Or people that just assume that everybody has room for an extra set of tires and wheels. I’d love to have summer tires on my car and the option to change to winter tires when needed but as I don’t have a garage and I live in a tiny condo I don’t really have that option. So, a good set of high performance all season tires it is.
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Today would have been my 7th day of not leaving the house but the bus to work was running today. I was enjoying my staycation and made good progress in Diablo 3 season 16, er I mean on my presentation.
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If you can. I got lucky, I burned a couple of vacation days. My supervisor understood: she worked from home (my tasks don’t have that option).
Years ago, I had a dick supervisor (in a different job) who felt that you were a bad employee if you didn’t risk your neck to show up, and it wasn’t a job with paid days off. Anyone in that position might feel they don’t have a choice. And that was a job with a union and job protection. Imagine being someone in a “don’t work, don’t eat” financial position and being told “well, if you don’t come in, don’t bother ever coming in ever again.”
So, yeah. I get why people take the risk. Instead of arguing that they shouldn’t, maybe we should work to make it so the don’t have to.
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I’m fortunate in that I made the life choice to work in a smaller city. This isn’t for everyone; it limits prospects for job advancement, and limits cultural opportunities off the job - and I’ve seen many colleagues move away for those reasons. One upside is that I can afford to live where I can walk to work - which means that I’ve got no excuse on snow days. Heck, I could put my skis on if I had to! (I came to work today using ski poles and trail crampons - the roads and paths were very icy indeed.)
In early-career, I was also in the sort of support job where I’d be one of the guys working to keep the infrastructure running (or get it up and running again) in major weather events or other disasters. I’m so glad that I’m not doing that sort of work any more. That definitely was a “put your arse on the line” sort of thing. I recall one blizzard where I showed up at the site and my boss asked, “How’d you even get here?” I gave the correct answer, “It wasn’t easy.”
When I’ve done things like climb a 60-foot tower on top of a twenty-storey building in an ice storm, I’ve not told my wife until afterwards. For what it’s worth, an antenna needed fixing right away, because it was backup comms to the county’s emergency dispatch system, and the primary site was on battery power. That particular job was definitely pucker-inducing!
I can recall an announcement on one job I had in a major weather event: “Your safety is paramount to us, so if you feel that it is to risky to come to work, stay home! We promise not to retaliate - it will be treated no differently from any other unexcused absence.” (Excuse me?)
So yeah, people are going to take the risk, because the certainty of what will happen otherwise is worse than the chance of suffering an accident. And they will further endanger those who legitimately need to be out in it, for public safety. I don’t know what to do about a boss who thinks that his bulshytt is more important than keeping the electricity on, the water flowing, the roads open, and the phones working, except maybe personally puke on his desktop because that attitude makes me sick.
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Derail!
What are you running? I’m doing the DH Marauder/Natalya build with the sentries. OP as heck.
(Also, I made it out of my street today but the snow has frozen into giant lumpy canyons so we slewed all over just driving the 100 feet to the end of the cul-de-sac. Fun times.)
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Well funny thing. I typically play casters. This is my first time doing a D3 Season. I created a wizard and was leveling her up. Then realized there was an adventure mode but wasn’t sure how to switch my new wizard over. So I made a a crusader just to play around and figure things out. By the time I had a everything figured out my crusader was 70. She kind of grew on me. I’m using the Hammerdin build to go with the seasonal armor. And it almost feels like I’m a caster when all the hammers start flying around me. I’m like a giant weed wacker.
Nothing like a DH though. Damn, you guys just drop whole screens of enemies in an instant. I think when I get my crusader to a stable point I might level up a DH. I created one in the figuring stuff out phase but when they were both low level the crusader was a bit easier to plow ahead with.
Right now I am soloing GR’s in the mid 40’s. Ways to go but I am making steady progress.
Be careful.
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not to be confused with lynwood, california.
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Let’s just say it would have been better if he had done a better job of supervising his dick instead of trying to get it near or in every barely legal female employee in the place.
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From experience I can with out a doubt tell you a Toyota Prius is worthless in the snow
It is all about the tires. The taxi fleet in Winnipeg is mainly Priuses (Prii? Priuss?). There’s loads of snow here and they manage to get around town.
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True, that. One time I was driving in Portland when there was an inch of ice on the street, and stopped at a 4-way intersection in my pokey little front-wheel drive compact that had 4 studded tires on it and had no problem getting around in the frozen snow. This woman in a brand new car rear-ended me (fortunately, at low speed). The lady got out and told me that the car salesman had promised her she’d have no problem getting around in the snow because the car had all wheel drive.
Seattle is as hilly as all get out. Hardly anyone has a manual transmission any more, and that’s a good thing if you’re in Seattle. Driving in the best of weather with a stick shift in Seattle will drive you nuts because of the hills.
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Sigh.
I was driving up the hill in my parking lot today which is down to one lane because of the snow on either side and the person going down the hill clearly didn’t know or care that in this situation uphill traffic has the fucking right of way. (They did have Oregon plates which generally means they aren’t fit to drive anyway but I digress.)
Rather than backing up and getting out of my way they tried to pull into a mostly inaccessible parking spot and got stuck and which forced me to go around them and drive through a snow bank and almost slide into them. Thanks a lot, asshole. Then I almost got stuck in slush trying to pull into my parking spot.
Yeah, I think I’m staying home tomorrow if there isn’t a marked improvement in the roads by my place.
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I heard from the person doing my still to be rescheduled interview today. The building they work in is just flat out closed till Monday. Which is probably a good thing.
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Funny, that’s exactly what Oregon drivers think about Washington drivers. (That argument has been going on forever. 
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More to the point, Portland thought it was going to be Snowpocalypse 2019 this week, but Seattle got hammered instead. Sorry, Seattle; it couldn’t have happened to a nicer city.
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Oh, Washington drivers are really bad too. Somehow Oregon drivers seem to be even worse in my experience. At least we can all agree that Florida drivers are the worst. Don’t blame me, I’m from California.
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The funny thing is that from what I can tell few people in Seattle are actually born and raised here (I wasn’t). By far most people I met here are from California.
I was wondering if that was just a perceptual bias on my part. I did a quick search and found this post from 2015:
And it’s not just perception. The percentage of born-and-bred Washingtonians in the Seattle area has been shrinking over the last few decades. According to census figures, people living in King and Snohomish counties who were born in Washington declined from 48 percent in 1980 to 44 percent in 2013.
The numbers are even lower in the city of Seattle (38 percent), and lower still in Bellevue (34 percent).
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When I first moved up here and was asked where I was from my answer of St. Louis was replied with a tinge not California so that’s okay.
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A couple of years ago I was talking with someone and they mentioned being born and raised here in Seattle. My jaw dropped. First and only time I have met a real local, that I am aware of. I have been here since 2003. I even clarified that they were actually born here in Seattle and not elsewhere. They laughed and agreed it seemed everyone born here moved away.
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Stop encouraging people to move here! The shoobies are ruining housing prices.
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I’m selling my house this spring so I need them to keep the bubble going just a bit longer.
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