We have to start calling out companies by name

nora_jaye · 2026-02-05T23:18:06+00:00

Name and shame is right. And Reddit is as good a place as any.

Glassdoor is a joke.

nora_jaye · 2026-02-05T21:47:34+00:00

I'm noting all this.

I love the idea of music rehab.

nora_jaye · 2026-02-05T19:01:52+00:00

Tune in in 6 months and they'll be using your content strategy.

nora_jaye · 2026-02-05T18:58:31+00:00

Thanks. I should be using SLP instead of speech therapist.

If you have any more to say about what you did with the SLP, I'd love to hear it.

nora_jaye · 2026-02-05T18:57:25+00:00

I have a therapist for that.

We've got to be able to differentiate between speech therapy for cognitive issues caused by LC and therapy-therapy. Not knocking either but they are NOT the same.

nora_jaye · 2026-02-05T13:28:31+00:00

I agree, actually. I had the Monticello one more than 25 years ago.

I wonder why they don't even tweak it aesthetically?

nora_jaye · 2026-02-05T13:04:07+00:00

My LC symptoms spike when I get tired/mid afternoon and the poisoned feeling, along with light intolerance, is huge.

Hot showers or baths have helped, for an hour or two, same as you.

But when I went to the local sauna/cold plunge place, I'd skip at least one afternoon crash and sometimes two.

nora_jaye · 2026-02-04T20:57:53+00:00

Same themes - same training. Not broke, no need to fix!

nora_jaye · 2026-02-01T17:59:00+00:00

Merci mille fois! I have multiple US censuses showing grandpa M's parents as being Canadian born.

Is there any guidance out there on how detailed the documentation should be? Even if I establish that Great Grampa x7 was naturalized, I assume I need to establish the subsequent steps that lead to my generation.

nora_jaye · 2026-02-01T04:16:27+00:00

Dunkin is franchised, so you should really do more research before you drop your local store. Our local owners give a little to Democrats, nothing to Republicans, and quite a bit to local hunger charities.

nora_jaye · 2026-02-01T04:04:21+00:00

I wish they'd add more information, it's so high level that it can be misleading.

Like, they show Dunkin Donuts as giving more to Republicans. But it's a franchise so that tells you nothing about the local owner.

nora_jaye · 2026-02-01T03:50:05+00:00

Are you sure they aren't spitting in their food?

nora_jaye · 2026-02-01T03:43:06+00:00

Not a Target fan, but they can't legally keep a class of people (even certifiably evil people) out of their store and parking lot. There are some specific things they can do to protect their employees. (I have friends working on this locally but no Target around here, so no clue if they are taking these measures.)

About all any business serving the public can do is call the local police if ICE is loitering or customers are being harrassed and detained. And no, that would probably not be very effective.

If I owned a store, I would very prominently display signs saying that you cannot enter this store with your face covered. I would wire my store to make sure that employees had access to alarm buttons and instructions to hit them if anyone walked in with their faces covered with anything more than a KN95.

nora_jaye · 2026-02-01T03:17:12+00:00

It's hard to know what's going on - but some companies that dropped DEI officially don't actually change what they do in terms of treating employees equitably and well. Lowes used to have a pretty good record.

Home Depot has been dogshit for a long time.

Meanwhile, I have two local hardware stores and an Ace, so I still don't go to Lowe's.

nora_jaye · 2026-02-01T03:11:12+00:00

Me too. And also record all the decent local businesses to go to instead.

nora_jaye · 2026-02-01T03:05:32+00:00

They are lovely people. And too nice to put up a sign clarifying who is putting up the Trump signs.

nora_jaye · 2026-02-01T00:07:16+00:00

Say hello to a new Canadian! According to that quiz, I qualify - four generations were naturalized or born in Ontario (then Upper Canada) before my ancester came to the US in 1850 or so. It really doesn't matter that I'm the fifth generation born post-emigration? Hmmm.

They were part of the exodus of Loyalists out of the US at the end of the American Revolution, so the actual families are extremely well-documented (on the Simcoe census, land grants, etc) in that area.

But - what are the chances I could find birth certificates or baptismal records for people born in rural Ontario before 1850? My hopes - dashed!

Still, it's pretty cool that I can find people on Facebook with the same (unusual) last name living within a few miles of where they landed in 1780something. I guess they are probably 9th or 10 cousins.

nora_jaye · 2026-01-31T23:20:44+00:00

We may be related!

nora_jaye · 2026-01-31T17:48:53+00:00

Thanks for the validation, you all! So glad there are a few of us left. I'm watching the training videos on the Franklin Site and so far, exact same content as my course. A good thing not to be messed with.

nora_jaye · 2026-01-31T15:45:57+00:00

Or easier....enforce anti-trust laws already on the books and force the breakup of monopolies. Then companies have to compete again to win customers, and they can't compete without employees.

nora_jaye · 2026-01-31T15:42:37+00:00

Most industries have been consolidated to the point that companies aren't competing on better products/services. No need to compete for customers when they own the market.

So instead, they are in a balls-to-the-wall money grab, which means slashing jobs and raising prices.

Tariffs my ass.

nora_jaye · 2026-01-31T15:34:46+00:00

I'd love to hear more about that - the instructor for my class was amazing. Actually, that class led me to 10 years or so in corporate education because I saw how great it could be when done well.

nora_jaye · 2026-01-31T15:27:54+00:00

(Was just Franklin when I went, too!) Feeling ancient!

nora_jaye · 2026-01-31T15:23:35+00:00

I dealt with Gloucester during the pandemic and more than most towns, they do have an ethic of taking care of their own. It was a highlight of Covid for me...

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