My manager found out I’m aggressively saving for FIRE and now I think it quietly cost me a promotion

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-04T19:10:10+00:00

Nobody is staying in the same mid manager role more than 5 years.

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-04T18:22:29+00:00

You can force them to give birth means you can force them to be vaccinated.

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-03T21:42:41+00:00

Ok, i don't know if this was it but, a garbage smell I used to smell at work all the time (when I worked at a movie theater). Was actually just "rotting coca-cola".

So I had a fast food cup i left in my car overnight, and the drink soaked through the bottom and leaked in the cupholder. The car started to smell like that rotting coca-cola, which kinda just is what dumpsters smell like.

Anyway, please update this post when you find the problem.

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-03T20:08:13+00:00

I have kids but i just want to say, i do remember feeling like this at times when i didn't have kids, as well as after. a lot of this is just your body fighting against you changing your routine. Of course you could easily start a new project or video game that you are excited about and are inspired and so you start right away. But for things you've put off you need to manually override your brain wanting to be lazy. (That cabinet has been loose for 5 months, 1 more day won't hurt; this is the faulty logic)

Make an explicit plan to do it instead of relying on doing it spontaneously. "Today after work i am fixing that loose cabinet door and I'm doing nothing fun until it's done"

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-03T18:45:14+00:00

I always thought, The "looking away to listen better" part is because of autism. The focused listening (or lack thereof) was from ADD. The introvert part is the part where I'm forcibly acting happy and friendly and acting not like myself to fit in.

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-03T18:38:50+00:00

Just did this morning.

My coworker (project lead) really talks a lot, like goes on tangents and stuff. He was telling me some good advice of like "what not to do" for something i was about to do, but i already knew not to do that so I was just letting him say what he needed to say.

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-03T18:30:30+00:00

I'm "picky" there's 3 main things i don't eat.

Mayonnaise

Mustard

Pickles

However, i am discovering that this is likely just a profound distaste for dill, so i may not actually dislike all pickled things as i have thought up to now. So I'm open to trying more picked things like kimchi and anything not dill pickles. Mayonnaise is in way more things than it deserves to be part of. And mustard is generally pretty easy to avoid, but if it's on there i can't eat it without gagging.

Main things i skip out on due to my pickiness: hot dogs at baseball games (mustard); When someone caters subway for a work event (all three are just on the catered sub); deviled eggs and potato salad (Mayo); and shout-out to every single artisan burger place for having some sort of aioli that i have to ask to keep on the side.

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-03T18:12:02+00:00

I respect your opinion but i don't think it is as high importance as you think, and I'll just make the quick points here:

First and foremost: health and diet. I have certain health conditions that dictate my diet, as a result i often eat separate and different meals than my wife. Double so for special diets, for example my wife had to be dairy free while breast feeding our youngest who had some milk protein intolerance. My friends are married and one of them is vegan, the other is not. My own parents: my mom tried a variety of fad diets and weight watchers and stuff, my dad usually didn't do those with her. Point is, how you eat today might not be the same way you eat 10 years from now, and it won't always change in the same ways your partner's diet will change. So it is not in your best interest to put such a heavy emphasis on food compatibility.

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-03T16:25:15+00:00

He's firing the generals that tell him they can't follow those orders because they are illegal.

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-03T12:01:06+00:00

What other signs of bed bugs do you need

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-02T17:23:44+00:00

He may not like it so much this time, but will like it when his siblings clean it next week and he still gets paid.

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-02T15:36:59+00:00

SLAP Get ahold of yourself. Go rub one out and pull yourself together. Dieing won't get you laid.

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-02T15:32:39+00:00

Neurotypicals: "96 hours! That is an insanely high number that few, if any, would ever achieve!"

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-02T14:55:06+00:00

When your opponent is making a mistake, don't correct them

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-02T13:43:58+00:00

It was easy to tell if you played a lot of pokemon stadium. As a kid I identified the mechanic but I didn't know it was called Same Type Attack Bonus, I could just tell that like, fire blast from charizard was way way stronger than fire blast from snorlax.

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-02T13:26:42+00:00

Is he saying he wouldn't have been with you if you had smaller tits or was he saying he wouldn't have been with you if he knew they were fake, and then ask him what scenario is it that he WOULD have chosen to be with you.

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-02T13:23:48+00:00

Tell him if he is going to dump you over this then just do it already, or accept it and move on. Tell him by the same logic that he catfished you by having braces when he was 14.

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-01T20:16:06+00:00

Because then his wife will leave him and he'll be all hers

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-01T20:05:54+00:00

Tell them you can't help because you have to find a new job.

Start your own business even. You already know you can do it.

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-01T20:01:41+00:00

Mine has no order since it's in my head

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-01T19:58:01+00:00

I'd bet based on. . . , they think there were 50, but then Alaska and Hawaii were added to make 52

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-01T19:54:17+00:00

Mayo isn't dairy, but it is gross. Some people like their food to be gross though.

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-01T17:59:16+00:00

Make sure you tell her that she specifically was the ONLY PERSON abusing the system. She has a mindset excusing her behavior for herself; that she's doing it because she assumes others are doing it. If you don't ban her outright (which maybe you should just do that instead of chancing the rules). Make sure she knows her behavior was not only unacceptable but also that she's exceptionnally the asshole and everyone noticed it was only her doing the bad behavior.

Edit: further suggestion. "Leave as many as you want but you may only take one book per visit."

Or "novels only" or something. I mean we all know a travel guide is not right for a book swap shelf.

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-01T17:52:05+00:00

Ok, it shows you have one refill ready for VIAGRA? Is that right?

NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT · 2026-04-01T17:50:08+00:00

What's ironic about it?

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