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theredhead77

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  1. Because of climate change. Autumn is going to get shorter and shorter. Winter and summer will continue to move to the extremes and the extremes will become "normal".
  2. Is it considered stunt casting if special guests aren't widely announced or known ahead of time?
  3. "Happy [day of the week]" grates on my last nerve. I have no reason why but I hate that phrase.
  4. To clarify: C9 said she was deleting her LI. I wasn't suggesting she delete it.
  5. It took me 3 years and 200+ applications. My current job was the third or fourth I applied to at this company. Like most things, people share about the good and keep the bad and frustration to themselves to cultivate that positive personality. I know I wasn't very public about how hard it was, just a post here and there. My closet friends knew, of course. No, you don't. I was convinced I blew my first interview for my current job, with the big-big boss. I got so nervous I forgot how to answer questions about my history. It was bad. I found out later he appreciated that I acknowledged that I was nervous and powered through. Gentle feedback: people here have given you solid advice about all of the things you're lamenting about. I think taking the break you referenced, deleting your LI, doing some self-reflection, identifying where you truly want to be (as you've mentioned before), and then jumping back in when you are in a better head-space is the best course of action. Culture fit is huge, one team-member that doesn't mesh can bring down the entire team. Getting to rounds 3 and 4 is HUGE. You are doing something right. But they can only select one. It sucks you aren't it but that doesn't mean you are flawed. There was just someone else that was a better fit. It could be background, or culture, or a special skill they have, or who knows. It sucks but if they didn't like you you wouldn't have made it that far. You don't have to be perfect, but you do have to be the best you that you can be. I wish you luck when you return to the search after the first of the year (what you've shared).
  6. I laughed so hard at that I woke up my cats. The only way that could have been funnier is if the container already had sewing supplies in it. Across the country, across all cultures, that damn cookie container being a sewing kit is a collective experience that started long before the internet.
  7. I've been chewing on this for a few days. My take on it is CDB was Daryl's found family but he never felt truly secure there. He was everything to everyone and I always had the impression that he felt that if he deviated from his "role" in that family he would be abandoned. Watching him grow throughout TWD, especially the final season, set him up for where he is now. He is able to be the true "grown up in the room", which I think a lot of adults (myself included) can relate to, even though we're well into adulthood. I never had an issue with Daryl, or Reedus' acting, but he really stepped it up. Watching him learn to trust Isabelle and his new group, being able to start somewhere without the baggage of who he was, and his connection to Merle, was great. I did want him to get together with Connie, and maybe they did, who knows. I never considered Daryl to be a predator and watching him develop feelings he's not acting on because Isabelle is a nun (for now) was nice, as it is always nice seeing men interact with women without an ulterior motive. I'm also digging the new morally grey characters. I liked Quinn and wish we got more to his story (unless he was going to turn into another apple eating villain). He did have an epic send-off. I do miss Talking Dead at times like this. It would have been fun to hear his take on Quinn and his death. Hoping for more Stéphane (face tattoo). I wouldn't be surprised if he was part of the original group trying to find a cure, or the CRM (or someone from World Beyond). I do like tie-ins and hope that all these spin-offs (World Beyond, Dead City, Fear, DD) can get tied into each other down the road.
  8. That was fantastic and I hope Book of Carol isn't too far into "next year".
  9. Oh, I am so happy SNL is back and stoked Peacock airs SNL live and has the reply available as soon as the initial airing is over. I have a soft-spot for Pete. His cold-open was solid and I loved his monologue / bit. My favorite was I'm Just Pete and found myself laughing at everything except the spaceship sketch. I'm not a fan of rap and while the days of SNL's musical guests being for 'me', I love being exposed to new music during their musical acts. Same. It also seemed Punkie Johnson's name was said with more enthusiasm. Her name used to sound flat - James Austin JOHNson, Punkie Johnson.
  10. I don't have AMC+ but my experience with regular AMC streaming has been positive.
  11. And TIL that AMC steaming cuts off before the credits. And I can't find the scene.
  12. FWIW, hiring slows but interviews continue (albeit a bit slower) so they can have people ready to start at the beginning of the year. Last company (the one with the thank-you note) I was laid off from the previous job a few days before Halloween, started interviewing for the initial entry level position in early Nov., got a job offer right before Christmas, and started Jan. 13th.
  13. Yay I'm not alone! To me, the only good part of a pumpkin is the seeds. Not the person you asked, but also barf. And I like sweet potato.
  14. I love vintage green bean casserole (the recipe on the side of the French's onion can). I'll make it outside of Thanksgiving and add either a can or two of tuna (tuna casserole) or a big can of chicken (chicken casserole). Easy meals.
  15. Was not digging abusive Daryl, but Reedus knocked that out of the park. I could have sworn Carol told Daryl to come back, not "he's back". A vague "he's back" makes sense for plot reasons and also Daryl could know who they were expecting while the rest of us get to sit here and talk about it. I'm intrigued by super serum zombies. My guess (sheer guess, I don't read spoilers), based on the angle of the battle axe is that Daryl is able to decapitate super-zombie. The effects were really good but it reminded me too much of Captain America and the Hulk transformations. I suppose there is only so much you can do with super serum transformations...
  16. My favorite is "take me off this chain" or "stop replying to all".
  17. In my small world, people have turkey on Thursday and randomly people eat at like 3pm. My family eats at our Thanksgiving meal at our normal evening meal time.
  18. Nope. I'm me and people can either like me or hate me. I don't give a flying F what other women (or men) think of me. I have a solid group of co-ed friends, and those friendships were formed by us being our authentic selves. I don't try to be a "cool girl" or a "pick-me" girl, or anything but myself. I don't have the energy for the drama that comes with all of the things that come with being anything but me. Literally cannot relate to this. Constantly being in these situations with your male coworkers sounds like an HR nightmare and it sounds like everyone at your company needs some anti-harassment training. Work friends are work friends regardless of gender. Forming close, lasting relationships with work friends that sustain once someone leaves the company is rare. It's great when everyone gets along, when mandatory fun is actually fun, when a team wants to go out, but at the end of the day, they aren't your besties, they aren't your confidants, they are just work friends. Act accordingly. And don't shit where you eat.
  19. I always tape FedEX, USPS and UPS labels on with clear tape. It's fine.
  20. Nope. It's all the same time-zone. We have meetings with India and Australia that are late (last one ends at 6:30pm here) to accommodate their time-zones but this one is just someone who couldn't bother to find a better time. It's not just this meeting though - people schedule last minute meetings that aren't urgent over lunch, or double book people all the time. It's sheer laziness in not leveraging Outlook features to find the next available time, or pinging people to see if they really are blocked out all day every day for a week (not out of the office, just blocked out).
  21. We're remote and it's really never OK, even if the company is providing food, except in very rare circumstances like a conference or emergency. It's not OK to schedule a weekly meeting for the next 6 months at 12:30pm because that's the only slot available. That's the only slot available because people are at lunch. I hate toxic meeting culture. That is poor company culture and promotes burn-out. People need brain breaks throughout the day. There is a reason that hourly people have mandated paid breaks and mandated lunch slots. We need to normalize giving salaried people the same respect.
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