We don’t actually have to ban all private gunownership, we just have to bring back the well-regulated militia part.

Customers and moving around and making displays, just bring in your feet and interacting with people is fun. Being in an office on the phone is not, even if I make a bigger contribution to our overall success this way. Also, my boss is the CEO, so pretty sure. ;)

If you have a family history it can be. No argument that the employer has adequate legal cause. In my state you wouldn’t even be able to get unemployment is you were fired in this situation. But what is legal isn’t always what is ethical or compassionate.

I have about 50 employees, two young managers that mind the day to day customer stuff and two part time assistant managers that back them up. Yes, retail employees can be a pain in the ass, especially the college students. Brown Bottle flu every Saturday morning, etc. But this wouldn’t fly with me.

The company that installed this is called Laser Vision for a reason. That is a raster scannedscanned Laser graphic. Hopefully the computer running it isn’t connected to the internet, but I bet it is. Hack away...

Can’t find a picture for you, but you should know I totally Dad-rocked the newborn twins in a front carrier while holding five year old boy’s hand look everywhere we went. Mom was finishing her dissertation so we got out of the house a lot. We’d leave lines of swooning ladies from 17 to 70 in our wake.

I was asked by my boss to fire some one in another department because her manager just couldn’t do it. The person really needed to go, performance had been bad for years, the job had always been a poor fit and repeated tweaking of the job description hadn’t helped. Problem was there was a very real concern this person…

Back that shit up. Back it up. Even small companies do this stuff now.

You might just want to Google “synthetic line snapback” just to disavow yourself of that idea.

on the plus side, you're basically ready for parenting.

well, not so fancy, but a Subway near us was using slave labor. The owners kept several immigrants locked up in their basement at night working 18 hours a day 7 days a week as your sandwich artist.

i just want to apologize. I travel quite often, and not only can I not charge my beer or two to the company charge (understandable), I can't pay for the meal myself and then do a reimbursement form for just the meal-portion, and if I'm travelling with coworkers for some reason we can't even group the table. Each…

yeah, that is not a really thorough understanding of how fossil fuels are formed. Get thee to a Wikipedia.

i live less than 100 feet from a busy pair of freight train tracks. 20+ trains a day most around 100 cars long hauling coal and heavy ore. Could not care less. If anything, when the kids were small we looked forward to a train passing as we knew it would rock them to sleep. I enjoy watching the different cars and…

If you want to make the rosemary syrup passé, try actual spruce tip syrup. We're just a few weeks from the time of year for making it. It is fantastic stuff.

i do have OAS, and while eating raw almonds or hazelnuts would have me running for Benadryl or an epi pen, I can do nutella fine (thank god) and almond paste as well with no problems. As HH said, its not technically an allergy but when my face gets puffy and I have difficulty breathing I don't quibble. Weirdly, this…

If you think burneko's articles are long, this will be mind numbing, but I've found this recipe an acceptable substitute for frying because Science!

A flask! Obviously. Perhaps an old Stanley thermos and unwashed, heavily stained coffee mug as the only acceptable alternative.

A flask! Obviously. Perhaps an old Stanley thermos and unwashed, heavily stained coffee mug as the only acceptable…

Old houses. Mortise style locksets with the keys long lost, or doors that have sagged and dont latch properly. The only door in our house that locks properly is the bathroom, and unlesswe have guests we dont use it because there is no key and with small kids that is just asking for trouble.

In neither a mall person nor someone who normally craves attention from others, but when my wife was finishing her thesis I would take my twin toddler daughters and young son to the mall just to get us out of the househouse so she could write. Ovaries would pop like fireworks as we walked down the halls.