We have a website!

A few announcements.

First of all, we have a website.

Surprise.

It’s going to take me a while to understand how running a website works, so bear with me. But I’m hoping we can eventually use this site for some worthwhile stuff.

We used to post company news on a Facebook page. But not everyone is on Facebook. So we'll be using this site instead.

If you would, check it out when something goes up. From time to time we’ll be posting news here that you may want to know about.

For instance, if you ignored this post you wouldn’t know about the water slides.

I don’t know when we will get around to having another one of our PitNic parties. So in the meantime, for those who are interested in such things, we are planning a field trip to hang out at The Rapids water park. We don’t have a date locked down yet. But I am hoping to make this work some time in the next month or two. Please let me know in the comments section below if you would like to go.

And while not as exciting as water slides, we are also making additions to our compensation package (another good reason you read this post).

Much of our compensation is paid out through profit sharing. That it is the safest way that I know of to increase compensation. Since it comes out of profit we know we can afford it. (As long as there is profit anyway. If we get sloppy and there’s a profit problem then there’s a bonus problem as well. But hopefully everyone is paying attention at the tables.)

We have traditionally paid this out at the end of the year. However I understand that waiting until the end of the year is not always ideal for some people. So going forward, we are planning to add an additional round of profit sharing around halfway through the year.

This will be a smaller distribution in two ways. It is using a smaller percentage of profit than the end of the year bonus does. And since we are less than halfway through the year it will be applied to a smaller number of hours.

This year it will apply to hours worked from January 1st to June 9th. But even with the smaller percentage of the profit pool, it still comes out to a little over $2 an hour for all hours worked in that time, an over $2 raise, in a manner, for those hours.

And the good news is that this is simply an additional bonus. These hours will still be applied to the end of the year profit sharing, which will be taken from a larger percentage of the total year's profit. I hope to get the midyear deposits out sometime in the next week or so.

Overall, things have been running fairly smoothly at the track. I haven’t been needed on site as much as I used to be. So I want to thank everyone for allowing me the time to work from home on projects like this website and the things mentioned above.

And I think that's it. Before you go though, please let me know if you want to go on the Rapids field trip or not. The poll below should log your answer. The only hitch is that you have to be a member of our site to click one of the choices. This means you will have to sign up and confirm your email, a minor annoyance. But you'll only have to do it once.

We need everyone signed up to the site eventually so this is as good a time as any for you to become an official member of our shiny new LTA's Adventures in Probability Management website.

As always, thank you for reading this far.

Do you want to spend an all expenses paid afternoon at the Rapids waterpark?

• 0%Yes! I love chlorine and fellowship!
• 0%No, thank you. But it was a very kind offer.
• 0%Definitely, yes! (But with annoying conditions. We'll talk.)