Hey, you can do whatever you do, and in the context of your world maybe this is all low risk, but I would gently counsel that you need to work on establishing better employee/employer boundaries with this individual.
I totally agree. It’s been difficult due to pandemic stuff. I’m “this close” to saying fuck it and retiring earlier than I’d prefer.
Meanwhile, I just got an email from a buddy who never uses email asking if I could do him a big favor and purchase a gift card from Amazon for his niece’s birthday because his credit card was declined and the bank will take a few days to fix the problem.
He has no niece. He is probably the most wealthy person I’m friends with.
So I sent him a text and he tells me I’m the third person to inform him he’s been hacked.
He Acts like an ogre earns you more sympathy.
No One here is flexing abs on GQ or posing on a beach for the SI swimsuit edition.
There is no excuse for his actions, but concentrating on looks alone just makes you seem like one of John Cusack’s “fluffy bunny” cartoon varsity players & cheerleaders trying to justify harassing people who look ‘just plain normal’.
Again, not realizing that “no means no” is creepy.
Shouting, “Burn him/her! They look like an ogre/witch!” Just As Creepy.
I had a wisdom tooth removed last week. Damn incision aches enough that I have to perfectly time the pain killers or I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t take another until I get some food in my stomach, which wakes up the dogs who then whine to go out, all of which wakes me up sufficiently that I can’t go back to sleep.
On the positive side I can’t wear the cpap which I hate more than anything else in this world.
Sooooooo, somewhat curious to me that the SDMB does not engage in recreational chitter-chatter about the stock market. Yes, we have had factual/opinion discussions about what to do with money, and such like that. I suppose there are other boards for that. And it is understood that everybody here is experiencing their own financial situation up/down good/bad so not everyone has an interest…caveat caveat caveat.
But for those of us relying on the market to provide for us in our dotage, can I just say…Hey, stock market, you’ve had your little fun, it would be really great if you got back to a more stable position, yah?
That is all.
That’s an interesting observation, @Icarus, and true. I think part of it is a general American middle-class reluctance to openly discuss individual wealth. Another factor may be the anonymity many prefer here on the SDMB - investment strategies tend to be VERY personal among a lot of people and I am sure, most prefer not coming here to, again, defend their positions in Bitcoin. Or Bank of America. Or whatever.
Ugh, that would be quite horrible, really. Watch in real time as a fellow Doper made bad investment after bad investment? Naw, not interested.
Yeah, without getting into anyone’s specifics, we could at the very least root for good times, and “boo” at bad times.
I would just suggest to Panicky Investors who sell off stocks on the slightest pretext (one company’s earnings are less than expected, the Fed might do this or that, the planet Uranus is entering a dynamic phase vis-a-vis Alpha Centauri) that they stop fucking around with my retirement account and find another hobby, like Russian roulette.
Yep, the Pamplona style running for the exits ends up trampling a lot of innocents.
Hey, go ahead and start a stock market thread. Or maybe “How are your investments doing?”
Me, I don’t worry about stock fluctuations if I don’t have to sell any shares in the next month. Which I never do… they’ll all just sit there for the next decade or two (some has for forty years!).
That said, I do “pull up my carrots every day to see if they’re still growing”. Apple stock’s taken a beating in January, but still worth many times what it was a decade ago, so I’m not complaining.
I’ve had an unusual number of expenses this month, on the principle that we’re all familiar with: if you have a sudden run of expenses, it’s guaranteed that anything more that will break is guaranteed to break that same month! My son is moving and needed financial help, I had a ton of unexpected expenses, my smoke detectors are still not replaced and howl at me periodically, and now my main UPS is screeching at me more or less daily. Even when it’s not screeching, it looks at me accusingly with a glaring red eye that says “replace battery”. The battery place is about 40 miles away but I need to do a pickup because I want to return the old battery and I’m not going to pay a fortune for postal costs both ways (those things are damned heavy!).
Meanwhile I suspect that if there’s any kind of power failure my most important desktop computer probably isn’t protected.
An “I Pit the Fucking Stock Market” thread might be worthwhile. 
My son called me up late last night wanting me to come get him from a large city two hours distant, where he claimed to have been stranded by his girlfriend. He wasn’t very nice about it when I didn’t leap at the opportunity. Then he called my mother, same. Sometime after midnight he called again from the police station, having been arrested. This morning he was released without bail and his girlfriend brought him home and now all is hunky-dory again for those two morons.
His grandmother and I have probably lost a year off our lives. This is the reason my cell phone ringtone is horror-themed.
The baby has COVID. I am done with this planet. I’m moving to Mars.
I’ll move too… and I can help with the baby!
(The houses are small, but the lots are huge. Some say the commute is tough, but they’re just wusses. Oh, and the people who tell you they’re thinking of moving there for the atmosphere are sadly mistaken.)
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Seriously, soooo sorry! Prayers, and I’m beaming Healthiness rays at baby.
Let us know how things are going.
Mars aint the kid of place to raise your kids. In fact it’s cold as hell.
Is there Life On Mars?
Just saw this in the Beautiful Music thread. A haunting solo piano cover by Aurora.
On one of my first cell phones, I figured out how to program the Exorcist theme song into it.
(That was back in the day when you couldn’t download ring tones, but on my phone you could create one like writing a MIDI song.)