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Nope, but very good point! Hmm... maybe I'll chew on it a bit more and see if they're still hiring.

"We didn't fire her because of the letter" ... yet the same night she wrote the letter she is suddenly fired?? C'mon...

Not my company, but our very similar competitor in SF is moving their call center operations to Reno. I saw they were hiring for my specific job in Reno, at a 20% salary cut. I was tempted, very tem…

Ooh, thanks- just added this to my wish list.

This is going to sound crazy like I'm an old man (I'm not, I'm 32!), but I've been loving the quality of both Tommy Bahama and LL Bean. They actually have some hip stuff, not just…

That's why the "Ted Talk about Nothing" is one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S0FDjFBj8o Their manner of speaking reminds me of American Dad making…

My friend paid $5500 to go to a Tony Robbins seminar in Florida last fall- in addition to flights from SF, hotels, food, etc. She walked on coals and got to take some cool selfies with various people…

> First attempt. Driver claimed no one was home. Home Depot does this to me a lot. I think it's because the drivers are lazy and don't feel like getting out to attempt the actual deliver…

That's entirely why I stopped buying Banana Republic and J. Crew. Their quality just plummeted 5-7 years ago. Their cashmere became so thin and pilled even within the first wear or two. It was…

He's not on librivox, but the best audiobook narrator I've ever listened to is Ray Porter, who does a lot of books on Audible. His 14 by Peter Clines and the Fold by Peter Clines were two o…

... maybe. Maybe they were pre-orders waiting for customers to come pick them up. Who knows. Either way, still kinda tacky and in poor taste, imo. Grief shouldn't be a sideshow for kitchy pho…

well, that's just uncanny :)

> In fact, it's never a good idea to write these kinds of things in the first place. She was trying for her own version of "The things we think but do not say!" https://w…

> I walked past some sort of workshop that made tombstones. I took a picture of some tombstones on display outside, since they looked kind of cool. Some worker there started asking me: "Are y…

Colma is home to a simply amazing bar. Go there if you are ever in town. It's awesome and everyone is so friendly. https://www.yelp.com/biz/molloys-tavern-south-san-francis…

> It's relatively cheap for the immense value you get by living here. What value? For a mediocre, provincial city with terrible public transit, crap nightlife, gross streets and a homeless pr…

Wow, when I posted this she hadn't been fired yet. That didn't take long.

Did she actually get fired for writing this? I agree it was in poor taste. I think a lot of it was trying to be funny, but failed.

VC is what bored rich people do when they want to still feel relevant but not actually have to work any more.

It may be an arguable point, but I think at bare minimum she brings some value via bringing ton of cache and PR with her, so she may be a good fit for a small firm that could benefit from a lot of pre…

Interesting. Did you guys pivot from helping people find clinical trials?

"Never get involved in a land war (or car service price war) in Asia."

Heh... you've got a point. I'm old enough to remember when flying was "glamorous" and exciting. We used to actually get dressed up in a snappy outfit because it was an occasion t…

Ha, good points. You're right. Once I helped her crunch the numbers and it illuminated how little she was actually making ($5-$7 an hour after expenses) she decided to go back to walking dogs. …

Completely fair. You're right- my ire should be at the company not the users. I was just shocked, SHOCKED how little she was actually making vs how much they told her she was making when she too…

They're not "employees," they're "private contractors"... but from what she told me, their is no absolutely zero base pay unless you're working in the city of SF. E…

> At one time I drank a large cup/week, but then I came to my senses. I'm going through this right now with trying to wean myself off a bubble tea habit. There are just so many amazing …

Yeah, I'm pretty sure she is going to, I know she and the other people that do it hate it. Shouldn't they be guaranteed minimum wage? I mean, if they don't make minimum wage they can …