#selling jobs

[doggiewoggiez]

ok im getting too much hate im done. fuck man. i give up.

[okayto]

Neopets is so funny right now. It's a 24-year-old website and half its pages haven't been updated in 15 years. Its ostensible audience is children. The core active audience appears to be nostalgic 20-40-year-olds. Old code means no accounts or pets can ever be renamed. The virtual pound is full of virtual pets named after Justin Bieber. It has an economy and inflation is rampant. New ownership is combating this with the stimulus of random super-rare items via daily quests and events, while the equivalent of Neopian Upper-Crust complain that their investments are deflating. You can't say seaweed or grapes.

[indianatumbleweedjones]

I barely have any followers (I appreciate ya'll though) but here goes anyway

If this post gets 10 notes I'll make an effort to drink 60 ounces of water per day

If this post gets 15 notes I'll start writing more consistently (at least 15 minutes a day)

If this post gets 30 notes I'll start writing poetry again

If this post gets 50 notes I'll start drawing and painting more

If this post gets 100 notes I'll start getting 8-9 hours of sleep a night and having a consistent sleep schedule

If this post gets 500 notes by June I'll start my fantasy inspired etsy store that I've wanted to start for years but never have

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Cleared Of Job Selling,” Border Cities Star. October 26, 1932. Page 5. ---- Employe on Post Office Building Project Was Accused ---- Give Cash Claim --- Several Witnesses Tell of Trying to Buy Places On Federal Buildings ---- Charles Crouchman, employe on the post office job, was cleared in Windsor police court this morning of a charge of operating an unlicensed employment agency for the sale of jobs. 

STILL SUSPICIOUS Dismissing the charge, Magistrate Brodie observed: ‘I am doing so a with the great suspicion that something was wrong." Four men testified they had given Crouchman money on the understanding they were to get jobs. Three of the witnesses said the arrangement was made in East Windsor, while two others claimed they saw Crouchman at his home, 529 Goyeau street. 

Crouchman admitted that 75 or a 100 people had offered him money for jobs, but denied that he had accepted payments for that purpose, believing that a trap was being set to take his own position from him. 

Albert and Tony Buskera, of 343 Albert road, declared they saw Crouchman at the home of Andy Scontos, 282 Albert road, and that $15 was paid to the accused to secure positions for Scontos and Albert Buskera. Both Buskera brothers claimed to have paid him the money, one of the small discrepancies that cropped up in prosecution evidence. These witnesses claimed that after they had secured work each was to pay 5 weekly until a total of $25 had been paid. 

DENIES VISIT On the stand in his own defence. Crouchman denied ever visiting the Albert road house, declaring that, although he had lived in Windsor 30 years, he did not know the location of the street. 

John Kerekes, of 806 Drouillard road, declared "Charlie had told him to call at 629 Goyeau street. He said he went there with Joe Cheina, also of 806 Drouillard road. 

"We went to his house,” John related. "and Charlie says. ‘Well. boys. I’ll help you out. He wanted $10 and I said I only had $5 and he said that would be all right because I could pay him $5 each week out of my pay.’ 

This visit, Kerekes said, was some time in June. Joe Cheina told a similar story.

George Uaklia. declared he talked to "Charlie” about the first week in August, "on the job.” He said Crouchman wanted him to go to his home to complete arrangements, that he intended doing so. but forgot the number on Goyeau street. 

DENIES OFFERING $100 Cross-examined by James H. Clark, counsel for Crouchman. the witness denied offering the accused $100 for a job. 

"If I had a hundred dollars. I wouldn't have asked him for a job,” Uaklia retorted. Crouchman, in his own defence, implied that a plot had been formed to wrest his position from him. Kerekes, he said, had offered him $35, but I told him I could not give him a job because I had no authority to do it. 

"I have recommended eight men for jobs since I started to work on the post office and four of them are I working. The men I recommended I knew were deserving of jobs because I they were war veterans. Cheina also offered me money and Uaklia came to the Pitt street gate and offered me $100. 

SETS TRAP ‘That made me suspicious and I decided to set a trap. I told him to come up to the house and see me about it and I gave him the address. I wanted to find out where he got the $100 and I was going to have a couple of witnesses there when he came. But he never did come.” 

"It was either a case of a huge conspiracy," Magistrate Brodie reflected, "or else he has accepted money.” 

In ruling for a dismissal he took into consideration the fact that all of the witnesses for the prosecution were Czecho-slovaks. although of different racial persuasions.

[redbuddi]

Today at GameStop:

I confirmed my suspicions that I was being underpaid (my male coworker was hired for more than me)

I was told I could not sit while having to organize numerous games on low shelves due to it "taking up too much space" (crouching and sitting take up the same amount of space)

Got my nametag changed to my real name

I was only able to do so after making a stink about it

I found out that the reason my manager made me wear a nametag with my deadname yesterday was because he couldn't be bothered to make a five minute phone call with HR, or at least let me not wear the tag until I could put my real name on it

I confirmed my suspicion that we do not make commission for selling hundred dollar consoles to people, the only commission we do make is for selling people issues of Game Informer (one dollar per issue sold)

I hid every copy of Hogwarts Legacy behind games no one will ever buy (mostly Gollum)

I was constantly made to run around the store organizing large objects or large piles of objects, I couldn't even take a break in the form of standing still and ringing customers up because my manager still has not properly put me in the system so I can't log in to the register

I was asked numerous questions by customers that I did not know the answer to, all while I was very obviously in the middle of something (carrying large objects or large piles of objects)

I found out that the closest thing we'll be getting to a bonus for working Black Friday is a free sweater which we will have to wear the entire shift (this job gets very sweaty)

I had to sneak off to use the bathroom because the bathroom in the store is full of boxes of Pokemon cards

My Manager was very smelly for some reason

I got away with leaving thirty minutes early cause I'm not officially on the schedule yet

[gwyoi]

hi everyone sorry to make another post, but I was sick with a sinus and ear infection that I had to miss 4 days of work to recover from. I just need enough to get out of the negatives and pay for my car insurance, which is $160. I’ll hopefully be getting a second job remotely soon but until then I am a little bit fucked.

4/12/24 - $0/300

paypal - gwyoi

venmo - gwyoi

cashapp - gwyoi

[pemprika]

the confession

[del-stars]

i need more sirius dating the insanest men. like you cannot tell me that man wouldn't be obsessed with the most toxic men ever. he'd be like hey everyone this is my new boyfriend 🥰🥰🥰 and it's a 35 year old unemployed man with commitment issues and an avoidant attachment style who can't remember what sirius' first name is

[violent138]

Out of the Batfam, Jason is one of the most atrocious liars. He can make it work when he absolutely has to, but usually I think whenever he lies he does with little motivation and with emphasis on irony to make it funny for himself. In comparison Dick is a phenomenal liar and can sell outrage so well before hanging up and reverting to normal that Jason sprays him with holy water and never believes a word out of his mouth.

[rollercoasterwords]

like yeah obviously legality does not correlate to morality and i personally do not think ip laws should exist. however the reason i find it relevant to emphasize that selling fanfiction is illegal is not to make some moral stand about the sanctity of ip so much as to be like. hey this is the way it fucking is and if u break the law by selling fic u run the risk of creating larger legal troubles for entire communities of fic writers who just want to share their work for free. also more to the point the reason selling fic is so shitty is that it is a question of labor exploitation. i spent hundreds of hours creating something which you are now packaging and selling to make a profit without compensating me for my labor, which is not only exploitative but spits in the face of the spirit in which this fanfiction was shared—as a labor of love, meant to be free to anyone who wanted to read it. and the gag is that if u did want to fairly compensate me for my labor it would literally be thousands of dollars (assuming i’m charging even minimum wage for time spent writing & editing) which is why it isn’t fucking possible to sell fanfiction for a fair price!! all that on top of the fact that i (and many other fic writers) explicitly say “don’t sell or buy bound copies of my fic” just makes it flat-out undeniable that this is a fucking shitty thing to do, and i genuinely have no sympathy for people who go “wait what i’m not supposed to sell or buy fanfiction 🥺🥺🥺” like shut the fuck up i hate u

[tippenfunkaport]

That viral post that's going around about how people who write "book quality" mlm fic are too "normal" to publish and have real jobs so only "weird" people publish their "shitty" fanfic is so completely out of touch with reality and I am giving a massive side eye to everyone reblogging it.

Not only is it completely, easily verifiably untrue (you cannot enter any professional writing space without tripping over a dozen grizzled scifi writers who got their start by filing off the serial numbers and publishing their Star Trek fanfic even going back decades ago??? it's a whole thing?? plus how can you look at the mlm category on Amazon right now and say with a straight face that people aren't publishing shitty Spirk and Stucky fanfic??? Oh, honey...) it's also the perfect example of this kind of sneering elitism that true artists would never sully themselves by seeking profit, they do it only for the purity of the thing that always somehow leads back to, "no one should be paid to make art, actually."

The only reason you're seeing more published fanfic right now has nothing to do with the idealistic purity of your hypothetical government employee written smut of the past vs the debased scribbles of those awful straights of today and everything to do with the fact that a) self-publishing has created a voracious readership that wants a ton of content so it's become a viable, flexible income stream for many, especially disabled people b) anyone can publish now with self-publishing tools so there are less gatekeepers and c) lockdown got a lot of people into fandom and therefore writing who never tried it before.

And if you really think there's no "shitty" published mlm and no "book-quality" m/f writing out there that started as fanfic, then you are clearly not a reader so why are you even talking about this?

[zvaigzdelasas]

[p0kern1ght]

extremely barebones rvb print sketches......

(that one vine voice) what about nascar

[miyku]

[hood-ex]

“i’d rather lose both arms than you” wait… do you have that panel…

Batman #13

[wickedcriminal]

(Tfw you're the most reliable person in the roster and you're only like 12)

Httyd 2 is where the Hooligans start to think Elder may be too carefree and naive to be chief, Snotlout is too gradious to do the job right, and find that they truly appreciate the wise, diplomatic nature of Younger. Maybe we should make the little guy chief instead 💁

Bonus:

#1 most irresponsible older brother 😂

(Speech bubble text beneath readmore:)

Hiccup the Younger: If I had a gold piece for every time Gobber told me to usurp my brother for the throne of Berk I'd have three gold pieces and at this point I'm starting to think he's being serious

Little Fishlegs: Well, why not? It's a very honorable position– and you'd be great at it!

Younger: Sure, but that's Hiccup's job. It's not like I WANT it. Besides, Snotlout's the runner-up heir, not me, so I'd have to challenge him, too. I'm in Last Place, Fishlegs. Maybe it's better that way.

Little Fish: You sell yourself too short. Most of the tribe would be happy to see you on the throne instead of Snotlout. Heck, they're prefer you to Mr. Elder! All the adults say Mr. Elder is too immature. Gobber even says they're going to approach Stoick personally about lifting your rank.

Younger: Very funny.

(Silence)

Younger: WAIT— ARE YOU SERIOUS?!

...

Astrid: Shirking your heirly duties, as usual.

Astrid: You know, maybe Gobber's right, and Minicup should usurp you and take over the tribe.

Astrid: NO— YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO AGREE!!!