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I'm just curious what you guys would do in this situation.

I work weekends at a grocery store in MA.  Minimum wage in MA is $12.75/hr.  Next year it will go up to $13.50.

Our state mandate for Sunday is time and a third.  It will stay at time and a third for next year.  However, our store has kept ime and a half for 2020.  I have tried to work as much as I can on Sundays this year.

This coming Sunday, I will definitely work, as I don't see Miami beating the Chiefs (sorry, that's just my opinion).  However, after that is a HUGE game against the Patriots. 

I have a had a really good year this year at both my jobs.

If you were in my situation would you work the full day Sunday for the money, or work part of the day and watch the game?



 

As someone who used to work every Sunday working retail, I am a much happier man watching football on Sundays.

Also your opinion on the Chiefs stinks, we match up very well with them.  If the Chiefs do win, it'll be because of their defense, not their offense.

If you reeeeeally want to make those fat stacks, you should work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for at least another year...with no TDMMC posting breaks.

Do you have options to watch the game on DVR delay?  And if so, do you have the ability to keep from finding out the result?  Also, would it just be watching the game or would you be watching with a friend or something -- is it a social event or just you by yourself?

Is there anyway the game gets flexed into SNF?  The current game scheduled for SNF is garbage (SF @ Dallas).

Since it is the Patriots, I probably would not be able to avoid finding out the result even if I taped it, being that I live and work in MA.  One of my coworkers is a guy younger than me who I suspect is on the spectrum, like I am.  He always likes to update me about the games.   

I work my main job, healthcare, during the week.  I COULD not work on Sunday, but I choose to because of the money and time and a half

That would be unhealthy

The SNF game this week is PIT @ BUF (and it's too late to flex to KC @ MIA, not that NBC would want to).  SF @ DAL is the week after, and the normal deadline to flex it would be today; there's been no announcement, and I don't think there will be.

There are only two games on the schedule that week that could feature two teams with winning records:

- KC @ NO (CBS would be crazy not to use their option to protect one game per week here)
- NE @ MIA

Literally every other matchup will definitely have at least one team with a losing record, and if NE loses at LAR next week, this game will too.  So given the poor selection, it seems likely that NBC will stick with the automatic draw of the Cowboys, even if they suck this season.

Just read that Cleveland at the Giants is replacing SF@DAL.  Sorry, but no team from the NFC East deserves to play in prime time this year.

Well then, with all that info, I think you need to personally decide based on your interest in watching live football vs. your need for the money.

I get to watch every Dolphins game because I live in Miami -- if it's a one-off, I don't mind missing a game at this stage in my life.   And that's especially because I watch the games alone since there's a pandemic and I'm not seeing my friends.

As a regular thing, though, no -- I'd probably watch the game.  Time and a half is great, but only if it's temporary.  You work to be able to live and enjoy things.  If you then skip the things you enjoy to just work more, what's the point.

I guess now that Miami's playoff chances are down to virtually zero, I should take the money

You should really try to work on your negative outlook on everything. That's the kind of thing that can suck the joy out of life. If you can channel your negativity to really do something to improve your situation (and then actually APPRECIATE it afterwards, similar to what Dave said above), then all power to you, but for things you cannot change, there would seem to be very little value in a constant negative outlook.

http://www.playoffstatus.com/nfl/nflpostseasonprob.html
https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/nfl/playoff-odds

Those two sites give us a 32% and 46% chance of making the playoffs, respectively.

Hardly "virtually zero" and if you'd told me before the season that the Dolphins would be in with somewhere between a third and even odds of making the playoffs in mid December, I would've been thrilled.

You are seriously the worst.  This has been an amazing season and you've done nothing but bitch and moan the entire time.  You have to be the worst Dolphins fan on the planet.  Do us all a favor, go root for another team.

This from the person who roots for results that hurt Miami's playoff chances?

twenty sixteen was amazing
twenty oh eight was amazing.

This is not amazing yet.  It still has a chance to be, but a small one.

Back to the original post, I've been trying to get the store to tell me if they are keeping time and half next year, meaning Sunday pay would be twenty dollars an hour.  No luck yet

Having been a fan of sports for most of my life, you can't find happiness only through winning and losing.  Only one team wins it all.  You have to find enjoyment game to game, through the experiences, watching your team grow, making predictions, occasionally winning a game you shouldn't, watching from play to play instead of game to game.

Also, all of these teams are closer in talent than you think.

This is still the NFL and you can literally win any game you're in.  To call the season over right now is kinda crazy.  I mean...it's over right now as much as before the first game was played -- we're obviously not the best team in the league going to win the Super Bowl, so what's the point of any of it, right?  You knew that before we took the first snap of the season, that we weren't going to be champions, yet, somehow you were still interested.  Extrapolate that out to find enjoyment based on the current circumstances.

One of my favorite games I've ever seen was when we beat the Ravens in OT to get the lone win of the season.  It's all about measuring expectations, finding growth from where you are, and ultimately understanding that this is, above all else, entertainment. 

I was the lone Dolphins fan in a crowded sports bar, and when Greg Camarillo got that TD, everyone knew it because of how loud I was lol.  I had other teams fans clapping and patting me on the back.  We were so bad, but it was a memorable game.

Not to sound like a total weirdo, but I cried.  That was a special year.  TDMMC was big at the time -- I'd gotten calls and interviewed with sportswriters that year about it.  Everyone was always asking me what was wrong and I just didn't know.  And seeing that stadium full of people who were just flipping out over a meaningless win from a garbage team really hit hard to me.  It was tribalism or something, but it got me emotional.

I was there and cried too. My wife as well. It's hard to explain but it was very emotional ... hahahaha

I heard, somewhere, from someone, that a certain diehard 49ers fan actually wept when his team rolled belly-up to the Chiefs in the second half of last year's Super Bowl.

I can neither confirm nor deny that anything like that occurred with me though...

Yeah, man.  It really was.
Something was in the air that day....I'm not one to cry over sports.  It felt like a celebration of brotherhood.

As soon as I read "stadium full of people " I quit believing anything you said  >:D

Maybe my memory is bad, but I remember the crowd was pretty decent -- I got free tickets from a buddy.  I think that at that stage, the market was just so saturated that you could get tickets on the cheap/free just to get you in the stadium. 

I told my supervisor I would be free to work all day Sunday.  I will see what she puts me down for.  My reasoning is that the Dolphins cannot be eliminated this weekend, so why not work?

Other factors that I take into account

1) Money and trying to make up for lost time.  I have worked at the store since 2012, but didn't start a 401k there until 2017.  

2) Earnings and inflation. Because my state's minimum wage is so high and keeps going up, I keep wondering if I am earning as much as I think I am.

I did not weep after the ending of Super Bowl 49, but I was crushed.

One time, my supervisor at the store told me that if she caught me on my phone again, she would lock me in the break room and make me watch the Do Your Job video from start to finish.  (Okay, this story is not true)

Sometimes I torture myself by watching it again.  I don't know, maybe I'm expecting that it will turn out differently.  That Kearse would have found the end zone after getting up.  That Lynch would have made it on the run.  That Seattle would have called a different pass play.  Or maybe that the Seattle offense wouldn't have gone Belly up after it was 24-14.       

During Super Bowl 51, I knew what was going to happen as soon as the Patriots won the overtime coin toss.  I didn't even bother watching, I switched to two broke girls.

It wasn't meaningless.  Far from it.

Many Dolphins fans take a lot of pride in having the only perfect team.  To see the Dolphins also become the only 0-16 team - while the Patriots looked destined to become the first 19-0 team AT THE SAME TIME - it was as stressful an experience as I've ever had as a fan.  I've watched my favorite basketball team lose the Finals.  I've watched my favorite baseball team lose the World Series... in extra innings of Game 7... TWICE.  Neither was as bad as watching the Dolphins roll toward the first 0-16 season while the Patriots rolled towards the first 16-0 season.

I also cried at the end of that game.  I tear up when I watch the replay.

It was fairly full as I remember it too. I realize numbers are inflated but it shows it as almost a sellout. I had my wife and both daughters with me.

Week 15: vs. Baltimore Ravens
1   2   3   4   OT   Total
Ravens   3   10   0   3   0   16
Dolphins   0   3   7   6   6   22
at Dolphin Stadium, Miami Gardens, Florida

Game time: 1:00 pm EST
Game weather: 79°F (mostly cloudy)
Game attendance: 70,287
Referee: John Parry
TV announcers (CBS): Kevin Harlan (play-by-play) & Rich Gannon (color commentator)

Still in the hunt for their first win of the year, the Dolphins went home for a Week 15 intraconference duel with the Baltimore Ravens. In the first quarter, Miami trailed early as Ravens kicker Matt Stover managed to get a 27-yard field goal for the only score of the period. In the second quarter, the Dolphins continued to trail as Stover kicked a 39-yard field goal. Afterwards, the 'Fins got on the board as kicker Jay Feely managed to get a 23-yard field goal. Baltimore would end the half with QB Kyle Boller completing a 17-yard TD pass to WR Derrick Mason.

In the third quarter, Miami began to gain steam as RB Samkon Gado managed to get a 7-yard TD run for the only score of the period. In the fourth quarter, the Dolphins took the lead as Feely kicked a 29-yard and an 18-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Ravens tied the game with Stover nailing an 18-yard field goal. In overtime, the Dolphins nearly lost again as Stover missed a potential game winning 44 yard field goal. However, the demons were lifted as QB Cleo Lemon completed the game-winning 64-yard TD pass to WR Greg Camarillo. Soon after players and coaches rejoiced in the locker room after a long-awaited first win.

With the win, not only did Miami improve to 1–13, but it also snapped a 16-game losing streak dating back to last season's December 10 win over the New England Patriots, notching their first win of the 2007 season and avoiding their becoming the first team in NFL history to go 0–16. This was their only win in a 1–15 and would keep them from being possibly labeled as the worst team in NFL history. They also avoided having to play with a 0–14 record against a New England Patriots team carrying the complementary 14–0 record, and widely expected to become the first team in over 30 years to match the perfect season feat originally posted by the 1972 Dolphins.

Cleo Lemon got his first career 300-yard game, as he completed 23 out of 39 passes for 315 yards and 1 touchdown.

I didn't cry after that game, but I breathed a sigh of relief.   I cried when Plaxico Burress caught the game winning TD pass from Eli Manning in the Super Bowl.  It was a joyous ending to a frustrating season, seeing the cheating Patriots get what they deserved.   They will forever live in infamy as the only team to ever go 18-1 and not win the Super Bowl.

Here is what happened.

I started my shift at ten.  It was to last until six.  I nearly wound up losing my job because I got distracted and did not notice my customer's card had not gone through.  Luckily, one of my coworkers saved me by spotting the customer in the parking lot.

My boss then asked me to stay until seven thirty, which is an extra hour and a half of time and a half.  

I found out Miami won during my shift.  

Then, I served a customer not noticing he didn't have a mask on.  When I noticed it, I immediately stepped back as far as I could.

What a wild day.