Ehhh.... There’s like three situations where your GPA matters... Your first job out of school (when you don’t have any real experience), jobs in academia, and high-profile jobs where people are going to be digging into your background (say, if you’re the President of the United States and people want to see if you’re…

I actually make myself look a little less qualified, to give other candidates a sporting chance. It’s intimidating enough that they’re competing with a sentient snowy owl/German shepherd hybrid; finding out I’m more experienced, smarter, more attractive and more qualified just makes it worse for them.

We found out Mrs Snowdog’s cancer came back a few months ago. Nobody tells you grieving can precede a loss.

Here’s a parenting hint for you... Take a look at the Scouts BSA Handbook for parenting tips and ideas. Lots of things like this, and if you take a look at some of the merit badges required for Eagle, you’ve got a pretty solid “Adulting 101" guidebook for your tween/teen...

Can I introduce you to Mrs Snow Dog? Back when she did the cooking, it was required that you taste everything she made for the meal, and forbidden to complain/comment on it.

Yep, there’s nothing wrong with it, and knowing your families food foibles is the best way to passive-aggressively express your displeasure with them.

Yep, there’s nothing wrong with it, and knowing your families food foibles is the best way to passive-aggressively express your displeasure with them.

I just call the Snow Pups “little assholes” when they’re difficult. Everyone understands it — other parents, single people, even grandparents.

I’m only antagonistic towards idiots, though it seems there are more and more of those around anymore.

My name isn’t on that list, unless they want to put my name on the building after they lose the breach of contract lawsuit.

“I had a client recently whose California-based employee decided that while she’s been mandated to work from home for the next year, she may as well go live in Arizona where her boyfriend is. She can certainly do her job from Arizona, but what she or her manager didn’t realize when they agreed to this arrangement…

There’s a difference between picking up and moving permanently and just going somewhere else to work for a few weeks, or even a couple of months. You absolutely need to keep your employer appraised of your permanent mailing address, since that affects your tax withholding, but as long as you aren’t changing your…

Sure, if they have written criteria, that’s one thing. If there isn’t anything in writing, I don’t see where you owe your employer to notify them that you’re going to the lake house for a week, or moving from one town to another...

That question really needs to go to a tax professional... but I doubt it. There are plenty of people that lived in one state and worked in another before the coronapocalypese, and the tax code managed that with no problems. Ditto local/city taxes.

Counterpoint: If my company isn’t paying for my remote office, I don’t have any obligation to tell them where my remote office is located, period.

That’s really sad...  All they need to do is stick their fist in the hole and see if they can take three steps.

Remember when Lifehacker didn’t have slideshows and pubished original content?

A couple of things here... First, don’t automatically trust your boss, your HR group, or your company when it comes to watching out for you. The brutal truth is that even if you have a cordial relationship with them, their ultimate goal is not your personal benefit; it may be a positive side-effect, but none of them…

I don’t believe it. I think it’s a scam to help him in the election. He can skip the next debates while claiming he really wants to be there. Also, he can roll up with a new “miracle vaccine” before the election...

I’ve gone over to the dark side a few times (wrt to the child asshole in my earlier comment) and disciplined the assho kid when the parents declined to do anything.