67GT390FB
Regular Member
Who gives a darn, so what if it's more than a dollar and since my dividend checks are still good, i could care less what the man makes.
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Everyone Here Have Power?
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Who gives a darn, so what if it's more than a dollar and since my dividend checks are still good, i could care less what the man makes.
Sheriff
Regular Member
It's called envy. I have never made $14 million a year! :lol:
You asked a simple question, I answered it truthfully.
Do you realize 52 weeks x 40 hours is 2080 work hours a year? And $14 million divided by 2080 hours is a $6,730 an hour salary? Nobody on the face of this earth is worth $6,730 an hour, I don't care who they are.
MamabearCali
Regular Member
Shrug---my daddy always told me that a fare is something you pay to take a bus. Life sure ain't fair, but I am happy. I tend to think if you try to go with "thou shalt not covet" and be ambitious yet content then life works out a lot better.
Edited to add.....please don't attack my husband...he can't get your power back on if he is injured. You don't have to make him lemonade, but just get out of their way so they can get everyone back on. :lol:
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67GT390FB
Regular Member
actually his annual compensation is only 1.2 million a year which is only 576.92/hour. The rest of his income is a performance bonus and since Dominion made 14billion in profit last year a bonus of 0.0009% isn't that bad.
Sheriff
Regular Member
I think your figures are off a tad.
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/busin...ter-profit-falls-quake-hurricane--ar-1417414/
"Dominion reported earnings of $392 million, or 69 cents per share, for the period ended Sept. 30, 2011 down from $575 million, or 98 cents per share, a year ago."
If we take a 2011 high of $575 million to $600 million times 4 quarters we're still only at $2.4 billion.
But still............ I envy a $14 million a year salary. :lol:
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Well compared to PepCo, they do a great job of keeping the lights on and fixing them when they go down. So i would say as CEO, he's a bargain at twice the price. And yes, some people are worth that much.
SAvage410
Regular Member
The power went out on Friday at about 22:30 (just outside Falls Church city) and stayed out until about 13:00 Sunday. lots of water weight lost...
I live in Fairfax county, just east of the Fairfax City line. Power, phones, cell service and Internet went out Friday evening. Cell phone started working somewhat on Tuesday. Rest came back on Wednesday afternoon. Looks like several trees came down within about 100 yards of one another, breaking about a half dozen utility poles. They're still working on it and part of the road is still closed, but, for the moment, stuff's working.
Had to laugh. Listening to the battery radio during the outage, seems like the power companies and local government had a hard time keeping a grip on reality. They kept running puplic service spots to the effect of, "if your power is out, go to this web site to see repair status and a list of shelters with power and AC...". Right.
Had to laugh. Listening to the battery radio during the outage, seems like the power companies and local government had a hard time keeping a grip on reality. They kept running puplic service spots to the effect of, "if your power is out, go to this web site to see repair status and a list of shelters with power and AC...". Right.
Dominion was doing that. LMAO:lol:
jmelvin
Founder's Club Member
We lost power Friday night, probably around 9 p.m. as the storm tore through Lynchburg. We were out to dinner when the storm hit and although our restaurant didn't completely lose power, they lost a couple transformers outside that left them down on power. Unfortunately the storm toppled over a large tree onto the cars of several servers, who then likely had no car and no power at home. Fortunately we were only left without power and even then, only until mid-afternoon on Monday.
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half_life1052
Regular Member
I finally regained service at 12:15 today. Five and one half days without power in this heat was a joy. The AC is on dammit right now ;-).
MamabearCali
Regular Member
Chris was out around Charlottesville today patrolling (finding out what is wrong so that the correct crew with the correct supplies shows up). He was telling me about a line he patrolled up and over the side of a mountain, it could not be patrolled by car, but instead he had to walk over the mountain and back again (happens all the time, but this one w apparently very steep). He found a pole snapped in half at such a remote place they will have to helicopter the pole and equipment in. The workers will have to clamber up the mountain like he did. He also found a friendly black bear today too! He always has the best stories from the storms. People are super interesting, animals even more so. He is hoping to be done on SAT so that means most of y'all should be on by then.
half_life1052
Regular Member
Pass on my heartfelt thanks:lol:
Mine too! I don't much care about getting power on (I'm off grid in one place and plenty of backup generation at the other house) but he's doing a needed job.
Hopefully they didn't eat at Bodo's:lol:
MamabearCali
Regular Member
He is not allowed to carry on the job anyway. He does have a pocket knife and pepper spray in his key ring. So that is something.
Yeah, I know. I was joking.
I used to be with the SCC in Energy Regulation so I know what he's going through. I used to wonder how those crews kept on their feet after the first 24 hours.
It's like trying to stack ice cubes. They get a main transformer on and all the cutouts down the line drop because no one will turn anything off and the starting load is popping the safeties.
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Sheriff
Regular Member
Bodo's is not physically capable of serving the Dominion crews for the most part. There's just no parking for the big bucket trucks at the Preston Avenue location or the Emmett Street location. This is probably why Dominion contracted with Wood Grille, they have a very large parking lot. If the guys want to get an order together for Bodo's, I will pick it up and deliver it to them. I figure my Excursion will easily hold about 3,000 bagel sandwiches if I collapse the second and third row seating.
Sheriff
Regular Member
Whoa!!!! In all seriousness, when this storm damage and repairs are finished, Dominion needs to review their policy on this. There's places they don't want to go without being armed. And they don't want to get too far from their trucks without being armed. Had two men attacked by a bear here about a month ago. If they had not been armed, they would be seriously injured or dead now.
http://www.nbc29.com/story/17585961/rabid-bear-attack
