#my job

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

 One more reason why I hate coming into work..

[onewhoturns]

we have a puzzle typewriter in one of our escape rooms, and this find after a game was so good that it’s permanently displayed in the office now

*to clarify; none of the keys are labeled with the correct letters, so this person either memorized the new letters or did it all touch-typing on incorrectly labeled keys*

[beadyeyes]

[jesspay32]

[lisa-purrisa]

Мои будние деньки ⭐✨

Как я уже рассказывала, осенняя хандра побудила меня сменить работу и это после семи-то лет в цветах. Тяжело было, казалось, словно я ничего больше не смогу сделать, ни в чем не смогу разобраться. Первые годы работы флористом были потрясающие. Меня интересовало абсолютно все: я заходила в каждый цветочный, что был на пути; не вылезала из инсты, собирала доски в пинтерест, а ночью, когда почти не было покупателей, пыталась воплотить в жизнь то, что понравилось. Моя голова постоянно генерировала новые идеи, а когда приходило время делать новогодние композиции и елочки, так я и вовсе приходила в восторг.

Вспоминая все это, я даже не до конца понимаю, а когда же все так кардинально поменялось? Куда пропал интерес? Почему ночные смены стали настолько невыносимыми? Близится Новый год и я обязательно буду делать композиции и украшения для дома, но так, чтобы выпускать их тиражом по пять-десять штук в день... сил-то хватит, а вот желания уже не достает.

Поэтому сейчас я работаю в маленьком, но очень уютном магазине с товарами для творчества. Который, кстати, побуждает меня снова рисовать спустя довольно не малое время. Стажировке вообще, в идеале, стоит посвятить отдельный пост, ибо проходила она в магазине, упор в котором сделан на изготовление украшений. Так что в мою копилку опыта упало новое хобби.

Кстати, льдинки из аква кварца, которые украшают мою шею на фото - одно из моих последних творений ☺

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I just got my first job offer in months, and the bastards want to pay me $3 less than originally promised. "Sorry, we couldn't get approval for anything higher than minimum wage..." FUCK YOU! This should be illegal! "We'll pay you $16 per hour. Just kidding!" I need the money, but this is fucking heinous and it shows me exactly how little they care about their employees. I won't be staying very long. The first inconvenience, I'm gone. It's the principal of the thing! You can't just lie to me like this and expect me to take it.

[stahl-tier]

When you're tasked by the union guy to re-assemble the coffee maker after it's been in the dishwasher but there's one mysterious piece left after you're done putting it back together

[ghostbroh]

I've been given too much power with the pin maker at my job

(chat I'm an old man I know/hj)

[mavigator]

i so badly want to send this to my boss

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

[poorlittlegreenie13]

Yellowjackets is unironically going to shift juror pools bc about 40% of working on a murder trial with mitochondrial DNA is explaining what it is to people… & now there’s a small army of lesbians who probably understand the way it creates family profiles!

[justgot1]

Just call me Bartelby the way I’d prefer not to deal with any of this shit.

[jesspay32]

[alicedopey]

So I am working on a « M for Murder » chapter with my 8th graders and of course, I chose « Knives Out » as a background movie.

We watched the trailer, I gave them a family tree and asked them to assist Benoit Blanc and send him (me) an email to tell him about their first suspicions using « Must, may, might, can’t… »

Anyways, here is what the first pupil sent me.

The insult is wild, Ransom would be outraged. I am cackling. 🤣🤣🤣

Thoughts ? @stargazingfangirl18 @thezombieprostitute

[runawaymarbles]

Would you be comfortable sharing that flow chart you mentioned in the tags about different ways Black and white people start conversations? It seemed really interesting and practical, but of course no worries at all if not! Thanks!

it wasn't about Black vs white conversation starters specifically: it's about making small talk at work without starting off with assumptions or putting them in an awkward position of having to explain something they shouldn't have to. (E.g. I do not outright ask people where they're from, what they do for work, etc.)

Context: I photograph newborns for work.

Example: Grandparents are usually good for at least three minutes of conversation, but you cannot ask about the baby's grandparents, because there's a non-zero chance that they are deceased (worse: recently deceased) or on bad terms with the baby's parents. So instead I'll say something vague like "is everybody very excited about the baby?", which gives the parents the choices of saying something like "Yes, all my friends are texting me for updates" (inference: they do not have close family; I might follow up by asking if many of their friends have children already) or "I didn't tell anybody I was pregnant" (got that once, it was fascinating, we had a good time discussing how she planned to spring it on people) and "Yes, she's the first grandbaby on the dad's side so his parents are thrilled"

The last one unlocks dialogue options like: oh do the grandparents live in town? No, they live in Nevada? I went to Reno as a kind and it blew my tiny mind. Is that where you grew up, or did they move there later?

Then they'll either say "yes that's where I grew up" and I can ask what brought them here (potentially opening such topics as: their jobs, if they say they came here for work; whether they miss sunnier weather, and so forth) or they can say "no, I grew up in Scranton but my parents retired to Vegas" or just "they moved later" and not mention where they grew up, if that's not information they feel like sharing. Then I can ask if their parents are enjoying wherever they've moved to, possibly fall back on some vague and unoffensive personal anecdote about said place, or go on to my next pre-programmed question* without anyone feeling awkward about it.

Some people are happy to tell me about how they grew up in Ethiopia and where their family is living now and how they came to the US to study microbiology and whether or not they like it here and if they'll be getting the baby dual citizenship and so on and so forth: some people do not, and this usually lets me skip around that without sticking my foot in it. (I'm pretty sure a lot of people don't want to say that they're Russian, for example, which makes me sad.)

The TL;DR is that I try to ask vague/open-ended questions that people can narrow down themselves, if they choose to, or make sure that a question is sort of an either/or so that they don't feel like there's a wrong answer. And I try not to assume anything about them whatsoever: sure, 99% of my clients with Indian names and Indian accents are in fact from India, but once in a while they're not. *"Do you guys have any pets? if yes: Do you think your pet knew you were pregnant?" [Most people think their dogs noticed the pregnancy, and some suspect their dog was the first one to notice they were in labor. It's fascinating. Alternately they say "no my cat's an idiot," and I can tell them about the time my aunt's cat stuck his face in a candle twice, and so forth.]