Never mind “Call me Ishmael” or “It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen” or (my personal favorite) “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

It doesn’t change on output. What changes is your bodies hunger signals. Basically, your body likes being at balance so in absence of a structured dietary protocol just adding in aerobic activity will tend to be “eaten back” over time. Exercise is very good at regulating body weight but its very bad at being the sole…

There is no exercise program you can’t eat your way out of. Sad but true.

I went to an ophthalmologist because I have a condition that predisposes me to glaucoma. The danger of glaucoma, of course, is that the high pressure in your eyeballs might start killing your retina and you’ll go blind.

No matter how you do it wrong, it’s still more right than not doing it at all.

Exercise and dieting, just like brushing your teeth, no matter how you do it, you're doing it wrong. 

Ponzer and the constrained energy model is supremely fascinating and makes a lot of sense. Of course their are a lot of people twisting this to go way too far to say exercise doesn’t help with weight loss at all, which isn’t true. It does. Its just not AS GOOD as so folks claim.

I’ve never found it to be overly taxing to be both to the point in an automated OOO reply and to embrace my time away:

It’s kind of weird to equate succinct with snarky.

Depending on your industry—law and finance come to mind—”having fun” with your out of office probably tells your supervisor that you might be happier in a different industry.

If you fire someone over an auto-reply that doesn’t contain cuss words or slurs you’re a bad person.

yeah - perfect if you work for the government or the post office - realistic advice should be - you know - realistic. One of my folks puts a snarky automated reply that rubs customers [you know the folks paying your salary] the wrong way then they may find their tenure abbreviated.

Agreed. I’ve been doing this for awhile.

Personally, I feel e-mail should be checked but a reply should not be expected. If it’s something important, I want to know regardless. My out-of-office reply always includes the e-mail of someone covering for me.

So, while it might look funny, that guy is probably stressed to the absolute max.

Given what I’ve read about how Amazon drivers are compensated (or not) and micro-managed, I’m guessing he realized he forgot to deliver a package and had to go back to deliver it, which probably gets him in trouble or costs him money. 

Always laugh when companies do this. “We can’t afford to hire any more staff. Therefore we’ll pay overtime on the current staff, effectively paying you the wages of multiple more workers.”

I think just before this video, the words “Make a U-Turn” came from his GPS.

There isn’t a whole lot to go on. The video description includes “your guess is as good as mine”. Not sure what drove him to this state but I can certainly empathize with him. I’ve had many a day at work where its just bad from the start till finish. Swearing can be quite therapeutic at the time. Hopefully Amazon…