#micromanagy

[tariah23]

I didn’t get any sleep (probably 30 of sleep…..) and I’m omw to work rn eek

[rurinnfane]

Definitely having a Monday over here — my supervisor knew that there would be electricians working on the office building all week this week but determined it wouldn’t be “impactful” enough to justify allowing us to work remotely for more than our one day per week.

Meanwhile the electricity is on but the lights are all out, there are offices that are pitch black (don’t get me started on the bathrooms!!), and there will be electricians working around our space off and on all week.

I guess it’s easy for him to make that call about “impact” when he’s out on a work trip

[perilegs]

"Sims can also once again woohoo with the grim reaper" im glad theyre bringing it back but also i'll never in my entire life forgive whoever was behind removing the ability to woohoo/have baby with the grim reaper in ts4. made my life with a game with gameplay as is even worse 😔. also i swear i remember it being a thing in ts4 in the beginning and then getting removed but im unable to find a single mention of this bc of the feature being back

[boyfeminism]

today is going to be very long

[kingedmundsroyalmurder]

one of the ps+ games this month is a jurassic world zoo building game. I haven't played it too much yet, but so far it is scratching the zoo tycoon itch i've had for ages.

Plus dinosaurs!

[phoebejaysims]

Boutique Mod - WIP

A peek at my latest project—my interpretation of the sims 2 shopping for clothes system, complete with animations I have pilfered and converted from TS4 and various concepts I nabbed from here and there.

I'm at the point of the project where I've forgotten why I originally wanted to make it but alas, the show must go on!

This mod is as much for the business side of running a clothes store as it is the customer side.

However, once you've set things up, the shop should be able to run itself in your absence (so you can be as micromanagy, or as non-micromanagy as you wish).

As well as buying outfits using clothes racks, I remixed the ITF Clothing Pedestal and made my own variation of that too. Plus, I added a way to buy accessories from their own rack, so you have multiple ways to dress your sims up.

While not pictured, @dhalsims kindly converted the ITF clothes rack so I could use it in this mod. One cool thing about the clothes racks is that they'll actually get emptier as the stock goes down!

The closer I get to release, the more ideas for additions I have, but I'm finally at the stage where I'm polishing up the existing features!

The next time I make a post about this mod, it'll probably be on release so please look forward to that! I have a lot of documentation to write :P

Until then!

[chaifootsteps]

the “let people LiKe THinGs!!! but only things i approve of!!!” is so true for vivziepop. i remember on twitter she was always liking tweets about how if didnt like [insert mlm hellaverse ship here] youre homophobic and dont understand love or good writing. or how she’d freak out over people shipping blitzstrike or charlastor. idk ive never seen a creator so actively involved in shipping discourse to the point she is like trying to direct people. like obv if ur writing canon couples you want your audience to ship them and like them together, but the way she is so…micromanagy is not something ive seen

Gotta break out the Chronicles of Narnia quote again!

You think freedom means doing what you like. Well, you're wrong. That isn't true freedom. True freedom means doing what I tell you.

[lesb0]

One of our curators is being so micromanagy I just logged onto our website and 2 of my didactics were replaced by half-assed girlbossified gpt texts that look like a high schooler wrote it lol. I am so over it I give up. What's the point of having a team didactic writer or doing history if you're just going to narrativize it to hell lol I'm not even going to engage with this

[shslquestionmark]

okay wait listen i was given mandatory study hall because i forgot to hit turn in for an assignment that was due on a day i didn't even have the class (today) and i. just Did it so do i still have to go idfk but my parents have been contacted (this has nothing to do with them and they absolutely will make everything worse regardless of whether or not i've done the assignment) so i might be cooked

I feel like you're constantly getting in trouble for basically nothing. Like, really arbitrary and micromanagy

[willowcrowned]

watching esb and all I can say is leia you are the most on edge micromanagy critical woman in existence I’m free at eight

[ten0rreaper]

I really need to find the paper again but one really good one went into how South Park addressed the Passion of the Christ. For context that movie had a lot of controversy around it because it endorsed a LOT of antisemitic shit and stirred it up in the general populace. A lot of Jewish folk took a stance against it as a result. Of course South Park had something to say about it and as expected, that was “caring about this movie that much is stupid”. It depicted the Jewish people who were taking a public stance against the movie as analogous with actual nazis.

The paper went into a lot of the different ways people explain away this episode but concludes that the actual message of the episode, analyzing the objective events in it, is that Jewish people’s reactions to antisemitism are universally unreasonable. The episode depicts nazis as just a bunch of dumb idiots who are loud but don’t do anything, and Jewish people as hysterical, reactionary and micromanagy. And this is a view consistent with the rest of the show, once you look at it.

There have been people who talked about how South Park made antisemitism “funny” and socially acceptable. A lot of credit for that is given to the character of Cartman, but I think not enough credit is given to the writing of the entire show: South Park itself works to constantly, consistently say that any reaction to antisemitism is unreasonable. If a Jewish person doesn’t like the joke you just made about Jews? Well they’re just being ridiculous, and isn’t that even funnier?

Anyway South Park is an alt right pipeline that actively works to undermine its viewers’ ability to see other people as worthy of respect and while I definitely don’t think it’s single-handedly responsible for dismissal of Jewish people’s concerns in the modern day, I think it’s laid a solid foundation in a lot of American’s minds to dismiss anyone, and specifically Jewish people, who care about bigotry as being overemotional and paranoid

[little-dikdik]

My another thought after watching LBY gameplay. I feel like Paralives aims specifically at more maxis-matchy players, while LBY is more alpha, micromanagy type.

I like how setting up Sims Humans is so quick and already see those 2yLBY Pleasantview :) But does the action take place in some hyperinflation situation? House for 200k seems like a standard. I like how they refer to the characters as humans, dialogs are in English and such (unpopular opinion: not a big fan of simlish and prefer English in my game but for sake of my laziness I just suck it up).

I have mixed feeling about those social media popups #citiesskylinesusesthemtoo, feel like they can get annoying pretty fast. I kinda remember my Sims 3 hours with Nraas SP when I liked having them on just to get the neighborhood hot tea.

My scare is about the micromanagement part of the game. I like the variety of stuff making (collecting stuff is my favorite Sims thing ever and it's a Sims 3 thing) but what about the family gameplay? Feel like it might be exhausting doing stuff like that when managing the whole family.

Still can't get over the graphics tho.

[theonewhocounts]

I really enjoyed aspects of running an industrial embroidery machine. Watching a patch get put into fabric 12 times simultaneously is hypotonic and they're deceptively simple machines that can be fixed even by a 9 year old who's been roped into family-style child labor (yes I was actually 9 when I joined the workforce).

I really enjoyed parts of packing trucks at the FedEx warehouse. I got super fit from all the exercise and it was surprisingly mentally engaging to play Tetris In A Truck.

I really enjoyed being a ski lift operator at a ski resort. I got to sit in a little shack on top of a mountain with a space heater and a podcast and watch people have fun and help them when they fell down.

I really enjoy my government job making math less traumatic for kids in my state's public education system (10k kids helped and counting).

I wish I'd been paid more at literally every single one of these jobs and I wish some of my supervisors had been so micromanagy and I wish I had been treated like a person and not as a cog in a machine. UBI would have solved at least a bit of that.

Sigh.

[zulchik46712]

My job fired me today, over shit that happened almost two months ago. No one ever once coached me, wrote me up, corrected me, or anything. I stayed in CONSTANT communication the whole time the things were happening. Yes, I knew that I couldn't have absences the first 90 days. However... instead of saying 'We're sorry these things are happening and even if the internet issues (we're stuck with Comcast, only game in town) and the two days your apartment building had to turn off electricity aren't your fault, rules are rules, let's part ways now.' They strung me along for two months, let me think I'd hit my 90 days with no issues, then three weeks short of it decided to fire me. They tried to claim that I never, ever once communicated with them. I communicated the whole damn time and reminded them of that fact.

"Well, you also lashed out at the trainers..."

No. Wrong, I broke down crying once--not professional, no--because of tech issues once, was under massive amounts of stress due to the apartment we were in forcing us out and things related to moving into the new one--and once while wrapping up a call during nesting the trainer had pinged me. I saw the message, muttered "Just let me do this" without knowing or being told that I was being monitored or listened to. I then answered her message politely only to be told 'Ignoring messages from a trainer is considered insubordination.' And apparently, that's 'lashing out'.

Don't work for this company, ever. I only took the job in desperation for full time work. I like in a town of 40k people, in Illinois, and there weren't a lot of local or remote options. The company heavily targets people on the right side of the political spectrum and it wasn't a good fit for me, despite their claim 'We champion freedom and self reliance for everyone'. |

I admit I made mistakes, but it's clear that they overhired and went after those who hadn't drunk the company Kool-Aid enough or neutrotypical enough first. You fire someone immediately if they're breaking policy, not monkey-branch while getting enough people in to start pruning.

Also...

They limited you to two minutes away from the computer outside of breaks and lunches per WEEK. Need to pee, get water, tend to an emergency? Tough shit. Do it on break or lunch.

"We respect mental health and encourage self care! Oh, but not really. If you're stressed, here's this Calm app and the EAP phone line. Also, while we didn't fire you for being neurodiverse, we really only know how to work with neurotypicals, sorry."

You had to constantly, CONSTANTLY, update them on everything you did. Taking a few minutes for notes? Better say something. Making an outbound call? Say something or we'll think you're avoiding calls. Accidentally click the wrong status, then correct it? Say something or else. Tell us when you're taking your scheduled break or lunch, because we have to know and have you announce your every move to the entire fucking channel. Not good enough that supervisors know damn well what your schedule is.

My favorite part? You. Could. Not. Put. Yourself. On Mute. Or a customer. On hold. EVER. Muting unless coughing or sneezing was FIREABLE OFFENSE.

"Oh, but Zaichik,' you say. 'What if you were doing research for an issue or had to look something up that takes more than a minute or two or--'

No. Hold. Ever. We had to do the research and keep up a steady stream of yippy-yap bullshit. I don't mind checking back with someone on hold after a minute or two. That's normal policy.

My supervisor himself was great. the notification came down from On High. They wouldn't even let him be present. All their stupid little micromanagy rules came from On High, as well. The owners of that company have never worked in a call center ever, and it shows.

[fatcowboys]

hell coworker is a miserable combination of overstimulating annoying and micromanagy which means i just spend my days full of Rage

[elegiesofemptiness]

my roommate burst into our apartment a few hours ago with a lot of pots in her arms and yelled “WE’RE STARTING A VEGETABLE GARDEN”

we spent this whole afternoon just chatting and we raided our freezer for ice cream

we’re gonna pop some sangria in a bit

it’s just so nice. she’s so nice and we’ve lived here together for a year and we never really got the chance to be friends