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Category: Compliment or Insult

Compliment or Insult: the Very Edition

I think I’m very far enough removed from this interview to safely publish this doozy: a very senior SVP at a very publicly traded company interviewed me for a very cool job, and we really hit it off (professionally). My interview with his boss went well. Then the company was radio silent. I dutifully followed…

Compliment or Insult: No New Friends Edition

I met a friend of a friend of a friend at a party. We exchanged hellos as part of a small group and went our separate ways as the party grew larger. Three hours later, we were chatting in a hallway, bonding over remote work, digital marketing, feminism, and other shared interests. “I don’t mean…

Compliment or Insult: Yoga Edition

I hesitate to even label this a Compliment or Insult but it’s kinda too funny to skip … We know I’m both an avid lifter and yogi, and Shannon is one of my favorite yoga teachers, and I’m at her Tuesday/Thursday 7:15am class on a more regular schedule than anything else in my life—except maybe…

Compliment or Insult: Work Website Edition

I am a creator of award-winning websites. Literally, alorica.com just won a prestigious award (for its News Center, but still!). For my job, I also make various other websites, which will never win awards but serve their purpose. In my very first job, my boss/mentor told me “you design websites for the Lowest Common Denominator.…

Where am I now? | Feel Good Friday 051316

I took a last-minute business trip to Fresno, California earlier this week. It was an awesome, informative, jam-packed trip, made all the more fun by a constant game of “Where am I now?” with my own personal poor (wo)man’s JJ Watt*, who once lived in Fresno (mine, not JJ). He answered near-constant texts not only…

Compliment or Insult: Catfish Edition

Probably because I am a true faux celeb, I was recently the victim—and I do NOT use this word lightly—of some identity theft via someone creating a fake Facebook account with my photos and trolling some Land Rover forums. Facebook was extremely unhelpful in taking down this profile, and it still exists today. Only by…