This is just flat out ridiculous.

+1 LKJ.

Yup. Probably should be changed asap.

shenanigans

I think you're missing the fun part. The fun part for MLYLT is setting goals, not achieving them. You can't set new goals every day or week if you make a long-term sustainable goal and stick to it. It's SO much more fun to say, "I'm going to have two eggs for breakfast every day this week and not smoke," then have two sausage biscuits and a cigarette for breakfast the next morning and set a brand new goal!


Literally LOL'd.

Why exactly?

I mean I will leave M at this point out of the discussion, but with me and cornflakes is exactly like I said: I have no problems not to buy them. I can't remember when I bought any last time. But if I buy some, they are gone within a day no matter how hard I try to leave them alone. I mean I buy them and think I am going to have a bowl and that's it. But then a second bowl somehow appears. I sit and eat them and feel bad and still can't stop. I never, not once, was able to stretch a package of cornflakes for a week. The solution for me is to make a decision, when it is in my power: just not to buy them.

Guilty but Thremp has this locked up anyway.

So, in 'Saw' movie like fashion, I come to your house ready to play a game.

I have a box of corn flakes, give them to you and and note that if you make it 1 week (or 1 day, or whatever) without eating the box, you live. If you don't, you die.

You're telling me you just accept death at that point because you have absolutely zero control of your actions over a box of corn flakes?

Bull****.

When I saw this snippet on my preview, I assumed G4 was talking about how he'd mysteriously gotten dragged back into this thread.

I tried, I really tried.

But it's like lapka's box of corn flakes, I have no control over my own actions.

Lapka,

I understand your point, but don't think it applies in this case. M has consistently shown that she's always looking for excuses to do what she wants.

Mikhel supporters,

He could easily be a dog in this wager.

On paper he's a huge dog, MLY could easily lose 15-20lbs in a month. She just does not want to.

G4S Bringing in the tough questions.

I've never seen 'Saw' but now I will.

Gorilla,

Mik has very low WIM as well.

Mikhel is NOT a huge dog in this race.

MLY has about a 0% chance of winning this but she should still do it because the competition will get her to lose some weight, which is better than nothing.

MLY I would love to be wrong about this!

hmm...I think that with my life as stake I would be able to resist.

I just tried to imagine money as a motivator..... Probably there is a sum that would keep me from eating corn flakes all at once, but it is pretty high sum.

So you are right and I have to weaken my statement. I can make a decision against corn flakes in my house when motivated by death or big money.

My point is that up to a point of a check-out in a grocery store it is not even a battle for me. I just don't buy it in a smooth and easy manner. And the second I have corn flakes at my house it all turns in a high stakes battle.

Don't you think that it makes sense to avoid the situations where you need death threats and big money to do the right thing and stay in an area where it is easy?

He's a bettor, exponential WIM gain when something is on the line.

Without a doubt.

Absolutely, that makes perfect sense, and is just a smart tactic for you to employ.

Just wanted to note that even in a 'tough' situation, we have the power to make the correct decision if we really want to.

I need some help to navigate a reoccurring situation with my boss. A few months ago I came up with some great ideas to save the company money and did a project. My project is rolled out company wide, and when this happens, my boss says she told me to do it and it was her idea and sends my partner as the ambassador for it. That gets straightened out when my partner goes, doesn't know what's going on and then my boss's boss has a discussion with me and it's obvious it was my idea and then I'm made the ambassador. Now, I have come up with an even better idea that's a spin off and add on to my first one and I've been working on it for months. I've casually mentioned to my boss that I'm working on something when asked. Last week I got a report together with all of my research and data and my boss asked to see it so I went over everything with her. I sent the report to her boss and others last week and got praise from her boss on my work. Today we had a conference with all of our locations and my boss's boss brings up my project and is praising it, then my partner chimes in and says "I did the same thing in my plant" and he is confused and said "oh, you did?"
The problem is that my partner did not know what I was working on, so my boss had to tell him to do it after looking at my stuff thus making it look like she "told us to do it".
How in the hell do I navigate this and future things that I come up with so thaty boss can't take credit anymore. I can't just keep everything a secret from her. I tried to keep this mostly under wraps until completion and she still jumped in to take credit. What do I do moving forward?
Can someone explain why my boss is doing this and how I can not let it upset me?

I'm at exactly 1000cals for the day, so I have 1kcals left for dinner....yay

You're fundamentally misunderstanding the standard supervisor/subordinate relationship in the workplace. Your job is to make your boss look good.

LKJ is just teasing you. Of course it's appropriate to keep all of your work mostly under wraps out of fear that your boss might take credit for something you're doing. In fact, it's probably best to just start communicating directly with boss's boss to make sure credit is appropriately given.

This.

Simply go back to the previous time you asked this question, read all the good advice you received but ignored, then follow that advice now.

Are you being serious spider?
I really need help. This is a completely new working dynamic for me. I've worked solo and as the lead of a team where I was in control and in charge and my boss acted as support if I needed instruction or was in over my head, but this is the first time I've had a job where my boss is micromanaging and telling me what to do instead of trusting my abilities and judgment and is playing politics. This is the first professional job where my boss is less qualified than myself; the way she tries to manage makes me feel like I'm working fast food or something.

No, I'm not being serious.

MLY,

Assuming this all is being reported accurately and your boss's boss has at least a room temperature IQ, he already knows what's going on, so feel free to continue to allow your boss to make a fool of herself clumsily trying to take some credit for your ideas.

If the facts are as you state, that is.

lol. The express route to the bread line.