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

I watched it properly for the first time a couple years ago and I will say that it wasn’t the acting by Kristen or Robert that is what I remember as being bad about the movies. it was, well, probably everything else

I don’t remember it being as bad as I expected tbh

see I couldn’t respond to you verbally for that, but I am glad that my time learning french 15 years ago at least allows me to understand it when written out

although I did have to confirm entraider meant what it looked like it meant

somebody is going to take this as racist, but it’s just a factual observation: washrooms with a high indian user count end up like this far more than those with a lower indian user count

I’ve got enough data points over the past dozen years at multiple facilities in completely different population groups to safely make that statement.

my point is that it is normal for certain demographics. before somebody comes at me, no judgement is being made in this comment, I’m simply pointing out that it is in fact normal in some places.

I give them the chance to pass by moving all the way right in the lane and slowing down at passing opportunities. after a few missed opportunities, I’ll fuck with them for the entertainment.

but yes, not always worth it.

give it another read, you have your order of events backwards

fake. this implies that the poster took the time to figure out that the licenses belonged to missing women. everybody knows that AITA posters can’t do an ounce of work by themselves

Good way to avoid getting bit by your dog too

butt plugs with LED headlights, no less

nothing makes a tired annoyed version of me happier before dawn than going extra slow just to piss off the asshole riding my ass with LED headlights lighting up my whole cabin

*to clarify, the situation I am talking about is where I’ll be doing my usual up-to-20% over the speed limit minding my own business on my way to wherever in the morning, and some jackass with LED headlights at the same height as my face comes up behind me and rides my ass for several kilometers despite multiple passing opportunities. when that shit happens, my dreary morning just got interesting and I have something to keep me entertained

are their cousins Snowy McPlowface and Plowy McSnowface around as well?