Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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Well, I *did* ask when I ordered if it was similar to mapo tofu, and they said no. I didn't realize how much not similar it was until I got it home.
In a drunk driving accident, the drunk always lives.
I think about this a lot.
If elected, DUI would be a mandatory five years hard labor. No plea bargains.
No seven time losers wiping out entire families.
I still have my sinus infection, although it’s improved a bit.
Now the antibiotics are making me barf
Now the antibiotics are making me barf
Have you considered asking for a refund on that body and getting another one? Yours really seems to have been made on a Monday.I still have my sinus infection, although it’s improved a bit.
Now the antibiotics are making me barf
I certainly « won » the genetic lottery eh?
Bosses really seem to think having everybody on the floor is Important. I have no clue why. My bosses want me back too, while my job needs zero RL interaction.
Maybe they're worried something like this could happen?
Companies [in Switzerland] must pay share of rent for employees working from home
--Patrick
Companies [in Switzerland] must pay share of rent for employees working from home
--Patrick
GasBandit
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In my company, there's been a case of some employees abusing "work from home" to log 32 hours on a training packet that should have taken 8ish hours to complete. I think my bosses want to be able to keep an eye on people. They're already hyper-paranoid about people stealing from them or otherwise ripping them off (I finally convinced them that auditing all my equipment every 30 days was a waste of everyone's time, both mine and the auditor, but now I still have to do it every quarter). We've had some bad apples ruining nice things for everyone, apparently.
Your bosses need to justify their mid-level management by keeping you under their watchful eye. If it turns out the company could be doing this with fewer people at your boss's level (management that exists mainly to supervise workers and keep them on task) then suddenly they have to justify their jobs.
We're going to see a lot of this soon. Big pushes from people who exist only to crack a whip to get back to work. Pushes from people who have nothing else in their lives BUT the office. People with offices and titles that currently can't feel that endorphin boost from people forced to call them sir. A lot of what work "is" is just ritualistic back patting from people trying to gain social status; it's unnecessary to the performance of the actual jobs people are hired to do. If the board figures out that they don't need a percentage of their middle management to keep production up if people are allowed to work from home, they'll just let people work from home.
I suspect we're also going to see a lot of companies trimming down on office space and going virtual if only because a physical location is an enormous, unnecessary cost for most businesses. WeWork is already taking massive losses. Softbank just valued them at $2.9 billion, down from $47 billion last year. Expect a lot of office space to be converted into luxury apartments.
This is the other side of the coin. If your employees can't be trusted to work from home, but letting them work from home is cheaper than running an office, you're gonna see lay-offs as companies try to hire for the new work environment. But if you can't trust you're employees to actually work effectively on their own then you failed the moment you hired them.
I really do need to be in our office often to lead my team as most of our work is done in teams, I’m asked for help/interpretations often, and there are only a handful of us who are bilingual. That being said, I’m doing the best I can over phone/email/messages until things get back to normal.
I would be happy with us teleworking more in the future, but with our work it just isn’t possible full time.
I would be happy with us teleworking more in the future, but with our work it just isn’t possible full time.
My boss is concerned that with travel not happening we're gonna have so much PTO unused that we'll just close for December.Meanwhile, everyone is working from home at Qualcomm and my husband is complaining that everyone desperately needs a vacation because they are all overworking.
My mother just tried to argue with me over the difference between a couple and a few. I’m still really bothered from having been overheated the other day and I have a raging headache. I said I was going to take a few Tylenol. I got a loud lecture about the daily dose limit. Omg. I misspoke.
I refused to engage, but seriously why would anyone try to start that fight?
I refused to engage, but seriously why would anyone try to start that fight?
It's fairly common to have that discussion in Dutch, as "a pair" is used where English speakers would say "a couple". Still, in both, the implication is literally two, but should and can be taken to be "1-4, more or less".
Agreed. I misspoke. I just don’t understand why she would try to start a fight.
It's annual larger bureaucracy meeting season.
Generally, this takes place over 2.5 days. (And it is super boring, rather uncomfortable (rental chairs in an arena), and mostly pointless)
This year, we were told it would be a 2.5 hour webinar. (Wooo!! Concise productivity!!)
That has since been amended to the 2.5 hour business meeting (mentioned above), plus 3 2+ hour webinars dealing with the background information.
Tonight is the first one of those three, and we've made it through 3 reports, with 2 of them flat out reading what was being shared on the screen. Oh! Now the 4th report just proclaimed that they're just going to read their report also. GAH!
And it's all on Zoom, and it's 95% seniors, many of whom are new to the platform. And oooooooh boy, I'm glad that the organizers figured out the mass mute button! But it's still so, so painful. With the long pauses between speakers, technology issues, the chair just noted that she can't see her mouse cursor on her screen, and boy howdy am I glad that my mic and camera are OFF.
And I've got two more of these before the final meeting, plus a congregational teleconference next week.
Words cannot accurately express the degree of boredom, dread, and disdain I have for this process.
Ug.
Generally, this takes place over 2.5 days. (And it is super boring, rather uncomfortable (rental chairs in an arena), and mostly pointless)
This year, we were told it would be a 2.5 hour webinar. (Wooo!! Concise productivity!!)
That has since been amended to the 2.5 hour business meeting (mentioned above), plus 3 2+ hour webinars dealing with the background information.
Tonight is the first one of those three, and we've made it through 3 reports, with 2 of them flat out reading what was being shared on the screen. Oh! Now the 4th report just proclaimed that they're just going to read their report also. GAH!
And it's all on Zoom, and it's 95% seniors, many of whom are new to the platform. And oooooooh boy, I'm glad that the organizers figured out the mass mute button! But it's still so, so painful. With the long pauses between speakers, technology issues, the chair just noted that she can't see her mouse cursor on her screen, and boy howdy am I glad that my mic and camera are OFF.
And I've got two more of these before the final meeting, plus a congregational teleconference next week.
Words cannot accurately express the degree of boredom, dread, and disdain I have for this process.
Ug.
Turns out he worded the email poorly. Masks are available but not required since our cubes are far apart.
Dave
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Just found out that a very good friend of mine from high school likely suicided by cop late December. I hadn’t spoken with him in like 10 years but the last time he was in town we went full-on glory days. Just don’t know WTF happened.
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Anne Arundel police identify man shot in standoff with county officers and FBI agents
Anne Arundel County police on Tuesday identified John Lowell Dollen as the man fatally shot by law enforcement on Friday after an hours-long standoff at a dead-end street in Linthicum.
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Dave
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I gotta say, this one really messed me up. My mom(s) dying I can take. My aunt & uncle I can take. Each of them were in their 70's & 80's with underlying health issues. But John? John was my age. We hung out. He got me into Pink Floyd. He liked the early years where they were like weird fusion experimental and trippy, but he introduced me to them. And Rush. Holy shit did he love the band Rush. If you've ever seen the movie Fanboys, he was like Hutch. In his van it was all Rush, all the time. (And if you haven't seen Fanboys you should. It won't win any awards but I loved it.) When he got his girlfriend pregnant in high school he was pretty much cast out from his social circles. For some reason it was his fault and she had nothing to do with it. He remarked that it was times like that when he learned really who his friends were.
Guys always talk about how they remain friends even if they haven't seen each other for a long time. And we say that when we do we pick right back up where we left off. And I KNOW there was nothing I could have done, but there's always that "what if" in the back of your mind. What if I'd have called him? What if I'd have sent him a brief message letting him know I was thinking about him? Again, I fully realize that this is complete survivor's guilt, but my friends and I are talking about John and remembering the guy he was before whatever darkness took him. God damn it.
Guys always talk about how they remain friends even if they haven't seen each other for a long time. And we say that when we do we pick right back up where we left off. And I KNOW there was nothing I could have done, but there's always that "what if" in the back of your mind. What if I'd have called him? What if I'd have sent him a brief message letting him know I was thinking about him? Again, I fully realize that this is complete survivor's guilt, but my friends and I are talking about John and remembering the guy he was before whatever darkness took him. God damn it.
A close friend of mine did the same thing, and on my birthday. You have my condolences.Just found out that a very good friend of mine from high school likely suicided by cop late December. I hadn’t spoken with him in like 10 years but the last time he was in town we went full-on glory days. Just don’t know WTF happened.
Anne Arundel police identify man shot in standoff with county officers and FBI agents
Anne Arundel County police on Tuesday identified John Lowell Dollen as the man fatally shot by law enforcement on Friday after an hours-long standoff at a dead-end street in Linthicum.
Speaking of pants. I will have to start wearing them again when I go back to work. I’ve been enjoying leggings.
Also due to somewhat chaotic events, we're pushing back our opening to next monday.