Day: August 17, 2023, 1:38 PM

Means

Chill Uncategorized

Got fired for “no reason given”. This has to stop.

No company cares about you and even the best one will throw you out like yesterday’s trash the moment they think it’ll make them more money or that you become a liability — or just that some manager dislikes you. This is why it’s insane to make friends at work and it’s also very unhealthy to give your all to a job thinking anyone will give a crap.

They won’t.

I’m not saying don’t work hard. I’m talking about devoting your entire life to a job and expecting that it’ll make a lick of difference to a corporation. It absolutely will not. Treat a corporation exactly as it treats you: a means to an end. Nothing else.

Booking It

Chill Regular-ass Post

Does Jack Edwards actually read all the posts he posts about?

The questioner meant “books” for the first instance of “posts.” I don’t really know who Jack Edwards is, but I used to read something like 1,500-2,000 books a year at one point. I was often finishing 3-4 books a day — and I read seven books in a single day one time. Admittedly they were short works, but we’re talking about full-on adult novels and non-fiction here, not YA or kid’s books.

You can read a whole fucking lot of books when you read fast, don’t sleep much, and don’t do much else. For a long time I was reading for 16-18 hours a day every day. I’d read all day at school, ignoring schoolwork. I’d read on the bus. I’d read the moment I got home (in fact, I used to walk from the bus stop while still reading my book). And I’d read all night. I’d read all weekend. You get the idea.

So I find it perfectly plausible that someone who reads fast and does it as a job could read 200+ books a year or whatever the claim is here. Seems pretty easy to me.

Olive

Chill Uncategorized

What is your honest personal opinion of Olive Garden?

It’s better than most food most people can make at home but it’s not better than what I can make at home. There are of course far superior Italian restaurants, but they are not as consistent. Olive Garden will be predictably mediocre.

The Five Cheese Ziti al Forno is their best dish. Their worst dish is anything that has meat in it as they don’t know how to cook it across any location I’ve ever tried.

Olive Garden is a very American experience because it’s consistently meh — the “cheap slop piled high” model applied to Italian cuisine.