Augie

Josh is very important, obviously, but it takes a good team to come within 3 points and some sketchy calls of the Super Bowl. I love Josh, but he can’t do it alone. Yes, we have a pretty darn good team. With a middle of the pack QB we win more than 4 games. .

Any chance he was maybe in the import/export business? 😂

News flash, the money at the bank wasn’t mine. 😊 I just wandered into retail banking to pay bills, but retail is like being the pediatrician of doctors, from what I saw many years ago. If only I knew then what I…….ugh HELLO! .

Funny, my wife just got pissed off by a bill for about $150 for our safe deposit box at the bank. She had a safe delivered to the house and we had our construction guy come and make sure nobody is going to carry this thing off. Our first jobs out of college we were both letting people into their safe deposit boxes…..a LOT! They clipped their bond coupons back then. Our passports are safe. I wish there was a pile of cash next to them for travel. 🤷‍♂️

I used to have people with $200k in the bank want a free safe deposit box. I’d have to explain to them that we had people with more than ten times that in the bank, and they pay for their safe deposit boxes. I pray that I never become one of those annoying people. 🙏

Back when I was running bank branches I had a few occasions where I took it a step further. Every once in a while you’d get a belligerent customer who would get nasty with the staff. No, you can’t yell at them and you can’t swear at them. I would not allow that. These poor people are just trying to do their jobs, but some people are pure crazy. I was told by a man who had read the Bible 23 times that I was going to hell because I couldn’t give him 5% on a 6 month CD. I don’t remember any mention of CD’s in the Bible, but maybe I missed it. 🤷‍♂️ Anyway, when a guy like that lit into the staff once too often or too harshly, I’d make arrangements to give them a Cashier’s Check for every penny they had in the bank. I would even waive the penalty for early withdrawal on the CD’s. Here’s your check, don’t come back. The look of shock on their face was absolutely priceless! It also earned points with the staff who appreciated being protected from morons.

It’s too soon to tell, and it’s harder to make an instant impact on a good team. (Despite the sentiment here, we ARE a good team.) I think we should wait a year or two before judging.

He is self-admitted or I wouldn’t have ventured there. I mean, I’ve never had anybody crap on my desk, but I don’t have a lot of friends either. Maybe there is a middle ground? 🤷‍♂️

Have any of them slept on (or been alone with) your mattress? The dog may be off the hook.

It is a miracle that we are not seeing absolutely catastrophic casualty reports. .

The funny thing is, the lack of general, basic charm and decency actually makes things more difficult for the miserable employee. People pick up your vibe and reflect it in some way. If the encounter starts as miserable, you probably get some miserable back. Prior to Covid I thought I knew what my wife did for a living. Since then I have learned that I had no idea what she was doing at work, or at least HOW she did it. I would listen to her all day long being cheery and upbeat and encouraging. She puts her foot down when necessary, but for the most part people feel better after talking to her. It got to where her recently retired boss would call her often on Friday afternoons for no particular reason, she just wanted to feel better going into the weekend. When my wife comes downstairs for a few minutes I get her “actual mood”. It’s OK, I get it. Part of work is making things around you better. Part of being a spouse is understanding and letting it roll. Full disclosure here, I think her attitude affects how I read and react on TBD. We don’t have a lot of negativity around the house. If I start complaining she will say “Fine, what are you going to do about it? How do we fix this?” If it can’t be fixed, we find the best way to deal with it, but complaining in the absence of providing solutions can be just annoying.

You have friends??? 😊

He is “special” that way. He’s the reason I didn’t fear the Bengals long term. They caught lightning in a bottle, but he won’t pay to keep the pieces they will need to re-sign.

Rub some dirt on it! 😂

I think my son played 3rd violin in middle school…..and the first 2 chairs were empty. 😂 It was a huge relief when he gave that up!

I hope it’s not 4.6% now! We could be in serious trouble here! Maybe this thread should be closed out of an abundance of caution? That may save us!

Except here of course. Right??? 😊

As to the bold, I think both of those things can be true. 😊 I think back to the heart of the Covid times and how places were lucky just to have any employees show up to work. I remember restaurants operating at less than half capacity because they didn’t have workers and signs that said something like “Please be nice to the workers, they are the ones who showed up.” EDIT: Just adding that a guy on my college hoops board does blue collar recruiting for a major national company and they couldn’t hire people. There was a terrible shortage of labor so they did a survey and learned that the average person for that type of job actually made a bit more money sitting at home collecting stimulus checks. I hope it’s not a problem to mention that. There is a sense of entitlement out there that I don’t understand. My wife hired the daughter of some close friends. Very bright young lady with multiple Masters degrees. My wife needed her to do certain things, but what the young lady really enjoyed was the technology side. She spent so much time on the tech stuff my wife didn’t always get what SHE (the boss) needed. I would have been afraid if I wasn’t making the boss happy. Not this girl. She was upset that they were cutting into her tech time. The wife eventually transferred her to the tech side, where they eventually got tired of her entitled attitude and sh!tcanned her ass. .

I think that’s why we do it. We like to be consistent. 😊 Actually, even after week one it’s hard to say exactly what each team will be, and they could look like different teams over the course of the season. Fingers crossed for next year. If the Steeler’s “home game” in Dublin happens to be against the Bills, I’d have to give that serious consideration! .

I’m afraid you are wasting your keystrokes. Some people are determined to hate on the current regime. They want to hurry up and start hating on the next regime!

I think OSU might have the most legit NFL players in the state! 😊

I love the concept, but as always it depends on the price. I chuckle at how easy it is for us to sit here in our recliners and call for this or that. You need value and reasonable people on the other end. I’m not sure if I’d love or hate dealing with Cleveland! 😂

In an ideal world it would be both.

I would love to know what percentage of the team each principal owner has across the league. I’m sure there is a minimum percentage they must maintain, and I wonder what that is. It seems to be becoming more prevalent for estate planning and liquidity reasons, but I remember some celebrity minority owners going way back, I think.