hey hello

Fraser. Scotland mostly. In my feelings the rest of the time.

[anxietyproblem]

[mournfulroses]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Boris Pasternak featured in Letters, Summer 1926

[pansexualpizza]

“Must have reliable transportation” = “this is how we legally discriminate against poor people who take the bus”

[courtcourttheshort]

As someone who has held several management positions with hiring responsibility, this is true. The boss at my last job informed me before I conducted my very first I interview,

“You can’t outright ask someone if they have a car or have kids. That’s technically illegal. But you need to know because sometimes they can be deal breakers. You can just say ‘Do you have reliable transportation?’ and ‘Do you have any current circumstances that could impede you from being successful at work?’

To which the last one most people fumble and would say, “Well I have kids, so sometimes they could get sick. But that’s not often.” But then your potential employer could mark it down on your interview notes nonetheless.

I thought that maybe it was just my own employer. But now I noticed that I am asked both of these almost every time I interview for a job.

Language is very sneaky. Be careful how you answer. Corporations can be snakes.

[iproposeawager]

In my businesses class my professor told us that the bus counts as reliable transportation. You do not legally have to say “I take the bus” just say “yes I do have reliable transportation” and leave it at that. Do not over share. DO NOT OVER SHARE. The second question just say no. If your kids are sick call out as if you are sick. I don’t have kids but I myself can get sick and that doesn’t hinder my ability to succeed so kids getting sick shouldn’t hinder you. When I call out I give as little info as possible. No one needs to know why you call out. They can’t ask about your “illness” because it violates HIPAA if they do. So as long as you don’t offer more info than you need to you should be okay.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Real quick, you do not have to confirm what kind of transportation you have, you do not have admit to any personal circumstance that may impact your future work, and you should never, ever discuss anything related to your health in a job interview. Do not give them information they cannot ask for.

[amare-habeo]

Ladislav Vychodil (Slovak, 1920-2005)

Ch. W. Gluck: Orpheus and Eurydice, 1966

Tempera on paper, 36 x 53 cm

[seabeck]

A brief dusting

[sacred-portal]

[illightinati]

[anexperimentallife]

[labelleizzy]

Everyone reblog this. Mandatory.

[pjackk]

Can i be sensitive for 1 second or will i be tackled and killed

[quiet-oracle]

[pidoop]

[catchymemes]

[willgrahamscock]

not now kitten, daddy's about to have a mental breakdown from seeing the prices at the grocery store

[willgrahamscock]

this getting 20 notes in under a minute... we need to start killing the government

[butterflypeaflowertea]

they should invent a being in your twenties in which you do not feel your life is unsalvageable and ruined

[powerburial]

most problems will go away if you ignore them. of course they'll resurface with greater intensity, so you have to ratchet up your ignorance every time. luckily this can go on forever, until you die in some strange- assuredly unrelated- way

[pedestriansteppers]

Photograph by Peter Donnelly, Birmingham 1962.

[catchymemes]

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{David Levithan from you are always going to leave/By Arthur Miller from "The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts}