I feel this in my soul. I’m officed Mondays and Tuesdays. I’m 5 foot 6, and the guy on Wednesday and Thursdays is really, really tall.
I sure do love adjusting my desk and chair every Monday after Manute Bol’s been sitting there, and I’m sure that every Wednesday he’s wondering how my trip carrying the ring to Mordor is going that I started after work the previous day.
I think some of them are also doing it for the tax breaks they get if they pump a bunch of employees into the local area’s economy.
And we all know how difficult is is to get companies to voluntarily give up free tax money from the government. It’s like trying to take drugs away from an addict.
About 10 years ago, I had my Fortune 500 company’s CEO enter the office gym one day and jump right on the treadmill next to mine (I did not work in the CEO’s home office; he was out and about doing a regional office tour that week). And I had to stay because I was in the middle of a timed program, and had a visible countdown going on my treadmill, and it would have been more memorable for him and weird if I just noped out early.
Most awkward ten minutes of small talk I’ve ever had to make in my entire life.
If you mean “check it five seconds per day because my extended family keeps a chat hub there, and I just want to make sure no one’s reported an emergency,” then yes.
One would think that out of all countries, South Korea should be the least worried about North Korean nuclear attack. They’re next door neighbors a handful of miles apart from each other geographically, and wind exists to carry fallout right back to Kim Jong Un’s house.
Same reasons it always seems so odd whenever Russia threatens to nuke Ukraine.
My only rule for PTO days is never forget that you put in for them and accidentally go to work. So far I have a 100% success rate in avoiding that.
I’m not one to critique the actions of others, especially fictional characters… but were it me putting down an eighty lb. boulder, I’d probably drop it farther away than one micron from my toe. Just saying.
Speaking on ads, they are definitely one of the leaders in this category.
I can honestly say that there have been maybe a half-dozen or so ads I’ve encountered in my entire life span that introduced a product into my awareness, that I later looked into and decided to purchase.
And for that microscopic amount of success for the advertisers, I have been exposed to tens of millions of ads over my life span (mid-40s now). All of those hammering on your mood and/or sanity, some worse than others, but every one a punch of annoyance.
AI is improving in this regard. With the right set up, you’re having conversations with a grammatically native speaker who isn’t a real person, but who will talk as long as you want and gently correct and teach you without judgment as you go. May be worth checking out.
Imagine acting like everyone in England has the same accent. The only thing more ridiculous would be saying that everyone in the US does.
Something else to consider is that it’s a wonderful social window if you have friends that you don’t get to hang out with very often due to geography and life.
I have a couple of good friends who are too far away after I moved to another area. We play games online and have a nice social hangout for a few hours each Saturday. Voice chatting works great.
It’s fantastic to be able to regularly spend time with them.
Which is absolutely wild to me, considering that all natively born citizens received their citizenship involuntarily at birth.
Not a smoker myself, but I can tell you what worked for my brother when he quit in college.
AC went out in his dorm during an August heat wave, and it took forever for them to fix it. He decided that it would be a perfect time to go cold turkey, since he’d be so miserable from the heat that the few days of nicotine withdraw wouldn’t really be comparably bad. And he said it was right, he didn’t think about it during the worst part, and by the time they fixed the AC, he was 90% of the way through the process.
So if you live in one of the parts of the world moving to summer right now, it might be worth a shot.
I use both, they are two separate words, not one word with multiple spellings.
Not sure why people are changing it. Yes, language evolves, but maybe we could all focus on evolving it in areas that actually need evolution?
If you have to deal frequently with toilets with flush sensors at your office (or really any public restroom), you’ve probably been grossed out by them flushing (and spraying water at you) before you’re ready.
As an adult, I learned that handle-adjacent sensors can be dealt with by hanging TP over them, and won’t flush until you remove it as you’re leaving the stall. Wall sensors (like one infamous office toilet I deal with) can be handled with a post it note placed over the sensor; I keep some at the office just for this purpose. In an emergency, sometimes spit-dabbing a piece of TP can stick it to the wall over the sensor, but this isn’t as reliable.
Just get into these habits when you use sensor toilets, and you’ll never have to worry about disgusting flush spray from prematurely flushing public toilets ever again.
Neither. I’d remove Wednesdays.
Middle of the week off day lets you get all your errands done with little annoyance from or waiting behind the public, so you get everything knocked out and have your weekends 100% for you.
More importantly, on a 4 day workweek with Wed/Weekend off, you NEVER work more than two consecutive days. Ever. It’s fantastic.
Why are conservatives so worried about hypothetical scenarios involving gendering re: restrooms?
It’s come up exactly zero times ever in my entire lifespan, and I’m in my mid 40s now and have been in hundreds, if not thousands, of public restrooms.
Thanks, I’d forgotten about this one. Our AC will be out for a few days. I’ve already started loading water bottles into the freezer.
Weirdly enough, VSauce just put out a short on this a couple of days ago.