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#59: "Forks"
Shem Opolot
February 16, 2024
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Happy Friday 🎉 I’ve had such a good week! Mainly because this deadbeat doctorate student is back in New Jersey with his babies (Nsemere holds her head up so well and looks for every opportunity not to mind her business, while Zion says HALLELUYAH every 30 minutes because we’re praying and fasting as a family),
but also…
Because seats at the upcoming CareerLab sessions are vanishing! We have one more slot on Saturday 24th, and five more on Thursday 22nd. Hurry up!
My friend is sponsoring one seat for the first person who replies to this email expressing interest, so holla at your boy. If you read this two hours after it drops, assume the seat is taken and secure yours here. I’ll make sure there’s A/C in your corner.
LIFE.
“Forks”
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If you lack confidence, get more skills.
Spoiler alert!
The Bear Season 2 Episode 7.
“Forks”
Cousin is a smart mouth, incompetent, down on his luck, and surplus to requirements in the family restaurant business.
Carmy, Cousin’s non-biological family, sent Cousin to intern at his former workplace—the best restaurant in the world.
On the first day, the manager made Cousin shine forks until he could see his miserable reflection imprisoned in the forks’ teeth. And as Cousin’s pride and hankering for violence brimmed, he learned he’d shine forks for the whole week.
Cousin hated everything about that week. The 5:30 am wake-up calls, the long commute with the creaks of his old car engine as a soundtrack, the reticent manager. Everything. But after that week, Cousin graduated from forks…To spoons.
But it was hard not to marvel at the magnificent machine the restaurant was, ingesting raw meat and vegetables on one end and churning out joy and happiness from every customer on the other. And eventually, Cousin bought in.
While shining cutlery, he attended all the staff meetings and chatted up the staff, each of whom seemed ready to die for the perfection the restaurant pursued.
In a month, Cousin went from a miserable caterpillar, shining cutlery to peeling mushroom skins, to managing reservations and befriending the entire organization chart, and eventually, dressed in a slick black suit, becoming a butterfly—the last mile hand by which the restaurant answered prayers.
When the internship ended, Cousin returned to Carmy a new man, indispensable to the family restaurant and more confident than a middle-aged white man (which he was).
If you lack confidence, get more skills.
SHAMELESS PLUG
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THINGS.
A quote
While looking for a gig in D.C., I came across this quote, and well,…yeah.
Looking for a job is a full-time job until you find a job.
A picture
Here’s a photo of me with most of my classmates. They managed to pick a Brazilian steakhouse for our meet-up on a day I was fasting 🤦🏾♂️.
WORK.
Table it, then filter it
And for my next trick:
Here’s your data:
It’s random company staff data
If you want to filter the data by department, there are many long-winded ways to do this, but “mine” is better.
1. Format the range of data as a Special Excel table by clicking anywhere in the data range, clicking Ctrl + A on a PC or ⌘ + A on a Mac to select the entire range, and clicking Ctrl + T on a PC or ⌘ + T on a Mac to create a table.
2. Go to insert on the toolbar and select a slicer
Your Excel might look slightly different, but look for “Slicer” under the Insert menu.
3. After selecting Slicer, select the Department category you want to filter by and click OK.
4. Clicking on a specific category in the Slicer filters the data in the table automatically.
Told you it was magic!
If you want to learn how to use Excel, this is a good place to start.
FUN.
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Brain teaser
From Braingle.
Fill in the sentence below so that the first two words combine to make the third word. For example, given "The _____ of the group was extremely _____, not just physically, for he was also particularly _____," you would fill in HEAD, STRONG, and HEADSTRONG.
"Anyone who worked for him knew just how far '_____' him they really were because he would always _____ behind his position of boss, and they could never say anything because he wouldn't _____."
Answer below
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Brain teaser answer
Answer: UNDER, STAND, UNDERSTAND
Have a great weekend,
— Shem
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