4 hour conference calls are the worst. If they happen with any regularity, invest in some frickin’ headphones. If I’m in the office while on them, I try to grab a room and close the door. I also prefer speakerphone, but when it’s not available I just grab my headphones (w/ a mic) or, no joking, I grab my old school headset I’ve had since I worked in a call center and slap it in the phone.
As to the “keep music to a reasonable volume”, why are those people even playing it without wearing headphones?
I’ll say what I told my friends earlier, “Wow, either this is brilliant satire or that has got to be some of the most sanctimonious sniveling horse shit I’ve ever read and I’ve read Catcher in the Rye.”
“May not be the most talented on the team but hopefully the little fucker can at least hack it well enough to not have people question you for playing them all the time.”
And your MLB comparison is Joe Mauer? As in the former MVP, 6-time all star, golden glove, silver batter Joe Mauer?
I was with a group of friends on Saturday to watch college football. They were drinking fairly heavily and leaning over to inspect a glass table with a shortened straw from about noon to 11 PM. Two of the guys were up watching football with me at noon and drinking for a little Sunday Funday action. The other slept 15 straight hours, laid on his couch, and went to bed at 8 PM.
Some people have it. Some people don’t. You would apparently seem to have lost it.
Lot of hate and bitterness in this column, maybe bordering on jealousy? I’m not a club guy. I like halls in the wall too. If people want to go to a club, let them. Why would you get so worked up over something *other* people are doing that you are neither being forced nor asked to do?
Also the entire voice of the column makes you sound *exactly* like someone who’d go to a club.
I am entirely 100% behind this, though I will say between travel and particular deadlines I can easily hit 60-70+ a week. Those weeks are also countered by the fact I can work from home 3x a week and there have been entire months where my to-do list was “implement two optional features on this internal site” and it’s not held against me with respect to utilization.
Eventually you’ll just get to the point where you can’t be bothered anymore. That’s when you know you’re hitting your stride and have a “strong handle on life”
I’d love to read this article — P& R and The Office are both favorites of mine — but I’m not clicking through 11 pages. If you’re gonna do a slideshow, at least make it possible to do it without reloading the page.
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Look I’ll be honest, if you have a locked down sex option on Halloween you win. If not, you’re a great dad so you mostly win.
Also bang your wife. It’s halloween. She wants the candy.
4 hour conference calls are the worst. If they happen with any regularity, invest in some frickin’ headphones. If I’m in the office while on them, I try to grab a room and close the door. I also prefer speakerphone, but when it’s not available I just grab my headphones (w/ a mic) or, no joking, I grab my old school headset I’ve had since I worked in a call center and slap it in the phone.
As to the “keep music to a reasonable volume”, why are those people even playing it without wearing headphones?
I drink black coffee because I’m too lazy to put anything in it, and I’m accustomed to severe bitterness.
I’m guessing about 50% afraid
Except the people who get paid to support it
I’m flabbergasted because they raised us. Who the fuck are you going to blame for us “being like we are” if not them?
I’ll say what I told my friends earlier, “Wow, either this is brilliant satire or that has got to be some of the most sanctimonious sniveling horse shit I’ve ever read and I’ve read Catcher in the Rye.”
Unless your kid was borderline HOF in past little league years, it’s still an awful comparison. If he was, well I’ll be damned.
There are probably 500 guys in MLB you could have picked who fit that definition to a T.
If someone turns off the AC during the summer, that deserves a tar and feathering at the very least.
“May not be the most talented on the team but hopefully the little fucker can at least hack it well enough to not have people question you for playing them all the time.”
And your MLB comparison is Joe Mauer? As in the former MVP, 6-time all star, golden glove, silver batter Joe Mauer?
Don’t you worry about that. I’ll bring back Ulysses and Rutherford
I was with a group of friends on Saturday to watch college football. They were drinking fairly heavily and leaning over to inspect a glass table with a shortened straw from about noon to 11 PM. Two of the guys were up watching football with me at noon and drinking for a little Sunday Funday action. The other slept 15 straight hours, laid on his couch, and went to bed at 8 PM.
Some people have it. Some people don’t. You would apparently seem to have lost it.
Lot of hate and bitterness in this column, maybe bordering on jealousy? I’m not a club guy. I like halls in the wall too. If people want to go to a club, let them. Why would you get so worked up over something *other* people are doing that you are neither being forced nor asked to do?
Also the entire voice of the column makes you sound *exactly* like someone who’d go to a club.
I am entirely 100% behind this, though I will say between travel and particular deadlines I can easily hit 60-70+ a week. Those weeks are also countered by the fact I can work from home 3x a week and there have been entire months where my to-do list was “implement two optional features on this internal site” and it’s not held against me with respect to utilization.
Eventually you’ll just get to the point where you can’t be bothered anymore. That’s when you know you’re hitting your stride and have a “strong handle on life”
I’m not even a bears fan, but I was screaming for them to go for it on 4th and 1 at the Hawks 45. They were down 20. They did not.
The announcers were actually praising Adam Gase at one point in the first quarter for running the clock out. It was mind boggling.
It takes maybe 30 minutes to fix that
That or your boy played 80 at the Placid Olympics
I’d love to read this article — P& R and The Office are both favorites of mine — but I’m not clicking through 11 pages. If you’re gonna do a slideshow, at least make it possible to do it without reloading the page.