Keep everyone, and I mean everyone including senior management and directors, on task, on track, and all pointing in the same direction.

Good ones keep scope creep in check, and make sure decisions made last week are adhered to today.

The problem is there are a lot of not great PM’s, and a lot of management that run roughshod over PM’s.

“Steak holders” lol, autoincorrect got you, but at least it’s funny.

And I agree - good PM’s are incredible. Bad PM’s are useless.

Ooh, ah, thinner sliders, background blur in quick settings.

Quit fucking around, and give us real changes. Like letting us fully disable immersive apps (I’d like to see my status bar in maps, thank you very much), fix the worthless waste of space oval quick settings, which I just stopped using because they’re now useless. I went and loaded a sidebar app, because it works so much better than the now pointless quick settings.

And let users adjust a lot more stuff, like for accessibility. I can’t imaging handing a new phone to someone with vision or motor issues. I hit the wrong thing all the time, and I don’t have either issue.

Oh, bringing color back to the status bar, but only for Google icons? Can I please have the color back like I had, oh 15 years ago? So I know who messaged me by the color of the icon?

Keep on dumbing things down, while also making them more opaque.

This is great news.

As an early Android user, the F-Droid app is challenging enough that I don’t recommend it to people, because I don’t have the time to hold their hand everyday. This is unfortunate as F-Droid repositories are the easiest way for non-technical people to get more privacy-friendly apps.

I dunno, I’ve listened to some Middle English on a History of English podcast, and could follow along only slightly. I’m sure I could come up to speed quickly, since it at least has the French influence already (if I remember right).

I’m not familiar with the great vowel shift, is that a result of the Norman invasion in 1066, adding French into Old English? (That’s the sequence, right? It’s been a while since I read about it).

Fyi… Typo in title

Funny, I got the reference on the very first line though!

It’s pretty simple, the candidate didn’t meet the requirements.

Not sure why you’re involved, this is an HR and legal issue. If HR said they don’t have docs showing eligibility, then that needs to be reported to the recruiter, otherwise they’re going to recommend this person to somewhere else, and run into the same issue. How would you feel if you were in their shoes?

Whether someone can legally work somewhere is not your problem to solve, unless you can actually do something, like help them submit appropriate paperwork (I’ve done this for employees who were temps, to help them get more permanent status).

This is all HR’s problem, not anyone else’s. It’s what HR is for.

Not sure why they’re punting it back to you.

Well, first I’d have to learn Old English, I think. Hell, even Middle English isn’t understandable.

Hopefully I could get up to speed before they locked me up, or worse.

I think there may be scale elements to these too. The chart I had included scale.

They are?

Is there a study on this?

I’ve seen a diagrammatic chart showing the difference, but damned if I can find it on my phone.

Starbucks is burnt crap with a bunch of cream and sugar added so people can’t tell

1. Define “toxic”

Have you listened to any sports commentators? They all talk about <insert current game on tv> as if it’s the most important, world-changing event ever, and every little detail had some significance.

My god, baseball is a game for (as Brits would say) boffins. Fans of the game could put meth-head ravers to sleep. I’ve worked on more exciting spreadsheets for business planning.

And football has become just as bad, with the incessant pre-game/post-game commentary examining every nuance of a play - “I’m pretty sure if the inner aglet of his left shoe had moved the other way, we’d be talking about a completely different game”.

Bread and circuses, appealing to our base nature. The difference between WWE and “actual” sports on tv is only a matter of degree.

This seems relevant.

Excellent approach, putting that in my book of tools.

I’d also be sure to ask the second person to finish what they were trying to say after person 1 was done.

There are 2 reasons:

1. Never know if they have a different perspective or other ideas. They may also have thought of something while listening.

2. In the help desk world you learn these kinds of people get worse when they get shut down. If you actively engage them (even if you don’t really want to), they’ll feel heard, and maybe be less likely to feel compelled to interrupt. Plus you come across as a Good Guy® at work.

And they stole this from Young Frankenstein, which got it from vaudeville. At least Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, and Richard Pryor knew where they got it from.

The same ones you’d use with a wire.

WiFi is just Wireless Fidelity… A play on HiFi. It’s just a wireless equivalent of wired ethernet. You still have an IP address, you still have a router (without a router only one device in your house could connect to the internet, typically your wireless access point is a combination router with a wireless access point in it).

More than boomers entered the workforce - much of GenX did too

Can’t fight for shit with OP’s attitude.

OP needs perspective and needs to read stuff like Studs Terkel. Hardship takes on a whole new meaning.