He had it coming, too. I used to do hiring- interviews, orientations, everything related. As much as people make my skin crawl, those interactions I was totally cool with. Other managers tended to hire poorly. Other managers were crummy educators. This isn’t vanity, that was self-preservation. When I was HR my building brought in better …
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Author:dave
Dave didn't get the memo until, like, just now. He is capable enough at arranging words, but he's only just getting started at getting those words to actually do anything. He is motivated by a disrespect for authority, and for the shambles that authority has made of the world. He's a Leo. Active here and BlueSky, tilting at windmills on Instagram.
I REMEMBER EVERYTHING
I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday… I remember the compliments. I move forward by beating myself up, and I tend to not take the observations of others too seriously because on any of several levels people just have no idea. Even praise becomes iffy, because my reality is just different. …
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Motley Crüe was a kids band.
Ok, this is the last one. There was a stretch of time where Traveltown Griffith Park was a fun place to go, I have my dad to thank for discovering that place when I was a kid. I don’t remember getting as much of a kick out of it as she did, though. Music here …
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I Do Not Like The Cone of Shame
Don’t even remember what we did for that year. I had to look back at my pictures to see that it was Chuck E Cheese birthday. Simply unconscionable.
The Next Year
Relatively speaking, of course. Somewhere around 12 or 13 she began rebelling against the camera in a big way, I’ve got over a thousand pics from the first dozen or so years, only a couple hundred in the decade since. I don’t have any kind of weird longing for her to be a kid again, …
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YouTube sucks.
I mean, folks post music all the time. Almost any song I’ve ever needed, I’ve been able to find copies of on YouTube readily enough. But the creators are gonna flip their shit over the little bits I’m putting in front of the 5 people who would have watched this? Jerks. Also turns out nothing …
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Seeking an Ally Sheedy for the End of the World
I was watching ‘Wargames’ the other day, and it may very well have been the first time I ever watched it though decent speakers. I swear there were notes in those music cues that I’ve never heard before. “Wargames’ has always been a fun watch, if a little on the weird side. The hero being …
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AMC Theatres: A Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy
Yep, I said it. There’s another good booth story, but it introduces our second villain before you’ve even met the first. AMC had a handful of villains along the way. There was the micromanager, the bad mom, the thief, the stooge, the two backstabbers, the two paranoid headcases, and those are just the ones off …
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Working on the 35mm chain gang.
One more “good” story before the fun ones. My dad worked for a while as a deckhand on a riverboat. It wasn’t 1920, just the midwest. That was the cool job in his life. Mine was in the projection booth. AMC has always been a massive thing, with resources to support entire subcommunities of operations …
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