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I’m 5ft3 (well 5ft2.5) and 140lbs (or 159 cm / 63.5kg). I’m fairly active (run at least 25 weekly miles / 40k, do 1.5hrs of spinning a week, and 30mins of yoga / pilates everyday). I also walk the doggos so overall I take 10k+ steps everyday, I do have a desk job and WFH. I’m eating around 1500-1600 calories 6 days a week, and I have a day of around 2200 calories.

I look great, my athletic performance is good (and getting better), but I’m always hungry ;/ . The really sad story is that I’m only maintaining.

For context, my activity levels haven’t changed that much (I’m running more but I used to cycle quite a bit), but when I was heavier (15lbs heavier), I didn’t have to look at what I ate like a hawk and maintained that weight without a problem.

Is this the sad reality of my lower weight?

She’s in absolutely no pain, we’ve checked her legs and paw and nothing seems off. I only noticed it today, and she was fine for a lot of her usual
Walkies.

I’ll take to the vet’s, but she’s never likes it and has to be sedated so I’d rather avoid that if possible.

Many moon ago I had a G9 and loved it! (My cousin broke it). I took photography in college for two semesters and was a journalist at some point and loved its manual features. What would be the closest camera on the market that would give me a similar experience?

• ⁠Budget: up to £1300
• ⁠Country:UK
• ⁠Condition:New
• ⁠Type of Camera: Mirrorless
• ⁠Intended use: holiday snapshots
• ⁠If photography; what style:
• ⁠If video what style:
• ⁠What features do you absolutely need: manual controls
• ⁠Portability:
• ⁠Cameras you're considering: some of the fujifilms and the leica
• ⁠Cameras you already have:
• ⁠Notes:

So I was on it for 2 months to undo some side effects of HRT. I lost around 20lbs (10kg), but also noticed that my increased HR made it very difficult to keep my normal pace when running. This is my second long run after my last dose (2.5mg) and I’m back to a pace I would have expected. I feel my HR is still a bit on the higher end, but nothing too bad.

It will be interesting to see how maintenance goes, as well as my running metrics.

Glad I took it, but also glad it’s over ;)

Hi!

I’ve been with my employer for 4 months. They have a very decent pension match scheme BUT unfortunately they’ve deducted from my salaries from my first payslip, but only partial amounts have reached my pension provider.

They also randomly changed my contribution rate without notifying me.

The question is, can they do what they’re doing? I believe they can’t. I’m sure I’ll get my contributions paid into my pot, but I genuinely don’t want to contribute more than what was originally agreed.

Also, what’s the best way to get that extra paid back? Via a refund? Or by not paying as much in the next few months?

Ty!

I reckon there’s no right nor wrong answer here. But my colleague and I (she’s an IM) have a bit of a different view of things.

She thinks that basically all product related questions go to support.

I think that there are some obvious ones like “I can’t login/ forgot my password” or “there’s a bug/glitch” that should definitely go to Support.

However, I think the “how to” type of questions are absolutely fine to be answered by the CSM, if it becomes repetitive, then that’s when you create mini videos or whatever.

There’s also the ones where it’s clearly a bug, but they’re not sure about it. I normally troubleshoot with them first and then raise the ticket. - to me this one is definitely a grey area, but I’m still fairly new so I take it as my learning curve with the platform.

This conversation started because I’m going away for a week , and there’s nobody who can cover for me. I’ve asked the AEs (who have said they will) but my colleague is completely opposed to cover for me (which I get). My fellow CSMs are across the pond and have no idea of my accounts, so asking them to cover seems super pointless.

Overall i do agree that support should
Be able to help cover and that CSM type of questions can wait a week, but I’ve never been in a situation when I have no one to actually cover for me!

I’m planning to book a few appointments with a few high end jewelers (Cartier being one of them) what’s the actual etiquette if I’m just shopping around until
I find what I actually want?

I’ve made appointments before with likes of Dior, Chanel, etc… but those times I already knew what I was buying and that I would definitely buy it.

Ty!

I’m a CSM at a fairly big Martech company (1000+ employees) and I’m struggling with what feels like a planning issue rather than a workload issue.

Yesterday I had a conversation with the C suite about my capacity. They agreed I’m full and that the business needs another CSM (I’m the only one in region).

Today I was told, with only a few hours’ notice, that another account was being transferred to me because it had crossed an ARR threshold. It’s not a new logo , it already has a CSM (India based - low ARR accounts are signed to a team over there).

The complication is that over time I’ve also inherited a number of “exception” accounts (customers moved because of issues with their CSM, requests from Sales, etc.), so my book isn’t purely the result of the standard allocation rules.

My manager’s response was essentially, “That’s the process.”

Passing that account to me seems extremely myopic. The C suite agrees with me (CCO and CRO). I think I can probably manage net new accounts while we hire someone (maybe they just get an extended implementation).

If you have been in place what have you done?

If capacity has already been flagged and hiring is in progress, do you:

keep assigning accounts according to the rules regardless,
pause transfers,
temporarily reassign them elsewhere,
or accept a lower level of service until capacity catches up?

One of the biggest catch22s is that I’ve gained these accounts because of the complaints about this particular CSM. I also think this customer ping pong is terrible customer experience for them.

For context I have 35 accounts and a BOB of $3 million .

The tool isn’t hard to use but it does need “strategy” behind it.

I also think I’ve ruffled some feathers because I have a direct relationship with the c suite but skip my manager (at times). The governance around my role is terrible but that’s a separate subject altogether!

I don’t have a lot of friends (3, but at this point you can probably say just 1). I don’t like people in general (my empathy level is low).

Anywho, I really like this friend and care about her but don’t think I can’t have her near me anymore. There’s just too much chaos in her life.

Her house is a mess (there’s literally food waste in the floor, floors stained with god only knows what, trash everywhere on the floor). Just going inside her house gives me a gag reflex.

She’s always trying to find a different job (always asks how can she get a job like mine), always complains her employers have been at faukt, etc… when in reality she’s just lazy (and depressed) she has zero motivation in life. I passed her a decent job that would eventually get her my type of job (in the end she said she wouldn’t do it).

Her husband is a proper alcoholic, they blame each other for everything that’s wrong with their lives, but realistically they’re both at fault.

And I feel for their daughter she’s so full of life and joy in all of this chaos.

But after 8 years, I don’t think I want to listen about all their troubles and how they can blame everything and everyone but they don’t want to change at all. I’m just done…

Which means I’m back with basically no friends but it is what it is.

I don’t know if it was too hyped or what. I expected some sort of proper conspiracy or alien film. To me it was not even a “feel good film”. And spoilers…. >!Grandpa alien should have been ET.!<

Anyway as Mulder would say: “I want to believe”.

Just saw there’s one for Chanel!