Hi, friends!
Yesterday’s theme was “bad ideas” and I thought we’d invert that for tonight.
What’s something recently that you’ve stumbled into and thought “that’s a good idea”?
I have a couple of dresses that are too long for me (womp womp, I’m short) and a friend said “why don’t you just use a belt to pull the waistband up a bit” which was fucking genius. It was that or wear heels, and I’m uncoordinated and lazy so heels are a bad plan.
We’ll see if it is a good idea. I have decided to make a lot noise as I started screaming about the missed interview to my management.
I checked my work email and found nothing, not even a piss poor apology.
Ironic to me as I was labelled a fucking moron/idiot among office staff/management for having missed an interview (due to cokehead’s mental breakdown/excuse for going on a coke bender) for a hot project manager job after I pretty much jumped the line over a bunch of under qualified folks (no manufacturing experience) to get the interview in the first place.
FYI manufacturing is the only place I can work in pharma as I don’t have the degree/scientific background (or pretend I do) for QA, QC, R&D etc.
It might become my turn to stick it to HR recruiting for having played games with me (and many others) for years. To say they’ve been less than honest and played favorites is an understatement to the resentment of many a line worker.
Oh I’d be pissed about that and definitely escalate.
I just heard that the Senate unanimously approved a bill to go to full time DST starting in the fall of 2023. Just needs to pass the House. This is an excellent fucking idea.
Being toadies to the US on many things, I am guessing Canada City will soon follow.
I will miss the fact that when I work on night shift, I am one of the few folks who benefit.
On the fall back, I end up with 9 hours of OT.
On the spring forward, I get 8 hours OT for 7 hours of work and I don’t get my sleep fucked up by the time change (just HR bailing out on an interivew.)
I thought so too until I saw this graphic.
As I said the other day…….kids will be waiting for the morning school bus in the dark.
I wonder what their reasoning was. Did they not think it through? Or they prefer their extremes.
At a national level, does any part of our policies indicate any concern for the safety of children though?
I remember doing this in the winter anyway?
Don’t care. The light in the evenings is worth it.
Okay so I’m not smart enough to understand the difference between the 2nd and 3rd images.
Is it just whether we go “fuck it, we’re never changing it after the Spring forward” or “fuck it, we’re never changing it after the Fall back”?
I was confused as well.
I think @hammerzeitgeist explained it better than me.
Yes.
#1 is the status quo
#2 means we’ll experience more sunrises before 7am and roughly the same number days with sunsets after 5pm from the status quo.
#3 means we’ll experience far less sunrises before 7am from the status quo and pretty much always have the sun set after 5pm.
I prefer #2. I love morning sunrises when the world is still quiet. Early sunsets work in favor of my TV viewing without glare before passing out (I go to bed really early). Also it’s easier to put the kids to bed when the sun is already down.
7 am is barely a civilized hour. Sunrises before then are wasted.
I wish I could convince my children and my own circadian rhythm of that!
TIL that it is circadian rhythm and not cicada rhythm! I never second guessed cicada rhythm. I just thought it was linked to the insect that only emerges from sleep every decade or two. Which matched me in my teens/twenties.
We are currently in DST, the 3rd image. And if it passes the house and President Biden signs it that’s where we’ll stay year round. Dark in the mornings, more light in the evenings. If we got rid of DST and stopped jumping back and forth every year we’d have more evenly distributed daylight like in the 2nd image.
Still don’t care. Sunset at 3pm is bullshit.
Yep. I get up at 5am for work, so it’s ALWAYS dark for me in the morning. I especially hate the part of the year where it is dark in the morning and dark as soon as I am done with work. When I commuted, I hated driving in the dark, especially in the winter (WHEN IT IS DARK). Felt unsafe.
Instead setting clocks forward an hour then back an hour, just keep setting clocks back an hour so you keep getting an extra hour of sleep. Maybe do it every Monday.
It’s probably a good idea to see this movie. I can’t wait!!!
@HammerZeitgeist yes! IÂ haven’t been to a theater in years, even before the pandemic; this looks like a reason to go (also buttered popcorn).
I miss buttered popcorn! That’s something to look forward to 🥲
not going to w…oh wait thats just yesterdays comment reworded
moar coffee! sounds like a great idea
also some toast…with ham and cheese…mmmm
funny side effect of yous lot going to summer time two weeks early is that im going to bed an hour earlier now…lol
bright eyed and bushy tailed me….its wierd…i should probably try to keep that extra hour of sleep once we catch up over here
@brightersideoflife
I have a vintage Bob Mackie dress I got thrifting. It is two sizes too big, so I got a wide stretchy belt at thrift store, too. I wasn’t going to leave a Bob Mackie for $7 behind.