Matt Trotter

“We’re a $2B firm that believes in …”

And I believe in stating what you pay people before starting the job application dance.

Job postings are the new recipe blogs. Companies will write you 12 paragraphs on their culture, perks and fringe benefits but not tell you what they pay.

Screenshot of a Pokémon GO raid battle between Pawmo and a shadow Murkrow. Murkrow is leaning back, eyes closed, the expression of tasting bitter defeat on its face.

When someone at work asks me to do something that I think is stupid.

There are so few of you I actually want to connect with on LinkedIn. That’s not a diss; we could be friends in real life and I would still feel this way.

a group of cartoon characters are sitting in a stadium and one of them is saying boooo ALT: a group of cartoon characters are sitting in a stadium and one of them is saying boooo

Spent a good five minutes wondering why I couldn’t get a link for the meeting I scheduled in Teams before figuring out it was because I hadn’t clicked the Teams Meeting toggle for the meeting IN TEAMS.

AI-generated image of people having fun in a pool while drinking beers on a sunny day. Two men in the pool are wearing T-shirts. There are extra arms and fingers on some people. One man is seated and floating on nothing.

One of my favorite local breweries used an AI-generated image in a social media post. I don’t think that’s cool.

Every few months, my health insurer sends me a “coordination of benefits” survey, which is them asking, “Are you SURE we have to keep paying all your health care costs?”

Great system, American health care.

Surely, there are zero health insurers looking at this and thinking they could save a lot of money by scaling back care for people AI says won’t live long enough to make treatments profitable.

If people are still out here clapping when the plane lands, then we get to boo when it’s appropriate. We arrived 5 hours late and there are no connecting flights left today? BOOOOO.

Job posting lists “A belief that your work is tied to your life’s mission” in a section titled “What you bring to the table.” Hard pass.

Monarch butterfly facts are big in our family right now.

5-year-old: “Did you know monarchs are poisonous? So, if a blue jay eats one, it’ll get really sick, and it won’t eat one ever again.”

Me: “Kind of like me and the Dallas airport Manchu Wok.”

From now on, when my kid starts stressing me out I’ll just tell myself whatever he’s doing won’t cost me $350k. www.nytimes.com/athletic/632...

Has anyone considered that the Bible may just be a treatise on the dangers of religious extremism?

God is vengeful; his followers abide by harsh, oppressive rules enforced through violence; and that belief system as social structure leads to an innocent man’s murder. Happy Easter!

tired of californians blaming *the weather* (wtf??) on little Latinas and Latinos. get real people

My job as a communications professional is increasingly becoming “convince people they don’t need a QR code.”

“The early bird gets the worm.”

OK. Then explain how it’s almost 11 a.m. and I just saw a bird pulling a worm out of the ground. Something doesn’t add up.

A good way to help your significant other enjoy their favorite shows is to recognize actors and point out things their character from a different show did that are incongruent with the current one.

Blue state grocery stores: If we’re allowed to use plastic bags, they cost you $0.50 each.

Red state grocery stores: We have individually triple-bagged all of your items. Have a great day!

South Carolina plans to carry out a firing squad execution. Is it safe for witnesses? South Carolina plans to execute its first prisoner by firing squad on March 7 inside the same death chamber it's used for dozens of other executions. Firearms experts say that could be risky.

"I wouldn't shoot in that space. I wouldn't even be in the room," said Drew Swift, a firearms instructor who owns a firearms training academy in McLean, Va. "It's just an unnecessary risk."

Probably bad to be so committed to killing that you’ll put people at risk.

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Substantial uptick lately in those fake shutdown notices and other messaging scams for the Facebook pages I manage. Honestly, please do shut them down. There’s declining utility in established social media platforms.

I’m sorry, but look at this man. He is incapable of rapping.

5-year-old: “Do you know what it’s called when someone does a lot of jokes?”

Me: “A coping mechanism.”

Pointing out to someone on Facebook all the ways this is a clear fake as a public service. All the Boomers are getting scammed. Idk where that bit.ly link goes, and I’m not about to find out.

Had to dig through my religious trauma to make that joke.

Got kicked off the Eagles bandwagon for incorrectly guessing “Fly, Eagles, Fly” is sung to the tune of “Shine, Jesus, Shine”.

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place

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A fun prop bet you can do at home is the over/under for how many times your family will complain about the Super Bowl halftime show.

Unpopular opinion: I think chiefs are way more likely than eagles to figure out how to change the oil in a car.

American citizens should not have to enter into a contract with a private company (that’s an X account signup!) to receive government communications

All the people who were shrugging and equivocating over Elon and whether he was aligning with Nazi, far-right forces should be launched into the sun.

May they never be taken seriously again.