3 weeks ago, I emailed a Manager for help with a time-sensitive difficulty that her assistant didn't solve. 2 weeks ago, Assistant emailed me that she was ill and they'd appreciate my patience, but didn't recommend other Senior Executives to contact. I still haven't heard from her, but how do I t...
So I have a water bottle in my office and to fill it every time is a tiring business. I need to walk to a different floor than I sit and then I need to wait till other people fill their bottles. Then after filling it, I need to come back to my office.
Here is a colleague of mine who sits next d...
I've got a problem with my nose. It randomly starts bleeding whenever, especially when I have a cold or the weather is changing. It's been known to suddenly start bleeding even when I'm just standing there. It can take anywhere between two minutes and an hour to stop the bleeding, and there's no ...
I'm mostly bilingual - I speak (hopefully) decent English and I speak Hebrew that's passable most of the time (although I have a pretty strong accent that I have to work on). But sometimes I run into a problem where I don't know how to say what I want to say.
For instance, a couple of days ago I...
Just looking at the "newest" questions list on IPS meta I am surprised to find that only 12 questions have been asked in the first 15 days of this month. I sense that is a low rate of new meta questions compared to all previous fortnights. Is this typical of January or
are meta questions on the...
When I asked a meta question about the 150th day awards contest in November there was a general consensus that we were going towards the quarterly award pattern with the first contest to be announced in January for answers submitted in the period October 1 to December 31.
So December 31 is past ...
First, there's this sentence in the question:
"Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say"
Then, immediately after OP posted their question, they also p...
I'm referring to this question: Not sure if have to give up priority seat as not sure if lady is pregnant or just plus sized
The basic question there is:
When I can't tell if a lady is pregnant or not, should I offer my seat to her? If so, how?
This was put on hold as primarily opinion-bas...
