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Apr 1 17:04

@Boots shog still IS a good guy :)

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Apr 1 16:57

I just found my The Workplace little stapler.

Been a few min since I was around here :)

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Jun 30, 2021 02:06

@Kilisi hey man... it was my first post one workplace :D

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Jun 29, 2021 19:48

@Kaz #firstworldproblems :)

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Jun 29, 2021 16:07

@Kaz retiring early? :)

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Jun 29, 2021 15:56

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Jun 29, 2021 15:00

Q: Negotiation for Fulltime Conversion After Internship

How should one who has held multiple internships with a large company of 50k+ employees negotiate salary on eventual full-time job offers (having documented excellent performance via internal systems)? It seems likely the process will be a generic HR offer which is given to all graduates of simi...

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Jun 29, 2021 15:00

any takers on reopen votes here? was taking a trip down memory lane and my oldest question has two delete votes...

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Oct 13, 2020 17:01

@Lilienthal just living the dream as they say. moving and starting a new job right before covid was... interesting hah

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Oct 13, 2020 17:00

@Kaz that sounds awesome!

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Oct 12, 2020 23:58

but now that I'm not a mod I can answer off topic questions and not care right (:

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Oct 12, 2020 23:57

lol yeah I just deleted that answer as the q is basically off topic hah

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Oct 12, 2020 23:57

:-)

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Oct 12, 2020 23:04

@Kaz reading through some of my old answers... how did this end up working out? :) workplace.stackexchange.com/a/77061/2322

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Oct 12, 2020 22:53

y'all have so much more rep nowadays

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Oct 12, 2020 22:47

I just linked someone an answer I wrote on here...

it was from 7.5 years ago.

Where did that time go???????

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Oct 21, 2019 20:20

well then :D

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Oct 21, 2019 20:20

> asked 5 mins ago

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Oct 21, 2019 20:14

@Snow is this reinstatement process for all mods who are no longer mods? or just "fired" ones?

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Oct 18, 2019 19:02

I've poured... a lot of my energy/soul into Workplace over the last decade or however long it's been ;-)

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Oct 18, 2019 18:59

my last answer was almost a year ago @ArthurHavlicek :P

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Oct 18, 2019 18:53

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Oct 18, 2019 18:53

stupid feed making me see questions

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Oct 18, 2019 18:53

weird

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Oct 18, 2019 18:53

wow I wrote an answer here

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Oct 18, 2019 16:21

I donated recently on one of those platforms and realized even my gravatar is the same :)

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Oct 18, 2019 16:21

lol, I have had this same avatar for so long now

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Oct 18, 2019 16:19

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Oct 18, 2019 16:15

I just thought it was interesting. reminded me of how it made me a better writer to be explicit ;-)

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Oct 18, 2019 16:14

@MonicaCellio I wrote something the other day with "they" as a pronoun and when I edited it to be a proper noun, thought of you (because it was unclear in that context what I was referring to with "they")

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Oct 18, 2019 14:55

A lot of this really makes me feel for TimPost and Shog. those two are... really good at their jobs and in a really crappy spot.

guess I can't ping them but knowing how much they care about folks (@MonicaCellio included) I suspect they are incredibly conflicted on all this

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Oct 18, 2019 14:47

I'm about to give notice I think, so that's kinda true?

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Oct 18, 2019 14:47

lolol

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Oct 18, 2019 14:46

@MonicaCellio take care of yourself too. you probably know that, but actually take care of yourself :)

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Oct 17, 2019 22:03

it takes manual intervention btw to delete accounts that are over a certain reputation level, too, if you wonder why it takes a while to get your actual accounts deleted

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Oct 17, 2019 22:03

@RichardU I picked a good time to drop by. I've considered doing that before too but have occasionally referenced my answers here and it's impossible to search otherwise ;-)

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Oct 4, 2019 20:14

enderland hides

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Oct 4, 2019 17:05

Yep, that is definitely true

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Oct 4, 2019 16:59

It's taken me a while to get attachment for our kiddo. the father is not very biologically relevant for a newborn for a long time....

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Oct 4, 2019 16:57

A significant strength of mine is passionately caring about things.

that's also a major weakness in times where I get major anxiety about things (like right now for RL reasons! hah)

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Oct 4, 2019 16:51

detachment from individual circumstances yes; from overall site I'm less clear whether that's meaningful. I know when I was a mod, I would recluse myself from situations where I was deeply invested in the specifics (and/or request perspective from people less so)

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Oct 4, 2019 16:48

My point is more someone who is casually invested is unlikely to stick around and deal with the negative aspects to being a mod @rich

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Oct 4, 2019 16:33

@Monoandale imagine dealing with users who troll you, attack you, spam the site with crap, and otherwise are actively thwarting your efforts... it seems likely you'd only end up with people who have a high personal attachment

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Oct 4, 2019 15:47

@Snow this idea has come up many times over my SE years

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Oct 4, 2019 15:06

My understanding is SE will do so, given my questions when I resigned what feels like ages ago

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Oct 4, 2019 14:54

I think what I'm trying to say is that I empathize with you :-)

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Oct 4, 2019 14:54

Yep. It was not a small decision for me, when I stepped away - and that was knowing I'd be "missed" but not really needed

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Oct 4, 2019 14:52

@Snow I know what you mean by this... it is difficult to fully emotionally divest yourself from something you care deeply about

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Nov 2, 2020 09:43

Watch this video - youtube.com/watch?v=KClAPipnKqw - I suspect you will be really frustrated while identifying with this talk.

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Oct 29, 2020 17:27

How do you think your manager will respond if you tell them, "when I whistle out loud it bothers another person, can you tell them to just put up with it?"