HidingUnderCover

ramateshkolian-

I agree with you 100%. Nobody is making a killing off of this business. I personally know camp directors who work EXTREMELY hard on the biggest overnight camp in the city. They are not making a fortune or anything close to it.

Supply and demand. That’s why we believe in capitalism.

Kasha-

Nope, this is and was my one and only screen name.

If you first thought the topic said “Famous Misquotes,” say ‘I.’

Real sugar will kill you faster than replacing it with splenda will, regardless of splenda’s unknown side effects.

How about slice the apples, apple-kugel-style, mix with a bit of flour and cinnamon and lemon juice (in your case, I guess just a sprinkle of sugar and grapefruit juice???). Top with a mixture of bran flakes and peanut butter. Let me know how it goes 😉

Call someone you know in another city (driving distance) and ask them to ask someone there to trade houses with you for a few days. Prepare places for them to go in your city, and they should do the same.

For guitar, there’s http://jewishguitarchords.com/

Yes, and I found out I share my name with a name older not-frum lady lawyer. Nice woman.

Volvie, we’re talking DAY camps here. They do not provide food. They do not provide board. They usually do not provide transportation. I think the problem is not being told how much you’re going to be paid. If $400 a month is agreed upon, then what can you do besides negotiate for more (which no 14 year old would do.) You do realize that $400 a month works out to be something like $3.50 an hour. When we babysit, we get $6-10, and the kids are often sleeping!!

Real life example: I was asked to be a counselor in a day camp, but never gave a reply. I happened to be at the camp on the first day for an errand, where I was given the message “Where are you? Everyone is looking for you! You made a promise you’d work here and now they’re short on staff because you didn’t show up!!” I never made a commitment, I never signed a contract, I was never told how much I’d be paid. I told them this, so they begged me to just stay for the week until they could find a replacement. I very very apprehensively agreed. I was given the title ‘gofer’ which ended up meaning being a fill-in counselor for three days of the week, being a baking counselor for one day of the week (which is literally back braking work) and running errands the last day of the week. Thank g-d the week actually ended. I had to be there at 9am, having finished davening, and I had to deal with obnoxious and bored kids until 4pm. Then I had to help clean up.

After pestering them for my paycheck for three weeks, they made me come in to get it, and wait an hour until they could see me. I got a check for $50. A counselor makes $100 a week, and a gofer who serves as counselor for 4/5 o the time gets $50. 33 hours work, $50. $1.50 an hour.

If you ever run a camp and hire girls, please please please tell them how much you are planning on paying them. Then when you find no one wants to work for you, think about increasing wages.

Here’s what we do, takes 25 minutes:

1. Unplug the keyboard, of course

2. Google a layout of a keyboard and print it, or draw one yourself.

3. Pop out the keys with a knife.

4. Soak the keys in warm soapy water in a big bowl for a few minutes. Swish around.

5. Rinse them and dump into a sieve. Shake around to get out the most water.

6. Put the keys into a big towel and shake it around. Leave it in there for a good 10 minutes.

7. Wipe down keyboard, with knife and damp shmattah.

8. If you have compressed air, that does 50% of the job.

good luck!

Note: You should probably have someone who knows what they are doing help you if you are going to take apart the keyboard so that you don’t permanently damage it.

We dialed our area code-(xxx) 314 1592, and we got the answering machine to our environment minister. What a waste. (we did leave a message, though.)

Wikipedia says some people keep March 4, because 14% of the 3rd month has passed. GOSH why are they getting so technical?!

Gimme an ‘S’

Shindy- I’m sure you can find a mossed that will put your nosh to better use. Perhaps a children’s kiruv program that needs to buy nosh anyway? They usually sell it for pesach and use it throughout the year.

If we get 30 ‘no’s, i’m sure we can figure something out. Exactly. If moderators do stumble upon something inappropriate, they delete it right away. If not, then if three people click ‘report,’ it’s hidden until mods figure out what to do.

Very simple system: 1. Instant posts. 2. Ocassional roaming moderators. 3. Three “report-inappropriate-post”s and the comment is hidden. Sound good?

I found the same thing this year. A lot of people told me ‘I just can’t be bothered- please don’t come.’ But a lot of people did settle with just giving two things- a muffin and grape juice or something like that.

I found that people were doing this on their own this year. Maybe it’s the recession? But people have really toned down…

I totally agree with you. I watched it last night and felt very uncomfortable.

LUV2NA

I hear California has the biggest debt of all the states. I guess no one in NY is famous enough to sign cars ;P

First: The moderators are on top of the actual content of the post. Secondly, the fact that the moderators don’t let you exchange names/email addresses/locations means that it’s not possible for the two to meet. If that’s not good enough, what is?

Don’t you every get a crick in your neck trying to read the screen?

What am I, chopped liver?

I think the conversation may be skewed in the favour of blue shirts, being that everyone here has internet, which means that OF COURSE it’s for work, which means that YOU WORK r”l!!