My boss told our team, "Nobody leaves before 5:30. No exceptions."
On Friday at 5:29pm, a guy on my team, Josh, stood up, put on his coat and walked to the door.
My boss said, "Where are you going?"
Josh said, "Home."
She said, "It's 5:29."
He said, "I know."
She said, "I said 5:30."
He said, "It takes me forty seconds to get to the door, and a minute and a half to get through the lobby. I'm not leaving before 5:30. I'm just not here at 5:30."
The whole office went quiet. Someone dropped a pen...
Jim Nantz says Mike Ditka used to pay and tip for everything with $100 bills, and never ask for change
“I noticed early on that all he carried were $100 bills. All he did was peel off hundreds all the time. Buy a beer at the bar on the way out to dinner, ‘Yeah, give me a Budweiser.’ $100. Keep the change.”
“Coat check, comes into a restaurant, comes out, $100. Man on the street, homeless, there was one guy that kind of understood the routine and he was there every week. Mike, every time, $100 bill.”
“I finally got up the nerve to say, ‘Hey coach, why don’t you ever get change? Why just the hundreds?’ He says, ‘Hey, what’s the difference anyway?’”
“He said, ‘You know, the way I look at it, when I die and they drop me down into the ground, I hope there’s a little opening in that coffin and my last $100 bill comes flying out and goes up into the sky and drifts away. That would make me happy.’”
“So I said, ‘This gets a little pricey, doesn’t it?’ ‘It’s not that bad, Jim.’ He said, ‘Here’s the way I rationalize it in my head. We got 20 weeks. I come every single Friday to New York. I come in with 50 $100 bills, $5,000. And at the end of the season, I’m spending $100,000.’”
“He would say, ‘I’ve allocated $100,000 to the football season to go enjoy myself in New York. And that’s the way it is.’ I take $5,000 in cash in hundreds every single week. And that’s what he did.”
A group wants to build an NBA arena in the strange and scary netherworld behind Palace Station.
Fisher Brothers — the New York company that built the AREA15 complex — owns the empty land next to it.
Sahara and I-15 on game night will be a wild experiment in traffic engineering.
Viral Brewers Fan Who Went Stole The Show Behind Home Plate During Game 1 Of The NLCS Has Been Identified, And Her Social Media Found
SEE HERE: https://t.co/2T9HVXVLAv
A powerful moment of Humanity!
After Detroit Lions player Maurice Norris suffered a brutal neck injury and was taken to the hospital from the field.
Both Detroit Lions and Atlanta Falcons agreed to snap the ball and let the clock run on out on the game with over 12 minutes left in the 4Q.
The game is officially suspended after the play went on for 6 minutes.
Class act by Dan Campbell and Raheem Morris.
Never seen anything like this before...
Sometimes life is bigger than football. 🙏
🌊 THE LINQ PARKING GARAGE IS A RAGING RIVER THIS MORNING.
We filmed this Sunday, October 11, near the High Roller. Why does this spot flood so dramatically?
The garage sits in the path of Flamingo Wash—a major route carrying storm runoff through Las Vegas. During heavy rain, water flows through the lower garage area and continues downstream. This problem goes back to the Imperial Palace days. (https://t.co/2VTwfHJvlI)
Desert ground doesn’t always soak up rain quickly. Hard soil, pavement and buildings send water rushing into washes. Runoff from upstream can keep arriving even when the sky above you turns blue. (https://t.co/LEtdHbCJ2q)
Today’s weather adds to the problem: the National Weather Service says Rachel’s remnants and an incoming low-pressure system are bringing heavy rain and elevated flash-flood risk across the region. (https://t.co/0uGqO7IcF3)
That “waterfall” is stormwater moving through a longstanding drainage route. Keep clear of the current and don’t drive through it.
Did you know a flood channel runs through this part of the Strip? 👀
A guy grabbed a $49.99 blender off the shelf at Costco. Full price.
His wife a former Costco cashier took it out of his hands and put it back.
She walked 4 feet to the left. Grabbed the same blender. Same brand. Same model. Same box. $19.97.
"How?"
"Look at the tag. See the .97? That means a manager marked it down. The $49.99 is the old stock at full price. The $19.97 is the same product marked down because a new model is coming. Same blender. Same shelf. $30 difference. Because you didn't read the price tag."
He looked at her.
"How long have you known this?"
"Since my first week at Costco. 6 years ago. Every price tag in this store has a code. .97 is markdown. .00 is clearance. An asterisk means it's discontinued forever. I've been reading them for years. You've been ignoring them for years."
Here's every Costco price tag code and what it means for your wallet:🧵
"I'm sorry, I can't. I'm not giving it to the kid."
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A Los Angeles Dodgers fan refuses to hand over a foul ball to a young Atlanta Braves supporter after someone in the crowd urges him to give it away.
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The moment was caught on camera at Truist Park during a Dodgers-Braves game.
Filed for unemployment after a layoff. Got approved. $420 a week for four months while job hunting.
Found a new job. Reported it immediately like you're supposed to.
Eight months later, a letter arrives: the state says my old employer "contested" the claim after the fact, claiming I was let go for cause instead of a layoff.
The review board sided with the employer on a technicality, no hearing, no chance to respond in person.
Total ruled "overpaid": $6,720. Due in 30 days or wages get garnished.
I called and asked how I was supposed to know a four-month-old approved claim could just get reversed with no warning.
The rep said: "The review window stays open for a year. You spent money the state hadn't technically finished deciding you could keep."
So the benefit wasn't a benefit. It was a loan the state could call in anytime within 12 months, with the interest being your paycheck getting garnished without a court date.
They told me I qualified. I spent it living, rent, groceries, gas to get to interviews.
Then quietly reserved the right to take it all back a year later.
LeBron James went from a $52.6M salary in LA to $4M a year in Philadelphia, then started commuting to practice by helicopter. Both decisions come from the same spreadsheet.
The Sixers' facility sits in Camden, New Jersey. His home this season is in New York, 95 miles away. That drive runs 90 minutes to two hours each way. The helicopter does it in about 40.
Call it two and a half hours saved per round trip. Across home games, practices, and film sessions, that's easily 200+ hours a season. Five full workweeks of his life, bought back.
Now look at what he does with hours. LeBron reportedly spends $1.5M a year on his body. Hyperbaric chamber, cryotherapy, a personal trainer who has been with him since Cleveland. At 41, in a 24th season no one in NBA history has ever played, recovery time is the scarcest input he has. Three hours in a car is three hours of a compressed spine in I-95 traffic. Three hours at home is treatment, sleep, and legs that still work in April.
The salary explains the rest. $4M is a rounding error against the billion-plus he's built off the court. He didn't come to Philadelphia for the paycheck, so there's no reason to let the paycheck's geography cost him anything physically.
A charter helicopter between New York and Philly runs a few thousand dollars per flight. Over a full season that could approach $1M, a quarter of his salary, just on getting to work. Sounds reckless until you price it against the thing it protects. The contract pays $4M. The body it's attached to built a billion.