Short 🧵 I follow so many people on here who are good people: engaging, thought & smile provoking, sometimes, they also happen to be dealing with issues I am glad to see support for them in terms of hugs, well wishes and even just a simple like But as I also enter a "dealing with" time, I can see..

Listening to this this morning youtu.be/Lkpb61MqCgE?...

The Old Man still has it in him - that fly was well and truly hunted down and BAPPED!!

See also HR Also another reason my history degree has been useful

My HR brain applauds that last phrase "not setting myself up to fuck up other people's lives" is my HR motto

Ok

Waiting at a bus stop Older Lady stopped at the light gets out of her SUV Opens up the back of her SUV Gets out a watermelon Gets back into her front seat ******** This choose your own adventure just gets weirder every day

What I do when I have some light HR weekend reading to do

In before the rate gets limited

Oh hello 👋

Every single time I recruit

Random bluesky behaviour lesson for #HR this morning If you are going to call somebody incompetent in not choosing a certain action, you better have looked first to see if there are any good reasons why that action was not chosen Otherwise, you are the incompetent one I'm going to be coaching

Hint to any HR people out there (ignoring the UK specific legalities here and simply focusing on the operational) Always make any single user bathrooms non gender specific & If you don't have one, create a single user bathroom, if you can Resolves many issues of access (not cleanliness) #HR

In a bar prior to the Toronto FC match and there are TFC fans and Toronto Sceptre fans and I love the fact they can coexist and nobody cares People are people

This is such an underrated skill The ability to remember obscure stuff, discern usefulness to the present & apply that stuff judiciously This is a CORE project planning skill People with this skill just need to apply it to a work setting Signed An HR Manager who ALWAYS won at Trivial Pursuit

A good boy

At Toronto Fc again because I enjoy the sport The results? Not so much but I'm there for the live experience

Years ago Hallowe'en night Coming back home in an Uber from a job I despised Snow flurry - Kids out trick or treating Heard this song on the radio of the driver Stuck with me since as a great celebration of spring & of newness & renewal May you all find pax www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5mv...

Got a new job - 17 months of looking and finally can do this again

Today...there is hope

Weird HR Anecdote Once included the "Don't run with scissors" bit in a staff orientation discussion script but that was so we could segway from the obviously stupid into the slightly less stupid of not leaving open any scissors they left lying around - which people were doing

Agrees in HR

That time that Pepys did a runner from the bailiff.

My next few days after every job interview 😔

When people's identities are labeled “not match relevant,” we all have to speak up. We’re calling on @stlcitysc.com to do better. Stand with us. #allforcity

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974) American Werewolf in London (1981) My Favourite Year (1982)

Sames our fine feathered friend Sames

"If you punch a nazi...who's next" "Hopefully more nazis - why would you only punch 1"

Coming up on 15 months with no job Some interviews - but none in the past month I have done good at keeping a separation of life from the fear I've been able to remember that I am not defined by my work But I'm starting to feel the strain of no income & it's affecting the job search 😔

Happy New Year 🎉🥂

When a company's HR team is willing to send an automated "Sorry we didn't hire you" letter on Christmas Eve I think I might have dodged a bullet in terms of company values Which in this case is a company which says they put values first Oh well Onwards and Upwards & Merry Christmas 🎄 🙂

New Yorkers not fleeing due to the congestion charge or the change in Mayor kinda disproves this point

My favourite Christmas Carol? www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9WC...

Authentic and genuine is doing a lot of heavy lifting here

Back to the cozy

Some insight to what Canada is when boiled down to its essential syrup and laid on the snow

Can concur Still miss you Dad 😔

If you told 6 year old me I'd be sitting here in Toronto in a local library surrounded by new condos trying to remember dairy product nomenclature from those days 55 years ago I'd probably have nodded my head saying "Of course you would want to remember that!" Was a nerd before that word existed

A good boy

Yeh...this is why I like to read @mlsist.bsky.social Yeh, he does the "ooh, isn't this bit of soccer history kinda cool" thing like nobody else Then he drops this sort of bomb aimed square at one of the powerbrokers

Today I went up the second highest hill in Toronto on an e-bike Yes, it was assisted Yes, it was a small effort ultimately But...it felt good to be able to do something

11 months into the instability of unemployment & a few of the coping mechanisms I put in place to help with the stress are beginning to run dry which begins to stress out the other mechanisms

Sitting in a baseball bar prior to watching the Messi circus God I love you Toronto

Threw the football around for a bit this morning with a guy who sleeps in a parkette I was walking past Felt like old times with my Dad and kid He was happy to throw it around & thanked me for stopping with him cause most "think we got the bubonic plague" Life is too damn short to be judgemental 🏈

Sleepy boy

My wife, who is definitely not old*, has a cool cosmic forest green one of these we picked up earlier this year * nobody in our family can call themselves old until they hit 90 - my Mom got there a couple of years ago but still does exercise classes three times a week 🙂

Corporate HR department skill issues - Lesson #746 Training your hiring manager partners to lighten up

He is sleepy

Looks at the names in this post Looks at current Toronto FC squad Sobs 😭

I live near the two highest hills in the city & Bike Share Toronto doesn't have a single ebike within 10 km and only 3 north of the 401