In case ur unaware, this is part of an already existing au of mine! If u want more context u can scour for the rest of the drawings in the 'doodles of whimsy' tag. If I figure out a better way to organize it I'll let y'all knowšš
Years of research regarding your progress thus far and the projected outcome of your continued efforts have culminated in the finding that it is in fact time for you to give up, experts on you concluded this week. āYou made a decent run at it, but youāre kidding yourself if you think youāre ever really going to get anywhere,ā said numerous sources who worked on your case, none of whom believed that further expenditure of time, energy, or resources would garner apreciable gains and all of whom believed that a graceful admission of defeat is your best option.
all you new fandom members need to QUIET DOWN oh my god you're going to get us KILLED. we're happy to have you but if you keep talking about BULLSHIT like PUBLISHING fanfic for MONEY, Anne Rice is going to come back from the dead to KILL US. looking at YOU, maurauders fans, heated rivalry fans, byler fans...out here giving out interviews to news channels SHUT UP. we're going to have to start setting off firecrackers to keep the rent down.
There once was a singer of old,
Who then broke away from the fold,
He wonāt give you up,
He wonāt let you down,
In a word you have been limerick-rolled.
Corporate Glossary: every Friday, learn the secret meaning of common corporate words
āTheyāre trying to discharge her constructively. Do you know what Constructive Discharge means?ā She asked.
As soon as I heard the term āConstructive Discharge,ā I knew Iād never seen it on a vocabulary quiz.
āNo. What does it mean?ā I asked.
She explained.
āConstructive discharge is a fancy way of saying ābeing forced out.ā Itās not good. And if youāre not a lawyer or in human resources, youāll probably learn what it means when itās happening to you.ā
āOh my God. Iāve seen this my entire career and never knew it even had a name.ā I thought.
Youāve seen constructive Discharge too. You may have experienced it. Weāve all made choices to avoid it.
Constructive discharge defined
āWe canāt fire you, but weāll make you so miserable youāll quit, and then we wonāt have to pay your unemployment.ā
Then thereās the textbook definition:
āA constructive discharge occurs when your employer has made working conditions unbearable, forcing you to resign.ā
Or as one person put it.
āI didnāt get handed a pink slip, but when youāre not wanted, people have a way of letting you know.ā
HR isnāt always the secret police.
Employees arenāt always victims of evil-doers.
However, employers push employees out all the time to maintain and protect the, āWe didnāt do anything wrong, YOU did,ā power structure.
Constructive Discharge looks like this:
ā Meeting invitations slow to a trickle, and youāre excluded from emails and generally looped out of whatās going on.
ā People stop talking to you or stop talking when you walk in.
ā Your emails donāt get answers, or they arrive too late to be of value.
ā Suddenly, your work is not good enough, though nothing about your work has changed.
ā Reviews, once good or even glowing, are now mediocre or bad.
ā Instead of a bonus, you get a Performance Improvement Plan.
ā Warnings and write-ups start so they can justify your eventual termination with documentation of your āpoor performanceā
ā Your work, clients, assignments go away, or they overwhelm you with work.
ā The words āSet up to failā were practically invented to describe this scenario.
Constructive Discharge is illegal
It isnāt easy to prove youāre a target, and itās even more challenging if you donāt even know constructive discharge is a real thing.
If youāve ever experienced this and donāt fully understand whatās happening to you beyond knowing youāre in the process of being excommunicated, it can be hell. Itās not uncommon for the experience to leave long-lasting scars.
Talk to anyone whoās ever been through it. Theyāll tell you.
Knowing constructive discharge exists and how itās used gives you power to predict whatās coming and to protect yourself.
Seeing the endgame helps you in two ways.
You know what to expect.Ā Having a sense of whatās coming next is enormously empowering.
You can go on the offensive and protect yourself.Ā Constructive discharge works to crush your ego, making you feel you did something wrong and deserve this treatment.
Without strategy, you end up being a miserable pawn in your employerās endgame.
Remember, theyāre almost certainly building a case to fire you in the event the hellscape they create for you doesnāt persuade you to quit.
If youāre getting pushed out, and you know what to look for you can prove constructive discharge and you can get unemployment benefits, be released from payback obligations on a signing bonus, and protect your mental health.
Youāre not crazy, incompetent, or a failure. This is real and itās carefully executed to leave you holding the bag and feeling like you did something wrong.
If they force you out, in addition to feeling horrible, you lose your paycheck, benefits health insurance, and possibly owe them money.
Theyāre on Reddit saying texting āhiā is low iq and gives people the ick and thatās why they got ghosted. They donāt let u say hi no moreā¦.. weāre in a loneliness epidemic bc everybody is a weirdo about every little thing im cracking up
If you say "hi" and that's it you sound like you don't give a shit. Why would I want to talk to someone who won't even introduce themselves properly? Make an effort or suffer your loneliness epidemic.
Fuck you for the anxiety you gave me from getting a letter from a name and address I donāt recognize.
Fuck you for the time you made me waste having to open that letter.
Fuck you for the complete bullshit feeling of finding out that you literally just wrote āhiā and expected that to communicate anything or resolve anything.
I donāt know your stupid douchebag ass, and I donāt want to. Fuck all the way off.
Iām here all pissed off just from imagining that hypothetical. Itās nothing short of disgusting that SOME shitheads think that this is acceptable behavior.
Did y'all like, know, that it's incredibly weird to start up a novel right at answering the phone? It's a good way to get accidentally flagged as a telemarketer or something.
You say hi. You start with hi in a conversation. DMs and similar are conversation areas. This isn't even about emails and letters.
People are out here ready to tear apart some stranger in the street for saying hi to you and y'all wonder why you're alone š
Stepping up to a stranger on the street, yelling āhiā at them, then standing there in silence staring at them makes you a creep.
please don't say just hello in chat
Web chats are asynchronous. By the time the other person even sees your meaningless āhiā, you may be AFK or asleep.
You wouldnāt just call someone, say āHIā, then sit in silence and make the other person ask you who you are. No, you say āThis is [name], calling you about [topic].ā within the first few seconds.
You wouldnāt just mail someone a letter in an envelope, just to write āhiā, and make the other person send you a reply to ask you who you are. No, you put your whole message right there in that letter.
Even in real life, you wouldnāt step up to a stranger and blurt out āHIā, then stand there grinning like a creep and staring right into their eyes to pressure the other person to ask you who you are. No, you start the conversation up with an ice-breaker, like a compliment, the question you actually want to ask, or just a rhetorical small-talk question.
This isnāt demanding you to āstart a novelā. This is telling you to actually start a conversation like a normal fucking human being can. This is basic manners.
You people are terminally self-centered and have no respect for the time, social battery, and boundaries of others.
P.S.: On a similar note to āNo helloā, hereās āDonāt ask to askā:
tumblr blaze is such a funny feature. every blazed post ive ever seen has replies full of people cursing op out for forcing them to see it. for a small fee you too can invite strangers to be mad at you. pay money to be publicly shamed for your x reader fic. incredible.
may be a hot take but i think the fact minors can access 18+ content by just clicking a button that says 'yes im totally over 18 trust me' is like. totally fine tbh. its a non-issue. i dont care if curious teenagers are looking at porn. they've been doing that for as long as porn has existed. id rather teens explore their sexuality through images on the internet than rush into real life experiences when they're not ready for it yknow. the UK is trying to put stricter age verification in place (which in turn is becoming an online privacy nightmare) and like. for what. who is it helping. why is this a problem.
People panic about "But what if kids pick up bad ideas from it???"
When I was a kid, Power Rangers got banned at school because we all thought it was incredibly cool and kept trying to kick each other in the head. No-one bothered explaining "Those are trained actors and it's all practiced, they don't *actually* hurt each other, and you're not good at that yet", they just banned it.
So we went to the park after school and read Kim's smuggled copy of the Power Rangers magazine and kicked each other in the head there instead.
(This is a metaphor, but it's also literally true. So much kicking in the head.)
God forbid parents actually talk to their teenagers.