Overwhelming majority of the jif-sayers that I know were born in the 90's and started saying it to be contrarian after reading about the argument/controversy.

Peru, yes. Ohio, no.

Also, here in Michigan, Mackinac and Sanilac do not rhyme, but one of those does rhyme with Pontiac.

Sometimes these things act as shibboleths for identifying non-locals, too. I submit Charlotte, VT (pronounced ‘shur-LOT’), Lebanon, NH (‘LEB-nin’), and Berlin, NH (‘BER-lin’). Oh! I almost forgot Milan, NH, which is just north of Berlin and is pronounced ‘MY-lan’. (bet you can guess what state I’m from)

Good places to find relevant stats regarding your worth:

It isn’t gall. I mean, it’s not French either, so you’re not incorrect...

• Figure out how much you’re worth. Build a rock solid case for your skills, knowledge, abilities, productivity and contribution to the bottom line.

Never, ever, ever, ever, EVER loan money to a friend or a family member. If you want to give them money, give them money. But expecting them to pay you back guarantees you will be disappointed.

Say no thanks and ghost if they don’t get the hint after several times.....or, you know, act like an adult and speak your mind fully and directly. Are we not doing that anymore?

I was a Recreation Major in college before switching to a tech major... Think half way between PE and Business. You get lots of business classes that, for me at least, were focused on running a small business. Accounting, HR issues, employment issues and the like. Then you also get classes that teach you how to run…

I’m of the opinion that because it’s your uncle and he got you the job, you gotta dial it back. This can quickly turn into, “Your goddamn kid had the nerve...” and then this turns into an entire family feud. There’s no way that you come out of that looking good if that’s what develops, ESPECIALLY since the company…

I’ve never had to go the whole first year, but I have had to go 6 months - assuming this is for your vacation time, not your sick leave or public holidays, and that you’re still accruing the vacation time at the normal rate even if you can’t use it.

“college major was/is Commercial Recreation”

Do what I do, make drunk plans and then flake the next day. Do that for about a month. Then really drunkenly insist that you go out at 3am for waffles.

I love posts like this. For 45 years I had to-do lists for everything. I bought every DayTimer, PalmPilot and Smart Watch that promised to keep me on track. Now I’m retired, and my to-do list is just a few items like this:

- Illiteracy

I also submit that we re-brand “Get off my lawn” to “Nonlawn”.

“Nonline” is pretentious, but responding to “where do you live?” with “twitter,” isn’t?

That fact that someone needed to come up with a term to describe applying self-discipline is completely reflective of the problem. Everything needs to be catchy. Everything needs a hashtag and a meme. Everything needs a blog post.

Regardless of what you ENCOURAGE (my company encourages both WFH, I'm doing it now, and promotion at least every 2 years into a new role if you're a strong performer) someone asking these two questions out of the gate demonstrates a short-sightedness about their role in any company, in my opinion.