I was kind of hoping that when we shot the balloon down it would turn out to be filled with candies that China had sent ina gesture of goodwill.
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Or maybe a Gift of the Magi type deal where the balloon was filled with a fancy missile polisher that China sold its surveillance satellite system to buy.
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I was woken up an ~hour ago by a small earthquake. Turns out i felt a 7.8 earthquake from Turkey. Those donât end well usually. Hoping for the best.
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This is the location. Many buildings reported collapsed, including apartment buildings at 4am when people are presumably asleep at home.
https://twitter.com/USGS_Quakes/status/1622424153184948225?s=20&t=tKdUJ9WCqDc-Z8M9MOia3A
You want The Villiages drama? You got The Villiages drama. Well not the âlook at these old fat white peopleâ drama, more like old fashioned what happens when some people try and go against the developer-state machine that owns and runs The Villiages drama? They end up in jail.
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7.8 anywhere near a populated area is terrifying.
Nothing better on a Sunday night than a new construction-oriented episode of Nova.
Another earthquake felt here. 7.5 in turkey
Fuck, those earthquakes sound really bad. Death toll already up to 1,800 per CNN.
Just whining ⌠I was on vacation, came back Saturday to realize my company failed to pay me. ⌠Some payroll glitch they say. Anxiety-inducing ⌠maybe they forgot I was on vacation, meant to fire me that day and tried to pull it back? Ugh ⌠Iâm sure itâs all fine but I wasnât anticipating this. They say a mistake at the processing company or something but âŚ
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This reminds me of a work situation I was in many years ago where I worked on a consulting team for the most unimaginably demanding client ever. They were our officeâs largest client in terms of revenue, so the team was stacked with star performers (like yours truly). We were on constant alert, always trying to plan one or two steps ahead to anticipate requests from the client, and we often got curveballs like Friday afternoon emails asking for something for a Monday morning meeting or giving us one week to complete a large scale project that required everyone on the team to devote 100% of FTE plus some evenings to get it done, even though we all had other clients as well. This wasnât a âonce a year real emergencyâ situation, it was like this regularly.
After about a year of wildly successful heroic efforts by the team to deliver all of this work on time and with no mistakes, putting this client ahead of other clients and for many team members putting them ahead of family and personal obligations, etc., we were all called into a meeting with the office leader. Whatâs going on? A scathing annual review of the team from the client. How is that possible? âWe donât like that the team has a habit of always delivering the work last minute.â
I have never been so mad. I have never seen my old boss so mad. When we explained the situation to the office leader (who also didnât know what the hell was going on, our revenue on the client was up like 50% year over year or something because we were all working non stop to get their stuff done), I have never seen HIM so mad.
To my companyâs credit, they basically went back to the client and, without getting us fired, more or less told the client that she couldnât have all the best people from our business on her team if she was going to do that. I wouldnât have been surprised if the client just fired us on the spot because I donât think she was used to people pushing back on her like that. But man the debrief from that situation was pretty intense. About 5 of us were ready to quit which is unheard of. Iâm an actuary, itâs supposed to be a low drama job.
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Both emails are bad. Professor worse though.
If I was the student I would hold my complaint until after everything else for the course was graded and then dispute this.
Sure, if I was the student, I would have couched the e-mail with a little more deference to the professor so as not to risk pissing them off, but they are young and frustrated, so itâs ok.
Saw your edit: yeah, holding the complaint wouldâve been a good move so as not to risk biased grading the rest of the semester. Also risky, though, as the professor might have been like, âWell, I canât change it now - you shouldâve come to me earlier.â