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  • He was a fantastic boss like 90% of the time. He’s the reason I went from a customer service rep to senior systems engineer in under 5 years.

    He was a gun collector, not because he jerked off to the 2A, but because he thought guns were cool pieces of machinery, and shooting them was fun. He also had his own remote parcel of land with a proper backstop that was his gun range.

    But, dude was bipolar 1, and his manic persona was a huge cunt. Luckily I only had to deal with it 3 times, and one of those times he instantly chilled out when I told him I had ADHD which caused the negative perception that I didn’t care (this is around the time I was last promoted too)

    Too bad he pissed off the C-suite, or I’d be IT director there now.




  • onslaught545@lemmy.ziptoMemes@sopuli.xyzCovers the bases
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    3 months ago

    Yup. After taking a few years off after my shoulder surgery I started back at basically 0 weight, or 2.5lb if 0 didn’t make sense. I did 4 sets of 25 reps for each exercise with perfect form, and only stepped up the weight by 2.5lb when I could do all 100 reps without discomfort.

    I’m still taking it slow, but I’m back up to 1 plate as my 15rm with squats, deadlifts, and bench press without pain. Hopefully I’ll be back to my pre-surgery 15rm of 2 plates soon.

    Edit: I never actually made the point I was building up to. That point was that I just now got to the point where my major muscle groups feel the workout. I’ve spent about 8 months getting to this point because all of the supporting muscle groups need to get strong before I can actually lift heavy again.

    But I can now curl a full 5 gallon bucket of water 8 times with perfect form because I built up everything else that supports the weight.