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Q: I have a co-worker from India, who has lost several family members to covid. How is it most appropriate to express condoleances?

yo9cybI am an academic in a US university. My co-worker is a more junior academic who grew up in India and has family in New Delhi. Today I learned that he has lost several family members (uncles, aunts, grandparents) to covid. Even though we are not particularly close, I feel very much sympathy for h...

 
6:38 AM
morning
 
6:58 AM
morning
 
7:19 AM
morning
 
AFTERNOON
 
Shhh, don't yell :D
 
OK! I WILL TRY NOT TO WAKE ANYONE UP.
 
thank you
 
8:20 AM
@JourneymanGeek WHAT?
@JourneymanGeek WE TRY NOT TO WEIGH WHO
 
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Q: You love me more than I do?

AngieInTheSkyI'm in love with my boyfriend and he's always been expressive of his love too. Recently, however, he dropped a bombshell and told me he felt like I love him more than he loves me. Of course I was shocked, it instantly pierced my heart. He tried to salvage his comment and to clarify that he was...

 
8:32 AM
@M.A.R. NO IDEA
 
9:07 AM
i read that question... i feel really bad for the person
 
9:30 AM
Yeah, it's never fun to be told that kind of stuff, if only for the worrying it creates if you don't know whether the person is just insecure or really doesn't love you like they're supposed to.
 
 
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3:33 PM
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Q: How can I ask my co-worker to turn the music down without being rude?

billMy friend is listening to garbage music and I can't focus on my work. I always use headphones when I listen. I love him friendly so the last thing I want to do is hurting his feelings. What is a polite way to ask him to turn his music down?

 
@ExtrovertedMainMan "Please turn your music down."
 
@Sarov WHAT?
 
@JourneymanGeek "Please turn your music down."
 
I AM SORRY I CANNOT HEAR YOU OVER MY GARBAGE MUSIC
Actually if he's using speakers at work, that's kinda a not very nice move
 
Depends on company culture whether it's 'nice'.
Whether it's 'productive' however...
That being said, I did used to play Christmas carols the last week of December.
But it's not like anyone does any work then anyway.
 
4:07 PM
@Sarov "real questions have answers, not just items, ideas or opinions" :P If you can answer with a oneliner like that, the question is almost certainly lacking details ;)
 
Hence why I answered here in chat instead of in the actual question. :P
 
pat pat
 
I'm 6', you can't pat me!
 
All you need is a stepladder
 
@Sarov On your back, I can!
 
4:15 PM
I'm also a hemisphere away.
I'm 99.96% sure your arm's not that long.
 
I will find you? :P
 
Good luck with that.
 
4:45 PM
How to recognize a boomer on the internet: Their Twitter screen name is their e-mail address.
Tempted to send them some spam
 
Mean. :P
 
I wasn't meant to be a teacher :P
 
Yet.
 
5:16 PM
Never. If there are two things I will never be, it's teacher or parent.
 
5:38 PM
And then one day you wake up to discover you're a parent of teachers.
 
6:13 PM
Oh man, that would be bad.
 

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