Maybe it’s the fact I’ve just turned 60 recently; maybe it’s half of my client group (unfortunately the good half) jumping ship, but I just want to retire so badly… unfortunately not financially feasible at this point.
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In case @gratchsabbat drops in: The Time We Took the Baby to Glenn Danzig's House
This is getting prevalent the whole world over… people want to retire, but they can’t due to the high cost of living, underhanded shenanigans with pension funds and all that.
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My current retirement plan is death.
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You’d think after nine days in the desert that dude would have given the bloody horse a name.
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If I understand correctly, you’re saying you’re a punk rocker, yes, you are. I never would have guessed. But now I wonder. Are you? If you have to keep telling people you’re something, are you really? Or, are you trying to convince yourself that you are?
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Facebook, when you send an email with a notification, truncating the subject line doesn’t make me more interested to find out that the rest of it might say. It looks like clickbait.
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Toxic manglers cause loss of institutional knowledge
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Toilet paper should not be so soft that the slightest bit of resistance on the roll rolling causes the sheets to separate at the perforations.
Yes, Walmart. A 16’x20’ tarp is a big item, as well as a 19x13 acrylic clip board is. But I’m not quite convinced that they belong in the “big & tall” category of men’s jeans.
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Plus ultra smooth toilet paper is a no. It do need to have a very small amount of coarseness to it.
And whoever designs TP to be as tough as plastic that cannot be torn at the perforations will be consigned to the lower ends of Hell.
From the October 6, 1997 episode of Barney Miller titled “Corporation”:
Detective Ron Harris (Ron Glass) is talking with a person from a paper manufacturer about toilet paper. “How come you can never get a roll started right ? You always have to scratch and claw at it till it ends up in shreds.”
Not long after that aired, “easy start” rolls became available.
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You might be off by a couple decades
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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I have that on a button - it sells really well at cons. 
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6th grade science - still useful after all these years!
Also, LPT - battery acid can stick around, in liquid form, for at least a year.
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“They” say you don’t quit a job, you quit a manager. “They” are right. After I officially get my review (and my bonus) I’m going to start job searching. I’ve been here almost 9 years and, up until the last year or so when I got a new manager, intended to stay until I retire a few years from now with at least a year’s notice for handover. Now, if I get a new job, they get two to three weeks’ notice and no, I will not be available after that if they have any questions.
I think I need the chant.
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The chant, as requested.
Quit! Quit! Quit!
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I hope the job market in Canada is better than in the US.
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Like Liam Neeson, “"…what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career.” (No, not THOSE skills, although sometimes I wish…) I’ve seen a couple of jobs that I’m qualified for that look interesting.
However, it might not come to that. I had a chat with our new Total Rewards, HR Operations & Systems Divisional Vice President yesterday about a throwaway comment she made in our first meeting about trying to figure out how to get me on her team and how serious she was about it. There’s a one-year mat-leave contract open for the Manager, HR Ops position (the position I’ve been mentoring the incumbent for). She suggested a secondment from my current role into that role and then, after the year’s up, we’ll see.
There’s a couple of things that worry me about taking the position, though. the biggest on is that I would become a people manager - not something I’ve ever considered and not something I’m sure I’d be good at.
There’s also the fact that I’d still be somewhat accessible to my old team who would no doubt continue to pepper me with questions about the systems I currently support, which I’m not sure I would support in the new role. I told the DVP I’d give her an answer one way or another next week. I’m leaning toward taking it, though.
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