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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • It sounds to me that she likes you. Giving a gift and making a counter proposal for a meeting time both speak to that.

    Surely she won’t mind the flowers, if she’s gotten around to tell you what type she likes. My only concern is logistical: where will the flowers be while you are at the event? Or will you pick her up and she can leave them at her place?

    Perhaps you could combine 2 and 3? You could tell her at some point that you are excited to meet her again and were already thinking about wednesday, then ask how she feels about meeting so often and direct the conversation to what she is looking for from the relationship and over what timeframe. The reason I suggest this is that it might feel less like putting her on the spot on “where are we going with this” and making the question “would meeting already on Wednesday be too intense for you”.

    It’s good to think about framing questions, but the most important thing is reading the situation and caring about how she feels. The latter you clearly do already.

    You’ll do well.

    And if you feel like it, we will appreciate hearing how it went.



















  • I don’t know which strike this refers to, but it sounds credible. Supporting strikes and even politicians resigning isn’t all that uncommon, although a single strike would not be the only reason.

    At the same time, we have the second highest unemployment rate in Europe and 15 years of economic stagnation.

    This shouldn’t be taken as an anti-union or anti-worker stance though. The problem is that countries with good worker rights, strong social security and regulation need to compete against countries that don’t, putting them at a disadvantage.

    I wouldn’t mind the Finnish system everywhere, even if it meant much reduced growth globally.