the project (he has other projects he's working on). I'm guessing his bill rate is in the 200~400 range.

If he's charging even 30 hours a week he will come close to that figure and unfortunately his type is a dime a dozen in this area....

/Granted he doesn't have benefits, but at that salary range paying 200~300 month for health care is nothing
 
GoodOmens
2011-01-25 5:18:01 AM  
Also - forgot to add - anyone else read the acronym for DC Urban Mom's as D-CUM, or do I have my mind in the gutter?
 
gibbon1
2011-01-25 5:18:37 AM  

Wrong_Intentions: I actually already ate some popcorn tonight, so I'm just gonna bookmark this thread here for the ensuing whining, moaning, and sexism, both real and hypocritically imagined.


Fark that I'm gassing up the Suburban and heading to DC.
 
harlock
2011-01-25 5:21:25 AM  
With salaries around DC being that high, there's only one explanation...your federal tax dollars at play. Whether directly or indirectly profiting, that's probably where a lot of it comes from.
 
Petit_Merdeux [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2011-01-25 5:21:37 AM  

picturescrazy: 650k? Don't worry, someday if you work hard you'll be promoted and finally make a livable wage.


It's okay. We scrape by with that and my wife's $1.2M in income.

I'd quit my job, but then I'd have to let our live-in astrologist go.
 
Brutal Momentum Loss
2011-01-25 5:22:17 AM  
So what?
Let hubby off himself.
No need to share the dough anymore, and the money saved can be spent on the children.

Won't someone think of the children?

/DNRTFA
 
Gdalescrboz
2011-01-25 5:25:18 AM  
welcome to our world ladies, you wanted equality, you got it. I think you are going to be disspointed when you figure out how not super great it is to have to deal with this type of crap
 
Sass-O-Rev
2011-01-25 5:27:18 AM  
Still boggled by the whole "$750,000-a-year" thing. Who needs that kind of money??? Holy crap.
 
James F. Campbell
2011-01-25 5:29:46 AM  

Mentat: That actually sounds like an awesome place to troll.

"I was thinking of entering my toddler in a beauty pageant. Should I make her him wear pumps or platforms?"


Made that ten times more awesome for you.
 
Hawnkee
2011-01-25 5:32:08 AM  
The guy is a scumbag. She should call his bluff.
 
James F. Campbell
2011-01-25 5:32:34 AM  
Also, I don't get it. From my calculations, I could live easily on $1000 a month -- in fact, that would be quite comfortable and allow me to save up a bit.

$750,000 a year? I'm not sure what I'd do with it all besides a few pet projects.

/Then again, I'm not legally bound to a materialistic whore.
 
hobodojo
2011-01-25 5:33:47 AM  
Jesus. Every now and then I think I want to have kids, and then I read about shiat like this. It makes me hug my abdomen and murmur to my eggs "Don't worry, babies. It's ok. Mama won't bring you into the world."

/ It's not a mercy kill if they never live, right?
// Right?!
 
RatMaster999
2011-01-25 5:43:04 AM  
These people and their spawn should be lined up, shot, their homes/belongings/organs sold, and the proceeds given to the poor.

Namely me.
 
fredbox [TotalFark]
2011-01-25 5:47:40 AM  
Reason #523 I'm grateful to have had the vasectomy

/which is nearly as effective as spending evenings on fark
 
sendbillmoney
2011-01-25 5:48:24 AM  

Gig103: As soon as her FEMA time (12 weeks) are up, my wife's friend decides to be a stay-at-home mom, and the guy was forced to go back into the soul-sucking sales position he resented his first wife for forcing him to stay at.


She went to live in one of those Katrina trailers for 12 weeks?
 
INeedAName
2011-01-25 5:48:57 AM  
As someone who used to work in the surround area (Bethesda and such) at a private all girls school I never ran directly into one of these types of parents. We all know they exist, but they aren't as prevalent as they are loud and attention whorey.
 
ifyoulovejesus
2011-01-25 6:09:57 AM  
cocaine is a hell of a drug
 
nostudme
2011-01-25 6:13:59 AM  
Order the flowers.
 
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