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Vidmaster7 wrote:I don't think you'd have enough space in your house. But again, I'm the greedy guts of the company.Oh... Yeah I wouldn't want that. That's a lot of people to have to entertain.
.. Hope I don't have to feed them...
How many people we talking here? ball park figure.

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An American man was entertaining his Scottish cousin. They went to a baseball game so the Scotsman could experience the great American pastime. He was confused by much of it, and asked the American for explanations of pretty much everything that happened. At one point, the pitcher threw the ball four times to the catcher, and the batter dropped his bat and jogged over to first base. The Scot asked "Why did he just go to first base?" "Well, he has four balls, so he gets to walk," replied the American. The Scottish cousin seemed incredulous and said "He has four balls? Are you sure of that?" "Yes." The Scotsman stood up and yelled loudly to the batter "Walk with pride, man! WALK WITH PRIDE!!"

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Just a Mort wrote:How many people we talking here? ball park figure.Vidmaster7 wrote:I don't think you'd have enough space in your house. But again, I'm the greedy guts of the company.Oh... Yeah I wouldn't want that. That's a lot of people to have to entertain.
.. Hope I don't have to feed them...
I think about 5. Not that many people really.

lisamarlene |
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Eleven work days remaining.
I can taste my sister's cooking already.
Since it's a holiday, and since we're all gonna be there, she'll probably buy the industrial-sized bottle of fry oil and make both fried green tomatoes AND beignets.
Also when we're together at Christmas, my sister and I always have a pierogi-making day.
Okay, I guess I'm not allowed to eat anything but salad from now until the time we leave. Also I need to start going to Mort's gym and run about 48 miles a day.

Tacticslion |
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Time for wholesomeness ala LoZ fan comics~!
Take care of him, okay? Sh-... shut it. It's you who's crying, dang it!
And now... I must away!

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Eleven work days remaining.
I can taste my sister's cooking already.
Since it's a holiday, and since we're all gonna be there, she'll probably buy the industrial-sized bottle of fry oil and make both fried green tomatoes AND beignets.
Also when we're together at Christmas, my sister and I always have a pierogi-making day.Okay, I guess I'm not allowed to eat anything but salad from now until the time we leave. Also I need to start going to Mort's gym and run about 48 miles a day.
Yeah I've a cousin getting married next Sat... And it's all that food and drink which is horrible for losing weight. Argh holiday season why do you make my weight loss hard?! And seriously 48 miles isn't doable. Last Sat I ran 3.1 miles and nearly ended up with blisters. And of course got the usual customary stitches.

lisamarlene |
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lisamarlene wrote:Counting today, twelve school days until Winter Vacation.
I love working at this school better than any I've worked at so far, but I am tired, I want to see my mom and my sister and my niece and my grandma, and I want someone to cook for me.
But I have to give my first batch of parent-teacher conferences at this school on Friday, and even though that's something I'm usually really good at, I'm anxious about it.
We're still having a hard time just getting through each month. WW's job is helping us squeak by without any more loans from his mom (which is good, because she's said she's done helping, and we can start paying her back aaaaanytime now), but it's super tight. He needs a better job SOON. $12/hour gross with no paid time off does not cut it.
Tough times LM.
If you ever feel like things are getting over you're head and you need some help, don't hesitant to ask. Its a bit hard for me for sure sitting on this side of the pond, but if nothing else I could throw a few dollars you're way. It'll probably just be a spit in the bucket, but I want to help where I can…
Cause well, you people are good people.That too goes for making you a meal. Wish I could just package one up and send it across the pond, but I couldn't really guarantee the condition it would arrive in ^^'
Thank you, Kjel.
What I actually meant by the "cook for me" comment was that, in Oregon, my kid sister does all the cooking, and I get to play with my niece and talk to her while she cooks. My sister's cooking, like NH's, puts mine to shame.
I feel incredibly lucky that, even though things have been a little rough before and since we moved, WW's mom basically views us moving to Texas as her Long Term Care insurance policy. She's lent us some of the money she was saving to move into Assisted Living someday, with the understanding that (a) we will start paying it back after the first of the year, and (b) after her house is renovated and we move in, as she ages, she will be able to stay in her own home instead of moving into a facility, and we will make sure she is able to stay as independent as she can.
So we've had help that most people in our situation don't have access to.

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I'm amused that my "days of left in the year" is one off from lisamarlene's.
Including today, I have 12 work days left in the year.
Of course, having the day off on the 17th for a colonoscopy might be considered "work" in and of itself.
And we just got an email from Payroll saying that the 31st is a work day.
Seriously? It sure won't be for me...

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The Vagrant Erudite wrote:there is something wrong with me then. I hate the office.Every Fallout 76 commercial just had me think of this clip. Best "Take Me Home" cover ever.
If you don't laugh at the end of that, there may be something wrong with you.
Yeah I know. But that clip is gold. Even if you dislike the series, that's a diamond.

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I have to admit, it is both refreshing and depressing to sit in on an engineering meeting and to be impressed solely because the engineers aren't trying to be evil.
Basically, they're building a new tool to track user behavior, which nowadays is always a red flag, red flag, stop right now moment...
...except I'm sitting in on the other side of things and it's all about, "Yeah, all we need to know is what page they visited and what action(s) they performed, so don't collect anything else there. And be very sure not to collect any personally-identifiable information, because that's illegal. So before you record anything, ask yourself, 'Will this data help us fine-tune our tool?', and if it won't, don't collect it."
Just a concrete, rational discussion of, "We need field data to improve our product. How can we collect it in a minimally-intrusive manner that doesn't compromise our customers' privacy?"
What company DOES that any more?
Apparently mine does, and I have to admit, I'm pretty darned happy about it.

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*looks up from baby owlbear*
I don't know, but I approve.
*tries to teach baby owlbear how to twerk*
Well, I know what I'm going to be seeing in my fevered nightmares.
I managed to sleep 13 hours. So that is good.
Jelly~! Go, you! Recover! Woo!
Tiny T-Rex is home with an elevated temperature, so that should be fun.
Man, I hear ya. Tell your kiddo that a weird adult man from the internet that he's never met really gets him. Actually don't tell him that at all, it sounds horrible. But I relate to his problems! Related: make sure he knows never to talk to people on the internet!
Microsoft essentially admits that it sucks at web browsers.
It's about time...!
Quietly wonders what he's going to do with all those PDFs he has opened in Edge, which is the only thing he actually uses it for, 'cause it's kind of okay for that.
Finally: puns are good people. That is all.

NobodysHome |
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On the other hand, yet again we didn't make the cut.
Ah, well... maybe next year...
...or more than likely not...
EDIT: OK, this is getting embarrassing. I had a couple of minutes so I went to Glassdoor itself. We're not even in the top 100 large companies. In fact, I'm still looking for us...
LOLOL. The quote about us is that we're a company that provides stable employment with a low workload, but not much else going for us. That is SOOOOO accurate it's scary!

Tacticslion |
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I love The Office.
Or more specifically, The Office with Steve Carrell, things went downhill without him (Ed Helms trying to be Steve Carrell didn't do it for me, at all).
I found the Office to be... okay. It wasn't the best, but it was okay, and, sometimes, pretty good. Other times, notsomuch.