Congrats fellow union workers!

I’ve been on both sides of it. While not super regular, I’d say it’s not uncommon. Discussing it openly isn’t.

My buddy went to Amsterdam and had the restraint to only get handjobs and has never otherwise gone behind his wife’s back. I’d be surprised if any of my other friends did anything. One couple has guests over for mutual threesomes, so no need for infidelity for them. I know my ex hooked up with another female despite knowing she had a bf. People are ok with lowering their standards when an opportunity presents itself.

Oh yeah. In 2020, when I saw how awful a huge part of my fellow citizens acted.

Thanks, but it was so long ago that it doesn’t matter to me anymore.

You’re fucked you should give up. That was sarcasm.

You’re fine, friend. I know the feeling. I dropped out of high school when some credits weren’t gonna transfer and I was gonna graduate late. I got my GED and started college classes during the second semester of my senior year. Guess what? I didn’t finish that either. I work in tech, where you can be self-taught and make a nice living; that isn’t true for most industries, I’m just saying there’s no requirement that we approach education as a cookie cutter absolute.

You know who else is graduating late? People your age who took a year off to travel abroad. People who had tuition struggles. People who fell on hard times and had to take time off. People who had a family member get sick and they had to care for them. Literally tons of people.

You’re frustrated and that’s valid. But it’s really a very small issue in the grand scheme of your life. You’re also at an age where things like that feel more important than they really are. Keep your head down. Study. Use the extra time this summer to try to get some experience at an internship or work on some way of furthering your knowledge in your field so you can be first out of the gate when you graduate. Get a tutor if you think that will help. You got this.

My gf was finishing a semester before she was to move out to California with me. I awoke to a butt-dial voicemail of her dry-humping a guy. She tried to say it wasn’t what it was. I transferred the audio to my computer and sent it to her (online, but in 2002, so I think it still applies to the question cause we didn’t have voip and such). She couldn’t defend it. I never spoke to her again.

Our working meeting for VDI (VMare Horizon) had literally nothing to do, which is rare. We joined the meeting and were done in three minutes.

TIL.

Ending a case that electrified punctuation pedants, grammar goons and comma connoisseurs, Oakhurst Dairy settled an overtime dispute with its drivers that hinged entirely on the lack of an Oxford comma in state law.

Oxford Comma Dispute Is Settled as Maine Drivers Get $5 Million

For it. Its lack of use in a union contract was a factor in a court ruling some years back. That’s when it went from pedantry to real-world consequence for me. Something was ruled similar to A and B rather than A or B.

Oxford Comma.

I can’t repeat it because it was racist af but surprisingly clever (I know, racism isn’t clever, it’s ignorant).

Every day, at some point, I think of three things for which I’m grateful.

The Catholic Church.

Possibly Clarence Darrow?

Work to develop emotional stability and security in being oneself. For me, that was many years of therapy learning to love myself. I got there in 2019, but the work continues. I’m the healthiest, mentally and emotionally, that I’ve ever been in my life. I truly did not believe I could ever make it as far as I have on this journey.

Partner and kitties. When they (kitties) aren’t screaming at me while I’m on the phone for work while wfh. So fucking rude. That’s sarcasm. No one seems able to infer it anymore.

Planet from the Daft Punk video with the blue aliens was going through an apocalypse. I woke up crying.

Not quite one and a half megabytes. Otherwise, one point three two.

Seek help from a trusted adult. Teacher, parent of a friend that you trust, wherever you can.