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My friend, an immigrant to my country, was laid off two weeks ago and wasn’t able to land a new job. She was 4 months away from getting her PR, but without a new job, she wouldn’t qualify. After many stressful nights of crying, doing resume review and interview practice, she YOLO’d and sent the CEO of her old company an email asking to be employed until she got the PR, and the CEO simply said “Sure”.

Absolutely crazy, and rare to see that sort of compassion. I’m super happy for her, even though it might be awkward, but getting over this cusp will lock her in on her new life.

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That’s definitely rare. Good for her and her CEO

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In this context, the question really boils down to “Do you want to ruin your former employee’s life to save a bit of company money?”. Which should not be a hard decision, but there’s way too many people who would disagree here. Kudos to the CEO to realize this and do the right thing, and good luck for your friend.

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I think it’s more that most of these issues would never actually reach the CEO if brought up through standard channels. Some bs middle management explanation of why it’s not possible, even though they never passed it up. CEOs are still people, and if they just randomly receive an actual personal email that wasn’t debated over by a board meeting or considered inconsequential by people they hired to micromanage, they’re likely to just say fuck it why not.

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You know how you get electric cars? Know how you get electric bikes?

You get electric boats now!!!

Currently floating about on one on an alpine lake and it’s completely silent and nature is just fuckin amazing so why disturb it. Just trundled past a duck family and they barely moved

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There’s a lake near where I live that doesn’t allow gas boats. It’s electric or manually paddles only. It’s very nice how quiet it is out there.

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Haven’t had a smoke or vape in more than a week now. I know I’m not out of the woods yet but this is a big achievement for me.

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Congrats!

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Good for you. Quitting nicotine is fucking hard. I quit smoking over a decade ago, but I finally got completely off nicotine products just last year.

Just some advice that helped me: keep a zero nic vape around so if you’re out drinking (or some other situation where your willpower is low) and find yourself needing to vape you have one that you can hit without backsliding with nicotine. Otherwise you’re going to find yourself hitting a buddy’s vape loaded with 50mg nic salts or something, and you’ll be back to square one.

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That might help me out. I’ve tried to quit vaping so many times but I keep going back while drinking. I live a 2 minute walk from 2 different vape stores and disposable vapes are so easy to talk myself into buying

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I bought a house and I get to move in tomorrow! It is big hype for sure.

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That’s a massive achievement! Congrats!!!

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Thank you, I never thought it would happen 😂

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I finally had an opportunity to photograph the neighborhood hawk last weekend. I’ve been trying to photograph this guy for YEARS, but he always takes off before I can go get my camera.

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Wow, and it’s a great shot too! He’s looking right at you, very cool. Thanks for sharing.

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