u/RyanKeslerSucks

I just got a Move and within 3 minutes of turning it on, the brew temperature reaches the target 92-94C. The steam temp reaches 127C within 5 minutes.

I was under the impression it takes about 15-20 mins to heat up.

I have the quick start turned off.

Is this normal?

Just ordered the machine and looking for recommendations on the tamper while I wait for it to come in the mail.

Anyone use the Normcore v4? And can anyone confirm a 58.5 mm will work?

I’m in the market for my first espresso machine and grinder and unfortunately I don’t have any stores where I live that stock more than Breville so I’m looking online (Canada).

I have found a couple online retailers with what I’m looking for - Home Coffee Solutions and iDrinkCoffee - both with a mix of good and less than good reviews and I’m really struggling to make a decision. They look legit - both the storefronts and social media presence with videos/reviews of products.

The problem is that the bad reviews overshadow the good. It’s hard to tell if it’s just a few people making their poor experience known and the 100s or 1000s of other customers are satisfied and don’t need to come here to vent.

Someone give me some reassurance that buying online is going to work out! I’m throwing thousands of dollars at this and worry about shipping damage, warranty issues, etc. to deal with.

Anyone have recent experience with these companies?

I applied for a job that is effectively my current job but with a higher salary range.

I just finished a pre-screen interview and they wanted to discuss salary. They said the best they could do was the middle of the range for a unicorn applicant.

I outlined that based on my experience exceeding what they were looking for, I’d prefer to be towards the top of the range.

They said they couldn’t do it, so I politely declined.

I don’t understand why there is a range if no amount of suitability and experience can get you to the top of the range. They are likely going to end up hiring someone less qualified than me and will save maybe like $10k. It’s just crazy to me that you can have a really strong applicant in front of you and have them walk because of limitations in the range that was set by the company!

I appreciate that I didn’t have to go through a whole formal interview, but it’s just stupid.

/rant

My kids learned a new counting song at school like eenie meanie miney moe. I’ve never heard of this. Google isn’t coming up with much. Is it new or what? Help me out friends.

Hi everyone,

As I’m sure many of you have seen the discussion in the sub today around a post mentioning layoffs being deleted by the mod team, we felt the need to address the issue and offer a path forward that hopefully everyone can support.

To provide some context of the mods’ position, we have generally taken the approach of deleting/removing posts that have heavy speculation or are conspiratorial in nature. Over the past year this has mostly revolved around people speculating when layoffs will occur, who or what employee group will be next, consolidation (such as HR or IT), or sharing unconfirmed information that no one directly involved can verify. We have taken the approach of trying to protect people from misinformation that may impact their mental health at work and outside of work.

We wanted to have verified information before it was widely open to everyone’s eyes and we know there are a lot of eyes here. I’m sure we all have experienced the water cooler talk of what someone saw on Reddit and this happens at every level, including up to ministry and cross-ministry executive meetings. The media has referenced the sub and the BCGEU was regularly posting during bargaining. So overall we saw a lot of risk with allowing a free for all.

Over time we have heard from many of you that felt the mods are silencing discussion, in bed with the PSA, pushing an agenda, etc. We have had this discussion many times with many people in the sub, but this time it has blown up and we now feel we need to act on the desires of the membership. We appreciate the feedback and discussion and ultimately we want this place to be the best it can and four mods can’t do it alone without your input and constructive criticism!

The mods have huddled and have a proposed path forward. We would like to try opening up the discussions and not being as heavy handed with the removal button. Instead of deleting posts like the above examples, we are proposing that mods will have a stickied post in the thread to warn users of unverified information or misinformation. Sometimes posts can have 100+ responses and people can’t read everything. But we hope anyone perusing the sub will read the top post in the thread from a mod. Our goal will be to represent the facts. State that the information as unconfirmed and caution should he taken. State that there is misinformation and it’s not accurate the way the post implies based on the title. Things like that.

As the mods have lives outside of Reddit we may not always be early to the discussions, so we hope you all can continue to ask the right questions and try to get to the bottom of the post and draw out the facts/truth.

Our hope with this is to still allow people to see what others are saying and participate in the discussion. We are open to additional feedback and ideas of what you would like to see or how we can support these discussions better.

One final note - the mod team will be doing a review of the sub rules over the next little while. The issue that has come to a head today is at least partially due to the outdated sub rules that hamstring us a bit. So stay tuned for that as well.

I’m getting the stucco on my house redone and I’m noticing a lot of scratches on my windows from them cleaning up and wiping the windows.

There appears to be some micro scratches that aren’t noticeable unless you look closely. But there is a deep scratch on our big picture window that you can see from the other side of the room.

They didn’t cover the windows for the base concrete coat but have been covering them for the final stucco coat.

The windows were new and installed in December and we haven’t cleaned them so it’s not an issue caused by me. I’m unclear on the extent of the damage as the windows still have a lot of streaks on them from when they wiped them a couple weeks ago.

I haven’t raised this with the contractor yet. They are about half done the final coat on the house and I have paid about 60% of the final bill.

I worry if I raise the issue now and threaten to withhold final payment they won’t finish the job.

I want to get the windows professionally cleaned after they are done to see the full extent of damage across all the windows and then assess how bad it is across all the windows.

How should I proceed?