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priznat posted:I still read things like that and it takes me like, 30 seconds to realize "hey, I'M mid 40s!!!" and then get a mild panic Turned 40 recently but otherwise very same.
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Now try being in your 40s when your father had the first of his 3 heart attacks at 35, and his father had the first of his 5 heart attacks at age 43. Cardiologist? Exercise? Losing weight? Nahhhhhh 'sall good.
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I’m more scared of my family’s longevity. They all make it into their late 90s or just break 100, but go through these horrible, drawn-out declines that are both expensive, horrible to watch, and leave the children or grandchildren having to put off major life decisions because their non-working lives are dedicated to elder care. I’d almost rather have a heart attack and die in my 40s or 50s than put my family through caring for me for a decade+ of senility/fragility.
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Not a scientist but it seems like how long you live has a high genetic component but quality of life is more affected by environment and lifestyle. Environment and lifestyle often means "money" but at least there is some control and hope.
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Sundae posted:I’m more scared of my family’s longevity. They all make it into their late 90s or just break 100, but go through these horrible, drawn-out declines that are both expensive, horrible to watch, and leave the children or grandchildren having to put off major life decisions because their non-working lives are dedicated to elder care. Man this thread turned grim. I'm not anywhere close (hopefully) to needing it yet, but just looked up how much long term care insurance costs if I try to lock it in *now*. coverage for $300/day (for only 3 years, I dunno if you can even get "lifetime" policies anymore) already costs $100/month. And from seeing it recently, that $300/day only gets you to about the bare minimum of care/respect.
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Yeah I think there was an Italian professional soccer player whose parents both died when he was a kid and then he ended up dying in his 20s while playing a game. With those genes he never had a chance
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I have a cousin whose father (not related to me, his mother is my aunt) dropped dead out of nowhere of a sudden massive heart attack at age 45. His father's father had dropped dead out of nowhere of a sudden massive heart attack at age 46. My cousin dropped dead out of nowhere of a sudden massive heart attack at age 40. Except that he did it a few feet short of the finish line at a half-marathon, thus only 30 feet from a fully staffed ambulance, and they managed to revive him and he's still alive now at age 44. For now. But you wonder if there's really anything that can be done to get him to 50.
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Baddog posted:Man this thread turned grim. I'm not anywhere close (hopefully) to needing it yet, but just looked up how much long term care insurance costs if I try to lock it in *now*. My mother is almost 70 now, and she hasn't retired yet because her mother is 95 and increasingly senile. She needs the income from her job to take care of her own mother with reasonable quality of life. She feels like she can't retire, can't move out of NY to somewhere cheaper because she knows her mother will refuse to move, and knows that her mother can't afford any "nice" (if they even still exist?) assisted living center if she did move away anyway. Meanwhile, I live on the other side of the country, so when the inevitable happens and I'm stuck taking care of my mother, I don't even live nearby. I'm paying $4800 per year for my mother's LTC insurance just to make sure I have (in theory?) some financial help with it since I can't move back and be the evening elder-care, and I 100% know my mother would refuse to move to California (even if she could afford it). It's a lifetime policy, locked in probably 7 years ago now.
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My plan with my mother is that if she ever exhausts her savings then she can enjoy the American streets that her generation created. I'm not going to destroy my hard won finances or future on a boomer that was given the world on a silver platter and squandered it, and neither should anyone else.
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SpartanIvy posted:My plan with my mother is that if she ever exhausts her savings then she can enjoy the American streets that her generation created. Didn't get that Tonka truck you wanted for Christmas?
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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SpartanIvy posted:My plan with my mother is that if she ever exhausts her savings then she can enjoy the American streets that her generation created. I hope the irony on your current mindset is not lost on you but I'm sure it is.
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Discendo Vox posted:I already have a set of SOPs and standards documents named after me. My high school has some rules named after me but in my defense they really should have seen that loophole long before I came along.
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Discendo Vox posted:I already have a set of SOPs and standards documents named after me. As long as nobody's opening a document and groaning when they see your name listed in the author tab, I think you're doing just fine.  We have an ex-contractor who wrote a bunch of poo poo (and I mean poo poo) documents during our facility startup. Every now and then we find one that hasn't been burned off the face of the planet and rewritten, and then we all have our ritual two minute hate.
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pull up corporate thread, please pull up there are BFC threads on estate planning, insurance, long-term investing, general/daily discussion, and the BWM thread basically any of those would be better venues for discussing destitute older relatives than the Corporate Megathread, so I'm not having to respond to mod forum reports about hot takes here. thanks
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I swear, this past week has been me getting increasingly pissed of at people who have the inability to just stand up and make any kind of decision. Set a timeline / have an actual opinion / ANYTHING, and not what springs to mind here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyocQT4Vn2g
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Management For Beginners, Chapter 1: Never be in the same room as a decision
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Eric the Mauve posted:Management For Beginners, Chapter 1: Never be in the same room as a decision I'd like to say I enjoyed your post, but I'm going to need to get some more feedback from all of our stakeholders before making any final commitments.
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Jenkl posted:I'd like to say I enjoyed your post, but I'm going to need to get some more feedback from all of our stakeholders before making any final commitments. Let’s circle back on reaching out to stakeholders, and I’ll schedule a meeting to do a kaizen Fishbone workshop on potential proposal deck considerations.
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Are we sure all of this can’t wait until the bi-weekly touch base meeting?
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I’m responsible for making decisions now and it’s horrible. Pet hate from my younger days was managers who do everything over the phone or face to face so that there is never a written record. Cowards, but with a cockroach-like longevity.
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Beefeater1980 posted:Pet hate from my younger days was managers who do everything over the phone or face to face so that there is never a written record. Cowards, but with a cockroach-like longevity. Definitely. Gotta be aware that is a huge reason why some people want to "call to discuss". Ok, but I'm gonna email you afterwards to summarize, "just so I'm sure we are on the same page!"
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Beefeater1980 posted:I’m responsible for making decisions now and it’s horrible. The worst is when people tell you they expect you to make decisions independently and then bitch at you for not asking them first whenever you do.
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SpartanIvy posted:My plan with my mother is that if she ever exhausts her savings then she can enjoy the American streets that her generation created. this ain't it chief (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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I've been dealing with a lot of different people at work lately and they all are the "send a hello message on slack and wait for a response before asking me the thing that they actually need" people. At this point I've just stopped responding until I get the actual question.
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Day 10 and I still can't use teams as I haven't been provisioned properly. Turns out there's not any kind of new joiner checklist at all, they didn't even check that I had a network profile so that documents would get saved there instead of locally.
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:I've been dealing with a lot of different people at work lately and they all are the "send a hello message on slack and wait for a response before asking me the thing that they actually need" people. 
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Did a Teams call with a whole bunch of people to start off a project. One person in the call's Teams name was "Testing Account". Now I refer to her as that in my notes and I did it with a strikthrough in an email (followed by her real name), but I'm going to stop after that one because I dont want it to end up being demeaning or in bad taste. She emailed me on the side to joke about it (she's a contractor for the supplier involved and her Teams account was being funny) but I dont want someone else to take it the wrong way.100 HOGS AGREE posted:I've been dealing with a lot of different people at work lately and they all are the "send a hello message on slack and wait for a response before asking me the thing that they actually need" people. Sundae posted:The worst is when people tell you they expect you to make decisions independently and then bitch at you for not asking them first whenever you do. edit: \/\/\/ lmao AAAAA! Real Muenster fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Jul 20, 2023 |
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Sundae posted:The worst is when people tell you they expect you to make decisions independently and then bitch at you for not asking them first whenever you do. Oh hey is this the corporate thread or the marriage thread?
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:I've been dealing with a lot of different people at work lately and they all are the "send a hello message on slack and wait for a response before asking me the thing that they actually need" people. I get text spam like this now, just text messages from random numbers saying "Hi" and then a day later "Hello" I might be in purgatory
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https://youtu.be/OlMU6p9OzMg Sorry my previous post resulted in whatever that was. I was just thinking about how much time I waste in meetings when I could be dead this weekend.
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:I've been dealing with a lot of different people at work lately and they all are the "send a hello message on slack and wait for a response before asking me the thing that they actually need" people. There should be a test in interviews to weed out people like this "Pretend we're in a scenario where you need to ask me a question over IM, how would you ask it?" if they say "I'd send 'Hi ____, How are you?'" or any variation thereof, the interview is over
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Am I a bad person for pretty much exclusively asking when someone has time for an actual chat so that I can ask my question without posting a whole page of  ?
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Car Hater posted:Am I a bad person for pretty much exclusively asking when someone has time for an actual chat so that I can ask my question without posting a whole page of Haha no i do this too. Goons tend to exist in a world with few grey areas, but this is one. Vast majority of the time I won’t say hi and shut up, but sometimes I am asking if the person is around to chat, as that will be the most efficient way to discuss whatever vs. asynchronous. And better than email.
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I'll do a "Hi, when you have time I'd like to talk about $thing" I also don't get worked up about people just saying hi. I'll say hi back and ask them how they are doing and force them into awkward small talk until I am satisfied that they have learned their lesson
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Yeah there's a difference between "Hi, when you have a few minutes can we talk?" and DIPSHIT: "Hi." DIPSHIT: "Hello." DIPSHIT: "Hey there." DIPSHIT: "I have." DIPSHIT: "A." DIPSHIT: "Ques". DIPSHIT: "T." DIPSHIT: "Io." DIPSHIT: "..." DIPSHIT: "..." DIPSHIT: "..." <DIPSHIT>' IS CALLING YOU
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Lol yeah only people I'm tight with get any sort of inquiry about how they're doing - If I don't know you well, why would I give a poo poo? I've gotten pushback about not including details about what I want to talk about but once I start writing out the problem I start info-dumping and it's a waste of my time to write all that sooo "Hey. Are you at your desk/free for a call? I need X minutes. lmk when works if not."
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