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    Matt
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    His mother did his laundry for him.

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      endo
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      sometimes you are so romantic @Matt

      si tacuisses

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        SKT
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        This is not the UHF weather I was promised.

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          popvulture
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          Come to Texas — you'll get madder

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            SKT
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            @popvulture don’t even want to think about it 😓

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              popvulture
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              I swear probably the only downside to my loving IH is living here 😅

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                Matt
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                I’m so over it. I was wearing my new to me 206 outside last night and it was depressing how satisfied with myself I was.

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                  popvulture
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                  Dude I know how you feel. Wearing my lefty in the AC right now, just dreaming of a fall breeze...

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                    EdH
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                      jerkules
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                      Billing your time, and justifying it, seems incredibly stressful to me @EdH . When my wife did her training contract she had to bill every 15 minutes of time she spent on something, and had to bill 6 hours per day. It blew my tiny mind. Now she’s in insurance and spends most of her time going through billing from legal firms, saying “not paying that, not paying that..”

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                        EdH
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                        @jerkules 15 minute units? Was she at an American firm? I understand from my peers who have gone to firms that are HQ'd in the US that the smallest unit they bill is 15 minutes (the norm in the UK has traditionally been 6 minutes, so 10 units in an hour). What billing in 15 minute units means is that you can create crazy targets for the younglings: because every tiny email that takes you 30s to read magically becomes a quarter-of-an-hour when you stick it on the timesheet, you can get the younglings to bill in excess of 24 hours a day. My mates from law school said their targets in these firms were nuts.

                        I got sacked from a job for a car insurance company once. I was working for a subsidiary as a paralegal in their traffic accident claims dept. They had a good, automated database system that would practically write the court documents for you based on the data entered by the guys who received the claim in the first place. So it would take me ~3 mins to draft a claim form by clicking a few buttons and give it a once-over, a qualified solicitor would inspect it in 30s or so, and then I'd send it to the court. One day I noticed that we were including a claim for an hour of a solicitor's time in drafting this document. I raised this with a superior, questioning whether this was fraudulent (according to the statutory definition - a misrepresentation with the intent to thereby cause a gain to oneself or another or loss to another). I also questioned why we were discouraged from picking up the phone and trying to settle claims without having to issue formal proceedings. I was summarily sacked the next day, but with 2 months pay (to stop me complaining I guess). In my naivety I hadn't realised that inflating these little legal costs here and there was how the subsidiary I worked for made money. I'm sure other insurance companies do this too - end result is that everyone's insurance is slightly higher than it needs to be to pay commercially ruthless lawyers.

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                          louisbosco
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                          wanna watch the world burn?

                          make sure the internet collapses during a work event where everything is connected to it in a building with 0 to no cellular connectivity and watch all hell break loose

                          "Loyalty is a two way street. If i'm asking for it from you, then you're getting it from me."

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                            Matt
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                            🤣🤘

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                              Mizmazzle
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                              Had one of my students bring a handful of bullets to school today. 😞

                              In the easy chair with my boots on, melted whiskey in my hand. Could'na been asleep for more than three hours...time to go to work again...

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                                popvulture
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                                Oh dude. Sigh. I'm sorry — we live in an immensely fucked up time.

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                                  SKT
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                                  @Mizmazzle hate hearing that man. We have a lot of that here where I live too. Kid got suspended for bringing his BB gun to my son’s middle school a few weeks back. Truly it’s an epidemic and scares the shit out of my wife and me.

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                                    It’s crazy to think that I’ve been carrying pocket knives since I was 12 years old and even carried them to school without a second thought. Once in high school, one of the teachers needed a knife to cut something and just about every guy pulled out their knife to help…

                                    Wouldn’t dream about doing that now.

                                    "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                                      @Mizmazzle When i was in high school circa '96 I had a classmate for a speech do a full show and tell on how to put a dip in. From smacking the canister to opening and pinching it and shoving it in his lip. I don't think the speech actually made it to the end, but now that I look back, it's funnier than a pocket full of bullets.

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                                        popvulture
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                                        @jordanscollected amazing! "Alright, classmates. This... is Copie. None of that long cut stuff." tap tap tap

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                                          @goosehd said in Random Rants:

                                          It’s crazy to think that I’ve been carrying pocket knives since I was 12 years old and even carried them to school without a second thought. Once in high school, one of the teachers needed a knife to cut something and just about every guy pulled out their knife to help…

                                          Wouldn’t dream about doing that now.

                                          I haven’t gone anywhere without it since I was the same age. It’s a tool, not a weapon…unless used as a defensive tool. Otherwise, you’re doing the wrong thing.

                                          "The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
                                          -Seneca

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