CharlesReed

joined 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

When I was younger I fell off a homemade merry go round some neighbors had built. Got hit in the back of the head by one of the horses as I tried to get up. Ended up with staples and a lovely scar.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Controlled temperature seats in the car. My first car didn't have anything like that, so I never really thought about needing it. But then I got my second car which had heated seats, and when winter came, oh man, I finally understood the appeal. And then summer came and I had to borrow my parents' car for a week, and it also has cooling seats... They are fantastic.

On that same note, Bluetooth in the car. Going by aux isn't bad, but it is less cords I have to fumble around with when I first get in. That being said, I still carry a couple backup CDs just in case, lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Dang, I just finished playing this about a week ago. Wish I could have found something, but I didn't find very many time capsules.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Do they not have actual crimes in Granbury? This is so much time and effort. I wish I could fuck around like this in my job.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

100% this guy would have turned it around to make an issue about me recorded his meetings lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

I kinda think this particular guy would get flustered and extremely frustrated whenever something would go wrong or there was a tight deadline, so he would take it out on everyone around him (dude would regularly threaten to have people fired for small mistakes that could easily be fixed). And since we were in an IT department with aging equipment/tech, there was always something broken or an effort to upgrade going on. It also didn't help that he thought and firmly believed that he knew better than everyone else. After I got transferred, my manager had to take over his team because the rest of the PMs were either full up on bandwidth or just straight up didn't want to work with the guy.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

At my last job as a project manager, I had a director that I worked with that I absolutely despised. On a regular basis we would have this (abridged) interaction:

Director: I don't understand what this report is trying to say. Take out abc and include xyz. Me: Ok. includes changes in meeting notes next meeting Director: What is this? Why does the report look like this? I don't even understand why you would make it look like this. Change xyz and include abc. Me: But... Director: No buts, this is my team's project. Me: ...Ok. includes changes in meeting notes next meeting Director: What is going on with this? I don't understand what's going on. Why does this report change every time I see it? Me: ... Bruh.

This happened so many times that eventually I had to start including my manager in meetings with him, because this dude was insufferable and did not want to accept it when his ideas and changes were shit. He'd always deny he requested changes (even though I documented them in the meeting notes), and everything was everyone's fault except his. Luckily another director that I got along with really well requested me to work on their projects and I got transferred.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But this is exactly what I'm talking about. You're assuming everyone lives in the cities and suburbs while forgetting that there are people who live in rural areas and are more than 10 miles from the nearest shop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

A lot of these replies are tone deaf. Not everyone lives in a place where walking, biking, or even ride share is viable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Not everywhere has decent, if any public transport, especially if they're in a more rural area. And not every repair takes less than a day to fix.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The only times I've ever had a drama free workplace was:

  1. At the beginning of my career when I was an intern. They didn't care enough about me to include me in the gossip, and I was only going to be there for a few months anyway.
  2. When my last job started letting us work from home, so I was no longer stuck at a desk in a high traffic area where multiple people would stop and chat. Headphones with a mic were a godsend, because when someone would start to approach, I'd just smile and point at the mic. Kept a lot of the gossipers at bay, though not all. WFH eliminated all that, I was so happy I could finally just focus on my work and not get caught up in situations that didn't even pertain to me.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I haven't been a fan of it so far. Some of the visuals and shots are nice, but there hasn't been one character so far that I've liked, and it tends to drone on in a boring way.

 
 

From the album 'Tornillo'.

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