I say weird shit and half the time I actually believe it.

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  • The problem with most companies is that they are not led by people with clear visions.

    Companies that succeed typically start with a clear vision. However, once that vision is fulfilled, then it starts to become run by people who are simply trying to make money.

    Chasing after money becomes the vision, and that is how you get to the way things are in America today.

    Having a vision often times means having goals that you’re willing to lose money if it gets you closer to achieving them.

    That being said, ratuer than voting for your paycheck, something that is much more straightforward and less prone to being taken advantage of would be having set wages based on years of experience and time with the company.

    include an opportunity to earn extra during the year by going above and beyond while making it clear that this is not expected of the people at their current job role.

    Going above and beyond would be determined by your boss on recommendation, and they would have a limited number of recommendations every year.

    Another thing you could do would be to publish what everybody earns on a website that is internal to the company, and make the going above and beyond rewards part of your annual meeting or something so nobody would know if they’re going to get an above and beyond reward until then.

    Then to actually make it a good thing, you would need to make it a rule to fire the people that do not meet their performance metrics, at least after a set number of times or like failing to fulfill a pip or something.





  • Relatively is carrying a lot of weight there.

    Their 28-year-old son may not have much to do with the fact that they are having another kid, but that fully grown adult man is still a part of the family and should count for something.

    There’s no need to just completely and totally toss him out of the equation.

    Especially when you consider that there is a possibility, depending on the age of the girlfriend, that both of them could die before this child reaches the age of majority, in which case, he would likely need to step in to finish the job.



  • It’s amazing the lengths people will go to to avoid a difficult conversation.

    Whether you like it or not, you are a part of the total equation and if you have issues with it, you should try to communicate your concerns with all relevant people.

    Once you have communicated your concerns, It’s not your problem anymore.

    People don’t have to listen, don’t have to do what you tell them to do, and they don’t have to take your concerns into consideration.

    If they choose to do something stupid that’s on them.










  • Early on in their first game, my players suffered a T.P.K.

    A squadron of horrible die rolls killed all three party members in their first battle.

    I’m talking skeletons rolling nat 20s against level 3 characters who kept rolling twos and threes for the entire battle.

    But they didn’t die.

    Instead, they awoke to find themselves in front of the BBEG who enslaved them with a cursed crest and then sent them out to scour the world for a specific list of objects where they were contractually bound to be released once they delivered them all.

    This effectively let me railroad the campaign just enough to get the party started.

    (This is what I would be saying if I had realized that I could do this immediately instead of staring slackjawed in disbelief as 30 minutes into a well-planned campaign, every single party member died and then accused me of being too hard of a GM and… yeah.)


  • One trick that helped me is that psychopaths tend to frame things in an either or, where the either is, you do what they want you to do, and the or is, you are a horrible person.

    When you find that yourself in that situation, always pick the horrible person option.

    What they think of you doesn’t fucking matter.

    Once they realize that they can’t manipulate you, they’ll get bored and move on.



  • Additionally, if your smart TV requires an internet connection in order to be set up in the first place, use the hotspot on your phone with a new SSID, and set it up, and then change the SSID on your phone.

    After that, it should work without an internet connection, and it’ll spend all of its time attempting to connect to an internet connection that is no longer there.