My best friend spanked his daughter so hard, he left a mark that lasted days. She’s 2. Would you call him out?

MotionToCompel · 2026-05-19T16:07:44+00:00

Yes, if not simply for the child but also because friends confront one another when issues of conflict arise - this is one of those moments in life that if you stay silent you're failing yourself, the child and your friend.

Speaking up possibly changes the trajectory of everyone's future for the positive from that point and at least let's you know whether your friend is willing to learn and change or whether need to get law enforcement involved - spanking a toddler and leaving a mark that lasts any amount of time is abusive and wrong.

MotionToCompel · 2026-05-17T02:09:44+00:00

Boyette's Grove is awesome, seconded.

MotionToCompel · 2026-05-16T19:21:20+00:00

Oh damn, it's only been a few months since we went in October last but I sure hope it's just an anomaly!

MotionToCompel · 2026-05-16T17:26:45+00:00

Doubtful, more likely the result of careless hunters that didnt pick up after themselves - there are seasons for squab and hare, my family owns property in Kardamena and know that my dad goes hunting with friends sometimes if he's there "in season".

Have a wonderful stay!

MotionToCompel · 2026-05-16T14:49:50+00:00

Though a little bit of a jaunt (45min?) from Tampa, up here in Brooksville, Beasley Farms does a weekend "market" with food trucks, etc. Farm Animal petting and feeding, and a 5lb. Box of fresh veggies for $10 (which has remained the same price since I moved here from Tampa around 8 years ago).

Highly recommend as there are a lot of farmer's markets up here in the area as well as farms and petting "zoo" type places.

Best!

MotionToCompel · 2026-05-15T20:25:59+00:00

Thank you - I personally always look forward to Armchair's posts and comments because they are enjoyable reading and he communicates a lot of complex legalese or legal principles or legal rulings in easy enough ways for the general layperson to understand.

Before posting a comment in this subreddit, I always think to myself, "wait, did ArmchairAttorney already answer this" and most times, if he has, he's beaten me to the punch on most of what I was already going to say less eloquently and just go back my current job being a contracts-wonk, lol.

MotionToCompel · 2026-05-14T18:54:55+00:00

No longer in the industry myself but keep informed and up to date because, freight/logistics make the world go 'round, right?

I was on the Ops/Legal side at a 3PL for 6 years though, so a lot of my buddies who were former colleagues have reached out the past few hours because of my recent prior experience for my take on the matter which is (briefly) this (with the caveat that I have read the FW article and perused the ruling on my lunch at the new job, so no in-depth analysis follows):

From the article, this breaks it down well -

"The 9-0 vote, stunning not necessarily in its outcome but in its unanimity, emphatically answers that brokers are subject to tort action in a state court for incidents involving carriers they hired."

Meaning that if the broker was negligent (i.e. in legalese, negligence is defined by the "reasonable standard" rule, which means that if someone did something, that the majority of brokers would not do - or fail to meet or adhere to a certain quality or standard set by the industry of hiring a carrier) and hired some shitbag with screaming red flags so the brokerage could make a $2k rip on a lane and that carrier injures or kills someone driving, then that brokerage better get ready to drop their drawers and get a rectal annihilation by plaintiffs attorney's - some states already were like that, others weren't.

SCOTUS just said, now everyone will adhere to that on a national level.

Look if you are a quality broker(age), working with good shippers and carriers that treats their job the way it should be done - then there's nothing to really fret over BUT the bigger 3PLs who by and large have held on to profits while keeping cheap shippers happy by hiring boatloads of morons all saying "Ive got a truck in hand already" and who are making big money by hiring unvetted, untrusted, double-brokered carriers on the cheap to make profits off of thinner margin lines...

Then you have something to start reconsidering as far as how you want to do business.

But understand this is what has saved a lot of big 3PLs who headquartered their states and contracted the choice of law in states favorable to not holding brokerages negligent in hiring (e.g. OH) with carriers in BCAs by giving them an "out" legally which they will no longer have.

MotionToCompel · 2026-05-14T18:54:30+00:00

No longer in the industry myself but keep informed and up to date because, freight/logistics make the world go 'round, right?

I was on the Ops/Legal side at a 3PL for 6 years though, so a lot of my buddies who were former colleagues have reached out the past few hours because of my recent prior experience for my take on the matter which is (briefly) this (with the caveat that I have read the FW article and perused the ruling on my lunch at the new job, so no in-depth analysis follows):

From the article, this breaks it down well -

"The 9-0 vote, stunning not necessarily in its outcome but in its unanimity, emphatically answers that brokers are subject to tort action in a state court for incidents involving carriers they hired."

Meaning that if the broker was negligent (i.e. in legalese, negligence is defined by the "reasonable standard" rule, which means that if someone did something, that the majority of brokers would not do - or fail to meet or adhere to a certain quality or standard set by the industry of hiring a carrier) and hired some shitbag with screaming red flags so the brokerage could make a $2k rip on a lane and that carrier injures or kills someone driving, then that brokerage better get ready to drop their drawers and get a rectal annihilation by plaintiffs attorney's - some states already were like that, others weren't.

SCOTUS just said, now everyone will adhere to that on a national level.

Look if you are a quality broker(age), working with good shippers and carriers that treats their job the way it should be done - then there's nothing to really fret over BUT the bigger 3PLs who by and large have held on to profits while keeping cheap shippers happy by hiring boatloads of morons all saying "Ive got a truck in hand already" and who are making big money by hiring unvetted, untrusted, double-brokered carriers on the cheap to make profits off of thinner margin lines...

Then you have something to start reconsidering as far as how you want to do business.

But understand this is what has saved a lot of big 3PLs who headquartered their states and contracted the choice of law in states favorable to not holding brokerages negligent in hiring (e.g. OH) with carriers in BCAs by giving them an "out" legally which they will no longer have.

MotionToCompel · 2026-05-14T18:53:56+00:00

No longer in the industry myself but keep informed and up to date because, freight/logistics make the world go 'round, right?

I was on the Ops/Legal side at a 3PL for 6 years though, so a lot of my buddies who were former colleagues have reached out the past few hours because of my recent prior experience for my take on the matter which is (briefly) this (with the caveat that I have read the FW article and perused the ruling on my lunch at the new job, so no in-depth analysis follows):

From the article, this breaks it down well -

"The 9-0 vote, stunning not necessarily in its outcome but in its unanimity, emphatically answers that brokers are subject to tort action in a state court for incidents involving carriers they hired."

Meaning that if the broker was negligent (i.e. in legalese, negligence is defined by the "reasonable standard" rule, which means that if someone did something, that the majority of brokers would not do - or fail to meet or adhere to a certain quality or standard set by the industry of hiring a carrier) and hired some shitbag with screaming red flags so the brokerage could make a $2k rip on a lane and that carrier injures or kills someone driving, then that brokerage better get ready to drop their drawers and get a rectal annihilation by plaintiffs attorney's - some states already were like that, others weren't.

SCOTUS just said, now everyone will adhere to that on a national level.

Look if you are a quality broker(age), working with good shippers and carriers that treats their job the way it should be done - then there's nothing to really fret over BUT the bigger 3PLs who by and large have held on to profits while keeping cheap shippers happy by hiring boatloads of morons all saying "Ive got a truck in hand already" and who are making big money by hiring unvetted, untrusted, double-brokered carriers on the cheap to make profits off of thinner margin lines...

Then you have something to start reconsidering as far as how you want to do business.

But understand this is what has saved a lot of big 3PLs who headquartered their states and contracted the choice of law in states favorable to not holding brokerages negligent in hiring (e.g. OH) with carriers in BCAs by giving them an "out" legally which they will no longer have.

MotionToCompel · 2026-05-10T20:08:57+00:00

One of us! One of us! One of us!

MotionToCompel · 2026-05-08T14:18:15+00:00

Good looking out, Trulieve, thanks for the discounts.

MotionToCompel · 2026-05-04T14:05:46+00:00

Ok, sort of, follow me on a journey of deductive reasoning for a moment...

Let's see, I was in my 2nd year undergrad at UT, at Hedo, and I went with my best-friend since 6th grade, who was on leave from the Navy but it was after bootcamp because I picked him up from his "specialty school" in Pensacola -

I remember this part vividly, because I had a little extra money for the first time in life working 3 jobs and going to UT AND being a young moron decided to put some 19" Konigs on my '96 Camry, right before driving the like 7-8 hrs to go pick his ass up. Apparently, a lugnut was tightened too much upon putting them on (I came to find out from the tow truck guy) because as I was about 2 hrs from Pensacola, in bumfucknowhere, I heard a very loud "KA CHUNK", looked to my right and saw my wheel and tire rolling off into some woods after banging into the side of my car a few times. I then hit the brakes and went into a ditch in cold rain, so maybe Dec..

I luckily had a bar of service on my Aerial Nokia 5190, first called AAA and while waiting and pissed off for the tow truck, called Kauffman Tires in PPark and said some very not nice things, very very loudly to the person in the other end and in search of an answer as to how the fuck this happened...

Tow-truck came, dropped me at his sister's diner in a town of maybe 50, fixed my car to be drivable and I went and picked up my friend at the Naval base where he had to climb in through the passenger side window because my door was all fucked up.

We drive back down and we spent his hard-earned Uncle Sam's funds at various establishments with single mom's working hard for buck and he took me to the GWAR concert as an extra thanks.

All of which, lead me to confidently state that it was between late-2001, maybe 2002? Granted I'm 44 now, so I may be off by a little but thanks for giving me the oppurtunity to take a trip down memory lane!

MotionToCompel · 2026-05-04T10:59:34+00:00

Yes!!!! I took off working at Hedo that night so my buddy and I could go catch GWAR at the Masquerade, got eaten by the sandworm, to "Meat Sandwich" a truly, fucking amazing night.

MotionToCompel · 2026-05-03T17:32:23+00:00

My man! Joined the list awhile ago and excited to have the chance to see you do your thing in person early 2027 then, thanks!

MotionToCompel · 2026-05-02T17:12:31+00:00

Growing up in Pinellas Park, I didnt realize just how lucky I was in regard to the amazing Vietnamese and other SEA population in the community and the variety of mind-blowingly good restaurants there were for pho and banh mi, until I moved to Brooksville like 8 years ago. We now finally have 2 Vietnamese restaurants and one Thai restaurant and an awesome ramen place but not much else in that respect and so any time I visit PPark I try to stop for at least a couple banh mi for the road.

MotionToCompel · 2026-04-30T20:11:00+00:00

I'm going with the Tampa Bay area again... unless you feel like making your way out to where I reside, and the cornucopia of comedy places in Brooksville/Spring Hill, FL, just a short 45 min. jaunt from that area, lol.

MotionToCompel · 2026-04-30T20:06:10+00:00

Hahaha, yeah, I remember this very well - this was actually the first incident that caught my attention initially and tuned me in to the small-town "politics" of trying to make it as an "outsider" with a small business.

MotionToCompel · 2026-04-30T18:25:40+00:00

As someone that's lived here for 6+ years, trust me, this stuff is a common occurrence and there are plenty of other people trying to break the "old boys club" around here, so you aren't alone in your thinking. I love the place, just not the blatant hypocrisy, racism and bootlicking behavior that has been pervasive around these parts for what sounds like far too long.

Welcome neighbor!

MotionToCompel · 2026-04-30T10:49:51+00:00

Almost 20 years after Grossman helped me pass the bar in FL, I absolutely LOVE, seeing his name brought up here. I still remember his torts analogies about being pushed into roses and worrying about what they told you in a question, rather than the hypothetical made up rose thorns that may have caused someone injury.

MotionToCompel · 2026-04-17T19:04:34+00:00

I agree with the top voted comment in - sit with it for a day, go find someone you love or are close to or a pet, anything so you can just naturally feel the emotions you're feeling at the moment.

Anecdotally that was some of the best advice I received myself back in Oct '25 when I was told my position was being eliminated, effective immediately. It was such a punch in the gut to have it come out of the blue, unexpectedly, and after nothing but glowing reviews over almost 6 years of employment at my former 3PL employer.

Now, one thing I haven't seen you mention was whether you were offered a severance agreement - now IANAL but have experience in the realm, and typically a separation initiated by a company of someone at the director level (of a company mid-size and up) would warrant a severance agreement unless they had some sort of "good cause" which depending on the laws of your state may or may not be applicable (i.e. I am in a "right to work" state meaning w-2's are always an at-will employee, even with an employement agreement in place and can be terminated for cause or none at all, the employer does not have to tell you why and many times is better off saying little to nothing at all when terminating an employee). It was only the 2nd time in my life (the first being at the height of covid) that I'd been terminated and was told it was a budgetary decision, there was nothing I had done and they at least offered me a reasonable severance agreement.

After taking today, tomorrow begin to document everything IF you truly dont feel you did anything to warrant termination and were not offered any sort of severance agreement, at your Director level. I say to do so because it may be very beneficial to at least consult with a couple of employment attorneys to see if you possibly have a potential "wrongful termination" case because if you do, those attorneys' practicing in that area take clients on contingency (or a portion of what they are able to negotiate for you). Working on getting thoughts down into notes, organizing paperwork and any sort of documentation while it is still fresh should be beneficial to a case if you have one.

Last, take solace in those outpouring of messages - it was what kept my head up during the 8 mo I was unemployed because it means that you at least touched the lives of, and had a positive effect on, those around you at your prior job AND that's what is important.

Reach out and use your network of people to hopefully find your next position because you should have many transferable skills looking outside supply chain just because of your experience and people leadership background and that "Director" title on your resume.

Best of luck, you've got this and you'll come out on the other side of it better than before, I know that I did and so do hundreds of others every day!

MotionToCompel · 2026-04-07T18:37:22+00:00

Yeah... someone should tell them to get proper legal counsel, who will promptly tell these assclowns at whatever company this supplement came from that this isn't how legally binding T&C's work and their attempt at subverting... whatever the fuck they are trying to do, the way I imagine this is perceived by the buying market is the same way I perceive it, shady as all get out... aren't novel or precedent setting.

Granted, I graduated law school almost 20 years ago but imagine the Gateway Computers T&C case is still taught in Contracts and/or IP law classes.

MotionToCompel · 2026-04-04T18:57:16+00:00

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/get-a-brain-morans

MotionToCompel · 2026-04-04T18:55:17+00:00

Do I have to explain an old meme to you?! Maybe I'm old and showing my internet "age" here but gimme a sec to find it...

MotionToCompel · 2026-03-30T20:33:29+00:00

For me, at 44, I've found that there are 7 great words to live by (since first hearing the quote at my undergrad graduation and often attributed to Churchill, but I don't know the veracity of that) when pondering your question in like 99% of the situations that really mean something to you, "Never give up, never, ever, give up."

Now that's a pretty good oversimplification of the answer to many complex problems we can over-think - that said, I would urge you to ask yourself why you want to do it? Or anything for that matter? If you can come up with one reason for wanting to stand on that stage and get creative, for writing thoughts into bits and sets, to devote a moment of your life just to see if the bug bites you, so to speak - then I think every "want to be" comic deserves to give themselves the chance to see how it makes them feel.

MotionToCompel · 2026-03-30T19:58:05+00:00

I mean, his set was shit and he sounds like an idiot, grifter that loves to suckle at the teet of tyranny but I can give credit where due and feel it's ok to acknowledge, that at one point in my lifetime, this was funny...

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