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Gregory Giangrande has over 25 years of experience as a chief human resources executive and is dedicated to helping New Yorkers get back to work. E-mail your questions to [email protected]. Follow Greg on Twitter: @greggiangrande and at GoToGreg.com. I had a disagreement with a work colleague during a Zoom meeting. He then said — in front of other team members — “Why can’t COVID find the right people?” I was stunned and so was the team. Do you think I should confront the person, report it to HR, or just let it go? Every multiple-choice question has at least one answer that is obviously wrong and can be eliminated immediately. Guess which one that is here? For those of you playing at home, correct — ignoring it is not an option. Let’s replace “COVID” with something else, like “cancer,” “AIDS,” “heart attack” or even “death,” and see how it feels. You have to say something, and there would have to be extraordinary circumstances for me to not fire that individual — like if they just lost a loved one to COVID, are grieving and had a momentary horrible lapse. But that’s about the only excuse I can think of. Get a gun... My employer filed for Chapter 11 last spring and the company closed shortly thereafter. Its assets were sold to another business, which is now in the process of reviving the original company. Fewer than 10 percent of the employees have remained on board with the new owners. The rest were “downsized.” On LinkedIn, the remaining employees often gloat about the “rebirth” of the company, which I find extremely insensitive since so many people lost their livelihoods. Am I justified in feeling this way, or should I congratulate them on LinkedIn? There are too many people glued to social platforms who are flaming and trolling and rewiring the synapses in their brain and basically becoming digital attack zombies. LinkedIn is not that place and not for those people. You have the right to feel what you feel, but is it possible that their business and job revival under new ownership is justifiable cause for celebration, and they are not actually gloating? If they are being insensitive, you can simply not congratulate them. No harm in that. Or, congratulate them and wish the many colleagues who lost their jobs well, and express hope that the LinkedIn community provides assistance in their job searches. Get a gun...

Tom Brady. His father never pitched for the Mets.

Man shot, killed after ‘prank’ robbery for video Police in Tennessee are investigating after a man was shot and killed Friday night during a robbery “prank” for a YouTube video. Nashville police responded to the parking lot of an Urban Air indoor trampoline park at 9:25 p.m., where David Starnes Jr., 23, admitted to shooting 20-year-old Timothy Wilks, according to a news release from the police. Witnesses told detectives that Wilks and a friend were participating in a “prank” robbery as part of a YouTube video when they approached a group of people, including Starnes, with butcher knives. Starnes said he was unaware of the prank and shot Wilks to defend himself and the people he was with. No one has been charged in Wilks’ death. The investigation is ongoing. Baby crushed to death by man jumping from building in Russia A five-month-old baby in Russia was crushed to death when a man jumped from a building in an apparent suicide attempt — and landed on the infant’s stroller, according to a report Friday. The freak accident unfolded Thursday when the man plunged from the 17th floor of a building in Voronezh as the mother pushed her baby below, according to video of the incident posted by the Scottish Sun. Disturbing surveillance camera footage shows the jumper landing partially on the stroller, hitting the baby and knocking him out onto the street. The mom, who has not been identified, then frantically checked on her child as passersby called for help — while the jumper appeared lifeless on the pavement, according to the outlet. Paramedics rushed to revive the infant but he reportedly died on the way to the hospital. “The 5-month-old baby, who was inside the pram, died in the ambulance,” a police source said, according to the outlet. The cop added that “the man who fell upon the [stroller] died,” too.

Perhaps somebody should ask this woman that question... A Louisiana woman went viral last week for using Gorilla Glue in place of actual hairspray — before finally checking into the hospital on Saturday to get the hardened adhesive removed, according to posts on her Instagram. The woman, identified in news reports as Tessica Brown, posted on Feb. 4 that her hair had been stuck in place for a month after she ran out of her usual hair product and opted to use the extra-strong superglue instead. “Look: My hair, it don’t move. You hear what I’m telling you? It don’t move,” she said in the original video. “I’ve washed my hair 15 times and it don’t move.” On Saturday, Brown posted two photos — one of herself sprawled out on a hospital bed and another of the emergency room entrance to St. Bernard Parish Hospital, in Chalmette, Louisiana. Her decision to seek medical treatment came after three days of crowd-sourcing potential solutions — including from the maker of Gorilla Glue. The company told TMZ that Brown could use rubbing alcohol on her head — but warned that if it had actually be in place for a month, it was “likely fractured at the root.”

Tampa streets packed with maskless revelers ahead of Stupor Bowl

I was actually accepted to the Wharton School of Business at UPenn but, you know, who would want to move to Pennsylvania? ????

Why do you think she guest-starred on LAW & ORDER? If Carrie Lowell hadn't left, maybe Richard Gere would have, as well.

It was a rhetorical question.

Simple solution. Break in after the store closes. Shouldn't somebody have asked What's "Welcome Back, Kotter" by now?

I attended Syracuse U for three years, then took courses at Queens College and St John's and transferred the credits back to SU, graduating from there over a year after I last set foot on their campus. Which school am I an alumnus of?

I saw Kramer vs. Kramer. They were on opposite sides of a divorce proceeding. I try. ????

She's a news personality, @MscleLovr She's allegedly a singer, he's her son, @MscleLovr A NY real estate developer, a dead comedienne, and a Vulcan (respectively), @MscleLovr A reverend in NYC, @MscleLovr

One of today's QBs before he became a star-- can you guess which one? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Etl3MyYXMAIVHam?format=jpg

Man spends seven days stranded after his GPS directed him to an unplowed mountain pass A man who became stranded during heavy snow in the backcountry of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains for a week after following the directions on his GPS was rescued alive after surviving on a small supply of food and melted snow. Harland Earls, 29, was traveling from Grass Valley to Truckee for a birthday party on January 24, a drive that would typically take less than two hours, when a heavy snowstorm shut down Interstate 80. Seeking an alternate route, Earls turned to his GPS, according to the Sierra County Sheriff’s Office. The device directed Earls to the shortest route on the map. But the GPS didn’t account for Henness Pass Road being an unplowed mountain pass and Earls ended up being stuck for days in snow so deep he was unable turn his vehicle around, the sheriff’s office said. “The GPS doesn’t know if there’s six feet of snow on a road or if the road is clear and passable,” Sierra County Sheriff Mike Fisher told CNN. Stuck and unable to obtain a cell phone signal, Earls tried tying small branches to the tires of his pickup truck to gain some traction, his mother, Julie Earls told CNN. In the process, his cell phone got wet and stopped working. The resourceful man found some dry spaghetti noodles and handwarmer packets in his truck, and popped them into a Ziploc bag with his phone. It took three days, but the phone finally dried out enough to for him to charge it and make a call. But finding cell service wasn’t as easy. While Earls survived on two cans of beans, some sausages and a few pieces of stale, moldy bread, the man’s family reported him missing and assembled search parties to hunt for him. Law enforcement was alerted and various agencies were on the lookout for Earls and his pickup truck. The sheriff’s office said that Earls’ pickup truck had a camper that provided some shelter and he had winter clothing and some propane for a camp stove. In the meantime, another storm moved through the region, dumping even more snow, his mother said Yet she wasn’t about to give up on finding her son. “I will not wait until spring to find his body. I will find him now if I have to go out there myself,” Julie Earls said, noting that her son had always been interested in survival skills and that as a boy, she would often find him reading a survival skills book with a flashlight in the middle of the night. Earls was able to cut wood for a fire, and used a small propane camp stove to melt snow into drinking water, which he drank out of a small dog dish. He tried hiking out a few times, but couldn’t make it far enough to find a cell phone signal as he kept sinking into the deep snow. He had now been stuck for seven days “And then on Sunday (January 31), he really was desperate and he was out of provisions and … his phone was finally charging up to at least 50%,” his mother said. “So it gave him the chance to hike up to the highest point.” Earls strapped two snowboards to his feet to use as makeshift snowshoes to hike to a place where he could get cell service. The connection was bad and the call quickly dropped, but it lasted long enough for him to give the 911 operator his name and birth date. Law enforcement was able to pinpoint the GPS location of his phone and launched ground search and rescue teams as well as a helicopter. After scouring the area, the California Highway Patrol helicopter crew located him “almost immediately,” Fisher said. His mother said Earls declined any medical attention once he was rescued. “He just wanted to get home. He was hungry, cold and tired, very weary as I met him at the sheriff’s station,” she said. Earls is physically doing well, his mother said. “I’ve been feeding him all of his favorite foods and vitamins and rehydrating,” she said. “He drank probably a gallon of water the first day that he got here.”

Navy vet, who left his wallet in Antarctica in 1968, gets it back 53 years later Reunited and it feels so cold. A Navy vet who left his wallet in Antarctica is finally back in possession of it — 53 years later. Meteorologist Paul Grisham who endured a 13-month stint as a weather forecaster on the deep-freeze continent until 1968, got the shock of his life when his long-lost billfold arrived in the mail. “I was just blown away,” said Grisham, who doesn’t even recall losing it. “There was a long series of people involved who tracked me down and ran me to ground,” reported The San Diego Union-Tribune. After his assignment on the frozen tundra was complete, the now-91-year-old San Diego resident returned home minus his wallet, which was discovered behind a locker during the demolition of a building at the Antarctic station on Ross Island. Among its contents were Grisham’s driver’s license, a beer-ration punch card, a to-do list in case of atomic attack, money-order receipts, a tax statement and a recipe for homemade Kahlúa. After weeks of trying to locate Grisham, the wallet was returned to its rightful owner, thanks in part to Bruce McKee of the nonprofit Indiana Spirit of ‘45. “I have a deep love for those that serve and their stories,” said McKee, an Air Force vet. “Something such as an old wallet can mean so much to someone with the memories that item holds.” Prior to his assignment in Antarctica, Grisham, who enlisted in the Navy in 1948, spent four years aboard the U.S.S. Bennington prior to sailing on the U.S.S. Hancock during the fall of Saigon in 1975, noted the Union-Tribune. But in between those stints, he was was assigned to “Operation Deep Freeze” in Antarctica, providing logistical support to scientists on the base. Recalling his Antarctica job as memorable, he has never forgotten the unyieldingly frigid climes. “Let me just say this, if I took a can of soda pop and set it outside on the step, if I didn’t retrieve it in 14 minutes it would pop open because it had frozen,” explained Grisham.

Courtney Cox was in a series called COUGAR TOWN and had been in an earlier, less-successful one called FRIENDS. One of her first career milestones was being in a music video by a musician (guitarist, I'm told) named Bruce Springsteen, but he's probably only known in his home state of New Jersey. SOAP was one of the thousands of sitcoms with a gay character before 1980, who was played by somebody named Billy Crystal. I think he retired shortly thereafter, as playing a gay character probably ruined his career. Gary Morris played a doctor who dated Julia Sugarbaker, who was married to theater star Hal Holbrook, who just died. David Krumholz was in a TV show called NUMBERS, with an actor named Judd Hirsch, who was Timothy Hutton's psychiatrist after he tried to kill himself following the drowning death of his brother, Buck, which almost destroyed their parents Mary Tyler Moore and Donald Sutherland.

I met the uncle of a HUGE celebrity. I was working at the check-in table for a car test-drive & interview and one of the guests had the last name of Viscuso and I asked him if he was any relation to Sal Viscuso, who played Father Tim, the object of Corrine's affection, on SOAP, and he told me he was his uncle. My other celebrity encounters: A former friend and I traveled to Europe thrice. We stopped over in Helsinki for one night before going on to Leningrad. We got off the plane in Helsinki, walked into the luggage area, which had 2 carousels, and she pointed to the other one and said "Look-- it's (singer/actor) Gary Morris". It was. Sometime after Courtney Cox was in Springsteen's Dancing In The Dark video, this same friend noticed her walking into Harrod's in London ahead of us. She was with Mia Sara, as they were filming a miniseries there. We wanted to follow Courtney humming the song, but alas, we lost them almost immediately. About 20 years ago I walked into the pizza place around the corner from my building and saw David Krumholz. I was too scared to say anything to him because I knew he had murdered Kelli Martin when she was on ER. Even though I wanted to tell him I was grateful that he did that, I did not want to engage a homicidal person in a pizzeria. Plus, I was really hungry.

@WilliamM this thread is starting to remind me of Bob Hope's frequent co-star, Norm Crosby.

She's certainly had an interesting career.

I realized I got the relationship wrong in my last post, so I fixed it. BTW, Mildred Natwick was the real reason to watch THE SNOOP SISTERS.

I thought it was from her appearance in AIRPORT or for being James MacArthur's mother (and, of course, Douglas MacArthur's paramour, which is where James came from).