#my job

[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*

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

[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.

[sailing-ever-west]

The thing no one tells you about working in costuming is that every day you will see what you think is the ugliest item of clothing you have ever beheld and every day you will be proven wrong

[i-am-trans-gwender]

I have never presented as a girl in public. I have made no attempt to look femmine at my job.

Despite this the customers at my work have gendered me correctly so many times I've lost track.

Must be my exaggerated trans girl swagger.

[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.]

[dontforget-about-me]

Fighting For Peace Of Mind

[nobody190]

this meme (designer @ralbetis on x and here) raggedy ann reebot creator: @sugarthedaisyy

[ice-and-fires-blog]

Is to much..

In the past few weeks, Netflix and Wednesday have given us not one or two, but so many things to talk about... I'm not mad.

Bt trying to keep up is really hard, especially when I'm working, my notifications are going crazy, and trying to check my notifications as well as trying to do my actual job, Lord, is getting out of hand!

[nines-modelrk900]

Very old drawing

No repost

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

Yea, fuck the system!

[fly-the-pattern]

[pipmer]

Baby bobcat

Baby bobcat

@educatedinyellow @vulpesmellifera

[mohammedosama91]

Do you think I am an automaton?

— a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!

Charlotte Brontë

هل تعتقد أنني آلة آلية؟

- آلة بلا مشاعر؟ ويمكنني أن أتحمل أن تُنتزع لقمة خبزي من شفتي، وأن تُرش قطرة الماء الحي من كأسي؟ هل تعتقد أنني، لأنني فقيرة، غامضة، بسيطة، وصغيرة، بلا روح ولا قلب؟ أنت مخطئ! - لدي نفس الروح مثلك - وقلب ممتلئ مثلك! ولو كان الله قد وهبني بعض الجمال والكثير من الثروة، لكنت جعلت من الصعب عليك أن تتركني، كما هو الحال الآن بالنسبة لي أن أتركك. أنا لا أتحدث إليك الآن من خلال وسيلة العادة، أو الاتفاقيات، أو حتى الجسد الفاني: إن روحي هي التي تخاطب روحك؛ تمامًا كما لو أن كليهما مرا عبر القبر، ووقفنا عند قدمي الله، متساويين - كما نحن!

شارلوت برونتي

[hear-my-circles-sing]

They don't appreciate me enough at work

[foreverfitnesspositivity]

Sometimes, it's the perfect day in the perfect job 🏖️☀️⛵🏝️