Wow. I have never seen one that young in person.
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This 100% a couple of the dads in our friend group that Iām good buddies with are ex-college ball guys, great guys, and youād never know they were very successful at the next level, but I take a lot of pride in being in better shape than them haha
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Whoa! What kind of dog is that?
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Iāll assume youāre serious given the thread.
That is a real life bambi, not a dog.
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My wife shattered a bottle of fish sauce on the kitchen floor this morning. I couldnāt get within 10ft of it without gagging. I left her to clean it up all alone, even the glass.
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This is fair, breaking things is no way to handle anger.
This is how I know you are young
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We used to make aircraft techs listen to this on blast after breaking stuff they werenāt supposed to lol. Sometimes even turned the broken parts into ājeweleryā.
It took some of the bitterness out of breaking $6+ figure parts 
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For some reason this topic made me think about ārage roomsā.
I am so damn sick and tired of eating. I canāt wait to justā¦ not
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Send me your steaks, iāll eat them for you.
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10 hour work days makes life feel pointless
Iām here to confess that I have the old-fashioned opinion that nearly every job is important. As long as youāre getting paid to do something other people find useful youāre an important part of society and the economy.
Over the last few years as more and more people have checked out of productive society Iāve tried to remember to practice gratitude towards the people I interact with while doing business.
I say āThanks for drivingā to the UPS guy and every truck driver I see at the dock.
āThanks for showing up to workā to the kid at the cafe counter who is swamped and dealing with impatient customers.
āI know you guys are doing your bestā to the important vendor who is apologizing for increasing lead times but having hard time finding qualified help.
Without us, it all disintegrates. FAST.
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Canāt we all just make money doing whatever it is the Kardashians do?
I would gladly send you some steaks if I knew how to safely ship across the pond, dude.
I really wish I could absorb calories through someone else. The time spent cooking, cleaning and eating day in and day out is absurd. Someone needs to make a grown-up umbilical cord or something.
Plug me in.
Sometimes, yeah. But you have to try and make the best of your time while youāre not at work. I find that being productive and present after a long day goes a lot further mentally and emotionally than being slumped in front of the TV, even though thatās sometimes what I want to do I know Iāll feel better if I accomplish something for myself.
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I agree 100%
I have told peopleā¦ thank you for showing up to work today 
Wellā¦ all except that one boy at the local grocery. He should stay home. 
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I agree with this but also feel that a lot of the people Iāve met who make the most money (excluding people like doctors) do practically nothing. Like, youāre getting paid because youāre doing something but I also see you on your computer on Facebook 90% of the time. Or if I donāt work with you, I hear you tell enough stories about what you saw on the internet that it sure sounds like you spend the majority of your work day goofing off. It seems like we could fire ten people and have one guy do all their work and heād still be able to get it done. This doesnāt apply to truck drivers, moreso the āoffice people.ā
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As one of said office people, Iāll say that youāve accurately summed up 90% of my day, but during the 10% that Iām needed, Iām the ONLY person that CAN do that work. So I get paid to be used when needed.
Kind of like how, you have a fire extinguisher in your kitchen, and it sits there being unused 90% of the time. You could call it a lazy fire extinguisher when your salt grinder gets used practically EVERY day in the kitchen, but when a fire breaks out, you arenāt going to want to throw salt on it.
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What are you doing in the kitchen my man?
I am confused. The sentence makes me think he isnāt very good, but the makes me think you like seeing him there?
I think this is pretty accurate for a lot of office jobs. At my place the chemist and I (engineer) get a lot of leeway as long as things are running smoothly (I watched Gladiator this morning while doing a few tasks). We have to get certain things done, keep things running and have projects here and there. Nobody else can fix the issues we do though.
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This can happen, but like @T3hPwnisher alluded to, there is often more to the story. Especially if youāre salary. Not all jobs have a steady flow of work coming your way. If you get good enough at something and produce enough valuable output nobody will care what you do moment-to-moment as long as you meet or exceed the expectations.
If youāre out-performing your predecessor and re-negotiating his bad deals, resulting in savings greater than your salary, nobody in management will care if they see you posting something on facebook. The accounts payable clerk might, but so what?
Hell, some office workers canāt even type. Is the guy who spends 30 minutes organizing his thoughts to send a confusing email providing more value than a guy who can say the same thing better in 20 seconds?
The corollary to this is that the more valuable you make yourself, the more people will put up with your crap.
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