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krista4 said:
Oh.  Your house is fantastic - are you actually having trouble selling?  
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It's been on the market three weeks. We have had showings, but no offers. Meanwhile, my brother and his wife listed their house and got multiple offers and sold over asking price in five days. Their house is right in the sweet spot of the price curve though. Ours is substantially higher than that and that means the potential pool of buyers is a lot shallower.

 
RedmondLonghorn said:
It's been on the market three weeks. We have had showings, but no offers. Meanwhile, my brother and his wife listed their house and got multiple offers and sold over asking price in five days. Their house is right in the sweet spot of the price curve though. Ours is substantially higher than that and that means the potential pool of buyers is a lot shallower.
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Yeah, that's what I figured, given how huge the house is.  Did you buy the other one already?

 
So, the first job interview in a while was....."interesting."  More than anything, I just need to parse this, so I'm writing it out.  Feel free to ignore.

TLDR:  I think I was called in to interview with a place just because they wanted to show off their building.  Either I'm a lot more of a crotchety old dude than I thought(possible, but unlikely), or millennials really are just vapid, #######s with no sense of awareness of anything beyond their phone.

Place is billing itself as a "nascent technology company"(that's bull#### speak for "software startup").  It can call itself "tech company" as much as it wants, but it won't change they fact that they're really a marketing firm.  However, don't tell all the hoodies in the board room that(I guess).

Anyway, I stroll in the front door to Hot####rocketdoggrambook and it's an awesome space.  Everything looks pristine and new(and it is. Only been around about 10 months).  Imagine some nerds dream of what they THINK some Silicone Valley firm resembles(so, what a real one looks like with about 150% more tropes added) and you're probably pretty close to a visual.  Bullpen type work area, but with "open cubies"(####### hate that people call them that.  It's a freaking desk behind some plexiglass) around the outside of the work area and a few glass enclosed corner offices.  They make a point to take me around and note that "this is where our executive chef would normally be(he's on vacation)", and "here's our gym, with part-time personal trainer", "here's our podcast room", "here's our soundstage where we capture all the video for our digital media", etc, etc.  My tour guides(the hiring manager and a lead dev) were very polite....and quite clearly could not give a flying uckfey about the fact they were supposed to be interviewing me.  Like they were killing time to avoid it.  Something's off here, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

Finally get around to the sit down portion of the show and I realize that the creative director isn't even going to be involved....which makes less than zero sense given, you know, I'm interviewing for a senior creative position.  I asked about that and they said we'd meet him in a bit(Which, sure enough we did I literally saw the guy for 3 seconds.  Shook my hand, refused to make eye contact and retreated to his desk.  Nice to meet me, I guess?).  

Anyway, we go through the question and answer portion of the thing.  I'm interviewing them more than they are interviewing me....and it's clear they don't know how to react to that.  I answer all their questions.  They answer mine with other questions.  :eyeroll:  We finish up and on the way out they walk me around to introduce a few other people and I notice what's been bugging me the whole time.  Everyone in this place, save one guy, are about as morose of a group as I've ever seen.  Everyone looks like someone just shot their dog.  No one is interacting with anyone else.  And I'm not talking the "Well, it may have been a long day" kind of look. They look legitimately sad.  I'm wondering if I showed up on a day that someone at the office actually slipped loose the mortal coil at this point.

Hiring manager briefly told me that she'd be forwarding along some items for me to check out.  She's yet to do so, but when I DO finally get a hold of them a reply is expected.....and I'm trying to decide if I need to flat out ask "So, was that the typical vibe around the office?" just to see if I can find out of Willie the Janitor hung himself or not.  Because if that's not the case, they better start checking everyone's "urban satchel" for razor blades.

 
Wife: "Don't you think there's an old person somewhere who would be ecstatic to see their Cubs just win this one?"

WTF? You lived to be old, apparently. Don't be so effin greedy. Man, even hypothetical Cubs "fans" are the worst.

 
Bob Sacamano said:
Wife: "Don't you think there's an old person somewhere who would be ecstatic to see their Cubs just win this one?"

WTF? You lived to be old, apparently. Don't be so effin greedy. Man, even hypothetical Cubs "fans" are the worst.
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I've already stated this, but one of my greatest sport joys of life is the Cubs breaking the century mark when it comes to World Series futility. 

Now I've gotten to the point that I don't care if they win it. Too many people that I know and love will be happy when it happens.

However, if in 10 years from now I hear that the oldest person on the planet has died at age 117, and that means no one that is living on this earth was alive the last time the Cubs won the World Series..... 

That just humors me to no end for some reason. 

 
Limp Ditka said:
I've already stated this, but one of my greatest sport joys of life is the Cubs breaking the century mark when it comes to World Series futility. 

Now I've gotten to the point that I don't care if they win it. Too many people that I know and love will be happy when it happens.

However, if in 10 years from now I hear that the oldest person on the planet has died at age 117, and that means no one that is living on this earth was alive the last time the Cubs won the World Series..... 

That just humors me to no end for some reason. 
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Weak

 
Sconch said:
Probably...but there were some serious hints back then.  I mean she actually seemed mad that I Trumped her fun bags.  Chicks line up for that treatment from me.
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In 8th grade I was in a group of Baptist youth on a beach outing. In the water, a wave shoved me into Vickie Jones and I accidentally grabbed one of her enormous boobs. Our eyes locked immediately and she called me a queer. I felt glorious, ashamed and extremely confused all at the same time 

 
proninja said:
Been a long day. I'm admitted now and nobody is quite sure what's causing the abscess that is causing a lot of pain. I'll update tomorrow when I'm not so wiped. 
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I thought things were bad when my son had surgery on his shvantz on Wednesday (no shtick but all is well, no TPW for us please, was just hoping to get a smile out of ninja). Best wishes man. 

 
Well ####, nothing like being there pages behind and inappropriately posting in the midst of Proninja's crisis.

All the best thoughts PrN.

 
Imgur now blocked at work. Which reminds me....

In January, our crack IT squad sent out a fake phishing email, with plenty of clues indicating it was not legit. The link included was clicked by 19% of our employees. This caused great consternation, and mandatory training for everyone, not just the ones who clicked. 

In September, they sent another email, which snared 29% of employees. :lmao:

Enjoy your Friday,  GMTAN. 

 
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