#compared to some of my coworkers

[quillyfied]

Once again preoccupied with the thought that while I’m not particularly pleased to have made a career at this point in childcare, so many other people are and do, and for all the time they spend watching other people’s children so those people can go have their own careers, those childcare workers are paid such a tiny fraction of what the parents make. And if they weren’t there, there goes that parent’s career.

These are generalizations, because IN GENERAL, yeah daycare workers will watch a very successful lawyer’s kids and get to hear all about the many European vacations these kids have already gone on in their short lives, meanwhile the daycare worker has daily visions of what they’d have to do to make ends meet if they were suddenly solely financially responsible for themselves. Not to project or anything. Sometimes parents choose daycare because it’s a necessary expense to make ends meet. Those childcare workers still deserve to be paid more.

[lemongogo]

college … wasted on the youth (me)

[random2908]

Frustrating when a VC-funded company gets credit for being the "first" and the "leader," when they had a sub-component demo the same week we had a full-system demo. Like, we are easily 5-10 years ahead of them, it's ridiculous; their approach isn't even yet proven to work. But they get science youtubers talking about them.

Because they're VC-funded, they have a marketing/press department.

And because we're an employee-owned company working off of government contracts, well, most government contracts get slapped with an ITAR label (an old Cold-War-era law saying basically sharing scientific information counts as illegally selling arms/munitions). So if you want to publicize your work, including your company's products, you have to appeal that label. (Universities have specifically negotiated a blanket exemption, so if you spend your whole life in academic science you might never even know about this.)

(My previous employer filed those appeals several times a year in order to do press releases and publish journal articles and apply for patents. I think every single information-release appeal they filed went through, because there's no reason any of this stuff should be labeled as arms--it's literally the same stuff universities are doing. My current employer is afraid to, which I think is wrong-headed; at worst they'll just say no, and anyway, our non-restricted competitors are giving fucking lab tours to youtubers.)

[mithli]

people always lie to me and say I'm nice or that I have a good heart or whatever but the real truth of it is that im a very opinionated control freak. and with my opinions being things like "this empire should not exist" and "the periphery will rise again and the current center will be left behind" its not exactly "normal" opinions that can be shared with people so generally I just come off like an asshole who's mad about everything all the time. which I also am absolutely just that, too.

[rebrandedbard]

Had to order custom boots for ren faire because my big juicy muscular calves are too out of proportion with my teeny tiny itsy bitsy widdle toesie woesies. Emphasis on WOE.

[tony-andonuts]

God I wish I didnt get ostrasised by all but like 4 of my peers because holyfucking shit am I overworked and need a hug

[the-voice-of-night-vale]

u know what i've been thinking about. how the economy expects you to be, right now, at a job you've been at and consistently getting raises in for like, ten years. it's almost like the implication is "well yeah, you'll be able to live off this job in three, five, ten years if you stick with it and grow in the company" which is all fine and dandy, but i kind of need to live right now

[ningtual]

when will we be free of the shackles of a slick back hairstyle again !!!!!!

[mad-as-a-box-of-frogs]

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[mayybirds]

My brain recently latched onto Resident Evil (specifically re7/8 since 7 was my first exposure to the series) and while I did sympathise with Eveline and did like when it was acknowledged that she was just a messed up kid, I wasn't particularly interested in reading redemption comics/fics for her or stuff where she survives

Until I read your fic. I am now an Eveline Apologist and I thank you for that :'3

Seriously I started looking for fics for the series after having my interest piqued by one, but a lot of the fics like to portray Eveline as just a monster and Mia as abusive and awful to make anyone they ship Ethan with instead look good in comparison and just ughhhhhh, so when I read your fic your nuanced portrayals of the two had me going _"Yes! Finally!"_

So thank you, love your fic and the characters in it, can't wait to see how all the character dynamics develop, but also take as much time as you need/want :>

Ahaha... I consider it my life's work to convert people over to Eveline Apologism, so I'm very glad! Thank you for giving my fic a shot. <3

I do find a lot of fanfic in the RE fandom doesn't bring the nuance to characters I would like it to--there's a lot of works out there exploring the Lords of RE8, but less work on RE7 in general, and very little that tries to tackle both writing Eveline sympathetically and Mia humanely. I wanted to take a crack at it, and I'm glad I'm delivering.

[screamingay]

does anyone else think it's bullshit that i keep getting scheduled for 8 hour 11-7 shifts instead of my usual 7 hour 7-2 and i don't even get paid for the full extra hour because the evening shift workers ALWAYS leave like a half hour early?? im never allowed to leave early on 7-2s in fact i usually end up leaving kinda late bc they're always saying we have to finish everything before we leave. but the evening shift never finishes everything before they leave!! every time i come in for a 7-2 i find so much shit unfinished bc the fucking 4 or 5 hour 2/3-7 shift people don't even bother staying until 7 to finish up and apparently management is fine with this?? and whenever i'm there until 7 they pressure everyone to close up by 6:30 so they can go home sooner but i dont fucking care abt that! they automatically take a half hour unpaid lunch out of my timesheet anyway so that plus the leaving early means i don't even get paid much more than i would on my usual shift. and the 11-7 is the worst shift too they keep putting more responsibilities on that one person which somehow also makes it harder for everyone else bc the 11-7 cant help as much. cant fucking wait to hit my one year there so i can finally job hunt again and hopefully find a place that at least gives me time to sit down and eat lunch while im not getting paid. smh

[nygleskas]

me vs watching a hbo show about rich siblings trying to take over their fathers business and instantly falling in love with the shunned family member who's just a silly little guy who also tries to commit blackmail whos name starts with a G

[nightospheresims]

i cannot take another day in retail oh my GOOOOOODDDDD

[m0thkiller]

Sometimes I wonder if I should stop boymoding at work. Like itd really help my overall stress, not having to be so performatively masculine while hiding actively growing C cups so that nobody knows that in my off time im an entirely unrecognizable person. And then i have two coworkers talk over my shoulders about absolutely batshit conspiracies about Jews and the NWO and Covid being a coverup for the underground ww3 cities project and i remember

"oh yeah, the baseline attitude around here is that Im not human. I and people like me are demons to these people. and they control my fucking paychecks."

Like this shits normal around here, everyone i talk to in this town is super chill and friendly and then backhands you with the most insane string of words youve ever heard and you just have to smile and nod while mashing the eject button on the conversation

[kawaiianimeredhead]

I went to dollar general today because there was some coupons I wanted to use and at check out the cashier was like "wow you saved quite a bit. Yeah you saved like $15

Which like was the goal so that was satisfying and I felt weirdly accomplished to have saved enough that the cashier took note so that's a weird high I've been riding the last couple hours

[daiseukiis]

hii how have you been?

i miss my family 🧍‍♀️