Sam Solomon on South Pleasantburg Drive
The Racquet Shop at McAlister Square
Funway Freeway at Greenville Mall (pre-renovation)
Harold's and Parisian at Greenville Mall (post-renovation)
Video Concepts at Haywood Mall
Baskin-Robbins at Bell Tower Mall
Others?
If you're a volunteer coordinator, and one of your key volunteers quits, gives only positive feedback when asked ("I had a lovely time volunteering here, so thank you!"), and then starts volunteering for an organization that does the same types of programs as your organization does, are you right to feel a bit hurt or confused?
What should you do: just assume that the volunteer for whatever reason wanted to volunteer elsewhere, and be cordial whenever you see that volunteer, or is it OK to ask the volunteer why they quit your organization and volunteer with a similar other one?
Thanks.
My accountant filed my tax return (after getting an extension to do so), and I paid all amounts due.
I received a letter from the IRS: "Verification of your identity and tax return is required".
So I went to irs.gov/verifyreturn and started to verify the return, but after I clicked that I owed money to the IRS (instead of being entitled to a refund), a screen appeared, stating that my return had been identified as fraudulent and that I couldn't file electronically, and that I had to file a paper return by April 15, 2026.
Well, it's July and the return was already filed and it was correctly filed.
What do I do here? Ask my accountant to fix it?
So frustrating because my return was properly filed!
Thanks.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
I am passing along a request that I received from McAlister Square (and Pleasantburg Shopping Center):
"People of Greanvuhl, please y'all redevelop us. We're old and tired and it shows, and we've served our purpose. Our parking lots are full of potholes and our exteriors haven't been updated in decades.
We'd love to be transformed into something beautiful again, like a walkable, mixed-use center, with housing and retailers. Y'all still luv us; the full parking lots at Publix, Camelot Theaters and Chick-fil-A, and the redevelopment of the stretch near the Camelot shows that.
Please, Greanvuhl, show us some luv and transform us into something beautiful again."
GDP per capita, on a purchasing power parity basis, is about 50% higher in the U.S. than in the UK, and apart from London, the impoverished US state of Mississippi is as wealthy as the UK.
How in the world is the UK poorer than the United States?
The UK was the first country to undergo the Industrial Revolution, had a global empire and is the home of capitalism, with more time to build wealth than the U.S. has been around.
Plus the U.S. has lots of trashy, uneducated people and a moronic president who intentionally damages the global economy.
What gives?
It has a Belk, a Dillard's Clearance Center and a basically empty interior corridor. Why keep it open?
I went from having a spouse and parents to having none, after several years of low-key caregiving for one parent.
Now my finances are better with an inheritance, and I should be happy that I don’t have to work (although I still do work), but life going forward just looks like a big black hole, and I really don’t want to go forward. But there’s no going back; they’re all gone. Even the dog is gone.
If you’re middle-aged or older and are suddenly solo, with no spouse and no parents, how long did it take to get back to having an enjoyable life?
Would anyone have any recommendations for someone who could install a Nest x Yale lock (the electronic one that works with an app)? Thanks!
For me, I never expected McAlister Square in Greenville, SC to die. When Belk closed in 1999, I found out as my family was sitting around the dinner table at a holiday (I think Thanksgiving), and I recall how shocked we were. We knew it was over. Even though Dillard's had closed a few years before and the mall was slipping, we never expected it to be gone.
What mall surprised you the most when it died?
In your company, if one senior manager said, by email to another senior manager, that one employee (who is subordinate to the senior managers) “should grow the f—- up”, how would that be received? (F—- would be a four-letter profanity.)
Would other managers view that, stated in an email, as unprofessional or offensive, or would they not care?
I had a large Chick-fil-A delivery, which was delivered by a very nice employee who rolled it 0.4 mile on a cart (in a downtown area).
I messed up and didn’t have cash to tip him, and he seemed weirded out when I offered to Venmo some cash to him.
He works at the nearby Chick-fil-A. If I mail an envelope to him at the restaurant with cash inside, is that the best way to tip him now?
I hosted a business event recently, which was for someone who I hadn’t met but is trying to get her foot in the door in my industry. It took some effort and expense but went well, and she sent me a thank you note and an electronic gift card.
That’s nice, but a junior coworker stayed late to help with the event.
Would it be appropriate if I give the gift card to my coworker? It’s electronic, so when my coworker redeems it, the giver may be notified.
I know it’s really rude to reject a gift, but in this case maybe I would reflect well on me since it’d go to a junior coworker who isn’t paid a lot.
Thanks.
Lots of people are drowning in messages: emails, texts, messages through social media, etc. Just reading and responding to them all can take a big part of a person's day, and if the recipient has a busy job, each message is a distraction and a diversion that can not only take up a lot of their day but also can cause the person to lose focus, significantly impacting performance in a bad way.
So: before emailing, texting or messaging someone: don't, unless you absolutely have to.
This says everything that you need to know about Steve Shaw. (If the photo is gone, visit Meet Our Team - Guest & Brady Attorneys)
He's a lawyer at Guest & Brady, a local law firm.
He has multiple degrees but didn't even make partner--in real estate law in a local law firm.
His co-workers just show their names and their descriptions are to the point and not bragging. Kevin Brady, Partner and Attorney at Law. Madison Turner, Managing Attorney. Perfectly normal descriptions.
Him? "Ph.D., Esq."
Not a partner. But, unlike his colleagues, "Esq." And "Ph.D.", which is an unnecessary degree for a lawyer. Just where is he using that Ph.D. in his career--in which he didn't make partner?
And he wants to cut Greenlink's budget--effectively eliminating it as a practical means of transportation--and slash the county budget for affordable housing.
If someone hasn't even made partner in real estate law in a local law firm, why was the person elected to public office; there's nobody more capable or more qualified?
Since being promoted to my company’s C-suite, I’ve been appalled by how nasty two people in the C-suite are (and that others don’t care about their nastiness): they view even loyal, long-serving and quality employees as nothing more that dollars and cents on a financial report, and they say incredibly nasty and mean things about employees: petty and malicious insults, for example.
They literally state that they hate a majority of the company’s employees (who they name during meetings: “I hate Sue and David; they’re such worthless freaks.”, for example).
But when C-suite members are outside of C-suite meetings, they sound very different: they avoid saying nasty things and try to create an image of being nice people.
I’m leaving the company because of this: I don’t want my career to be dependent on those horrible people.
But is this just how C-suites are: nasty, hateful people who despise their employees and view them as dollar bills at best?
I’ve attended hundreds of board meetings for other companies and while there is a focus on dollars, I have rarely seen such nastiness elsewhere. but then again, board meetings aren’t the same as internal C-suite meetings, so perhaps people act nicer in board meetings than in C-suite meetings.
I'm in senior management in my job, and I'm leaving my company.
I'm leaving because the CEO is nasty and unsupportive, and some of the junior employees are not good.
I assume that there's absolutely no benefit to saying anything meaningful in the exit interview or when I'm asked why I'm leaving.
"I've enjoyed working here but am voluntarily moving to another opportunity" is the best response, right?
Isn't saying nothing during an exit interview always the best approach? Why say anything that could help the company that you're leaving, or why say anything that could burn a bridge?
