This but 15 minutes of cardio and weed instead of cocaine. If I'm buzzing before the bees are, all will be well.

Can you give an example

This is the real lesson; if you want everyone at work to hear something, make it juicy and tell it to a gossip. Everyone will know within the week. Use it to your advantage.

Yes. It was a candid, uncomfortable and necessary. We still work very well together but I consider this a learning experience.

Separation of bed and comforters. So European, I can smell the lack of deodorant from here.

Yep that's what we did.. 2 twin top sheets and comforters.

Did you confront the coworker?

If your intended audience isn’t the person you’re arguing with, better to ignore them and address your intended audience directly, no?

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I have to be up at 5-5:30am every weekday and my go-to things that really help me are

-I’m in bed no later than 8:30 or 9pm generally

-I give myself 15 minutes to get out of bed, brush my teeth, and get dressed with the clothes I set up the night before. Lunch is premade the night before as well and everything I need for the day is by the door so I can just grab and go. This allows me to not even give my brain time to dwell on the fact that the sun isn’t up yet while I’m out on the road to head to a factory for the next 8-12 hours

-As soon as my alarm goes off, I immediately get out of bed and go to the bathroom. Walking around a little will help you wake up and studies have shown that it is much easier to start the day right when your alarm goes off as opposed to hitting the snooze button 6 times before begrudgingly getting up

I will also say that it helps me that I have great friends at work and I almost actually look forward to going in. My job is pretty easy most days so it’s almost like getting paid to talk and commiserate, so if you have people you like at this place you’re forced to be at so early, maybe look at it like that?

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Go to bed really early. If you have enough sleep you should be okay.

This is just a basic life tip, not a pro tip.

Look where you want to go. Don't look where you don't want to go. Sometimes people look where they are afraid of going and that makes it much more likely they will go there.

In my opinion, arguments should be dropped in favour of disputes. Disputes can be informative and can help you understand perspectives while arguments are targeted towards a specific person or group. And yes, I did use them interchangeably, but I think it’s important we recognize when to engage in disputes, because some are inevitable, and some are just pointless.

LPT: Don’t argue with strangers online even though it’s tempting. It’s almost always a total waste of time and you rarely get anything out of it. Spend your time better.

It depends on the coworker, I has coworkers that I would trust with my deepest secrets.

This is the right answer except I got a smart light bulb that does the same thing. But much cheaper.

I shoved a whole bag of jellybeans up mah ass

Black coffee. Beware before that.

If it's a big company with multiple divisions/offices it's not that big of a deal. But if you will be dating someone from the same division as you, that's gonna be really problematic.

I agree with this! Go face your fear to diminish it!

I used to be extremely squeamish with getting my blood drawn, but after having it done regularly over the years and never having anything awful happen, I'm now able to grin and bear it without the same anxiety that I used to suffer.

Well, I do agree that you're not going to change the other person's mind.

But (especially if it's a high-traffic, general-interest forum), there are a lot of others who will read your exchange, and THEY might be influenced if their minds are not set on the matter.

So make the best argument you can. You might pick up a few new people on your side, especially if your arguments are reasoned and in good faith. Tone makes a difference.

There's an expression, don't dip your pen in company ink.

I had to work a job that started at 3:30 am every morning and the things that helped me were:

1. I set my alarm to play a favorite song (it linked to my Spotify) instead of dread inspiring beep style alarms

2. I kept headphones right next to the bed and put them on with a good morning playlist or a chatty YouTube video before I even rolled out of bed - a cold, dark and silent bedroom is very unmotivating to get up to.

3. I had an "early morning only" reward on those days, it gave me something to look forward to. Example- I was losing weight and watching my sugar, but would treat myself to a sweeter coffee with flavor and half&half on early mornings. On other days of the week I always tried to be better and use skim milk and an alternative sweetener.

Hope this helps!

Lord have mercy. When checking the profile goes right