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who else is re-reading romance books this valentines day to feel something 🙋
#we single people taking one for the team#its ok guys#i have roma and juliette...oh wait#i have evangeline and jacks!!!.....nvm#ok so uhm maybe i just skip the angst parts....#ouabh#caraval#jacks prince of hearts#tbona#evajacks#evangeline fox#jacks x evangeline#the ballad of never after#books#these violent delights#our violent ends#foul lady fortune#last violent call#chloe gong#stephanie garber#valentines day#valentines day sucks
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worst trope is found family separating as soon as the antagonist is dealt with.
#yes this is about voltron and it's also about guardians of the galaxy#what james gunn did to gamora in GOTG3 is criminal#i understand why they did it but to end with her GOING BACK TO THE RAVAGERS?#fail end.#seriously#and it doesnt even make sense bc ofc the high evolutionary isnt going to be the last problem they would deal with#in just a few years they encountered 5 people trying to destroy the universe and who were incredibly difficult foes#youre finna tell me there will never be a situation like that for the rest of their lives?#gtfo#and mantis' end was dumb too not even sorry#i can tolerate drax and nebula's ends.#but everyone else?#stupid#even peter's ending was fucking moronic. bro can pop in on the weekends he doesnt need to be a live in nurse for his grandpa#it's just such a major letdown and sucks everytime a director/author decides to split up the found family permanently#at least with voltron you can rationalize it by saying 'oh they never really wouldve hung out with eachother if they werent forced to for#voltron and werent forced to fight a war together.' and i can see it bc none of them DO hang out together before voltron#they barely even hang out AFTER they become voltron#keith and shiro hang out bc of the adoption/fostering/mentoring thing. lance and hunk MIGHT hang out bc they were already teammates#it's important to note that we never really see hunk and lance being bffs. theyre just friendly to eachother.#this becomes even more apparent once hunk and pidge actually become friends. it's very obvious hunk was just being friendly to lance.#just friendly.#(take this with a grain of salt bc ive only watched the whole series one time. i refuse to acknowledge anything after se 2.)#so yeah it does make more sense theyd all go their own ways but not even the small friend groups stay together at the end!#pidge and hunk are in completely different galaxies from eachother. same with keith and shiro#lance is isolated from all of them bc post se 3 writing team genuinely hated him and failed him as a character.#but GOTG3? they CHOSE to band together time and time again. they CHOSE to be a team. they CHOSE to be family#for every single one of them to say 'nah fuck that i want to be on my own bc uhhh reasons!' is a lame ending.#period.#gotg3
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truly the fact that the cesspool of racism and other nightmarish ghoulery that is the chicago hockey team has a mascot who is my hand to gd named tommy hawk is just the cherry on the racism sundae. the nhl ought to owe me and every other indigenous person out there 20 dollars every time we have to be reminded this monstrosity of an organization is allowed to exist mostly-unquestioned.
no ethical consumption under sports teams etc nobody's teams are gonna be beyond reproach etc but like. some things are worse than other things. for example, having a racist caricature for your logo and a mascot named tommy fucking hawk is worse.
#gav gab#that time the wild's mascot like kicked the chicago mascot's ass at some asg#lives fondly in my heart#from the bottom of my heart: fuck that org and fuck every single one of their fans#there is no excuse.#tommy fucking hawk. as i live and fucking breathe.#racism cw#i just truly can't take it sometimes#like#i look at those logos and those team names and i'm like#this is what we really are to a lot of people huh#that's what they think of us#that's what we mean to them#and no matter how much we beg and scream and fight#they will not fucking stop#and then i have to think about the cleveland guardians and the washington nationals#or whatever their names are#there IS hope but just#some days it's a lot. some days it's brutalizing.
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this was their reasoning for why Aemond having his eye cut out isn't deserving of the same anger as Alicent cutting Rhaenyra... I know this is a show about royalty and politics but for a single second can we view children as just children and not pawns in the grand royal/political scheme.
Aemond was a CHILD, can we just give a shit cause he was a child, cause he was maimed, could he be treated with the half decency of just being a kid deserving of at the VERY least an apology?
honestly my gears are grinding over calling Aemond, a child who was just permanently disabled and then asked to be tortured, the SPARE of all things.
#I will give them one thing in saying the rest of their take wasnt totally horrendous and had backing#but their take was basically#aemond and alicent dont have as much power/importance cause they're seventh in line/queen consort#so everyone (in and out of the show) should just accept that aemond was never going to be given proper retribution or even an apology#and that alicent should have been punished#idk#this shits so complicated cause of course everything in this show revolves around the politics#but seeing everything get boiled down to oh this was/wasnt ok because *insert politics* grinds my gears#they were people#they were kids#can we for a single second approach sny kf this shit with empathy and not pulling the order of succession into thos shit to justify#a child being maimed and then essentially punished for it?#I'm just frustrated dont mind me#aemond targaryen#pro team green#anti team black#anti team black fans#some of y'all are incapable of empathy#or like#pulling your head out of your ass enough to see making everything about politics doesnt make it any better#hotd#house of the dragon
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ngl its absolutely crazy how much winning a cup has rewritten history and the narrative™ because hearing "theres nothing negative you can say about being a florida panther" NOW. KEY WORD ON NOW. Because this absolutely was not the fucking case even since the franchises inception like even this year yall were making fun of our attendance numbers despite them being one of the best theyve ever been LIKE HUH. WHAT DID WE FORGET THE WHOLE SOFLO IS NOT A HOCKEY MARKET WE SHOULD MOVE THIS FRANCHISE. WE'RE BEGGING PEOPLE TO FILL THE LOWER BOWL. OH I FEEL BAD FOR SASHA AND EKKY FOR BEING DOOMED TO A FRANCHISE. THIS PLACE IS AN EMBARRASMENT. ETC. are we forgetting all that. are we just not going to acknowledge that.
#txt#“you guys are living the dream!” i remember explicitly florida being a destination for the doomed#like this is absolutely insane to say to someone who got drafted by the them and had to live through the horrors#i feel as though soflo teams are very prevalent with the oh you got traded over their? i feel sorry for you buddy#like its the same narrative with fish except our glory days are behind us and our ownership is so fucking shitty#like anytime youre traded over here its treated like a funeral and a punishment#i feel like context for these type of sentences are so important#ekky literally going yeah tsa and police officers greeted us and said thank you and we've never had that#“its been pretty quiet over here” is a light way of putting it#i think the best way i can try to explain to people not in soflo about all this is thay#when cats played in dade i did not hear a single peep about them. no one talked about them even in the schoolyard.#and we loved talking about sports recaps??? like ive always remember talking about the fish heat and dolphins#ive always been invited out to those games as a kid and just enjoying it#i remember players getting invited to my school and afterschool programs or getting invited to the stadium and chilling with them#never once was a panthers player invited#we never went to games. they never went to my school. nothing.#hell for an early portion of my life i didnt even realise we had a hockey team and im a big sports fanatic#a friend when i was younger from upstate was like hockeys pretty cool ill take you to a game one day and i was like we have hockey?#it was a sport you saw on the car dealership tvs as toddled about and nowhere else#like man quiet is really putting it lightly
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That one poll reminded me of how one time in high school one Ms. Pease saw me quietly listening to my ipod in the hallway waiting for my next class and she just ripped it out of my hands. And I was staring in pure dumb shock for like 30 seconds and she was like "are you coming or not." She then proceeded to explain, once we walked the whole fucking school to her shitty little office she shared with 15 other people, that ipods aren't allowed in hallways. Which was news to me on account of everyone had them or cd players. She was known for being horrible for no reason but damn. I wish it was her who got arrested for cocaine
#it was a Spanish teacher. and not even the one I had whom everyone immediately suspected#let this be your sign that if you hate high school kids don't be a teacher#that was my one and only interaction with her miserable ass and I literally hope she died horribly years and years ago#a history teacher who caught me smoking once was sympathetic about my stolen ipod and helped me get it back and she was a literal angel#more of her and less of Pease in the world#people used to joke about the language department's food based names. Like Mr. Crabb and Ms Pease and Mr. Kofi#Mr. Kofi was a native French speaker from Cote D'ivoire. he was my French teacher and he was awesome. And they pronounced his name wrong#I was lucky I got him. We also had a teacher who taught French and Latin and spoke both with the strongest British accent ever#not to disrespect her or anything. She let us watch Gladiator in class. And I told her after like 3 weeks of class I finished the book#and she said ok here's the next one. if you get through that you can move up a whole year and go from Latin 1 to Latin 3/4#after winter break. and I did do just that and I got the best grades in Latin 3/4 too#at Latin day I was a junior so I didn't get picked for the kartamen team (sp?)#and they lost first round#meanwhile I took multiple choice exams all day. My favorite. and I got 1st 2nd or 3rd place for every single one#so I literally won 10 awards all my myself at Latin Day. Just by taking multiple choice tests. they must have felt so stupid#I received those awards onstage at school the same day I got like 3 or 4 medals for the National Latin exam and the state exam#and the mythology exam#so I went home with like 15 awards that day so fuck you everyone who didn't want a junior on the kartamen team. I destroyed your sorry asse
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#kori i understand your thought process#it's the same as emptying the net#but if you don't fix it#and by that i mean play the whole team and win the next 3#you're going to lose coach of the year to CK#and i do hope you are seeing all the twitter comments and by that i mean the handful of reporters who are talking about this choice#at the end of the day the first goal last night was an unlucky bounce#[note i still take issue with certain people dumping the puck for no reason]#but it's happened to ambrose and murphy before too i think#the thought process is that if we can only score one goal per game#we better not allow more than one#but honestly i think it's difficult to break a tie in regulation if you aren't being strategic#and i think montreal has a real problem of not taking strategic shots#especially when they are down or not scoring they shoot from distance#which is not the right move#it's something you do when you are desperate#what you need to do is put shots on net collect rebounds and force the goalie to be in 2 places at once#see the poulin daoust goal from the 3-1 boston game#also practice even strength goals PLEASE#i will say one last tangentially related thing: i think the jaques tapanni trade is what helped boston and hurt min#and by that i don't mean that jaques isn't doing well but it's clear that min needed the offensive depth and face-off#expertise that tapanni brought#and i know heise's injury kind of coincided with that as well#but to me it's clear that shifted the momentum#quite frankly it's not a surprise that this is coming up#because the same thing happened with the shootouts#do you know why we lost every single shootout#it's bc kori kept it so top heavy#and i have to wonder if the [starters] are just taking this on the chin or#like as leadership you have a responsibility to the members of your team not just the standing of your team you know
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Board certified abyss 12 HATER
#‘oh youre just bad at it’ i am bad at it because its bad game design. i rest my case#im not even bad at it. i could definitely clear and 36 star if i wanted to. however i should not have to take 40 shots at thr same content#trying to random luck my way into mashing the right set of buttons and miaculously not getting hit because the hp pools are too high to lose#a single percent of your dps bringing a healer or. for that matter. actually healing.#this is i think why Neuvillette has such a good rep. hes basically invincible at c1 which means you#dont have to retry the same chambers over and over because he keeps getting one-shot. because lets all look into our hearts at this moment#his damage is not that much higher than any other dps character’s damage. he just also heals and fits into the current meta#people used to say the same shit theyre saying about neuvillette about nahida#and once natlan comes out the meta will change once again. hp builds will once again become unnecessary in abyss. bennet will make a#reemergence. overload meta will become real. there will be one character who is good to use in burgeon teams theyll be burgeon nilou. this#is my natlan prediction#part of it anyway#and then we will get shneznaya and there will be a character who does damage based on how high you can get their crit over 100% but they#wont be that meta theyll be like cursed with low modifiers. but nonetheless the meta will change again.#im in a love hate relationship with the genshin meta because it is in a love-hate relationship with itself#board certified my post#board certified metaposting
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welp. meow meow meow
#right as i think 'wow im so glad i decided to get out' i got the 'we have paused hiring for this position' email#also i am trying So Hard to be So Nice to the work ppl im having a hard time with and their boss is like Lying to my two-up boss#about me being mean to techs#and being super petty to the rest of my team#but really straight up lying and saying im like bullying techs? what? i brought donuts and i said how much i appreciate their work!!#and have explicitly made not a single criticism or asked them to do anything outside of the function of their jobs#AND. so I got a 5:45 pm call from my boss's boss about feedback for me!! that he said [redacted] said that i made people defensive#and i was like what!! 'you asked them to do extra work and take longer and made someone defensive' every one of those is wrong#the boss of that team is such a guy! how can you be so incompetent and so mean and do petty things that do no good for anyone#meow meow meow i will talk to my boss's boss again tmrw about what Actually happened bc I keep things In Writing and . idk. slander#i am explicitly trying So Very Hard to be especially proactive and kind here that it hurts extra to have this behind-the-back accusations#meow. meow meow.
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hm.
#the way people are acting like *any* discussion of the current situation and the updates we are getting (from everyone *but* Q nd team)-#is something like ''doomposting''..... bro...#doomposting is when people act like this means the server is completely over and nothing could bring it back.#*this* is people discussing what information we do have and what we are realistically expecting to happen based on that#(and honestly imo most of it is way more positive and trying to look on the bright side)#seeing people call realistic discussions ''doomposting'' just makes me think you want to stick your head in the sand and ignore everything#instead of facing the reality that the server does in fact have problems and from what we know only one (money) is -#actively in the process of being solved#so yeah when i see ppl say ''stop doomposting'' in regards to mild negativity i think you refuse to actually face any issues-#and i think you dont actually care about the horrible labour practices that the admins face.#you just want to watch your fav and all this ''discourse'' (labour violations) is ''ruining it'' (making you think critically)#so yeah. hot take for today ''doomposting'' isnt happening and you just hate to see any criticism be widespread#citric complaints#not in regard to any single blog btw this is a viewpoint ive seen from many different blogs (though some have recently changed viewpoints)
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how to explain that I’m dying and have too much going on in my personal life to have such a stressful job without sharing unnecessary details with my boss that may come back to bite me later on
#ayyyyyyyiiiiiii#like oh yeah sorry my partner tried to off themselves last December and then they were on leave for 9 months and we were living on one in on#and they just came back a month ago and it’s not going well and honestly they’re probably gonna have to quit and I don’t think they’ll be#able to work anymore at all#anyways all my bills are over dude my credit is fucked and I get about 20 calls a day from bill collectors#not to mention I’m still trying to figure out the short term disability ahit HR fucked up#oh yeah and also my depression is relapsing and I have ‘can’t do things or pay attention’#disorder and terrible anxiety and my depression is relapsing#plus we had 2 deaths in the family very recently which I still haven’t had time to process#and you know I have to leave work early yesterday to go to urgent care cause I was having a miscarriage!#and they scooped me and gave me meds!#so like 15 client projects 6 internal projects and onboarding 2 people while you change literally every single process and rule after firing#half of my team and leaving me as the only person with product knowledge#well it’s a lot it fucking handle.#I’m dying#like how do you even say that.#you don’t#you just suffer in silence as the bone chilling dread and ‘waking up unable to breathe’ panic takes over
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they haven't released a new geo character since 2.3 i'm crying rex lapis really did quit and took the visions with him
#i can't believe this#he retired and not a single geo vision has appeared since#zhongli get back to work you gotta fix this man#real talk they have got to fix this element#idk like go nuclear and give it whole new reactions#or make crystallize a decent reaction idk make it reflect#im freeballing right now give me a break!#genshin impact#rex lapis#the issue also is geo is super niche cause mono geo is how this is supposed to work but mono geo has like 3 limited 5 star characters#you need itto zhongli and albedo#of course there are variances like people take out albedo or zhongli and replace itto with ningguang#but the issue is that it needs a lot of resources and gorou constellations that casuals dont have access to#the last one was yunjin who has been leaked for eons 😭 like we knew about her pre inazuma#like its way easier to run a team with a shit ton of reactions and colors then to run a geo team#not to mention who wants to invest in geo characters who will only be viable in 1 team comp
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Hi!
In your latest thenamesh special force au Gil said he doesn’t trust them to keep her safe.
What if something happens that puts Thena in great danger and Gil rushes to protect and safe her? Bonus if he carries her in his arms!
"Fall back! I repeat, fall back: area is not secure!"
"Move in!" Gil announced before any order was given. Technically he was second in command in Thena's absence, him and Kingo being the most senior Agents present. He didn't need to hear anything else.
Thena was in danger, and he wasn't going to allow it.
The junior agents were scattered around, some having been taken out as soon as they were in the building.
Gil hauled one up by the collar of his shirt, "what the hell happened in here?!"
Kingo put a hand on his friend's shoulder, squeezing as best he coudl over their thick layers of protective gear. "Take it easy, Gil."
"Th-They were waiting," the young agent squeaked out. "We didn't know until all units were in the building. Something came through the vents, then they jumped us."
Gil dropped the kid to the ground again, stepping around his body and proceeding with caution around every corner. "Eyes up, masks on, people!"
Kingo hand signalled the rest of the unit following behind them. Kingo leaned closer to Gil, "Boss was in the third unit to enter."
Which meant she shouldn't have been too far in the building by the time things went wrong. Gil walked around their comrades as they proceeded. "Tell medical about all these stupid kids."
"Come on, man," Kingo admonished. "You were all buddy-buddy with these 'kids' less than a week ago."
"And if anything happened to Thena, I'm gonna have them all kicked out of the agency or worse."
Kingo gave up on trying to talk him out of it, knowing it was a lost cause. Gil and Thena both weren't the best at being particularly logical when it came to one another. "Focus, Gil."
It only managed to rile him up more, because it wasn't Thena's soft voice telling him that. "Fuck you."
"Okay, good talk," Kingo sighed until they came across the most troublesome area. "Shit."
Clearly they had put up a fight on both sides. Agents were sprawled about, but so were some of the low level participants of the operation they were busting.
"Boss!"
"Thena!"
She was a few feet away from the rest of them, probably having tried to go further in before whatever was in the vents had incapacitated her as well. She had even pulled off her bulletproof vest, probably to check herself for injury after being shot at.
"Thena!" Gil rushed over to her, practically sliding on his knees to reach her. He pulled the inner material of his collar down from his nose and mouth, pulling her up into his arms.
It was in complete disregard for protocol. He didn't check for her injuries first, he didn't wake her and ask her the standard 'can you speak',. 'can you breathe', etc. He pulled her into his arms and all but shook her in his desperation to see her open her eyes again.
"Gil?" she groaned out, pinching her brows together as she came to.
"Thena," Gil gasped out in relief, pulling her closer and cradling her head protectively. "You're okay!"
"What are you doing here?" she frowned, glaring at him out of one eye (with some blood from her forehead having gotten in the other). "You were ordered to wait as backup."
"I know, but the kids blew it and we had to move in," he scoffed, reaching into his standard issue cargo pants and fishing out what was definitely not a standard issue handkerchief. He wiped some blood from her eye before dabbing at her forehead. "Can you stand?"
Thena nodded up at him, "it looks worse than it is. All that really happened was we spooked them out the back of the trap. Tell me we were waiting for them at the rear."
"Yes, we got 'em all," Gil chuckled, letting her grip his sleeve in need and then release it almost immediately. He frowned at her, "I know I asked if you can stand, but are you sure you should be on your feet?"
"It's fine, Gil," Thena attempted to protest, although she didn't actually succeed in attempting to pull herself up out of his arms. "Just...I'm just...jus-"
Gil shook his head. Whether it was blood loss or a concussion or the gas, he wasn't about to let her try walking by herself. Medical would have his head for moving her without their permission, and the higher ups probably wouldn't be happy with him either.
Thena would be livid once she woke up again.
But Gil picked her up in his arms, carrying her like a bride back the way they came, past the rest of the agents also being collected in the aftermath of the disastrous operation. He had no sympathies for the kids being picked up off the ground. Not with Thena lying limp in his arms as she was. He bent his head down close to her, "almost there."
"Gil," she sighed, drifting in and out of it as he carried her. "M'fine."
He smiled down at her. She would absolutely have his badge for thinking she looked kind of cute when she was sleepy, but he could keep that thought to himself. "Yeah, you seem real fine, Boss."
#Thenamesh Special Forces AU#Gil to the rescue!#we love to see it#the thing with more action based aus like this#is that Thena is literally called the Goddess of War#she can take care of herself#and Gil knows and respects this#Gil makes exquisite Respect Women juice#but he also likes Thena more than he should#so on the one hand#she's his tough as nails boss#whom he fully believes could kill anyone with one hand tied behind her back#on the other hand#he thinks she's cute and pretty and smells nice and is kind of delicate#she makes people at the agency cry at the very idea of her wrath#but Gil is like let me carry that heavy bag of gear for you!#She's called the Goddess of War but Gil is like Thena has a cute laugh#She has beaten every single member of the team in hand to hand combat#it's practically a right of passage to get your ass handed to you by her#an honour and a privilege even!#and yet Gil's like it's cold take my coat#and while no one is really brave enough to bring it up#maybe they ask Kingo like...doesn't the Boss get mad at Gil for that stuff?#and Kingo is like no chivalry is not dead its name is Gilgamesh#but don't try it for yourself because she WILL break both your knees#Gil knows she can take care of herself#it just doesn't stop him from wanting to take care of her too
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i'm not saying that Criminal Minds is like a revolutionary show like i am fully aware of its flaws but the show does Found Family so well. The show takes the time not just to develop each of the characters individually to give them a rich and varied backstory and character arc but also takes the time to build individual bonds between each them in unique and distinct ways, which is extremely rare for an ensemble show.
They have such real and tangible bonds not just as a cohesive group but also with each in a way that doesn't feel forced or scripted but deep-rooted and dug into your heart. It's an ensemble show in the purest sense, and every single character is meaningful and noteworthy and i just - i am in no way pretending that there isn't something off-kilter about finding a show centred around a FBI Team hunting serial killers to be comforting, but goddamnit Criminal Minds is a comforting show.
#adi watches tv shows#criminal minds#i just love this show and the people in it so much#like if i take emily as a centrepiece right#we know that she has smth special with JJ and Penelope#and lets even say for a second that we can take it granted that she's got a special connection with Hotch#but she's also got her own thing with Spencer#and she and Derek are besties i will die on that hill#and she and Rossi are shit stirrers#and its the same for every single character they have such deep-rooted bonds not in the assumed sense of like oh yeah theyre a team#but you can pair off every single one of these characters in various permutations and combinations#and each time you will come up with pairings with meaningful and real bonds and developed character arcs#and thats rare for ensemble shows but even rarer for crime procedurals#which generally primarily revolve around one or maybe two characters and only occasionally share the limelight with others#idk im rambling i just love this show
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i hate working here
#i can tell you right now that not a single one of us who work here would be any good at basketball#except for our sous chef but only bc hes tall#but oh my god sometimes the Corporate 'Management' people take it too far with the we're a team we're a family thing#like its fun if we do a company party. good food. maybe some wine. fun enough#and when we did a holiday party and went to the bowling alley arcade place that was fun. bc people split off to do things#but im not playing basketball with you. thats more work than what i do at this job#ik i sound like im hating fun and maybe im a little too hard on this job but it does have its annoying moments#i may try to get a new job soon but oh the Agony
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"Stop being such a fatalist" okay, well if people could stop choosing the worst possible option for any given scenario maybe I would.
#sam speaks#this is about my boss#who saw our team struggling with 4 people#asked us if we wanted another person or more money#and when we all said another person proceeded to ignore us and not hire anyone else#OR give us a raise#and in fact paid me less and less per payday#and then when my car broke down instead of trying to work out#how me and my roommate who also works there and is transported by me could still get to work#was like if you dont come in I take that as you quitting#so now they're down to two people#how was that NOT the single worst route possible to take#like why the fuck are you in charge of anyone???#you couldn't lead your way out of an empty fucking room with an open door#not to mention having already overworked all of us to the point of breakdowns#i hope i get a new job fast#and i hope its better than the lsst one
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