Thank you for doing this. Last year I asked for a private intention, which was for my sister and her family. I'm happy to report that they are doing great, and seem to be moving forward in life generally. Our relationship has also never been better.
Please pray for peace in my family relationships, and that my little nuclear family continues to be happy and fulfilled. Also please pray for yourself, your H and everyone on this board who needs it. You are truly amazing and I think of you and send good thoughts your way often.
This makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. Keep the populace dumb so they don't have critical thinking skills, so they vote for people who appeal only to their basest instincts. And just in case, send those who do value education fleeing to blue states that can't get enough Electoral College votes to win the presidency.
Human civilization is a bell curve isn't it. The peak is behind us.
Maybe this is the great filter.
ETA: by this I mean the Trump administration, not this particular potential appointment.
WOT?*, I didn't even know there are multiple ones in our state. I asked to be included in via the national group in a convo where they talked about the WA state chapter but nobody contacted me.
It sounds like you are moving to salaried non-exempt, and they will need to pay you for time worked over 40 hours per week (or 8 per day, depending on your state).
Anyone can be classified as non-exempt, regardless of job duties or responsibilities, companies just run into problems when they incorrectly classify employees as exempt and do not pay overtime.
I feel like Matt's dreams are coming true with this episode, Amber's segments are totally focused on him, and now a book deal. Who would even read that?
So if Trump was impeached and removed from office, or steps down, or dies, and Pence becomes president would he then select a new cabinet? Or would those in place remain there?
They sent out a canned national email but no discussions within our department. It's like as if nothing really happened. Same ole business as usual,
Same at my large professional services firm. I have seen a lot of emails with EAP info from our various diversity groups, but I wish our CEO would have taken a stronger stand, mostly it was just "we respect all viewpoints" etc.
I will be either at the airport or on a flight, if it's the airport I'll be forced to watch whatever they have on, but if I'm on my flight before it's called (8pm Pacific) I plan to stream MSNBC.
Today was the first day in months I didn't feel a knot in my stomach when thinking about the election. It gives me so much hope for the future, even if the orange one wins.
My 3 year old has been in a full immersion preschool since March and can fully understand both languages (Spanish and Mandarin), but mostly still speaks in English. We speak a bit of Spanish at home but are by no means fluent. Prior to enrolling him there we did a weekly Spanish class which made no impact as far as I could tell.
He also watches cartoon in Spanish, and I'm working on learning more so I can speak to him in Spanish more consistently.
I'm sorry. My mom also married and defends a blatant racist, who is is also awful in other ways, and it's a hard thing to deal with. I agree with the suggestion of therapy, I'm going now and it's really helping.
This is what has my anxiety so off the charts these last few weeks. My 18yo son enlisted in (Army) basic training months ago, but just left in August, and actually started training in the early days of September. He has basically failed and I expect him to be coming home, although I have no idea when. He's gone through all the "knocking down" that is the first part of basic, but won't have the benefit of the building back up that makes the soldiers a team in the second part of basic. I'm sure he's at least close to the smallest young man in his platoon (he's a toothpick at 5'7" and maybe 150#) so I'm absolutely obsessed with how broken he's going to be when I get him back.