as much as it hurt me, i don't want to change a thing

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parents got a new cat they named lord montague and this morning i heard my dad in the other room say "i would have to advise against that decision, my lord" followed by a crashing sound

Thinking about before his teeth grew fangs and eye's turned red...

when no one has written the exact fic to scratch a very specific emotional itch and you absolutely do not have time to write it yourself but you still want to read it dammit

The trick is to do it without shame. Literally anything could be cool if you just did it shamelessly

Since it's watermelon season!

My grandfather used to grow watermelons, among other things, and he told me about most of this, especially the orange spot. Those are the absolute best!

i have been given nothing but shiny elongated watermelons with small webbings and white spots. and they make me wanna kill myself

Moon Phases, two versions because I couldn’t decide which way to go.

the fucked up thing about every corporation's executives being like "we are going to use AI and other new technologies to replace you it's inevitable sorry" is that

1) usually experts in AI and these new technologies will tell you that it CANT replace every worker and has its own challenges and requires new and different kinds of workers to make it functional and

2) it is not the fucking technology putting people out of work or ruining how the system functions. it is PEOPLE (executives) making CHOICES to make it that way, and blaming the TECHNOLOGY. moving to adopt new technology in sustainable and realistic ways requires, money, time, and long term investment, which executives just trying to show exponential growth to wall street at the next shareholder meeting for a few years before they take a nice severance package and hop to the next company or retire, don't give a shit enough to do. they see a new toy, a new bauble, that some silicon valley idiot tells them will reduce costs and increase output, they sell the lie to their shareholders, they rinse and repeat. it is CHOICES. BY PEOPLE. NOT THE TECHNOLOGY. it never has been in the history of human innovation.

Always remember the Luddites where right when they said the benefits of technological advancement of the mechanical loom should be distributed equitably to all community members but especially to those displaced by it, rather than monopolized by the factory owners doin' the displacing.

Improvements in efficency should mean vacations not layoffs.

my favorite doctor who thing I've ever seen was an interview with the special effects guy for the first doctor where they asked him if he was proud of the work he'd done on the show and he just straight up said "no"

do you ever sabotage your own free time? like wtf is that about? i want to play this game or read or do something specific but instead i will just stare out the window or scroll mindlessly???

Let's also not forget the intersex kids who are forced into surgeries and hormones with no ability to consent.

Trans and intersex bodily autonomy NOW.

This. There are many intersex children who go thru puberty early, and most of the time intervention is chosen for us, not by us. Cis intersex children deserve autonomy too.

magical girl shows really did snap when they assigned personality traits based off the members colors

pink - commander and the leader. probably really nice and sweet

blue - probably very close to pink, is either 100 iq smarty pants but shy or very tough and cool

yellow/orange - very happy and positive. can vary from being newbie of the group to be older and mature, probably known as the beautiful one

purple - mysterious, usually starts off as a rival or joins the group later, but is definitely known to the members as another MG. Probably has a softer side they don’t show

Don’t forget green - more mature and very reliable

Red - Mad

okay but this implies the existence of a lost pink teletubby. a fallen leader too painful to talk about anymore

tubby custard.

No Notes forbidden tubby custard lore post.

My dad is a kroger manager and sent me this (repost without personal info)

they thought 1 lb stood for “one little bean”

I think adults need summer vacation. Like let's just close down all our jobs for three months and play outside. Please. I'm so tired.

I worked for the US side of a company where the main financial decision makers were headquartered in Spain for a while.

And in August? Basically everyone in Spain goes on vacation the entire month.

And since the financial decision makers were all gone, and my job was to ask for financial decisions, I had a much reduced workload every August.

I still had to show up to the office, which sucked.

Anyway, this is a long post to say that other countries get this. We should demand it here.

And more.

When a job says "unlimited time off" ask what their average usage is. Ensure you match it. Minimum.

When a job says "you get X days off" use them. Keep a sharp eye on roll over limits year-to-year, leave no hour behind.

These are not health or mana potions to save for a boss fight.

Do not answer your phone on vacation. Do not check your email. Do not feel the need to explain.

I took last week off because I hadn't played Super Mario Bros. 2 in a long time and I said, "This is a good week to play Super Mario Bros. 2."

I regularly take off at least 1 day to have my hair done. Hair! I could have it done on a Saturday, I don't, because Saturday's are my time. Hair time is hair time.

Sometimes I take a day off because the weather is frightfully good or frightfully bad.

Do you remember how cheap movies are during the day, during the week, around lunch time? At least once a month I take a day off to go to the movies and eat snacks and cavort slowly and casually.

To hustle is to make your boss richer.

To lazily sashay down a boulevard with a fizzy water and no plans and less thought? Divine.

Time off is not a reward.

Time off is part of your compensation.

The fancy business term for this is "Employee Value Proposition." It is the sum of the question, "why do you want to work here" -- money + benefits + etc.

If you are in an interview and someone says "why do you want to work here" and they are a suit person, say something to the effect of, "Your employee value proposition is significantly higher than your competitors. I value X, Y, Z of your compensation package, firm's reputation, product's reputation, and the current course of your management team."

If you do not have time off, or enough time off, I wish for you an expedited and profitable exit to a situation where you do.

what i miss most about being a chocolatier (besides the honor of gayest job title imaginable) is we had these massive bars of chocolate for tempering that were 10lbs and we had to break them into smaller chunks. by using a sledgehammer of course. i LIVED for that shit

all the other people in production HATED busting them especially at the end of the shift but i fucking loved it. give me the hammer. i can be trusted with the hammer. And everyone did in fact trust me with the hammer because again they all thought it was tedious and painful. me? i was having the time of my life. even if i had to pick up the slack for other people i would be annoyed for all of five seconds before the euphoria of getting to smash things set in. and the production areas had windows too so customers often just got to watch me beat the shit out of a massive chocolate bar. with a hammer. like a zoo animal. i was getting paid to do that. every day i miss it.

I feel like a good shorthand for a lot of economics arguments is "if you want people to work minimum wage jobs in your city, you need to allow minimum wage apartments for them to live in."

"These jobs are just for teenagers on the weekends." Okay, so you'll use minimum wage services only on the weekends and after school. No McDonald's or Starbucks on your lunch break.

"They can get a roommate." For a one bedroom? A roommate for a one bedroom? Or a studio? Do you have a roommate to get a middle-wage apartment for your middle-wage job? No? Why should they?

"They can live farther from city center and just commute." Are there ways for them to commute that don't equate to that rent? Living in an outer borough might work in NYC, where public transport is a flat rate, but a city in Texas requires a car. Does the money saved in rent equal the money spent on the car loan, the insurance, the gas? Remember, if you want people to take the bus or a bike, the bus needs to be reliable and the bike lanes survivable.

If you want minimum wage workers to be around for you to rely on, then those minimum wage workers need a place to stay.

You either raise the minimum wage, or you drop the rent. There's only so long you can keep rents high and wages low before your workforce leaves for cheaper pastures.

"Nobody wants to work anymore" doesn't hold water if the reason nobody applies is because the commute is impossible at the wage you provide.

already there. i'm doing my part 🫡

bare minimum mondays too tired to care tuesdays whatever i can get away with wednesdays this job sucks thursdays fuck it fridays sat on my ass saturdays and somebody else is gonna have to do it sundays

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don’t forget during the WGA strike that animation is not covered under the WGA deals and as a result animation has gotten the shortest possible end of the stick in under-staffing, under-paying, and generally turning the field into gig employment.

please sign the petition here for Disney to recognize animation production workers as a union and reblog this post!

Maybe if he was a little less fuckable we wouldn’t be in this mess

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