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Homercles

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  1. Any thread I can catch Sydney beat down a motherfucker like Mullet is a place I want to be.
  2. So it’s the ROT rally (or what it used to be), except on the beach with Jeeps. Still laugh about taking my girlfriend (now wife) out to the rally once and I asked if she wanted to earn some beads once we got there. She didn’t believe me when I told her that she’d be awful popular out there as 90% of the titties were pretty clapped out. Once we got out there, she racked up a huge stash (pun intended).
  3. (Regular disclaimer that I still drink occasionally and my experiences may not translate) TLDR: It SHOULD get easier with time, start your break and find a motivation to stick with it. Taking a break was when I started to feel comfortable that I wasn’t necessarily an alcoholic, because up to that point ‘will I / won’t I’ was taking up a lot of mental cycles…it was a ‘mental obsession’ as noted many times in this thread. Not just managing level of intoxication but also judging hangover impact to the next day. It’s exhausting, a whole job on top of work and being a dad/husband. At the time I was on the “alcoholism layaway plan” with one day on and one day off. My brain was set on a cadence of “get a good buzz on, wake up feeling like ass, go to bed early, wake up the next day feeling fine, rinse and repeat”. After I broke that chain, things rapidly improved and the devotion of brainpower to making decisions surrounding alcohol faded quickly. Sounds silly but I recalled a book where a SEAL talks about hell week in BUD/S, and used meals as motivation…don’t think about the endless torture that waits, just make it to the next meal. For me, my ‘meal’ was bedtime. I was fortunate that it only took a week or two to get where I didn’t really think about it much. Sure, normal life shit would get tense and the thought would cross my mind to pour a drink, but I’d tell myself to wait until the next morning before actually considering it…by which time I’d wake up feeling great and be grateful I didn’t touch the bottle. An added bonus, for someone like me, was a totally reset of tolerance. Mine had become so developed that the window of ‘buzzed but not stupid’ was so small that I’d overshoot it into the darkness. Once I reintroduced alcohol, I was able to enjoy it slowly again and not rush…thus my tolerance has stayed low. Again I don’t consider myself cured or special or normie or anything…I remain well aware that I’m at a higher risk for abuse based on my history. Just when I see someone like me post here, figure it can’t hurt to be a voice for problem drinkers and what’s worked for me.
  4. Our old office chair was the perfect example of ‘looks nice but doesn’t work for shit’…it was a thin, white one that matched the white desk nicely. Once Covid kicked in and I was using it daily for hours, I fell over backwards once when hosting a conf call…said fuck this noise and bought that V2. See also: doesn’t like blue dish soap (that works exemplary) as it clashes in kitchen but rarely does dishes or fancy holiday dish towels that don’t work for shit or…
  5. Wild that fully 1/3rd of the league finished first…let’s all go wreck shit in the NCAA’s after the conf tourney. I mean, two of the champs have guns and the third has this
  6. Nowadays he’d have been shot instead of just having tires slashed
  7. Yep, totally aware that capitalism in a nutshell. And I am absolutely comfortable with companies making money…that’s the whole fucking point. Where I get irate is when a company/industry reaps the benefits of a rising market to the tune of massive profits, but then whine about ‘headwinds’ when it’s proven they were ill-prepared for the inevitable downturn. Oil and gas, banking and aviation are absolutely horrible about that shit. All the while paying ten million to their CEO who is supposed to be guiding the ship long term.
  8. Went to pickup some RR Donuts this morning, dude standing there with his five young kids while wearing an American flag t-shirt with an assault rifle superimposed over it. All I could think of was that video. Like it or not, true or not, all these shootings and ‘come and take it’ fervor are leading me to be very weary around anyone that looks the part. He was too young for the ‘goatee, Oakley’s, balding’ look but give it another decade or so.
  9. For kicks I looked up Chapek’s 2022 compensation on his way out…~$20M total including $6.75M bonus. Nothing’s going to stop this out of control CEO compensation arms race but it still blows my mind how you can ‘fail’ with a bonus 4x your salary yet shutdown a themed hotel for losing money. https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/disney-ceo-bob-chapek-fired-severance-2022-compensation-1235491926/
  10. Shitty that if I ever stayed there I’d probably recognize like 1/3rd of the characters and I’m pretty much caught up on the movies. The Timothy Zahn books were infinitely more interesting extensions of the universe. My perpetual disappointment in Star Wars started when the first Prequel came out with half the movie devoted to complicated trade politics and fucking Jar Jar talking like a hamster getting racked in the nuts…though it did spawn possibly the funniest Robot Chicken of all time:
  11. Myself and a few others are in a wait-and-see mode. My hope is they get the critical mass they’re looking for in the office + attrition for those who steadfastly refuse, and we don’t progress to badged entry reports at a granular level / discipline threats I have one peer that is local, everyone else is scattered. Word around the campfire is the CEO walked around a bit with a long line of folks airing gripes on how poor the infra was…bad keyboards, mice, etc in hotel-land. Dealing with that + traffic to sit next to a dude while we are on the same conf call with Boston/Ireland doesn’t really appeal to me.
  12. You’re making some pretty broad assumptions about one of the most commonly earned graduate degrees out there. Personally I blame senior executives (SVP and up) more than MBAs, with Bain a close second…the shameless pursuit of quarterly profits and associated impact for their shares/bonuses (often 50%+ of annual compensation) leads to serious short sightedness. Granted the last few years have pissed me off in the big tech world. It was plain that Covid was going to spur a spike in client PC/mobile sales, stuff like Zoom and associated cloud infra as things decentralized to a WFH-oriented world. Everyone was high fiving each other. Watching firms go nuts competing for talent, it was obvious there’d be a saturation point…but it didn’t stop massive profit taking across many industries while breathlessly trying to expand. Now there’s endless doom about a recession that hasn’t happened yet, RIFs all over the place and now Phase 2 trying to force more natural contraction via making life harder for employees. We are back to crying about ‘market forces’ when a lot of the FTE expense was unnecessary fluff they themselves created. Airlines are the perfect example…retire old (but still useful) equipment, furlough/retire a slew of pilots, over incentivize customers during a pandemic. Now they’re crying about not having enough metal and people, so tickets are stupid expensive and frequent flyer programs have become almost useless to those of us who don’t spend $20k+ a year traveling in F/J. I’m also convinced a significant portion of inflation was simply firms gouging people while they had excuses. Pile on C-suite compensation that is unbelievably stupidly high…and I’m pretty jaded that they’re all raving to force people back into cubicle farms with zero privacy or facilities for ‘culture’.
  13. Apparently Nick Mohammed was really playing the violin in that scene at his folks house, and the piano accompaniment was played by his wife.
  14. So…left a loaded gun near kids, apparently a round in the chamber with safety off (or a Glock?), randomly in a sofa, walking around shirtless and then seemingly firing it again picking it up? What the FUCK. I only have a couple rifles, shotguns and a Ruger .22 pistol that were handed down to me. They’re in a gun safe, unloaded with the only ammo a box of bird shot, and the key is in a lockbox in my closet…and I’m still wondering if I should even have them. I bet this shit happens all the time but only gets reported when someone dies or calls the cops. Those parents should lose their guns, kids in temporary foster care, and broadcast their faces nightly on the news…but So he gets 10 days jail time and a $150 fine https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/04/12/video-shows-child-shooting-gun-found-in-couch-cushion-man-pleads-guilty-to-charges-in-case/ Also says the safety and magazine ordinances are being challenged by multiple lawsuits. Because of course
  15. I read Mazey doesn’t like to jack with Fri/Sat starters on early start weekends.
  16. I bought a refurbished Steelcase Series 2 from Crandalls, and though it looks like a basic chair it is incredibly comfortable with zero signs of wear after two years. Agree with others in paying upfront for a good one and not regretting it.
  17. The same people who are confidently telling everyone to ‘get your ass to the office’ seem to usually be the one’s passing around shitty memes bagging on millennials yet struggle with a Firestick, run to work to hide from their family and take pride in quantifiable but ultimately meaningless metrics like hours worked.
  18. Anyone ever seen Derka and Jason Dick in the same place?
  19. In seriousness…my boss is in Boston, his boss in Ireland. One Director in Chicago, a peer in Idaho, bunch of folks in India/Ireland/etc. My office has been turned into a hotel-cube farm, with zero personal space. There’s no real dining facility. It’s a 30 minute drive for me to get there. Last few times I’ve been in for strategy sessions, half are wearing pajamas with the other half in suits. You can argue I’m a seasoned employee who has met, in person, a lot of the folks I lean on thus no real need to network…but I’ve actually never met my leadership chain in person and just got a stellar performance review. My work speaks for me. Company had a monster couple years in 2021/2022, and WFH was a boon as we recruited talent all over. This all reeks of (for my employer at least) of an attempt to attrit the workforce voluntarily, prop up the value of the commercial RE, and of states taxation pressure. Perhaps, as usual, the answer is companies short sited profit seeking and trying to squeeze blood from a stone. If you don’t deliver quality work and won’t respond to warnings, then you deserve discipline/firing…otherwise, fuck off.
  20. It’s a damn shame hearing about all these large corporations who had abysmal profits the past couple years and associated tanking of their shares once Covid forced most to WFH
  21. Negged
  22. I wish they had Star Wars stun guns, take them down in a non-lethal manner and then proceed to torture these guys live on tv for 3 days until they died of pure pain. They shouldn’t be able to just suicide-by-cop because their life sucks and they want to take out innocent people on the way.
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