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The Mistle-Tones. It’s so bad, and I love it so much! It’s a family tradition now to get high and watch it every year, and it’s my favorite tradition.

The tide will destroy my sandcastle and it’ll be forgotten, but it can’t take that I did it anyways.

I love this so much.

In a comment you mentioned you’re the team lead. Maybe you already are, but just in case: stop thinking about it in terms of the individual personal relationship and start thinking about it in terms of the team dynamic. It’s unlikely this only affects you, so even if their individual work performance is fine, does their behavior affect other people’s performance or happiness at work? If it’s affecting others negatively it’s your responsibility to protect them and their work output, even if that means finding a new team for this person or documenting a path to letting them go altogether.

I don’t envy you. Good luck.

@trias10

I get that. It makes logical sense. It’s just that corporations have so much power to impose their will and it feels weird to me that we let them do that even when it comes to how a human presents themself.

I agree, but then I started thinking “why the hell do I think it’s so reasonable for a corporation to strip away the humanity of its employees” and I’m not sure where I’ve landed now.

Same. I wish we had the infrastructure and protections to not need them to though.

Lego Batman. If you haven’t seen it, go; go now.

I’ve always used the version “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” Didn’t know there were so many ways to say it!

There’s something interesting in here about the persistence of legacy systems that I can’t quite put my finger on. Rest assured I will be consumed by the thought for the remainder of the day.

My guess is to get better pricing at their bank for the ACH they’re probably already using and reduce the CC network fees they’re paying. Just a guess though.

The most permanent solution is jank that works.