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Post by anneinwa on Jun 29, 2017 1:12:39 GMT
Why is he using his own car? Is the travel an occasional thing or is it a regular part of his job? We don't have enough capital to provide a work vehicle yet. It is construction and he mostly works at the job site (which can vary day to day/week to week depending on length of job. Ideally we try to get all the tools up to the site he would need but occasionally he needs to swing by the shop to pick something up.
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Post by anneinwa on Jun 29, 2017 1:00:52 GMT
His request is more than fair and is expected when driving your own vehicle. My office's policy is that if you are going somewhere besides your main assigned office, you get paid mileage above your typical drive to work. For instance, if you drive six miles to work usually, but have to drive ten to somewhere at the start of the day, you get reimbursed for four miles. If you then go to the office, you get reimbursed for the distance between the two. If I start my day at a location closer than my six mile drive, I do not get reimbursed. Make sense? Ok so I asked this also on another reply. If he has to drive to the job 23 miles from his house (not stopping by the shop), we would pay mileage only on the difference between if he were driving to the shop and on vs straight there? The shop is 13 miles from his house, and the job site is another 19 from the shop.
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Post by anneinwa on Jun 29, 2017 0:58:02 GMT
I am not a business owner, but IMHO an employee should be allowed mileage if he has to use his personal vehicle and gas to travel to job sites away from the home site. If he were an independent contractor then it would be on him. Was this addressed at all in his employment contract? The current IRS rate is $0.535 per mile. Employee contract was basic when we hired him. He is the first employee we have had so we are learning.
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Post by anneinwa on Jun 29, 2017 0:57:15 GMT
It’s fairly standard for employers to reimburse mileage that is above and beyond the normal commute. So whatever he has to drive beyond the mileage between his home and your shop would be reimbursed. AND that’s paid time. I don’t think there are any laws that require you to reimburse mileage, but states most definitely do have laws about when travel time is and is not required to be paid. Be sure you are familiar with the specifics around that for your state. ETA an example: If I had to attend a meeting that was 40 miles round-trip from my home, and my normal commute between my home and office was 10 miles round-trip, I would be reimbursed 30 miles. That’s if I started from home and did not go to my regular office location at all. If I had to go to my regular office and then proceed to the meeting, I would be reimbursed the actual mileage from the office, to the meeting, and back. I get the mileage, and that does make sense, I just need to accept that because it is not uncommon to have to drive 30 miles here to reach a job. Are you saying that 19 miles (regardless of it being from the shop or a fraction of his drive from home) would be paid time as well? Also, if the job is 23 miles from his home, 19 miles from the shop, and the shop is 13 miles from his home, we would reimburse for 6 miles each way if he drove from home?
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Post by anneinwa on Jun 29, 2017 0:34:52 GMT
We are self-employed with one employee. He raised a fuss today asking to start being reimbursed for mileage on jobs that are farther away, like the one he is working on now.
What do we need to consider before implanting or not implementing this? Below are just some ramblings because maybe there is something I am not thinking about. I do plan on contacting my tax accountant once we have thought through this more.
Currently, this job is 19 miles away from home base...aka the shop. Currently if he needs to come here first and pick up tools, his clock-in time starts when he gets the tools and then continues to the job site. Same if he needs to pick up materials at a store. In this case he would not be paid mileage on top of hourly pay.
The job he starts tomorrow is 6 miles from his house, 7 from the shop. He has said that is close enough, no reimbursement needed.
I am troubled with him asking for 19 miles one way (23 miles from his house). Is this a fair request?
If we were to set something up I am thinking the best way would be based on a radius, would mileage be paid for anything beyond that radius, or for the full amount? Let's say we set up a 15 mile radius from the shop, would he be reimbursed the full 19, or just the additional 4 each way?
Anything else to consider? Not too worried about what might be needed to retain the employee, but want to make sure we think this through and cover all the bases before making a decision.
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Post by anneinwa on Jun 14, 2017 23:34:29 GMT
I've never iced before practice to avoid an injury. Is this a thing? Don't want to ice before the practice but figure out what time we need between last icing and practice time so not to cause more damage.
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Post by anneinwa on Jun 14, 2017 23:32:44 GMT
Haven't seen a doctor yet. She says this has happened before and gone away. Only started last night and my assumption is it's a result of extra practices. Doctor visit will happen if it doesn't go away.
Not so much icing to avoid injury but icing til it feels til it feels better. Taking it easy at practice but still using the arm.
I do know you don't want to ice just before using the muscle, can cause more damage, but wasn't sure what a safe time before to do it.
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Post by anneinwa on Jun 14, 2017 21:01:24 GMT
My main question is how long before a sports activity can you safely ice and not risk further injury? I know you have to be careful but if we are icing after practice and in the morning, I'm wondering what time an afternoon icing would be ok if practice is in the evening?
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Post by anneinwa on Jun 7, 2017 15:07:25 GMT
While a troponin test is pretty much the gold standard for testing for an MI, there are some causes for an elevation in the trop that are not cardiac related. An elevation in troponin can show up in the blood for up to about a week. After a week, it might be elevated but it may be on the way down from where the patient started. The peak with occur within about 24 hours. This is why the patient will have several blood draws throughout the day. We are also looking at EKG changes and an echo can also help determine any damage in the heart but may not always be 100% in determining an MI. The troponins could've been elevated simply because of heart failure. It's a vicious circle. Did she go into failure because of the MI or does she have a history of it? With the dementia and assuming, unable to provide accurate history, it's very difficult to diagnose sometimes. ETA: so what I'm saying is...the physician could have ordered those cardiac markers and thought they were elevated based in her heart failure, until echo and EKG confirmed MI. She just had a pace maker put in in April. We were working with a cardiologist due to bradycardia for over a year and also found she was in a fib with pauses. This was about a year -year and a half. And they waited until until the benefits of the pace maker out weighed the risks with her. Aside from these issues nothing else was ever said about her heart (and I am primary caregiver when it comes to medical so wasn't like she wasn't passing information on).
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Post by anneinwa on Jun 6, 2017 23:06:04 GMT
Ok thanks. Figured it was a long shot. In the end it doesn't really matter but I am curious when it happened. CT was done the first visit (they wanted X-ray but I asked for CT to look at something else at same time so I didn't have to take her out the next week for an ultrasound. They did a ekg the second visit but not the first time. It is likely the the heart attack occurred after this EKG. Heart attacks are usually noticeable on an EKG. I think the ekg was ordered after they saw something on the X-ray and the echo was done the next day by the time I got back to the hospital. She went in for one issue and was admitted for CHF suspicion I am assuming based on X-ray and ekg?
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Post by anneinwa on Jun 6, 2017 21:30:25 GMT
Bloodwork would not show a heart attack is coming. The markers used are proteins released by damaged muscle tissue. An EKG would show ischemia (narrowed blood flow) or infarction (blocked blood flow with heart muscle damage). Serial troponins are blood tests that would show a myocardial infarction as/after it's happening, coupled with EKG changes. You'd have to know troponin levels for both visits, as well as what the EKGs showed, interpreted by someone knowledgeable--not just what the machine predicts and prints. ETA troponin is not the only marker used, but it is the most specific to myocardial (heart muscle) tissue. It will start to rise about 2 hours after a heart attack and is usually measured on admit for chest pain, again in 2 hours, sometimes in 2 more hours, and usually every 8 hours x 3. If she came in for something totally unrelated it's unlikely that any cardiac markers were drawn. Troponins usually peak in 24 hrs but can stay elevated for a week or two. You have to have more than one drawn to see the rise and fall pattern to know about when the onset was, if the heart attack was silent. So the Troponin level might have shown something if it happened between Monday and Thursday but they either didn't test it or it happened long enough before that it didn't show anything.
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Post by anneinwa on Jun 6, 2017 21:27:50 GMT
Ok thanks. Figured it was a long shot.
In the end it doesn't really matter but I am curious when it happened.
CT was done the first visit (they wanted X-ray but I asked for CT to look at something else at same time so I didn't have to take her out the next week for an ultrasound.
They did a ekg the second visit but not the first time.
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Post by anneinwa on Jun 6, 2017 18:52:35 GMT
Answers here really won't do anything but either settle questions I have or cause more.
During a recent hospital stay we found out my MIL had a major heart attack sometime in the past week to month. Due to her dementia they said it's not surprising no one noticed.
She was in the ER twice within a week (Monday and Thursday) and was admitted the second time. Both visits were unrelated to heart problems but she was admitted due to possible CHF based on something they saw on the X-ray. An echo showed the heart attack evidence.
Would blood work from either ER visit show whether a heart attack was coming or whether it had happened? How many days (or is it just hours) would the evidence be in the blood?
Am curious whether it could have happened between those two visits because something was really off when we met her at the hospital Thursday. As my husband said after seeing her 'something is really different this time.'
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Post by anneinwa on May 18, 2017 2:11:57 GMT
It does look like it'll be cute. Zoe Perry, the actress playing Sheldon's mom is the real-life daughter of Laurie Metcalf, who plays Sheldon's mom on Big Bang Theory. Crazy, right? I saw that. Thought it was amazing they filled the role to sound so much hike Laurie's character. Makes more sense now.
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Post by anneinwa on May 15, 2017 16:08:43 GMT
Try using lookup tables within your function. I have a report setup where I need to put in the name of the employee. I am fed their employee ID number from a mainframe generated report that I download into excel. I then use lookup tables to fill in the employee's names. Adding this to consider second.. we only have one employee so guessing this will be helpful when we hire a second or more?
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Post by anneinwa on May 15, 2017 15:48:27 GMT
How many codes are there? If there are a lot you should use vlookup right now 7, but I will probably be adding to bring our cost down.
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Post by anneinwa on May 15, 2017 15:24:04 GMT
Thanks for this feedback... I know almost squat about tables and these programs but can learn but need a push where to start... Now I have something to search and see where it leads me.
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Post by anneinwa on May 15, 2017 15:01:43 GMT
Hoping someone can point me in the right direction if what I want is possible.
I am trying to figure out how to streamline my time when doing timecards each week when it comes to computing Worker's comp.
Currently I use Numbers (Apple) and each line consists of a class code, hours works, employee withholding rate, amount to be withheld, employer contribution rate, and contribution amount. I plug the numbers in to keep it organized/less error, but use a calculator to figure out the amounts to contribute/withhold.
I am guessing the should be a way to set it up so that the program does this for me? If so, is there a way that if I plug in the class code, it would autofill the contribution/withholding rates too?
Anne
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Post by anneinwa on Apr 9, 2017 5:21:52 GMT
I recommend the dharma trading company dyes too. You bed soda ash, the procion dyes and urea. They sell a kit but you can buy colors a la carte. I'm just getting ready to dye 30-50 shirts at school and my tips are 100% cotton, washed first, soda ash soak, use a lot of dye, let it sit at least 24 hours in a bag to soak in, rinse by hand until water runs clear, do not wash too many shirts at once. Dh convinced me our washer has a great rinse cycle but not great enough, those shirts had dye transfer. I hand rinsed after that and the shirts stayed white in the white areas. Don't bother with other dye it won't be nearly as brilliant. What do you do once the water runs clear? Then wash with no issues?
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Post by anneinwa on Apr 9, 2017 3:09:29 GMT
I think it depends on what you mean by professional and if the issues I am having are user caused (most likely). Now that I can I will add photos. To show you what I was satisfied with and then when my stomach dropped. Same dye job, just washed 1/2 of them . The top ones are the 6-7 that are left without being washed. (Ideally all the lighter colors in top photo would still be white). RIT dye wasn't meant for tie dying. It is formulated for dying all of one garment one color. It will bleed. If you want to tie dye with some parts remaining white - what I would call professional results - you will need to use better dye and prep your 100% cotton shirts with a soda ash wash. OK, getting ready to place an order anyways. I want white, and liked the look with the white, and don't have much hope on the other shirts... Since you have used them... We are doing three colors, 14 shirts averaging adult small/medium. The website says 2 oz each color (4 oz for the blue). Does that sound accurate? I have also added the soda ash, the urea, and the prewash/after wash soap. Want to make sure I do this right since I can't just run down the street to get more.
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Post by anneinwa on Apr 9, 2017 2:50:26 GMT
I seem to recall us soaking them in vinegar overnight or something? I haven't done them in about 20 years though either. Gal at Joanns mentioned soaking in vinegar too...
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Post by anneinwa on Apr 9, 2017 2:22:42 GMT
Ok thank you! The shirts as long as they are 100% Cotten will be ok from joanns (will see how much more shipping is form the website). I know for further projects, I will go that route. Hoping I can Save what I have left. I'll find out soon.
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Post by anneinwa on Apr 9, 2017 2:13:49 GMT
I think it depends on what you mean by professional and if the issues I am having are user caused (most likely). Now that I can I will add photos. To show you what I was satisfied with and then when my stomach dropped. Same dye job, just washed 1/2 of them . The top ones are the 6-7 that are left without being washed. (Ideally all the lighter colors in top photo would still be white).
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Post by anneinwa on Apr 9, 2017 1:43:07 GMT
Have you ordered through them before? And this is a btter option for dye? Planning on reading more on their site once I can on a larger device but at quick glance pricing is comparable if not better than joanns with a coupon. Don't know about shopping times or cost. I don't dye. But my daughter dyes a lot of her own fabrics for projects. She gets all of her supplies from Dharma (company in the link) She doesn't mess with TUlip or Ritz. Different fabrics take different dyes. Polyester won't take dye at all. It has to be dyed while it is still a chemical soup waiting to be made into thread. Thank you!
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Post by anneinwa on Apr 9, 2017 1:22:03 GMT
Not for tie dye that you want to last! Tulip is better, especially if you add a soda ash rinse first. Eta: Here is a great linkHave you ordered through them before? And this is a btter option for dye? Planning on reading more on their site once I can on a larger device but at quick glance pricing is comparable if not better than joanns with a coupon. Don't know about shopping times or cost.
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Post by anneinwa on Apr 9, 2017 0:50:50 GMT
These are practice shirts for the girls so as long as they last the season I will be happy. Picked up more Rit die because I am hoping to salvage the ones I have and only re-dye 6-7.
Will dye one for me tonight using dye that is left and use new methods for sitting/rinsing tomorrow and see what happens. If it fails I might just refund their $7 or pass onto another parent lol
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Post by anneinwa on Apr 9, 2017 0:33:22 GMT
The tulip dye kits aren't going to ever yield the same results as "real" tie-dye dyes and chemicals. What about Rit dye?
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Post by anneinwa on Apr 9, 2017 0:21:48 GMT
shirts we're 100% cotton, pretty sure. Bought at Joanns. Did not do a rinse first, I'll look for it when I am picking up more shirts and dye. Ash soda is needed to have the colors actually stick! Do not skip this. I can't remember whether it is Michael's or Joann's, but one of them sells t-shirts for tie-dying that have polyester in them and they won't hold the dye. It drove me nuts when I was dying regularly. Ok will see if I can find it. On way back to joanns now. Have die left over from earlier so will wash a shirt for me, follow different directions and see what happens before I start the teams shirts. If I can save the 7 I have I will. They aren't horrible lol I just know how good they looked with the white.
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Post by anneinwa on Apr 8, 2017 23:56:39 GMT
You also need to use 100% cotton shirts. Are you using a rinse in a rinse of ash soda first? shirts we're 100% cotton, pretty sure. Bought at Joanns. Did not do a rinse first, I'll look for it when I am picking up more shirts and dye.
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Post by anneinwa on Apr 8, 2017 23:54:47 GMT
Most important when doing tyedye Is to wash the shirts you're using first. If you try and use brand new t shirts from package the dye either doesn't take, or you have to soak it forever. That I did do! Was thrilled with how they looked til I rinsed the first couple. They still looked ok just lost the white and realized I could either stop and figure out why but wanted all them to look the same.
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