Hell, I’m a guy and I don’t know anything about mens fashion!
Honestly that’s probably true about me too. 
I, OTOH, am extremely fashionable and dress accordingly. My standard fashionable apparel is blue jeans with a hole in one knee due to where I tripped on a curb two years ago while returning a cardiac halter monitor to my doctor (thanks, doc!), a T-shirt from Mentour Pilot that shows a primary flight display with the aircraft apparently upside down and the legend “this is how I roll”, and a baseball cap with the legend “Real Time with Bill Maher”. I suspect the only reason I’ve not yet appeared on the cover of GQ is that I haven’t been discovered yet.
My sister and BIL (who has Parkinson’s) moved to Gulf Shores, AL in autumn 2023. I am here visiting them from no. Illinois. I love seeing my sister, but what a waste of time and money. My sister hasn’t felt good and my BIL does nothing except sit in his chair and watch Fox News at decibel level 1,000 and make rambling comments in a voice louder than the tv. He is fully mobile but has chosen to do nothing. My sister kowtows to him. Fortunately my niece also lives her and the only fun times I’ve had are with her. My sister lives about 8 miles from the beach in a completely white bread cookie cutter subdivision.
IF I come here again I will rent something ON the beach.
Uhh, I just looked at the happy couple’s wedding registry.
The bridal shower provided registry information on the back. Am I supposed to get a thing for the bridal shower and for the wedding? It’s all household stuff. Then there’s a confusing message at the bottom of the registry, that says, “Please refrain from wrapping gifts, as they will be displayed. Instead, kindly include a card indicating who the gift is from.”
Does that mean I’m supposed to show up with something physical? But the registry they directed me to ships to them.
What am I doing? Help.
I suppose faking your own death is out of the question…
I don’t usually post in the Pit, but I need to complain about coworkers overusing “Reply All”. My manager sent out an email to the entire team to ask which features of a certain piece of software software everyone is using, so they can budget for how many licenses they need to buy for this year. Now my inbox is getting flooded with everyone’s responses, as everyone (except me) is using Reply All to respond. Guys, I don’t need to know what features you are using. Our manager is the only person who requires that information.
This happens pretty much every time a team-wide email goes out. Last week there was one that went “Hey everyone, check to make sure you can access this Sharepoint page”, and I was flooded with a dozen “Yes, I can access it” replies as everyone used Reply All to respond.
Fuck yes. Drives me bananas. I remember an incident almost 20 years ago (holy shit time flies) where I was working at a massive worldwide corporation, and someone sent an inspirational PowerPoint presentation 1MB in size called “good luck”, but it was sent to the entire company. Keep in mind, that was over 40,000 recipients because it was a huge company. And that was bad enough, but multiple people hit “reply all” asking the original sender not to send something like that.
The result? Our mail server was so overloaded that it was inoperable for a day and a half. The entire, massive company had crippled communications. I can’t even imagine how much lost revenue was involved. After that incident some new policies were put into place restricting how many people could be emailed at once, and only a few specific people who were designated as communications folks could do mass emails.
This is why my mass emails I send at work (which I do on occasion as the IT guy) are always sent with everyone in the BCC. That way the “reply all” just goes to me. There is no exception. I’ve found it works so much better. If I’m sending a message to more than a half dozen people, that is what I do. I wish everyone else did that, but at least I’m not contributing to the problem.
Yes, both, although if you don’t attend the shower you may not need to get a shower gift - I’m not sure on that one. Usually the shower gift is smaller/less expensive than the wedding gift.
I think they just meant don’t have Amazon gift-wrap the gift. That’s what I think. So I got them two things, with the gift card included, and maybe they’ll get another gift later.
It could have been way worse. This is either the most insane thing I’ve ever seen or a great piece of creative writing.
I just spent the weekend at a science fiction convention, and was sick most of the time. I managed to make it to a few panels, but it was a struggle to stay awake for them. Fortunately whatever was bothering me went away on Sunday, so I’m fine now, but I had been looking forward to doing a lot more over the weekend. I didn’t even get to party!
LOL, this part:
WOMEN (160 LBS +)
- All BLACK sweater and pants. Any material.
- BLACK heels
MEN (200 LBS+)
- All CAMOFLAGE
- BLACK sneakers
“Hey fatties, I know we need to include you, so just wear clothes that will make you invisible.”
(Note that I’d definitely be in the fat group if I went to a wedding like that.)
If I got that invitation, I’d probably make sure I put on weight —— just so I didn’t have to buy and wear ugly green velvet sweater, suede pants and an $800 pair of shoes.
I’m pretty sure it was a hoax due to the follow-up “snitch party” where they will figure out the snitch using a “real polygraph test for $99 on Amazon”, that’s too much.
I especially like that people keep leaking her stuff after the rat has been identified.
I so desperately want it to be real. I believe it could be real. People really are that vapid and narcissistic. ASK ME HOW I KNOW.
I kinda feel like if it IS a hoax, the hoaxer(s) would attempt to further increase circulation by putting a review of the polygraph kit on Amazon.
I’ve long been in favor of “reply-all” either charging $0.05 apiece, or $0.01 per recipient. To be taken directly, immediately, out of your paycheck, or else it won’t be sent.
Oh, was it actually ferrealz workplace-appropriate to email 5,524 people? Please submit your reimbursement to corporate.
But before you hit “send” you have to accept the charges.
Actually, I’m surprised Bill Gates hasn’t tasked his Outlook coders with developing a few lines that absolutely prevent “Reply All” from being an option (unless the sender is forced to input some PITA keystrokes to make them actually think about whether “Reply All” is what they really want).
That functionality would vastly improve the value of the application, Bill. You could make millions!