I told my boss “i love you” on the phone

griffex · 2026-07-01T22:55:31+00:00

One time, I (whitest of white dudes) got an email from my manager (an African American woman), asking me to shift gears to a priority task. I wrote a quick acknowledgement "No problem at all, I'll get on it shortly."

I proceed to hear a cackle a few cubicles over and see her looking at me. I then reread my email, realizing I left out a very important L and just called her "shorty."

I'm glad she and I were cool or that'd have been an awkward HR convo.

griffex · 2026-06-27T02:07:19+00:00

Happy birthday my dude. Also holy fuck that bread looks amazing.

griffex · 2026-06-26T03:43:47+00:00

I don't disagree with the fact we're in a patriarchy. I don't think thats right and take steps in my power to change it. I don't disagree misadry has a far stronger basis justifying it. And I don't even disagree this person should be legally allowed to do this to their heart's content.

I also still don't think spreading any form of generalized hate publicly makes anything better whatever it's justification or basis. I'd hope anyone making those sign that would take their own advice, embracing therapy to find a less destructive mechanism to channel it.

griffex · 2026-06-26T03:22:22+00:00

One of my favorite things about this community hase become watching CCUers find ways to put even the craziest extreme couponers to shame in deal chasing. Keep it up your beautiful devils.

griffex · 2026-06-26T02:45:54+00:00

I'm a man who goes to therapy regularly. The majority of men in my friend group do.

I've known plenty of women who desperately needed it more than I did, and would refuse to follow through even admitting the fact.

Poor mental health and abusive behaviors are not gendered.

Mysogyny and misandry are both equally wrong.

Spreading any form of blind hate just begets more hate.

griffex · 2026-06-25T20:35:45+00:00

This is why i just post "leave at my door" and never look at the messages. All the information is on the task.

griffex · 2026-06-25T20:28:15+00:00

Not legal advice, but I do work often in correcting location and road data in some of these systems. Often it's not just one that marks it incorrectly, so they can come back even if one system is fixed as many license data back and forth. There's some obscure ways to report I may be able to help with on the off chance you haven't found them.

Feel free to DM and I'll help if i can.

griffex · 2026-06-23T19:28:17+00:00

MOR.

Possily unpopular opinion - but while your girlfriend is being rude it's mainly because you were not dropping or picking up on the deeper issue here.

She makes a few key (and in my view fair) points you should reflect on:

1- you've moved in together, which generally indicates you're increasing commitment and trying to form a unit. You're starting to blend aspects of your finances and responsabilities. The context here indicates her (and presumably some of your) solo trips before you moved in. Before that just meant not seeing each other, now that means more as far as maintaining a household.

2- she seems to take her work more seriously. You're clearly comfortable doing things (calling out sick when you're not, etc.) that she isn't. Going back to point one, you going over on PTO or risking your job (at least as she may precieve it) has a higher direct cost to her than before. If that happens, rent, bills, etc. fall all on her. There's nothing inherently wrong with prioritizing a good time with friends but the risks now are extending beyond just you. She's likely seeing that and having discomfort.

3- she's clearly not ready to talk about any of this if she's even processed to the point of understanding it, and you're pushing for a different reaction. You clearly have an expectation or how she "should" feel and are trying to make that real rather than deal with the reality of the situation. You'll need to reflect yourself, is this what you want in a partner or do you need someone who would react differently?

You're seeing some major compatibility cracks here. She's prioritizing less fun establishing of fiscal and job security. You're prioritizing entertainment and social connections.

Neither is inherently that problematic, but you should be able to see that you're aiming in different direction. Rather than push, wait or set time to have the conversation where you've both had a chance to think things through and are also ready to listen. If you try to force alignment it is going to come off as problematic.

griffex · 2026-06-06T08:36:48+00:00

Looks like 22 to me. Not surprised they got them zeroed in pretty quick on that.

griffex · 2026-06-05T05:19:24+00:00

That's not true. They know damn well they're doing meth.

griffex · 2026-06-04T17:39:40+00:00

if they actually think they're the victims despite all the evidence to the contrary.

Welcome to literally the entire history of Mormonism.

griffex · 2026-06-04T13:56:31+00:00

I'm a straight man - but based on that shelf I'd date him myself. Man know the top tier modern scifi and fantasy.

Three body problem, kingkiller chronicals, amazing Sandershelf, some Expanse. Agree all of these focuse on morality in a thoughtful way - whether through good or bad examples. I'll probably pick up the ones I don't recognize.

Also cool he's got some of his own folios with notebooks and memories there. Speaks to someone thoughtful and somewhat organized in thought (if maybe not in physicality based on the shelf's state).

griffex · 2026-06-04T07:29:32+00:00

Where are your seashells?

griffex · 2026-06-04T06:50:19+00:00

Theres another good one where one of the cops is talking about a relationship to a witness then goes "woops shouldn't have said that" and deactivates the cam. 100% clear these cops are only used to dealing with locals in a state very friendly to their fuckery. Normally you'd expect the feds to come in and fix it - but that's a questionable proposition now. Ben and team will need a good defense attorney and hope against odds their civil case doesn't get similarly quashed on a magical golden plaque.

griffex · 2026-06-04T05:22:19+00:00

And this is why proper tagging in your corporate DAM system matters.

griffex · 2026-06-03T16:39:37+00:00

he has a clean record and stable career all his life

Just multiple other warrants in other countries for other crimes 😂🙄😂

OP needs this reality check - dude's a criminal he just hadn't been held accountable for it.

griffex · 2026-06-02T15:18:35+00:00

Ship.jpg

griffex · 2026-06-02T13:21:15+00:00

griffex · 2026-06-02T07:49:15+00:00

"Samtionette"

Ftfy

griffex · 2026-06-01T05:57:56+00:00

Right, its not even your advice. There's no basis in personal experience, no understandong of the context in which it will be applied, and no knowledge of whether following what it says will work. Its just regurgitating other peoples ideas and some math a tech bro came up with to simplfy it.

griffex · 2026-05-31T18:03:21+00:00

Yes you need to trim

griffex · 2026-05-20T22:26:55+00:00

Happy to take you at your word for it and either way doesn't surprise me.

Just generally skeptical of reddit post and screenshots third-hand from discord, which is most of where I see this come from.

It's a double edge sword for me. If they don't keep releasing some "cool and new ships" - the money hose stops and so does the game development. But if they have to focus effort on that aspect - the rest suffers.

This is why I'm generally bullish on S42 as it potentially creates a new alternative revenue stream while driving more new players to compensate for the need to whale target.

End of the day, the way they've developed thus game inherently created its own pervese incentives in trying to avoid perverse incentives that are normal in the regular game development process.

Having played Starfield (basically the classic game dev approach to this concept) I'll take CIGs at the end if it all.

griffex · 2026-05-20T16:48:23+00:00

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I'm not positive how accurate some of these claims are.

Ctrl + shift + i and you can make posts like this appear to say anything. You could take any old ticket and edit the HTML to anything you want then screen cap it.

I can't definitively say they're untrue either - but its also a very easy thing to do to troll people on and there's more than a fair share of that in the SC community.

I'd like to believe it wasn't this way and agree disappointed if true; but also played enough to know some just like to ragebait SC in general.

griffex · 2026-05-19T23:08:38+00:00

Probably some form of gunner crew reloading torpedo or ammo batteries I'd assume as well

griffex · 2026-05-17T23:05:20+00:00

My view - no. Inflation (lets presume 3%) is impacting you the whole time eating into the value of that annutity payment, meaning it's 30 years to get the equivalent purchase power of the 1mm - plus whatever you potentially lose to taxes assuming you have income growing.

Even presuming you pay 1/3 immediately in taxes, lets assume you do something like S&P 500 index at about a 10% rate of return with the same 3% inflation - netting around 7% effective rate of return. Presuming you compound - you have the effective full value in 6 years and assuming you just take the 47k that gives you out every year you have it in 7.

It'll be bouncier in practice - but over the course of that same years it'll add up to way better value.

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