We were having lunch on a small restaurant patio. A nearby table was occupied by 2 old ladies. One was hard of hearing so she talked very loudly. How do I know? Conversation was mostly about physical ailments. The annoying part was hearing various gruesome details about surgeries and medical treatments. Come on man I’m trying to enjoy a meal here.
Reminds me of a list on characteristics of healthcare workers. One of them was casually talking about dismemberment during a meal.
… that’s tearable.
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Fixed
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Nah, email. But still.
Our board meeting is next week, things are a little frantic. Slack just went down company-wide. Oof.
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So people are gonna have a tough time getting their Sheet together, amirite???
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No! I said “Cut me some slack!” Not “Someone, cut Slack!!!”
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Maybe someone at Slack HQ said that a coworker was slacking off and the company’s AI bot decided to turn Slack off.
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I have back to back to back meetings all day today. I had the same yesterday, and I have the same tomorrow.
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I met a former colleague today for coffee (trying to convince them to quit their job and come work with me!) and ordered a grande flat white. I’m not used to that level of caffeine anymore, I’m wired and jittery now!
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I look forward to this afternoon’s posts!
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Still no flooring. Per the guy at the store (the one person who sounds like he gets it) he called the manufacturer and they were supposed to ship it on Tuesday to the HD distribution center.
Trying to determine if that actually happened depends on them answering the phone.
Spouse has asked me if I found out why they weren’t notifying me or keeping me up to date or allowing us to order out of stock items. I said “i did not ask that” which was very disappointing to her. The answer does not get me this flooring any faster. I’m not fixing their supply chain or system - i just want the stuff we bought
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ITA & IFYP (feel your pain, not fixed your post)
Finance folks are not great at math. We have a book of business with about $2B in premiums, but we are expecting net profit to be like $50M. Our revenue models bake in some conservatism, pretty normal stuff.
So Friday I sent them a model, then another one Tuesday. And the new model has about $10M lower net revenue. And they are basically freaking out because the Friday numbers said we expect $50M but we are booking $40M. Now I’m saying we expect $50M but we need to book $30M because the business side says our risk of missing some quality scores went up.
So they think I’m doing a rug pull because the ‘discount’ we are applying went from 20% to 40%, and that’s huge. What they cannot understand no matter how many ways I say it… the real change is like 10bp more risk on a $2B book of business.
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And here I am, dragging today, because it took me until 2am last night to get to a point where I only had a $25m difference between a model I was building vs the target, and deemed that good enough.
(It’s a model of reserve variability, with an initial reserve volume measured in single-digit billions.)
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I just got a warning from the robot overlords that I’ve liked too many posts today.
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My heart finally stopped racing. Now I want a nap.
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Reminds me of when I got my espresso machine and wanted to play with it. After three doubles I couldn’t sit still in my chair.
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