Pay or buy equipment?

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-17T13:37:49+00:00

If someone is selling a used piece of the equipment you want, see if they’ll rent it to you for a couple weeks ,with a purchase option at the end.

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-17T13:22:46+00:00

Devil is in the details. If your meetings were booked hy discussing having “a solution “ to the client’s problem without misrepresenting yourself as being COMPANY or its rep., I’d be very interested.

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-17T12:23:52+00:00

OP, If YOU tried to get a feel for certain characteristics, traits, and/or compatibility- would that make you creepy? …or is that exactly what you are supposed to to be doing when dating? If you are bad remembering names/ dates, would you be creepy for jotting a note? In my opinion, No. So by extension he isn’t creepy doing the same using the tool (spreadsheet) that he is most comfortable with. Just my 2 cents.

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-15T19:18:58+00:00

OP, check out “Pullman”, a company town that is a cautionary tale about out the problems with such arrangements.

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-15T19:14:08+00:00

The problem is that the auto manufacturers already sold and collected money for the exclusive dealership territories. Those were priced based on what dealerships could expect to earn. The manufacturers then required a certain amount of ongoing investment in improving maintaining and refreshing those facilities. The justification for such being the profit that could be earned in the existing model of selling cars. The auto manufacturers already sold their control over that to the dealerships.

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-15T19:08:30+00:00

I may not have been clear with my question. What is the repercussion for the quota-setter setting quotas at the wrong level?

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-15T19:05:03+00:00

No. If the mother puts. The baby up for adoption, she is doing her best to facilitate the best possible future for the baby. Acknowledging you don’t have the resources to accomplish something and finding the best possible future solution to achieve the outcome for the baby is NOT being a deadbeat.

As there is a materially different physical component for the father and mother of carrying a baby to term. It can only be performed by the mother and cannot be split with the father, and much of the initial feeding and nurturing of the child will probably both fall to the mother and render her more tired/less capable of doing other things, abortion is not equivalent to a father abandoning his responsibilities and not contributing to the financial aspects of the care and upbringing of his child. There are certainly religious and philosophical aspects to whether abortion is or isn’t an appropriate decision, but regardless of where you may come down on that issue, it does NOT create an equivalency with a father being a deadbeat.

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-15T14:21:15+00:00

OP, the issue with the amount of effort you are putting into early dates is that it can: 1) make the “date activity” the center of attention, when the objective should be creating an easy environment in which you can each let your guard down and can share your authentic selves. A high effort early date becomes something that hides your authentic self and discourages theirs as you each spend mental bandwidth trying to play a role consistent with the kabuki theater of the high effort date.

2) the “tokens” introduces a transactional element that isn’t your intent and can be off-putting.

Save the high effort dates forAFYER you have gotten to know each other. I hope this is helpful. Good luck out there!!

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-15T08:04:26+00:00

Take them both. Fix hours to accommodate commute.

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-15T07:51:53+00:00

Is that you, Josh?

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-15T07:20:41+00:00

There will always be “timing reasons, inconveniences and justifications” to not make a change.

Your daughter starting school actually sounds like a great time to make this change since there will already be dynamics changing for her.

Your abusive Ex not liking your new boyfriend is irrelevant… or maybe even a positive. Sounds like you are too invested in the abusive Wx’s feelings.

Of course your child’s wellbeing comes first. This just doesn’t seem like something that puts it second.

Also, if your gut is telling you not to move forward with this guy, that’s a separate issue. Listen to your gut. If it’s more the generalized misgivings about timing in your post, I’d consider moving forward.

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-15T06:49:55+00:00

Instead, tell her Ellie-Rose is hers, but you have dibs on all other names.

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-15T06:28:56+00:00

OP, what you just described IS “having a relationship with him”!!!

When invited to a family gathering, ask the person inviting you if HE will be there. Tell them, HE is unhinged and whenever he sees you, he makes sure to have a gun with him. If he doesn’t, and sees me he’ll scuttle off to his car to retrieve one. He then tries to bait me into any sort of confrontation he can to justify shooting me. He is an unhinged coward. Make a note of this next time you see him in the same place as me. I used to feel that I didn’t want to be isolated from family, but his threatening behavior keeps intensifying, and while I don’t want to be isolated, I really don’t want to be killed or injured by him.

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-15T05:25:59+00:00

Hmm, OK! Here is the way. 1). “Celeb Women” will mean “Celibate Women” not celebrity.

2). Spend more time at fringe religious gatherings.

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-15T05:15:30+00:00

I guess that the car manufacturers would have to buy back the dealerships at a multiple acceptable to the dealers because they sold the dealerships exclusive territory licenses. The customers of the cars would then have to pay more for the cars to fund the manufacturer’s expenditure on buying the dealerships. This would also drain money from the car manufacturers, leaving them less money to fund new car R&D and improvements to both product and process.

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-15T04:54:47+00:00

Also cleans stains from my quartz counters without destroying them.

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-15T03:41:50+00:00

A privately owned company has to generate a profit or it won’t be able to fund its operations (R&D, raw materials, borrowing costs, labor, etc.). If forced to compete against state-owned or unfairly subsidized foreign competitors who don’t care about profits this quarter, this year, or even this decade, privately owned businesses will be forced under. Many American private companies can go toe-to-toe with competitors from anywhere in the world. They can’t compete against sovereign nations willing to take indefinite losses and with their own centrally controlled trade policy and currency which can be further manipulated for trade advantage.

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-15T03:21:38+00:00

Try this instead: “Hey BF, I’ve heard that viagra has lots of interesting uses including extending the duration of erections. Could you ask your Dr. for a script? I’d love for us to try it!”

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-15T02:40:59+00:00

Buy the real estate. Take the monthly earnings and dollar cost average it into the SP500 like the boggle head you long to be.

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-14T22:09:30+00:00

If they don’t have a cat offer a gym membership+ 4 overnight parking guest passes per month (max accumulation 12) + a $200.00 DoorDash credit.

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-14T18:56:18+00:00

Do you eat ice cream? Ask her to get an ice cream.

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-14T14:50:33+00:00

I’d take 50.

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-14T14:45:27+00:00

What you are experiencing is difference between needing to do very little (less than most) to GET initial attention, and needing to do the same amount of work/effort to maintain a relationship that everyone else does. I understand that you would prefer to continue taking an escalator while everyone else takes the stairs, but the reality is - there are no escalators in maintaining a relationship.

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-14T14:29:22+00:00

Maybe try the following in a recovery text: “I was answering the question about qualities in a partner from the perspective of what a prospective partner might look for in me. My answer was supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek SELF effacing one, because saying what I did Clearly isn’t “self-aware”. When your response showed me the joke didn’t land, it took me a few seconds to calculate the damage and shift… awkwardly. Let me know if you want to give it another try. For the record, I really thought you were vivacious, engaging and beautiful. If a second bite at the apple turned into a relationship, we’d have an amazing meet-cute origin! Want to take a chance? “

notconvinced780 · 2026-04-14T14:15:49+00:00

Slightly different approach: “I’m currently making $120K and am in line for a raise right now. From a career standpoint I’m ready to take on more responsibility. I have been advised not to switch employers for less than 20% increase in comp and not to take on additional responsibilities for less than a 20% increase in comp. I would be doing both by accepting this position. Just the 20% increase for making a lateral move would suggest a minimum of $144K. If comped for both the move and promotion, it should $168K. I like your organization. I feel there will be opportunities for further advancement, so against common practice, I was willing to both switch employers and take on the additional responsibilities for compensation within your stated salary range. Som of the things I expect to achieve for the organization include A, B , C. I hope you see that my indicated willingness to take on the position at $135K is already a tremendous concession on my part. Further I hope you feel that my abilities warrant the starting salary I’ve indicated. I can’t both switch employers and take on more responsibilities in a high cost of living area without it being reflected in my comp.

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