Customary? Yes.
Reasonable? That’s far more complicated. Really depends on your own values
Customary? Yes.
Reasonable? That’s far more complicated. Really depends on your own values


The smart move is: don’t get your honey where you make your money.
Jane is not interested in an intimate relationship with you. She is being a polite and considerate coworker looking for support from a friendly face. Help her without turning it into more than super and teamwork, and it will eventually just turn into a deeper relationship if she really is into you. If not, then it was never going to anyway.
John is your subordinate. He is reaching out to you with trust for support in this time, but he ultimately cannot get the support he needs in his romantic/personal life from work. If the only thing keeping him there is her then he should leave, and you should support him there. Either make it a place he wants to work at outside of his (AND YOUR) romantic interests or use your professional resources to find him something that is a better fit.
You need to be very careful with both these dynamics.
What would you rather have here: someone looking to build interdepartment trust and friendship and a subordinate who wants to be at work, or a subordinate who feels like you don’t care about him and a coworker who feels like you think so highly of yourself that every girl who talks to you wants to date you?
There is no third option where you get the girl and fix the kid in the situation as you describe it.


There is exponentially more wealth in the system than there is currency printed to back it. That is not where the value of our economy comes from. Trade produces wealth, whether from labor or production. Currency just makes trade simpler.


Fast car still chokes me up


This article is wild…
The driver of a vehicle was being chased by cbp for giving brown people a ride in his car, stopped and let a bunch of people escape from his car then fled AND ESCAPED(?)
Later(?), cbp ghetto bird found the same exact vehicle being driven by this guy and chased him until he got out of his car and opened fire on the chopper(?)… then the officer in the chopper pursued him on foot(?) when a firefight erupted between the two and guy was shot.
You’ll have to forgive me if, due to recent events, I find the credibility of the CBP to be in the negative, especially with such a disconnected story.
Can we have some body cam footage to prove this shooting was justified?
Until then, I’m afraid it was just another federal assault/attempted murder on a US Citizen.


Shouldn’t they be training to invade a certain house of the white persuasion? Something something foreign and domestic…


I’d probably go back to around 2000 and tell myself that my stupid decisions were going to catch up to me in about 24 years, and they will definitely cost me the relationship I have with only person in this world who had ever genuinely loved me, and that it will drive her mad and she will react in a most brutal and callous way.
I would remind myself that the way I think other people are feeling is almost always wrong, to some degree, and that i should listen better to her about her feelings while I still have a chance to salvage what was once true love.
I would explain that, if I’m not careful, I will misinterpret everything she says about her feelings, and i will lose all my friends and hobbies, one by one, trying to be someone for her that she doesn’t even want.
I would describe the way it feels to be with her, then illustrate the way it will feel when she starts dating other guys while you beg her to please work with you on your relationship, and that it would already be too late no matter how much you want it to work.
I would suggest that, if I decide to proceed while ignoring all my other advice, then I should at least not buy a house with her in 2023 when she is so insistent. Just hold out for one more year before making that mistake.
She wanted to be my forever person, and i didn’t know how to deserve that. We were fucking teenagers when we got together, and neither of us knew how to be. We were just spitballing.
And I’m a fucken dumdum.
I probably wouldn’t listen to me anyway


Before the toilet, there was Little Big Skibidi
This will probably actually make it more confusing, but it’s still worth it, and it’s a Brazillion times better than skibidi toilet could ever dream…
Yo dawg we are winning so hard bro I hope we keep winning and win harder!!!