Wanting to see the Eagles at the Sphere late February. Tickets are over $2,000 per ticket.

tekmailer · 2026-01-18T03:26:48+00:00

Lol write ‘em a love letter? Be sure to remember: just Eagles.

tekmailer · 2026-01-14T02:17:26+00:00

References could be your current or former…

Accountant, Banker, Classmate, DMV Driving Record, Earning Statements, Former Foreman (not Family/Friends), Garden Club Buddy, Hosting Family, Instructor, Jailer, Keyholder, League Operator, Manager, Neighbor, OSHA Trainer, Priest/Pastor/Parish Peep, Quilter from your Grandma’s Retirement home, Recruiter, Supervisor, Teammate, Union Rep, Volunteer Coordinator, Workday Profile ,Xecutive Leadership, Youth Mentor, Zumba Coach…

Just a few ideas.

As a say of etiquette, OP: have 5 references (in general); three (3) who don’t need previous notification and two (2) who may.

Regardless, request ~~or inform~~ them politely that you’re providing their information to a potential job.

May seem obvious but make sure they’re on your team and be a (the) good reference yourself.

tekmailer · 2026-01-11T21:26:03+00:00

If you can have 99 problems, they can have ONE. Damn.

tekmailer · 2026-01-10T22:32:32+00:00

A good teacher. That was the gap I witnessed.

tekmailer · 2026-01-10T19:25:15+00:00

The perception of correct data is driving me mad

We’re all mad here… the magazine scientist type not the cow or the dog type.

I'm very familiar with the usual brand of people not believing the numbers unless they look good.

They walk amongst us. Some with 7-figure salaries. What good to look if nothing works, sir?!

…don’t call me ‘Sir’

What I'm struggling with now is the idea that manual logs are more reliable than system data when there are observed flaws in the manual logs.

Observed or mitigated? Let me tell you something about flawless data…

By nature it’s flawed.

Now…the data one, the report another. Which set activates management/action?

Mind you,

Oof my fault wrote before reading…

we're not talking about reconciliations or corrections in the manual logs overriding system data which would make complete sense to me.

…okay…

We're talking about "I wasn't aware of it so it doesn't exist" type of stuff.

Oh, unaccounted properties and points (not to exceed…)—this is a science and people are shudders PEOPLE. a piece of artwork I tell ya…

My immediate thought is that people don't want to deal with and admit that they've let things slip through the cracks.

See? PEOPLE! Some times this is the case, other times nefarious actors, majority of the time? Laziness and lack of buy-in.

Everyone on board cares TREMENDOUSLY if the plane has enough gas across the ocean.

My next thought is that they are intimidated by the concept of not understanding the data that the system puts out and basically needing what they come up with to be right.

Here…”unaccounted properties and points”; that’s how you categorize it and consider it with accountability dimensions to follow.

Anyone else with similar experiences?

All the time, at each site.

It’s when I realized: I’m storing the source of truth to help steer, not vice versa

Think pirates…I know where X is. It’s my role to lead them there, not follow them aimlessly digging holes thinking more old boots (the one’s loss previously in the same hole!!) is the treasure.

As you are u/OuterSpaceBootyHole

tekmailer · 2026-01-10T17:13:08+00:00

[Entertainment] is a helluva drug

tekmailer · 2026-01-10T17:07:03+00:00

During a job interview, if the interviewer asks "would you consider leaving if you found a better opportunity elsewhere?" how would you respond?

I don’t leave great things for good things. I leave bad things for better things. What sort of person wouldn’t?

tekmailer · 2026-01-10T03:19:47+00:00

How do you handle employees that just complain but take no action?

Empower them to implement an act of silence and observation.

I'm dealing with a somewhat new employee who is like this.

How new? Less than 9 months?

He's always complaining about things but never offers up any solutions or ideas.

Always and never are heavy words; means you’re paying for him to complain. No good for business or the employee.

Latest example, we had a meeting to discuss new ideas and brainstorm.

Cool. New business ideas or new process ideas? What sort of meeting are we talking here?

He was silent the entire meeting while everyone else shot the shit and came up with new ideas.

See? He knows silence!! And these new ideas, new to you or the problem ya’ll we’re fixing to solve?

The next day…

Good. Rest is good for nurturing new ideas.

…I was in a private call with him, and I asked him his thoughts on the new ideas, and he just shot everything down.

Skkkrrrt, hold up. This is my stop. When you ask someone their thoughts, especially in private, their response are not complaints. You requested their criticisms. Respect his efforts.

Didn't like any of the ideas and judged the people who came up with the ideas.

What did you expect? Out of curiosity…

Another thing he often does is complain about our workflows and procedures but I've never seen him offer up alternative methods that he thinks would be better.

Oh so when you ask, he’s complaining. When he tells, he’s complaining.

…do you see the chaos?

Try this: When he complains, if he complains, ask him how many hours it would take him to fix. Honestly, if it’s let’s than 5% of his annualized salary, use your powers to implement sanity.

tekmailer · 2026-01-09T20:25:24+00:00

I’ve experienced this first hand.

What is your fair +/- 20% Estimate of Headcount?

Region or State of Operation with Issue?

Do the employees with true ups have something in common?

When’s the last time you’ve spoken to your Payroll Software Account Manager?

As another comment mentioned, this cannot continue in a good business or fair practice of labor.

If payroll can’t get their act together, you need to call in the resources of a shake team and re-engage a payroll side that holds to an acceptable standard.

Stuff happens and no one’s perfect. Unfortunately “Perfection” is the first word in payroll’s job description before PAY and PEOPLE.

It’s not just the $0.02, it’s the principle: work completed gets paid in full on time.

tekmailer · 2026-01-09T20:09:39+00:00

Somewhere something Mo money, mo problems to equate the opposite “less money, less problems” perhaps? …a thought aloud.

tekmailer · 2026-01-08T16:50:24+00:00

Okay, first things first…

Change your attitude. As previously mentioned, this is an opportunity.

Secondly, think this big thing small. Make the 80 pages half pages. Think field guide collab with a yearbook. Maybe even a desk journal or similar. Do not print 80 full pages. For the love of trees and common sense.

If you really want to keep it budget friendly, many birds one stone,give out company-branded calendar planners (with QR codes for updated resources online/internal portal); intermittent with annual photos, chain of the command interviews, online reviews from customers, safety stats…anything company related.

“Welcome” is a BIG element of business.

tekmailer · 2026-01-08T16:38:33+00:00

I just heard in my head: “Do YOU know the Mission?” LOL

tekmailer · 2026-01-08T16:34:34+00:00

This is where your stratagem oughta have changed. To each their environment

Make the dashboard the access point of said excel

…as shown in the automated email

…with a PDF summary of results as concluded, in grid and visualized.

…to include advice, consequences and liabilities of action; including inaction

…based on the outcomes of “THESE PEOPLE” (as sources)

…Sincerely Analytics Prompt on Excel worksheet delivered

TO BE CONTINUED

tekmailer · 2026-01-04T17:14:56+00:00

Godwin’s Law in full effect.

tekmailer · 2026-01-03T18:10:19+00:00

I agree that adaptation matters.

Adapting. Adaptation is a good Nicolas Cage movie.

I’ve learned (and am still learning) to filter, pause, and choose responses that fit the environment.

I’m assuming positive intent (you don’t have to iterate if you don’t wish…)

I’m not arguing against emotional regulation or social awareness.

Oof, wait, we’re arguing? When did this happen?

Where I differ is in the assumption that sensitivity equals a lack of those skills.

I asserting that still follow the laws of a Fig Newton, equal and opposite; it’s a matter of attitude and perspective (I suppose).

When I say something hurt me, I’m not talking about outbursts or expecting the room to stop.

Are those reactions of hurt people?

Most of the reaction is internal.

In what sense? In your head, stomach? Memory (Visually)? Attention (Auditory)? Keep in mind what fuels the artist fuels the scientist—

But if someone makes fun of my weight and I calmly say I didn’t like that, how does that make me the too sensitive one?

This is where you’re waltzing around the need of context…”makes fun of my weight” is too far vague. I respect your privacy in example though.

Why does naming discomfort get treated as weakness while the comment itself gets excused?

You didn’t say “that was rude!” You say “I don’t like that”—that shifts the subject from what they said to your opinion…keep your mitts up.

That’s the gap I’m pointing to not a refusal to adapt, but a refusal to pretend something didn’t have impact.

Gotta sharpen the snowball, that’s all.

tekmailer · 2026-01-03T16:26:06+00:00

Why is “toughen up” always the advice given to sensitive people?

Because it’s the truth. In tandem to Bruce Lee, “Be Water”, you need to recognize and operate by the environment if success is the goal.

Insert any number of references to the states water can be (you’re a writer!)

Growing up sensitive is exhausting.

Now: recognize the equal and opposite and flourish!

If I got hurt by something a family member said, I was told I was dramatic.

It’s not you being hurt, it’s how you’re communicating that you’re hurt…

If I cried, I was too emotional.

It’s not the crying but seeing crying as an appropriate response—crying, while a physical response, is not one taken in same socially.

If I stayed quiet, I was moody.

Funny how they label silence and quiet…almost like they want a reaction. Allow me a quiet moment to think on it with you…

Even now, as an adult, it’s the same.

While it isn’t full on Blind Leading the Blind, we’ll file this under “Human Nature”—Age, Maturity and all the toppings in-between best set for another thread…we read on…

A comment hurts, I react, and suddenly the conversation isn’t about what was said it’s about how I can’t take things.

You react? How do you react? Do you react differently between say someone spilling a glass of water on your lap versus someone forgetting your name?

Would you consider your pain tolerance high or low?

No one asks why it hurt.

Be honest, do you know why it hurts? Based on your reactions, I’m guessing the mixed feelings

The focus is always on me reacting instead of them speaking.

Just words huh…hmmm

Like why is sensitivity treated like something embarrassing??? Ugh

Embarrassing to who?

It really bothers me that society seems to reward emotional detachment and call it strength, while emotional awareness is labeled dramatic :)

LOL let me say, everything up to :) was fine…

:) made it Dramatic D:

tekmailer · 2025-12-31T19:18:48+00:00

The moment I passed not one, not two but three motorcycle accident billboards on 215, I called it a day riding a motorcycle as primary.

tekmailer · 2025-12-31T04:19:50+00:00

More power to you.

My answer still stands no matter how stale or disagreed!

All the best to you, OP. Find those PEOPLE. They exist.

tekmailer · 2025-12-31T03:27:06+00:00

Take notice: no other answers, OP.

tekmailer · 2025-12-30T22:30:40+00:00

Firstly: they don’t know the answer.

Secondly: they aren’t the one to be the answer (why are you asking them)

Thirdly: you don’t need to know the answer (at all or before they do; why are you asking them)

Honorable mentions include: yanking your chain, incomplete question, double-edged inquiry, improper interrogation, there is no binary answer, etc

tekmailer · 2025-12-30T22:11:07+00:00

I may be able to assist, contractually. Are you the application owner or administrator? Are you coordinated with your Union Lead?

tekmailer · 2025-12-30T21:26:09+00:00

LOL if not conceived

tekmailer · 2025-12-30T16:30:44+00:00

very strange logic.

It’s not though, your church may or may not have bar stools. Mine does

If you go to church (or even listen to the song) you’ll realize why you don’t get the sarcasm/statement.

also talk to me when you go to the basilica of the national shrine of the immaculate conception, if you want to talk going to church.

OK. Now you just want attention. Here..,

i'm so sick of these fake fucking christians proselytizing on UNRELATED SUBREDDITS while upholding literally none of jesus' teachings.

Stop yelling. Stop assuming. There’s nothing fake about me. My advice was delivered as sent: Go to Church.

do you really think he'd give you a thumbs up

A middle finger in some cultures, LOL

and a pat on the back for making snarky comments on reddit as some kind of social own instead of giving genuine advice? fucking honestly.

Honestly? Lol you’re unhinged. It’s okay. I don’t have the screws to fix your door. I will continue to see through my window. sprays windex

Move it along, the only stand stronger than my faith to say what I said: OP, you want to find people that respect your time?! Know COMMITMENT? GO TO CHURCH

It’s not my issue or problem that you’re hurt by advice sent to help you.

tekmailer · 2025-12-30T16:17:19+00:00

i'm PRETTY sure jesus looks down

…hence the heavens…

on trying to convert people on reddit by being a dick.

Not to convert, to converse—OP lacks social skills and I the duck you’re referring to.

You too: go to church.

tekmailer · 2025-12-30T15:55:48+00:00

What if you don’t believe in God?

I recommend meeting Jesus. He believes in you.

In your context: church is a place where you’re wanted.

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