I am Stine. Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable. High School Wrestler™. Can usually correctly use the past tense in French. Suffers from clinical depression. @stinerman@mastodon.social on Mastodon.
I work with plenty of people from India. They’re pretty good at their jobs. They should be paid the same as us in the USA.
I don’t mind that they work on the other side of the world. I don’t mind them at all. I mind that the main reason why they’re hired is that my employer can pay them peanuts. They deserve better.
No silver bullets. That’s not how this works.
I recommend that you attempt to control your drinking a bit. You don’t need to quit today or anything like that. Just cut yourself off at a certain time every night.
I wish you a better 2025.
Don’t forget to multiply that value!
The people who are taking up extra space are trying to tell you that they’d rather sit alone than talk to a stranger on the bus/train/etc.
They will move their stuff so that you can sit down if you ask. There is no trouble in asking and you don’t need to “pick the biggest guy.” Just ask someone “may I sit here, please?” That works 99% of the time.
What happened, he ended up vacating the seat and like a preschooler wanted to know why him and not everybody else.
That’s because some person yelled at him for what should have been a very civil and simple conversation.
This time of year is always hard for me because it disrupts my routine. There are plenty of things that I’d like to cancel as well, but can’t. My strategy is to:
Sounds like you’re on the right track.
I’ve heard that Debbie is the best thing to do in Dallas.
Yeah. You realize you made a mistake. You are truly sorry about it. That’s all anyone can ask of you.
You can’t change the past so all you can do from here is move on.