I’ve known since junior high school that group projects are never really group projects.
However, doing all of the work still irritates me every time.
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I feel you there
You just need a good project manager to divvy up the work and hold everyone accountable for their part
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I think she’s a Masters student working on research projects. Although, some of my professors could really use a good project manager 
Perspective, eh? Stalin killed around 20 million people in his purges. Others were detained, forced to relocate etc.
Really weird comparison.
I get the critique about politicians and in this case, what the Texan senator did was objectively stupid but I also dislike the general premise “politicians are bad and I know better” because it is often short sighted and born out of general frustration.
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That my point- an evil murderer knew enough to stay
My house is less than 4 years old. I just found a water spot on my garage ceiling (beneath my master bath). This is my 4th plumbing issue since being in this house, including the basement flooding with sewage the first weekend we lived here…which they said was a homeowner’s insurance issue until I uncorked the full rage potential of my wife.
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Anyone who claims women are weak has clearly not seen what happens when someone messes with a woman’s home or kids
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I can’t have her in the room when I negotiate with someone over the phone because she rages and I lose my train of thought. Plus, I’m usually the collaborator/understander. We can only work together on something if I start. Can’t tell someone their mother’s a hamster and their father smells of elderberries, then ask them to work with you in the next breath 
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??? Why elderberries and not cow dung, rotting sewage or skunk?
It’s a Monty Python quote - a euphemism for calling one’s father a drunk and mother a loose woman.
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Some friends have been in their new house for barely over a year, and already one of the stone tiles in the pantry is cracked, and the balcony over the pool has shifted. And she wonders why I won’t use the elevator unless I have to
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My mom’s insult of choice is “fucking bastard”, but the literal translation is “sea turtle egg”
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Oh yeah, the plumbing is far from the only issue. All the linoleum is cracking and pulling up, the counters are pulling from the wall, and the driveway heaved one block a full 1.5" out of level. Shite show supreme over here 
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Oh, you have no idea. I spent most of that storm (from the Thursday before) making sure a gas plant kept feeding. Some of the low lights:
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The Department of Energy refused a request by the local power companies to increase the electrical output past the normal 60% of capacity cap (imposed for green house gas reasons) because of the emergency. This extra 40% capacity would have more than made up for the shortfall from the windmills that froze up. People died because of this Washington bureaucratic BS. If there is one failing that was beyond stupid, this is it. The entire issue could have become a nuisance, not a disaster.
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Abbot issued two stupid orders that sounded good: (A) no export of gas beyond borders and (B) no use of gas at industrial locations – residential or electrical only. Well, lots of pipelines don’t go anywhere but out of state or to an industrial plant. So they shut in. Which caused gas swap contracts to fail. Which caused producers who could send gas to market to shut in because they were paying $1000s to deliver gas for no money in return. Which cut off gas to electrical and residential.
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The whole thing was a shit show!
In our electric co op’s (CTEC) defense, part of our outage was due to broken limbs and ice. My end of the county and the county to the south of us got hit hard with the ice. The lineman did all they could under the circumstances. I am just glad it’s over, and hope we never have another one that bad.
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Sounds good in theory but rarely works in practice in my experience.
I’m a PhD candidate finishing up my program’s additional course requirements.
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It’s really all about finding out what everyone’s carrot and stick is … from there you know what screws to turn…
It’s not a job for people who care about being liked though…
We’re learning about incentives and leadership in my organization behaviour class this week- fascinating stuff
This sentence sums up hundreds of papers
Academia: you need to pay your CEO lots of money to make sure they don’t screw you over.
Real world: you pay your CEO lots of money and they still screw you over.
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