RL things I love
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@mietze The darkest timeline is at my current company which, as good as it is about many other things, is forcing us to wear button-down shirts, proper pants and absolutely no t-shirts.
We don't even ever have clients over here! Whyyy.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@Arkandel .....my company allowed us to wear jeans to work. For one day last summer. As part of a celebration.
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Most of the companies I've worked for have trended between business casual and just whatever I feel like. Only one was business professional and man was I glad to get away from that one! The stuffy atmosphere was just UGH.
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I think my branch is business casual. I dont have to wear a suit or pantyhose or anything (probably I could if I wanted), but it is no obviously denim jeans or tshirts. I have been wearing stretchy dress pants, nice blouses, and a cardigan/blazer jacket because the office is kind of chilly. But I have work jeans/tees/yoga pants all the time for the last 20 years, so it feels very dressy to me. I do wear weird/crazy/smartass socks though.
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We are actually allowed (as of a couple of months ago, mind you) to wear jeans.
T-shirts are what hurts me because that's been my attire of choice since forever.
Plus I love to wear nerdy stuff. Now I overcompensate with game and fantasy screensavers flashing on my laptop's screen every time I walk away since there are no rules about that. -
My blouse today had a print of the animal that is also my nickname wearing glasses in the style i wear. My new boss thought it was cute and hilarious.
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My Wife.
I'm swimming, she finishes her workout and comes to the pool area, fully dressed and ready to go, sits at the head of my lane, and reads.
I look up, she's sneaking her crispy cheese snacks out of her hoodie pocket.
Gym snacks.
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She should have flipped you a few, and see if you could catch them on porpoise.
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For the first time, Falcon Heavy landed all 3 boosters.
SpaceX can deploy a satellite and return all 3 boosters... in 10 minutes.
The future is pretty cool.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXMGu2d8c8g (the launch just finished, but they might still have some press / replay going rn)
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Ceci n'est pas un scrotum.
It's a hedgehog. A bald hedgehog. It's so hideous it's cute again, like pugs. I can't stop laughing.
(Also, yes. I did just make an art history joke about nutsacks. You're welcome.)
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There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello -
This jalapeno brisket breakfast burrito.
I love you, jalapeno brisket breakfast burrito.
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
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@Ghost said in RL things I love:
This jalapeno brisket breakfast burrito.
I love you, jalapeno brisket breakfast burrito.
That sounds lovely.
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@Aria said in RL things I love:
Ceci n'est pas un scrotum.
It's a hedgehog. A bald hedgehog. It's so hideous it's cute again, like pugs. I can't stop laughing.
(Also, yes. I did just make an art history joke about nutsacks. You're welcome.)
FYI: Apparently, the little guy's name is NELSON and he lives at a sanctuary in the UK where they give him little hedgehog spa days to try and get his spikes to grow back. ^_^
Someone should knit him a tiny hedgehog sweater.
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@Too-Old-For-This said in RL things I love:
Most of the companies I've worked for have trended between business casual and just whatever I feel like. Only one was business professional and man was I glad to get away from that one! The stuffy atmosphere was just UGH.
At one point, I briefly worked in a bank writing in-house data analysis software. I literally sat in an windowless office where we would never see anyone but our co-workers, and yet I was expected to dress as though I was going to be at an international summit. Skirt-suit, fancy shoes, etc.
I did not stay there long.
Where I am now, we can wear whatever the heck we want. One of our senior mechanical engineers—who does a lot of client-facing work—dyes her hair bright neon pink. One of the senior firmware engineers routinely wears rainbow leggings, shorts, and a t-shirt to work, and no one really looks at him twice.
I'm client-facing enough that I still try to dress semi-professionally (jeans and a nice blouse or sweater, nice shoes, etc.) when I know I have face-to-face client meetings. But when I know I don't? Hair back in a sloppy ponytail and wearing jeans, a Star Wars or Captain Marvel shirt (or something equally geeky; I may have a TeeTurtle problem serious enough that I should seek intervention), and sneakers.
So much better than the bank.
a.k.a. Packetdancer (or "Pax" for short)
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@Sparks I can understand customer-facing businesses having all kinds of dress codes because it probably does impact their bottom line.
But if you are going to have a bunch of nerds locked up somewhere they only see each other (if they are socially brave to make eye contact) then what's the point? Formalize some common sense rules about hygiene and whatnot, done.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@Arkandel said in RL things I love:
@Sparks I can understand customer-facing businesses having all kinds of dress codes because it probably does impact their bottom line.
But if you are going to have a bunch of nerds locked up somewhere they only see each other (if they are socially brave to make eye contact) then what's the point? Formalize some common sense rules about hygiene and whatnot, done.
To be fair, we do have a few common-sense dress code guidelines that apply specifically to the engineering lab. But they're all truly common sense guidelines, as in "you don't want to burn your clothing while soldering, maybe don't wear anything loose and flowy" or "maybe don't wear a loose wrap if you don't really want to have probably-flammable cloth hanging in the direct path of an industrial laser when you lean over to turn it on" or "if you wear sandals in the lab and drop heavy equipment on your foot, on your own head—or toes—be it", etc.
In other words, they're all meant to prevent things like injury, death, or setting the lab on fire.
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I still love this guy.
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My husband's aunt works for a large publishing agency. A few years ago she and I somehow got to talking about books and so now I'll arrive home to a package of books she thinks I might like.
She has been right every single time and not a single one of them are ones I would have picked off a shelf myself. Historical fiction, romances, drama, science-fiction, non-fiction.
All of it amazing. All of it.
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Filled toilet paper rolls with celery and strawberry chunks, then capped off the ends of the rolls with slices of cucumber. Watching my guinea pigs come out of hiding to gnaw through it all like 'WHAT IS THIS MAGIC?!' has been sheer, unadulterated delight. Would have paid upwards of 10 bucks for a single dry, stale 'guinea pig chewtoy' at a pet-store, these two cost me nothing but leftovers.
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@silverfox This reminds me of a story that... sorta never stops making me giggle every time I think of it. So, my father used to work at our local paper, back when various places would send books/movies/etc. for review, and even though he wasn't in that department, it was a small enough paper that everyone knew everyone.
One day somewhere around college-ish I got it into my head to write romance novels.
This went nowhere, but before then, it went to... my father, an old codger of a sportswriter, wandering into the book office to humbly ask, "Do you have any romance novels left over? Uh... my daughter would like them. For reference."
It's funnier as the world's oldest (combination of) excuse(s) was, you know, true in this instance, but at that point, the guy at the desk starts pulling out box after box after box and saying, "PLEASE, take them, take them all! They have been gathering up for years in the giveaway box!"
And that was the day my father came home with three file boxes crammed full of romance novels and a world of, "I don't want to talk about it."
