What is the point of LinkedIn anyways, can anyone actually describe it to me? All these years later and I’m still confused. The only thing I’ve found it useful for, is basically a digital rolodex for when I want to get ahold of someone. I can’t read the news feed or whatever it’s called, it’s insufferable.

I remember no handing my S10, flipping through these books, dart hangin out of my mouth going about 30 over the speed limit (which was about all it could handle). Straight piped 4 cylinder. I was a terror in my late teens lol.

The marketing has been pretty weird. Lots at release, then basically nothing.

If you want to sell something in a competitive landscape, even high schoolers know this simple fact in one easy step…

The shareholders need to start calling out the clear bias of the boards constitution. Vanguard and iShares combined hold more shares than Elon does. It’s clearly doable, it’s just time for some adults in the room. If you hold Vanguard and iShares etfs in your accounts, don’t be afraid to let them know this.

I think they mean for the parts of the day where we aren’t all angry dads. You know, bedtime and the such…

It’s got to be pretty god damn insulting for sure.

I currently live in a province in Canada, that is currently ruled by a government that is governing under what’s basically an MO of Covid and vaccine revenge.

There’s no hope for humanity. Absolutely none. That’s my lesson from Covid. The majority of the people around me, my neighbours, etc, are basically all incapable of logical thought and highly susceptible to disinformation and rogue actors.

Dell sucks at everything. This work computer that I have is an absolute pile of shit. Yet it cost more than my high end gaming computer that absolutely smokes it in every way.

I got a 73% raise for jumping ship after just under four years at my old job, back in 2021 2022. I was getting nothing but gaslighted when I pointed out that my salary was becoming a bit under the indicated going rate. Which to me quickly indicated that they saw me as disposable, as they refused to respond to clear and well laid out backup. Then the phone rang, so I mean that was that. I did what disposable people do, and jumped out the window.

I’ve since gotten one promotion and about another 30% increase from my starting rate, which means I’m making more than double what I was just two years ago. But I’m not resting on that. I’m always watching and thinking about what’s next. It’s a competition for my labour, and I will more often than not side with the highest bidder. I don’t give a shit about tenure, or my potential growth, or my so-called future within your company. Unless you show me the path, a well laid out timeline with mutually defined goals that you clearly will stick to, and the money. Then I might care. But even then, I’m always a bit weary, and it’s almost always more rewarding to chase external opportunities and promotions. That said, I’ve also never had an employer that’s truly believed in me and actually been legitimately concerned with my growth before. It’s always been take take take, false promises and failures to actually deliver on insinuated opportunities when the chips fell. Ones mileage may vary though.

I think the answer to this is actually fairly simple. When the bossman tells me something’s in my best interest, I’m just immediately suspicious. Like I know in your example it maybe is, you’ve laid out your logic and all of that. But you have to realize that for every good boss, there’s probably 15 bad ones. Western economic, labour systems and power structures have been so lopsided for generations, that it’s literally hard coded in us to be suspicious. Whenever someone comes at me from work with a big smile and excitement, my flags FLY to red alert. Because I’m statistically far more likely to be on the raw side of the deal.

I look at it differently. It’s my job to invest in, and create an environment that people don’t want to ever leave. It’s a two way street. If people are only hanging around for a year, something is up, and it probably ain’t their fault.

NDP needs to get their shit together. I mean I’m largely aligned with the general NDP platform, truth be told. But you are right, the need to get louder and more vicious.

PP basically needs someone to do what he’s doing to Trudeau, to him. There’s lots of material, hanging low on the tree to be picked.

If anyone needs this dumbed down, you know that angry white trash guy down the street, that shows up to any sort of pride festival event with a bunch of signs and his Christian lunatic buddies? The one that has the REPENT and biblical signs nailed poorly to the side of their house? Yeah that’s Christian Heritage. They policies they stand for are convoluted, but basically are wedged somewhere in between Nazi Germany and the stone ages. They used to be full Nazi, but of course that led to like a 0.003% share of the vote, so now they are trying to hide it a little better. And doing a poor job at it.

So I mean I can’t speak for this guy, but I’m Type 1, and a terrible med person, so there’s a few things I feel like I can address personally:

Points 1 And 2) I’m legit bad at taking my medication. It’s not doing it out of malice or with ill intent, I’m just absent minded and my life can be chaotic and distracting. I’m a senior-ish executive with young children - from the moment I open my eyes till the moment I close them it’s either work, my wife, my kids or something else asking for or taking my attention, and I just forget, legit. I had a pretty bad infection from something a little while ago, and I took the antibiotics like a good little soldier until about day 4, when I inevitably start sliding, and by day 7, I just plain forget. My wife nags me, I set them out and they inevitably just get cluttered over by something else, and well yeah, out of sight out of mind, and then thats me not taking my medication.

For someone like me, it’s like if I’m in agony, then yeah I’ll take something. Minute I’m not though, it starts sliding in my attention span. Even with insulin and diligently checking my blood sugars, heck even if I’m low or whatever, you just get complacent. Life’s distracting, and this is something I have to deal with day in day out, it’s no longer novel or exciting and sometimes I just don’t pay attention to it. Until it’s happening to you personally, not clinically, like I completely understand your confusion, but I’m not sure you can completely understand where someone like myself or this guy is coming from, until you are living what we experience. It’s just one of those things thats hard to justify, and everyone ends up all confused and basically starts shaming you for it. That isn’t going to fix it, how it usually (temporarily) helps me in this situation, is to have someone set temporary goals and then we work from there. You’ll have to trust me when I say I’m the bane of my diabetes educators existence.

Even that all said, let’s just thank the lucky stars my version of this disease for whatever reason isn’t as crazy as some peoples, I still generally take care of myself, I have good a1c values and I’m generally doing well. I tend towards lows and highs sometimes, but I mean the disease is just a fucking mystery sometimes, it doesn’t always respond to the meds, and I also do think the medical professionals sometimes don’t fully comprehend that. They are used to being like here’s a pill, oh you’ll be fixed. Sometimes diabetes is just like BOOM curveball, because there’s a full moon or it’s a low pressure system blowing in, or whatever. It’s a fuck of a disease, both types 1 2 and I guess what they call 3 now. And I mean this can come out of left field and next thing you know you are laying on the floor. Now while this somehow has still never happened to me yet (and hopefully never does), I totally get how it happens. I’ve def come close a few times, and it happens in what feels like seconds (which is probably minutes or hours, but you are on a different brain wave pattern when you are ultra high and ultra low).

This also happens to be a point you get to mind wise where you just completely zone out. My wife calls it the voodoo zone. My IQ goes from like whatever it is to about 20 when I’m in the voodoo zone. I also have a trigger fuse temper when I’m in this state, and I usually am basically a raving lunatic who doesn’t always make any sense. I do realize it is happening sometimes, but something in my brain just refuses to connect the dots with the fact that I’m angry over usually nothing and I need to maybe check my sugar. I’ve had moments where like I’m calmly trying to explain something to my wife and she’s got this look on her face, and she isn’t getting it, so you get madder and it’s like why aren’t you getting this, and the poor person on the other side is listening to someone who isn’t even really speaking they are just moaning and slurring words. Sometimes someone has to snap you out of it, and when there’s not someone to do so, then you have what’s happening to this guy, at least by the sounds of it. I’ve had this happen at both extremes, super high and being super low (mostly super low though).

As for point 3) Blood thinners just legit scare me. So I’m supposed to take a 5mg cholesterol pill and a 5mg blood pressure pill, for “preventative” sakes. Again, I never take them, and that’s not great like even I will outright admit that. But they scare me. For whatever reason they don’t make me feel that great. My blood pressure is pretty much the same no matter what. My chol and blood pressure are still within acceptable range, but higher as my disease is progressing and I’m just getting old, fatter and fed up with the bullshit of day to day life (mostly work related), so I mean I def should be taking them. But I told my doctor, I’m not touching a blood thinner. Too many horror stories. Plus you always read the signs at the amusement parks and whatever, and they just sound horrifying and life limiting. I still want to live like I’m young and crazy. It just makes me uncomfortable, and it sounds like it’s going to limit me. Am I still going to be able to go 1,000 mph on my mountain bike in the mountains for instance? There’s always lots of crashing and lots of blood donated. So probably not (and I’m maybe even just imagining this, I dunno). So for better for worse, I mean if it’s life or death, then I’ll re-evaluate, but until then, no way Jose.

Also to speak to the phone and passive aggressiveness, some people are just, for lack of better words, fucking assholes. If you ever figure out why or how to fix this, please message me at your first opportunity and spill the beans on how to bring an end this endless parade of douchebags. Because it’s legit a world wide epidemic.

There’s definitely something to be said for this. What I can’t understand, is a lot of these places are locked into long term lease holds. So the office is there whether they like it or not, through no decision or input or action of the employees. So why double down on bad decisions? Why not just treat adults like, you know, adults, and let them decide their best location for that day? Will some permanently stay home? Sure. Will some come into the office 5 days a week? Likely. Will some maybe come in for a change of scenery, or in certain situations for voluntary or collegial collaboration (which is supposed to be the whole point of this exercise, but notice the voluntary part)? Likely. And so what? Why risk pissing your employees off then, by forcing people in against free will?

Start small, everything good in life happens by first taking baby steps. I’m an introvert too, and I’m a senior manager, so I can’t just ignore everyone, as a really big part of my job is managing people. I have the very same feelings you do, a lot of the time I feel like I’m wasting time, I’m super busy and my time is very valuable. But in the very same way, so is theirs. Flip the script a bit, like they are coming to you and talking to you about something they feel is very valuable for you to know about. They are considering you a valuable part of their day, so pay that back in some way. Doesn’t mean you need to drone on all day with someone if you aren’t interested. But do give them a couple minutes of your time, it won’t make or break your day if it’s bite sized.

Then after a polite couple of minutes, just stretch your arms, let out a big sigh and just say, "whelp guess I better get back to it, I gotta get this done this morn/aft, roll your eyes, let out an awkward chuckle, and there you go. Just find a polite way to break the conversation. Even tell little white lies if you have to, for example, “whelp, I have to get this TPS report down to Julie, she’s been waiting for me.” Things like that can work too.

Also it helps to just show people little bite sized acts of kindness, as you inevitably make your way around the office. Oh! I like your necklace or hey how was your weekend? How goes the battle? Like little prompts to show kindness, but not necessarily ones that will get you sucked into long convos. These are usually met with a shrug of the shoulders, or a great how was yours, and you can just say yeah it was great, not long enough laughs. And there you go, on with your day, and everyone will think to themselves, that 6H, they are an OK person.

Just understand and be comfortable with it being hard. It’s hard for me too sometimes, like it’s not as natural as it is for other people. I just have to make sure I give it a bit of conscious effort, and it easily goes a long way as long as there is genuine effort. Remember that no one actually wants to be there, like they all feel the same generally uncomfortable way you do, they just express it in a different way. Work is a means to an end for everyone else too. People need connection to find meaning, and we do too, we just struggle internally with what that exactly means, and the value of it a bit more.

Came here to say the same thing. It’s crazy how these people put on blast how they basically don’t have a viable business. Guess it doesn’t take brains or business sense to open a restaurant though. Just about the worst kind of business you could open.

Sounds pretty rad! Hope the sticks stay in the closet, where they belong.

There is no flexibility when you have mandated WFH and RTO. Can you come and go on your own accord, going to an office only when you feel you would better accomplish your tasks there? That’s flexibility. We work from home Monday Tuesday, and at the office Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday? That’s not flexibility.

It took a couple shots for me, but I found a chair that seems to be perfectly suited to my body and the level of support I need. As an added bonus, it wasn’t even that expensive.