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Adding on to this lovely infographic:

Any "Tell me about a time when..." question can be answered using the same formula called the STAR method:

Situation: briefly (in a sentence or two), set up the conflict. Task: tell what your responsibility was in the overall work environment (i.e. were you a manager?). Action: list out the steps you took to resolve the conflict. Result: give the ultimate outcome.

For instance, "tell me about a time when you had a problem with a coworker."

Situation: At my previous job, I joined an already well-established team in my first year, and started coming into conflict with my manager over task management. Task: As a first-year associate, I previously hadn't had a ton of control over my own deadlines, and I assumed it would be the same on this team. However, this manager put a high priority on autonomy and was a bit more hands-off. Action: I took the initiative to meet up with my manager and discuss what her overarching priorities for the project were, and how my pieces fit into the larger picture. From there, I set up a rough estimate of a timeline for my major tasks, and checked in with her. We were able to tweak the timeline to make sure that one piece of my project would be complete in time for the senior associate to review effectively. I then broke that timeline down even further for my own reference, and sent weekly email updates to my manager to discuss my progress and keep myself on track. Result: Communication vastly improved, and we were able to finish the project with plenty of time to spare. I also developed a timeline template to provide to our intern, which helped her stay on track too.

[ID: Interview Questions (Translated): The interview process can be confusing because interviewers expect you to answer completely different questions than what they've asked. Here are a few translations for ASDers on the job hunt.

What they ask: Tell me about yourself

What they want: Give me ~3 sentences on your relevant experience, and then something complimentary about why you're interviewing there specifically.

What they ask: Why are you interested in this company/position?

What they want: Reiterate something (not a perk) from the about us page or job description and say that it is very important or interesting to you.

What they ask: What are you looking for in a new position?

What they want: Reiterate something that the company brags about on their website (not a perk) e.g. the opportunity to work with x technology or career growth

What they ask: Tell me about a time when you had a conflict with a co-worker

What they want: Tell me about a time when there was a minor, non-offensive disagreement with a co-worker that you resolved in a positive way.

What they ask: Tell me about the latest project you worked on.

What they want: Tell me about a successful project you worked on, that is relevant to the work we do here.

Job searching is frustrating! But with a little bit of practice, you too can mask your way to a position that extends your survival in this capitalist hellscape we call home. end ID]

eye-opening tumblr post for me included the words "people are meant to be burdens" as in humans rely on and support one another and it's not a bother it's our purpose; to love and be loved in return. so if you ever think you're being annoying just remember we were made to love and it's going to be okay

coming from the perspective of an addict in recovery. i'm a lot, i need help, i am a burden, and i am so, so loved and supported by my friends and family. i owe them my life and my heart

it's not even cringe; it's just personal and unpolished and you've been taught to flinch away from vulnerability which doesn't mock itself

(🌿 Ranni/Doll)

Saw yet another bullshit take that everything is about love and love is what makes us human and I will again remind you of the following

1. Reducing humanity to a single emotion will always exclude some people who choose to avoid that emotion, have a complicated relationship with it, or cannot identify/feel it.

2. Not all humans have experienced love in a way that was healthy or safe and assuming that love is a default "good" emotion is potentially hurtful and/or triggering.

And

3. Humans are capable of experiencing dozens of emotions love is just one of these emotions and should not be upheld as more important or worthy than any other emotion.

tired of the whole movement that’s people saying ’i read 200 books in a year’ and reading as a means of boasting and hardcover books being bought and never read after the instagram picture and most booktubers reading and recommending the same books and poorly written books selling fast because they have pretty covers and tropes people like and authors on twitter being afraid to say anything serious out of fear of being divisive and the whole let people enjoy things dialogue every time someone expresses that they think something is written shittily as is their god given right to form an opinion as a reader without randos on the internet taking it personally because OMG someone else didn’t agree that this book is good!? TIME TO ESCALATE THINGS TO RIDICULOUS LEVELS 😤😤😤 and also i’m tired of book influencers setting up this false dichotomy between victorian classics or modern pulpy romcoms while vastly ignoring the existence of classics written by people of colour and people from non first world countries

Trying 🍃 (This isn't me, just a story I thought of!! My parent isnt supportive LOL)

Earlier...

Extra 1— food

Extra 2— Handsome

Final extra and happy pride 🏳️‍⚧️

His parents outdid him...

collective action, mutual aid, and communal compassion is all we have. in an oppressive system both indifferent and actively malicious to its people we have to rely on each other. history has shown again and again the overwhelming strength that the solidarity of people can have.

OH I THOUGHT THINGS WERE UPSETTING FIVE SECONDS AGO, OKAY. 

Greg’s healthy approach to relationships has so much collateral damage, my god. We thought the moral of the story was how open communication is a beautiful and powerful tool to resolve unspoken emotional conflict, but the actual moral is ‘sometimes our open communication is an unintended microaggression that will alienate and batter a random third party’s fragile self-esteem into the dirt’. 

A comic to try and sort through some difficult feelings about being an artist and a reminder to not forget who you are.

if you're from the EU and haven't done so yet, please please please sign the petition for unconditional basic income!

it needs 1 million signatures by the 25th june, as well as reach a certain threshold in at least seven countries which it only has in three, and it's also still missing so many signatures to reach 1 million and time is running out

please just do it, it's free, it should be safe cause it's quite literally an official EU site, and literally all you need to do is put your name and address on there (not visible to the public, but they will check if the signatures are legit so please don't fake any signatures, that'll just make it look like the goal was reached when it wasn't)

please just do this, time is running out for this initiative. if there's any reason you haven't signed it yet and won't do it, tell me the reason, maybe i can debunk it

here's the link to the petition: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/014/public/#/screen/home

as you might know i am fairly neutral on the matter of retellings and i only watch commercial Feminist Retellings TM from afar because they are not quite the kind of dialogue with the ancient i am interested in, but i Do have an active concern about them, which is that my impression is that they often come from a position of arrogance and unwillingness to listen to what the ancient has to say. the core assumption is that the ancient has nothing more to say as it is. the core assumption is that ancient stories about ancient women need to be reworded, reframed, transformed for us to be able to connect with them. that horror and violence have no place in these stories. as if the modern world didn’t know any helen, any persephone, any philomela and procne, any arethusa, any cyane and so on. engaging with the ancient means picking up a millennia-long thread. if you cut it, you are either doing something revolutionary or something deeply meaningless.

Togepi Egg Ita Bag made by SweetBerriStudios

i haven’t posted here in ages but @jastertown and i are making a zelda comic together and i need Everyone to know here’s the cover :)

As a society valuing convenience over experience is why everything sucks today. Blockbuster was an EXPERIENCE. the movie theater was an EXPERIENCE. Music stores were an EXPERIENCE. Arcades were an EXPERIENCE. I don’t want to sit in my house forever!!!!! I don’t want everything streamed to my electronics!!!!! I want to sit in front of the big silver screen for 2 hours with a coke freeze and come out with my life changed!!!! I want to live and I don’t care the cost!!!!!!

sorry I saw a post about AAVE and got fired up and had to make this

the way i was just talking about this in class like why does a work of literature have to ‘transcend time and culture.’ is it not enough to meet it where it’s at as a specific piece of art belonging to a specific context from a particulare time

The fact people think relatability is the ultimate mark of good fiction and can’t enjoy a story or a character if it isn’t relatable is the reason our society’s in shambles

Shopping sustainably may weaken the fast fashion industry, but it fails to address our compulsion to consume. “Ethical” buying lets us avoid the root of the issue: overidentification with products as indicators of worth and signifiers of our identities. Our self worth should not be built around what we can or cannot buy.