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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Friends of our family once bought an entire steer. The weird thing is: they had their pictures taken with it before it was slaughtered.
On the farm we generally sold all bull calves for veal. Occasionally we'd keep one until just before maturity and then slaughter it. We'd have a big-ass freezer full of hamburger and steak that would last half a year (IIRC).
I feel a little weird about cutting off a possible job at this stage, but it's reasonable to want not to struggle so much with discipline at my next job, right? Right?
Right. And yeah, I think what you said is fine. It'll be potentially awkward no matter what.
Sometimes - just sometimes - I miss living on a big farm.
it's reasonable to want not to struggle so much with discipline at my next job, right? Right?
Absolutely right. If you don't think it's a good fit, there's still time to find another place.
For the polite way to turn it down, have they called you for a second interview or are you being preemptive?
Oh yeah, "not a good fit" is an excellent thing to say!
There was a party at my apartment garden last night. A couple brought their six year old. I was pretty furious, as it was already 9pm, people were smoking both pot and cigarettes, there was a lot of drinking and swearing. Dude. ASK before you bring your kid to a grown up party is A, and B is, your kid is going to be all fucked up. The answer is not locking him in a strange apartment with Nickelodeon on and checking on him now and again while he runs around like a loon. At 10:30, I could still hear the kid whining about being left alone when I went to go to bed.
Seriously.
Also? It's not cute that your six year old is trained to get you beers when you're finished with the current one. It's sad, especially coupled with the fact that you have to yell at him to not whip it out and pee on a tree.
Allyson that sucks so much. I wish I didn't have to see people being mean to their kids as often as I do. The other day I was wondering what kind of long-term-effects having no bedtime has on kids. I'm blown away by how many people drag their kids to see movies that start after 8.
The answer is not locking him in a strange apartment with Nickelodeon on and checking on him now and again while he runs around like a loon. At 10:30, I could still hear the kid whining about being left alone when I went to go to bed.
Yikes.
We were going to schedule a demo lesson when I found out about jury duty. So, what, "Thank you but I don't think it'll be the best fit"?
That's so not cool, Allyson. Parents should reallyy read their owners manual.
When I was graduating, I signed up for a campus interview from this company I knew nothing about. The interviewer described the workplace. They had a really strict dress code. ("We were thinking about allowing people to wear sportsjackets to lunch, but we decided against it.") He described how all new hires were to do phone support for six months. Then he turned to me, and the very first question he asked was, "Tell me, Tom, why do you want to work for us?"
What do you say at that point?