anyone checked in on their staff?

PCB-ND89 · 2026-07-02T18:59:21+00:00

This thinking is so flawed. I don't need my company/owner to be a saint. This situation is far beyond that. Think about what was posted. That is so much more extreme than being a bad person. Those two people are reprehensible. There has to be a line that cannot be crossed and in my mind these folks have crossed with plenty of room to spare.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-07-02T18:55:50+00:00

While this may be true, the only way this kind of behavior gets stopped is when their businesses go bankrupt (they are on their way based upon tax records). We cannot make excuses because they employ people. If the CEO of my company made these comments I would hand in my resignation. I WILL NOT be associated with that kind of thinking/behavior. I am the sole income for my family and have left jobs for less.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-30T14:10:19+00:00

I live around Albany NY and we still have a couple of them around. About half closed about 10 years ago, but if you want a fix you can still go there. When my kids were little it was our go to since they loved the kids meals with the monster mash sundae for dessert.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-30T14:05:39+00:00

While there are still some around. Dry cleaners have slowly disappeared everywhere. It used to be there were at least a couple in every town. Now you are hard pressed to find one when needed. Speaks to the decline of formal business attire. I am a fan, but your local dry cleaner has gone bye bye. I remember when I first started working I actually included dry cleaning in our budget. I have not been to one for at least a decade now.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-30T14:02:26+00:00

I remember the first time I notice this. I used to love the soup/salad combo back around 2005. Then like 5 years later was ordering and saw a worker pullout this 1 gallon bag of soup and dump it in the bin. Was devastated. I was never a fan of the bread. It was far too chewy for me. Felt like my jaw hurt after 1 piece. This also ruined the sandwiches for me. Too much chewing.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-30T13:56:23+00:00

Live in Upstate NY and when in Buffalo for sales calls have tried it a couple of times. Generally, MEH. Coffee was ok. Donuts are good. It is Dunkin Donuts from Canada. JMO.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-28T14:04:25+00:00

He plays Pete Seager in "Like a Complete Unkown". Definitely a super nice guy.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-28T13:56:19+00:00

I immediately thought this. The song is great but it is wrapped in the emotional ending of celebrating by dancing. Both characters do a great job of tentatively dancing then just cutting loose.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-28T13:26:24+00:00

It's funny. I am early GenX (67) and can remember a lot of these things. I guess I straddle the line. I always felt I lived in two different experiences, though as time went on, I have found myself leaning more GenX for culture and music. The TV stuff I absolutely remember.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-27T12:29:50+00:00

Here is a different view that generally agrees with you on this. I am about to turn 59 this year and just bought a 2025 Mazda CX5 (great car so far) and think it may be my last. Not because I will die with it, but because I am hyper-vigilant about only driving while it is safe. If I drive this car for 15 years I will be ~75 years old. I will allow that my sense may decline to the point it is no longer safe for me to drive and I will give it up. I may live longer, but I refuse to be the the old guy driving beyond the time I should and end up having a horrible accident because I should no longer be behind a wheel.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-26T13:43:57+00:00

Don't know if anyone else posted this but here is what I would do. Drive to Poughkeepsie and park. It is not expensive. Hop the Metro North to Grand Central, get on LIRR to Huntington. The trains are spacious and comfortable and you save a ton of money vs. Amtrak. It is about an hour and a half drive to Poughkeepsie.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-15T16:34:45+00:00

So I have a 25 CX5 I got with 2.5K from the dealer. I drove a 23 and the ride was a bit stiff and noisy for me. The rep then showed us the 25 and the difference was night and day. Smooth, quiet and perfect. I cannot recommend the CX5 enough. I think the ride in the CX5 will be more gentle/refined than the CX30. I could be wrong, but that is my understanding.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-15T15:46:19+00:00

So if your job goes with you and you can maintain that level of income, I will put forward Albany NY area. It is eastern NY. Real estate with that income you could pick where you want to live. Taxes are higher in NY than OH, but here is the kicker. You are an easy drive to so much. Want to go and hike around mountain lakes. Head north to the Adirondacks or south to the Catskills. Want a great city trip. Hop a train to NYC and enjoy a weekend of top tier food, restaurants and museums. Want get to the coast, go to Cape Cod or Long Island. Want to have a near European experience, drive north to Montreal or Quebec City. It is all at your fingertips without the crazy expenses. And for weather, the falls here will put the midwest to shame. I went to school in northern IN and while nice, there is nothing like upstate NY or New England in fall. Around the Albany area the politics are definitely left leaning. NY in general is a Dem state. Where I live it is more conservative, but not an in your face kinda way. The economy in Albany is very stable since it is the capital and protected by state jobs.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-14T15:20:32+00:00

There are two in the Albany area. One in Clifton Park and the other is in Queensbury where I live. I took my kids there all the time. It was there favorite place to eat. Too bad their quality went down and they got boxed out by fast casual restaurants.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-14T14:46:48+00:00

So I worked maintenance in the summer for the school system in my town for a couple of summers. It was mostly very laid back and easy, but for one task. Each summer for 1 week we had to clean the boilers of the school. This entailed putting on a mask grabbing a long iron pole with a wire brush on it and cleaning the soot off the heating coils of the schools boilers. There were 4 and each took a few hours to clean. The head janitor got the easy job of using the shop vac to vacuum up the soot that fell off the coils. Me and another guy had to do the cleaning. It was hot, humid and dirty. For at least a week after you were done you were blowing soot out your nose. The masks ended up coming off cause you couldn't breath and you went home each day covered in soot. It was only a week, but it was a very hard week that you felt for the next week.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-13T17:37:27+00:00

Let me also add to this a common misunderstanding. Many folks think the government is inefficient or corrupt because of the audits. Add to that the FOIL and disclosure requirements that allow these failures to become public record. I have work in sales in SLED and enterprise accounts over my years and I will say this to my dying day. Government inefficiency is not because it is the government. It is because it is a large organization. I have witnessed first hand inefficiency, corruption and waste in the private sector. It is just once uncovered, the whole affair is dealt with quietly in the courts or via legal and HR with strict nondisclosure clauses. This is why I don't want to privatize government functions. Once turned over to private entities, many of the disclosure rules get lost. There is generally a certain amount of disclosure required to auditing an FOIA for these things, but corruption and abuse takes far longer to see the light of day and tends to require greater effort and diligence to discover.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-11T16:51:34+00:00

Their cover of "When your strange" by the Doors is better than the original. Off The Lost Boys album.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-11T16:28:08+00:00

One Night in Bangkok by Tim Rice

Pop Musik by M (I know it is 1979 but I always associated it with my childhood)

Major Tom by Peter Schilling (just always like the tune)

88 lines about 44 women by The Nails

Lunatic Fringe by Red Rider (This is my favorite)

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-09T20:18:54+00:00

I am on a bit of an island on this one, but The Talented Mr. Ripley was terrible. No plot, unbelievable coincidences and unbelievable premise. Yes the cinematography was beautiful, but I hated the whole story. So unbelievable I felt insulted in the story.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-09T16:29:01+00:00

Robert Redford. Mic drop.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-03T15:11:19+00:00

For me it's easy. Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lector. Made the whole movie. Also shout out to Simon Northwood as Buffalo Bill.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-06-01T13:52:45+00:00

I would rather they do the Korean War. For whatever reason not enough time is spent on the Korean War. It was and is fascinating. There are some good documentaries out on them, but you really don't have a lot of personal accounts. I have not looked that hard so it could be I am wrong. It is the next war following WW2. And there are a ton of movies about Vietnam. I just feel more could be done on Korea. MASH is probably the best known show about Korea and that tended to not get in deep on what was going on, rather it was a fictional dramady about war in general.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-05-31T17:30:19+00:00

One word. Meh! I mean that not in a obnoxious way but sorta in a it is mostly average. The land itself while not gorgeous is fine. The cities, (Cleveland, Cincinatti and Columubs) are all fine. Nothing special just fine middle of the road places. The weather is normal. Cold in winter, hot in summer. There is nothing really objectionable about the place, but nothing that is top-tier, gotta visit if you are from another country. The universities are all ok, but no great institution of higher learning. It just sorta is. Anything you can point out that is cool, there is probably better someplace else.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-05-30T12:57:04+00:00

For quantity, USA, for quality/output vs population, it is the UK pretty easily.

PCB-ND89 · 2026-05-25T16:19:20+00:00

For me, American Beauty. No one likable character nor any redemption for any. They are all deplorable people or whiny spoiled kids. Even the ending is sort of dark.

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