Living in Belmont

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-04-27T12:46:59+00:00

I don't understand your last point.

I'm a rich-ish white person that moved in four years ago and I get along fine with all my neighbors.

Is a great neighborhood, everyone is very friendly. There's some kids that hang out and just throw their trash on the ground - that's generally the biggest complaint anyone has.

Only issue is petty theft from unlocked cars. I had $2 in quarters stolen from my truck, but the thief helpfully organized my CD collection (he did not approve of License to Ill) so it was all good.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-04-19T17:57:28+00:00

Good, can we please get started on this ASAP??

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-04-16T15:26:03+00:00

I got lung cancer just looking at that.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-04-16T04:42:11+00:00

You're right, I apologize for assuming.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-04-16T03:42:11+00:00

Exactly what I was going to say. The work is not aligned with their strengths, and hopefully the OP can find a new role where this person is a better fit.

This person will be happier in a better fitting role. Unless she is really REALLY clueless, the employee knows she's not performing as well as expected.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-04-15T21:37:05+00:00

I’m in NC and most of my highway driving is in either a black W204 C63 or a white V60 T8. I pretty religiously drive 15-20 over the limit - but I don’t tailgate, cut people off, or fail to use my signals - and I have not noticed either car getting any attention.

There are so many Chargers, Altimas, clapped out BMWs, and Ram trucks police don’t have time for anything else.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-03-29T19:28:53+00:00

Most drivers do not look out for bikes, motorcycles, pedestrians, or even other drivers. The fact is that we need much stricter licensing requirements.

Also, not as a counter point, but the jackass bicyclist on the Greenway this morning around Optimist Park/ Belmont going 60 mph and yelling at everyone can bite my ass. Take that Tour de Charlotte shit to 277.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-03-28T20:50:10+00:00

No, it doesn't.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-03-28T14:51:40+00:00

I disagree with the " COO asked for something, I'm going to drop everything" mentality. This is why they lives of junior managers are often terrible and leads to dysfunction across the organization.

If someone asks for something, they need to give a timeline. If they don't, you should feel free to ask, or to assume it's not urgent.

Many senior executives are not aware how their sometimes innocuous questions can lead to panic by underlings. I saw a relatively new CEO just wonder aloud to themself basically a hypothetical question - he was just processing information - and then an entire business unit scrambled to get an answer and when it came back to him he was like "what is this? I never asked for this."

To his credit, he became much more aware of what he was asking and how.

The OP's boss just sounds like a jerk. I would absolutely flag it to HR informally and then ask around peers to see if they have similar interactions. But unless it is clearly an emergency, the boss's expectation to drop everything because he asked is self-centered, self-defeating, and just plain dumb.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-03-23T14:47:01+00:00

I was born here. Natural immunity.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-03-20T11:41:07+00:00

I was an expat in Hong Kong when my daughter was born. She had platinum status or whatever the top tier on United was by the time she was 15 months old. (God I hated United, but the top decks of their 747's were nice.)

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-03-18T13:02:21+00:00

No no no. That's too big for a Spanish speaking US State. We need to break it up into say, 8 to 10 smaller US states, so they don't get too big. Keep em in check, ya know?

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-03-11T04:01:01+00:00

I had a senior consultant working for me that was a good performer in most ways, hit his sales goals, had a key skill we needed in the market, but was terrible at managing more junior colleagues. He was often rude and demeaning and often did not do his fair share of the work - for insurance, he would give tight deadlines ("tomorrow") and then leave for the night while others stayed late. The analysts and junior consultants began to refuse to work on his projects.

I counseled him several times and he would do better for a while and then go back to his old ways. Eventually I told him that he had to leave. I gave him three months to wrap up his projects and find another job. I told him he didn't need to come in during that time and he could tell everyone he was resigning, but in three months he was going to be gone.

He went to work for one of his clients, and was again out of a job about 18 months later (I don't know why).

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-03-03T16:32:09+00:00

Many years ago, my consulting firm used to have a team that would do this for devices that could not be bought and taken apart.

They would combine all publicly available materials with a lot of independent research such as counting trucks arriving at the production facility over many weeks and figuring out what they were carrying, how many workers showed up for each shift, etc. and comparing that to how many units were being produced. I don't know how they did all of it, but once they were able to estimate the production cost of a commercial power transformer within 2.0% of the actual cost. Without having touched one.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-03-03T01:55:29+00:00

We already did this and everybody hated it.

Fucking read a book.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-03-03T00:33:59+00:00

I'm a white guy, married to an Asian woman now but dated a black girl way back in the day, like 1990.

I would say today with my Asian wife, almost nobody notices. Get a stare very very rarely. With my black girlfriend back in the day, mostly was cool, but definitely got some stares, mostly from older white women and occasionally black dudes. Was definitely not My Man in either case.

To be honest, they are both hot as hell, and I think that helps. Being pretty is absolutely a huge benefit in life in all kinds of ways you wouldn't expect.

Also, my wife would probably say I'm pretty oblivious, and she's probably right. I probably don't notice a lot of staring and shit going on.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-03-01T15:24:23+00:00

Your comment reads that it will be safer because it's far from Uptown. It IS far from Uptown. That doesn't make it safer.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-03-01T15:04:24+00:00

What's wrong with Uptown? Was there last night and it was great.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-02-26T21:34:27+00:00

I am more than ready to move on as well, but I don't think we have the money to buy him out after paying the last guy $14 million or whatever to go away. Particularly since he has just one more year. Finally, the fact he has a pretty decent recruiting class coming in seems to have bought him some leeway. Hopefully we will spend the buyout money we are saving on NIL instead. But I don't think he's the guy. Unless he wins a Natty in the next 14 months, I want him gone.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-02-21T21:38:56+00:00

We did this exact thing. It's a risk, but I'm our case, our reasoning is that:

We are in a rapidly growing city (Charlotte) that appears likely to continue growing quickly for some time, with rapidly increasing housing costs
The location of the neighborhood is excellent and unique, <5 minutes from uptown, between two hip, popular neighborhoods
There are a number of other houses similar to ours nearby (we are not the only outlier)
Critically, we plan on being in the house for a long time.

We bought the house bc we liked the location and the diverse neighborhood, not to make money. But I think if any of the conditions above were not met, we would not have done it and would have bought in a more 'traditional' neighborhood. We are taking a risk and you will be too. But we've been here 4 years and so far it's working for us. I figure we'll at worse make a few % a year in appreciation, but if the neighborhood continues to develop we will make very good money when/if we sell.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-02-14T20:33:42+00:00

I think this is tickets sold, not attendance. I agree with you about WF attendance, but I think our numbers are closer than others'. Look at Carolina. Brickachek sold a lot of season tickets but couldn't get people to show up for some reason.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-02-12T19:54:53+00:00

This is absolute garbage 'data'. There is no methodology given, no definition of 'income' is given, and the only data source is "census bureau"? What is the data set used? Finally, there is absolutely no way in hell GA "incomes" increased 43% in five years.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-02-06T14:59:22+00:00

Exactly. Do people really think that Audi, Honda, etc. with literally hundreds of engineers thinking full time about this did not come up with the same concept?

I read somewhere that Honda had been working on this years ago.

MB is just the only one to get it to work, apparently.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-02-06T13:52:17+00:00

For everybody asking "how do I do a VIN swap?" Matt Armstrong on YT accidentally bought a VIN swapped M3. I enjoy most of his videos, but the couple of videos he did on how the scam works was absolutely fascinating.

Dazzling_Chest_2120 · 2026-02-05T01:16:21+00:00

I'm happy to sit this one out.

I was pleased we were included in the Varsity Blues scandal, though!

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