Skip to main content

Vampire Selfies

Craptastic recollections from an observant overthinker

Search This Blog

Click here for table of contents

Work freaks24 Opinions21 Drugs & drink10 Life in other cities9 Finances8 Personal shitshows8 Wimminfolk8 School days7 Music6 Travel stories6

Ignorance5 Teenager5 Breeders4 Race & religion3

Show more Show less

Showing posts with the label Work freaks

Posts

Seattle tech startup + edible overdose in Denver airport

on November 04, 2025

Drugs & drink Work freaks

+

Hey salespeople: always front load never back load your dealios

on May 23, 2025

+

Being flown to bizarro job interviews

on April 05, 2025

Travel stories Work freaks

+

Toxic workplace hall of shame: Gantz-Wiley research firm

on February 06, 2025

+

He complained in restaurants. Then he died.

on November 10, 2024

+

College job: Alzheimer's unit

on September 15, 2024

+

How I went from broke to living in a $10 million dollar mansion

on July 24, 2024

+

That one time I was almost cancelled

on July 20, 2024

+

Part 3 of 3: HR warning 'into the bush', 3M's 400 question RFP, 4 for 4 on failed hires

on August 11, 2023

+

7 day pageviews

Recently popular

My first and last sea cruise.

Approaching Vancouver Dateline: 2018. One of the besties I grew up with, practically at his house, is a middle school science teacher. Summers off. He goes on sea cruises during the summer, he digs them. The thought of them made me recoil, which I did each winter when he invited me to join him, sharing a cabin, splitting the costs. Never thought of them otherwise, they seemed baffling. Except. He has a serious on again / off again illness. Currently in remission. Ergo, when he asked me again the winter of 2017, I reconsidered. He said there are two primary options: Caribbean or Alaskan. Departs Miami or Alaska. Big difference. I loathe humid heat ergo I started thinking about Alaska option. Never been to Alaska. Have you? Started to seem more appealing. Heads were nodded, tickets were purchased, the $200 wifi access pass was purchased, and so in June 2018 we flew separately to Anchorage. Me from west, he from midwest and met up at baggage claim. I recall he had been i...

That one time I dated Stevie Nicks bestie

Dateline: 2010. So I met Victoria via some dating app & we hit it off. First date was on 'eat street' on Nicollet Ave in Mpls, aka restaurant row. Very friendly, smiley, easy to chat with. Not just a music fan but she worked in the biz. At that time she worked at mid-size concerts backstage as part of the team cooking for the touring band & crew. She would show me the 'riders' she was working on, i.e., doing the shopping a priori. Riders are what a band's management provides to the promotor, basically their list of demands for various treats & sundries. The ones I saw made me say 'sweet jebus that's a lot of booze for one night.' But hey: fringe benefit. She gave me backstage passes for several shows, meaning I could go find an empty seat and take in the gig. I saw The Chieftains, Mark Knopfler, a Jimi Hendrix tribute with several guitarists. I would meet her at a precise time at the unmarked stage door and she would let me in and give me a p...

Want to make real money in this market? Stop diworsifying.

Dateline: your earning years. Do you have a financial advisor? Do you want to step off the income treadmill? Speed up your retirement? I wrote about this a couple years ago but market conditions merit a revisit. The primary investment vehicles: mutual funds, financial advisors, 401s, IRAs, ETFs etc rely on 'diversification.' Are you paying 1.5% annually to be told to park your money into (yawn) mutual funds (snore)? Pros & amateur investors alike declare 'you gotta diversify.' Here's the definition of investment diversification they don't know or won't tell you: Diversification is selling the winners to buy the losers. Or more expanded, via Seeking Alpha: Another drawback of investing in ETFs is that many of these funds hold positions in hundreds of individual stocks, resulting in a phenomenon known as "diworsification," a play on the word diversification. Diworsification occurs when investors pursue diversification for the sake of diversif...

Francis McGillicuddy

Powered by Blogger