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ilikeplanets 10-08-2022 12:18 AM

Worst work uniform I've had to wear was an atrocious pinstriped vest as a restaurant hostess. Apparently I couldn't just wear a dress or a classy blouse.

Cool As Ice Cream 10-08-2022 05:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Elphenor (Post 4604586)
got a photo with him

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Originally Posted by ilikeplanets (Post 4604606)
post the photo!

yes!

slunken 10-08-2022 03:27 PM

he lies because he's a child

yo soy el mejor 10-09-2022 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by ilikeplanets (Post 4604894)
Try feeling the exact opposite of that

Congrats!

this is great advice. my therapist often encouraged opposite action. i guess it's good for anxiety if u do it right.

ilikeplanets 10-09-2022 05:20 PM

I've taken that whole "fake it til you make it" concept to heart, and it works reasonably well for me.

teh b0lly!!1 10-10-2022 04:53 AM

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Originally Posted by vixnix (Post 4604889)
So…I was promoted at work. It was an internal hiring process and a handful of candidates applied and I was chosen.

Now I kinda feel like Liz Truss. Like nobody really wants me there and I’m about to make a set of disastrous decisions.

I’m not used to anyone choosing me for anything. I entertained the thought of turning it down

Congrats!

You got this.

Will you be managing people?

teh b0lly!!1 10-10-2022 04:57 AM

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Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor (Post 4605138)
this is great advice. my therapist often encouraged opposite action. i guess it's good for anxiety if u do it right.

Would you mind expanding on this?

I often suffer from crippling anxiety and when I'm in that state trying to get on the right path by thinking about it usually feels like juggling knives.

yo soy el mejor 10-10-2022 12:26 PM

iz a DBT technique that's about not letting negative emotions dictate actions and regulating the emotions. my therapist would call it "holding the emotion in my hand and examining it".

https://www.wscaweb.org/wp-content/u...66f88a6bde.pdf

ilikeplanets 10-10-2022 03:23 PM

While out shopping this morning, I saw a poor hunched over woman in her 80s wearing a BAZINGA shirt, and I cannot stop laughing about it

ovary 10-10-2022 07:30 PM

so i hear chris columbus is back in this year

vixnix 10-10-2022 07:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilikeplanets (Post 4604894)
Try feeling the exact opposite of that

Congrats!

Quote:

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor (Post 4605138)
this is great advice. my therapist often encouraged opposite action. i guess it's good for anxiety if u do it right.

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Originally Posted by ilikeplanets (Post 4605171)
I've taken that whole "fake it til you make it" concept to heart, and it works reasonably well for me.

Thanks for the congrats. I’ll give it a try. It would be very uncharacteristic behaviour for me, and from what I can tell they gave me the position because of my current behaviour and attitude…so messing with that, by displaying confidence I don’t genuinely feel, might be a bit of a bait and switch.

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Originally Posted by teh b0lly!!1 (Post 4605233)
Congrats!

You got this.

Will you be managing people?

Thank you! No, not in terms of working out KPIs and being responsible for their performance. It’s a step in between - so more complex situations are escalated to me, and I’m meant to play more of a mentoring role. The vacancy arose because the person previously in the role was promoted to management. So I think it’s meant to be a development pathway.

vixnix 10-10-2022 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by ilikeplanets (Post 4605314)
While out shopping this morning, I saw a poor hunched over woman in her 80s wearing a BAZINGA shirt, and I cannot stop laughing about it

Omg what is it with the word bazinga. It makes me smile involuntarily

ilikeplanets 10-10-2022 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vixnix (Post 4605352)
Thanks for the congrats. I’ll give it a try. It would be very uncharacteristic behaviour for me, and from what I can tell they gave me the position because of my current behaviour and attitude…so messing with that, by displaying confidence I don’t genuinely feel, might be a bit of a bait and switch.


.

Absolutely do what you feel is best, but to clarify I meant feeling (even pretending to feel) the confidence and capability internally, not becoming an outwardly arrogant asshole overnight . I'm completely sure you'll kick ass.

ilikeplanets 10-10-2022 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by vixnix (Post 4605353)
Omg what is it with the word bazinga. It makes me smile involuntarily

Especially on someone who I'm almost fully sure does not watch Big Bang Theory. Kind of reminded me of pictures of kids who obviously don't speak English wearing a shirt that says I <3 BEER, etc

teh b0lly!!1 10-11-2022 05:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vixnix (Post 4605352)
Thanks for the congrats. I’ll give it a try. It would be very uncharacteristic behaviour for me, and from what I can tell they gave me the position because of my current behaviour and attitude…so messing with that, by displaying confidence I don’t genuinely feel, might be a bit of a bait and switch.



Thank you! No, not in terms of working out KPIs and being responsible for their performance. It’s a step in between - so more complex situations are escalated to me, and I’m meant to play more of a mentoring role. The vacancy arose because the person previously in the role was promoted to management. So I think it’s meant to be a development pathway.

Yeah I second ilp you'll kill it. Don't change anything about your attitude.

teh b0lly!!1 10-11-2022 05:37 PM

So apparently Bill Murray is also an asshole and a creep.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...et/ar-AA12QnrS

It's hard to be disappointed in anyone anymore, frankly, but ... really?

slunken 10-11-2022 06:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilikeplanets (Post 4605314)
While out shopping this morning, I saw a poor hunched over woman in her 80s wearing a BAZINGA shirt, and I cannot stop laughing about it


slunken 10-11-2022 06:29 PM


slunken 10-11-2022 06:31 PM


ilikeplanets 10-11-2022 06:53 PM

I bought a ticket for this tour. I haven't been to a concert since 2016, and likely won't for another 6 years after this, so it needs to be amazing.

slunken 10-11-2022 07:48 PM

anyone fuck with toe spreaders before?

i'm on day 2. just trying to perfect my life.

yo soy el mejor 10-11-2022 07:53 PM

those are good for cleaning and painting toenails.

slunken 10-11-2022 07:59 PM

i got the ones that are supposed to be more for stretching your toes back into alignment, although i did get the idea because i've been giving myself foot baths and sloughing off the gunk off the bottom of my feet and inner toes at least once a week

ilikeplanets 10-11-2022 08:21 PM

I own some, but find myself able to paint my nails fine without them so they're just sitting in a drawer

yo soy el mejor 10-11-2022 08:30 PM

i didn't get a promotion, but found out today i was accepted into a year-long mentorship leadership program that requires only a 2-4 hour/per month commitment but will look bomb on my resume. i want to use my degree and do policy research or evaluation or build training curriculum. right now i'm just a dumb fundraiser...it's my first job out of a graduate school.

my supervisor suggested the program to me. she asked about it this morning and i said i'd heard nothing so i guess they didn't want me. but then i got an email later inviting me to join. after feeling jaded about my job for a while, it was tight to get the following feedback: "We received your incredibly impressive application to be a mid-career mentee and your application is one of the most highly-rated."

I can't imagine they say that to everyone..whatever it means! /pats self on back

OH, and my would-be mentor is younger than I am, but she's got the goods. it's not my fault she went to college out of high school.

slunken 10-11-2022 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor (Post 4605556)
\"We received your incredibly impressive application to be a mid-career mentee and your application is one of the most highly-rated."

you'll never be mid to us

ilikeplanets 10-13-2022 05:26 PM

Congratulations on your orange stars, ilikeplanets

slunken 10-13-2022 05:32 PM

somewhere a puerto-rican shot off a firework

slunken 10-13-2022 05:35 PM

oh so here's some news. the super of my building is puerto-rican and he makes kissy sounds when i walk by his place (he's usually doing arm curls on his balcony)

i dig it tbh

i'm such a tease

mxzombie 10-13-2022 05:37 PM

he's calling you gay

slunken 10-13-2022 07:37 PM

if my maintenance man thinks i'm a hottie that's absolutely no problem

slunken 10-13-2022 07:41 PM

i could see how it would be very easy to fall in love with the sight of me but i'm very complex

i'm not just a body

ilikeplanets 10-13-2022 07:54 PM

You're nothing but a body

ilikeplanets 10-13-2022 07:54 PM

(in your mind)

slunken 10-13-2022 08:02 PM


ilikeplanets 10-14-2022 02:00 AM

So I think I've hit a new low. The past few times Cake has played on the radio, I have enjoyed it. Not The Distance, I still hate that song, but all the other hits, especially Never There.

I don't know who I am anymore.

Disco King 10-14-2022 02:10 AM

Just saw Front 242 live. I don't know if I've ever seen a band having more fun on stage.

yo soy el mejor 10-14-2022 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by slunken (Post 4605799)
if my maintenance man thinks i'm a hottie that's absolutely no problem

no, the super is being mean to you

make the noise back and he'll beat you up, sadly

yo soy el mejor 10-14-2022 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Disco King (Post 4605832)
Just saw Front 242 live. I don't know if I've ever seen a band having more fun on stage.

you musta never seen Za!

Disco King 10-14-2022 12:55 PM

I have not!

Also, I'm 99% certain that during "Red Team," De Meyer played a little joke and snuck in a "blue team" in there.


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