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A few years back I had an interview with a CEO of a small company. He kept me waiting an hour, was super rude, hadn't read my resume before meeting me, asked me questions not at all pertinent to the role, tried to get personal info on former coworkers. All this in an interview which lasted about 10 minutes, after which I walked out.

I didn't know about Glassdoor at the time, but when I discovered it, I found this company's page and learned that he was universally hated by everyone who had met him.

Interestingly, his company had a Wikipedia page, which he had clearly created, as it originally read like a marketing brochure. Editors kept removing biased information from the page, and eventually it was whittled down to basically just a stub saying "This company exists". It had a Notability tag applied to the page, saying that this page really doesn't meet Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and should be improved if someone wants it kept around.

Well, I didn't want it kept around. F*ck that guy and his company. So I applied the "Proposed Deletion" tag to it, which, if no one objects or edits the page or removes the tag, will lead to the page being deleted seven days later.

Surprise surprise, no one objected or edited the page, and seven days later, the page was deleted. I experienced a small frisson of delight seeing the page gone.

I repeat: F*ck that guy and his company.

Edit: I’m so amused by apparently receiving at least 24 downvotes on this, and I’m like… why?

"Quiet quitting" = doing the least possible at work, not going over-and-above, going through the motions, not having your heart in it at all. You can do the job, but you don't want to.

But I'm "quiet retiring". I will be retiring in about 2.5 years, and I'm actively planning for what will be involved in that, but once I started doing that planning, I totally shifted into the mode of "I'll be retiring soon, so fuck all this shit" related to my current job. I'm doing the least necessary to avoid being fired. I'm pretty strictly 9 - 5. I don't pay attention to notifications outside of those hours unless they're dire. If I have a day full of meetings, I'm not working extra hours after 5 to get more work done. It's just not that important. If things get too annoying for me, I'll just retire earlier than I planned to.

If you're quiet quitting (or quiet retiring), how does that manifest for you?

It's been almost nine months since I started taking these shots, and today I hit my goal weight!

When I started out on tirz, I was at 266.8lbs and was asked what my goal weight was. I picked a number I felt was totally unreasonable and unattainable: 185lbs. I hadn't been that weight since at least college (40 years ago) if not longer. I would have been happy if I reached 200lbs. There was no way I expected to lose 80+ lbs.

My weight loss over the first bunch of months was significant. I was always losing at least 1.5lbs per week, usually 2 or more, occasionally over 3. That was nuts. But then around 2 months ago, the weight loss velocity significantly slowed. I'm sure that was in part due to me having much less excess fat on my body, but also getting more serious about strength training. Regardless, I've been losing much less than a pound per week on average the last two months.

But today I hit that goal: 185.2 on the scale after my workout. I pretty loudly said "What?!?" when I saw the number. I'm amazed and surprised and pretty darn happy.

Now I'm at the "what next?" stage. My guy is ready to start decreasing my dose slightly and seeing how my body responds. That makes me nervous, but we'll see how that goes.

I've been working for almost 40 years, and I've worried for many of those years that I wouldn't have enough saved for retirement, even though I've always been contributing to my 401k. I feared that I would have to work for the rest of my life, due to the various expenses of living a life and the choices we have made as a family over those decades.

I've done some more serious calculations recently, and it looks as if I'll be able to retire shortly after qualifying for Medicare (age 65) after all. We'll make some changes to our lives, such as selling our house in a high property tax location and buying a house in a location with a lower property tax burden and lower cost of living overall, which we are fine with. These are changes which will allow our savings to hopefully last the rest of our lives.

Now we are talking for real about the life changes that retirement will entail, but it is no longer a theoretical thing at some far-distant time in the future. It is a real event that will happen at a specific point in time that we can plan for. I expect to utilize the services of a retirement planning professional, to ensure that we set up everything in the best way possible to optimize our outcomes.

This is a refreshing, comforting, happy-making feeling. I am so very tired of working. I am going through the motions at work and have been for some time. I've been "quiet quitting" and doing the absolute minimum to avoid being fired or laid off. I will be so pleased to let my employer know that I am retiring, and I eagerly anticipate the day that I can log off my work computer (and any work computer) for the last time.

Have any of you folks gone through all of the retirement process? Or are you planning for it currently How has it been for you?

I'm probably going to be downvoted like crazy for this, but I'm encouraged by hearing about PJ talking with the Tolkien estate about The Silmarillion and/or other works. I'll be hyped to see these whether they're live action or animation, movies or series.

I've been a fan of Tolkien's work since long before PJ's movies came out. I think I first read The Hobbit and LoTR in the 1980s, but it was years before I was able to get into The Silmarillion (yet still well before FOTR was released in theaters). When I first learned that PJ was developing the films, I was beyond thrilled, because all I had up until then was the Bakshi movie, which I was so disappointed with (but still very glad it existed).

I loved the LOTR films, was disappointed with The Hobbit films and The War of the Rohirrim, and I have mixed (but overall positive) feelings about The Rings of Power. And I've even enjoyed the fan films The Hunt for Gollum and Born of Hope. But I've watched them all, and most notably I'm glad they all exist. My disappointments about any of the adaptations don't dim my love for Tolkien's work or my appreciation of the craft that went into the adaptations.

I'm glad that there are forthcoming films of The Hunt for Gollum and Stephen Colbert's adaptation. I look forward to seeing the visions others will bring to this world, and I truly hope that PJ is able to put some of the stories from The Silmarillion on the screen. Even if they suck, they should still exist. Even if you hate them, they don't take away from your love of the source material. Even if they give people who haven't read Tolkien the wrong impression of what his work was about, who cares? They probably weren't going to read it anyway, and their wrong impression still doesn't affect you one way or the other.

So, I know this is an unpopular opinion around these parts, but that's ok. If you don't want to watch them, don't watch them. Your trashing of them before they even exist is not going to stop me from watching them.

Peace!

I'm a big fan of cooking videos, but not of the kinda-ASMR style videos that just show the ingredients being handled, with a musical background, no voiceover, but the sounds of the work really really featured loudly. Ok, here's all four eggs being cracked (loudly) into the bowl and then whisked (loudly) for like thirty seconds. Here's all of the scallions being chopped for another two minutes, with the sound of the knife against the cutting board really featured loudly. Here's the batter being poured into each of the twelve muffin tins (glug glug glug). All with no voiceover, just captions showing the ingredient and measurement.

I like to hear the person who's making the thing talking about what they're doing. Their personality is part of why I like the videos. But I suppose that's a me thing. I imagine not all of them are English-speaking, so maybe that's part of why they do it this way? Do you enjoy these ASMR-style cooking videos? No shade to anyone who's making these -- they're just not my preference.

Hey all. Approaching 8 months on tirz and approaching my goal weight.

Starting weight: 266.8 lbs

Today's weight: 188.8 lbs (78 lbs lost)

Goal weight: 185 lbs

I went shopping for nice casual clothes to wear to an event next week and discovered that I am at the smallest size I have been since maybe high school? At the beginning of my weight loss journey, I was wearing XXL shirts and 40" waist pants. As I tried things on yesterday, the best fitting shirts were size M and pants were 34" waist. Granted, the GAP sizes are known to run large, but I think the pants sizes are similar between GAP and Levis, and I've been wearing 36" waist Levis jeans for a month or so, and now... 34" GAP khakis?!? And a M shirt? How is this even possible?

Anyway, this is all pretty neat and I felt like sharing