Update: My start date coincided with the general manager’s vacation. Things are very different when she’s on. People who once adapted to the situation and communicated become little mind control ants doing whatever she said as she sits in the middle of the area barking out orders, sometimes incorrect ones. She started yelling at me that I needed to do the drinks while I take the drivethrough orders, despite the system actually being quite screwed up, me being new, and the soda machine malfunctioning so that you baically have to devote 12 seconds of dedicated time to each cup. It was not fun and I got obviously enough annoyed at her that she asked me if I were ok (read: submit to my abuse with good cheer and do not talk back.)

Actually answered the phone after my shift tonight because I expected to get fired, but it was a spam caller (thankfully?).

Still, I prefer this stupidity to my last job, and I think with our schedules, we’re not on together too much.

It matches the speaker: The man is going backwards, the dog is going forward.

I’m on a nominally French-speaking instance so the casual francophobia I learned from Monty Python has to be kept in check.

Workshop: arguments for keeping the fourth panel? I feel like ending on #3 is a lot stronger.

The real reason MLK Jr is posthumously a hero.

What parts of Spain are you planning to visit?

Also, your disinterest in the plight of the French is curious…

Uh, Obama must have been partying a lot because I remember more than one article about how dysfunctional the SS was.

This is largely a legal question: what are your rights, what would your sister have to demonstrate for you to to lose them, etc.?

What the actual situation on the ground is probably varies by where you are–first by country, then by state.

Lots of states of free to low-cost legal aid groups, but they might only be available to consult on a case that exists, not for consultation, but they might have a website that outlines the process for your. I think the key word might be “conservatorship” in the US, which comes in many flavors.

The other part of it is whether your sister would try to do something like that, and that I do not know…

I think they did a study in Australia about this. People who voted for a minority candidate were less likely to vote for one in the future because voting for that minority candidate was there “get out of jail free” card for any future racist voting patterns.

Obama was a once-in-a-lifetime candidate and also almost engineered in a lab to make white people comfortable.

Likely the first woman president we have will be conservative --someone who woman might vote for because she is a woman, but also someone who men might vote for because she advocates patriarchy… example: Margaret Thatcher. Though, to be honest, the current crop of Christian Nationalist wouldn’t allow it, I don’t think…

My second Office Space meme of the day! More later…

I haven’t seen that in any list of complaints about men, but I’m sure the women who are looking to be tradwives are having a harder time. That said, the results for “am I dating someone cheap?” does not include any coping tips (to put it mildly).

Yes, I think she is making some kind of effort, but it’s very sporadic and unreliable. I guess I can accept a quota if that’s how she interacts with the world, but she is also horribly unstructured about her time… like she just does shit until she runs out of daylight and stores close…

I think you’re mixing being ambitious or driven with being a workaholic. If your wife was an actual workaholic, you’d almost never see her.

Ah, there’s a Capitalism for every day of the week!

Well, since that guy’s blocked me, is there anything wrong with asking a question of a search engine? Two things are:

1. SEO might optimize for the questions the site answers.
2. It doesn´t matter how you phrase it, search engines today pull you towards the same results from an average of your keywords. I’ve gotten really frustrated trying to filter search results the way I used to do because all the results are the same no matter what I try.

I wasn’t particularly looking for testimony–that’s what I’m getting here–more a nuanced description of workaholism because she’s self-employed and that makes things a little hazier than someone who is “forced” to be at the office for 60 hours a week.

This is definitely a gendered dynamic. I’d feel like a freeloading piece of shit doing that, and I’d have plenty of social support in feeling that way.

Good point. Relationships tend to get less intense. Not much place to go from here.

I get a distinct “check the box” vibe from her. Like she’ll show up an hour before my shift starts so she can say she saw me that day. Ultimately, I want someone who WANTS to spend time with me, not someone who responds to being threatened with metrics.

If she wanted to work less, she could. She just doesn’t want to.

She is literally the only person in my life right now. I tried for 2 years to make some kind of friends, but none of them worked out. You´d think I´d have been happy to have a girlfriend, but honestly I just felt a huge disappointment: another person that is going to fill my world and then leave. Though, to her credit, she is absolutely not filling my world.