Off topic & small talk: Nagging Corner (Page 221)

frapi07 wrote on 16.01.2025 at 19:12: Everything is getting really expensive. Just received my notification from the health Insurance company. 10€ more per month... doesn't sound much, but since 01.01 you get a pay increase (minimum wage) with luck. So someone who works 160 hours gets a gross increase of 0.41x160=65.60€. Net will be something between 40€. The health insurance is not the only thing that has become more expensive.

i get more than minimum wage, but it's awesome how much you have to pay because you have to have health insurance (unless you're unemployed).

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Langhans_innen wrote on January 16th, 2025 at 7:28 pm:

after about 10 years of self-employment, I now also pay almost 50% more than at the beginning.... I somehow don't like to open the letters from the KK. Either they want some receipts or something to increase

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frapi07 wrote on 16.01.2025 at 19:12: Everything is getting really expensive. Just received my notification from the health Insurance company. 10€ more per month... doesn't sound much, but since 01.01 you get a pay increase (minimum wage) with luck. So someone who works 160 hours gets a gross increase of 0.41x160=65.60€. Net will be something between 40€. The health insurance is not the only thing that has become more expensive.

i get more than minimum wage, but it's awesome how much you have to pay because you have to have health insurance (unless you're unemployed).

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Saphira wrote on January 16th, 2025 at 9:14 pm:

The health Insurance companies are increasing quite a bit. I've already been notified. It's not as if something is getting cheaper elsewhere. And you basically get nothing from the pay increase. And since this is the bitching corner here ..., luckily I was at least able to cancel this criminal association of electricity providers, to which I was tied for 2 years, in February. It was absolutely cheeky that they refused to switch to my new electricity Provider on their own authority and without giving any reason, and in particular without notifying me. The latter was only surprised that no confirmation had yet been received from the criminal organization. This would have meant that the deadline had passed and the contract would have been automatically extended or I would have had to sign a new one with them at higher conditions. It's a good thing I followed up this morning. After I escalated a bit, the confirmation of termination came very quickly. You have to keep up with everything.

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frapi07 wrote on January 16th, 2025 at 10:28 pm:


Right, minimum wage is increased, but the wallet is not really fuller now. Just cranks up the prices <.&lt

I also canceled my car insurance. They seriously wanted to increase it further. Canceled and saved €250. Let's see how long the price is still good. Otherwise I'll change it every year, I don't care xD

That sucks, but unfortunately people try to cheat everywhere. The only solution is to always ask for written confirmation. If they don't do that, you can certainly report them.

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Endstation wrote on 17.01.2025 at 01:41:

So my very personal opinion regarding the minimum wage is that it is more or less pointless.


Let's start with the politician or a party who, let's say as an example, crows about a minimum wage of at least € 18 because they think so much about the well-being of the common people and not about the votes that could be obtained with this peasant catching.

You generally ignore the fact that you don't need to kill yourself in the Bundestag, that you're living without reality anyway and that your salary, which is too high anyway, is lavishly increased every year.

Then it goes on with the employee who, if successful, enjoys his hourly wage of €18 for the time being and already sees himself standing in the Porsche Center, which he didn't expect? He is actually not the only one who should benefit from this. The cashier in his local supermarket and his hairdresser, as a brief example, also have to be paid somehow, and he will realize this very early on when prices go up. Calculating the prices in order to pay the wages is fixed or, in the worst case, people have to do it with fewer colleagues because they have been made redundant.

and that's how quickly the employee mentioned at the beginning finds himself back in front of the sausage shelf in the well-known f*ck mill and complains about high prices and that the minimum wage is not enough, which brings us back to the beginning of my text.

& from an objective point of view, there are also jobs that don't even come close to earning €13-14.

As far as Insurance is concerned. But it's also not a new insight that you should constantly change, just like the Internet Provider etc. because as an existing customer you are unfortunately always the stupid donkey who is considered the favorite customer. Just think of the poor people who have had contracts somewhere for 30 years and don't change because they have always been under the motto and compared to a change and a contract concluded today, this almost borders on robbery.

BUT before I send this now I just want to make it clear that it is my own opinion which I do not want to impose on anyone or anything else. And if anyone else feels offended by this, you can discuss it in peace and quiet 🙂🙌

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Endstation wrote on 17.01.2025 at 01:41:

So my very personal opinion regarding the minimum wage is that it is more or less pointless.


Let's start with the politician or a party who, let's say as an example, crows about a minimum wage of at least € 18 because they think so much about the well-being of the common people and not about the votes that could be obtained with this peasant catching.

You generally ignore the fact that you don't need to kill yourself in the Bundestag, that you're living without reality anyway and that your salary, which is too high anyway, is lavishly increased every year.

Then it goes on with the employee who, if successful, enjoys his hourly wage of €18 for the time being and already sees himself standing in the Porsche Center, which he didn't expect? He is actually not the only one who should benefit from this. The cashier in his local supermarket and his hairdresser, as a brief example, also have to be paid somehow, and he will realize this very early on when prices go up. Calculating the prices in order to pay the wages is fixed or, in the worst case, people have to do it with fewer colleagues because they have been made redundant.

and that's how quickly the employee mentioned at the beginning finds himself back in front of the sausage shelf in the well-known f*ck mill and complains about high prices and that the minimum wage is not enough, which brings us back to the beginning of my text.

& from an objective point of view, there are also jobs that don't even come close to earning €13-14.

As far as Insurance is concerned. But it's also not a new insight that you should constantly change, just like the Internet Provider, etc. because as an existing customer you are unfortunately always the stupid donkey who is considered the favorite customer. Just think of the poor people who have had contracts somewhere for 30 years and don't change because they have always been under the motto and compared to a change and a contract concluded today, this almost borders on robbery.

BUT before I send this now I just want to make it clear that it is my own opinion which I do not want to impose on anyone or anything else. And if anyone else feels offended by this, you can discuss it in peace and quiet 🙂🙌

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