Jordan Horowitz handled that really well. Instead of getting caught up in saying, “What the hell?” to the guys who came out to inform him, he immediately told the “Moonlight” team that they’d won and beckoned them up onto the stage. He must have been disappointed and angry, but obviously his gut reaction was wanting…

I’m guessing (I don’t know the La La Land dudes) that the bald fellow who broke the news over the mic was the above-mentioned Jordan Horowitz?

I’ve never seen him before but I admire how he was serious as a heart attack about this. He wasn’t having any jokes, he was not putting up with any confusion, and he fucking…

That La La Land producer is who we all want to be in that moment. Decisive, understands priorities, gets the proof out there ASAP, and his hand was steady as a fucking rock holding that card up for the cameras to read.

I’m dying right now. My neighbor just landed in Iceland and has been posting (really beautiful, so I don’t mind, it’s a break from the endless, LulaRue and Herbalife promotion and general complaining) pictures on Facebook for the last three hours. I need to ask her when she gets back what prompted this, because I just…

Flying over the tip of Greenland was an unexpected bonus of visiting Iceland. Pretty spectacular landscape and more different shades of colors of water bodies than I have ever seen in such close proximity.

Wyoming is amazing. Where my uncle lives there’s more deer per square mile than people. When driving through a small town, there was a local radio PSA of the mayor saying: “Remember folks, when you do tourists a favor, you do your town a favor.”

There are several people who visited Yellowstone and came home as horribly scalded corpses who would disagree with that assessment.

This is absolutely true. Don’t be the office asshole. It will definitely follow you. When people leave a company, they often will go to the next company you might try to go. If the hiring manager hears they used to work at the same place you did, the boss will ask them what kind of person you were. If they say you…

None of these things came off as super terrible to me. You’re there to do a job. Maybe I read this with a built-in disclaimer of “but be professional about it,” but things like not adding them on social media and popping on headphones to work seem like common sense. And of course, people need to give you time to work.…

I honestly haven’t heard that. Do you have a source? I tried looking it up, but google just blasted me with more articles about how much people are changing jobs.

Fact: people change jobs now less often than 20 years ago.

Be visible, be productive, be friendly. You don’t have to be friends with your coworkers, but you can be friendly with them. That one who guy who talks your ear off about the Dallas Cowboys on the way to the parking garage? Smile and nod. Ask some generality about where he thinks Romo will go next year. Wave at him…

You have no social skills and in 20 years, you’ll be doing the same fucking shit you’re doing now because of that. Grow the fuck up.

Pretty much. It turns out that the higher up you go, the more you will need to interact and communicate with people. That’s not just the management track, either; that’s being a team lead, systems engineer, subject matter expert, or whatever.

Yeah I hated that, but that taught me how to deal with different people. I don’t agree with people left or right these days as far as I know both sides suck but thats another day and ——-(thats why politics should not be discussed at work) but doesn’t mean I’m the dick who everyone knows hates being there. That guy…

The amount of corporate-speak boilerplate being bandied about the greys is sickening. I’m 27 in an office of ten people who are all(except me of course) 55 or older. There is no possible universe where I should be expected to humor Shirley’s 20 minute diatribe about her kid’s case of the sniffles or Chuck’s…

The best advice I got as an engineering intern was “for the first three years, go to every happy hour / holiday party / lunch / kickball game.” It will make a huge difference come the inevitable layoff purges or when you’re looking for the next gig and SURPRISE! one of your former co-workers happens to be there too.

Yeah. Yikes. I’m not thrilled with my current situation, but at least having a cadre of like-minded friendly coworkers keeps me halfway sane (or at least appear that way through proximity and comparison). If it weren’t for occasional forced camaraderie, I’d still be pushing buttons on the night shift begging for…

FTFY

Where do you have the time to do origami every bm? For the man going on the go, the ol stand and wad is the only way to go. I’m already halfway out the door while you’re fussing about with that toilet paper crane