ped_xing [he/him]

Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

You're welcome to ask things like that of me. This is within the realm of stuff I will gladly do for you.

It will always be this to me:

And will never not make me smile.

If I had a nickel for every time my boss fired somebody so humiliatingly that they forgot to take their jackets with them on the way out the door, I'd have two nickels.

I didn't observe this myself -- she e-mailed everyone she didn't fire asking if any of us wanted a jacket and went on to describe the ones her victims were wearing just last week.

because otherwise the shareholders eat you alive for not chasing infinite profits.

I think that while the threat is real, the threat being a major motivator for upper management is largely illusory. It's absolutely there, but it's not making them do stuff they're not already keen on doing. Nobody weasels their way up the ladder to do non-profit-maximizing things, occasionally getting reprimanded for not maximizing profit and always one stray "the old phone's fine" tweet away from getting canned. They're willing and enthusiastic profit-maximizers.

My surplus labor value at my first job, my second job, a few jobs in between and my current job.

I find np a worse message when taken literally. If I even have to write an email, it's at least a little problem. yw allows for a problem you solved for somebody without suggesting that it doesn't come at the expense of other priorities. Both will be interpreted the same way by almost everyone, of course.

The number of times I walked out of the shower without using soap plus i times the number of times I soaped at least twice to avoid that scenario.

It seems like a company that would require employee-purchased headsets would already require employee-purchased laptops. Do you know of any? Honest question; I don't, but my bubble is pretty small.

There were basically 3 channels for a while -- ABC, NBC, CBS. But yeah, their brand has really diminished.

It's a square root of negative one. A sneaky way to get two answers with one question.

Does the keyboard work while detached? When I travel, I like to plug the laptop into the TV and control it from across the room with a wireless keyboard and mouse. It would be nice not to have to pack a separate keyboard.

The microphone placement is a little wonky as it is on the left side to the screen (why?).

That's why my friends have been telling me to throw away my new phone because they can't hear me‽ I've been essentially muting myself with my stupid thumb covering that stupid hole? Thank you so much; I was going to put the sim back in my previous phone.

Oh wow, I got an Eve V years ago because it could do that and thought it was a budget Surface, so I always figured the Surface could do that, too. Now Eve's out of the game and I'm looking to replace mine. Does anyone do that anymore?

Yeah, I'm not running goatse linux.