#best friend is a co worker

[numinousmysteries]

my mulder and scully sims understood the assignment.

[bumblingbabooshka]

While everyone else thinks Workforce's wasted potential is that Chakotay and Janeway didn't have a brainwashed what-could-have-been-romance *I* know that Workforce's wasted potential is that Tuvok wasn't there as a much more vocal irritant/unintentional cockblock to Jaffen. Who hates him the whole time but is trying to act like he doesn't because Janeway REALLY likes him.

[wbne]

what if the Blues and Reds were ex-freelancers

[gulliesforever]

looking through a bunch of ways that janda has been described and rating them

10/10 this is fucking adorable. so cute. screams.

9/10 i love the codependent addition. they are everything <3

6/10 i like for better or worse but could be more fun

9.5/10 SOOOOOOOO CUTE GOD. SO cute and it gets the spirit across

-3/10. COOL AND SMART? did jake ghostwrite this?

[waytootiredstudent]

Trying to explain my ADHD to my none-ADHD co-workers:

You see there is a goblin in my brain. I can't control it but I can get limited cooperation if I bribe it with treats or distract it. But now and then I need to let it go completely off the leash and spend a weekend learning a new hobby from scratch that I will never touch again or it will break everything in sight and leave me completely unable to do anything for weeks.

My ADHD friends, nodding: so true

My well-meaning co-workers, slightly bewildered: what

Me, trying to be helpful: Scaring the shit out of the goblin also helps sometimes

My ADHD friends nodding along: yeah sometimes I enlist the help of a friend to scare the goblin :D

My still well-meaning co-workers, concerned: what is happening. Does that mean you need more time?

Me: ....Please don't move the deadline, it scares the goblin into mild cooperation. But also yes. But don't tell me.

[pynkhues]

https://x.com/starseahalo/status/1852136930130956551/photo/1

still love this

I literally think about it all the time, anon, haha.

[verysmallgirl]

i’m temporarily living with my dad (long story) and today a guy at work offered me a 12 week old persian kitten and i wanted her SO BAD but i knew my dad would say no so i told the guy to give me a day or two to think about it. well, after a surprisingly short conversation about it, MY DAD SAID YES and i get to have her!!!!! i think her name is going to be “moxie” and i get to meet her (and hopefully bring her home) later this week!!!!!

[ducky4eva]

New story! 'When I Close My Eyes, I See Your Face.' Just a short and sweet one. Based on the Ugly Betty epsiode, "Odor In The Court" (Ugly Betty, 2x12).

'What if when Betty Suarez sprayed herself with Claire Meade's poisoned perfume, it revealed Betty's heart's true desire, and it wasn't Henry who she wanted?'

Enjoy!

[sprnklersplashes]

What's your job I thought you were a teacher or smth

I was a teaching assistant in a high school last year (supporting kids with additional needs in their various classes). and then that job wrecked my mental health, paid me minimum wage (despite us being told the school couldn't function without us) and committed a few borderline worker's rights violations that led to us becoming besties with our union rep.

so during the summer I job-hunted and got a new job as a full time tutor which pays me more and has far less verbal abuse involved.

[bumblingbabooshka]

They're literally just baiting me specifically at this point. From the novel 'First Virtue'

[leedongwook]

I wish I had someone I could share shitty memes and insta-posts with 😔

[t-lostinworlds]

This is such a random train of thought but I came across a comment on a fanfic saying something along the lines of "people don't usually change" / "forgiving them is unrealistic" / "your character is pathetic for giving in" and while valid in some, if not, most cases, thinking that it applies to everyone and everything all the time seems like such an unhealthy mindset to have. In my opinion at least.

Don't get me wrong, I hate it when forgiveness is served on a silver platter where the person apologizes once and then all is suddenly forgiven. But if the person provided an explanation all while not passing it as an excuse, took full accountability of their actions, truly apologized and showed regrets, and then took the time to better themselves, worked hard to improve and then continuously show that they're a much better person now and had grown after years. Is giving a second chance really that criminal? Especially when forgiveness isn't even given right after that and it's still a slow and steady journey of building that trust where everyone's starting on a clean slate rather than jumping right where they left off.

I don't know, maybe this is just me always trying see the good in people, but if you really don't think that a person has the ability to grow and learn from their mistakes, (which everyone will make often) all while constantly showing and proving that they have grown and learn, then that's a bleak way to see things. It's just a sad way of thinking that just because a person made a mistake (obviously depending on the mistake), they're forever branded as a bad person.

It's like, needing people to be perfect and wise right off that bat, putting them on a pedestal where you think they won't ever make mistakes and once they inevitably do, suddenly they're never going to change and learn from it and they're always going to be a horrible person. And that just seems so…toxic.

Obviously, things are much, MUCH more complicated in reality. Some people never do change, some don't deserve forgiveness at all, and some are genuinely just horrible and vile human beings who deserve to rot. But thinking that everyone is like that?

Just, not everything is so black and white you know? Sometimes things are just various shades of grays. Humans are messy and complicated as fuck but that doesn't mean it's a bad thing.

[kendallroygf]

They…they literally..

[scorpion-flower]

Me on the day I was hired: I know you can't tell, but I have a disability, which I am heavily medicated for and I have to constantly go get check ups by my doctor. The headmistress: Okay. Me on last Monday: I have an appointment with my doctor on Friday, at 10am. But I know how these things work in that hospital and I may not be on time. My shift starts at 12:10 but the soonest I can probably be here, is a little after 12:30. The headmistress: It's okay, I'll ask your co-worker to stay a little longer, or I'll take care of the kids myself before you come. Me on the day of the appoinment: *leaves hospital at 12:35 and immediately goes off to work* The headmistress: Throws a temper tantrum because I wasn't on time, accuses me of lying about what she said to me while I let her know that I'd probably be late, lies about me always starting my shift a little before 1pm, accuses me of being entitled, threatens to report me for my behaviour and basically accuses me for everything that's going wrong in the school.

[cetoddle-archive]

i’m so obsessed with suicide because i have very little agency in my own life but at least i always have the option to determine when and what circumstances i die under. life is shit and nothing ever gets better but at least i can still make the decision to just not have to deal with it anymore

[to-dare-is-to-do]

so i am leaving my student job of the past 4,5 years next month and i am super bad with goodbyes..do you think writing small notes or those few co-workers i will truly miss and leave them in their lockers is a way to do this?