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QuickCart's order volume is up 33% YoY for the January to April period. Revenue derived directly from incoming orders is up 30% YoY for same period.
We're not where we want to be just yet but we're definitely heading in the right direction!
If you're interested in investing...
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Not even pan di side walk. Inna di street ah live reckless while Rebecca deh pan Canva ah design lost dog poster and ah bawl.
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Went to a work thing in Canada. The only meat on the buffet line was med rare steak. Everybody else took their food & sat eating & all the West Indians stood there looking at each other. Anyway, chef got the hint, sliced off some steak, finished cooking it & brought it back out.
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OOMF took this pic of me in 2017. There isn’t a single job function in this business (including mopping the floors) that I haven’t done personally. If you’re planning to bootstrap a small business, make sure you understand beforehand that there will be nothing glamorous about it.
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Just randomly laying here thinking about how young, poor black men were demonized and locked-up for using ganja and now di plant inna uptown plaza inna glass globe wid strobe light ah shine pan it wid well-to-do people ah buy 'hundred dolla bag' worth fi $1,400.
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So mongrel dog fi live. After poodle nuh more dan dem.
This is one of my routine vet visits to Sugar and Spice. Follow me on TikTok for more vet content! 😊
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Wow, Floyd. The initial action that led to this was disappointing but the way he's accepted responsibility without excuses and without hitching is what personal accountability should look like...especially for public servants at that level.
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Earlier mi did inna one funky mood and jump inna mi car say mi ah take a drive out. Stop ah Holy Smokes and buy some jerk pork and a cold pepsi and suddenly all was right with the world. Moral of the story: Sometimes you're not really having a bad day, ah just hungry yuh hungry.
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Knutsford Express bus schedule fi leave at 11:00 am and drove out at...wait for it...11:00 am. Mi nuh very used to dis kind ah ting inna Jamaica but I welcome it and hope for more of it.
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I want this guy to win.
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Inna cook shop already and man order Straightorade.
the fact that some Jamaican men bun out homosexuals to the point that they don't use certain words will never not be funny.
It's not Manor park, instead it's Gyala Park.
I hate all of you.
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Maiden Cay! I am ready for you. Are you ready for me?
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When you have zero interest in being a social climber it frees up your ability to speak on things.
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If a man takes you out early in a relationship and then after oonu belly full he tells you he forgot his wallet, LIE HIM AH TELL. When you invite out somebody and ah you ah pay, yu pat yu pocket all 50 time during the date fi mek sure yu nah go embarrass at the end.
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I want more black people to start being very deliberate about building generational wealth. If you're living hand to mouth there's only so much you can do but if you're fortunate enough to earn a decent salary...be deliberate about investing some of it w/long term goals in mind.
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It's interesting how some people kind of flatter themselves & assume that s/one who asks them this question is pushing them to get into a relationship. S/times they just want to know what they're free to do outside of you & care enough to make sure you both are on the same page.
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Is a good ting mi can laugh after miself. The $30 Clarks reach. People look pan dis good and tell mi say smaddy nuh wear dis arredi. Not even try mi try on di shoes or nutting. Mi JUST tek it outta di box and ah it dis.
Copped! Mi never yet ketch one ah dem good deal yah yet. Mi excited.
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So, about that last RT. I was telling somebody recently how to buy fish at Hellshire. Don't wait until you eat to ask the total or walk in asking how much a pound. Walk in and say "mi have 10g and mi ago want 5 fish wid some festival, dat can gwaan"? Works for me every time.
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My mother's story is inspiring. Born in poverty. Went to school for the first time at age 9...couldn't identify a single letter in the alphabet. Not only caught up with her peers but eventually got 3 degrees, 2 post grad diplomas, finished her career at the top of her field.
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All weh ah gwaan this has been excellent marketing for Gorilla Glue. Bout to buy a can fi couple shoes weh di bottom ah drop off cause mi KNOW it nah go fail mi.
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Ah yes, of course. High import duties to protect our promising local cell phone manufacturing industry.
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Once you get hip to how good Mother's chicken is there's no going back. If you still haven't had it yet, start off with the original and the sweet chilli. Can't miss wid dem two flavour deh.
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Scotiabank started issuing Visa Debit cards to all it's customers at least 7 years ago. Why is it taking NCB so long to do the same? As the leading bank here that ONE move would give ecommerce a massive boost in JA. I'm sure they have at least half a million retail customers.
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If you see this and the FIRST thing you say is "send dem back"...bwoy....I feel like it tell mi suppen bout you.
#JUSTIN
: A boat carrying 37 Haitians, including 10 children believed to be below the age of nine, landed on the shores of Boston Beach in Portland a short while ago.
The Haitians appeared to be in good health, but complained about being hungry.
More soon.
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Many know this I'm sure but some might not know...Currie is A Maroon chief not THE Maroon chief. There are multiple settlements each with their own colonels/chiefs/leadership structures.
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Doing Christmas a little differently this year. Just my partner and I at a quaint little hotel in Treasure Beach.
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Feeling very proud of my team right now. Tomorrow we launch in Trinidad & Tobago.
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Finding out why Jesse Williams is trending was far more interesting than finding out why Popcaan is trending.
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I cant quite put a finger on it but there's s/thing about an event called the Sugar Cane Ball, being held on a former sugar plantation, that's mainly attended by people of a particular hue. Same way Id feel if they were in the US having a Cotton Pickers Ball. Cant put a finger...
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Don't fight for seats at their table. Build your own table.
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#RandomFact
I get an email notification EVERY TIME a customer calls our line & doesn't get through to someone. The number of notifications I get per day is now less than 5. I want to get it as close to 0 as possible. Customer satisfaction has to be the # 1 priority. No other way.
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She's an angel now. My amazing, fierce, bold, inspiring mother is an angel now.
My mother's story is inspiring. Born in poverty. Went to school for the first time at age 9...couldn't identify a single letter in the alphabet. Not only caught up with her peers but eventually got 3 degrees, 2 post grad diplomas, finished her career at the top of her field.
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Everytime I stop at a restaurant and see one of these on the door it almost feels surreal. A part of me cant believe that we've built a platform that 2/3 of the restaurants in Kingston have signed on to. We have very long way to go but we've done quite a bit with our tiny team.
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I believe every single one of these 'Jamaican man' stories. I remember long ago my mom told me of someone she knew whose long-term boyfriend had her iron his suit and shine his shoes for his "friend's wedding", then left the house and went and got married.
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Father free us from the shackles of assuming foreign things and services provided by foreign companies will be better for no proven reason, just the fact that they are from foreign.
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Long way to go but a far it ah come from. This is why I don't suffer fools gladly who think they can walk into what has been built, bring next to nothing and are crazy enough to think they can disrespect me in the process and I'll sit and take it.
OOMF took this pic of me in 2017. There isn’t a single job function in this business (including mopping the floors) that I haven’t done personally. If you’re planning to bootstrap a small business, make sure you understand beforehand that there will be nothing glamorous about it.
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Mi nah buy back no more ah dem gummy vitamin here. Dem taste too good. Ah bout 7 mi eat from morning and ah 2-a-day.
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Dear foreigners heading to Juici in Florida,
How to eat a Jamaican Patty:
1. Dont tek out di whole ting outta di bag and tear it up
2. Pull up di top part alone towards di top ah di bag
3. Bite
4. Say hooofh hoofh hoofh fi cool down di piece weh inna you mouth
5. Repeat
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Similarly, if you hear one of your outside pipes gushing in the middle of the night. Let it run. This is another tactic as well.
If your car alarm goes off outside your home, do not go outside to investigate.
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Remember to live. You blink and you're 30, blink again 40 etc etc. Life short and half the things we stress over don't really matter that much in the grand scheme of things.
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Take lots of pictures of your family and close friends. Not just on special occasions either...take random pictures of y'all doing everyday things...capture random candid smiles etc. One day you'll either be very glad you did...or you'll wish you had.
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The people who've died from COVID-19 aren't the only fatalities stemming from this pandemic. It's all the people who didn't get the care they would have normally gotten and all the people who were prematurely discharged to make room for others and died as a result.
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Many of us introverts are highly perceptive. Constantly picking up micro-cues and signals from things like inconsistencies in body language, tone, speech etc. Blessing and curse...but more blessing than curse once you start trusting your intuition.
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I know it’s a little Frighten Friday but I actually detoured on my breakfast run this morn to take pics of this and a couple other boards. Spent much of my career building out campaigns for other companies but it’s very cool to see my own brand on billboards for the first time :)
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Thanks for the feature
@JamaicaGleaner
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"From QuickPlate To QuickCart: Monique Powell Remains Steadfast"
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When your parents pass a certain age, you become the parent, they become the child...except that you can't yell at this child when they refuse to do the right thing...because they're still your parent.
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One of the downsides to being quiet & mostly mild-mannered is that too many ppl mistake it for weakness. They always eventually find out that they've been terribly mistaken...but it would have served both parties better for the assumption to not have been made in the first place.
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I've stopped listing degrees as a requirement for job postings (outside of some technical roles). They generally have next to no bearing on the value someone brings to a role.
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Feel like Bresheh's Roast line has the potential to be another Bridget...as in, a Jamaican luxury brand that's priced accordingly and is a bit of a status symbol.
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My own app just saved me fron "card machine not working". Opened the QuickCart app same place at the cashier, submitted it as a 'pickup' order and paid in app, problem solved.
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We took one of those Christmas packages from a caterer this year and this is gonna be it from now on. Why cook when we can just eat instead?
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Some people like to take cheap shots at entrepreneurs with failed ventures...and every time I see that sort of thing it's from someone who has never actually built and run a business. It's hard work & sometimes it just doesnt work out in the end. I could never laugh at that.
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Speaking of wins...we've always been out there stealthily moving about, we're a little less incognito now ;)
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Elephant Man, we need you. Make people wid two left foot can dance again. Be a hero for the people.
Just want one dance mi can catch as easy as Willie Bounce 😩
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If yu see mi pan tiktok ah say mmm, cake so good, mmm, ice cream, yummy yummy, mind your business.
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My main takeway from the QTs is that a lot of usually straight women would be willing to bend a little bit for Koffee.
The highlight of my entire weekend. When
@originalkoffee
spotted me in the crowd this morning and called me over to tell me she loved my performance and that she went home and YouTubed my music bcz of it and that
#StreetFighter
is her fave 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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For online businesses that process all their payments through a local bank but get no love from that bank when it's time to access loans to level out your cashflow, expand etc, consider incorporating in the US & processing payments through Stripe if your model can support this.
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Nobody cyaan tell mi say glass bottle ting and glass bottle ginger beer nuh taste better.
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A therapist walked me through this logic yrs ago & it opened my eyes. Havent made excuses for ppl w/'anger issues' since. If there are other ppl who you don't flare up at at the slightest inconvenience/irritation, it means you CAN control yourself, if you think it's important to.
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Jamaican LGBT people: "Our relationship with Buju is complicated ok. Mind your own business!!!"
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Sometimes without realizing it or intending it we put down aspects of our culture. I've seen people become visibly uncomfortable when I switch to patois in business meetings for example...meetings with only J'cans at the table. The question is...why?
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Meanwhile I'm here on my 6th year without a real vacation (real = lasting more than 3 days). When mi did ah work fi other people every year mi laptop shut dung fi two weeks.
If a 9 to 5 is your chosen path don't mek NOBODY shame yuh fi it.
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I don’t know which workaholic needs to hear this...but unhealthy work habits will frigg up your mental health, your physical health, your family life and your relationships. I know you think the world will fall apart if you stop working for half a second too long...but IT WON’T.
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Today sucked a bit. Mi tell other half say today need fi put inna rice. Mi get dis inna one cup lol
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The small corner shop in my community has this sign up and I love it! I also 100% believe him. It's a tiny 150 sq. ft. shop and from day one him have him iPad based PoS system and him swipe card machine. No patty shop ting. Man ah think big. (No disrespect to patty shops.)
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Just go inna Starbuck Liguanea. Place ram till mi couldn’t find no seat & haffi leave. Remembered b4 the launch some ppl were on here implying that Starbucks in JA would be a dumb idea & the market wouldnt take to it. Moral of the story: careful who you take business advice from.
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It know it may sound weird but there are people who are wild and fun on the inside but who are also socially awkward so the wild-and-funness doesnt translate in offline spaces with people they dont know well.
Catfish personalities is a thing, people that act all wild and fun on social media then have the personality of a plank of wood in person
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Next time mi bout fi get a ticket mi ago walk out inna di miggle ah di road and bawl out “Sarry Jamaica, nah dweet again!”, then get back in my car and drive off.
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Nuh too quick fi follow people who tell you fi turn your passion into a business without thinking long and hard about all parts of it. If you start a whole bakery just because you like to bake you might be in for an unpleasant surprise (also, you probably won't be baking).
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What am I hearing on All Angles? Why is someone in government telling a member of the football team that they have to be mindful of what they say because it may reflect poorly on the country etc? Sounds like muzzling to me.
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Do you ever get randomly get a vibes fi just walk weh lef everyting? Live frugally but happily in a small dwelling near di sea and dem ting deh?
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Ah me alone have a small distrust fi people who disable dem read receipts pan Whatsapp? Mi nuh know why but is a ting weh gi mi a likkle shady vibes.
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We Jamaicans aren't going to let a little thing like lack of information prevent us from commenting strongly on an article we didn't read.
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Cat nuh do nutten pan nobody else's terms. Only fi dem. Two years in and this cat has only just started responding to her name...occasionally. Meanwhile yu call di dog name one time and yu hear him a gallop come from round a back.
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Some people can't speak their minds on particular issues because their desire for proximity to power is so great that that they would never risk offending those who hold it.
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Government: Why is so there little ecommerce???! Why are so few of you paying for things online???! Why is it that half of you have no bank accounts???!
Dem ah behave like returning resident weh just ah touch down and never know wah ah gwaan ah Jamaica.
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Dear fellow workaholic: Go outside. Touch grass. Or stay in & watch a movie. It's Sunday. Most of the things we're stressing ourselves to death over (some of us, literally) don't matter that much. Chances are you're not working on any live-saving cures. Leave the desk for a bit.
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Even if Amazon is shipping straight to Jamaica I'll keep giving my business to my local freight forwarder as long as they continue to provide good service. Building a small business here is too hard for me to ditch local businesses without good reason. Unfortunately...
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It's interesting how easily one can be regarded as an expert in an area. Not by having demonstrated actual expertise...but simply by speaking eloquently, repeatedly and publicly on the subject matter, often enough.
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If you're negotiating an important deal and the other side graciously offers up their own attorney to guide you through the docs so you don't have to spend money on legal costs (this is something that happens)...please, find the money and get your own attorney (a very good one).
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You're "crazy" until your far-fetched idea works...then you're a "visionary".
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This co. (Jamaican) does beautiful hand-crafted leather bags & ah hold back dem sales with "DM for price". Sorry, I will never, so that's a potential sale lost and I have a feeling I'm not the only like this so who knows how many sales they're missing out on. Make it make sense.
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Business owner ❌
Salaried managing director ✅
So you live, so you learn.
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When somebody becomes withdrawn we shouldn't assume that dem 'dash weh' everybody or get rich and switch or whatever other theories we like to conjure up. Sometimes they're simply dealing with inner turmoil and what you're seeing is the result.
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There's a lot of talk about covid-19 changing the way we work forever. Within the J'can context...I'm not so sure...truly forward-thinking companies will never go back, not entirely...but I'm very sure a number of businesses are just itching to fall back into their old routines.
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I'm sure some of us who aren't saying much know that the only thing that has kept us from smacking one or two people clear into the next decade is our absolute lack of interest in seeing the inside of a jail cell.
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I just know that during slavery there was always some uncle tom telling the complainers that they were ungrateful because without massa they would have no where to live and no food to eat.
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Starbucks Mall Plaza is the biggest proof of how wrong some people were about whether Jcans would gravitate towards SB or not. If you've been to the other locations you can clearly see that the demographic is different...but dem in deh ah spend dem money same way. Ever full.
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They were hoping she would have stayed single forever so that they could say "see, this is what happens when you follow the kind of advice she gives".
miss kitty got married and some man vex...not because they wanted her for themselves but just because she got married...i'm confused...
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There's a kind of barbaric style of groupthink that exists
#onhere
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#Soon
. It's talking a little while longer than expected because we decided to invest some more time in making sure that we're delivering a product that is as safe as possible for both 'lessees' and 'lessors'.
#CaribbeanTech
#QuickCartRides
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If as an adult you're lucky enough to still have your parents around, cherish them. It's easy to get so lost in your own journey of trying to figure out adulthood that you don't even consciously think about the fact that they're aging and your time with them is not infinite.
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Almost two hundred years after slavery and we still have house slaves doing the most to keep the plantation intact for massa because they're feeling so happy and grateful about their spot in the big house. Feeling all haughty like "I got massa's ear. Watch yourself!"
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The sole purpose of this tweet is to show off my breakfast.
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Companies that have very strict rules about not discussing salaries with other coworkers usually have huge disparities in salaries paid to people at the same level based on random things (who negotiated better, local vs foreign talent, male vs female).
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I hate when people call and say "I've been trying to reach you..."...and then pause waiting on me to explain myself. There are any number of reasons I may not have picked up the phone before but I'm on the line now...so what's up?
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Tattoos have a likkle addictive ting bout dem enuh. I can see how people go from zero to Kartel in a few years.
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