I was fired from my last job, for complete BS reasons, but anyway....when I was asked about it while job-hunting, I usually put it down to new leadership and a reorganization, but later adjusted to “the nature of the position changed to where it was no longer a good fit for me” which was kind of true...they took an…

Fired at a job interview? That’s pretty impressive!

Depends on where you live.  If you’re in a “Right to Work” state, you live in a “Right to Work Somewhere Else” state.  They can drop you for any reason, and they don’t even have to tell you why.

Given the current climate for workers in this country, we can all be fired on a whim. Employers know that. The last layoff I experience was when the boss decided to move some people from shift to shift and bring on a younger, cheaper person for one of them. Hard to put that in any positive light.

Re: the voicemail advice, I think it’s a bad idea to include that it’s bad news you need to share. Without any context, the recipient is going to imagine every possible horrible scenario which can be pretty distressing on its own until they can get in touch. My parents were constantly leaving me VMs like “I have some…

No question. I have a friend in IT, and he said his job is easier with face-to-face collaboration. Not all jobs are created equal.

It has a lot of its own challenges. I work remotely between two and three days a week, and most of my in-person coworkers have staggered WFH schedules as well so the office never really has a critical mass of people on side, but that’s also because we’ve got people on these project teams who are in Canada, India, New…

Jokes on you!

I think we’ve reached a point in time where buffalo chicken dip is a de facto Super Bowl food. 

I had a co-worker who would read the obits just to see if her ex-husband was finally in them.

Mom’s mom read the obituaries every day.  Mom would ask her why she did it because it seemed kind of morbid.  Grandma would say, “What if I died last night and nobody told me?”

Yeah, I agree with you on that. I’ve been treated horribly by certain people in my life (domestic abuse, rape) but I would never feel any closure or sense of satisfaction from writing an obit like this, or saying things that are this harsh.

My take on things like this is that person is dead. They aren’t going to hear what you said.

If newspapers and obituaries are still a thing when I’m close to kicking the bucket, I’m gonna have one written that isn’t full of shit, like 90% of the obits we see today - not that I’ve seen any lately, it’s been over a year since the last time I held an actual newspaper.

Now that I think about it, if the aliens are thinking about abducting some people for their intergalactic zoo, I’ll go.

I mean, if that were true, it would at least be one of the few things about his presidency which was normal. Remember when the Bush administration gave huge, no-bid contracts to Halliburton and its subsidiaries, a company that Dick Cheney just happened to have once had a huge financial interest in and presumably was…

They do - he specifically orders it that way. It’s called a Moscow Special.

That’s corrupt as hell. He’s stealing money from people that need it to fund a wall/fence that isn’t needed, at all.