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I really wish the nomenclature was consistent. If you say "shreds", it'd better be documents in a literal paper shredder, perhaps in service of obstruction of justice.

If you're just referring to people saying "Trump bad", please use "slam" or "blast" so I know to ignore it.

Cornholio Paradox

I thought most hoes would be quite easy to plow

When referring to a difficult task: "That's a tough road to hold", or "a tough road to hoe", or "a tough road to [travel on]" or "a tough road to... [trails off awkwardly...]", or just "a tough road".

It's a tough row to hoe.

It's an agricultural metaphor. The row is a line of dirt in a field where you plant seeds. You use a hoe to dig the lines, remove weeds, and create little holes where you drop the seeds. Hoeing may be difficult if the soil is too hard or too full of rocks and weeds. Such a row would be a tough one to hoe.

They look like they'll glow and make a soft bell noise if I stand next to them and press "A".

To me, this says that your workplace has acknowledged and accepted that the way they do business is leading to burnout, at least for some people. But rather than using that as evidence that their business practices need to change, they've instead opted to individualize the problem. Our growth projections aren't unreasonably ambitious, you just need to do more deep breathing.

It's like how I'm told to take a vacation to relax, only to return to the same (or an even larger) pile of to-dos that I left behind.

Edit: If this resonates with you, check out the book "McMindfulness" by Ronald Purser.

Whatever it was, I forgot what it was today

Me, looking for technical writing jobs after writing a highly fucking technical dissertation: I have a PhD but I'm pretty burned out on being a try-hard so I'm just looking for a straightforward 9-to-5.

Them: We're worried you'll be bored.

Me: Anyone would get bored doing this, at least I'll be good at it.

Them: No.

He was a terrific athlete

That's fair. I won't dispute that sometimes they're helpful. If I spend more time typing the message than it'd take to just talk it out, then meeting up is a viable option.

But gosh, the number of meetings I've had where I send the email, we meet anyway, and I simply read the email to them and they go "Ohhhh"... Sigh.

I find it interesting that "attend meetings" is said in the same breath as "walk around" and "take lunch or bathroom breaks".

Meetings are way worse for productivity than breaks and water cooler bullshitting, at least in my experience. There's more of them, they take longer, and they tend to leave me with a vague sense that nothing's really getting done and everybody's sort of okay with that. AND they're treated as an obligation in a way that taking breaks is not.

At least when I get back to my desk after walking around, I feel a bit more refreshed and ready to get back to work. In fact, it's usually meeting burnout that prompts the walk-around in the first place.

demonizes childless cat ladies
won't let you get IVF
makes memes about protecting cats

what do they want from us

This makes my bones hurt

I swear a social studies teacher told us that most rivers tend to flow north to south. Young impressionable child I was, I of course filed it away as a long-term core memory -- right there next to PEMDAS, FOIL, and so on.

Then I mentioned it in college and got fucking embarrassed.

Search engine challenge of the day: Find another source for this behavior.

Yeah, outrageous headline, obvious hypocrisy. But if you read to the end, the article is basically in support of it:

But let’s get real: both sides of the political aisle are pointing fingers and making things worse. Trump and Vance have their supporters, while the Democrats are no strangers to throwing some fiery jabs themselves.

One side is spreading lies. The other side is calling bullshit -- but that's rude, so BoTh SiDeS aRe aT fAuLt.

The 19 words: "...because democracy basically meaningless..." (pause) "Government by the people, of the people, for the people... but the people are [fools]."

I'm inserting "fools" cuz I don't wanna use outdated insults.

That would be called vacation time vs sick time in my org, but there are definitely differences in when/how they're used.

Sick time is like, "I don't feel good today, I'm just not working today."

Vacation time is like, "I'm feeling pretty good today, I'd like to take a feel-good day. But I better schedule schedule it a couple weeks out, check with my manager, make sure there are no deadlines coming up, make sure someone else can cover for me," and so on.

This is... silly. But I do wonder how it works. Does it aggregate all responses and look for commonalities? Does it factor in the upvote/downvote counts? And, does it know how to discern genuine user input from astroturfed marketing copy in disguise?