#shortstaffed

[amygdalae]

Cradling two advil in my palm gently tenderly like a small baby bird

[pikinanouart]

What if WISE had a new hire?

[ettawritesnstudies]

Local writer So Sleepytired, just wants to dissociate, miss her friends, and brainstorm ideas for Otherworld Explorers Club. Needs to do so much lab work instead. More at 2.

[omtai]

i am not a happy chappy today. i am the furthest thing one can be from a happy chappy. In fact someone may die today from how little of a happy chappy i am

[alphaketoglutaricacid]

a canary id like to know more about is erique. She was a prisoner and she was pardoned after utaya. But then she stayed on as a warden. After utaya.

[dollfairy]

in continuing the pattern of me not getting to actually enjoy long holiday weekends (I got bronchitis over Canada Day weekend that had me bedridden for a week), I've been laid up this past weekend with COVID :')

what do you wanna bet I'm gonna get shit talked more for calling in tomorrow bc I'm still testing positive than my coworker, mr. "bro just trust, it's my allergies" who was in all last week

[llycaons]

okay I just did my schedule for the holidays. maybe I'll try to avoid six weeks of night in the future but I can't do anything about that for now. anyway the scheduler in the email was like PLEASE put yourself in an empty slot before putting yourself in as the second person!! and I'm the very last person putting in my schedule bc it's not my turn to pick first so that's happening quite a lot for me rn but I can't always do the cool thing and put myself in the empty slot because it would fuck up the OTHER strict requirements of my position i.e. that we work half days and nights, unless I want to start flip-flopping from week to week which I am absolutely the fuck not doing lmao

[louisgoldenhour]

worst fucking 24 hours of my life

[strawberri-syrup]

i love going to work i love doing my job it is so much fun i love it so much < it is 8 pm

[jetsetromance]

i fucking hate this store manager. he can rot in hell.

[crabsdaily]

“you dont owe your employers anything” i say, as i agree to work an extra 4 shifts (2 weekends) after i was supposed to be done this job

[kirnet]

I’ve had to chant ‘get your pussy up get your money up’ to myself literally every morning this week. It works

[lautakwah]

anyone wanna send me $$ bc ive been sick at home for a goddamn week (our entire household is, atm, we are all sick with the flu 😑) and im not confident i'll be back by monday :/

[baconcolacan]

My interest is piquedd..

Well unpique it for a bit because I shot myself in the foot with that last post (My studio dropped a giant workpile on me AGAIN)

[sesamestreep]

Merrick/Raphael, "instantly"

i keep telling myself I'm going to write an honest-to-god coffee shop AU for these dorks and then I never do, so here's the espresso shot version 🤎

It’s another busy afternoon in the café and this time Inti is out because Aquila brought home a nasty case of strep from school and gave it to her, so Raphael is stuck at the register again and he’s in such an efficient rhythm with taking customers’ orders that, once Merrick gets to the front of the line, he just rings up his usual without even asking. It’s only after Raphael has told him his total that he looks up to find Merrick staring at him with wide eyes and he instantly regrets every choice that has lead him to this moment.

“Sorry, I should have—”

“No, it’s fine,” Merrick says, fumbling to quickly pay with his card. If there’s one thing Raphael has noticed about him (aside from his name and his usual order and…well, quite a few things, now that he thinks about it), it’s how much he hates being in the way. He’s obsessively polite about that in particular.

“You did want your usual, right?” Raphael asks, and he’s not embarrassed that he remembered. He isn’t. It just means he’s good at his job. That’s nothing to be embarrassed about!

“Yes, that’s perfect.”

“Merrick…”

“That’s what I wanted,” he says, firmly, and then gives Raphael a hesitant smile. “I just didn’t know I was so predictable.”

Raphael remembers what Inti’s always scolding him about and tries smiling back. “Not predictable,” he says. “Memorable.”

“Oh,” Merrick replies, looking pinker than he had a moment ago, despite having just come in from the cold. “Well, that’s certainly better.”

“You staying, or…?”

“Yeah, I thought I might.”

“Good. I’ll, uh…”

Merrick nods, even though Raphael hasn’t managed to articulate his thought yet. “Sure. I’ll be around, if you want me.”

With that, he makes way for the next customer in line and Raphael is left to think about what exactly it is that he wants, which is not a subject he allows himself to dwell on very often. He counts it as a minor miracle that he gets anyone's drink order right after that.

[scattered-winter]

I am so fucking overstimulated rn 👍