#employment rate

[valiantsuitcaseskellington]

Gotta love Econ.

[tenaciousgay]

Employment rate drops 0.1% from October to November

Conservatives: OMG it's the end of the world! (Mostly because they assume it's a welfare increase too, which it isn't).

[notayesmanseconomics]

The UK Labour Market looks pretty strong

The UK labour market has produced a set of figures this morning that are in line with the present weather which is rather sunny. We have even achieved something which it feels like we were on the cusp of almost forever!  In the latest quarter, total actual weekly hours worked increased by 15.8 million to a record high of 1.06 billion hours. This is 6.3 million hours above pre-coronavirus pandemic…

[thisnameisalreadytakenwhatdoido]

I love Any Austin so goddamn much

Found a guy on youtube doing unemployment reports for video game cities. Turns out Whiterun has an unemployment rate of 9.4%, Riften 7.8% and Solitude 2.9%

[waywardsunlight]

I think Luz's trauma due to being an abuse victim gets ignored a lot in favor of other characters. Luz has an odd role in the fandom as this character who other characters rely on, or who isn't an abuse victim but is supportive of her friends who are, and I think that ends up missing a huge part of her story.

Belos compliments her a lot, which is partially because he wants to reach out to her and mostly because he thinks he can manipulate her. He does some backhanded compliments, telling her she's improved but she still has work to do to catch up to him. He also thanks her quite a few times. The way he thanks her intentionally triggers her guilt, especially when he thanks her for helping him with Hunter. He also compliments her to put other people down, like when he tells her she's "better than this" (implying their race makes them morally superior).

He also uses the same manipulation tactic on Luz that he does on Hunter, although it doesn't work as well on her. He tries to remove his own agency for his physical violence by blaming the Curse. The biggest example is in King's Tide, when he pretends he can't hear her as he's racing after her to try and kill her. He ends up cutting her face while pretending to be out of control and then in the same sequence has full control and clarity to talk to Hunter and the Collector. He gaslights Luz by trying to make it seem like it was The Curse causing him to act in the way he did.

He refers to Luz as "crazy" to invalidate her emotions and harming Hunter in front of her also is a form of abuse. He's obviously aware that hurting Hunter traumatizes Luz (and everyone else) but as his focus transfers from Hunter to Luz in Hollow Mind, he starts targeting her specifically by harming Hunter to hurt her (especially in TTT). Belos shifts the blame for events from himself to Luz and also attempts to make her feel guilty. Hunter seems to understand that Luz is also being abused and tries to reassure her that Belos is an abuser and she shouldn't take what he says at face value. Luz ends up taking that advice to heart after she's able to forgive herself and face Belos. She doesn't speak to him but is able to hear his manipulation tactics and just. stare at him bc he's full of bullshit.

Just because he 'only' hits her a few times and isn't her guardian doesn't mean he can't abuse her or that he didn't. It's not really a protagonist-antagonist relationship as much as it is "adult man nuking 14 year old repeatedly until she becomes god and kills him". The idea that child abuse can only come from parents and not role models or other adults in your life is odd, because he distinctly holds a position of power over her (literally an Emperor and an adult who intentionally isolates her and the other kids alone to abuse them) and uses it to emotionally and physically harm her.

Papa Titan has to reassure her that she's okay to kill Belos because he's literally a serial killer who's lying about his intentions. Luz still slightly falls for Belos's sympathetic line until that moment because he very intentionally tried to get her to feel bad for him and also feel guilt about herself.

This is also why I really detest any fandom takes where Belos canonically is supposed to care about her, or Luz owes him anything. Manipulation is not sympathetic. Belos committed premeditated murder and then used the remains of his murder victim to try to make a "Better Version" of his murder victim which was actually just a way to punish him repeatedly and keep taking out revenge on kids who had nothing to do with the original conflict. Belos is Luz's abuser also, and Luz doesn't owe him any sort of kindness or consideration and her anger is valid.

Luz is an abuse victim of Belos's in addition to Hunter and the Collector (and Vee/Lilith by extension), and she should be considered as such rather than her trauma being invalidated in favor of other characters.

[nando161mando]

All employees got this email today from admin…

[solarmorrigan]

Trying to decide what to wear for my interview tomorrow and all I've got running through my head is very mindful, very demure

[sweetfirebird]

what I love about my French publisher is that I will get a notice from them about a royalty statement. and then weeks, maybe a month, maybe more, will go by, and then I will get sent money and I will be like, where did these Euros come from oh right.

Which doesn't feel shady to me in the Dreamspinner way. It more feels like a) more relaxed work environment b) publishing in general and c) they aren't stealing they just don't care about me personally.

Anyway I consider it more like bonus money than anything else. Found money. Surprise money.

[clementimetodie]

Why does the right constantly believe they are not being idealistic, the world needs to conform to your beliefs for them to work too, things are not going to just turn on a dime because you think you're intellectually superior for not thinking about the impact your changes would have on other people

[motherhenna]

yoooo ok that last job turning out to be bullshit might actually be a blessing in disguise because I just landed an interview for an after school theater teacher gig that pays way better~ I went to theater camp every year from ages 12 to 17 and always loved the idea of being a counselor for a program like that, and did backstage / dramaturg work for a play at UCSB back in pre-pandemic 2020 so I might actually have a shot at this. Wish me luck!

[inkfox]

just got the funniest rejection from the smithsonian. my application scored an 85.79 on their unknown and non-disclosed rating scale and therefore did not rank amongst top candidates but by golly they appreciate my interest

[youmustfixyourheartt]

fuck you all I am NOT joining Saturn I do NOT want my whereabouts public to ANYBODY BUT ME are you CRAZY????

[piratefalls]

You know what, it’s been almost a week and I’m still mad at how shitty my pay raise was.

[nando161mando]

"Work rate too fast (apply resistance)" (EN: English)

[iero]

wait do you live in a state where employees arent paid time and a half on federal holidays

The entire United States has a law where private companies do not have to offer holiday pay if they don't choose to do so. There are currently forty-nine states in the US (and I live in one of them) that have no laws requiring paid holidays. The only state that has what is called a "blue law" is Rhode Island. Other then that, it is at the employers own jurisdiction. The only employers who are required to provide holiday pay are federal level employers.