Pop up news articles

[Rickrock]

A news article popped up on my computer today (one of many) that said that Americans need $81,000 a year to consider changing jobs. That sounded awfully high to me. So, I figured out that would be over $38 per hour. When I retired I was making just under $18 per hour, but that was just getting by and was 12 years ago. Boy, social security just isn't enough.

 

[Peloso]

Are you sure that wasn't an ad?

At $81,000 a year I wouldn't have to work.

 

[unloadonme]

Did the article say where the $81,000 factoid comes from?

 

[Rickrock]

^ I didn't pay any attention to that.

 

[Rickrock]

I couldn't find the article I read earlier today, but I did find an article by Forbes that said according to a survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York the median minimum salary Americans would need to accept a new job would be $78,645. This is apparently from a survey from July, 2023.

 

[backagain]

It would depend on the profession you are in. 12 years ago, I was making $35 an hour. I am a computer science major.
Also, it depends on your location and cost of living expenses. I live in an expensive area. A 1 bed bedroom in an older building will cost you roughly $2200 a month, newer construction will be in the $3000 range.

 

[Rickrock]

Do you get pop up articles when you are browsing? What surprised or caught your attention?

 

[Rickrock]

Here is another article that caught my attention. This was on idle.slashshot.org/story............

Airline Ticketing System Keeps Mistaking a 101-Year-Old Woman for a 1-Year-Old (bbc.com)117​

Posted by EditorDavid on Monday April 29, 2024 @12:35AM from the flight-risks dept.
Though it's long past Y2K, another date-related bug is still with us, writes Slashdot reader Bruce66423, sharing this report from the BBC.

"A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby, because of an error with an airline's booking system."The problem occurs because American Airlines' systems apparently cannot compute that Patricia, who did not want to share her surname, was born in 1922, rather than 2022.... [O]n one occasion, airport staff did not have transport ready for her inside the terminal as they were expecting a baby who could be carried...

t appears the airport computer system is unable to process a birth date so far in the past — so it defaulted to one 100 years later instead... But she is adamant the IT problems will not put her off flying, and says she is looking forward to her next flight in the autumn. By then she will be 102 — and perhaps by then the airline computers will have caught on to her real age.