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There’s been this school that I’ve been trying to get a job at for almost as long as I was at the last school I worked for ( 2 years?). This is a recruiter I dealt with before & I’ll start with saying I finally got the gig. The application process was always tedious: indeed apply, questionnaire that can probably add up to about a paragraph, interview with recruiter (this guy) and finally panel interview w/ hiring team. The furthest I made it over a yr ago was to that panel interview & got that rejection email, every other time after they’d send the questionnaire & I got a rejection email shortly after. Well this time around, I made it to the panel interview, was told this was the last step & then am told they want to meet me one last time to ask questions to gauge my experience & my expectations were very low but tried my best and guess it worked out this time around.

This time when I first met with the recruiter, he just went on almost an hr talking about company culture and kind of tested me too. At one point he said he wanted to hear from me because “he felt like he was doing most of the talking”. Every time he’d give info or give an order he’d always end with that *reassuring* “okay” & it kinda threw me off at times. He did warn me when we first met that he thinks the hiring team would want to meet with me and they did. Yesterday, he calls me to tell me that they extended an offer & I told him I wanted to move fwd but needed to let them know I had a NYE event scheduled after I met with them & wanted to make sure it wouldn’t be an issue. And he said I threw him a curveball, I didn’t do anything wrong but he wanted me to speak with the hiring mgr before moving fwd bc he didn’t want to speak for them. He said it should be fine but that curveball comment threw me off. You know when you just feel like someone may be reading you wrong? I come across maybe as too reserved to him but I answer “okay” and asked questions to show interest almost every time.

It's not something I regularly do, but I've done it a few times. Not sure why. 🤔

Share and share alike. Do you mind your "other" picking things off your plate or vice versa? Or how about sharing a milkshake? What is your response to that?

So on a dating app maybe 2+ months ago, I talked to someone anywhere around 1-3 weeks. Maybe daily or every other day, he eventually suggested meeting up and the weekend he asked, I had to work. When I suggested another time when I was free, he was out of town. He eventually follows up when he’s back asking if we could meet and the times weren’t lining up as I was adjusting to a new job (didn’t tell him that) & he sent the last message asking if I wasn’t a night owl bc he was proposing meeting after work. I never followed up and I don’t know why I self sabotage/chicken out. I’m not romanticizing, I find him attractive & would consider him but I just get antsy yet feel apathy when it comes to (potentially) dating. Should I follow up and see if he’d be open to meeting up or just leave it alone? Tbh if I was him I wouldn’t give me a chance which is why I haven’t reached out recently. Well today I sent him a message & I’m kind of regretting it atm:

Hey.. so I know this is random but I do hate that I went MIA a few months ago. Truthfully at the time I was adjusting to a new job/ was a bit antsy & I really don’t want it to come across as going back to the drawing board because I haven’t met up with anyone since I joined the app this yr. If you’re up for a redo then that’d be superb

In the picture what do you see first

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Or more specifically, the difference between an onion and a leek? Yesterday, I asked a question about spring onions, and a few people called them leeks. This has virtually broken the Internet in the UK and is dominating the news. It's all anyone is talking about. Even the prime minister has phoned me to ask what the fucks going on, his word's not mine.

So simple question, but one that may have devastating global consequences, do you know the difference between onions and leeks?

I asked a similar question not long ago, but people I think were confused by the title so here is my updated question

If a boy in your daughters school hit her, and then she ended up kicking his groin, would you be angry or upset with her? Would your answer change if the boy became infertile due to the retaliation of your daughter?

I ask because it seems like a lot of people from questions I’ve read seem to never think it’s okay to hit that area or only hit that area if someone is sexually assaulting you, not just physically assaulting you

The vegetable in the picture has many names across the English dialect. Here's a list I found online.

seed onions
gibbons
stallions
little onions
chipplets
gibblets
salad onions
chippoles
chibboles
runts
spring onions
springers
shrimps
shallots
tripples
singled onions
scallions
charlottes
sibols ('shee-bols')
syboes ('sigh-boes')
shibwns
syboes ('sigh-bees')
scally onions
gibbles
young onions
sibols
green onions

In the UK, spring onions and scallions are the most widely used although you will hear gibbons in South wales (I prefer scallion) and gibbles etc in the South West of England. I wouldn't agree with shallots as to me that's a different thing altogether.

So what do you call them?

He lunged at me when I said it but I don’t know if it’s because he really wanted to or because he felt like i was putting him on the spot?

He kept like touching me and stuff and I felt like he was just testing the waters so I just blurted it out so he would just make the move