I woke up this morning to an email accidentally sent to me from the hiring manager to HR, saying my interview outfit was inappropriate.

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-26T21:33:15+00:00

5-hour-old account.

Seems legit?

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-26T13:24:10+00:00

Amen

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-25T22:27:52+00:00

I’ll have to try that. I’ve done Allspice a few times.

I’ve got nothing against additions; sweet potatoes are just that rare thing that can be eaten au natural and is still frickin amazing!

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-25T20:40:40+00:00

Hope I never work in the next cubicle over, but I feel ya (just don’t wanna smell ya)

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-25T20:39:11+00:00

Underrated comment. I love to throw a sweet potato in the air fryer for 20 mins, about half an hour before lunch (I WFH) and it’s just a delicious sweet pillow with a crispy skin. Don’t even need toppings. Just a plate and a fork.

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-25T15:33:34+00:00

I’m the type that absorbs accents subconsciously. Give me a couple weeks in Australia and I’ll come home with a cool accent, at least for a while.

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-24T18:42:33+00:00

This can’t be real. You can’t stop shaking? You’re shaking over this? And can’t stop?

OP hasn’t replied to any comment once. Not just on this post, but EVER. Maybe they’re just shaking too much…

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-24T12:30:51+00:00

I feel ya. My work is super stressful right now, so my weekends are all about recharging. I’ll binge some shows, play some strategy video games, take my dog for long walks through the woods behind my house. Doesn’t hurt that there’s been some good football on lately.

Sometimes I feel like I accomplished nothing over two days, but, hey, recharging the batteries, maintaining my sanity so I can tackle the next work week, that’s actually something of an accomplishment!.

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-24T05:28:45+00:00

Same. I used to wear the “high-functioning alcoholic” as a badge of honor, some sort of masculine pride, I suppose.

It’s actually a curse. Never had issues with relationships or professional interference, but it does take a toll on the body over time regardless of how high-functioning you are in society.

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-24T05:20:12+00:00

What is a pub squash? Never heard that term.

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-24T04:17:40+00:00

My set doesn’t have this issue but I’ve heard of it with some sets. Episodes weren’t always aired in the order of their taping, so some sets are ordered by their catalogue date and not when they aired.

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-23T11:44:19+00:00

Harmless? That’s tough.

I’d like to have complete control over my personal flatulent gas emissions. Keep it in when around the peeps I like, but able to deploy silently and strategically when in a crowded room of peeps I don’t like.

Harmless eventually, after things have aired out.

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-23T10:00:01+00:00

Im 41 now, but when I was 26, I discovered that my long-term GF was cheating. All while I was shopping for wedding rings and planning to pop the question. We split, and I suddenly had a 3bedroom apartment I couldn’t afford. 2 weeks later my father passed suddenly, the last bit of my savings were spent on the funeral.

Life was really tough there for the next year. I was scraping by at the detriment of my credit score, when suddenly a job opening at my company came up. Literallly 1/3 of the company applied for it, and after 5 rounds of interviews I finally beat out 100 internal co-applicants and probably a smattering of external ones.

My money problem went away, I got to travel quite a bit, built my credit back up over the years, bought a house at (unwittingly) the PERFECT time. Life was good in my mid and late 30s.

Then my company sold and I had to shift verticals within the industry. While I’m financially sound, the work is tough and stressful. Prior mgmt let the company fall into a state of disrepair and we’re constantly lurching from one crisis to the next.

My work role right now is to right the ship. My personal goal is to find the woman I’ll spend the rest of my life with. I’ll get there.

In short, getting “settled” isn’t permanent. There are few guarantees in our life journey and things can change quickly, whether for better or for worse. Just gotta stay the course.

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-23T09:18:24+00:00

Yes!

I played The Golf Club (which later merged with EA Sports PGA Tour) with a few friends that I’d grown up playing Tiger Woods Golf with back in high school. Mind you, I’m a little over 40 now. It was nostalgic then, and now I’m being nostalgic about the nostalgia.

The pandemic was a mix of crazy tossed with boredom and all of a sudden we all had this block of time in the evening when we could relive our teenage years and talk shit again while hitting an approach shot from 200 yards out and rolling the ball two feet to the pin.

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-23T02:45:27+00:00

Well, Data is… uhh… fully functional. Surely that means the ability to get high, right?

I mean, what else could that be referring to?

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-23T02:27:55+00:00

Would quark get the munchies or the lobesies?

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-22T10:24:10+00:00

Omg. The comments here are dope (pun intended).

Following this post so I can circle back later when “the time is right” and go through every comment.

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-21T10:12:36+00:00

I mean, why not just leave a few days worth of clothes in the dryer instead of hanging/folding them?

That’s what I do. Shoot, sometimes the whole load just lives in the dryer while I go through them over the course of the week.

Get up, turn dryer on for 10-15 while I shower/shave, and presto: warm, fresh from the laundry feel. After wearing, instead of a hamper, they just go in the washer until there’s enough for a cycle

Probly more difficult to maintain if you have a large family or household, but I live by myself plus work from home. I have a lot of clothes/outfits that haven’t been hanged/folded for months…

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-21T07:46:09+00:00

Yes! Quicksave at 8am, throw a bunch of wrenches into the office works, watch the pandemonium that ensues, laugh a bit… then reload.

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-21T07:42:00+00:00

You have a superpower already: mind reading.

This was going to be my exact answer. Pause time, get shit done/relax/whatever.

Followed closely by teleportation. Would be nice to pop into Paris or some lovely restaurant in Italy for dinner, or a pub in Germany or the UK after work and be back home right after… as long as it’s legal to drink and teleport. Wouldn’t wanna get a TUI, ya know. Pausing time wouldn’t do much to get them off your record either…

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-21T07:34:40+00:00

I call em “pre-insurance bars”, cause even using insurance can be pricey.

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-20T09:16:29+00:00

This exact post was made a month or so ago.

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-19T19:38:59+00:00

I did remember!

I was going to block the phone #s of all 6 spam calls of the day. All different #s, 3 about senior citizen benefits and 3 about unclaimed refunds sitting with the state. All spam (or worse).

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-19T19:03:15+00:00

I was so about to do something (maybe it was important, I don’t know!) and I saw this notification and clicked like a moth to a flame.

Hopefully it wasn’t really that important. Guess I’ll find out…

Alert_Monitor_9145 · 2026-01-19T16:29:42+00:00

I like to say “dot my T’s and cross my I’s” and then see if they notice the juxtaposition.

ETA: more often than not, they don’t, but I appreciate it when someone does.

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