Everyone gets a 2 week break around Christmas and New Years. I work intermittently on stuff that has to get done, like payroll, but otherwise rest and hang out with my family.

Their margins are negative (like 45%negative) in 2 of 3 business units. Business skills like those suggest the leadership isn’t even smart enough to think of suiciding anyone, which aligns with my personal experience there.

This isn’t a true junk drawer in my mind because it looks to be all cooking implements. I have a junk drawer, but it contains like rubber bands, rando pencils, gum, etc.

None. If you’ve ever worked at Boeing, you know this is not something they are capable of doing (honestly it is a shock they are in business at all).

The lights bother me and something makes a high pitched sound that bothers me (tho this is getting better as my hearing goes).

Lemmy, reading Kindle books, finding recipes, looking up facts to prove my husband wrong, shopping.

We are getting better at navigating the system! Horrible skill unlocked. 😉

A pediatric neurologist told me definitively that my oldest son did not have autism. After a year of no improvement and assuming he was a particularly hard to diagnose, I got on the wait-list at the local university medical hospital. They were able to diagnose him quickly (apparently he’s pretty text book, but the pediatric neurologist didn’t ask the right questions). But he had been without supporting therapies and help in school for years as a result of the misdiagnosis.

My other kid (also autistic) had an ear ache. The urgent care doc was unfamiliar with how to deal with an autistic kid and assumed he didn’t have an ear infection. The next day his ear drum burst and we ended up at the big children’s hospital.

In both cases we had huge delays in appropriate care and had to pay twice.

I came from an upper middle class family have 2 great parents, and have wonderful extended family near by.

I dunno…https://youtu.be/KBgIvH0tu6Y?si=-jdeWokV06dtR0Wz

Unknown! Profit share is something I’ve done with my own business and feel like it produces better outcomes for everyone (we measure our impact on customers, employees, owners, the business and community to make sure we are serving all of them). I’m looking into actually granting shares, so it is more real for the employees. Maybe other owners don’t do it because it does require some amount of effort and transparency into company performance. IMO, owners can be really lazy.

Unknown. We decided it would be easier to move. 🤷

I called them when someone was standing on my neighbor’s porch with a shotgun shouting.

Better off ted. Fantastic show.

Treadmill under my desk, so I can walk and work at the same time. And 10 min of Pilates before bed.

It has taken me, on average, 6 months to find new work each time I do it and I send hundreds of resumes. So I think you are doing the right things. It just sucks. Sometimes you can get a lead from someone you know and that gets your foot in the door.

Remember, you are reviewing them as an employer too. If they have a shitty applicant experience, that should play into your decision process (easier said than done when you just want to make rent).

Feel free to message me if you would like resume or other search help.

Try to touch a baby Canadian goose with the parent geese near by. WTF was that lady thinking!?!

Romance novels are wildly popular (https://freakonomics.com/podcast/romance-novels/) and many of them are very explicit. I remember my mom and grandma (!!!) reading them while watching me and my brother when we were little - can you imagine watching a little porn while watching the kids? 😳

I’m old enough that my early adulthood did not include cell phones (unless you count the brick phones), and certainly no Internet access. I enjoyed it more.

I know this isn’t an awesome answer, but safety is more important than standing your feminist ground sometimes: either go to another yoga class or bring a friend. It sux to rearrange your life because of some weirdo, but less than being attacked. Also, consider keeping mace or a whistle on you in case there is a confrontation.