My boss at my last job (I’m now blissfully self-employed) didn’t believe that burnout needed to be an eventuality. You could call her and say, “I’m taking a mental health day,” and she’d cover you with HR. I would walk into her office in the early afternoon on a Friday every couple of months and say, “I just got hit…

I’ve worked in a career path that is incredibly conducive to burnout (911/Emergency dispatch), and it’s a very real thing to many people for a variety of reasons.

Depends on the union and the situation - where I’m at, if you work hard enough that real burnout is actually the reason you need time off, you’d already have been ostracized by the other union members for “making everybody else look bad.” Burn out doesn’t just come because your employer is making you work 70 hour…

“I’m gonna write 200 tickets...before noon!”

My dad fell for that scam. A screen popped up on his computer that he couldn’t close, so he called the number. I had to cancel his credit card and put a watch on his credit report. Not to mention cleaning out his computer of all the other gunk, and going through and changing all of his passwords.

I bought my grandmother a tablet a few months back. Before I would give it to her, I made her take an internet safety class for the elderly at the library. Then I taped my phone number to the back so she could call me if she thought anything was weird.

My personal favorite memory of the last type of scam you mentioned is from about 15 years ago. I was heading home from my gf’s place and stopped for gas in a shady part of town. A guy comes up to me telling me he “just needs a couple bucks to buy coolant for his overheating car.” Well, this man was in luck! My car…

Funny, I have two answers burned into my brain now....but only if they have the Apu type sound to their voice.

I always get this guy who says my Windows computer “has a virus” and I need to give him my access info. I tell him I have an Apple machine and he calls back in 5 minutes saying my Apple computer “has a virus” and I need to give him my access info.

Finally someone positive on the pregame show

Oh wow, thanks. I will continue never watching this program.

This seems Sierra Tango Uniform Papa India Delta.

...like killing the families of terrorists, something which Trump has of course advocated.

I dunno... Rachel Maddow?

A good point gathered from Reddit on this story:

After a week of losing my aunt to a drunk driver, and my 14 yo lab to cancer, I needed this.