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Re: Thursday Randoms
The website says the special is not valid with other discounts or coupons, which I assume covers Restaurant.com. Even if they would let me use one, I would feel wrong about it. The deal is pretty broken-good as it is.
We did use a restaurant.com on our most recent trip to Vegas! It was for a pretty $$$ place, so it didn't make much of a dent in our bill, but every little bit helps, I suppose.
That is really cool! Go your work for providing healthy options.
Sweet!
Our firm requested more healthy options in our vending machine and asked the vending company to label the products that are healthy (for whatever reason). A strawberry pop-tart was labeled as a healthy option.
Fresh fruit would be nice. Although I could never eat an orange at work. I'm terrible at peeling oranges and would probably get orange juice over all of my stuff.
Hey! Nice to see you here. I hope you'll be around more over the summer.
Definite side eye to that. I'm pretty sure a Payday bar is actually healthier. Poptarts are one of the worst things on the planet.
Re: farting coworkers: Hello, RUDE. I mean, farts are hilarious, but they have their place amongst loved ones only.
Re: fruit in vending machines: THEY DO THIS??? I love it and want that here.
Re: earlier motorcycle talk: Andy just emailed me that he's thinking about selling it. Whenever something happens that reminds us of our own mortality, we usually ponder selling it for a time, then get over it. But I think he might actually sell it this time. It's sad, because it's something we both enjoy (him more than I) but at some point you have to weigh how much it's worth it.
Not to mention gross. Ewww.
Dude, isn't this the joke people make when eating crap food with fruit in it? "This cherry pie is healthy because of all the fruits!!" I can't believe they actually labeled that "healthy." Yikes.
Not that I would care if you found this hilarious, but I'm so glad to know I'm not alone in finding this totally humourless and unprofessional. The CWs around here sometimes make me feel like an uptight b*tch.
Ha. They have apples too.
Yep, it happened. There were some other questionable labels too, although I can't seem to remember them now. The labels have since been removed.
That is just nasty.
If it was happening here (and thank goodness it doesn't!) I would complain to my HR immediately. Gross.
L had a motorcycle for awhile. He liked it, I made peace with it and enjoyed riding with him occasionally, we both loved the gas savings. Then his work commute changed and it wasn't comfortable to ride the bike to work anymore.
B has mentioned many times before that he would like a motorcycle. It would be pretty perfect for his short commute. But I have vetoed that idea. He's never pushed it, so I'm not sure how serious he ever actually is about it.
We have a program in place at work where employees can submit ideas to increase profits, lower costs and/or up company morale. We get $1 for each idea, and then for every 250 ideas submitted, they choose the best idea, 2nd best idea and then randomly pick an idea and give out prizes.
I totally won 1st place for best idea - 1 extra day of PTO. (I submitted about 5 ideas, and I don't know which one won, but I don't really care...ha.) I love me some extra time off.
It's sad, but it wouldn't make any difference. The area managers have an insane degree of autonomy.
A few years ago, there was an incident where one of the small location managers shoved one of his employees into a door. Corporate was notified. The area manager (my current boss) was notified. The shover was "talked to" and nothing more. Not relieved of his management responsibilities, not sent to anger management.
Sa-weet! Your work is winning lots of points today
Awww... that's no good!
Eww. He's in your purse and he's totally going to jump out at you when you least expect it.
I freakin hate spiders.
We had an ant crawling around our livingroom floor the other day, and T was running around chasing it yelling "doggie! doggie!" It was hilarious.
I just think it's funny. Especially now. That was 10 years ago! Ha.
The scary part was after he bought the bike, he was sure he was going to ride it home to Grandville from the shop in Ann Arbor. He had no motorcycle endorsement and practically no motorcycle-riding experience. He took the thing for a test drive in the shop parking lot, spun it out and wound up with major road rash on his knee. The shop people were like "Uh...we can ship this to you. How 'bout that?" I was thinking "I will not drive home behind him and watch him die on this thing." Ah we were so young and dumb!
Eww! **shudders**
I hate spiders. My previous kitty (who now lives on my grandpa's farm) is a fierce hunter and would kill anything small that moved. We had no spiders when she lived with us. My current kitty is a huge, spoiled baby and simply chirps at spiders, letting them live.
In related funny kid misidentification: I was hanging w/my GF's one who has an 18 month old that does a lot of sign language and my other GF has an enormous dog (120 pound Rott mix). When kiddo saw the dog for the first time, he did the sign for "cow" instead of the sign for "dog."
Later, ladies! I've enjoyed chatting with you all today.
Now I have to go home, frantically clean my house, and get dinner ready before our guests arrive.
I love it. I've never laughed so much in my life. Kids are the best.
yuck i hate spiders. i would be screaming!