BarneyPiccolo
@BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
- Comment on if you're offered a position you can use to advance your career but it involves people without boundaries, do you tell your maybe-future-to-be manager you don't want to work with those people? 18 hours ago:
You? You think you are important enough to make me angry in life over YOU?
THAT is your entire problem - you think you are important. YOU. ARE. NOT. You were raised to be a princess, with everyone kissing your ass. in your little bubble universe, everything revolves around you.
Now you are in the real world, and finding out that NOBODY cares about you. In fact, most will see a person like you as in their way. The first rule of life is to either learn how to get along, or you will be trampled by many, many people who will not indulge your narcissistic nonsense at all.
Grow Up.
- Comment on if you're offered a position you can use to advance your career but it involves people without boundaries, do you tell your maybe-future-to-be manager you don't want to work with those people? 18 hours ago:
As a business owner, I can even predict the immediate outcome of rejecting OP. They would come to me, and say “Why did they get the job? I thought it was mine.”
“Well, you indicated that if you took the job, you wouldn’t be able to work with members of the team, so we chose someone who could. Maybe you’ll be a better fit for the next one.” And then they’d never be offered another promotion.
Ultimatums like “It’s them or me,” seldom work out well for the issuer.
- Comment on if you're offered a position you can use to advance your career but it involves people without boundaries, do you tell your maybe-future-to-be manager you don't want to work with those people? 2 days ago:
You sound angry. Are you angry?
I have a history degree and I live in MAGA America. Damn right I’m angry.
But this isn’t about me, and it doesn’t have anything to do with your ridiculously entitled attitude, and your hilarious defense of it.
- Comment on Agree? 2 days ago:
Those look pretty nice, I know someone who would love those for Christmas. Thanks!
- Comment on if you're offered a position you can use to advance your career but it involves people without boundaries, do you tell your maybe-future-to-be manager you don't want to work with those people? 2 days ago:
So right up front, you want to inform your supervisors that you won’t work with two of the long-established members of your new department because they don’t meet your personal interaction standards? And you think that’s going to go well for you?
If someone came to me with that demand before even starting the job, I’d breathe a sigh of relief that we discovered their weirdness before it was too late, and choose another candidate for the job.
Welcome to the working world! You don’t get to choose who you work with, you just have to make the best of it. If you need this job for advancement, then focus on that, and put up with whatever else goes with it, like EVERYBODY ELSE. Who told you that you could go through life without the minor inconvenience of having to deal with conflicting personalities? This is Real Life, you don’t get some protective bubble from the icky, inconvenient parts.
- Comment on Betrayal 2 days ago:
The Americans did it in reverse.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 2 days ago:
I used to have a cat that loved to jump up under any truck that would be delivering something. We used to tell them not to leave until we had eyes on our car. Even with that, he was such a varmint that I’d give them my business card, and tell them that if they got to their next delivery, and found him in their truck, to call me, and I’ll come get him.
Luckily, our precautions worked, but he was a troublemaker.
- Comment on My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help 3 days ago:
Only Psychopathic Oligarchs should be responsible for our data.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 days ago:
Exactly. In the case of men, that has turned out to be the most effective method in blocking a literal flood of sperm.
People claim m that men would use a daily pill, but guys don’t want their women getting pregnant any more than the women do, at least not until they are ready. If it existed, most guys would gladly take a pill that would keep them from 18 years of child support, just like most women do. In fact, having double contraception would reduce unwanted pregnancies significantly, which would also reduce the abortion rate, which might help bringing down the political temperature a bit (no, it won’t).
It’s not us men resisting male contraception, most of us would love it. It’s just not mechanically as easy to do for men as it is for women. It’s a science problem, not a market segment problem. Make it, and there will be customers for it.
- Comment on My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help 4 days ago:
They are protecting your personal date by not allowing the only person who should be able to access it?
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 4 days ago:
A lot of American women really admired her, my wife included. She was heartbroken at her death. We stayed up all night watching it.
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 4 days ago:
Easy, JFK’s assassination. I was 4, came in from the yard and found my mom and a neighbor were sitting at the kitchen table, crying. I asked what was wrong, and she said someone had shot the president.
After that, I remember being irritated that all my favorite TV shows were blocked by news coverage for days.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 4 days ago:
Dumb. It’s a lot easier to stop one egg a month, than zillions of sperm multiple times a day. Simple as that.
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 4 days ago:
Where I live, we’ll get to 100° on hot summer day without AC, so it wouldn’t take much more to get it up to 120°.
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 4 days ago:
Demon
- Comment on Go Green 4 days ago:
That’s an extra item. Upcharge. They always get ya.
- Comment on Go Green 4 days ago:
Dude, shut up and pass the bong.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 5 days ago:
Trump just channels his childhood accordion lessons. He doesn’t even realize he’s doing it.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 5 days ago:
I first saw that movie in the theater when I was about 7. I thought Captain Von Trapp was badass as fuck when he pulled up to his house, and tore down that Nazi flag.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 5 days ago:
Julie Andrews didn’t sing Edelweiss, that was Captain Von Trapp’s song. He’s the Punk you should admire.
- Comment on card game shop 6 days ago:
Get a bidet, use deodorant, and you can skip a day between showers, as long as you haven’t been working in the yard all day, or just got done at the gym.
- Comment on card game shop 6 days ago:
- Comment on card game shop 6 days ago:
“Hey, Skinx, yer on Door Sniffing Duty tonight.”
“Aw, I always get Door Sniffing Duty, make Plug do it, he never does it.”
“Plug has allergies, he can’t smell so good. You got a good nose.”
“You don’t need a good nose for these dudes. You can smell Fat Tony from a block away.”
“Speaking of, it’s Wednesday.”
“Wednesday? OH! Fat Tony always comes in on Tuesday!”
“Yep, you’ll be getting a schnozzful of Fat Tony’s unique gamey fragrance, before you send him home for his shower. Get at it!”
“Fuck…”
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 6 days ago:
As well as 15-20 more hours that you don’t really work while at the office, and you have to actively disguise as work-related activity. Add that to your prep time, and you’ve clawed back 30+ hours of time.
You could get that second job you need to survive!
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 6 days ago:
I bet they aren’t going to make the AIs come into the office.
- Comment on I'm not saying that I agree with it, but it's understandable. 1 week ago:
I make the East Coast round trip drive about twice a year, and your description of the southbound trip out of NYC is bang on accurate.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 1 week ago:
“Don’t test for Covid, it will only make our numbers increase!” -Donald Trump, 2020.
- Comment on The Pennsylvania Ave. Ikea 1 week ago:
Stephen “PeeWee Himmler” Miller is Trump’s Wormtongue, whispering poison into his ear, and encouraging to lean into his worst instincts.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
What are you talking about about? It is probably the easiest thing in the world to cook. Put a pot on the stove, and start tossing stuff in. It literally takes about 5-10 minutes, only because you have to chop a few things. Then it should simmer for a while, but as soon as it’s boiling, it’s a essentially ready.
“Balance the flavors?” That just means season to taste, your taste. You like it saltier, add more. Like it hot, add Chile flakes or powder. The thing with the lime juice is an amazing little tip that will make a lot of dishes taste better.
People rely on recipes too much.
- Comment on The Pennsylvania Ave. Ikea 1 week ago:
He wants to build a big monument to himself, and they won’t let him be on Mt Rushmore.
So he’s going to build this enormous monument to himself and attach it to the most iconic, most photographed building in America, so that any future photo will have the Trump Ballroom looming over everything, and they will remember him.
That’s why I’m saying that IF (a big IF) we get out of this mess, the second thing the new president should do is order the destruction of that architectural atrocity, and rebuild the original East Wing, and make Trump pay quadruple out of his pocket for the whole thing.
I say it should be the second thing, because the first order should be to arrest Trump and all his henchmen, and send them to Gitmo for extensive interrogation, before they book it to the Argentina sanctuary he just bought that for them with taxpayer money.
