{"id":1309,"date":"2007-11-28T07:39:33","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T13:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/supplemental-income\/"},"modified":"2007-11-28T07:23:11","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T13:23:11","slug":"supplemental-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/supplemental-income\/","title":{"rendered":"Supplemental Income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I have had fourth quarters where I was tanking on my commission plan.\u00a0 Yet, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20071128\/ap_on_fe_st\/odd_million_dollar_bill\">I never thought of this idea to make up for it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A bank teller in Clearwater had a million reasons not to open an account for an Augusta, Ga., man Monday, authorities said. Alexander D. Smith, 31, was charged with disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery after he walked into the bank and tried to open an account by depositing a fake $1 million bill, said Aiken County Sheriff&#8217;s spokesman Lt. Michael Frank.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fantastic.\u00a0 My favorite line from the article is the last one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The federal government has never printed a million-dollar bill, Frank said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I have had fourth quarters where I was tanking on my commission plan.\u00a0 Yet, I never thought of this idea to make up for it: A bank teller in Clearwater had a million reasons not to open an account for an Augusta, Ga., man Monday, authorities said. Alexander D. Smith, 31, was charged with disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery after he walked into the bank and tried to open an account by depositing a fake $1 million bill, said Aiken County Sheriff&#8217;s spokesman Lt. Michael Frank. Fantastic.\u00a0 My favorite line from the article is the last one: The federal government has never printed a million-dollar bill,&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/supplemental-income\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[1764],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes","category-compensation","tag-compensation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-l7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":277,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/labor-day-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":1309,"position":0},"title":"Labor Day History","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"September 4, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Justsell.com daily email: The first U.S. Labor Day was celebrated September 5, 1882, when the Central Labor Union organized a demonstration and picnic in New York City, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. 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