If meetings are happening so long and going in so frequently that nobody can make sense of them without an ai summary, might I suggest there are too many meetings?

I say this as someone who used to work at a place that had meetings about meetings to figure out why so much time was wasted in meetings.

For professional settings, I understand the theoretical appeal of ai writing. A lot of people don’t like writing emails, but they have to for work. Many of those same people fret about tone or presentation, because silly office politics reasons (real or one-sidedly imagined in their heads.)

The solution, really is workplaces just need to cut down on the useless drivel emails and people need to be ok with short, no frills emails.

His eyes are portals to the laser dimension. Comics are weird.

Big naturals.

Not fond of repeating myself, but:

Sometimes temp to hire works out, but in my experience only if the temp period is short as a probation period or if there is writing that after “x” time as a temp they either let you go or bring you on full time. Preferably both things.

told by HR that maybe after 6 months they would consider bringing me on FT.

Oh honey.

You should talk to the manager about it, but I suspect they will hem and haw, and say something vaguely about looking into it without providing you with any specifics.

Companies hire temps and dangle the “well maybe we’ll hire you some day” out there to string them along.

Sometimes temp to hire works out, but in my experience only if the temp period is short as a probation period or if there is writing that after “x” time as a temp they either let you go or bring you on full time. Preferably both things.

If I were you, I’d start tuning up your resume and sending it out now. If your current job comes through then nothing really lost, and if your job isn’t actually interested in making you an employee then you should spend this employed time to look for a job without the stress of no income.

Oh those. I meant the Gillette Fusion razor heads. They are supposed to be disposable, and I do eventually get rid of them, but I extend the lifespan by a lot with a squeeze bottle of alcohol on them to clean them. A head that should last weeks will end up lasting me months with just a little care.

Reverse osmosis filter, you can just get an under the sink one of you don’t plan on drinking your shower water. Kind of pricey up front, and you have to replace the filters every so often, but it gives good taste and peace of mind for filtering.

I am telling you from first hand viewing that bottled water plants use the same kind of filtering.

disposable shavers

I have them, but clean them with a squirt of alcohol and they last ages. I think the last time I bought a pack was 2020.

When somebody won’t just take the compliment. It’s like come on, just take the W.

But also I feel strange getting praise in a real time conversation.

The was the actual divergence point in the Kelvin timeline.

Star Trek Enterpise, I’m about half way through the first season.

The new Warlockracy video, and then it just keep autoplaying his other videos and that was fine.

Blood. I dunno, I got it from some guy.

This reminds me of a DM who did a setting with an extremely bureaucratic kingdom. We had to get an audience with the king, but the process required jumping through hoops with different paperpushers.

Eventually we were nearly at the hall to meet the king when the guards turned us away for wearing the wrong ties. I got us in by going through the Lionel Hutz “I’m not wearing a tie at all.” routine, which intimidated the guards (not what I was going for, but my table rendition apparently included crazy eyes) .

A character that has all the cringe edgelord hallmarks- black leather clothes, gravely Batman voice, “I work alone” attitude- except he’s a clumsy dwarf that’s more or less cosplaying as The Crow and is forced, despite his demeanor to be a team player. Some day Darkbeard Grimblade will get his chance.

The Wookiees are allies, but we do not grant them the aid of reinforcements at this time.

I actually recently bought it on CD after both the Steam and GOG versions gave me visual glitches. It’s really great even if the enemy AI has infinite resource cheats.

For me it was the Star Wars Rebellion main menu. I played that game tons back in the day on a PC that couldn’t handle much more. Starting it up locked me into just wanting to finish a game in one night.

I appreciate that following of EU as well, which actually lasted longer the “old” era, with the new spanning from 1999 to 2014. It’s still good, just different.