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Ethical dilemmas, antisemitism, fired as a wilderness guide: Camp Nebagamon, Wisconsin

on May 24, 2026

Teenager Work freaks

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Part 1 of 3: Biz I - That time I asked for & received a million dollars to build a tech team out of thin air. I was 32.

on January 15, 2026

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Part 2 of 3: Biz I - Assembling my staff of misfits & castoffs

on January 15, 2026

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Part 3 of 3: Biz I - Wrongly sorted spreadsheet nearly derailed my career

on January 15, 2026

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Nepotism, fucktard boss & that RFP from Florida Power & Light

on January 12, 2026

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London software dysfunction, company 1

on December 02, 2025

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London (separate) software dysfunction, company 2

on December 01, 2025

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Seattle tech startup + edible overdose in Denver airport

on November 04, 2025

Drugs & drink Work freaks

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Being flown to bizarro job interviews

Dateline: aughts & teens. The market research industry is a pseudo-science which I'll tackle separately here someday in thrilling detail. MR is filled with washouts from other legit industries who looked around & realized they could make a decent living simply being punctual & polite. There are also legit smart folks in MR, I met a handful. They & I were smart enough to slurp up the gravy train. Which I did, for 20 years. Let's focus. Ann Arbor, MI. Flown there twice, 5 years apart. Multiple MR sales ppl I know have interviewed here or been asked to. Must have hard time hiring or keeping them. We share similar stories of our visits. This unique shop is home of the spectacularly annoying popup surveys all over the webs. They claim all sorts of perks with their surveys: customer loyalty, competitor threats, yadda yadda. My 1st visit went well enough to talk about working there, the pay package (it sucked) etc. But here's the...

Ethical dilemmas, antisemitism, fired as a wilderness guide: Camp Nebagamon, Wisconsin

Me on left, beach cliff 50ft+ over the water, at Pictured Rocks Ntl Lakeshore in the 'U.P' aka Upper Michigan, south shore of Lake Superior. Yes that's a bandana on my head. -- ...guy leans out of his pickup window & hisses 'Jewboy' & roars off...welcome to day 1 in Lake Nebagamon, WI... This is no ordinary story of being fired. In hindsight the event leading up to it were a moral dilemma that I predict you have experienced in your own life. So: senior year of college my friend told me a few years prior he worked at this camp, which still exists as a boys camp in N. WI, as a 'tripper' meaning on the 'trip staff.' These were camp counselors separate from the day to day, living in the cabin counselors. Trippers took the boys out on camping, hiking & biking trips, generally 5 days at a time. This was real deal camping: tents, powdered food, into the woods, carrying everything, etc. Anyhoots I applied, interviewed (by 4 owners at Hotel So...

That time my savant buddy made GHB in my house

Dateline: 2000. Do you have a savant friend? Someone off the charts smart but also limited or suffering in social skills? A good example is Bobby Fisher, the chess champion. Not just talented but historically superior, even at a young age. However, he started going off the rails in his 20s. After winning the world title in 1972, basically disappeared. Re-appeared years later, clearly a paranoid schizophrenic. Also, he hosted a radio show from I Philippines where he ranted against everyone (especially Jews, of which he was one). Anyhoots. I used to have a savant friend, Chris. He excelled at basically everything difficult. School, chess, board games, anything involving strategy. When I was in college, I went to Fargo for a drunken weekend of fraternities gathering. He was in grad school there getting an advanced electrical engineering degree. I visited his apartment. He was growing magic mushrooms under his bed. Not sure how that's possible, esp. pre-web, but if ther...

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