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16 votes
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Sex strikes have a long and controversial history as a tool of women's protest
8 votes -
Where's masculinity headed? Men's groups and therapists are talking.
14 votes -
‘Fairbnb’ wants to be the unproblematic alternative to Airbnb
8 votes -
Gunmakers are profiting from toy replicas that can get kids killed
6 votes -
Asylum seekers are being “disappeared” in private Louisiana jails
11 votes -
On letting people enjoy things
9 votes -
‘Women have only one way to survive--learning to fight’: Boxing in the DRC
4 votes -
Truly progressive policies to support stable, affordable rental housing for all are a golden political opportunity
11 votes -
How does a rural Colorado county with three people per square mile send thirty students to an Ivy League institution?
9 votes -
The Teacher Shortage is Real, Large and Growing, and Worse Than We Thought (Part 1)
22 votes -
Affordable housing crisis: Why are US cities struggling?
5 votes -
After men in Spain got paternity leave, they wanted fewer kids
17 votes -
Making playgrounds a little more dangerous
12 votes -
I’m writing an article about “How to hand over the reins when you leave a job.” I’d like your advice about what I should include.
My premise is that you genuinely want to help the company and the next person who moves into your old position. Maybe you got a promotion, or you found an even-better job. In any case, you want...
My premise is that you genuinely want to help the company and the next person who moves into your old position. Maybe you got a promotion, or you found an even-better job. In any case, you want the old coworkers to succeed, and you want to make a smooth transition.
So there’s a few pieces to this:
• What do you do when you leave a job?
• What have other people done, when they left/moved on, that gave you the knowledge and skills you needed to excel?
• What did they NOT provide that you wish they had?
It’d be easy for me to focus on “what did you do” but none of us know how successful that was. So tell me, rather, about your experience as the person picking up the reins. What did that teach you about the process?
Anecdotes welcome! (And tell me how to refer to you in the article. Private is fine.)
10 votes -
How we fell for cheap old houses
8 votes -
How to rebuild the labor movement, state by state
9 votes -
The American Dream is killing us
14 votes -
It’s time to stop referring to maternity leave as “generous”
10 votes -
People in Alabama prisons are shackled to buckets for days on end
11 votes -
Do police know how to handle abuse within kinky relationships?
16 votes -
‘Build more housing’ is no match for inequality
10 votes -
Secrets of a Maya supermom: What parenting books don't tell you
7 votes -
Listening to my neighbors fight
8 votes -
Labor in Algeria’s revolt
5 votes -
Poor neighborhoods make the best investments
7 votes -
Blow up: How half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life of an island
10 votes -
This is what it sounds like hiding in a dark classroom during a school shooting
15 votes -
How would you bring together friends who still don't know each other?
If you have friends who used to be in separate circles but are going to finally meet, how would you handle that property? Let's say, you all meet, you know each of them, but they know about each...
If you have friends who used to be in separate circles but are going to finally meet, how would you handle that property?
Let's say, you all meet, you know each of them, but they know about each other very vaguely. How to introduce everyone gently and keep conversations going in a non confusing way? What are the dos and don'ts there? Personal real experience of "joining" friends would be nice to read about too!
13 votes -
Why you need a network of low-stakes, casual friendships
8 votes -
Taking mushrooms for depression cured me of my atheism: Psilocybin not only eased my depression, it showed me a new way to live.
22 votes -
One out of every 11,600 people in San Francisco is a billionaire
5 votes -
An Alabama “ISIS bride” wants to come home. Can we forgive her horrifying social media posts?
14 votes -
Inside the fight for developmentally disabled people's right to sex
13 votes -
What happened after my 13-year-old son joined the alt-right
66 votes -
South Korean women 'escape the corset' and reject their country's beauty ideals
11 votes -
Most of America’s Rural Areas Are Doomed to Decline
10 votes -
Long school commutes are terrible for kids
10 votes -
What do I do now that I quit drinking?
A little bit about me -- I'm in my mid-to-late-20s, male, single, recently graduated college, and I quit drinking about a year and a half ago. I never really considered myself an addict; there was...
A little bit about me -- I'm in my mid-to-late-20s, male, single, recently graduated college, and I quit drinking about a year and a half ago. I never really considered myself an addict; there was never a point where I wanted to quit but I couldn't and it never interfered with work or school. I just woke up one day and told myself, "I don't want to do this anymore," so I just stopped.
The problem, for me at least, is that I live in a relatively rural part of the world. There's not a lot to do here on Friday night other than go to the bars, which never really bothered me anyways because I work nights anyways and don't really like crowded scenes. Most of my free time is in front of my computer, I've recently started getting into distance running as a hobby, and I like playing board games when I can. All of this is fine except for the fact that I can't really seem to make friends in those mutual areas of interest without alcohol anymore.
I signed up for meetup, which seems like a great way to meet new people, and I'm sure it is, in bigger cities at least. But around here, both the closest board game meetup and run club are an hour and a half away. It seems like everyone around here just wants to meet up to drink, and maybe do some other stuff along the way. (Don't get me started on making my own events here -- crowded bars already give me anxiety so organizing my own meetup with people I've never met before would be a new, special type of hell)
I think at least part of this is compounded with the fact that since I graduated, I've had a hard time making new friends. I work a very isolating job, and teetotaling only further compounds the issue that I haven't met very many new people. It's something I've thought a lot about while searching for a partner as well -- I can't/don't want to meet people at bars, and I don't really find much use out of dating apps.
Sorry if this is unorganized or hard to read, it's just a lot of thoughts I've had over the past year.
edit: another part of it too is that, since I quit without the assistance of AA or any support group, I don't have any like-minded people to do things with.
29 votes -
Nugrybauti
7 votes -
Four people to be thankful for
3 votes -
I'm the only Australian living in North Korea. Let me tell you about it
12 votes -
At home with the embattled owner of the Flintstone house
5 votes -
ICE is monitoring and targeting immigration activists
5 votes -
How Airbnb took over the world
6 votes -
What number of kids makes parents happiest?
7 votes -
My childhood in a cult
6 votes -
A former alt-right member’s message: Get out while you still can
21 votes -
Everything is a subscription now
8 votes -
Why we are addicted to conspiracy theories
5 votes