#Rejection Strategies

[flightattendantclub]

Mastering Resilience: A Guide for Aspiring Flight Attendants Facing Rejection

Introduction Embarking on the journey to become a flight attendant is a pursuit fueled by dreams and aspirations. The path, however, is laden with challenges, rigorous tests, and fierce competition. The key to success lies not in succumbing to setbacks but in using them as steppingstones for personal and professional growth. Challenges for Future Flight Attendants Becoming a flight attendant…

[hanafubukki]

Malleus Draconia versus Ortho Shroud

It seems some people are surprised at Malleus’ actions? That he destroyed the robot dogs and almost destroyed Ortho.

But I would like to point out that Malleus has always been like this; very protective of his loved ones.

For example: In Lilia’s PE vignette, he nearly took Rook’s head off because he thought Rook was trying to hurt Lilia.

Then we come to book 7, chapter 7 update.

Yes, he destroyed the dogs and almost Ortho but remember Malleus is protective of his loved ones.

Malleus OBed because he wants his loved ones happy and Ortho is a threat to that, so of course he’s going to destroy any threats to them and Ortho basically labeled himself as such.

Now I want to bring up a point that I don’t see many talk about?

Malleus understood Ortho’s explanation about how Ortho woke up and how he was able to penetrate the barrier.

Ortho described himself as immortal basically because he can transfer his data to any body, which Malleus understood as transferring vessels.

This is when Malleus finally took the steps to destroy Ortho. Not because he wanted to kill him, but because he knew that Ortho would still live and transfer himself to another body.

Did Ortho feel fear? Yes because Orth doesn’t like lightning and that’s one of Malleus’ powers but think about it.

Feeling fear is an emotion no one wants to repeat. Malleus acknowledged that Ortho might be feeling fear

With Malleus knowing that Ortho can feel such things, Malleus told Ortho he would end him swiftly because in a way that is an act of kindess isn’t it? To end it quickly rather than prolonging the fear.

But at the same time he knows that Ortho will live and remember this emotion, and that’s what Malleus wants, so Ortho would be too scared to try again.

Malleus is protective of his loved ones and he always has been.

While his actions might seem as if he’s out of control, he isn’t. He understood in his own way what Ortho explained to him before making his move.

He didn’t attack because he’s raging but made a more calculative move on his end to stop Ortho, one that he would make repeatedly if need be, since he knows that Ortho can transfer bodies.

[noisytenant]

a really interesting customer service philosophy that my boss explained is that we should, essentially, act out the client's anticipated feelings so that they don't take it out on us.

so, if i need to share bad news that something's delayed, i should express frustration and even indignation if it seems like that would be the client's response.

people generally don't want to escalate when another person is already emotional, and it also makes the client feel like you "care" about the situation and understand their feelings. they don't feel the need to rush you because you make it clear that you're already rushing.

it's really fascinating since i feel like most customer service philosophies are very much about minimizing oneself and coming across endlessly polite and patient... i think it's a little specific to this more b2b line of work where we do a lot of liaising with larger systems, but it does see applications in other fields.

[oltammefru]

I'll be honest when I saw your post yesterday about differences comparing is3 and 4 and you brought up rejections I kinda wondered "what is she talking about" but apparently you're just fucking built different huh. Relics-less N15. . . . .

The thing about rejections is like. You have to fail a lot of consecutive rolls for them to like really matter. If you're taking every voucher you get offered (you should be, if only because it pads out your chances of getting rejections on some random reserve operator) you're generally at like 7 operators at the end of f1, 11 at the end of f2.

To roll a rejection that's actually significantly negatively impactful you need to:

Roll the wrong rejection

Roll low on your dice

Roll low on your dice again, one time (because you have a reroll)

Have the rejection land on an actually relevant operator and not just one of the reserve operators you have in the back

Not have a good way to get rid of it (which to be fair are somewhat rare, but they do exist and are perfectly useable)

A somewhat smallish number of rejections skip a few of the steps, but they still have to fail several "in your favor" rolls for it to matter.

And then if you're playing at a difficulty where you start at 100 Light, you have to leak to be able to get rejections in the first place.

Furthermore, there's a surprising number of situations where rejections are actually beneficial. Neurogeneration is incredibly easy to get some benefit out of: any throwaway melee unit that gets neurodegeneration is now suddenly a really good block-stalling-without-dealing-damage tool (which sounds like it might be just some irrelevant highly niche tech but it is something is genuinely really useful to have in IS3, specifically in the stages Craft Brewer Killer, Nethersea Brand Land, 'Joy' From A Box, and Ubi Bona). When it lands on a good unit, metastatic is terrible like 75% of the time but like 20% of the time it doesn't matter or might even improve the unit somewhat (Weedy, Texas2, a good portion of vanguards) and 5% it turns an ok unit into a phenomenally good one. (Metatstatic Yato1 solo stalls Highmore on D15 Relicless! I've done it before!)

ADHD and bleed are harder to find good upsides for (although they do exist), they also tend to be the rejections that are the easiest to play around or ignore or brute force through.

[futurewife]

Ven please, I'm begging you to go to therapy. Your posts hurt me so much cause I recognize myself and people I've loved in them and I always wanna say smth to make you feel better but I know from experience that that only helps for a little while or doesn't help at all or can even make things worse. But you don't have to suffer like this forever!! You can get better and there is help!! And as a fellow pmdd sufferer you can get help with that too. Idk how you feel about medication but going on birth control continuously so you never have periods or using antidepressants or mood stabilizers just for the two nightmare weeks after ovulation can help so much. Please please please I worry about you and I know you can have a good life if you get help! you're beautiful and creative and you have everything you need you just have to figure out how to access it and use it and I know you can do it. I know your F/Os would want you to and I know your future real life S/Os who are waiting for you would want you to too. You deserve to be happy instead of feeling like a ghost all the time.

Thank you anon I appreciate the concern, feel a little bit embarrassed about oversharing now but you know what...sometimes you just have to say it out loud somewhere. As you would know the nature of the disorder means there's often not much that can be done in terms of talking myself out of the way it feels cause biology is so (detrimentally) overpowering and intensifies other mental health issues and generally all pre-existing negative feelings about ones' existence. The ghost analogy is apt and I've often used this to describe how I relate to life and connecting with others. now idk if I can overcome myself and thrive but maybe I could switch some things up and see if it makes it suck a little less

I was on ssris constantly for years previously (edit: and therapy on and off) before I stopped taking them but your ask has me considering intermittent dosing even if I dislike the side effects just to see what happens. I thought I could just grit my teeth and bare it (put myself to sleep between being wracked by ugly crying as I cannot stand being conscious in my own mind) every month in lieu of meds but maybe I can't rawdog slog through dark funhouse mirror evil pmdd reality on my own/shouldn't feel that I have to in order to not "lose"

I was very touched by your reaching out and compassionately disagreeing with me (lol) and it means a lot from another person with pmdd. It helps to think someone out there sees the value in me as I am right now, and that someone else is also fighting their own good fight. When you said I have everything I need I just have to figure out how to access it and use it and you know I can do it you sound just like my grandma. (<3)

[idalievu]

haha what if i was your narrative foil and we were stuck in orbit around each other doomed to both mirror each other but also amplify each others worst qualities. what if i represented the future, invention, and technology and you represented the past, tradition, and stagnation yet despite our polar opposition we were still two sides of the same coin. what if you were always doomed to die as the past always has to make way for the future but i was doomed to live and sometimes thats worse. what if a piece of me will always exist in you and vice versa. . . and we were both boys

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

"you were born evil" but you still named her agatha.

thinking about that process, because it took 18 years right. you have a baby and you call her good and she turns out to be smarter than you, more powerful than you, and it scares you, you dont know how to handle that especially in a world that hates you and her already. the things about her that scare you, will scare the outside world who understands even less than you do ten times more. you dont know how to protect her so you try to control her which is like number one bad idea human response to things that scare us.

obviously this backfires and she gets even more furious in her quest for knowledge, every door you close she finds a window, every place you warn away from she gets into, talking to people she shouldnt be talking to, trying out magic she shouldnt be trying. every step she takes is one further out of your control, further out of anyone's control, every new thing she learns makes her dangerous, puts her in danger, puts your coven in danger, shes exposing all of you along with herself. shes in danger, shes a danger, shes a teenager and she knows more than you, of course shes not gonna listen to you anymore, about anything. of course shes not gonna hear a warning, and if she did she wouldnt take it, just to spite you.

what are you gonna do? youre not the only one whos scared. of her, for her. youve got an entire coven getting panicky about the way shes exposing all of you, the risks shes taking that she may or may not be able to fully understand (maybe shes never seen one of you burned before, maybe shes her own first). and if she were on her own that would be her decision to make, but you are still responsible for your coven and you are responsible for her, for her safety and for the threat she poses. so what do you do? do you even have a choice? or is this just where the mob turns. kick a scapegoat onto a pyre and hope fortune turns for the rest of us. if she cant stick to the rules in place for the safety of all, then shes a ticking timebomb. if it's not her at the stake, sooner or later it's all of you. so what can you do? what are you expected to do?

punish agatha.

[bogusfilth]

i read an article by this guy who did like. a month where every day or smth he had to get rejected for something. so he'd ask strangers for random stuff or like ask for an absurdly high advance on a piece of writing or whatever. and while i think that is kind of silly it in combination with thinking about submitting work for publication does make me think that optimizing for Rejections is kind of fascinating. Because if you think about optimizing for acceptances as % of attempts, you miss out on opportunities where low-consequence rejection is likely but acceptance is possible. optimizing for acceptances as a raw number is better but is also likely to be intrinsically demoralizing. on the other hand if you optimize for rejections as a pure number you'll get a higher number of acceptances as a side effect AND you'll succeed very effectively at getting a lot of rejections. potentially. as someone who tends never to make offers he thinks will be rejected i don't have enough info to even know what the rates are.

[glubandeepspace]

[fideidefenswhore]

in between bouts of e.coli… sometimes, she cooks 😔

[wings-of-angels]

trying to plan out what pokèmon bruce wayne would have... much to think about

[sigilmint]

lmao I cast spell of christians mind their own fucking business and stop proselytizing and recognize that a video game isn't real life you fucking floppy bananas

[idontknowreallywhy]

In case it interests anyone here, I got an email about this and though have no idea if it’ll be any good thought I’d give it a go as it’s free…

Seems that even if the live stream time is no good for you, you get a download link to view later.

[foxmulderautism]

looking back at this year is funny because i was on a whole different plane of emotional vulnerability and disassociation from reality for most of it from the #grief and now i look back and im like why was i so upset over six litmag rejections

[festivelyfestive]

as an avid hater of valentines day, i think it's funny to make goofy aro-coded cards for it and i fully intend on continuing that personal tradition this year

my current plan is to do cards based off of the godfather and do one each of sonny, michael, and fredo, but you all just have to wait and see as to what the cards will contain

it's not going to be necessarily aro-coded this time around more so just goofy but [trails off into my evil schemes]

[enoua5]

I cannot stress enough, this is basically what mormons belive the afterlife is like lmfao

It is a common error that many faiths believe the souls of the dead depart this plane of existence for some mythical heaven or hell. In fact, the souls of the dead go to UDFj-39546284, a high-redshift Lyman break galaxy in the constellation Fornax, about 32.7 billion light years away. When asked why the dead from across the universe should all be converging on this one faint galaxy, NASA astrophysicists said “it’s like an eel thing,” and refused to elaborate further.