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prohaloplayer-deactivated202601

jobs having ridiculous responsibility creep over the last few years for their lowest level employees with no pay increases makes me fucking furious. here are the duties of a middle manager with the pay of a 12th century donkey. FUCK YOU

bigscaryd

If you're at ALL skilled at general office/business/administrative stuff, start looking now. Skilled admin/office folks can't be hired at anything close to old pay right now, so if you go out there companies will be bidding for you. We just had a meeting about this because we've been having trouble hiring the bare mininum to cover age/accident attrition in our support staff and it's getting kind of nuts.

I guarantee you that if your current employer is screwing you, there is someone better out there.

absentlyabbie

while i very highly doubt multiple companies would be throwing their monetary panties at me, a person with an associate's degree, the bright side is i already don't work there anymore and got a nice sweet pay bump and now work remote

absentlyabbie

#thanks i was getting ready to start working on a project for work that i really should have time to do on the fucking clock #rather than at home #so uh not doing that now #or at least will try to convince myself to not do unpaid work that i get no thanks for or have it assumed that i did it on the clock #when i get no time carved out to do things that i need to on a computer off the sales floor #idk when ppl think i do things when i get no time to other than at home unpaid but i need to stop doing shit at home (via @iwishiwasatraveler)

literally never do unpaid, off-clock work, especially if you are hourly instead of salaried. do the work you are capable of doing in the contracted number of hours. never give your employer a 100% discount on overtime time-and-a-half pay. do it once, some manager might effusively praise and thank you, do it twice, three times, it becomes an expectation and your tasks will be budgeted accordingly in perpetuity.

if you are being pressured to do off-clock work, document the everloving shit out of exactly what you have been told and when and exactly what tasks you completed off-clock and how long it took, and start researching how to file a report/complaint with the federal department of labor for wage theft. (and if you are not u.s., research what equivalent labor laws and agencies in your country are your reference and resource.)

do not sell your labor for free. you are worth far too much for that. make them pay ever penny.

radiofreederry

The union busting firms are scared

esoteric-merit

As a fine dining cook, I found work in a union workplace around a year ago. My 40 hours a week are guaranteed except for Jan/feb/mar when there’s not enough customers, I get paid almost twice what I did at any other restaurant, if I work overtime, (more than 8 hours in one day, or more than 40 in a week), I actually get overtime pay, (and it’s 1.5x my normal rate!). I get holiday pay, and in addition I get to either bank or pay out my holidays if I work those days, (either a paid day off when I want it, in addition to the holiday pay, or I get paid an add’l 8 hours at 1.5x that week). I also get two floating holidays, 4 paid random sick days, 2 paid family sick days, and 4 paid “doctor’s note” sick days, (paid out by our health insurance), as well as general allowance to take as many unpaid sick days as I want without worrying for my job security. (I’ve been told that taking multiple months off is where we start to be concerned about abuse, so if I want to do that, I can go through our leave of absence procedures instead, where I’m allowed three 2-week periods a year generally for whatever reason I want, (If my manager wants to disagree, he has to get the union president’s approval), and after that it’s up to my manager to decide if he’ll accept them). I get two weeks of paid vacation time a year, and an add’l week per year for every 5 years I work there. We get our legally mandated breaks, which, I know that sounds like a low bar, but taking anything other than a smoke break in a kitchen?!?! Unheard of! I get two 15′s and a lunch every shift! I get to sitdown and rest my legs and not get flak for it! I get a bonus at the end of the year, there’s official procedures for if my manager isn’t happy with me or wants to get rid of me, (three meetings, during which my union representative has to be present), (and getting rid of my classification doesn’t work, there’s rules for how someone ‘bumps’ other people if classifications are gotten rid of), and severance pay for when full-time employees that are downsized out of the company, there’s a pension plan, like . . . Guys, I have a 40-page handbook which details all of the rights my union has won me, and believe me, I’ve never had any of these at any prior workplace. And you know what my union dues are? $4 a paycheck. Of course I’m going to pay my union dues for all of those benefits.

tlounetwork

The Last of Us | 1.03 “Long Long Time”

boozerman

As The World Caves In Matt Maltese

badsciencejokes

Dude has a death wish

vergess

Delighted to announce this bird is real and is a corvid.

Truly the family that just keeps giving.

haropla

I haven’t seen it in the notes yet, so afaik, here’s the source of that video! So now you can see the funny poison bird much more clearly.

It was taken by a biologist that studies birds so it seems like he knows what he’s doing. For the most part. Here’s his caption:

krystal-prisms

You all know that he 100% licked his fingers after handling that bird

totally-original-artist

openworldadventurer

nerdlingwrites

I can’t leave this in the tags, I’m sorry.

chipper-smol

A dragon who decides to hoard mint and various types of mint plants (and not knowing that mint has the mushroom’s blessing of inevitability were ever its planted) can go one of two ways.

1: The dragon is absolutely horrified as the mint engulfs and takes over its den. Its gold? Mint. Its gems and goblets? Mint. Its stores of wine? Mint. No matter what they do they can’t get rid of it.

2: The dragon is delightfully ecstatic as the mint engulfs and takes over its den. It’s a self growing hoard. No matter what any adventurers or knights do, they can’t get rid of it.

chipper-smol

✨✨✨ ヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ ✨✨✨

ororomunroedontpullout

Harriet calls me out on my beliefs

ororomunroedontpullout

Harriet does not love her new carrier

ororomunroedontpullout

tawnywings

this is potentially really important:

I have someone staying in my hotel tonight that made me think that this would be worth sharing here.

If you are running away/trying to hide from someone that is frightening, abusing, harassing you, and you find yourself staying in a hotel to avoid being found, there’s an extra precaution you can take.

When you check in, ask the front desk clerk to put you as “Unlisted”. They’ll know what you’re talking about. What this means is that as far as anyone other than you and the front desk clerks are concerned, you’re not there. If someone tries to call for you and your room, “I’m sorry. I don’t have anyone registered under that name.” Same thing goes for it someone shows up at the desk. “Unlisted” means you’re untouchable.

Please, please, if you find yourself in trouble and seeking refuge in a hotel, do this. It’s really quick, easy, and painless for the front desk clerk to do, and they are not going to judge you for it.

crustai

Tip from a hotel receptionist: (I work for the Green and Blue ending in Express- hotels will vary but this is generally a Thing hotels do.)

If you tell the front desk you do not wish to be contacted, they can and will put a note to everyone else who works there that unless you SPECIFICALLY say that a certain person is allowed to call/come up to your room, they will not let ANYONE near your room- ID will be checked for that person for your safety. If someone asks for you by name that isn’t allowed to know you’re there, the staff will simply say “There is no one here by that name.” If they press, the staff will insist no one is there and they need to leave. Also, housekeeping will be informed of your desire to be left alone and will announce at the door that they are housekeeping, for your peace of mind.

A good tip is to have someone else drive you to the hotel if you’re able- that way your harasser cannot find your car and wait by it for you. Also, if you CAN, stay in a hotel where all the room are indoors- usually smaller indoor hotels do not let non-guests past the lobby, especially if they ask for someone/someone’s room number. Third floor helps, too- at my hotel, we usually put people who are hiding from abusers on the third floor at the end- since you can’t enter the side doors without a key and the elevator is in the middle of the hotel. Always check to see if the outside doors are key-access only, and make sure you know where the elevators are, and see if you can get a room closer to the more secure area!

Also, if you know their car, or the car of anyone they know and might use, tell the receptionist, especially if you think they may come looking for you. Tell the receptionist what it looks like. If you see it, or if they see it circling the hotel or in the parking areas, they can and will call the police if you need them to. I myself have called the police to chase off an abuser who wouldn’t stop circling the hotel.

Sadly, this is not an uncommon thing, and since I started working at a hotel, I’ve seen my hotel shelter no less than six people fleeing from abusers/stalkers etc, but everyone at the front desk was accommodating and protective- just let the staff know you’re at risk, and they’ll do everything they can to keep you safe.

kibumkim

After months of warning subscribers that anti-password sharing measures were coming to Netflix, the company appears to be finally set to unl

tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva

capitalist innovation 😍

maximumsunshine

So. If I'm at work working second or third shift in a client's home while they sleep and not on my home wifi... am I just fucked? Or do i just have to log in from home on my phone once a month?

2-point-5

yesterday i was talking to a Guy and i asked what time it was and he git really excited and said "time for you to get aaaaa.... SUNDIAL!!" and then started talking about sundials and sounding like a fucking commercial and i pointed out that sundials have to be in one specific spot to work and he got all nervous and asked if i've tried a sextant. what the fuck

littledeconstruction-deactivate

not to sound like Sundial Salesman Guy but … he’s lowkey right, if you’re in a place with a fair amount of sunlight. two weeks ago i was hanging out with a little kid when she wondered aloud what time it was. i looked at the sun, adjusted my body a bit, put my elbow on the ground with the arm up perpendicular, and told her “it’s about 12:45.”

then she had to get a watch to see if i was right (pretty much — it was 12:50), and then i found myself explaining cardinal directions and sundials to a preschooler

ANYWAY MY POINT IS that no, sundials don’t require a fixed place for efficiency, only enough sun to cast a shadow & awareness of your relative direction, and knowing this is great but going on about it makes you sound horny for ancient Rome

ballroomnotoriety

if you don't know how to make a sundial but need a guesstimate on how much daylight is left, hold your hand out at arm's length horizontally and count how many fingers fit between the sun and the horizon. it's about 15 minutes a finger.

2-point-5

literally all you people sound insane to me

undercovercottonswab

booksandchainmail

#this whole post reminds me of the first day of geologic mapping; first class and we're all out in the woods looking at an outcrop#and the professor goes ''okay! now tell me which way north is'' to get everybody oriented with their map#and everybody starts milling around poking each other staring at blankly at the tress etc. but i'm like 'oh! i know how to solve this'#so i look at my watch and then the sun and then point (fairly accurately) north#and the professor looks at me with a bewildered expression and says ''you all have compasses''#i have never been so embarrassed to have the right answer (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)

puckconnolly

Everyone may *think* they hate country music, but when Jolene, Before He Cheats, Take Me Home Country Roads, or Life is a Highway comes on, everyone is suddenly a liar.

daywatch

I know this is a funny post but

There are a few major points in Country Music’s history that got the entire genre labeled as ‘annoying’

Post 9/11 nationalism

A term that I couldn’t make up “Bro-Country” which intensifies themes of booze, objectifying women, and partying that were present in past decades but not to such an extent

This is Gospel Music But With an Accent

Now looking at the songs op listed there is

A woman pleading to another woman

A woman wrecking a shitheads life

A guy loving the scenery of where he lived

A song that could easily be mistaken for a number of other genres

But it is easier to say that one hates country while privately enjoying select songs than explain why one doesn’t like the current market oversaturated with our nation’s problems of nationalism, sexism, and so on

brunhiddensmusings

see also jhonny cash/willie nelson era songs which were deeply emotional stories often about painful and deep subjects. prison, loss of loved ones, hard labor, facing despair, passion. ‘ghost riders in the sky’ and the like are also deeply satisfying as they bridge more into folklore then ‘murica fuck yeah im sponsored by bud light yall’ another example- ‘midnight in montgomery’ where hank williams junior sings about the ghost of his father

“ … And felt the wind die down, And a drunk man in a cowboy hat, Took me by surprise, Wearin’ shiny boots, a nudie suit, and haunted, haunted eyes, He said: “Friend, it’s good to see you, It’s nice to know you care” Then the wind picked up and he was gone, Was he ever really there? ‘Cause when the wind is right, You’ll hear his song, Smell whisky in the air, Midnight in Montgomery, He’s always singin’ there, “ the reason we ‘hate country’ is because we know its supposed to have FEELING and its infuriatingly absent now

ultralaser

70s country - bluegrass traditional

80s country - power ballads

90s country - pop crossover

00s country - white supremacy

the-poor-decision

anais-ninja-bitch

it’s about the folkloric story-telling tradition of oppressed poor folks vs marketable capitalistic ass-kissing.

dovewithscales

Yes. So much yes. See Dolly Parton and Wille Nelson and Johnny Cash sing about something real and they mean it and they are amazing. Modern country with some rare exceptions doesn’t start with something meaningful to say, it analyzes the market trends to figures out what will sell and then they do that. That or it just plain caters to white nationalists.

But there’s some damn good country out there. It’s just crowded out by utter garbage written and performed by sell-outs.

hanitje

“It’s a handbag.”

staroftara

can you make it so we can turn off people following us? it's getting crazy blocking a 100 pornbots every day. i'd rather just be able to turn off the ability for people to follow me on my blog. and i can't private a main blog, only secondaries of which i have none. i'm a no name blog and it's getting to the point all the porn blogs followers are making me hate coming here. i'll be willing to pay for this feature too. please. i need a break. the new polls option is great, but can we address the actual problem?

I don’t see that happening, because… Well, you know, probably not something that would be widely used.

Now, that being said, if bots bother you so much, why not just silence the notifications about when someone follows you and ignore them?

The actual problem is being addressed. I’ve seen the number of banned accounts in the past few weeks and it’s very impressive. Very. But the thing about bots is that at first they are undistinguishable from real humans. Even if someone could screen manually every single new account created (which we aren’t even close to be able to do), you couldn’t be 100% sure until they exhibit some… Not-human behavior. And that behavior usually involves bothering the real humans or other sentient beings that inhabit our little secret valley

yeah, this is a ongoing war between some asshole programmers and the tumblr team dealing with spam. Like, this is literally some asshole (more probably: a bunch of them working together) programming scripts that create accounts, using the regular registration channels, based on … things they program. Of course, being accounts created by a program, they are going to have a certain number of patterns that can be recognized.

When you folks mass report them, you are helping the few tumblr folks working on the matter to feed info to their bot-killing tools so those patterns became obvious and we can shoot-down those accounts before they do much harm. You know, five weeks ago, a new account with a name-name-123 name, plus a young woman picture, plus a description 💩using 💩 emojis 💩 separing 💩 words 💩 24 💩 wasn’t specially noticeable, but now it makes all the alarms going off at the same time.

The number of banned blogs from this last few weeks have a lot of 0s, believe me. A LOT. An impressive lot. The safety team is shooting them down like if they were playing a 80s arcade shot-em-up.

The problem is that always easier to create more bots than to identify them: The moment the shitheads that are causing this storm realize their last wave lasted literal seconds in the platform, they realize we have caught some patters and spend some time changing things, so after a few days there’s a new wave with different characteristics. And once it gets here, it will take a while for our defenders to find those patterns: And there is where you reporting them makes their job MUCH easier. Because we, humans, are much much much better identifying patterns than any tool we could program, ever, and we just need a quick look to a new account to have a pretty good chance to detect if it’s a bot or not.

You see, in an ideal world, we could have human-supervision of every new account created. But, according https://about.tumblr.com/#quick-facts, yesterday alone there were 61k new blogs created. And it’s 200 of us in staff, and only a fraction of us are engineers, and only a fraction of those can work on fighting spam (not me, I just paint pretty things on the screen, I’m not smart enough to work on the war-on-spam). So you see, the ‘human supervision’ part on our side is kind of impossible. But you all can help us with that.

When this tsunami of shit will end? Well, this is all about money. The bot-shitheads aren’t doing this because they want to troll y'all: by the kind of resources they are deploying, it’s clear they are professionals. They are trying to make (shady) money by swarming tumblr. If we keep shooting them down and giving them more and more update work their returns will be small or non existent, and at some point they will give up and move their sights to some other targets that could be more bountyful.

Come on, this is tumblr, no one could barely monetize it even by legal ways, it would be pretty rich if the spammers could actually make money out of pissing people up. They’ll eventually give up. We just need to keep making them work for nothing.

greenjudy

And it’s 200 of us in staff, and only a fraction of us are engineers

Jesus Christ sir, I sure do as hell salute you and your crew

keepxsolxinxsolxinvictus

Thank you @staff

thegreatandpowerfulversy

Lifehack for getting out of things that are running late: at the scheduled end time, just tell whoever is in charge “sorry, but I’m expected elsewhere” and leave.

You don’t have to say who is expecting you, or where you’re expected to be. They don’t need to know that, they just need to know you’re leaving. You don’t need other plans already, because other people don’t have any way of knowing if you’re telling the truth or not and social convention prohibits them from asking. They can’t argue that you shouldn’t have made plans for immediately after their event because that’s just their own fault for not telling you the correct timing.

And if you’re like me and are autistic and incapable of lying, there’s still a way to make it work. Who says you can’t expect yourself to be somewhere? Who says you can’t be expected to be at home doing nothing? After all, the entire purpose of having a schedule in the first place is so that you have a time when you can expect whatever event to be finished. If you were ever given an end time, then at that time you can truthfully say that your past self expected you to be somewhere else afterwards, and then you can leave.

Never stay stuck in a long boring meeting again. Don’t work past your assigned shift. Just say you have to go now, and go.

cure-icy-writes

transarsonist

they dont have to know that its my cat who expects me home, none of their bussiness

knitmeapony

In my company, we call this a hard stop. In fact, I’ve gotten in the habit of saying this at the beginning of meetings I think are going to go long. “Just a quick note guys, I’ve got a hard stop at the end of the hour. ” No one has ever asked me what’s next, and most of the time they even respect me leaving a minute or two early to make sure I get to the next thing on time.

brotherconstant

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022- )

Memory is a monster. We forget, it doesn’t.

thesoftboiledegg

What makes JKR's shitshow even harder to process is that she didn't just ruin a book series. Harry Potter was an entire subculture. Like Star Wars and Star Trek fans, Harry Potter fans dedicated their lives and careers to the series. I don't know if I'd call it "underground," but liking Harry Potter got you beaten up when I was in school, so it was more of a dedicated indie culture than a mass-appeal fanbase.

Harry Potter was so huge that fan works developed their own followings. Potter Puppet Pals racked up hundreds of thousands of followers and was nearly as relevant as the series itself. For fanfiction, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality got so big that it has a Wikipedia page. The band Harry and the Potters spawned the wizard rock music genre. A Very Potter Musical developed a fanbase and launched Darren Criss's career.

Harry Potter also has extensive ties to fandom history. Everyone in my generation (millennials) remembers coming home from school to read Harry Potter fanfiction on the Internet. Today, most people just post their stories on Wattpad or Archive of Our Own. But at the time, the fanbase was splintered between fanfiction.net and dozens of individual websites and forums, some made for specific ships. Since they all had individual hosts, a lot of those sites have been lost to time.

And there's the infamous My Immortal fanfiction, which is an Internet legend with people still searching for the author. Everybody read that one (and laughed at it) in middle school.

Pre-social media, fan sites like The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet had massive followings because they were one of few sources for news, theories, essays and fan content. Some of these sites still exist after being around for over a decade and building their own legacy.

Before Deathly Hallows came out, fans were so desperate to know what happened that Mugglenet published a book called What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love and How Will the Adventure Finally End? Yep...Harry Potter was so big that people wrote separate books about what would happen in an upcoming book.

And that's not mentioning all the book release parties, Harry Potter-themed events, monuments, fan films, restaurants and even a theme park. A lot of fandoms have those, but Harry Potter infiltrated every aspect of popular culture.

Today, there's a thriving culture of "Harry Potter adults" with themed weddings, baby showers and Etsy stores. Putting your Hogwarts house in your Instagram bio is pretty much a prerequisite for joining the "bookish" community. Warner still produces new content, like the Fantastic Beasts series, although we've all seen what a disaster that's been.

Everyone has at least a few memories associated with Harry Potter even if it's just watching the movies. I had great memories associated with Harry Potter. But looking back at the subculture, history and thousands of fan works, it doesn't seem fun anymore. Studying the fandom or being part of it comes with an awkward tension because you don't want to seem like you're condoning JKR's bigotry but can't divorce her from the series. This subculture was spawned by a woman who turned her legacy of magic and wonder into one of abuse and hatred.

I don't expect people to write paragraphs about how much they hate JKR every time they post about Harry Potter, but it's still uncomfortable to see people make new content or wear their Harry Potter Etsy tote bags like nothing happened. Even if they clarify that they don't support her, it's just a weird, tense situation for everybody.

People dedicated years of their lives to running Harry Potter fan sites, writing fanfiction, cosplaying characters and making fan movies. If I were in that situation, I'd have a mild identity crisis. I'd ask myself "Did I waste all those years? Should I delete my content? Where do I go from here?"

So ultimately, JKR didn't ruin "just" a book series or even "just" a fandom. She tanked an entire culture, which inspired people to look at Harry Potter more critically. The issues that people brought to the light tainted the series's legacy even without JKR's personal issues.

Once, Harry Potter was a series for generations. Now, former fans hope that the series fades into irrelevancy. Unfortunately, JKR didn't just tarnish her legacy--she took decades of history, millions of fans and a worldwide subculture along with her.

peerieweirdo

it’s crazy having been super-involved in the HP fandom for more than a decade and watching the fallout from this

quidditch (the real sport) has changed its name to quadball

the harry potter alliance (a nonprofit) has rebranded to fandom forward

the sub-subcultures that sprung up within the HP fandom have now distanced themselves from the main fandom and have become independent groups in their own right

HP was so integral to the development of early online fandom (as OP’s mentioned) that now there’s sort of just a weird... hole in the internet

for many HP fans, it took up a lot of their life. three conventions a year, wizard rock shows, HPA fundraising, granger leadership academy, nightly fanfic, podcasts, quidditch games.

when fans (rightfully) shunned JKR and began to leave the fandom, a lot of them (myself included) were left rudderless. how do you reconcile the fact that most of your friends, hobbies, sometimes even jobs, were due to the work of such a hateful person? as OP said, did i waste my life?

i’m obviously not saying that this is the worst part about JKR’s bigotry (the worst part is, of course, the bigotry) or that HP fans are the worst-done-by victims (who are of course trans people)

but it is WILD to see such a juggernaut of internet fandom be virtually scrubbed away

alexaloraetheris

In the spirit of Halloween, due to my own experiences as of an hour ago, I have come up with a new horror video game.

Because of the low atmospheric pressure, two things have happened: my blood pressure levels are somewhere in the vicinity of my ass, and there is. Fog. Fucking. Everywhere. The kind of weather only Jack the Ripper could enjoy.

No sane person would go outside. Except the people who still have to walk their dogs.

(This was when the fog was actually still traversable and I theoretically still knew where I was. The moment you hit a less lit area, you're toast)

So the game would be first person POV, and you get lost in your own fucking neighborhood. Your only guide is your scaredy-cat of an idiot dog, and you know you can't let go of the leash for even a second because you're not going to see the damn dog ever again. Which is also bad because the dog is the only creature around who knows how to get home.

So you're feeling sleepy and headachy and yet somehow have the anxiety levels of someone being hunted for sport, your dog who is the only one who knows how to get home keeps jumping at shadows. You wonder if that's because he can hear things you can't in the dark.

Suddenly you see the fucking grim reaper approaching on a fucking skateboard. You nearly piss yourself, only for the geim reaper to pass you by, whirling fog around him, then reveal it's actually a kid on a bike with his friend standing on the seat behind him. You're vaguely happy you didn't actually scream.

But the next monster you see? Might not be kids.

So you better hold that leash tight and hope the dog can get you home before you're both eaten.

Happy Halloween. If you need me, please leave a message and I'll get back to you when I get out of the damn fog.

alexaloraetheris

...so in other news, I may be stupid.

Be right back.

alexaloraetheris

...

...so what if I did. What else was there to do

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