Thank you, peeps!

Holy shit -- DH and I were just talking, and I said I wanted to continue the tradition of going to my favorite local diner for b-day dinner on my actual b-day (there are a couple of capital B birthday dinners this weekend, so... chill is the goal for today) -- not an hour later I see an article saying that the diner and the couple of bakeries and such they own are being sued by the feds for $20M in back taxes. How... what... how do you DO that? This is a dude my DH will have the occasional drink with at a local dive. Like, I know him. We chat. Holy shit. That is ROUGH.

$20M in taxes?? That’s so much money!!!

Somehow I am STILL slightly sore from Saturdays vaccines, though no longer sore enough that I’m feeling it and annoyed constantly. Hoping it means I am going to be Very Protected.

I also used AI on my annual eval but not sure how to best make it make me sound amazing when I barely remember the things I did.

Maybe its just the Jersey in me, but my head went "Oh, they're mobbed up and were laundering money."

$20M in taxes?? That’s so much money!!!

I know! Crazy.

Trudy, right? But, like... badly? (I have no idea how laundering money works, honestly.)

That's wild, JenP!

You're making me think of the part in Office Space where the techies want to launder money, but end up looking it up in the dictionary first. which doesn't help.

I used AI to help me write my review, and dang, I sound impressive. Not that it'll make a bit of difference to my actual review rating, because it's an open secret that ratings are pretty much decided before employee reviews are submitted.

You're making me think of the part in Office Space where the techies want to launder money, but end up looking it up in the dictionary first.

Ha! I didn't remember that part. I would have to look it up, too.

I used AI to help me write my review, and dang, I sound impressive.

Well, I for one (of many who also), think you ARE impressive, so, score one for AI, I guess. Continued good vibes on the job front. And all the fronts.

I have to go write an email about finance stuff. Do not want.

You're making me think of the part in Office Space where the techies want to launder money, but end up looking it up in the dictionary first.

Ha! I didn't remember that part. I would have to look it up, too.

There's a subreddit called Explain Like I'm Five (ELI5), and I too had to look up what money laundering actually is, and that subreddit had the best explanation: [link]

I'm fascinated how Reddit can be both a cesspool and a super great source of info depending on which subreddit you wander into.

Breaking Bad was probably where I really understood it best.

I almost never go to Reddit because of the cesspool aspect and I approach all links to it with caution but they are often good. It's kind of weird but definitely interesting!

Of course, if JenP's restaurant etc *is* laundering money, they should have paid their taxes faithfully! So either they are bad at it, maybe mixed up which books were for what purpose, or maybe they just got a little ambitious with using every loophole they thought they could and went too far. I can see that happening even if $20M worth is kind of astounding. My guess is they are making enough money that they thought they could get away with not paying taxes like Amazon, etc, but are in reality small potatoes enough that more actual rules apply. What's most surprising to me about that story is that the IRS has enough infrastructure in place to pursue it!