Time to make your decesion

'Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes.'

He could be a union supporter though - in my experience of doing labor organizing, the younger folks are usually more pro-union, then there's a dead zone of support from the Boomers, and then the really old folks are much more supportive because they grew up when unions were more of an active force.

If Wallace is down to organize, then I'd pick him and just take the risk that he's got some shitty opinions that I'll have to work through and re-educate him on.

Alternatively, may have a shitload of good jokes and all around pleasant person to work with. Its a mix with the elderly. The sharp ones are awesome sometimes

And when it's a message I bet it would be just Hi and nothing after that until you reply

"Anything longer than a sentence deserves a phone call"

Maybe the dog was about to attack a small child.

I've seen someone poke a dog in the ass with a stick. They were a hero. Dog was latched on to someone's leg.

People have different circadian rhythms on average as they age. We simply associate the pattern of those middle aged and older with virtue. Middle age and old people raise children, and they teach children that the sleep patterns of the elders are wise and just, while the sleep patterns of the youth are slovenly and sinful. Our entire concept of "early" is defined by what middle age and older people simply adapt to naturally without force or effort. Older folks tend to wake up at a certain hour, so we just declare that the hour everyone is expected to wake at.

The most insidious form of this temporal bigotry is how we typically force high school students to start school at the earliest time of day of any school students, even though high school students have the latest natural waking time of any age group. We value "teaching lessons" to our youth more than we do actually teaching them. So we drag them out of bed at an unnaturally early hour so that they can make class at 7 AM. We then berate and shame them for being sleepy and inattentive in the unnaturally early classes we require them by law to attend.

And I say all this as someone in their late 30s who naturally wakes up pretty early. From an evolutionary perspective, it makes a great deal of sense why we have people with different natural sleep and wake times, and for those preferences to shift with age. We spent several hundred thousand years living as small groups huddled around campfires. Part of warding off predators is having people on watch through the night. Having people who don't have to fight to stay awake late into the night makes that guard duty so much easier. In prehistory, I imagine the young adults staying up late into the night after the adults are asleep, enjoying some time to themselves, tending the fire, and watching for predators. The last of the youth to go to sleep would trade off with the earliest rising of the elders. We are a social species. We are evolved to live in groups. And a group is more effective with a diversity across many characteristics, including sleep/wake times.

But we've forgotten this fact and turned a simple consequence of evolution into a moral issue. And for that, we as a society abuse our youth and force them to wake at unnaturally early hours for the sake of puffing up the sense of moral superiority of the middle aged and older. Collectively, our relation to early waking times, and especially how we use it to collectively abuse our children, is one of our greatest sins as a culture.

Well the getting up early is because we go to bed early. And we go to bed early because we can and no one can stop us.

WWII

My favorite old guy I worked with, I was around 25 at the time, he was early 70s.

We used to joke that I'd call him with a wake up call when I was getting home from the bar, and he could return the favor when he took his morning break. He was in the office every day at 5:30.

Because we have to get up to pee a bunch of times during the night and eventually can’t sleep at all so we get up for the day. Which results in our being tired AF and having to go to bed early.

You start to lose endurance. Your body becomes less efficient at recovery, and while you're not pushing as hard and you don't need as much sleep, you find that kicking it off earlier is advantageous. Your eyesight starts to deteriorate, you start finding that doing work in bright light affords you better focus through the pinhole effect.

Yeah, it might just be we have a lot to talk if she’s not fixated on only on Creep.

Monkey paw: he's a raging maga

with tons of interesting stories and anecdotes about life

...which he will find ways to clumsily segue into again and again, regardless of how many times you've heard them

Weird, here natural deodorant means it doesn’t contain any aluminum.

My guess would be that'd depend on who's calling it "natural". You definitely do see that meaning here as well, even in the same store

This is correct. I use the potassium alum one and it’s fine. The people who say it doesn’t work either don’t know how to use it or are just too sweaty that they need antiperspirant instead. They are only effective for max 24 hours in a regular setting (not exercising or sweating heavily), but ideally re-apply after 12 hours. So they don’t last as long as regular deodorant or antidepressant. Just make sure to apply regularly, and wash your pits before putting it on if you’re not fresh out of the shower. I’ce ruined a lot of shirts because of antiperspirant, and now I don’t have a problem.

Unfortunately some people are simply just too sweaty that antiperspirant is necessary. Your stink level also depends on the chemical makeup of your sweat. For example, a lot of koreans don’t stink when they sweat, lucky bastards.

I tried switching to an alum block for those exact concerns. Didn't work for me and made me actually smell worse than when I forget to put on antiperspirant. I think I'd rather risk cancer and not smell like a pair of used gym shorts.

Good comments! I just want to add that in case any folks are concerned about the aluminum, it’s not present in most deodorants but rather only in antiperspirants.

Also I found this article about the whole subject which I found interesting: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/should-i-switch-to-aluminum-free-deodorant/

Huh, interesting. I could have sworn that the "block of crystal" thing I had N years ago was an antiperspirant and not just a deodorant, but it's been a while and I can barely remember what happened last week. I just remember that it was some aluminum salt or another, but thought it specifically wasn't alum (which I still use for small nicks and cuts)

Poser

I find it very funny that there's like a 50/50 split between people who see Shiloh as male vs female

Good point, I didn't catch that

It's against my morals to use another persons mental anguish for my own amusement, but if she annoys me for years even after I've brought it up with Susan from HR I would eventually do that.

Only listens to Radiohead right now

She can listen to whatever she wants with her headphones on.

Thats it, he knows the company doesn't give a fuck and hes just waiting it out. Also I bet he has some stories or wisdom to bestow.

In my personal experience, "the really old colleague" is often a real throw of the dice between stubborn-as-fuck-never-matured-know-it-all and very-interesting-seen-it-all-genuinelly-mature-colleague - so basically opposite ends of the scale. Often there's also the corner-guy-just-counting-their-days-till-retirement, which doesn't say much about that person since they're not really into establishing relationships with people whom they will soon never see again and just keep a low profile.

If you're early career, having one of the seen-it-all kind of older colleagues is probably one of the best things it can happen to you, especially if you're a bright kid.

My wife is the admin Spock. In her last job, she knew the bosses were unreasonable and was willing to cover for the employees more or less (some were jerks or incompetent. They didn't last long.)

Though generally, if upper management does something outright scandalous or outright illegal, HR usually helps cover it up. I don't think she'd be willing to cover sexual assault, but she did had to cover up grift by clients.

I'm like 100

Judgy but okay

I guess I'm spoiled because I don't understand how this becomes an issue?

If someone leaves for parental leave (or quits) and you're now more understaffed, some less important things won't get done. It's kind of the company's problem to have the staff it needs. If you suddenly have to do two full jobs for one salary, you're kinda getting scammed.

I think he was half way gassed out not kneeling

No way the first to shit themselves wins

I mean, we're going on no information but one data point. Certainly hr is up there on odds to have some issues. But I'm at a work place were people generally get along well.

True the rest are just better at hiding/holding them.

I'll tell Susan