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The two people that I used to bitch about at work all the time for being completely useless and incompetent are now going to report to me from Monday. Fuck. My. Life. 😭

Me: Its only been a couple of weeks but I am feeling really good after therapy sessions.

Wife: Yeah when you pay someone $$$$ to tell you the same things I tell you everyday it obviously will feel better!

(*she is not entirely wrong haha!*)

I think Trump expanding his battleground map to Nevada, New York, New Jersey and Virginia has the 2016 vibe of him taking on rust belt and converting them. New York and New Jersey seem hard to flip but Nevada and Virginia are totally possible flips. Question remains how much are democrats going to take his plans seriously or simply ignore the rust belt like Clinton did assuming she’ll win. Biden is just so out of news except his videos showing his old age its hard to comprehend what sort of campaign he is even running except “I opened X offices in X city”.

It’s intern season that means a lot of young motivated individuals who really want to put their best food forward at everything. They bring so much positivity and fun to workplace.

[Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas fails in challenge to rules that bar her from elite women’s races](https://apnews.com/article/swimming-transgender-rules-lia-thomas-8a626b5e7f7eafe5088b643c4d804c56)

> Swimming’s policy on transgender athletes was followed by other top-tier Olympic sports, track and field, then cycling, in excluding from women’s events those who have potentially gained lasting physical advantages from male puberty.

I am going to go out on a limb and say they got this right.

One of my own reports is a MBA from one of highest ranked schools in the country and in a field that we are in. Yet this report’s writing is terrible, ideas of bygone area and works slow as hell. I am constantly orienting this report, helping them to write better and get better at really thinking about the customer. Another person who used to lead a huge team in my org left the company earlier this year because they couldn’t get their act straight and knew the writing was on the wall for them with kind of absolute disorganization. This person now spews team management mantra on LinkedIn and posts random shit galore on how to build effective teams, trustful and organized teams and such! Its amazing how good people can be about self inflating their skills and worth and how little they actually bring to the table. As a brown guy this is the one skill I’ve never learnt in my life!

For fathers day my wishlist item is to see Inside Out 2. My just turned teen is annoyed at my choice and I am not budging. She does not want to go to see the movie, partly because she feels it will be all too real as a teenager. I can’t wait!

When historians look back at America (if there is a future) and try to determine at what point the complete moral and ethical decay began in the society, it won’t be 9/11, or a fascist getting elected. The day America lost its soul forever was Sandy Hook and history must remember it as such and nothing less. Read a news article today about those surviving kids finishing high school this year and it still feels like it happened so recently. I hope the survivors go on to lead successful fulfilling lives and maybe leave the country for good because America quite literally has failed them.

If Biden wins again I want him to throw out his worst possible hire: Merrick Garland.

Loving the fight by USA team against India. I still expect India to win but goddamn they are no flash in the park in this world cup! or at least till now.