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Uncanny Sculpture by Nagato Iwasaki

Nagato Iwasaki creates sculpture from driftwood he collects from around Japan. From Spoon & Tamago:

Artist Nagato Iwasaki‘s lifelike driftwood sculptures are perfect examples of the uncanny valley — the feelings of revulsion and uneasiness one experiences from non-human objects that appear a bit too similar to real human beings.

His work is beautiful and unsettling with echoes of the dryads found in myth. Thanks to Lost At E Minor.

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cashier: sorry for your wait. we’re short-staffed today

millennial: oh that’s ok no worries :)

baby boomer:

tnerdbean

But listen that’s the thing.

We are short staffed almost 97% of the time at my retail job. Because corporate has figured out you can overwork 4 people at minimum wage instead of paying for the 8 people you should probably have to be on the clock.

Baby boomers grew up with stores that were adequately staffed, with workers who most likely had weeks of training for their jobs as opposed to the 1-2 shadow shift training we get now. Also those workers most likely were able to be full time if they wanted. Now retail, except for management positions, is mostly made up of part time workers, because you don’t have to give them benefits. So you have a workforce of perpetually underpaid, overwhelmed, undertrained people trying to do their best all while dealing with an entire generation of people who refuse to acknowledge that the system has changed and the average retail worker has NO control over that change and is being taken advantage of.

Like we got our customer surveys back, and almost every single one mentioned that they couldn’t find someone to help them or we needed more people on register because it was TOO SLOW, but what did management tell us instead of scheduling more people? We need to be quicker on register and call for backup if necessary. Which makes no sense because we can’t call for backup THAT ISN’T THERE.

guiltyfandoms

Y'all my parents haven’t worked retail since the 70s and they absolutely never believe me about the things that happen at work. I explain the schedule for next week gets hung up on the Friday before and they scoff and go “well when i worked at X they had it a month up your manager is just lazy.” No mom, its company policy to only do “two weeks” in advance. They won’t give you a full month’s scheduling in advance cause it let’s you plan for a world outside of work. Or about the hours, workload or anything. They just assume its an individual’s failing instead of corporate mandate. Or, if they do believe me (that its company policy) they call it ridiculous and point out some survey that argues its Good Business to do (insert decent thing here).As if they think the higher ups don’t know this and are simply ignorant of Good Business Practices. They don’t understand that retail has completely shifted from caring about its employees to squeezing out every penny now instead of investing it for later.

Cause that isn’t how it was when they worked and they just can’t seem to see otherwise.

nightworldlove

I think there should be a ‘bring-your-parent-to-work-day’ instead of ‘bring-your-kid-to-work-day’, it would shock so many parents and would probably make them finally realize how much retail indeed has changed in the US.

poutine-existentielle

when i first got hired as a cashier, my manager who had been doing that since she was like 17 in 1975 told me that back in The Days, when you were hired as a cashier in a grocery store it was a) a well paid job & you could get full time work easily b) a respected career choice c) the store closed at 6pm and was closed on Sundays so the hours were a lot more pleasant d) they made you go to cashier school for 2 weeks, which was basically a fake grocery store and you just learned the trade completely before even meeting a customer now its like : you get like 20 hours a week, bullshit shifts like 3:45 to 10:15, a 20 minutes training before being thrown to the wolves, customers tell you you deserve your shitty lowlife job as soon as you don’t thoroughly kiss their ass

millennialsargueback

The millennial experience is tied to growing income inequality and the indentured servitude of student loan debt

we-kant-even

I didn’t realize how toxic the environment was until I worked a “real” job. Trying to explain to my boyfriend my stupid crazy hours to him was like pulling teeth and he thought it was illegal but NOPE ITS PERFECTLY LEGAL BECAUSE THE SYSTEM IS DESIGNED TO WORK PEOPLE TO LITERAL DEATH

triss19

All of this bros. Some of Millennial entitlement is actually just screams for help.

buffalo-divine-eden-no7-deactiv

i worked retail for ten years. can confirm the above is all true.

micdotcom

ACLU will sue over Trump’s “religious freedom” executive order

The American Civil Liberties Union announced Thursday that it plans to sue Trump over a recently signed executive order allowing religious organizations to endorse political candidates.

In the statement, ACLU executive director Anthony D. Romero said the executive action served as a “broadside to our country’s longstanding commitment to the separation of church and state.”

“Whether by executive order or through backroom deals, it’s clear that the Trump administration and congressional leadership are using religion as a wedge to further divide the country and permit discrimination,” he said. "We intend to file suit today.“

In addition to giving religious leaders more political freedom, the executive order, called “Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty,” also provides “regulatory relief” for religious organizations that object to an Affordable Care Act mandate that forces employers to provide health coverage, including contraception, according to CNN. Read more (5/4/17)

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Time to donate to the ACLU again…

tastefullyoffensive

How to give grandma a heart attack. (by Steec)

jinxfmrl

I unno what meme this is, but I’m here for this.

ogg-weatherwax

It’s called the Millennial Falcon

supernovafirefly

Rebloggin’ the Millennial Falcon

wnq-writers

You know what? Life does not get better. You do. You get better.

jameson137 (via wnq-writers)

Flamingos are bizarre wading birds that feed in a very similar way to whales. Their mandibles are lined by hairy structures called lamellae which function the same as a whale’s baleen, by filtering small organisms from the water. The rough tongue pushes against the lamellae to push out water while the plankton is kept inside the mouth and then swallowed.