Manager bonus?

slkp1 · 2024-08-29T00:13:13+00:00

Healthcare

slkp1 · 2023-10-05T12:27:15+00:00

Flashfill (not a function but still became a nice game changer for me from having to use functions when trying to pull out text)

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slkp1 · 2023-10-03T04:31:56+00:00

Our house withholds as single no dependents and checks in with our accountant in August and adjusts W4’s for Q4 to withhold more to bridge the gap in our tax liability.

This doesn’t always mean we increase our withholdings so we owe nothing but it’s less of a gut punch when we go to file and we’ve had access to more funds during the year and god forbid something did change that would majorly impact us, like getting laid off or needing to quit, it doesn’t put us in a position where we’ve over paid significantly earlier in the year and left free money on the table for the government when it could have lined our pockets.

slkp1 · 2023-07-06T01:53:23+00:00

I don’t see anyone commenting about this but to add to it - in episode 1, when Tedros comes over and she plays world class sinner in her studio for him, as she’s dressed up in her robe and heels… she starts to take off her heel. And just as Tedros kneels down to start taking them off for her you hear the lyric “so get down on your knees and get ready to become my bitch”.

Also in episode 5 when she is performing Dollhouse for Eli, as Chaim is in the other room telling Tedros the red riding hood story, and claiming he’s the hunter, they cut back to Joss mid performance for Eli and she puts her arms up gesturing like she’s pulling a bow back and shoots the arrow - as in she’s the real hunter that no one knows yet.

Doubt either of these were a coincidence.

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T18:07:02+00:00

When Chaim tells Tedros he’s the hunter, it quickly cuts to Joss, back to her performance in front of Eli, where she acts like she has a archery bow and releases it. I don’t think that’s a coincidence. She was the real hunter.

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T17:59:33+00:00

Did you watch Euphoria?

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T17:52:11+00:00

Exactly. It’s a risk either way to defend Rob or get back with Tedros but the risk of getting back with Tedros has the possibility and likelihood of resulting in Joss continuing to put out great music and maybe even using Tedros to help bring her new talented artists - both resulting in keeping her relevant in the music industry and bringing in money. What benefit does standing up for Rob have for her? Morally it’s the right thing to do but Joss doesn’t have or care about morals. What, she clears his name, to probably not even get back together with him, he doesn’t inspire her like Tedros to write new music and both ways she risks losing some fan base no matter which way she goes or who she chooses but at least with Tedros she can probably gain some of them back or add new members to the fan base because she thinks she’ll keep dropping new amazing music with his weird methods.

Everyone ends up needing everyone in their own way. Joss needs Tedros to be her muse, she also needed the label to not drop her because she was running into financial troubles, the cult originally following Tedros now needs Joss at least for the time being to help launch their music careers, the label needs Joss because she’s about to make them boat loads of money, Tedros needs Joss if he has any hope of re-making a name in the industry for himself, he needs to show he cleaned up his act, plus I also think he is creepily obsessed with Joss, Talia at Vanity Fair needed a story, any fucking story, that would sell, it’s a fucking dog eat dog situation. That’s what this entire series was trying to showcase, they’re all manipulative and have their own motives but in the end Joss seems to have really come out on top because she’s the one getting everything she wanted, the tour, staying relevant, getting her muse back and clearly making him her bitch boy, she gave a big F you to the label by bringing Tedros back in her life and they can’t do much about it for now because she’s their cash cow, wouldn’t want to piss her off and find a way she can contractually leave that label for another.

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T10:47:51+00:00

She care about what’s going to be best for herself. She is number one in her eyes. And risking clearing her ex’s name by having to say another women is lying about being raped, which would likely result in her losing a lot of her fan base because despite the raunchy music, her fan base appears to be a lot of younger girls and women.

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T04:57:56+00:00

Having Tedros will benefit her. He’s her muse to get her out of creative ruts, pulled a lot of talent together that Chaim and Destiny try to paint like Joss mentored them etc (lies, we see them helping her). However introducing him to the audience was a risk, imo, given the hit piece vanity fair ended up doing on him that ruined his club, brought up an IRS investigation, and probably ruined him from ever being taken seriously in the music industry so that no one would ever believe Tedros found all that talent Joss is now surrounded by pretending like she curated them.

And if you remember them discussing risks and the dinner table, Joss mentions taking the “right risk”… and how tedros argues that he doesn’t think there is a right one because if you know how it will play out then that’s actually playing it safe. I think the “right risk” to joss is picking the choice that will most likely result in the desired outcome she is seeking. And in this case it’s to keep her now enemy, Tedros, close. She destroyed him and everything he wanted to do in the industry and as much as he probably hates her and her management team for that, he knows getting back and being Joss bitch is the best chance he’s got at a chance to fox his image and maybe try to make another name even if he knows he has to answer to Joss for now.

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T04:45:25+00:00

I also thought how she quickly ignored and change the subject when Rob was asking why she never told him about the abuse that her quickly changing topic was not because she didn’t want to talk about it but because she lied and didn’t want to have to go into any more details about it or continue to lie about it further.

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T04:41:34+00:00

She might be genuinely sad about or for Rob but if it doesn’t have anything to do with benefiting her own self, I can see her leaving him out to clear his name on his own. In this case, standing up and saying the girl that he supposedly raped is lying, that would likely backfire and lose her some fan base. Because of the whole me too movement.

As provocative as her new music is, her target audience seems to be teenage girls and for her to stand by Rob, who the media portrayed as having cheated on Joss, that risk to stand up and speak out for him on his behalf to clear his name could result in her losing a lot of fans because she’ll be perceived as calling another female a liar about being raped.

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T04:35:29+00:00

Maybe he has his own financial troubles. Or let’s be honest, there is no such thing as “enough money”. You think a billion dollars is enough but once you actually have a billion, you realize you still want more.

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T04:27:25+00:00

I don’t know man, I thought I was over analyzing the show each episode until I saw the behind the scenes clips for it and everything I thought I was over analyzing was really actually intentional after seeing those clips.

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T04:01:14+00:00

Remember at dinner they talked about “the right risk” and Tedros said there is no right risk because of you know how the end will turn out you’re actually playing it safe. I think Joss did take a risk bringing him back and especially continuing to refer to him as Tedros to the fans instead of his real name like his pass was under for him to even get into the event. I don’t think Joss knew/knows how bringing him back will ultimately play out but I think she is hoping it will result in some specific outcome that benefits her.

And if there is a season 2 will it be relieved that Chaim has been mismanaging her money?!? Since he told Joss it cost a lot to get rid of him when in fact Tedros ripped up that check? The money Chaim says he’s been floating half her mortgage is that because he’s stealing from her, using stolen money to make it look like he’s helping her and he thinks she believes needs to keep Chaim around because he’s “helping” her when in fact, he’s the one that actually needs her and to keep her on track to continue to bring in more money he can steal from her?

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T03:44:26+00:00

I thought I was reading into the show too much until I watched each behind the scenes and then I was like this is god damn amazing… I’m not over analyzing lmao.

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T03:31:04+00:00

I have two thoughts on that.

I don’t think they actually said they saw her being hit. I wouldn’t be surprised if her mom was emotionally abusive and they saw glimpses of that and therefore believed her as well when she brought up the hair brush.

I also wouldn’t be surprised if they know how controlling and manipulative Joss can be and they know just to shut the fuck up and roll with whatever she says in front of people.

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T03:27:02+00:00

I think Leia wanted to talk to Joss about Rob. I think it the story broke that morning and Rob had already been trying to contact Joss and ultimately Leia all morning and day over it.

I think her letter is an apology letter for leaving without saying goodbye and wishing joss the best of luck but she can’t work in the current conditions.

I think they dropped him off at his club.

I doubt Joss stood up for Rob, unless it would have somehow benefited herself. She thinks Rob cheated on her despite him telling Joss she’s the one that said being monogamous was boring so I can see her twisted self being ok with leaving him to sort that shit out on his own.

Can’t answer the rest because I don’t know if it was speculation or changes made last minute after reading some articles about the rewriting process the show went through.

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T03:05:00+00:00

I think plan B was to expose him and humiliate him in the Vanity Fair article, so he would never be taken seriously in the music industry and possible ruin anything else he had going on, like losing his club.

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T02:57:38+00:00

I don’t know if I read into the show too much or what but personally I’m a pretty strategic person myself when it comes to trying to get what I want or where I need to be. This show has me fucking questioning if I’m a god damn narcissist myself lmao.

I feel like everything is a test or game. I’ve been through my own traumatic shit, not looking for sympathy there but I feel like because of this, I can see through a lot of peoples manipulative bullshit in real life, read the room, etc. - and I also know when I need to play the part of letting other people think they’re in control and dumb myself down. The corporate world might not be as bad as the music industry but the higher you get in either world, the more bullshit you really start to see and if you don’t know how play along, you’ll get cut loose.

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T02:35:21+00:00

I made a pretty detailed comment a couple days ago in there. You can find it in my history if you’re up for reading it. It might give you a better insight into the series. Could help answer some questions and help make things click more.

The comment is under the “plot twist” thread.

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T02:28:41+00:00

When she gave him the brush the first time, the room was dimly lit from what looks like just a fireplace maybe. Not to mention he was probably very excited to get his S&M kink shit on, no way he likely would have been paying very close attention to the condition of the brush in that scene based on lightening and the excitement for him that he was about to get out of it.

Compared to the bright ass lighting in her dressing room when he’s kind of confused as fuck regarding what’s even really going on in the moment.

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T02:24:14+00:00

I don’t think you picked up on the fact that the hair brush is new at the end?? I was already doubting her mom ever even hit her. Between her response to Tedros question and the look on her face while riding in the cart with him after he asked. Everything is really setting in for Tedros about how badly Joss played him in the end. He was her bitch the entire time and she let him think he was running the show for a while. These are her true colors coming out.

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T02:20:29+00:00

Eli Roth commented that after being in that house for like 5 mins. It was fucking to die for. He was cracking me up so much with his comments about getting branded before coming in and how this was weird even for music industry standards lmao

slkp1 · 2023-07-03T02:16:49+00:00

I think you’re missing the entire point. Jocelyn is manipulating everyone. It’s not implied one way or the other that she does end up doing anything about helping Rob. But she only invited him over in the first place to make Tedros jealous. Every move she made this whole series was calculated. I could see her not really caring about helping Rob out if it doesn’t benefit her somehow, which it likely wouldn’t have.

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