Margins in so many of these businesses are so thin, and work staff are so integrated into the team, some of these workplaces de facto shut down with the absences. The absences are for laudable reasons, but if the business isn’t open, there can be a high price. That’s why protests and strikes are powerful - you do it…

I am not advocating 80 hours for everyone — this just an argument that not all CEOs are fatcats doing 4 hours of work each day. Their relative compensation is just quite high.

You misread. I say “34 hours straight” - as in all work, no sleep, no shower, shove a foodstuff in mouth and keep going. I used to do 40+ hour straight slogs with some frequency - they would now kill me. I became a sociopath on Day 2. (You work all night, the sun comes up, the rest of the deal team is awake, emails…

I literally only work with executives, and I’ve never known a single one to pick up his kids at 3 pm unless his wife was sick. There is far more talking and meetings in a CEO’s daily life than computer work, but if your CEO is on his/her computer for 50%+ of the time (which seems like legitimate work), the company is…

We were on a well, but I got fluoride treatments regularly. Very few cavities (one after braces, one in college, a tiny one a decade ago that they didn’t even numb me for). I started killing my gums and enamel at an early age, so I think that kids should be told not to take a death grip to their toothbrush. It isn’t…

Many thanks, Creepy Stranger! (first, last and only time I’ll probably ever say that.)

To be clear, I don’t think he’s an elected official, just a party leader for the GOP in that location. Which probably has its own internal elections, but certainly not from the general population.

I’ve been here forever, too. 5 years? Definitely pre-Kinja, but had to get a new burner and then not throw out the password. Out of the grays everywhere else, but I’m okay with it. You have to mine deep for my insightful views and witticisms!

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This is a good way to live. You’ll need to cull eventually (or get a bigger place), but of course people start with more stark surroundings — they don’t come to their new digs with a whole host of objects and possessions that have meaning to them. We’ve had a house for 15 years. It took us 5 years before we had all of…

I routinely brush my teeth once a day, and I certainly eat sugar, but I skip brushing at night a lot. I have gums that have been eroding since I was teenaged, and for some reason, I’ve never really liked brushing my teeth before bed, so I got a little lazy about it in adulthood. I had a dentist that commented on my…

GAWDAMMIT - watching this made me feel bad for an addled old man with a demonstrably broken spirit who appears in part humbled. This isn’t even fun anymore.

Yeah, there’s a lot of hyperliberal concern-trolling here. Only a little bit of examination. I think there’s a far finer line than explored here. The Kloss shoot does appear to go too far - even if it seems on the respectful end of the spectrum. At the point of doing up the hair and the powdered face, most people…

Most people who are tall enough are probably OK just getting a standard, not comfort, height toilet. Taller toilets are a scourge perpetrated by Big Plumbing to make you think your toilet is fancier, all the while your GI system grinds to a halt. I insisted on a standard height toilet when we did a bathroom remodel,…

Most people who are tall enough are probably OK just getting a standard, not comfort, height toilet. Taller toilets…

Sitting up straight is the opposite of what this is supposed to be helping. You’re supposed to be making a more acute angle between your torso and your legs because that muscle releases more easily or the last bit of your intestinal tract straightens more. So, if you weren’t propping your legs up, you could try to get…

Sitting up straight is the opposite of what this is supposed to be helping. You’re supposed to be making a more…

With the risk that it puts me in nutty company, I have a food sensitivity that I developed as an adult. There are a lot of websites claiming an allergy or sensitivity to the substance is fake, with chemists and doctors trying to allege that chemically, a sensitivity or allergy isn’t possible and it’s psychosomatic.…

I love that there is a German word for this. A long word, but a word nonetheless.

I’m an only child, but I still got super good at it, and can tell even now if there sounds like an extra person on our landline or on conference calls.

Take it from me, your therapist is bummed about the world these days, too.

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