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@acquisizioni - Here is the answer - this should be located here, X can help

A junior person not exhausting all their resources to try and find an answer before they ask a question is frustrating. I did it earlier in my career but quickly learned my lesson after being chewed out - but I don’t want to be like that as a manager. How do I instill this in someone without just asking them if they checked x,y,z first after every time they ask me something they should have the answer to?

@TheSalonDon People would lay on the aisle floor if it saved them $20, despite it all being funded by credit card debt anyway

Testing showed people would rather $3 cheaper ticket vs. free cup of soda Consumers win every time

Was driving home on a roadtrip with the kids for Game 4 that Friday. Great memories

@BadlandsTOJ @JCaporoso at least he made a big catch to help beat the Bills in 2022

Random #Jets Player Of Day Denzel Mims, WR

Wait what? she was a great example of caring during the final days of the show and Scott’s life

@OhYouBlockhead I can tell you haven’t been to Vegas in a while because there are no more “front desk clerks”

Why Your Vegas Trip Sucks First, you're late. You get to your hotel at about 4 pm, just in time to wait with all the other yokels dragging their luggage in one giant line of the damned. You're stuck anywhere from 1-3 hours, covered in travel dust, waiting to start any of the super fun, cool things you know you're going to do. You check in with your online reservation for the cheapest room. You don't tip the front desk clerk. When you get to your room, instead of feeling like a Fun Vegas Tourist, for some reason you feel like a kid too easily impressed by the cheap marble in the bathroom. You have a big, shitty view of the roof of an adjacent administrative building and half a parking lot. Also, as soon as you step foot in your room, you realize you're starving but surrounded by capsules of tiny, cheap snacks you can't afford. After relaxing, which includes turning on the TV for some reason, you hurry back downstairs to "beat the crowds." You go to the casino. You sit at the first $15 minimum blackjack table you see, a 6:5 continuous shuffle machine covered in sidebets you don't understand. You tip the cocktail girl a red $5 chip and ask for $3 change. On your biggest hand, you split two 9s against a 7 and get mad when you lose. You go back to your room and get dressed in wrinkled clothes then go down and wait in line for dinner at the most popular restaurant where you're staying. Maybe you did some Reddit research on "best steakhouse in Vegas." It doesn't matter. You wait 45 minutes to be seated in the Den of Hell, surrounded by drunk bachelor parties shouting at the top of their lungs and grey, skeleton men clinking glasses of wine with their daughters. You order the steak with the Chef's Star next to it, specifying rare so they know you know. You see a group of girls who don't look twice at you. Whatever. It's late enough that you go to a strip club, using a Vegas Insider tip that you can get limo service for free. You tell yourself you won't get scammed. In the strip club, you immediately go to a private room for with the first girl who talks to you. You spend $1,200 for an hour without getting so much as a high five in return. You lie to your boys in the group text. In the Uber back to your hotel, you text your ex. Maybe you hate yourself and spread this out over a 4-day weekend. On your flight home, you write something pithy about how Vegas sucks. The whole city is overrated.

@PaulSkallas “longevity is more than metrics” can you not make a simple remembrance post without running it through an LLM to gain pennies on the clicks?

So many sports announcers live a long life, but don't seem to emphasize diet or exercise. Bob Uecker ()90, Tim McCarver (81), Dick Enberg (82). Vin Scully (94), Mel Allen (83). Red Barber (84). Ernie Harwell (92). Even Harry Carey lived to 83 as a lifelong alcoholic. It's a fun job. Not a lot of stress. No need to retire. Longevity is more than metrics

@McFranchisee I like to get back in the car with a full cup, or make fun mixes for the kids. Many locations are a ghost town up front waiting to ask a 16 y/o for help. Just added inconvenience.

FWIW: This is extremely old news, and they have their dates incorrect. This initiative seems to recirculate every 8 months when the news cycle is slow. We announced this initiative around 2020. Hundreds if not thousands of locations have already had their lobby drink stations removed, and it’s not a big deal. We announced this about 15 years prior to the target date. All new McDonald’s built in the last 3 years have this “new” setup. All remodels have had the option for the same setup over the past 4 years. No rationale was given. This isn’t a cost move, as it will cost me $30k to make the change (and I still offer free refills). I can speculate that with digital orders now making up a much bigger part of our business (+30%), it’s much easier to have the fountain behind the counter to fulfill digital and delivery orders. They announced this change around 2020, and it’s been a pull, not a push. I feel they are simply preparing their setup for what they think our business will need in 2036. At first I was very apprehensive when it was originally announced (and reported on 5 years ago), but now it completely makes sense with customer flow. We handle hundreds of delivery orders a day. Having to fill drinks in the lobby or interrupt the drive-thru “robot” is neither fast nor efficient.

@nonregemesse @Pete_Bassist @MissLauraMarcus You Brits sure have some excellent insults

@Pete_Bassist @MissLauraMarcus You had 15% mortgage rates when a house cost fuck all you cheeky git

I’m a pensioner. So I benefit from the triple lock. I get the full state pension. Which is £965 every four weeks; so equivalent to £1045 a month. I get the full amount because I have 50 years of working and paying my stamp and income tax. I get no other pension. It’s not luxury!

I know he was old but still had a lot of positive energy just a year ago when discussing retirement. A great part of life growing up near NYC.

@staysaasy lot of depressing lines in this chart - family, friends, children, partner at the very end 🥺

I work with a lot of very close friends. I think that because of the time you'll end up spending together it's one of the most important things you can do for your lifestyle, if you can swing it. Until ~250 years ago almost all people worked with friends and family.

My brain has not seen these images in 25 years and yet somehow they are there, able to be quickly recalled on sight. Can there really be that many neurons?

@TheMindScourge I used to be opposed to audio books but they really help working a little bit into every day

Ten minutes here and ten minutes there really adds up. Assume that’s your commute, you’ve got 20 minutes right there Another 10 minutes waiting in lines to buy things. Now you’ve got half an hour of reading Do that 5 days a week and you’ve created 150 minutes of extra reading without even really trying Put in a little more time before bed or after waking up, and you’ve easily got a book a week

Again with the single Redditor slop. Plane coffee goes down like a cold beer after a day of hard labor. Kids need some small calories. There should be more paid food offerings too.

@KelllerJordan @missmayn Once you start leaning on the wall with your arm raised above the urinal it’s over

@missmayn Then the boomer men go to the bathroom and either clear their throat a million times or moan loud as shit.

boomers are like hey honey wanna go out to a restaurant and cough a lot.

@jackrwilkie @Gladvillain They know there are issues with your car. It’s about turning over at auction quickly and making an easy $500+. And getting you to pay $5K profit on a new one.

@Gladvillain My experience was the opposite. They offered me a crazy amount and inspected it for 30 seconds before cutting the check.

Sold a car to Carvana today and I have no idea how they stay in business. Inexplicable.

When they said it was 20 years since the Sabres won a series I couldn’t believe it was the Rangers one. I remember where I was for the Game 5. Straka hitting the camera and losing with 7.7 seconds left. One of the worst losses I’ve seen in sports.

@mtracey bro that celebration sinking the putt 😬

"Catch the spirit... on Spirit Airlines" -- I will always remember this heavenly jingle. RIP

@Jbn3ex Next you might even hand your key to the desk at checkout!

Ive got in the habit of travelling like an adult lately. Pre-booked room in an american chain hotel, flight purchased days or even weeks in advance, rental car reservation at the airport. Proud of myself.

Please get this trash political posting off my TV @YESNetwork I will talk to my kids about racism when the time comes on my own terms