A new SC law requires that City Council elections in Greenville and Florence now be nonpartisan.
So now we have the GOP in SC trying to steal elections: it stops winning them in two cities so it simply removes partisan labels in order to make it less likely that all of the people who have had it with MAGA will know how to remove MAGgots from office.
Lovely.
I was looking to engage the Wyche Law Firm downtown for some legal work. It has long had a reputation as the most elite firm in town.
I see that:
One senior partner has his daughter working there as a lawyer.
Another senior partner has his daughter and her husband working there as lawyers.
Is hiring family members like that common in Greenville, or common in law firms? I’d think that would kill employee morale.
The Crescent seems to have more than its share (compared to Amtrak generally) of really nasty crew members.
Why?
The Bible is terrifying.
Yes, people are saved and given a wonderful eternal life.
But Jesus says that few people are. Matthew 7:13-14.
Even if you called to God and acted in God’s name, you can be sent to Hell. Matthew 7:21. You have to do God‘s will to be saved, and God doesn’t stand in front of you, directing you in a way that is easy to see.
So Christianity is scary.
Today I was out running, and a white puppy came out of their yard towards me, ran up to me, and dropped their toy right in front of me and did a play bow. Their family came out to get them, but the dog wouldn’t leave me until their family got their attention for a moment, and only then could I run off without the dog following me, wanting to play.
I believe that is the most adorable dog in Greenville, but surely there is some competition!
If you’re a lawyer (particularly an equity partner) in a large firm with multiple offices, if you’re hired for one office, how easy is it to switch to another office?
I would think that it would be easy, as someone with a good book of business would be important enough that the firm would allow the person to switch offices if the person wanted.
But my experience, it just isn’t done often.
I’d welcome any insights. Say you’re brought on as an equity partner in a regional office of an AmLaw 200 firm; can you easily switch to another regional office of the same firm?
Thanks.
I’m transitioning out of a multi-year volunteer role with a multinational nonprofit. My last day is coming up in a few weeks, and the employee who is the regional manager can’t find any replacement, so he wants to have a dinner to attract prospective volunteers, and he wants me to come.
The reason I’m leaving is because the regional manager does our volunteer jobs, and all we volunteers do is sit in endless planning meetings at which the regional manager tells us what our local chapter will be doing. The regional manager ignores any suggestions that we have and any offers to do anything. There’s absolutely no point in volunteering.
I don’t plan to attend the prospective leadership dinner, as it’d be a waste of time.
But should I tell prospective volunteers that the regional manager is very hands on and involved, in a nice way? Should I tell the regional manager why I’m quitting? Or should I just smile and keep my moth shut?
Thanks.
If you’re a manager and one of your direct reports quit, and in the exit interview said that they quit because of you, did anything happen to you as a result?
This past Sunday, the sermon included John 11:43, and the theme was that “Jesus calls us to come forth and receive eternal life.” The pastor added, “If we come fifth, we receive a toaster.”
I thought that was really funny but a woman confronted him after the service, starting that it was a cruel statement.
Some people just don’t seem to like any humor at church. Is it safest to just never tell a joke in a sermon?
Is this normal in companies?
Company X has a mailroom, and there is a basket in the mailroom where people put mail that needs to be sent out. The head of Office Services would take the mail to the post office a block away. There would generally be a few letters, and some employees would put personal mail (which they’d put their own stamps on) in the basket, too: usually three or four letters per day.
The CEO directed the office manager to stop letting employees put personal mail in the office mail basket, so a company-wide email went out.
However, a few employees (members of senior management) kept putting their own stamped letters in the mail basket, so the head of Office Services was directed to return those letters to the employees and remind them of the policy.
The CEO, however, set, as policy, that only the CEO could continue to send personal mail from the office mail basket.
So in the mailroom, the CEO’s personal mail sits there in the basket each day, for everyone to see, before the head of Office Services takes it to the post office. When any other employee puts personal mail in the basket, the head of Office Services returns the mail to the employee, with a reminder that only the CEO is allowed to send personal mail from the office.
This seems like an interesting way to manage a company.
Local transit systems in the U.S. almost always seem to have US flag decals on buses and commuter trains.
I don’t recall seeing them on planes or other trains, though.
Why do local transit agencies do this: is it a condition of federal grants or the like?
Are they nasty and incompetent? Or just nasty? Or just incompetent?
Don’t! The time it takes to devote to a startup is huge; startups can consume your financial resources; and the time before you can sell a startup is perhaps long, if you can sell it.
If you’re retirement age and want to be involved in startup, join startup advisory boards or maybe develop a product but license it to another company. That’ll give you a taste of startups without consuming your life and financial resources.
In the Old Testament, when people are told by God to make offerings and sacrifices, so often the details are incredibly specific. For example, animals must meet various criteria and be sacrificed in certain ways.
Why are God’s commands in the Old Testament about things such as offerings and sacrifices so incredibly detailed, when God wants our complete hearts?
For example, rather than saying that we much sacrifice a goat in a certain way, why not say, “Give me all of your possessions”?
Let's say that the person didn't leave a note and maybe it was an accident, but it was probably suicide. Does the church treat the situation differently than a normal end of life situation?
Let’s say you fall off a building and land on a concrete surface 190 feet down. Death is 100% certain, but do you die immediately or do you have even a few minutes of life after impact? If so, are you in pain or are you in such shock that you don’t feel the pain?
In 1914, European monarchs held more political power than they do now, and monarchs of the UK, Germany and Russia were closely related.
Did those two factors reduce the rush to war in 1914? Why didn’t those factors prevent World War I?
Surely if those monarchs had gotten together regularly, as family, and kept in good communication, they could have kept their countries at least friendlier than they were.
The verses above are not inconsistent. I read them, together, as saying that if you do the will of God then you are in Christ and are saved; if you don’t, you aren’t.
However, the verses above do have different emphases: Matthew 7, read alone, makes Heaven seem very restricted and limited to only a select few people, but Romans 8, read alone, makes Heaven seem open to a lot of people.
Churches, in my experience, seem to gloss over views of eternal life as restricted to a few and instead promote a more Romans 8 view, with salvation being broadly given, even though Jesus doesn’t say that, at least in Matthew 7.
I wish churches would at least spend some time on verses that show that eternal life is not given to everyone and is perhaps given only to a few. Yes, church might not then be as positive, but at least we’d be taught correctly and then we could take steps to do what we can to get eternal life.
Is it common for nonprofit employees to micromanage volunteers and do volunteers’ jobs? I’m trying to figure out what went wrong here:
For several years, I have been a volunteer leader of a local chapter of a multinational nonprofit. I have two other volunteers on my team, A and B. Our job is mostly holding events for people in a specific industry. All events are free and the nonprofit has low revenues.
For several years, A and I held events about once a month and grew the local membership.
Then the nonprofit hired a national director (ND), overseeing all chapters in the United States. ND lives in our city.
ND micromanages us and does our jobs:
My job is to organize local events and direct local activities. ND has monthly planning meetings with me, but ND either totally ignores my proposals for events or agrees about them, but ND never lists my proposed events on the organization’s calendar, so none of my proposals ever are done.
ND proposes events about certain topics (for example, artificial intelligence in a certain industry). One of my volunteer team members, B, is a nationally-known expert about AI in that industry, but ND organizes events in AI in the industry and doesn’t even include B at all.
ND wanted to lighten ND’s workload, so ND informed me that B was becoming a volunteer leader. I like B, but ND now ignores B and won’t even allow B to speak at events, even though B is a great speaker (and when ND missed an event, I had B speak and B was great).
Midway through this year, ND announced that the nonprofit now has term limits for my role, and for the same role in other chapters. ND emailed me a few times, telling me that the local chapter needs a new leadership team in place by the end of the year.
When I responded to ND that I could quit immediately, rather than waiting until the end of my current term, ND denied that there were term limits and told me that ND really wanted to keep working with me, and that my departure was purely my decision.
So we have a nonprofit‘s paid employee micromanaging volunteers and doing their jobs and shutting the volunteers out of any participation in the organization, leaving the volunteers with nothing to do, and telling the volunteers that they aren’t wanted…but are deeply wanted.
Is this common? Did my volunteer teammates and I perhaps just totally screw up?