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  1. tango

    Unsolicited advice

    Usually I like to think I'd appreciate the sentiment even if I didn't care for the advice. If it was the sort of person who expected everyone else to live the way they live (or, worse, the way they think other people should live) I may be less amenable to it.
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    After a morning walk I need to pull down a litlte more ceiling, make sure the woodwork of the joists are level, and then get insulation and soundproofing into place. Then I can build the last parts of the stud walls to contain the room I'm working on. From there I can get stuff out and look at...
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    Lämmchen's Workout Thread

    A black rat snake can grow to about six feet, a yellow one can get slightly bigger. The red rat snake, aka the corn snake, can reach six feet but they usually top out around 5 feet. Rat snakes wouldn't eat a rabbit, although I can imagine how a fully grown rat snake might eat a baby rabbit. My...
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    Job Question

    Sometimes making life really difficult for someone results in an eventual win as you just wear them down. Every once in a while the system encounters someone who just won't go away. Sometimes they are the ones who end up getting something from the system, even if only as a way to finally make...
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    Job Question

    I'd have hoped a union rep would give you something far more useful than you described. From what the union rep said you'd be forgiven for thinking that if your management took an inappropriate liking to you they could reasonably expect you to offer all sorts of personal favors while at work...
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    Lämmchen's Workout Thread

    Depends how big the snake was :) I got a run in today but it was really hot, so I needed to take a break to cool down. It wasn't particularly fast, although faster than a base-level run. I wasn't surprised it rated as tempo-level. Today it was more about getting some miles in and getting my...
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    If you had a nickel for every time

    If I can't have blinking can I have heartbeats or electrical impulses in my brain?
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    Your Ancestry

    I've never really taken much interest in that. If you go back as far as my great-grandparents you're already past the bounds of my knowledge. An uncle of mine has taken an interest in the family tree and spends a lot of time in dusty rooms trying to find ancient records, but once you go past a...
  9. tango

    Teamwork

    If different members of the team don't share the dream, I guess.
  10. tango

    Job Question

    Seriously? A union rep said management can manage however they see fit? Sounds like that person shouldn't be a union rep - as you say an approach like that suggests it's perfectly reasonable to expect you to be on call 24/7, do tasks totally unrelated to your contract, do things that are...
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    Flip-Flops

    What I'd call flip flops are just simple things with a wide strap across my entire foot. I've heard some people call them slides. I don't like things between my toes so regular flip flops wouldn't work for me.
  12. tango

    Lämmchen's Workout Thread

    Today's suggestion is a recovery run, but at a pace that is more like a fast walk for me. I'm not sure whether to do that or make it another base run. I struggle to maintain a slow enough speed for the base runs, I really don't know if maintaining a fast walking pace while nominally running is...
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    Political Commercials have begun

    It's certainly curious just how many billions get spent to secure a job that pays, what, $400k per year?
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    Lämmchen's Workout Thread

    It was hot by the time I got my run in today. Another fairly slow run, I'm really trying to build up my low aerobic base but keep ending up counting as high aerobic, even if not by a huge margin. Today's suggested workout was a 45-minute base level run, which was just as well given the heat. But...
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    Job Question

    Do you have any form of written contract of employment? If you have anything that defines the hours you work, you work those hours and not a minute longer. If you're entitled to a specific period of time for lunch you take every minute of it without exception, at the precise times if needs be...
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    Alexa’s celebrity voices

    I don't use Alexa and have no plans to use Alexa. I really have no interest at all in having a device in my home that listens to everything and reports back to some central server. I find it remarkable that in George Orwell's 1984 the telescreens appeared to be forced on people but we're...
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    'Quiet Quitting'

    It really depends on the workplace. If you do the absolute minimum required of you, you shouldn't be surprised if you get passed over for promotions and the like. Obviously it's up to you whether that's an acceptable trade-off. At the same time nothing teaches you to not care like working...
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    Mosquitoes

    DEET helps keep them off. For me losing weight made a huge difference. When I was severely overweight they really liked me. Now they don't like me anywhere near as much.
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    Lämmchen's Workout Thread

    It seems you'd have to be hugely sensitive to it for that to happen but if you are that sensitive it's hard to say.
  20. tango

    Job Question

    Yep, it becomes a game of doing the absolute minimum that is explicitly required, covering your back at every turn and making sure you don't give anybody a specific reason to fire you. Malicious compliance simply makes it more fun, as long as you have a clear record of exactly what you were...
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