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Cake day: August 25th, 2023

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  • I work for shitty companies and just take like 8x longer to do tasks. That’s the only way I kinda justify it.

    I’m pretty sure everyone I work with is doing it too, because our velocity has become normal/expected now.

    Also for the ones constantly monitoring your “available” status, proper mouse jigglers are great for when you want to take a looooong lunch or watch TV.

    I also got a cheap used phone for logging in to employer Teams or Slack so I can pretend to be at a computer even if I’m at the store grocery shopping or at the bar drinking.

    edit: Similar to another comment, I use the money for my community. Donating to food banks, buying clothing to donate, I recently donated a couple of computers to people who needed them, a few monitors, a cellphone, I helped my friend pay off their medical debt, etc.

    I couldn’t do that without the money these jobs pay. If I’m still meeting expectations but it isn’t detrimental to my mental health and I can take their money and do good, I call that a win.













  • The only one I typically go to these days is taco bell because I like the flavor and homemade any of it doesn’t taste the same no matter how hard I try. I do make tacos at home often, it still isn’t exactly the same (good but different). With the mobile app that I run in a sandbox the prices also aren’t the worst in the world and the rewards for free food stack fast.

    But burger king is garbage, and I say that as a former BK customer. I think it has gone extremely downhill in the last 5-10 years and the prices have also gone up. It just doesn’t make sense anymore. I got a griddle at home and can relatively easily cook up some tasty frozen patties seasoned just how I like.

    Same for KFC, Wendy’s, Arby’s, and Carl’s Jr. KFC flavor and quality seems to have gone downhill. Wendy’s is exceptionally expensive typically. Arby’s is not only expensive but I feel the quality has also gone down. Carl’s Jr seems to be roughly the same, but the prices have gone up and the one near me is typically slow so you can tell the patty you end up with has been drying under a heat lamp for hours.

    Everything at McDonald’s tastes too processed and sugary to me, unsure why (and one would think I’d have a similar response to TB…)

    Anyway…long story short I probably go when I go because of an attempt at nostalgia or fast convenience - but not to save money or for quality.