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Well, if they want to ruin their site they have the freedom to do so.

I would love that, but not sure how they would do with the uneven floor. I bought some for the rest of the basement and hoping I can install it myself, if I don't like how it looks I'll probably get new carpet for the basement.

I ripped up the carpet to take a further look, looks like it isn't concrete but subflooring, it's not super smooth so will have to add some layer of something to smooth it out in the main part of the bathroom no matter what. Second image has the ramp.

Couldn't find an older thread so starting a new one. I bought a house (yay!) but have some projects that I'd like to do myself (yay?). But this house has some oddities for sure, like the basement bathroom has carpeting, so that has to go. I actually think the reason they put carpeting in there is because of a concrete stair/ramp that is right at the door. It's not a normal stair, it's definitely more like a gradual ramp. I'm thinking I have 3 options: 1. Tear apart the concrete. But, not sure how that would impact the concrete floor and a bit worried I wouldn't do that well myself. 2. Build a wood step to cover the ramp. I could probably do this without too much hassle, but space is limited and not totally sure how it would look, plus would need to consider the height of the top of the stair and the doorway/rest of the basement floor. 3. Keep it there and install flooring over it, I'm thinking vinyl would be the best choice, but still worried how that would look and it definitely limits my flooring options. Anyone have any thoughts?

No, his mom probably would have been very angry with him.

LOL now that is a millenial story right there. Even though I'm only 29, I have to catch myself with some of the interns/new college grads that they are adapting to corporate culture for the first time. But man, I sure wonder how some parents did their jobs at points.... I have a new college grad that started at the beginning of the year. A guy on my team is also called Russ, so I nicknamed him Smarter Russ. The new grad starts to say "so does that make you d..." I cut him off and said, "you finish that sentence and it's a career limiting move." His mom is a VP at the company who is no nonsense, kind of expected him to not be so socially dumb.

I just had a guy 3 months ago show up for his start date (he was a contractor), he worked the first day. I go home, get a call from physical security at 6:30pm saying his bag and laptop are with them. I'm confused as all hell, but I go in that next morning, pick his stuff up and he doesn't show up at all. I call our contract staff office, they reach out to his vendor and this dude is claiming he lost his luggage on his flight in, so spent Tuesday getting it back. Alright, odd, but I can deal with that. He should have told us he was doing that but first day stuff, whatever. Well, the dude doesn't show up Wednesday either. We reach out to the vendor, turns out he flew back to Dallas (where he's from) without telling anyone, claiming he got fed up with the airline losing his bag. Now, I have no problem with him taking that 2nd day to get things settled, go buy some clothes at Kohls or something, or shoot just tell me you want to start over next week with fresh clothes and everything, totally would be ok with that. But instead that guy did quite possibly the weirdest thing he could do. The joys of managing contractors....I just had to fire a guy for travelling and working from China without telling anyone. I work in IT Security, you think we won't catch that or that it's ok to take company property into a country that will absolutely tinker with your machine?

This has been going on for years, but typically someone would accept a job and then just never show up at the office to start. It's why my team would never have an account go active until the manager did a day 1 activity saying someone showed up. By the way, that rule was in place before I started worked in 2010, for reference.

B>W, pretty sure if the nets aren't effective or seriously impact sales of tickets they can be brought down. But until a better safety measure can feasibly be installed, doesn't it make sense to do so?

How are your development skills? If you're a QA software engineer I would imagine you have a pretty decent tech background. Go do some temp/contract work, that market is so insane and Chicago is a great market for it. If you want to be your own boss you could pick up freelance work, there's always someone trying to build something and looking for a freelancer and now there are specific sites out there for those jobs. Get good at mobile dev, java, front end, something then do some projects to build up a portfolio (maybe do a local hackathon or something). We pay somewhere between $60-80/hr in the Milwaukee area for seasoned testers (that's to the vendor not sure what the tester makes). We pay java devs between 60-100/hr, and specialized product devs upwards of 200/hr (Sailpoint IIQ). You could look at becoming really good at a product like that and you can make BANK as a contractor.

My dad loooooves his A6, it's a pretty smooth ride.

If you're salaried: You get paid to get the job done. Work less hours but still productive? Not in trouble but don't expect much with your annual increase. Work less hours and less productive? Really expect less with annual increase. Work more and deliver more? Congratulations, you got a bigger paycheck. If you're hourly: Take a 2 hour lunch, I don't care as long as we have coverage during business hours. But if you bill for that time, you and I are going to have a chat.

I don't think that's just a millennial thing, I've seen other generations abuse WFH policies as much if not more than my millennial peers. I don't know how many times I've seen 40 year olds "work at home" only to really be kid sitting, and they should have taken PTO instead. I've hired amazing millennials and I've hired bad millennials. Some would go to the extreme of working crazy to learn so they can make an impact, others I will have a coaching conversation and 5 minutes later it's like it never happened. WFH should always be treated as a privilege and not a right, if you abuse it it will be taken away. I actually ask my employees and contractors to coach each other more on these types of things, have that chat with them first to course correct so it doesn't ever get to a point that it's totally taken away.

Good luck man, hope you get an offer! And don't worry about it man, if they are worried about coverage they could act on it now.

Jack I have no idea what you're going through from a personal standpoint with autism, but I will say as a manager I would find it infuriating if I had to break down every task for an employee and essentially micromanage their day. I have like 20 people working for me right now, when I feel that I have to micromanage I know it's going to fall apart because I simply can't afford to do that with my other responsibilities. Hopefully he/she gave you expectations and job training, but after that I personally would expect the employee to take it from there and hopefully feel empowered with that. What would help in your situation to avoid that?

Eh, sort of. Even when opportunities were limited, this situation is about someone having the opportunity to move to another role. Even during those days, one should always be looking out for themselves and should choose the situation that is best for them. Staying at a company may be the best most in that situation, but I've also seen people put 30 years into a company and get tossed out without hesitation (and they were not ready for that). You should always look out for yourself first, because a company very very rarely will.

Did you really just link to an article with no picture of the water bottle?

Illinois DE Bobby Roundtree had spinal surgery after a swimming incident. Sounds like he dove into too shallow water or something like that. He's a class act kid, really, really hope he's ok. Those injuries can be scary for his life much less football.

Sam tried to rep you.

Chernobyl has been solid so far as well. His Dark Materials looked amazing.

Yea some parts were frustrating, but whatever I wanted to enjoy it and did to an extent. Can't believe it's over, super excited to some day, in the far far future, read the books and the deeper detail in the story. This was and is a huge part of my life, there were highs and lows but it's been a journey I would do again and may still do all over again. Probably going to take a break from the series until the book comes out.

Ah Dubrovnik, beautiful city. They haven't filmed at that "King's Landing" for a few seasons now fyi, not excusing it but they've changed location a lot.

Don't stop him now, he's on a roll. But in all seriousness Chili, if you're going to start questioning so much you should probably just watch the show and see why people got so into it. Picking apart a battle scene is just silly at this point, even with actual faults their fighting scenes are not what made this one of the most popular shows ever.

That seems like a very StrangeSox answer lol