I work in a field where you never talk money until an offer is made and I agree with you. It’s never happened, but if I took vacation time to fly across the country and busted my ass preparing for the required presentation only the find the new job would be a pay cut, I’d be PISSED. And as someone involved in hiring,…

Depends on the field. This 100% not true for my field.

The point of relationships is to provide support and companionship. I.e., make your life better. If someone isn’t making my life better, they can GTFO. And the better I get at providing for my own needs, the less the chance most people have of improving my life any. So at a time in my life when I should be desperate…

Most of my experience with therapists indicates they can’t find their ass with both hands. I wouldn’t worry too much.

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to build relationships not so much because I feel the lack of them but because I’m supposed to. And I do think that spending time with people whose company and I enjoy and with whom I have mutual affection would be good for me. But I can’t find those people. And with romantic…

My favorite is the couple bitching at each other about the “damn media whipping everyone into a frenzy” but that aren’t willing to abandon their own cart of supplies.

Probably. But after Sandy, it was hard to get food for a while.

My mom’s constantly on my butt about getting a snowblower instead of shoveling. At least three times this year I started to tell her “no one’s ever died from-oh, god dammnit. Just leave me alone, woman.”

I once considered inviting people to join me on my annual Thanksgiving hike, but then realized that would just ruin one of my most cherished traditions.

I’m one of the people who’s going to die of isolation and I’m fine with it. When I try to make friends they bore me to tears talking only about their kids* and when I try to date they either verbally abuse me for not liking them enough or vanish because I do like them. It’s not relationships that make you healthy,…

It would be funny to have a sitdown with guys like this about my ancestors. They came from northern Europe, were Protestant, and landed decades before the American Revolution.

I would say something about walking back to Asia but these guys don’t believe the Earth is that old.

Probably for the same reason incompetent orange people think they’re best qualified to run stuff.

Good news (for this guy): We’ll eventually get there.*

My diet can beat up your diet.

I do seem to enjoy it a lot more than a lot of my colleagues. They don’t seem to be in a hurry to leave though.

Pretty much everything I read about corporate world makes me glad to be a teat-sucking civil servant.

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And to be fair, even though I’m not an FX enthusiast, I rewatched Aliens recently and said “damn, these are badass FX, especially for pre-CG.”

I literally LOLed. It occasionally worked for him but I guess it’s more luck than skill.