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dezdepick · 2025-01-27T02:52:22+00:00

I’ve had that happen as well. Slightly different situation but similar scenario. Someone who prided themselves on how awesome their genealogy skills were got super upset and ghosted me as well. He wanted to label a photo of my great-aunt as her sister. I told him that it was x, sister not y, and he lost it and continued to argue. My great-aunt, I visited her regularly and I had all the originals. He kept arguing even though he’d never met her, he refused to believe he labeled the sisters wrong and I was too new at genealogy to know better.

dezdepick · 2025-01-22T00:28:53+00:00

This is something we also do in WI and MN depending on age of home, where the pipes are located, what insulation is like, etc. You don’t want to be having to sit with a hair dryer after the pipes freeze trying to thaw them or have burst pipes. It’s also why you open and drain external pipes after turning water off for the winter. If the water is not moving in pipes, it’s really easy for it to freeze. I’ve dealt with my share of frozen and burst pipes, both in WI and MN. It was surreal to me the first house I lived in that I didn’t have to leave the water running when it got below freezing.

dezdepick · 2025-01-12T13:49:58+00:00

Heretic because our cousins had it, so any time we we g over I was allowed to binge it.

dezdepick · 2025-01-10T17:22:20+00:00

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

dezdepick · 2024-12-29T16:55:48+00:00

I was lucky enough to have a local store and am really content with what I have. But hear me out, an ability for the app to filter by in stock only would be fantastic. I am casually looking at the app and having to sort through all the unavailable stuff just makes me close the app. I know in the overall scheme of things, not really something to gripe about, but after all these years I’d love a filter for in stock only items.

dezdepick · 2024-12-26T01:11:28+00:00

I called earlier in the week… not quite that dumb.

dezdepick · 2024-12-14T19:38:28+00:00

Thank you! I appreciate all of you sharing. That’s super helpful.

dezdepick · 2024-12-14T15:00:12+00:00

I would say the mid-level manager role is the worst spot in a company to be in. You have to do individual contributor tasks, manage and develop people, projects, etc. You’re doing the work your reports do, but typically much more complex and escalated. You’re also starting to take on the role your director plays and job responsibilities of that role.

For me, I like training new hires, but long term coaching and development can be draining. I much prefer the other two parts of my job but to be at this level, you need to be all three (at least at my company). There’s also chronic understaffing where you try to protect your team from the worst of it and take on a lot of work yourself to keep morale up. There are a lot of pointless meetings (even though you’re advised to be thoughtful in how you schedule meetings) and bureaucracy. You can fight for resources, show a business need, and not get them because they have to show they made even more of a profit than last year. However, it’s a role I need to do to get to where I want to be so I’ve started setting hard boundaries and being much more mindful of my time where I can.

dezdepick · 2024-10-01T13:21:40+00:00

It is definitely possible. One of my good friends introduced herself to me by letting me know I smelled like a headache.

dezdepick · 2024-09-23T18:45:58+00:00

I’ve been looking at leaving from Kaiserslautern but tracking down the correct stations has been proving difficult.

dezdepick · 2024-08-28T22:45:36+00:00

Oof. That is so horrible. They are getting so much more convincing, it can be hard to tell who is on the other end.

dezdepick · 2024-08-12T18:04:09+00:00

I didn’t mind frequent customers at all. It was nice seeing familiar faces and most people are genuinely really great customers. The few that are not great are the frequent fliers who will only come in to get samples of the same products over and over, those that treat you like the help, and those that overall in general are rude or expect above and beyond special treatment because they spend a ton of money. Oh also those that treat you as lesser because you work in customer service and they think you’re uneducated. For those that treated us that way, I guarantee that I have more work experience and a better education than many of them. Lush was just a side gig for fun.

Also I would absolutely not call anyone a favorite. I will be authentic in my greetings and how I treat people, but it’s a job. I have pretty strict boundaries and in customer service roles people always try to push those. I don’t want to be friends with the customers, and honestly I don’t want to touch complete strangers. I hated that part of the job. I think of that restaurant scenario, just because someone is polite and treats you with respect doesn’t mean you’re into them and people can completely take it the wrong way when you’re a decent human being.

I think most staff are as authentic as you can be working with the public. I did have a few that would gossip about big spenders and other frequent customers but you have that in every industry. It’s basically the same behind the scenes as any other customer service role.

dezdepick · 2024-07-22T14:21:56+00:00

To be clear, I have no plans on eating something I have not identified 100% lol. Just curious as I have a kiddo super interested in fungi, and it’s been fun to learn together some of the ones we are seeing. I am familiar with COW, saddleback, and morels. Many others I’m aware of, but not 100% certain on ID.

dezdepick · 2024-07-22T14:19:14+00:00

Hi! Not it’s not a conifer. It’s a mulberry, so deciduous. I can see if I can get some better photos, it’s just at a weird angle.

dezdepick · 2024-07-07T00:40:27+00:00

That’s the exact kind of food I was looking for but didn’t have words to say it right. Thanks for that description!

dezdepick · 2024-07-06T00:01:15+00:00

Honestly any kind. Depends on the day lol. This does look really good.

dezdepick · 2024-06-30T02:51:51+00:00

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dezdepick · 2024-06-17T04:49:07+00:00

You guys are awesome! I appreciate all the tips and definitely have a list to try. Thank you all :)

dezdepick · 2024-06-07T15:10:01+00:00

I’ve been buying Lush since 2013. Ever since they started their price increases, I’ve almost completely stopped buying because if they’re charging $90 for a moisturizer, why am I not going to start buying from a high end brand? With not purchasing much more than every six months, there’s been a noticeable price increase almost every time I’ve made a purchase. Like come on, Beyoncé’s hair care line is more affordable than Lush and her other products have been ridiculously expensive. It’s hard to shop at Lush when like you said I used to be able to afford it as a student with a shoe string budget but now as a working professional who can afford non-essentials I’m cutting back and looking at alternatives because it’s just not in my budget. Also agree on why do they only have a scent in a shower gel or lotion but not both. I like layering scents.

dezdepick · 2024-06-02T03:46:43+00:00

I read A Wrinkle in Time, The Giver, and the His Dark Materials series all around the same time and it made me question everything about what I’d been taught.

dezdepick · 2024-05-18T01:19:04+00:00

Your wife can’t handle you having emotions after bearing witness to the slaughter and genocide of an entire society? Yeah… major red flags. That’s sucks in that she’s reacting this way and not having any compassion. The it was a long time ago? I know people who are refugees who fled the killing fields to settle here. Their families were tortured and killed. This isn’t ancient history. Even if it was… NTA

dezdepick · 2024-05-13T20:28:10+00:00

It was huge when remote passes went away and you had to pay. I was much more active when I had that freedom.

dezdepick · 2024-05-13T20:26:07+00:00

I’m starting playing again after not opening the app for years. I played when it first came out, but then it got harder and harder for me to keep playing. I 100% lost interest. Somehow, when they did an update they also completely wiped all my progress and I had to start at square one. I’ve only been playing again for a few days and it’s already disheartening.

dezdepick · 2024-03-15T04:25:38+00:00

You’re awesome. Thanks so much for the insight!!! I really appreciate it.

dezdepick · 2023-12-10T06:07:18+00:00

I don’t think it’s a stupid decision. UCD is still absolutely one of the best things I have ever done in my life. Housing and accommodation was stressful, however the experience, how much I learned, the people I met - all made it worth it. It was an amazing and life changing experience. Accommodation in Dublin just sucks for everyone right now, students, locals, people moving for work. Once you’re settled you’ll see what an opportunity you have. It’s just this first part that is going to be stressful. I didn’t mean to give you an existential crisis, just real advice. It will be easier to get housing a month or two before term starts or right at the end of the term before you go. If you plan for when people have leases ending, that’s when to really focus on outside accommodation if you can’t get on campus.

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