If I won the lottery...

[thyme4change]

I'd buy up all my company stock, elect myself to the board of directors, and then tell the CEO what I think.

[Sum Dum Gai]

Huh.. I'd just tell a couple people to go eff themselves when I turned in my resignation. I'm a slacker though.

[jaya3300]

If I won the lottery....I'd quit my job and just travel the world for several years

[BeenThere...DoneThat...]

...before I chime in, how much do I win?

[thyme4change]

If I won the lottery....I'd quit my job and just travel the world for several years

That's what I would really like to do. Stupid kids.

I would, however, rent a house somewhere different every summer - preferably international. Leave a week or two after school is over, come back a week or two before it starts and really get to know an area of the world, whatever that may be.

Huh.. I'd just tell a couple people to go eff themselves when I turned in my resignation.

I love business, so it would be nice to have soemthing to do. It would be nice to become the boss, but not really work that much.

[thyme4change]

before I chime in, how much do I win?

Since this is all make believe, you can win eight bagillion dollars.

[BeenThere...DoneThat...]

Aug 16, 2012 14:21:45 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

before I chime in, how much do I win?

Since this is all make believe, you can win eight bagillion dollars.

...okay then... I'd go to the beach... go to school... get a season's pass at Heinz and FedEx Fields... buy a Jeep Wrangler... and yes, make some charitable donations... ;D

[vonna]

If I won the lottery . . .

I wouldn't want anyone to know (except my DH, of course!)
I wouldn't change anything in my outward life . . .
I would want to be able to be anonymously philanthropic. It wouldn't be fun if people knew and started bugging me with solicitations . . .

<sigh> Guess I have to play the lottery before I can win.

[thyme4change]

I told my husband that I would buy new carpet for the house. His response "Way to dream big."

[movingforward]

I would start a foundation honoring my mother - probably some type of scholarship for low-income kids, get the hell out of TX during the summer months (Switzerland, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, the possibilities are endless) though if I were gone for months at a time my animals would have to go with me

ETA: And probably attempt to save every animal on the planet. Actually I might just buy a zoo. Oh, and definitely season tickets to the Spurs.

[Sum Dum Gai]

Eight bagillion dollars and you'd buy a Jeep Wrangler and go to the beach?

I'd buy a beach. I'd hire automotive engineers to build me a one of a kind sports car to my exact specifications. I'd buy a baseball team, give them a ludicrously large salary cap for players and sit in my box seat to watch them wail on the Yankees every time they played. I'd offer to double the salary of any player that left the Yankees on the condition that they publicly piss on a Yankee's flag at the press conference where we announce their defection. And I don't even like baseball that much. I'd hire a hot woman who's sole job is to feed me grapes, when I actually eat them. The rest of the time she'd be sitting around doing nothing, just in case I decide to have grapes. I'd hire one of these ren faire trumpeter guys to announce me when I went out in public, just to be obnoxious. I'd get a pet whale.

[midjd]

I would have movies remade to my specifications. So many good movies completely ruined by a few actors I hate.

[movingforward]

Aug 16, 2012 14:38:59 GMT -5 midjd said:

I would have movies remade to my specifications. So many good movies completely ruined by a few actors I hate.

<<<snort>>> and perhaps you could pay some writers to come up with some new stories as opposed to recycling the same crap over and over

[thyme4change]

Awesome.

Ooh - I'd have jeans made to fit me! And I would hire a personal trainer, and every week when I lost weight, I'd get a new pair.

[thyme4change]

I'd let my kids take long showers.

[Deleted]

Aug 16, 2012 14:28:56 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

I told my husband that I would buy new carpet for the house. His response "Way to dream big."

LOL I was thinking I would do the floors upstairs this year instead of next year.

[thyme4change]

I said "Well, I would go into work, just so I could clear my internet cache." My husband answered "Not me!" LOL - he is right, what could they do to me?

[movingforward]

Aug 16, 2012 14:57:48 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

I said "Well, I would go into work, just so I could clear my internet cache." My husband answered "Not me!" LOL - he is right, what could they do to me?

I do that everyday before I shut down - ha!

[thyme4change]

It doesn't matter - they track it. I'm just banking on the fact that they don't check it.

[movingforward]

Aug 16, 2012 15:09:41 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

It doesn't matter - they track it. I'm just banking on the fact that they don't check it.

We are small office and am almost certain nothing is tracked; however, everyone has the same password so if you happen to be out anyone can go on your computer to find something if it is needed. We have a couple of nosy people here so I just wipe my history clean each night before I leave. Just makes me feel better, I guess.

[thyme4change]

That's smart. I used to do that, when I knew we didn't have tracking - even though people did not have my password. But now, if they are going to bust me - they already have the info.

[shanendoah]

I would buy this house www.johnlscott.com/PropertyDetail.aspx?GroupID=272836486&ListingID=301019027&CMID=-1&Sort=1025&RTR=50&LI=95&t=1
We couldn't move in until after the adoption was completed, because of the foster license restrictions, but that would give me plenty of time to make any changes I'd want to the interior (since I have no idea what the interior looks like).

[midjd]

I'm not sure to what extent they track here - I assume there is SOME tracking. But I figure it's more for CYA purposes, or if there's someone they want to get rid of, to give them an excuse to do so. I've never heard of anyone being disciplined for internet usage. Still, I clear my cache before I leave.

One of DH's coworkers has recently gotten into the habit of looking at porn at work. DH is pissed because their computers are all virused-up now and it makes it hard (haha) to get work done.

[8 Bit WWBG]

If I won "set for life" money, I'd keep working here for a while but have lots of fun volunteering my opinions. I'd probably go through several phases. One where I was quiet about it. Then I'd start showing up in really nice clothes, and getting dropped off in a fancy car. Eventually I'd just say "shut up, I'm rich". Everntually I'd want all my time to myself, so I'd quit and then do personal training 5 days a week until DW and I are in great shape. Then probably start a business, and go from there.

If I won "big cushion, but can't quit yet" money, I'd probably make it a point to turn that money into "set for life" money, then go with plan A.

[thyme4change]

At my old company, the IT lady had gotten another job, but she had already started putting in some tracking system. She said in the last 2 or 3 days she worked there, they flipped it on and ran it against the last two weeks of history and found the CEO's brother in law (who was the VP in charge of "special projects" or "business development" - I can't remember which) had looked at 500 porn sites in 2 weeks. She gathered up all the backup and gave it to HR, and left!

[BeenThere...DoneThat...]

Aug 16, 2012 14:37:26 GMT -5 Sum Dum Gai said:

Eight bagillion dollars and you'd buy a Jeep Wrangler and go to the beach?

I'd buy a beach. I'd hire automotive engineers to build me a one of a kind sports car to my exact specifications. I'd buy a baseball team, give them a ludicrously large salary cap for players and sit in my box seat to watch them wail on the Yankees every time they played. I'd offer to double the salary of any player that left the Yankees on the condition that they publicly piss on a Yankee's flag at the press conference where we announce their defection. And I don't even like baseball that much. I'd hire a hot woman who's sole job is to feed me grapes, when I actually eat them. The rest of the time she'd be sitting around doing nothing, just in case I decide to have grapes. I'd hire one of these ren faire trumpeter guys to announce me when I went out in public, just to be obnoxious. I'd get a pet whale.

...potato, potahto...

[shanendoah]

When I worked IT, I came in one morning to see our head machinist sitting and working at our assembly line lead's computer. It wasn't rare for him to be in that area- they were married, but it was odd to see him working on her computer.
She noticed I was in and came over to me. She asked if I could please fix his computer downstairs. He had to come down with me, becaue he'd locked it (which almost never happened in that company), but he couldn't even look at me.
Turns out, one of the overnight guys- a welder, I think, had decided to look at some porn on the machinist's computer, and it was filled with pop up ads and all sorts of issues.
Our head machinist was an Iranian immigrant (not religious at all, but still brought up in that culture) and he was just so embarrassed about the thing. If my boss hadn't been on vacation, he wouldn't have come to me at all. (And as it was, he hadn't really wanted to, which is why his wife did.)

The welder was a contract/piece worker, in the middle of a project for one of our founders, so I put parental locks on the internet on all the computers he could access while he was in. Once that project was completed, we found a new welder.

[Loopdilou]

I would buy a loft or home in San Francisco, New York, London, Edinborough, Paris, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Tahoe, Seattle, Bali, Baja, New Orleans, Morroco and my home town. Then maybe some country homes nearish all the cities and a private jet to fly to all of them whenever I want. In whatever place I decide as my main residence I'd build a huge library and start collecting books and art.

[Bob Ross]

If I won the lottery, I'd look at porn.

[Bob Ross]

Aug 16, 2012 15:50:00 GMT -5 Loopdilou said:

I would buy a loft or home in San Francisco, New York, London, Edinborough, Paris, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Tahoe, Seattle, Bali, Baja, New Orleans, Morroco and my home town.

I'd set myself up as The Emperor of Des Moines.