#fucking supervisors

[acherys]

‘ to each a purpose, and to all a fitting end. ’

destiny item & quest description sentence meme --- accepting. @kingsmanne

To err is human; to forgive even moreso, he has come to realize. There is not a divinity he has met that took kindly to trespass, and fewer still that could forget the sin within a century. 

Take, for instance, his father.

The Vrykul who once clamored for the Lich King shut up very quickly after his first ignoble end, convinced by the simple logic that a Death God who dies is perhaps terrible at his job. Late to the party, but they got there in the end. Others came to the same conclusion, and Acherus found itself heavy with corpses in the weeks just fresh off regicide. Zoen can only presume the Twilight’s Hammer faced a similar deluge. 

It still surprises him, somehow, that Arthas turns his ire against these fairweather faithful before those who inspired the exodus. He has only ever been constant in his disdain for traitors, regardless of the hypocrisy. And the Ashen Verdict never claimed loyalty.

( No. Only your Ebon Blade. Subjugation isn’t loyalty, Lich King. Perhaps. But it is not my will which brought you here today, is it? )

Not her, no. Not specifically.

But her on the other hand.

“ Don’t speak to me about ends. ”

The glare he sends the ranger’s way might have melted steel were they still alive; as it is, Zoen merely notes the icicles hanging off his armor grow heavier. A roll of the shoulders cracks them off, sends them tumbling to the bloodied ice at his feet, but does nothing at all for the irritation knotted around his spine.

“ If you’re just gonna proselytize, the Cathedral’s not so far away. Otherwise, shut up. I’m busy here. ”

[pseudowho]

ur blog looks shit

Writing's fucking class though, innit?

You know those unassuming little restaurants that look like nothing special, until you eat there, and you suddenly understand why they've been making cash hand over fist for years, and all the locals go there?

Yeah. Anyway.

Next.

Love (you obviously need it, you bloody misery),

-- Haitch xxx

[star-anise]

It's been a hot minute since I looked at Canada's National Occupation Classification system. I learned about it when studying career counselling in grad school, and it's pretty useful in terms of job-hunting and getting information on what different types of jobs require and pay.

A friend asked me for advice about becoming a therapist so I went and looked. They redid it since I last visited, and oh man there are some chef's kiss decisions.

There are 9 top-level categories, with 1 being legislative and senior management, 5 being arts, culture, and sport, and 9 being manufacture and utilities. So I was looking for my old job's classification, which used to be 4153 - Family, marriage and other related counsellors. Knowing that made searching the government job bank really easy back in the day, because instead of searching "counsellor" "counselor" "psychotherapist" "mental health therapist" "clinical counsellor" etc etc etc to find them all, I just typed "4153" and hit enter.

Anyway, they redid the system and now that job is parked at 41301 - Therapists in counselling and related specialized therapies. Here's the tree to get there:

Cool cool cool. It's tidier, even if the occupations are still a bit messy. (When I dropped out of the field, the different counselling subdivisions were tapping their toes impatiently waiting for the provincial government to let them form their own professional regulatory college. Which still has not happened. Last week my shrink said he'd got an email from the College of Psychologists announcing that it would be gathering all the smaller counselling fields into its own downy breast instead. I have no idea what's happening anymore.)

Anyway. I scrolled down to another job I once worked and HAHA WHAT

Yes. There are only three sub-units of category 44:

Nannies:

In-home caregivers:

And,

Combat specialists

I find this grouping of professions hilarious, appropriate, and deeply validating. No notes. 🧑‍🍳👌💋

[dykedvonte]

I think it’s so ironic that the Pony Express escapes a lot if not all blame in discussion. I can’t even say I am excused from it but it’s just how hard people circle back to the characters alone without considering the environment they were made to be in.

Why would they design a ship where only two of the rooms lock? Not the bathroom? Not the sleeping quarters? We assume that all the companies in the universe are this shallow and careless to their workers but we explicitly know the Pony Express in extra vile. They are fed processed slop pack they can’t even really cook and the ration of those pack is meager at best. They hired and made people with a plethora of conflicting demeanors and beliefs work together on a mission where cohesion is important if not an outright necessity and punish them for not being happy about it. There’s no social protocols, not chain of command other than Captain’s word/choice and the only way to enforce that is with a literal firearm. They don’t allow them to celebrate freely and even took away leisure activities that would make them less stir crazy. They are only allowed a few hours of sleep despite their being no other real responsibilities or work on the ship, no matter the position or its importance. With any crew, with any level of synergy, this was a powder keg waiting for a spark.

I’m not saying characters that made mistakes didn’t make huge ones, but I think part of the horror is that at least for some (this is targeting Jimathan) those mistakes are partly made by a force of the hand. There’s a running theme of lack of choice and being forced into something and the very nature of how The Pony Express expected them to function plays a big part.

[theorist-fox]

Hey, darlings! 🫂🧡

Your girl has officially earned her MSc! I’m a free woman now—

as free as unemployed, but hey, one step at a time, right?

[jerejerejere]

I just wanted to reward myself (for staying up until past 4 a.m. actually really writing sth for my thesis) by editing and posting 1 (one) picture from the Cologne gig

[sparingiscaring]

Like once a week I remember that wild-ass line from MOTR where Pages says souls aren't real and I fully have to stop and compose myself

[billysboner]

the fact that “fruit, fruit, tits, tits” has replaced “tom-ay-to, tom-ah-to” in my brain is a dangerous thing

[nando161mando]

An illustrated guide how to talk with your supervisors

[ponyregrets]

kind of amazing to be fighting with united healthcare bureaucracy all morning and repeatedly thinking "I want to murder someone" and then remembering someone else already did

[miodiodavinci]

im being so so brave but also i am gripping you by the shoulders and leaning in and letting you know i am so tired of being brave

[urfavblackbimbo]

He’s OUTSSIIDEEEEEE And I’m loving this look that he’s been wearing like he’s really my daddy I CANTTTTTTT AND I STAY RIDING ON HIS DICK y’all don’t know how bad I want to moan rn but I’m at work 😭 the only thing he’s missing is me and our 6 kids 🥰🙂‍↕️💦💕❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[red-eft]

the fact that i immediately landed an awesome job right out from graduation but then got covid in august and now my brain doesn't work right and i might lose my job because of it . there's a funny joke in here somewhere maybe

[roseworth]

what a fucking week (it’s 2 pm on a monday)

[idontmindifuforgetme]

I’ve always loved medicine bc it’s the perfect intersection of science and humanity—the two things I value above all else in this world. Truly adored it since I was in the cradle. But now I’m thinking about how so much of my journey to neurosurgery will have to involve KILLING my feelings essentially bc how do you survive otherwise

[literaryhistories]

why do people in my private life feel so entitled to lecture me on appropriate clothing in work setting. I know people might be prejudiced and make false assumptions because I often wear mini skirts. I know people are sexist. But consider this: I don't care. When I want a certain outcome, I do all I can to manipulate a situation in my favour and that includes dressing accordingly to expectations in that setting (e. g. a job interview, a conference peresentation, my defense next week). But just a regular day at my office where I see the same people every single day? People who respect me for my work respect me no matter what I wear and those who don't don't, and I simply won't cater to those.