you got to be careful to not eat too much sugar!

^there are people that actually believe stuff like this

I don’t understand your question. You’re asking how I suck at aiming if I am peeing on the floor, but I never said I was missing the pee mat.

must be nice to have such a hot water supply with high pressure

not everybody has that

probably nothing, because he has to lose, not loose it. odds are he has hair short enough to lose but not long enough to tie up

isn’t that what the shaggy pee mat in front of the toilet is for?

that’s what I thought at first, but there is actually a way that it makes sense

you have hot water and cold water with a certain amount of pressure behind them feeding your apmt. if you turn the shower to full hot, the valve is still going to mix it with cold water. however if you take the cold water out at the sink prior to the shower feed, it’s not going to be replaced by more cold water if the system doesn’t have enough supply to keep up with it. so your shower water is being mixed with less cold water than before, resulting in a hotter mixed stream from the shower head

and like maybe there’s other things going on and it’s not the same in every situation and all that, but you can test this yourself and get this result, so…

lots of people grind for income

I’ve done it. trying to transition away from that and get to the point where work is the side quest instead of the main focus

one of the vocally pro-nazi people I still have on Facebook did a paper at university on “Elon Musk: a case for transformational leadership” and has that posted on his company website. he also has clippy as his fb pp, and his profile tag line or whatever has “I am devoted to the well being of the people”

it’s an interesting mix of beliefs

mind you this guy is Canadian. he’s gradually been becoming more and more right-wing because he has been radicalized by his view of the left through mainstream media. however when it became clear that he was pro-Nazi was when he posted about how the people who were calling Nazis Nazis have blood on their hand for Good’s murder and that it was entirely clear it was justified self-defense

isn’t that how you get hemorrhoids

last year we got a COL adjustment only, company wide, due to the trade situation. I accepted that, it’s better than laying people off. my work output responded in kind, however, after a very high output past year.

the business has had a year to handle the trade situation. this year I am owed my merit raise from the year previous (lol they’re not gonna do fuck all about that) and a merit raise for 2025. let’s see what I get.

this is why I hate going to the office. I can’t work in 24°

it got to -19 a couple times so far this year for me

of course, a few days later it was above zero again

but hey, we finally had snow on Christmas again!

my teammates seem to never call them in, so I’ll just call them in in random places when I know they’ll be running past it to the next objective. this way we have max resupplies on the ground

of course every now and then this fucks them over when they need it and they ain’t got none where they are. it’s not often, though

idk man I just go barefoot

hey, care for others is good

I guess that’s the YMMV part. haven’t had anything like that happen in five years on this machine

why hot wash?

I wash everything cold, and generally all together

the higher the ratio of time:quality, the more I’ll love it

I’m trying to keep things much more like your first job experience than what seems like the average experience nowadays. although it’s not really in my control anymore, and I’m not even sure if I would be included in future interviews or if my manager would handle it entirely.

but anyways when it was my responsibility before I had a manager, as somebody who was most often on the other side of it and who more identifies as an average worker than as management, I tried to be respectful of the applicants.

The way I ran interviews was simple - tell me your experience, tell me how you approach problems, and come on site to walk around the shop and talk about the machines or parts that we have on the floor. generally I think I know halfway through the phone interview if I’m going to hire this person or not, but we still do the in-person one to confirm it. and prior to that we had one short HR screening call. so a total of three steps in the interview process, roughly 5, 30-60, and 30-60 minutes each (the better the applicant was, the longer the interview would go, because it was less about figuring out if they would be hired and more about just chatting about things that we were both interested in related to the work). I’m not the best at reading people, but if anything ran over 30 minutes I would always stop and explicitly say “hey we’ve covered everything that we came here to do, so there is no need to continue talking unless you want to, the interview itself is over”. The thing is, by that point, people have already shown whether or not they have a good approach to problems and are able to effectively talk about how things work.

so the obvious next question is “did we hire anybody who did not want to continue talking after the 30 minutes was up and I asked them this question?” — and the answer to that is yes, we did. and one of them is one of our best employees.

I can also say, from my experience on this side of the hiring process (even though I’m not external facing)… holy shit we get so many shitty applicants, or applicants that look good on paper but are completely shit in the first interview. One of the examples I always bring up is the guy who “did the calculations”. whenever I asked him what exactly they did to determine that something was the appropriate solution for something, his response was that “we did the calculations”. not him specifically, but “we”. I think that interview was like 14 minutes long because I hadn’t dealt with that before and I was really trying to give him a chance to give actual answers to things. and then soon after that, we got a guy who said even less, and the interview literally ended before 4 minutes was up.

yes, penis-only is fine