Even year!

it is not a good place to vomit

stop outsourcing your job to the people who read this site

Your wife is a saint.

Wasn’t a holiday party, but it was good.

My wife is head of HR/Operations for a startup in San Francisco. She managed their move into a new office, and hosted the big office warming party. Probably 250 employees/friends/etc in attendance.

I was 5 cocktails in when I started playing beer pong. That was mistake #1.…

Hell, you ain’t wrong.

So far this is the saddest story.

Not sure if this counts, but I lived in Seattle working retail for two years, and wasn’t making enough to afford a plane ticket home. So for Christmas, I made plans for some friends to come to my place so we could all commiserate. I made dinner, this unnecessarily complex version of eggplant parm that calls for…

My own office holiday parties are pretty unremarkable but I worked for a Museum that was used for a lot of upscale holiday parties for big tech companies. I worked in event coordinating and would help arrange venue rentals and coordinate logistics. Part of this was working with part time and contract staff to help…

Also fun: seeing the lengths people will go to try to look intelligent when they’re really just missing the point.

Hey, what do you expect? He’s a defensive guy!

The absolute best part of this is that he had $100 but not $60. Meaning he probably had a $100 bill. Which no one just has, it’s exclusively given as a gift from grandparents and rich relatives.

Well, there went my happy Friday.

I have officially lost all faith in humanity.

Elite soldiers, survivors—nay, conquerors—of the most grueling training and conditions known to man, primed and ready like the finest well-oiled weapons ever devised by man to hunt down and kill anyone at a moment’s notice... And they can’t help tripping over their own fucking feet at the merest sight of a woman.

I can understand somewhat the initial concern about physical strength but this is negated by the mandatory requirements. Aka if she can meet the physical strength required, then she has every right to be there.

Man don’t be THAT guy. Jeez

Not good Kinja, GREAT Kinja

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