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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • When I was a middle manager I handled most of the communication with my team via teams or email. We had a 1 on 1 every other week and I was available otherwise if a meeting was necessary but otherwise all I needed was quick updates on where they were at with various projects we had going on. My boss on the other hand was constantly pulling me into shit I didn’t need to be involved in. I had reporting available at hand I could have sent them whenever they needed it but they didn’t know what to do with themselves if their schedule wasn’t full.


  • I still remember my teacher bitching me out in front of the class when we were learning negative numbers because when he asked me how I figured out the correct answer I said that the positive numbers and negatives cancelled each other out. Like -4 and positive 5, the negative 4 cancels out 4 on the positive side and you are left with 1. Maybe that wasn’t the correct verbiage but it gave me the correct answer every time. He was a dick about correcting me though.



  • Like, really, what should our incel friend do with their time?

    Can’t speak for every incel friend but the one in our group needs to be working on regulating his emotions and not spending so much time on incel forums. Getting comfortable with himself and the fact that not every woman who is nice to him is going to be interested him romantically. He’s in his 30s and still acts like a fucking teenager when he gets rejected. At least 3 of us at different points in time have had to pull him aside and have a talk to him about how his behavior is making the women in our group uncomfortable and explain that if he doesn’t get that shit under control he’s not going to get invited out anymore. Even when he does take up a hobby or work on himself he talks about it like he’s checking off a box so that he can finally deserve to get laid. Then, when that doesn’t work out for him because he reeks of desperation when he interacts with women, he goes back to his bad habits.


  • Yeah obviously this is terrible and shouldn’t happen but if I’d have been having sex with a hot older woman when I was a teenager that would have taken care of basically all the self esteem problems I had. It might opened me up to whole new problems, I’m not a psychologist so I can’t speak to that, but seeing myself as unfuckable was for sure the biggest issue at the time. I know because my self esteem did a 180 as soon as I started getting laid (with someone age appropriate). I can certainly see where the “nice” comments come from.






  • Growing up I wanted to be a mechanic. After I went to tech school and got into the field I learned how much of it was pushing shit on people even when it can wait or they can’t afford it. I got bitched at by my boss for trying to help someone prioritize what they actually needed vs “recommended services” on more than one occasion. I tried switching shops a few times but it was always the same thing so I completely lost my passion for it. I just work on my own car now.








  • Yea, theres a big overgrown patch behind the house and we have them all over. It’s nice to see. I like to sit out and watch them while the sun goes down. It’s relaxing. Theres a bunch of other critters that come out around that time to so it’s interesting. I watched a couple of raccoons take apart my neighbors bird feeder last night.

    Another bug I haven’t seen in forever is grasshoppers. I used to catch buckets of those things when I was a kid and I don’t think I’ve seen more than a couple in years.