Not always. I think the best people think they WON’T be let go and some others who don’t perform, figure they are on the chopping block.

In our case it didn’t matter because they wound up having four rounds of layoffs before shutting that location down entirely. So it really wound up being WHEN you were fired, not IF.

I worked with a guy who’s wife had just had a baby and the baby was sick. The guy was very good at his job but was working from home without really asking permission. We have some leeway in this matter but technically he didn’t clear it. His supervisor really had it in for him and was trying very hard to get him fired for falsifying his time card. I don’t know why he didn’t like him, but the supervisor was a real ass. It may have been racist motivation, but I’m not sure.

I should point out that I had asked this guy to do some work for me that I didn’t have the capability to do and this guy approached it in such a unique way that the customer and some universities were really interested in his work. This is a defense contractor environment where every working hour has to be accounted for. Whenever I asked the guy a question whether via email or telephone, he always responded immediately. It was all computer code so I didn’t see a problem with this.

When he came into work and told me what was going on I immediately contact the manager on his behalf.

Well bottom line is that management pretty much dropped the subject and the supervisor was walked out of the facility. Turns out he had been falsifying his own time card the whole time. How’s that for hypocrisy?

Justice served.

I worked for a company that did just that and it was the best way to do it because a lot of people left on their own.

Yup, I worked for a company that was laying off but they were still hiring because, “they had a hiring policy.” Absolutely nonsensical.

No.

Did you use the calories or the grams of sugar to determine the amount?

It’s funny because what you describe is way BETTER than I would have expected. LOL.

Termite treatment.

Absolutely, but there are a few problems with this. First, I live in the US. Americans do NOT know how to negotiate a roundabout. There is a roundabout near my house. The instructions of how to use it are posted on signs as you approach. They are wrong. They actually have inside lanes exiting across the outside lanes that can continue around. So not only is it wrong but it’s teaching the locals here what NOT to do at a normal roundabout.

Second, they don’t fit at existing intersections.

Third, I think they would be more expensive than just a piece of tech attached to traffic lights that already exist.

I mean the best solution would be some good public transportation, but I’m trying to be more realistic here. That’s for more civilized nations. In the US the car rules. And the bigger, the better.

Timing traffic lights. They could look down the road and see when nothing is coming, to let the other direction go, like a traffic cop. It would save time and gas.

It’s not just, you know, Halloween?

Not sure that’s the kind of technology purchase to which the OP was referring. I thought you were going to say you purchased some kind of high tech sink and was excited to hear what it did to improve your life. I mean, I can see the point but…

Was so excited to answer this only to find the top post hit virtually every one of my suggestions.

But there is one more. This year I plan to revisit an old classic:

The Lost Boys.

Thank you very much kind sir or madame or whatever you identify as. Very helpful.

Finally.

Not sure which ones are AAA slop. I play online every Monday with a friend in the UK. Here are some of the games we’ve played:

Grim Dawn

Diablo 4,

Borderlands,

Borderlands 2,

Borderlands 3,

Borderlands the presequel,

Tiny Tina’s Wonderland,

and currently we’re playing Aliens Elite something.

But I have played other games with a different group of friends online.

Man, the formatting sucks. There was a carriage return after every game.

Not sure which ones are AAA slop. I play online every Monday with a friend in the UK. Here are some of the games we’ve played:

Grim Dawn, Diablo 4, Borderlands, Borderlands 2, Borderlands 3, Borderlands the presequel, Tiny Tina’s Wonderland, and currently we’re playing Aliens Elite something.

But I have played other games with a different group of friends online.

Man, the formatting sucks. There was a carriage return after every game. Why is it there for the paragraphs and gone for the lists?

Excellent, I needed more space for cookies, malware and games that suddenly require 500GB of free space. I’ll have that thing full in no time.

Well my favorite cheese is Longhorn Colby and frankly, I don’t care what color it is.

I see, so if I don’t want to see a users posts and I block them, I won’t see them, but everyone else will? I mean in a thread we are both contributing to?