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Being flown to bizarro job interviews

on April 05, 2025

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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

Part 2 of 3: Abusive Mormon, global exclusive, scammer doctor panel, Russians

on August 06, 2023

Part 1 of 3: The first Seattle startup: honeymoon with Ron, robot survey takers, fired by Leo Burnett,

on July 16, 2023

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Cascading dominos of friendship cancellations

Dateline: this blurb began in late 2022 but continues to grow as I continue to purge the toxic people from my life. Well folks, I've been on a run lately, canceling numerous friendships. Perhaps my low tolerance for emotional weakness has reached new depths. Perhaps this has been an unusual set of coincidences. Perhaps it's me & my short fuse slash irritability (who, me?). I even have another blurb dedicated to me 'breaking up' with other blokes. Let's get started. 3 platonic female friends Met all via dating app. No love connection but that's still dandy as female friends are valuable & I cherish those I have. One told me 'you need to learn your love language because women dig that.' And indeed, I do see that mentioned on app profiles here & there. No idea what it is but clearly, it's a chick thing, same as stand up paddleboarding & cooking classes. My (joking) reply to her suggestion: 'if I start reading about love languages i...

Toxic workplace hall of shame: Gantz-Wiley research firm

Dateline:1996. So I did a couple years in the employee survey & assessments divisions as an office drone at NCS, they later changed their name to Pearson. Long nasty commute across metro Minneapolis, esp. in the winter. Wasn't doing much of anything there but make friends in and out of work with an intense, successful sales guy, and borderline enemies with a high strung drama rager sales rep named Caroline. One day, the latter called in sick with some drama, same day she was to fly to San Francisco and help Dr. David Campbell, a well-known psychologist (i.e., Strong-Campbell interest inventory) host a seminar, of which NCS was a publisher of his various assessments. So they sent me out there in her stead, the flight was a few hours away. Hurried home, back across the city, packed a satchel, drove all the way back across the city to airport, flew out to SF for a couple days. I sat in back of room whilst David explained his theories. On breaks I offered his books, tape...

Why do grownups listen to Def Leppard?

15ish years ago Garth Brooks came to Minneapolis. Declared they were going to sell tickets until the buying stopped. That amounted to 13 shows, at the basketball arena, capacity ~20k. Think about that. 13 consecutive days of gigs. He lived in the arena, just a simple room with a cot setup, they breathlessly showed on the news. I'm reminded of this when I meet someone around my age, i.e., grew up in the 80s. In particular, when we talk music, which we do, because I ask them about it. I ask some people I meet what they've been listening to lately. Replies might be: oh whatever's on the radio, or, I don't really listen to music, or, they mention known bands, or unknown bands. All are telling. What's most interesting, or noticeable, to me are those that declare (confess?) they still listen to Def Leppard / Boston / Journey / ACDC / Bon Jovi... or any of the big rock bands of the 70s-80s. Why is this interesting. First, this single bit of info predicts their life choi...

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