For The Record- 03. February. 2024

Sing another song and make me happy

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Welcome to another edition of For The Record, a good old-fashioned link drop and benefit for paid supporters of On Repeat.

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This week, we’ve got news on Taylor Swift, TikTok, and Talking Heads

All that and a LOT more, including Joe Rogan’s new deal, Cat Janice, and Devo.

Let’s get to it!

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Roughly 18000 of my coworkers took advantage of an early out program during COVID and left the company. In their wake, there is still a lot of internal transferring happening to balance out staffing levels. One of my coworkers was offered an interdepartmental transfer but declined because “[your area] has too much seniority.”

This was a nice way of saying we’re old, but she also asked how I/we managed to do it and how we stayed for so long. With a shrug, I simply replied that we keep showing up. Days become weeks, which become months, and pretty soon, that becomes decades.

I first learned that phrase from my stepdad. He wasn’t big on pithy advice or productivity hacks. He modeled the behavior he wanted us to adopt. A journeyman carpenter, he left at the (to my teenage mind) impossibly early hour of 6 AM to head for wherever the job site happened to be. Rain, wind, heat- it didn’t matter. The work had to be done, so he kept showing up.