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- Comment on Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏 2 weeks ago:
Alternatives:
Shaking a raised fist
Double middle fingers
Fingers pointing up, thumb touching nose
Right fist thrusting under left hand
- Comment on Anon visits America 2 weeks ago:
Butter and lard aren’t the problems with the American diet.
It’s almost impossible to find anything still made with lard anymore.
- Comment on Anon visits America 2 weeks ago:
Agreed. It’s just not where I’d start changing things.
- Comment on Anon visits America 2 weeks ago:
Anyone who looks at the U.S. and thinks it’s a fucked up country because of the food just isn’t paying attention.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
University IT for the first two jobs, now healthcare IT.
University is definitely the place to work if you get into the right department. In my first job I was a db admin for a medical research center. Then I moved to a job as IT support for a robotics lab.
Pay is crap, benefits are fantastic.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The C-suite boss where I work complained about being in the office at 7 am and seeing empty desks.
This was pre-pandemic.
The thing was, policies in place at the time allowed employees to work from home up to two days per week, and flex hours were permitted as long as the core hours of 9am to 3pm were covered. It just sounded insane to everyone.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’m Gen X and the last job I had that required me to work a specific shift was in the kitchen of a pizza place in 1988.
In my first job after college, I asked the business administrator what hours I was expected to work, and she was noticeably confused by the question. She told me most folks show up around 9.l, but made it clear that it was up to me.
In my next job, I asked how to request PTO, and my boss told me he doesn’t care about the record keeping. He said just let him know when I won’t be there, and as long as everything keeps working he doesn’t care if I’m ever there.
Even in my current position when they introduced time clocks and we had to clock in before our start time, we were allowed to specify our start time. I chose 10:00am. I normally get in around 7am, so I figured if I’m not going to be in by 10, I’ll just take the day off.
- Comment on Would you ever have the nerve to do THIS? 4 weeks ago:
Whip out the red pen, make corrections, and send it back with points taken off.
- Comment on Like Elon Musk, 1 in 3 bosses admit they are pushing RTO because they're so upset about wasting money on all those empty desks 4 weeks ago:
Early in the pandemic, our CEO asked why we paid so much for real estate if everyone could work from home. They’ve been trimming leases as quickly as they can.
We’ve been hiring people who live out of state. They only come onsite very rarely, maybe only once a year.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
My parents paid for me to attend a private university in the late 80’s, for which I’m both extremely fortunate and grateful.
I wanted to do the same for my children, but there was no way. I pay half, my parents pay half, and my kids have very small loans.
I was experiencing significant disappointment that I wasn’t able to pay for my kids’ education the way my parents paid for mine.
At one point I used an inflation calculator to get an idea of how much my education cost in today’s dollars, and it turns out that when it’s corrected for inflation, I’m paying what my parents paid. My kids’ education is more than twice as expensive as mine was if you correct for inflation.
- Comment on I mean... I'm not complaining... 5 weeks ago:
My wife is an eye doctor. She’s an optometrist, not opthalmologist, but she would definitely mock me if I got it wrong ;-)
- Comment on I mean... I'm not complaining... 5 weeks ago:
Again, it’s ophthalmologist
- Comment on Some disabled workers are making pennies per hour. Will that change under Trump? 5 weeks ago:
That’s pretty optimistic.
- Comment on Why is Trump orange? 5 weeks ago:
without it he’d look a hell of a lot worse.
I disagree. He’s old. He’d look old. That’s not worse, it’s just human.
I’ve been to a number of funerals. No one ever looks good. Everyone ends up looking inhuman.
My paternal grandparents were both cremated. Grandfather died first, then my grandmother died a few years later.
They weren’t going to have any kind of service, so there was no need for makeup. However, my parents, siblings and I gathered at the funeral home to say goodbye. The funeral home put the body on a gurney covered by a sheet.
They looked better than any other corpse I’ve seen. They looked dead, but not inhuman.
Trump should fire the mortuary make-up artist he’s been using and just try to be human.
- Comment on Is it possible to fix one's eyesight? What are working methods? What is to be cautious about? 1 month ago:
Among the other options mentioned there is also orthokeratology: using a hard lens to reshape the eye to improve vision. It’s a non-surgical alternative to LASIK.
There are also treatment options for some binocular vision problems. Exercises that can strengthen the muscles of the eye to correct alignment issues.
- Comment on I live in the green part 1 month ago:
I see that “snitches get stitches” is still in effect in Philly.
- Comment on Mom wasn't always right 1 month ago:
I give my mom credit. In the 80’s she found summer classes for me where I could learn about programming.
To this day I’m not sure if she was responding to an interest I expressed, or if she planted the interest in my mind. However, for more than 30 years people have been paying me to stare at computer screens all day.
Thanks, Mom!
- Comment on How I imagine my father as a kid 1 month ago:
- Comment on I wonder why people litter in the USA? 1 month ago:
This post gives me “people don’t want to work anymore” vibes.
Another way to look at it is, people don’t want to pay people to work anymore. Either the pay is such shit that the employees have no incentive to give a crap, or the employer doesn’t hire enough people to get the work done.
- Comment on rollin' deep 1 month ago:
Yeah, I was gonna say, are you sure it’s just a sprain?
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 month ago:
Nope. Johnson.
No, not that one.
Andrew Johnson.
So many ways it could have been better.
He could have punished the Southern Aristocracy for starting the civil war. He could have ensured that the evil that led us there was exterminated forever.
Failing that, they could have actually removed him via impeachment instead of falling just short. That would have at least established forever that the presidency is not some sacred “unimpeachable” office.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
If the MRI is on fire, LET THE MOTHERFUCKER BURN!
- Comment on He professor Oaked the baby 😂 2 months ago:
I do that with our guinea pigs.
They get a cookie* every day at 5:00 pm when I get finished with work. After 5:00, whether l come in the back door or just come downstairs from my office, they start wheaking and chewing on the bars of their pen (which they think encourages us to give them food for some reason).
Sometimes, after I’ve given them their cookie, I’ll go back up to my office. When I come back, they start acting like they didn’t get the cookie.
I just walk up to them and tell them that they already got it and they aren’t getting another. They stare at me for a moment, then just go back about their business.
I don’t think they actually forget they they got it. I think they just hope I might have forgotten. But it is interesting that all they need me to do is tell them they got it already and they give up.
* The cookie is a vitamin C supplement made of pressed hay with molasses as a binder. The molasses is why they lose their minds over them.
- Comment on Anon is a nervous individual 2 months ago:
As long as the store isn’t a 24x7 operation, at some point they will want to close. If you’re still there, they’ll ask you what you want.
At that point, you panic and run home.
- Comment on Anon is a nervous individual 2 months ago:
Ridiculous. If your number is skipped, you pick another number and keep waiting.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 2 months ago:
Having The Doctor at the top is a little strange, because hanging with the doctor could very well mean your death, but it will be worth it.
- Comment on House Centipedes 2 months ago:
I call them eyelashes.
They are welcome in my home as long as they can find sustenance. My only rule is they are not permitted to shower with me.
- Comment on Wait until they find out about chickens! 2 months ago:
Why would you waste the stem in soup when you could eat it raw?
- Comment on Wait until they find out about chickens! 2 months ago:
It’s also good raw, but you do have to peel it.
- Comment on Rejection 3 months ago:
The timing can be a surprise, but if you don’t know the answer, don’t ask the question.
