I’ve reached an age where I prefer traditional trousers over jeans. The material is just more comfortable. For my preferences, you cannot add enough elastomer into the fabric mixture to overcome the innate stiffness of denim. Those of us with hypertrophied leg muscles from weightlifting are especially sensitive to constrictive pants. If it weren’t for changing weather patterns - and societal propriety, us leg chafers would wear workout shorts all year round, all the time.
What you absolutely shouldn’t do as a man who is 40 is wear sweat pants out in public. Come on, son, it’s just not a good look. Be mature and presentable when you are outside.
How did you guys deal with the great Microsoft Outlook outage? Unfortunately my employer is contracted with the company in Redmond for enterprise email. So for about a day and half, we were unable to communicate electronically. As an IT support personnel, at least I can point to the outside third party responsible and wash my hands of any duty to assist. Users can rage all they want, but there’s no button for me press to make it all better.
What was interesting to see is the timeframe of when users found out that email was actually broken. To those that only found out in the afternoon: “What would you say you do here? If only I were so blessed to be in a position where I could afford to not check email until the afternoon. It’s not an inquisition, it’s merely envy.
You who else is envious? The workers of companies that use Google Workplace for emails. Such a shame your email service did not go down for an unplanned day off.
The lesson here is to avoid putting your entire software stack with a single company. We might be a Microsoft campus, but our department internally uses Slack - owned by Salesforce - for collaborative communication. Had we used the Microsoft equivalent - Teams - which comes gratis with the MS 365 enterprise subscription in order to save some money, we’d be completely out in the dark during the Outlook outage.
Some redundancy and diversification is very valuable in an emergency. That’s why you should have two checking accounts with some money in both. Should one account get locked by whatever the cause, you’re shit out of luck with no method to pay your bills.
That’s a big one.