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All these tariffs and what not – here is my take – I will happily suffer and take the pain as long as the rural republicans and his voters have it 10x worse. I am ok being miserable as long as republicans are 5x more miserable. I just want to “own the conservatives”. Bring it on.

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The Ajwain plant is one of the most fucking hardy plants out there ever. My sister gave us a sapling last year in Detroit during spring, and for a year we just had it in a glass of water. We would often forget to put water and it would dry out only to spring back to life with some water. This January we finally moved it to a pot coz it felt like it was gone, and it was our last attempt to revive it felt like. Well turns out in 2 weeks its back to thriving again like a champ. This plant does not give up ooof!

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My picks from Weekend’s new album, Hurry Up Tomorrow. This could all change by by umm, the weekend, but these are the songs the stuck with me within the first couple of listens:

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I honestly thought The Brutalist was a story set in various metro stations in Washington DC. #getit?

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I am in a work related quagmire. I have an open offer to join another team within the company. It’s local, I would be managing a bigger team and my scope would increase. The downside being it’s an internal only facing team with no revenue and only builds folds for internal employees – which means it’s a dispensable org for all good purposes. And anytime layoffs have happened in past this org is first target coz honestly everyone can live without the tools it builds.

On the other hand in my own team I am being handcuffed into putting a report of mine into performance improvement plan with specific intention of laying him off no matter what. My manager basically said i don’t care if he improves 10x, he needs to go. I am at a losing end of this convo because I really don’t feel it’s the right thing to do to a person who is not really bad. He is showing all the right indicators and should have never been in this situation but is now thanks to “the management”. I also don’t like my boss much anyway (have posted about him enough here). That said the team I manage is amazing and my extended team mates are also good. I am well established and the risk of org shutting down is lower even though we may not be making much money, yet.

I feel like I am stuck between a rock and hard place. I don’t want to keep working here but the option I have is not great either. And I need to wrap up this performance plan by March end so I don’t have too much time either. This is the part of management job I truly hate.

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Six months ago a white colleague had told me if T wins presidency she will think of moving out of country. Today she told me she is moving to Europe in summer of this year along with her family and ready to bid goodbye to the country (she does have dual citizenship). She will still work in the team but won’t be here anymore. I truly admire such people who pull through their word and are unafraid to pack up and restart. Of course I don’t think it was just this presidency that may have sealed the deal, but still. I should learn from this!

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Some real hard things going at work; will post about them later but forcing me to refocus for sure on my next steps.

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The Weekend is out with his latest album Hurry Up Tomorrow and I can’t wait to hear it on my drive back. I have been a huge fan of After Hours (2020) and Dawn FM (2022), and Hurry Up Tomorrow is last of the trilogy, after which apparently Weeknd is giving up his Weeknd moniker. The Weeknd has always been one of my favorite modern artists so I am looking forward to this! At 85 minutes, this should take a while to finish.