Mindless Ramblings

Mainly fandom, sporadically saying stupid shit.

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[patema-introverted]

Showrunners have GOT to start naming their shows again what the FUCK do you mean there's a show just called FROM??? FROM???? WE CAN'T EVEN GET NOUNS ANYMORE YOU HAD TO USE A PREPOSITION???

[adamtotscomix]

[redstonedust]

ive been thinking about how some trans spaces and media lack representation of bottom surgery and itd be nice if we could talk about and depict it more. but my attempts to formulate this into a coherent thought lead me to standing in front of the microwave idly thinking "we should normalize men with penises" as if thats a brave new frontier nobody has ever considered.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

there's a group of high school boys in this McDonald's and I just heard one of them say "I bet you you cannae break your own arm" so something interesting might happen shortly

[spectre-squared]

has a silly dream last night. I'm getting top surgery in a couple days (HUZZAH!), and I plan on wearing my favorite button-down afterwards (it's blue with Asian Small-Clawed Otters printed all over it)

in the dream, I was waking up from the anesthesia, mid-infodump to one of the nurses about the differences between Asian Small-Clawed Otters and Sea Otters (my favorite species). when i Actually woke up, I was very confused and a tiny bit disoriented because I thought I had somehow jumped forward in time a few days 😂

[piratewithvigor]

Just saw a bird get a worm at 8:06pm.

Never let the morning people say it can't be done

[riteinthefeels]

dash did a thing

🤭

[foldingfittedsheets]

So I have bitched about the insane meal break policy that got implemented by the company to try to protect them from having to pay us meal break penalties. Ie: we have to clock out and take lunch or waive our meal break so the company doesn’t have to pay a penalty.

But the thing is, we sometimes just don’t get the opportunity to take breaks. Customers keep coming in. There’s no way for us to step away if we’re helping anyone, let alone multiple people. So I’ve absolutely checked the box that says I didn’t voluntarily waive my break, I didn’t have the ability to clock out or eat.

During Memorial Day weekend I spent six hours helping between 2-4 customers at once. Just like everyone else on the team.

Today I learned that the district manager is unhappy with my manager because the team had too many penalties. He would “like to come up with a plan to address it” but that plan definitely isn’t more staffing, which would be ludicrous. And he can’t actually write her up over it because she can’t write us up over it because that would be fucking illegal. So I’m like what’s the fucking point of having that conversation if it’s just to discourage people from exercising their fucking rights???

I get steamed every time I remember it and I wish every day that we had a fucking union.

[spectre-squared]

I admit that i am very young and inexperienced, but can you not... create a union?

[foldingfittedsheets]

So. Yes. In a very very hypothetical sense. But almost every successful union starts because a highly charismatic friendly and well liked person does a ton of extra work to step up and start it. And that work is not paid. It’s like having another job on top of your job.

Add to that that in the US if you start talking about unions basically every major corporation will illegally retaliate. Your name goes on a list. Several good friends are in unions, are union reps, or work to help found unions and they are all extremely realistic about the likelihood of getting one off the ground which is that it’s so much work.

The general tenor of my company is not really aligned with unionizing and it would take the right person with the right motivation to launch.

[foldingfittedsheets]

Holy god. It’s the bomb of all Drama at work today.

[foldingfittedsheets]

Okay it might be less insane than previously thought.

Basically I got in and there was an email that there was a new policy on lunch breaks which is that we are required to clock out for 30 minutes for a meal break. Which wouldn’t be a problem except we’re often staffing stores alone. And the company was like “You’re not allowed to close the store, though, just clock out and don’t get paid for 30 minutes.”

This made a lot of people very unhappy and was widely regarded as a bad move.

So our manager was trying to go over the changes and I was like, “So I’m required to clock out for 30 minutes even if I’m alone in the store for the day.” Yes.

“I am going to leave the store. I am legally allowed to leave if you are not paying me.” You will get written up.

“That violates the labor laws and this company has had to pay for these violations previously. I will leave and look at birds.”

After a very long very aggressive meeting it turns out we might be able to waive the break and still get paid but calls are flying and we still have the right to clock out and close the store if we are working alone all day. The company loves to pretend that we do not.

[foldingfittedsheets]

As a follow up on this policy the company stated that we couldn’t close the store if there was only one person on shift.

When we clock out we get an option to say whether we took a lunch. If we say no it then asks if it was voluntary or not.

If it’s not voluntary then the company has to pay us a penalty for not giving us an opportunity to take the break.

Every single shift I worked alone (which was most of my week at that time) I marked the penalty box. If I couldn’t close the store and was working alone then I did not voluntarily give up my lunch. Turns out, I wasn’t alone in doing so.

Three months later the company sent out signs that we could put on the door for lunches and an official update that we could close the store to take a lunch.

Malicious compliance their asses.

[hellenhighwater]

I saw another post about this that I now can't find to reblog, but there's a wave of mobile ads that are autoplaying audio. This violates tumblr's ad policy and you SHOULD report them. Hopefully enough of us will do so to get rid of them entirely.

Hit the meatball menu in the top corner next to the X, and report for autoplaying audio.

[mrsterlingeverything]

Many are not familiar with what is called a diva moment. Youre about to learn

[pending-trans-action-2]

[unliikelylovers]

it’s been said before and it’s not even close to the worst thing but it sucks how our current robber barons are such philistines. like these guys aren’t even building libraries or concert halls. they can’t even pretend to enjoy art, and they don’t see any value in signaling that they appreciate art

[beardedmrbean]

[tall]

[whoisalien]

very sweet man.

[clacy2812]

Teethies <3