“There’s an age-old question of if you need to buy a gift for the new couple if you’re in the wedding party.” – There is? Is this like a tax deduction I’ve been forgetting to claim?
“In this case, there was no way in hell I was spending any amount of extra money on a gift.” – Imagine dropping a thousand bucks and having your friend still think you’re a cheapskate.
#5 – Nothing wrong with whiskey cokes, friend. If you’re at a bar having a drink in the first place, it’s because you’re trying to enjoy yourself and shake the stress off of your new postgrad problematic life. You just can’t sweat these small things because they’ll eat you alive.
Isn’t the ghosted interview opening up time in your schedule to browse PGP for half an hour instead of conducting an interview?
Seriously though does the HR person catch flak for a ghosted interview- picking someone who wasn’t interested or not selling them enough on the company before the interview?
Isn’t the bathroom attendant really just there to make sure you don’t do drugs or bang or pass out in the bathroom? The soap and mint dispensing is just to make him a tipped employee so the bar can pay him less.
If you’ve never been, take a bay cruise. Super touristy, but it’s the best angle to see SF and the GG Bridge. If the weather’s good, check out Golden Gate Park, especially the DeYoung (free observation tower) and the Cal Academy of Sciences.
Also have a jacket with you at all times. Absolutely do not wear flip flops or sandals.
This comment raised my BP, and I started composing a response excoriating shithead baby boomers who still don’t use Oxford commas, but it’s Friday god damn it and I just need to make it into the weekend alive.
Throw pillows on the couch generally stay on the couch all the time or can be pushed aside. Now I gotta move throw pillows off my bed when I sleep and then put them back on in the morning. Who’s got the time?
“For far too long, the IPA Gang has dwelled in the shadows, allowing the murky tasteless swills of the world to dominate the beer market.”
We’ve been hearing beer snobs bleating about these shitty bitter beers for over a decade now. It’s 85 degrees out. I’ll have the ice cold light beer, you can drink what you want.
My experience was that they way people message on apps was a poor predictor of what they are like in person (which is what counts). So the optimal strategy is to get to a F2F meeting as soon as practicable.
Also guys hear the opposite of your complaint pretty often (“he’s just messaging me all week; make a move already!”)
What about the grease/oil factor? I can’t eat chips while working – keyboard would be disgusting, or I’d have to keep wetnaps at my desk. Same for a lot of dried fruit.
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“There’s an age-old question of if you need to buy a gift for the new couple if you’re in the wedding party.” – There is? Is this like a tax deduction I’ve been forgetting to claim?
“In this case, there was no way in hell I was spending any amount of extra money on a gift.” – Imagine dropping a thousand bucks and having your friend still think you’re a cheapskate.
#5 – Nothing wrong with whiskey cokes, friend. If you’re at a bar having a drink in the first place, it’s because you’re trying to enjoy yourself and shake the stress off of your new postgrad problematic life. You just can’t sweat these small things because they’ll eat you alive.
If you have Phone on your dock you might was well just get a land line, gramps.
Isn’t the ghosted interview opening up time in your schedule to browse PGP for half an hour instead of conducting an interview?
Seriously though does the HR person catch flak for a ghosted interview- picking someone who wasn’t interested or not selling them enough on the company before the interview?
Isn’t the bathroom attendant really just there to make sure you don’t do drugs or bang or pass out in the bathroom? The soap and mint dispensing is just to make him a tipped employee so the bar can pay him less.
Look forward to checking out “Succ Sessions,” hosted by Dave on Grandex Labs.
“I’ve been told I come off as aloof when the topic turns to something banal.”
Because you’re withdrawing into a trance to compose your next column on that topic.
If you’ve never been, take a bay cruise. Super touristy, but it’s the best angle to see SF and the GG Bridge. If the weather’s good, check out Golden Gate Park, especially the DeYoung (free observation tower) and the Cal Academy of Sciences.
Also have a jacket with you at all times. Absolutely do not wear flip flops or sandals.
This comment raised my BP, and I started composing a response excoriating shithead baby boomers who still don’t use Oxford commas, but it’s Friday god damn it and I just need to make it into the weekend alive.
My upvote is conditioned on you including a ranking of World Cup kits (at least a top-5).
I’m squinting at that photo trying to figure out if that’s a m-f-ing roll of FILM next to the camera.
Did you confront your friend?
Throw pillows on the couch generally stay on the couch all the time or can be pushed aside. Now I gotta move throw pillows off my bed when I sleep and then put them back on in the morning. Who’s got the time?
“For far too long, the IPA Gang has dwelled in the shadows, allowing the murky tasteless swills of the world to dominate the beer market.”
We’ve been hearing beer snobs bleating about these shitty bitter beers for over a decade now. It’s 85 degrees out. I’ll have the ice cold light beer, you can drink what you want.
Ask Jeeves and Austin Powers. Shouts to the late 90s.
It was Mike Nolan.
What do you have against forearms?
Do you think people in SF dress bad on purpose as a middle finger to uptight east coasters?
My experience was that they way people message on apps was a poor predictor of what they are like in person (which is what counts). So the optimal strategy is to get to a F2F meeting as soon as practicable.
Also guys hear the opposite of your complaint pretty often (“he’s just messaging me all week; make a move already!”)
What about the grease/oil factor? I can’t eat chips while working – keyboard would be disgusting, or I’d have to keep wetnaps at my desk. Same for a lot of dried fruit.