No, it’s not too awkward. it shows that someone was listening and isn’t going to let the interrupter get away with it. women are used to being floor mats; sometimes we need our fellow coworkers to speak up for us.

Do it. I try to do this in meetings where I’m moderating. She will appreciate it and it will empower her.

I think that’s great. For awhile the team I worked on was pretty bad about interrupting each other. So I started doing what you propose. Eventually the whole team got better and started to stick up for each other whenembers of other teams would interrupt. Was pretty great.

I’d do it. If I were Rhonda, I’d appreciate it.

Do it! I am the type that always gets interrupted or what I was going to say pre-empted, both intentionally and unintentionally, and people that recognize that and try to come back to me later make me so happy.

So I get invited to meetings sometime and the one lady at the table gets interrupted frequently (enough for me to notice). Is it too awkward from my position to interrupt the interrupter and say “What were you saying, Rhonda?”

She seems to roll with the punches, but it mildly pisses me off when it happens

Yeah, I was thinking Dallas is hardly surprising, as it’s been big in tech for decades: Telecomm Corridor from TI to EDS, lots of defense-related stuff, and a ton of other companies. I moved to Dallas in the early 90's to work for a software company and lived there 13 years.

“it’s actually a really great city for tech workers to easily become employed in.”

it’s a dry cold.

Louis C.K. told Amy Poehler, after she and her husband decided to split, “Every divorce is good news, because happy marriages don’t end in divorce.”

I got out of my previously-chosen field (accounting) because even a good accounting job was making me feel like I’d rather jump in front of the train than on it when it came time to go home. This article reminded me a little too much of those dark days.

You clearly are not affected by this.

I do get what you’re saying, but I don’t think you can have made up for a delay until the customer has actually received their item, or something of equal or greater value that they’re happy with. And since the item we’re talking about is:

Truffle oil! What kind of lowbrow savage are you?

Truffle oil! What kind of lowbrow savage are you?

What an unnecessarily snarky reply.

Having to deal with the eating disorders I had it described this way—-
When we’re young and are introduced to certain foods we experience both a reaction to the sugars/salts and other strong chemicals that create a strong reaction with your dopamine sensors that make you feel happy. At the same time you connect to the…

I think a lot of it has to do with the way fruits/veggies are cooked and presented. No one wants to eat soggy, overly steamed veggies (looking at you, cafeteria food). My parents were really good about cooking them in ways we would actually want to eat, which involved a lot more baking than steaming (by far the…

On the contrary, budgeting money to enjoy a consumable on a regular basis can provide tremendous marginal utility that is easily comparable to other uses of items. Budgeting money to enjoy a few beers while I relax on my porch, hang out with friends or play video games adds tremendous marginal utility to those…

My advice for marriage:

Make a checklist of your property and belongings in the office (CD player, food in the staff refrigerator, personal folders in your desk, pictures on the wall, personal office supplies), and all the computer files that belong to you or that you will want (and have a right) to take with you, or that you need to delete.…