This is very true. I am on the computer by 8 and usually stay on through about 7 at night when I work from home.

I'd have forwarded it too. Yahoo wants to screw them. Good for them for screwing a little back.

I think you hit the nail on the head. "Soft layoff" indeed.

It's not a cost-cutting move. Our company nearly pushed people out of the office into their homes to save money. It costs much more to heat/air condition and rent the space a cubicle occupies than it does if you have the employee work from home and then put the burden of those basic necessities onto them.

In my company, you have to have a relatively high performance rating to work from home. If your performance ever falls below that, they can, and will, yank you back into the office.

You can definitely piss yourself almost anytime, or crap too. These aren't things I've ever thought of doing, so I'm not going to be offended by someone suggesting it. If I have the means to expel some disgusting bodily fluid at my disposal, then why the fuck wouldn't I?

I love, love, LOVED that she starred alongside Penelope Wilton in that movie. I saw the movie before I ever saw Downton Abbey, and when I saw the two of them together again it just clicked, - THAT'S where I know Cousin Isobel from!

I am a highly introverted manager of a team in a large company. I spent nearly all of my 8 hour days in meetings and conference calls. When I come home, all I want is silence.

The very definition of a first world problem.

I used to do on call, had to be available 24x7. Not even in shifts. What I did was mentally break from work as soon as I passed under the arbor in front of the building's front door. If they called me that was fine, but I would not think or do any work thing until they did. And I also took liberties with my "in the…

I have, a couple of times. The first time, I was working for an alcoholic narcissist. He was prone to violent rage. He took advantage of me and everyone who worked for him, because he was also very high up in the company.

Alive? Perhaps. Well? That's a whole 'nother story. It's useless on my Android these days. I get notifications of voicemails or texts anywhere from 10 minutes to 48 hours after they're received. It's gotten bad enough that I want to leave.

We use corks under the handles of pots in our kitchen so we don't need potholders to pick up lids.

My rule of tipping is if the extra dollar (or five or ten) over the standard 20% (my standard) isn't a big deal to you, but would be a big deal to the person you're tipping then dammit, just leave it on the table.

Thank you! Fifth it...

When I saw "Cats" on Broadway I was in the front row, to one side and I had actor/cats crawling over me at one point to get onto the stage. It was quite intimate, and pretty freaking awesome.

The point of standing though is that I DO move around. I pace. I switch back and forth from leg to leg. I stretch. I putter around, all because I don't have my butt perched in a chair.

I often remember bits and pieces of dreams I've had recently. I find that if I get in bed and start trying to play out the dream I had the night before, and piece together bits of it, I immediately start to get sleepy.

My experience is that 10+ years post-Lasik I am around 20/40. I wear glasses while using my computer just to relieve eyestrain. I was corrected immediately post-Lasik to 20/20 & 20/25, but that was in my twenties. In my 40's now, my eyes change generally, and also hormonal changes for women can impact vision.

Not an ultra marathoner, but I do half marathons and my husband does full marathons and half/full Ironman distances.