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Cake day: December 18th, 2023

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  • I’m an American with some outdated experience from about 25 years ago.

    I loved Germany and would love to return. I’ve even thought about migrating there, though I know this would not be simple.

    I was there for about 3 weeks. My last name is very Italian, but apparently the family i was starting with hoped it was Spanish and expressed this with shock when I corrected them.

    During my time there I witnessed quite a bit of racism directed at Italians and Turks. As it was explained to me, post WWII Germany encouraged migrants from Italy and Turkey to rebuild the workforce. What I witnessed was that Italians and Turks were looked down on and often held to lower jobs.

    It’s been 25 years. I hope things have changed.











  • I work on a business communication tool. You know those things you have in your phone that people send messages to and expect you to answer.

    When I leave my computer, that’s it, I’m done. I don’t have the application on my phone. I didn’t check email or messages after 5 or 6 and most days I work for a few hours before I check them.

    On weekends, I turn off my computer.

    I’ve been doing this for years now. No one notices, or if they do they are smart enough to not bring it up.

    I came up in a world where we were the ones introducing Yahoo and AOL into the business world, I had a phone on my desk that was essential, and email was king. I rarely had a laptop and they were quite rare. When you left the office, it was expected that you were some for the day.

    The grind culture over the last decade or so is insane. It is insane that people will give over half their time to a company that would show them the door in an instant.

    Yes, you should do everything possible to set up your team and colleagues for success when you take your PTO, but that should never require a tether to the office.


  • I have a friend with a Subaru he didn’t drive much. Battery kept dieing on him. He determined that with the car of there was a small drain on the battery. Took quite a bit to figure out that the issue was the old 3g connection for starlink. Even though he hadn’t ever paid for the service, the car still kept trying to connect to the cell network. With 3g retired, it had nothing to connect to.

    I also have a Subaru with a 3g connection I never replaced, but it’s a daily driver. From what I can tell on forums, this only became a problem once there was no longer a 3g network. Just curious that even without the subscription the car was connecting to something and now that there is no connection, it will continuously try to connect.

    There is a bypass module that can be purchased, because apparently if you just pull the fuse, you lose Bluetooth and the front speakers. You can keep Bluetooth by having an aftermarket headunit which bypasses the manufacturer Bluetooth.








  • Probably yes.

    I used to work for another office store that has since been absorbed into this one. There was an extreme white supremacist who ran a “church” in the area. My first manager told him we would not make his copies but he could use the self-serve machines. A few of my coworkers did not appreciate this stance and may have taunted him a bit.

    A new manager came in and asked him why he was using the self-serve and invited him to use our copy services. Most of the department walked out that day.

    The materials were what amounted to white supremacy lightly vailed as religion.