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  1. 47 minutes ago, Vertuzzi said:

    First year with this agreement with my parents too. It was awesome. No issues with family drama during the holidays but trying to figure out meaningful gifts for adults that can afford shit they really want was always a massive headache. So glad we stopped. Now it’s just about booze and old stories. 

    This is us too. All the adults in our family can easily afford anything they want or need so it became a pretty pointless exercise.

  2. 30 minutes ago, next2naus said:

    "It's all about the 3 T's in this wild world of sales: Territory, Talent and Timing."

     

    I left my last gig of 8 years back in August. It was home-run city but I needed s change of scenery. New gig is in same ballpark but adjacent security solutions and lots of former colleagues from the last place so that made it feel like a smart move with with some folks inside I could lean on. Stayed in my Metro NYC role supporting existing clients and closing new logos, little cross-sell, upsell, renewal biz and new logos. Sounds good right? Fast-forward to December and we laid off 18-20% of company, they also are making us pay for some of out healthcare which was previously 100% company paid, still saving me about a $800-$1K a month. RIFF was mostly in Marketing and Sales. Fortunately (?) I made a good impression on the CEO and new CRO and they kept me. I landed in a New Logo role (I like to hunt) and I get to report to a guy I know from the old shop who likes to close deals so thats good. Now I get all of NY,NJ, DE, PA, CT and RI. Way too big of a territory, but hey...thats a good problem. 

    The convo about getting back to normal and face to face....most of IT is still working remote and plans to remain doing so. With the Macro economic picture, don't be surprised if this doesn't change as organizations can save on real estate costs, leases will kill a business. the ongoing WFH makes is hard to see people IMHO. I hate all this Zoom shit, I miss my milage expenses. I miss fucking around in the city, frankly...I'm home around the wife and kids too damn much

    I read this and feel seen and validated. I spent a decade flying out Sunday night or Monday AM and flying home Thursday. Still getting used to life in the home office and it feels like a trap sometimes.

    Good luck with your new gig and territory! The good news is you have a good job, the bad news is it won't be an easier selling to the G2K in 2023 than it was in 2022.

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  3. 8 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

    I'm curious how accurate the cell tower info is at identifying the exact location of of his cellphone??  

    Defense may argue that BK was in the area close by, but not near the King Rd house. 

    On one video today, they mentioned there is shopping and businesses nearby the King Rd house (I think they said within a mile or so)

    Wasn't that a big part of the Serial Adan Syned guy's case (who just got exonerated)? Cell phone pings and the accuracy or geofencing accuracy?

    That's an interesting point regardless.

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  4. 22 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Not gonna dox my neighbor.....especially as I revealed that they are a domestic violence shitshow.

    It's actually kind of sad.  But it's been eye-opening to the young people on the block to see that the life that influencers CLAIM to live is...fake.

    It's actually very well known to most people with high-speed internet and born past 1980.

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  5. 3 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    While the 20 Republicans are definitely holding the House hostage, the problem is with McCarthy. To be the Speaker, you're supposed to be able to wrangle a majority which he has now failed 10 times to just name his as Speaker. 

    The GOP needs to go deeper to the Right to find a Speaker. If he gave concessions to the Dems, it's possible McCarthy could lose the entire GOP. 

    Exactly this.

    This is what happens when you can't win elections and have the slimmest of majorities. Elections have consequences.

    It's beyond obvious the 20 Republicans are wielding their power and will NOT relent (and really, why would they unless they got a sweetheart deal which won't happen)-- the most obvious answer here is McCarthy simply isn't going to work here.

    Which is hilarious because he is vainglorious and wants nothing more than the title. 

    What I am confused about is why the GOP doesn't cut bait and as you say, go deeper to the right and find a Speaker.

  6. The Cowboys are guaranteed to lose in second round of playoffs if not even the wildcard game. That much I'm convinced of based off of what I've seen of this team this year.

    The real pleasure for me as a Cowboy fan is going to be the Eagles losing in first game of the playoffs, which I'm also convinced of based off what I've seen and know of Hurts injury.

  7. 25 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    I never said it was a conspiracy. The way these types of panics works is that everyone involved in fueling them has pretty obvious self-interested reasons for contributing to the hysteria. It's largely organic, not a secret agreement by a shadowy cabal.  

    It's funny how certain posters in this thread keep making shit up and pretending that those they disagree with have said it. I'm beginning to question the veracity of your claim that you don't want to put words in my mouth.

    I just think you are staunchly anti-business (and never was that so clear to me than in the Southwest thread when you gave a point of view that was, at best, wildly ignorant of what it means to operate a business outside of your pure play technical background), and that it feels like you will take any position that puts business in a bad light-- real or imagined.

    And with that enemy of enemy is my friend mentality, you find yourself coming across as a sympathizer to thieves of travel sized shampoo and cheap mascara and about to expire pringles.

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  8. Just now, wildcat09 said:

    Or it was a lie to soften the PR hit from closing a bunch of stores and firing a lot of people because you'd determined that you had too many stores open, which further fed into the hysteria and helped fuel political campaigns against progressive DAs whose agenda corporate executives tend to be ideologically opposed to. 

    I see. It was all a conspiracy by the corporations and it was based on the lies about retail theft and they are now coming clean. Makes sense.

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  9. 27 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    I'm against lying about the threat of crime to shape public opinion and public policy in ways that I find to be harmful.  I would hope that's something that civilized humans can agree with.

    Lying feels like too aggressive a word here.

    Did the CFO of a major organization just make up out of thin blue air a rash of retail theft? Was there not many viral videos at the time and a bit of a trend for that petty theft that could reasonably, or unreasonably as you see it, stoke some fear around shrink and the impact of revenue? Especially for someone whose role is to manage the financial health of the organization?

    Lying would look like something different. And I don't think you'd have this statement from the earnings call if it was a lie. It was more of "the data showed X and we thought Y-- turns out we over-rotated and it was really Z which was much lower than Y, so our preventative measures and costs can be reduced." That's just standard feedback looping in business via trial and error and hypothesis and experiment from where I sit...

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  10. 3 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    Bump:

    Walgreens executive says the company 'cried too much' about theft and may cut back on private security guards:

    I do find it funny how Walgreens is now fessing up that they were really exaggerating the problem while the NRF's absurd estimate of retail theft increased from $70 billion to $94.5 billion.

    I'm not saying you are, and you certainly haven't said you are so I don't want to put words in your mouth, but why does it FEEL to me like you are on the side of thieves and petty theft?

    Can't being against the theft of property and goods be at least one thing that civilized humanity and modern man have in common?

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  11. 14 hours ago, tchookem said:

    Offered without comment...
     

    Read this today: Public Schools lost more than 1 Million students during pandemic.

    School districts across the country are shuttering buildings in response to public schools losing more than a million students over the past few years. Data from the U.S. Education Department shows a drop of around 3% in public school enrollment from fall 2019-2020. At the same time, charter school enrollment was up 7%, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Among the factors prompting the changes since COVID are an increase in home schooling, more families utilizing private and charter education, and an overall decline in birth rates.

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/public-schools-lost-more-than-one-million-students-during-pandemic-11672881798

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    We'd already chosen to do private school pre-pandemic, but the swelling of private schools we are in and around us and the year(s) long waitlists is very noticeable and causing it's own strain. In a lot of ways the private schools are regressing to some of the negatives of public schools (bigger classrooms, suboptimal teacher:student ratio, etc.)

  12. I love my AMEX's and I actually also have a Discover card somewhere.

    I keep a credit card in my phone case for times I leave my wallet or otherwise need to be separated from my wallet but have an ability to purchase something in an emergency, it's pragmatic for it to be a Visa/MC because in 2023 there are still a lot of businesses (mostly small businesses) who will not take AMEX. My cleaners off the top of my head and the Thai food place I love.

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