"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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Human resources friends or foes?

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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RoadKing_Rabbit

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If your interest aligns with the company, friends. They are there to protect the company's interests/image first. Fun to hang out with, not fun at all to contact or deal with internally within the company.
 

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If your interest aligns with the company, friends. They are there to protect the company's interests/image first. Fun to hang out with, not fun at all to contact or deal with internally within the company.
Makes sense im in hospitality!
 

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My only run-in with HR happened when one of my customers made comments about the ethnicity of a new employee, saying he couldn’t be trusted because he had several newcomers working for him and high turnover due their disloyalty.

I mentioned this confidentially to my boss while we were shooting **** (we even spoke the same language), after he asked how the customer was doing. Instead of just ignoring the comments, he threw me under the bus by opening an HR investigation and including the sales manager as well.

In the end, I had enough documentation to show the customer was simply frustrated with our service, which explained his comments. The customer is still with us, and ironically, he was right: the new employee left after a few months.

Point is: don’t blindly trust anyone at your company.
 

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Depends on how "woke" they are.

Reminds me of a situation at a past job, where a colleague referred to one of the most pedantic of the HR people as a "N@zi", and it got back to her.
Turns out said N@zi is actually a Chew.. and a woman, of course.

I don't know who arrived at this "punishment", but my colleague was instructed to accompany this N@zi Chew for a week, so as to better appreciate her attention to detail.

My colleague described the week as torture, being buddied to his worst enemy as a useless appendage, whilst she pontificated at meetings and presided over peer review sessions (which seemed to be all she ever did).
But I think whoever came up with that resolution had a sense of humour.
 

“The 22 Rules That Turned Me From Invisible to Irresistible With Women… Starting Tonight”

You can skip the expensive cars, the fancy clothes, and the endless gym selfies. Completely unnecessary.

I used to freeze the second a beautiful woman looked my way. Frustrated. Awkward. Watching other guys walk away with the girl while I stood there tongue-tied.

Then I discovered 22 simple rules that rewired my entire dating life. The anxiety vanished. Conversations flowed effortlessly. Women started chasing me for a change.

These rules trigger a woman's subconscious attraction switches. And you can start using them tonight.

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It really depends on your situation, just pray you have a bunch of noble highly intuitive goal setting dudes backing you up. If Human Resources is not doing its job, I’d talk to another male supervisor or even the owners of the joint just to get my point across.
 

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HR is always aligned with the company no matter how "neutral" they may try to appear
I work from home but I don't miss working in the office where people will act friendly in your face just to throw you under the bus
I'm not saying all but there are some people who are opportunists
 

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HR is always aligned with the company no matter how "neutral" they may try to appear
I work from home but I don't miss working in the office where people will act friendly in your face just to throw you under the bus
I'm not saying all but there are some people who are opportunists
So true especially the bigger ones
 

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Things haven't gotten THAT out of hand in The US just yet, but we do seem to be headed in that direction. Worse yet, proponents of Red Pill Theology aren't opposed to abolishing HR departments altogether, so much as they are creating a world where the rest of us are now sanctioned for saying things that run contrary to their OWN dogma
 
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"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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Things haven't gotten THAT out of hand in The US just yet, but we do seem to be headed in that direction. Worse yet, proponents of Red Pill Theology aren't opposed to abolishing HR departments altogether, so much as they are creating a world where the rest of us are now sanctioned for saying things that run contrary to their OWN dogma
I respectfully disagree!
 
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