Avoid Using These Passive-Aggressive Phrases in Your Work Emails After enduring countless meetings that could have been an email, the rise of remote work has helped ease some of that for some of us—at least the in-person variety. We may not be wasting as much time stuck in meetings, but the spike in written communication with our colleagues has come with a price: passive-aggressive… Read more…

Paying off mortgage early at an incredibly aggressive rate So I grew up really poor and we never had much. Didn’t have a house but a trailer … family moved and now in a better spot years later. I’m (32 M) married to my wife (29 F) for going on 5 years. We had a lot of equity after buying our first house in 2017 and put that equity ($95,000) towards our current house. We paid roughly $470,000 for the cur…

Which cities have the most aggressive vendors? You know what I’m referring to: you’re touring an area when suddenly, you’re swarmed by fifteen vendors aggressively trying to sell you something. Some of them may be legitimate, and some of them may be grifters, but all of them pile on you like they’re moths and you’re the flame. Only from my own experience, watch out in the following cities fo…

LPT Request: How to act with aggressive drug addicts in the subway Today i was in a subway in a bigger city, and someone who i assume was high on drugs started to threaten everyone near him with physical violence and started spitting around. I got out when i felt the situation became dangerous, but i really couldn’t leave beforehand because he was blocking the exit. I am not the strongest dude, what’s the best…

LPT: The sky rats in the parks are entering nesting season, and will get more aggressive. Here is simple way to defend yourself from an aggressive goose even if you are a child. Take a light jacket or sweater with you. If a goose tries to attack you, just hold the jacket in front of you spread out bull fighter style. The goose is so stupid that it will bite and flap at the cloth and think it is biting you. Works every time. submitted by /u/SecurityTheaterNews

Do you ever hesitate sharing your travel stories because of passive aggressive responses? I know this something that a lot of people have posted about on here but do you guys ever hesitate sharing your travel stories because of passive aggressive responses? I do genuinely enjoy talking to people about my travels *and* theirs -it makes me light up being able to share really fond memories of experiences I’ve had, and also watch people…

LPT REQUEST – Any tips on being honest while not coming across as confrontational or aggressive? Any words or phrases to avoid? This is in a workplace submitted by /u/Dry_Outside3018