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[Melissa | theceoffice @theceoffice]

Are you going to be OOO this summer?

A few tips:

🍊 Make a list of those impacted by your absence. Clients, contractors, vendors, team members, consultants

🍊 This is key! Make a list of what you need to complete to enjoy your time away, uninterrupted.

🍊 Send advance notice to those impacted and set boundaries. Let them know the dates you will be OOO.

🍊 Set boundaries. This includes a deadline for any new requests. Any requests after the deadline will be addressed when you return.

🍊 What do people need from you? Send project updates, review recurring billing to ensure payments + payroll aren’t interrupted, and designate a secondary contact for emergency decisions.

🍊 Send a reminder a week in advance. This reinforces your boundaries and creates accountability for you and them.

🍊 Set your OOO - email reply

🍊 Go off-grid: remove apps or turn off notifications, leave your laptop closed.

🍊 Self-discipline is required to fully rest and recharge. To be most your most effective, you also need to recharge your mind, body, and soul. Go for a walk, explore, create for fun, savor food, and laugh with loved ones.

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How are you recharging this summer?

[Melissa | theceoffice @theceoffice]

@antonia_mdprjct Exactly!! It’s in your best interest to plan ahead, if you want 1) the project to go well and 2) enjoy your vacation in peace.

[Melissa | theceoffice @theceoffice]

@Mama__LB Perfect. Thanks for sharing!

[Melissa | theceoffice @theceoffice]

@mwmoedinger @MOO They are the best! I've used them for 12+ years.

[Melissa | theceoffice @theceoffice]

@Huff4Congress https://t.co/Eb38mI22oi

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is the PERFECT example of why foreigners should not be allowed to run for office

Zul Mohammed just ran for Mayor of Carrollton, Texas. He’s from Pakistan

“No vet has made any sacrifice. I want to make that clear. I do not support the US military. No, I do not support the United States. I look down on both entities. I want to make that clear”

I can’t think of a better example of why only natural born citizens should be allowed to run for office

Also he is a Muslim, which further enforces the classic “I do not support the United States”

We need new election eligibility laws

[Melissa | theceoffice @theceoffice]

@wesgay How is he polarizing?

[Melissa | theceoffice @theceoffice]

@Willadeanwhy @Fascinate_Hist 🙏🏻

[Melissa | theceoffice @theceoffice]

@mr1llinois Love the windows!!

[Melissa | theceoffice @theceoffice]

@DietCoke82 @CostaVida 🫡 Great job!
People are a lot more willing to go out of their way when treated well.

[Melissa | theceoffice @theceoffice]

@jakozloski Part of it is because we’re naturally drawn to faces similar to our own.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Great post on "brand harvesting" as part of enshittification

[Melissa | theceoffice @theceoffice]

@Indy_reporter_ I know an infiltrator when I see one. 🧐😂

[Melissa | theceoffice @theceoffice]

There’s no need to apologize for wanting election integrity.

We need more people who have the courage and conviction to stand up for what’s right.

There’s this argument you’ll eliminate 50% of your customer base, if you speak up.

Where’s the argument that you’ll have 0% customer base, if you don’t speak up and against anti-business politicians and policies.

Businesses drive the economic engine for all the “virtuous” policies. Blue cities have been bleeding businesses of all sizes.

Basic math: 50% > 0%

[Aaron Torres @Aaron_Torres]

I try not to get political. But LA is where I live, and I am here to tell you: There is 0.0 percent chance these results are legit.

Nithya Raman has no base. No one knew who she was until Spencer Pratt torched her on debate stage. She gave a concession speech on Tuesday.

I really hope the federal government and @USAttyEssayli are investigating

(Again, apologize for getting political. Feel free to unfollow if this bothers you.

But a light needs to be shined on what's happening)

[Melissa | theceoffice @theceoffice]

That’s a poor way to say merci when American taxpayers including “rednecks” pay out $3.8+ billion in European Deterrence Initiative funding.
I’d withhold judgement especially since Europe is under active invasion with crazy machete wielders (Dark Ages 2.0). It would be great if Europeans had our inherent rights too. 😔

[▼ Kiel James Patrick @KJP]

If you want to hate America watch the news, if you want to love America drive across it. 🇺🇸

[John Loeber 🎢 @johnloeber]

Salami Slicing

In a transactional context, sometimes your counterparty may try to essentially scam you for a small margin -- so thin that they hope you do not notice, or let it slide because it basically doesn't matter. By doing this over and over again, your counterparty hopes to accumulate some meaningful aggregate advantage.

This is an amateur technique, because Salami Slicers usually do not realize that:
1. People notice. They may not say anything. But oh man do they notice.
2. Being recognized as a Salami Slicer is extremely negative and will kill you in social and business contexts, because you are showing that you will compromise your ethics for trivial amounts of money (or whatever else is at stake). Nobody will trust you for anything significant if they know you're the type of degenerate to steal pennies while others aren't looking.

In fact, frequently, people will permit others to Salami Slice them as a kind of test -- will you do the wrong thing, thinking you can get away with it, for a small amount? A valuable signal. Thank you.

Skilled Salami Slicers will maintain some level of plausible deniability -- "I'm sorry, I forgot to keep this minor obligation", "oh I wasn't sure whether you were paying this or I was", "I thought I didn't have to do this thing because of that other thing", etc. But there are patterns to this, and you can sniff it out quickly. (For example, Uber's ETAs are always optimistic -- the cars are always late or on time, but never early. Huh.)

Some people will go 0-to-100 when they notice they're being Salami Sliced, because they understand what it says about their counterparty's view of themselves: it's extremely dehumanizing. If you try to strategically and deliberately deceive me for minuscule gains, then clearly your view of me is so low that you would cause me unlimited suffering if it was to your benefit. In a Schmittian sense, it's a hardcore Friend-Enemy distinction. Amateur Salami Slicers are occasionally surprised when they are spotted and receive the full Fuck You I'll Kill You, scorched-earth zero-mercy response: their counterparty understands the full symbolic reality of Salami Slicing.

I hate being Salami Sliced.

[Melissa | theceoffice @theceoffice]

This "rental push" is propaganda.

Lack of commitment and ownership is a net negative for society.

It encourages apathy because people don't have skin in the game to fight for what's good in their relationship, neighborhood, community, or workplace.

A culture that lacks roots and a sense of belonging is easily overrun.

[Whitey @whitey_xyz]

Another obsession in American is having a house meanwhile the American dreaming isn’t owning a house anymore - Caleb Hammer

“It’s the freedom of renting, cause you can live wherever you want, you can move for a job easily”

“With the incredible stock markets that we’ve had over the past 50 years, it beats it every time if you rent and just put your money into the stocks market”

[Melissa | theceoffice @theceoffice]

@DamianChavezArt @avidseries Actuaries have been the canary in the mine since 2021.

[Melissa | theceoffice @theceoffice]

@TheAd0ringFan @FischerKing64 Attention prostitutes, they can’t help themselves.

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

Once children became things we can create, select, freeze, discard, rent wombs for, pay for, screen for, customize, we really should not be shocked when people begin speaking of them like they are just products, because that is what products are, they are judged by their quality, they are measured by how useful they are, they are accepted or rejected based on whether they meet the desires of the buyer.

This is what normalizing abortion, IVF and surrogacy has done for us. Evils beyond our wildest imaginations.

[Melissa | theceoffice @theceoffice]

@SimpleCRE Great instinct! Leading with lifestyle is often cover for insecurities. Confidence doesn’t need to be loud to be seen.