TPD (Annette, if you must)

I’m not afraid of AI taking my job.

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Weebs are wild, or (yet another) story about the selective blindness of cross-cultural love affairs.

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Even with hookup culture, it still can be a reasonable better practice to meet up in public before heading back to someone’s place.

Those little toy dogs can be vicious.

My morning: explaining again that if you don’t want to impose any penalties on a customer for them not buying a certain number of widgets, that number is not a “commitment.”

Ways I can tell nobody has updated a template in a hot minute:

[Proposals in response to this RFP] may not be submitted by telegram.

You just reminded me that i need to do a rewatch with my VH1 Popup comics trivia source.

Even I knew back then that an adult male should not be barging uninvited into a college freshman girls’ room, whether or not the door was open.

This reminds me of my college job, where I helped students get their computers onto the dorm network/internet. Somebody’s father decided I wasn’t getting to their kid quickly enough and *came into my room* to confront me about it.

Getting an inside view of some of this made me much less disappointed when I didn’t land the job I was interviewing for, and was part of driving me away from applying for any jobs in the healthcare industry.

Second Language Acquisition. It helped me understand my and my bio-family’s experiences, plus gave me ways to explain why English-only speaking folks need to stop trying to pronounce my maiden name.

That sounds perfect

I was invited to a call today, by a senior person in a group I don’t currently support but have before. Had to basically interrupt and talk over my boss before he remembered that I knew both the business and the relevant contracts better than he did and maybe let the woman lawyer talk?

I didn’t realize there was anything scary about the approach to PHL. The real scary part is trying to find food worth eating in Terminal A.

I remember arguing 25 years ago that if compsci/engineering students kept talking about how only ugly women majored in those fields, then of course all women wouldn’t want to be there. I remember being laughed at for it.

Now substitute any other field…

It’s my Elpis!

My favorite are recently-issued RFPs due anytime from Dec 20-Jan 2.

When I put mail out to be picked up, I pop up the little red flag like I have my whole life. My current mail person always leaves it up after picking up the outgoing mail. Is that the current thing or am I doing something wrong or is USPS just in that much of a state of confusion now?

Tragedy of commons is real, though query how many of those PCPs would have stayed in practice at all.

No it does not. Just an example of how just paying for healthcare is so much better than dealing with healthcare mediated by insurance.

Employers rolled back sick days and accommodation now that we’re post-pandemic.

I switched to direct primary care. For a reasonable monthly fee, i have unlimited access to my doctor - text anytime if i can wait on an answer, call during or after hours, video or in-person appointments that last as long as needed. It’s cheaper than my ins. copay for primary care + urgent care.

She snugglin

😮 disappointing

Ugh. The usual suspect?

Here, templates are held and managed by the legal department. Sales sending out a template that they happen to have on hand is not helpful.

Thanks so much for putting me on my negotiating back foot right off the bat!

Especially when one is senior/executive management in a room where you outrank everybody.

When a document is inconsistent about one space v. two between sentences….

Making jokes about PTSD to an audience of employees you don’t all know (or even if you do) is in outrageously poor taste.

One would think that a Procurement department would know how to procure goods and services.

One would be mistaken.