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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • I was getting overworked, every other branch of this old company had two people doing the job I was doing. I had a system to get most of my work done except some I would finish the next morning before the next day’s work arrived. Instead of asking me in person what I was doing my boss finished my work that afternoon after I left then covered my keyboard in paperwork and left a post it note on my screen saying essentially “wtf is this?”

    It was very unprofessional and I quit after I got a job with a bigger company with a 40% pay bump where I now contact my old boss to tell her that I need her to do tasks for my new company.


  • I found that knowing how the clutch works help me visualize what I needed to do to get the car moving. I fucked up a transmission back in 2000.putting it in gear without pressing the clutch down enough so I stayed away for a few years. When I got a brand new car years later I went back to manual and practiced on a small slope until I got the clutch balance just right and could do super steep hills without even hitting the brake.

    You have a spinning plate on the motor and a non spinning plate on the transmission, you press the clutch to separate the plates temporarily, lock the non moving plate into a gear then slowly push the plates back together slowly enough that the moving plate will speed up. If you don’t do it fast the slow plate stalls the spinning plate. Balance the plates then you won’t stall, do it on a hill and balance it and you can keep the car in a state of not stalling but not moving either, do it wrong and you cook the clutch.