BITE THE HAND

remember kids, if there's no incentive to work harder? Don't! Do exactly what you're getting paid for, nothing more, and leave as soon as you can without getting "in trouble"

You don't owe The Company shit!

so. uh. it's more complicated than that. this attitude is gonna bite you in the ass if you don't apply some fucking nuance to it. even if you're full r/antiwork and don't want to prioritize your job, you're still thinking like an employee; if you want to get anything out of working, you need to think like a freelancer.

there are situations where you want to be the go-to guy and situations where you don't. because there's two kinds of work: I call it work that produces light and work that produces heat.

when you're making light, you're working on stuff that's a) immediately visible to other people and b) usually fulfilling in its own right. when you're making heat, you're working on stuff that's a) mundane, tedious and awful, and b) usually invisible to other people.

everyone has a different definition of light and heat. and every job has a mix of both. some people genuinely find "moved 1000 tons of trash across the city every day more efficiently than anyone else" to be rewarding, and find light in what would be darkness for anyone else. and every job needs you to make some heat- even if you're a freelancer and get to decide what you do, you need to deal with client emails and bookkeeping.

but you want to make as much light and as little heat as possible. you want to be the go-to guy for anything that makes light, and slack off on anything that makes heat.

you want to be the guy who (say) got the company 1000 new clients a year, not the guy who chaired the office diversity committee. you want to be the guy who had the fastest customer service times in the call center, not the guy who knows how to fix the printer.

because even if your current employer doesn't recognize it? even if your job is 99% heat? you can use that 1% light when you're looking for another, better job.

your accomplishments are what matter when you're job searching. employers want to see that you've Done Something. if you can point to the light you've made and go "look! I did this, that, and the other!" it makes you look better to the new company.

you might not get a raise from the fuckers in your old company's management... but you might be able to negotiate a 50% salary jump with the new company, on the grounds that you can get them 1000 new clients a year.

and like. yeah. a lot of jobs are 99% heat. this Sucks and it isn't your fault your job Sucks. feel free to fucking slack on most of your goddamn work; lord knows you deserve it.

But if you're just thinking about what your work does for your current company, you're still thinking like an employee. you're still working based on the assumption that the work you're doing is to benefit your company, and that your compensation should rely on how your work benefits the company.

you need to be thinking about what the work you're doing benefits you, be judicious about what you take on, and finangle yourself into a position where you're making more light than heat.

the other nuance is that you have to make light AND advocate for yourself to get that raise as well.

Its good to have options and "hiring" budgets are usually higher than "retaining" budgets, but if you make enough light, your bosses will also notice. Employee turnover and the costs of training new personnel is a real factor in any business operation. If you are making enough light, its pretty likely that your bosses will become more receptive when you ask for a raise, because they can see your work as an asset. The real point is though, you have to ask for what you want, or you'll never get it.

Also, interview anyways, and use the offer for the new job to leverage a matching raise from your current job.

Embrace the Unknown (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander) - Quintin Gleim

Don Wilson:

"I have noticed a significant increase in general laxity about PPE since COVID masking has been dropped. A significant % of OR staff (esp anesthesia & RTs) not bothering to mask inside actual OR even when sterile fields are open & set up.

Nurses inside OR generally much more consistent (they directly handle & set up sterile equipment).

I’ve seen unmasked anesthesiologists & RTs for emergency CS & gyne cases… I don’t get it. We mask to prevent contamination of open surgical wounds. Just because COVID mask mandates are over doesn’t mean INSIDE an operating room is a mask free zone.

Used to be that it was unthinkable to be unmasked inside an active OR. Even in the hallways during active OR time. It’s a sad commentary on the impact of the antimask stupidity spilling over to areas where it can impact quality & safety of the patient care environment.

I’m just one person who chooses to be fastidious about masking inside the hospital, I can’t take on the entire system. But it’s discouraging to see & I wonder how many patients go on to have nosocomial surgical infections because of relaxed cultures around masking now."

https://x.com/heiltsuk_paleo/status/1780326358314614784

Yesterday I saw an article about Hantavirus prevention that didn't mention respiratory protection when cleaning up mouse poop. Just gloves, bleach, and wetting rather than sweeping. Which is better than nothing, but for a disease as dangerous as HPS, I'm going to put in the tiny extra effort of an N-95 also.

Construction workers are masking less around sawdust and worse.

The anti-mask brainrot runs deep.

^ this exactly.

Linking other post involving now occupational hazards and injuries to workers due to managers and owners' attitudes on PPE:

me: i wanna fuck a girl

sapphic positivity blogs: …..haha……don’t u mean u want to…..braid her hair…..while u guys do green tea eucalyptus volcanic ash mud masks and watch a disney movie…….while wearing very thick flannel pajamas…..that’s what u meant right

this post got me jumped on 2016 tumblr

I feel like "vitamin D makes you less tired" must be something invented by Big Sun to sell more sun. I spent seven hours in the sun today and I have not been this tired and exhausted since the last time I did so. sun and heat makes me fall asleep faster than melatonin.

the sun makes me tired the way a big meal does. photosynthetic genetic memory? energy being spent on massive vitamin d overproduction?

The sun is actually siphoning your lifeforce. Solar eclipses only happen because the sun needs more people to go outside and look at it.

I love telling people Take Care… like please take care!!

Fish bite more during rain because they can sense their domain expanding. Their arrogance leads to their downfall.

girls it is your new mission to become boys. boys it is your new mission to become girls. everyone else stand in the middle and try to stop them

The nfl

chess

STOP. moment of gratitude for those precious times of breathing from your nostrils when you don't have a stuffy nose

Everyone who doesn't have a headache right now, stop right now for a moment and appreciate how good it is not to have a headache.