Your last sentence is gold.
Your last sentence is gold.
Conservative white male here: I was raised the only thing I was owed was what I earned. I’ve spent time in the Army, worked my ass off to get through college and get an MBA, been fired twice and never once thought of blaming other for my failures.
Agreed. I’m 5'10" and solidly built. I travel 2-3 month of the year for business and have never had an issue with recline, even with about half my travel being international economy flights. The passenger in front of me has the “right” to fully recline, just as I do. I feel bad for the person who doesn’t have enough…
I’ll keep it around to make red-eye gravy or BBQ sauce. If not one of those, it goes into the garden to water the herbs.
I’ve never understood eating liver (or kidney for that matter). This is where the body filters/ stores all the bad stuff. Why would you want to put more of it in your body?
Along a similar line, we have kids cook night every other week. They pick the menu (with some guidance), get the groceries, and cook it (lightly supervised). It gives them and investment in the meal, the ability to plan ahead (how to cook and do homework in the same night), and an appreciation for mom and dad who do…
I came from a culture that equated value to the company with hours spent in front of the computer. You were expected to be available 24x7 even if you couldn’t influence results at 8PM on a Saturday. It was hell on me and my family.
We lived in Georgia when my oldest 2 were tweens, so we used the Georgia Book Awards list for our book club with them. We would set goals based on % of the list complete, bearing in mind that they wouldn’t want to complete or even like all the books. Mrs. Flame had to read all of them as she’s a teacher and was…
I travel a lot for work and have never had an issue due to careful planning. Normally, I hit the psylium husk every morning at breakfast. When traveling, I bring enough fiber gummies with me for the entire trip for morning and night dosing. I drink a lot of water and make sure to exercise at least every other day.…
I stole my chili recipe from a shall-be-unnamed Mayor of Flavortown. I know his personality may make him persona non grata, but the man can cook. Three different types of meat, three different chilies, two peppers, and half the spice drawer make for a hell of a pot.
I’m willing to give anything a try (I’ve had stomach, brains, intestines, ect) but I won’t touch liver or kidney. These are the parts of the body that filter out bad stuff, why do you want to put more of it back in? It just doesn’t make sense to me.
Preach! We can spend literally thousands of dollars of our money on school supplies for the classroom. We’ve been fortunate in the schools our kids have been in and where my wife has taught to have supportive PTAs, but I’ve seen bad ones where its’ more about self-aggrandizement. I’d just like some accommodations for…
A friend of the family was the VP of HR at a fortune 500 company. His line was always “you can’t spell ‘who cares?’ without HR.” He recognized that aside from the benefits administration, HR was just the Plastics in a corporate world. He worked hard to make HR as small and unobtrusive as possible.
I want to weigh in on going the other way. What if I want to help out, but the PTA only holds meetings at 9AM or 2PM? My wife and I both work and aren’t going to take vacation for PTA. We’ve brought it up and asked for meetings to be held at times that work for working parents. We get greeting with a plastic smile and…
I’ve got lots of stories beyond those, as well as stories of the unions doing good. My point wasn’t to gainsay all unions, just the thought of union management as a paragon of virtue. They’re just as fucked up as the rest of us, which the above comment didn’t want to seem to acknowledge.
I’ll agree the DNC hack was a schoolyard fight. It was funny to watch and nothing criminal happened in the email. The only criminality was how it got out into the world.
Sorry, but you are straight up wrong on that. It’s not the content of the emails that’s the issue. Its the fact that top secret emails and other classified materials were on an unsecured server in her basement. Any one else does something like that (maybe a Navy LT who took a picture of a control panel of a sub) goes…
I’m a conservative and my line has always been unions have an important place in business, but they need to stop fighting the Battle of the Overpass. You can’t teach people that management is always out to screw you over, then be surprised when management does that. I’ve been around union and non-union shops for 20+…
Which president was it that passed NAFTA? I keep forgetting who landed between the Bush’s that did that.
My wife and I been in both union and non-union workplaces for 20+ years. We’ve seen more cases of the union going to bat for shitheels based on animus towards management regardless of evidence than helping to weed out bad apples. Some examples: