I agree. If they wanted to write and include the note to her- fine. But posting it publicly is crossing boundaries/ a bit of a violation to me. Not cool.

I’m a little surprised to be feeling so much “Nope” over this.

Sometimes a terrible person is nice to wait staff, but a person who is mean to wait staff is always a terrible person.

When I was in college we were told to assume the second you walked/drove on the offices lot, every single person you came into contact was watching how you behaved for the interview so to act accordingly. They also told us to talk a lot with the receptionist because it would give us a good idea of the company values…

On the flip side, I once had a 9 am interview for a job and while I sat in the lobby chatting with the receptionist, I noticed that NOT ONE PERSON who came through on their way into the office said “hello” to her or even nodded a greeting. I took myself out the running for that position. Who wants to work there?

In a similar vein, a former company of mine always had BS/MS level chemists accompany job candidates to lunch, regardless of the level of the interviewee. One notable candidate was interviewing for Department Head - PhD with decades of experience. He was so deeply offended at having lunch with non PhDs he basically…

What we need is to just convince all the rude people to pretend to be polite all the time, that way we’ve tricked them into making a better society.

sounds like less blood than the ensuing aftermath of grabbing the wrong towel, though

I don’t see why you would ever use any font besides courier!

You are an educator and you have to ask? I hope that you are not teaching my children, you don’t seem to be in touch with reality. It is not bad at all that this parent has guidelines for their children.

I seriously need to implement a system like this for myself. The iPad and I can meld into the couch very easily and nothing productive gets done.

It’s not as bad as it sounds, honestly. Homework time is easy enough to estimate, since that’s done as soon as she walks in the door. Piano practice? She has a kitchen timer up there (we’re still in the “yes, you absolutely MUST practice, you’ll thank me for it later” stage). “Okay, now what?” Here’s a chore! Or two!…

I mean, if you substitute leisure for homework, yeah you’re gonna have problems. I think if you point out the prioritization, it’s not bad. But my parenting philosophy (in theory, not yet practice) is that the whole point of childhood is to prepare your kids to be responsible adults. For example, if I’m a dick at…

Well, yeah, I’m in the “too much of anything isn’t a good thing” camp. (This is coming from someone who spent most of her childhood summers glued to video games.) The thing about screens is you can get lost in them for eight hours at a time in the same position on the couch or in bed and never look up.

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I’m a black man in my thirties and my favorite sport is baseball, and that can be an incredibly lonely experience. Like Rock, I’m also a Mets fan, and I became a National League fan in part for the same reason he did (his father, like mine, hated the AL because it somehow managed to be even more racist than the NL).

Well put, Narrowback. I too am self-employed and spend over 40 hours, including weekends, at my desk, but not all are billable hours. I use a time-tracking tool to be accountable to clients (not because they require time logs, but they do like getting them), and it's amazing how much time gets sucked into responding…

I used to do that - the only drawback is that nearly 20 years of trying to keep up with my extrovert friends lead to a lovely case of alcoholism.

In an earlier version of this article, that was a serious suggestion. The only reason it didn't make the cut is because everyone reacts to alcohol differently (even the same person can have different reactions on different days). But, truth be told, when used responsibly, yeah. Alcohol is actually a really good…