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Stages of Unemployment Grief
Week 1: Euphoria tinged with panic. (Free! And, how am I going to live in this expensive city with a kid and no income?) Week 2: Face reality. (Cancel all the things. File for unemployment. Figure out medical insurance.) Week 3: Disbelief (WTH is going on, has been taking a while, usually I have a…
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Letter To My Career Coach
Dear career coach, I did your exercise: “Decide what kind of things I must have,” and I’ve listed below what I want: A job. It took me about a half hour to figure that out. Whew! Then, I wrote an answer to your other question: “What kind of things I’d like to have”: An income…
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My interviewer
I had some issues hearing my interviewer yesterday. Imagine a huge curtain of beautiful hair (sorry mine does not suffice!)
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Help My Husband Get A Job!
In all women tech communities, there’s always one person who thinks it’s appropriate to advertise for their husband… Two women on the list backchannel DM: One of them composes a reply. Original poster responds: Backchannel DM response to OP’s response: The husband responds:
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My Life As Interpreted By 1980s Soap Operas
Our kitchen wall phone rings, I pick it up and a single teardrop falls down my face. Putting on a brave expression, I crouch down next to an adorable, if overly pretty child and tell him that “Mommy lost her job.”. I walk my son out the lightweight plywood door with a ripped paper bag,…
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Yeah, that’s what AI brings
Me: I need to cancel my order. StitchFix Chatbot: I’m sorry I didn’t understand that. You can ask: Order problems Delivery problems …. Me: Order problems Chatbot: I’m sorry I didn’t understand that. You can ask: Order problems Delivery problems …. Kaiser Chatbot: Me: I don’t understand why I can’t pay my bill Chatbot: I’m…
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Morning Routine
Ladies, I’m struggling with work-life balance at work with two little ones, please send me your routines! I wake at 8 AM, feed my kids and get them to school. Then I have coffee and breakfast, my “me time!” and start work. I wake at 7 AM, get the kids up and feed/bathe, drive to…
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He is busy
No, he cannot talk now, he is busy. He is working. No, he cannot attend the monthly meeting of his teachers and fellow parents, where we find out if the school is closing because he is busy. No he can’t take a lunch break and meet his kid to walk him to after care because…
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Choose Your Adventure: Bright & Shiny Technical Adoption Cycles
You enter into a dark cave. There are two choices: bright and shiny new tech diamond glistening in the offing promising speed of development, simplicity, and money for everyone. The other option is years of decaying code, written in Cobol, supported by the old guy in the corner. Or worse, staying the same. Turn to…
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Another thread on my phone (part 2)
Drip sup thats cap bro Emerson get on your switch No mic on switch. I need a PC!!!!! Yeah switch is for babies you’re a baby why cant u get a PC Dad says he needs $$ for it. didnt have a job for so long what do they do when they need money? go…