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- employees used to steal Steve’s license plates as a joke so that’s why he was always leasing cars. The maximum grace period for getting plates was six months so he’d change Mercedes every six months.

- Steve used to park in the handicap spot up front at IL1.

- there was gourmet chocolate milk for Steve stashed in the back of refrigerators at Cafe Macs. Yes I know he was vegan but I questioned the story as well. Apparently it was a secret indulgence only a few knew about.

- he had his own connection from PAIX (Palo Alto Internet Exchange) to his house.

- he had his own mail server at Apple.

- an employee with the corporate email steve@ before Steve’s return was asked to give up his email address for Steve.

- Steve had his own personal IS&T person to go to his house or work on things for him. On average they lasted a few months before Steve asked that tech be fired (for whatever reason), and HR just shuffled them somewhere else in the company.

- if you were in an elevator with Steve after coming back from a smoke break, you were likely in deep shit and probably out of a job.

I remember using an old company directory tool app for employees and looking up Steve. It said he report to Woz. When you looked up Woz, it said he reported to Steve.

Tacoma is now being called Tacompton. It’s that bad.

My mental health has deteriorated to a point where it’s difficult to juggle work and family responsibilities. I put family first and work second. But the people I work with don’t know or care that I can’t work on something because I’m home stuck taking care of family trapped in quarantine hell. When I do tell them some change their tone.

I’m suffering from the fact that when I work, I give it 100%. Any less and I feel like a failure. I’ve had blips at work where I’ve threatened to my boss that I can’t work there anymore because I can’t give it 100%. I don’t want to put myself in a situation where I get fired. I’d rather leave on my own terms and let someone who can do my job at their 100% in.

It’s not my job’s fault for my home arrangement. They’ve gone above and beyond to give me support and work with me. At the same time there’s no support from our government to help me with assistance should I decide I can’t work anymore.

Our government has failed on a lot and it doesn’t matter if it’s Trump or Biden. There’s too much red tape and too much looking out for big businesses and not enough to help people.

Seeing that they worked on investment presentations tells me Robin might be a fraud out the gate.

Grifters grift you by being your buddy and not some sketchy person selling you a used Rolex hanging on the inside of a trench coat.

I remember telling my dad in 97 to buy $100k worth of AAPL because Steve Jobs was coming back and he was going to turn things around.

Would be $78m today. :-/

It’s pretty ridiculous that this happens in our day and age that money buys you longevity at the expense of other peoples suffering.

You need an ID to drive, buy alcohol/tobacco, get on an airplane, get state/federal benefits, apply for a bank account or loan, but somehow you aren’t required to prove your identity when voting everywhere in this country.

I’m not Gen Z nor are my friends, but they sometimes make me feel like they fall into this bucket of “should I check on them more often?” for the two items I laid out above.

Deep down I’m blaming social media for the increase in suicide amongst younger kids. It’s a pony show to them and they all want to outdo each other.

I went to a pumpkin patch over the weekend and two late teen girls spent an hour or so trying to get the best photos holding sunflowers. The place I was at let you pick your own sunflowers. These two girls were dressed up and proceeded to set up a camera stand for one of their cell phones that had a ring light around it. They spent that time trying to get the best photo to post to their IG pages and TikTok.

I get it that maybe they want to work on photography, but they spent way more effort and time than they should have when they were debating what to post to IG and TikTok.

::shrug::

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I’m almost at the point where I’ll give them alternating Friday’s off individually. One person will get a Friday off, then the next Friday the other employee, etc etc.

It’s slow for us.

I think the Post Office makes an excellent choice (in theory) for banking. There’s almost one post office in every town, it can have better rates than traditional banks (through legislation or rules), and could be just as safe as a traditional bank.

Then again the government will kneecap this somehow and fail the program.

It’s so big and so organized, they can come up with an idea for a new service or policy they want to implement and it takes roughly two weeks to get all the channels to approve and move forward on the idea. Implementation is different, this is just getting all the approvals from legal, finance, marketing, etc..

They are definitely in a position to make changes quickly should they need to.

I only know of a handful of Saas apps they didn’t build internally. Sadly none of those will help them get out of this situation.

Marijuana was highly scrutinized in his publications because hemp (relative to marijuana) competed with his paper mills that he owned.

Low and behold, marijuana and hemp become illegal to grow in the United States because of the fear of people getting high.

Contacted support and had it escalated. I opted to not wipe and reinstall my phone. Every major release from Apple has had something important get nerfed and I wasn’t going to do it this time. It’s Apple it should just work.

I’m on iOS 15.1 beta 2 and magically the AirTags are back.

Tier 1 and tier 2 couldn’t help. They wanted me to start all over. Nope.

However a friend who had one of my tags for a couple of days gets the notification that my tag was with them and to tap to contact the owner.

So it’s likely anyone could have cash with traces of narcotics on it and tip off a dog.

Didn’t they also find that a majority of the drug dogs get signals from handlers to act like they found something? Seems like they find stashes of cash and use the trace amounts of drugs on money or the “trick the dog into signaling” technique to cash in.