Speak for yourself. My company only stopped using Fortran this decade.

Financial Independence, Retire Early

I feel like this sentiment is exactly backwards in the USA. Corps want to be better than the govt, so they give them excessive $

I work for an international conglomerate. One of our major pieces of internal software is SUSAN named after the guys wife. I’ll never remember his name, but his wife will always be in my mind

My wife had been after me to go to couples therapy. I was convinced we didn’t need it. After a while, I just scheduled something and sent her an appointment notice. Figured if she thought we needed it, I’d give it a try.

She called the therapist and cancelled our appointment soon after i sent her the notice. She claimed, “we didn’t need to spend money on that right now.” She hasn’t brought it up since.

No idea what that was about

Why wait for them to ask you?

Not a teacher, but I’m salaried and have to log every hour each day. Ours is for contract and project costing purposes though

Drove a manual for 15 years before I got a more family friendly car.

A part of that real estate equation is that the municipalities give tax breaks to the companies because they anticipate the extra people in the area getting them more money from gas stations, lunches, etc. Those contracts usually state that the building needs to have a certain occupancy for them to maintain the credit… and now municipalities are coming knocking for their back taxes since buildings haven’t been full.

Thats what’s happening around me, at least

providing science

this is my personal experience

This might have something to do with the down votes. You’re using your anecdotal evidence and providing it as science, and you seem to be aware and confident of it

Stadiums like this use their parking lot for commuters during the week and for the games on the weekends. I live here, the hockey arena, baseball stadium, and football stadium all share lots/garages that are always full during the week too

We also have shit public transit so almost everyone is driving cars downtown from the burbs

I’ll have you know I looked at every single one in this thread

Mine

Does it change your wall paper every day?