walking up to random doors and tugging on them and saying “i can’t. it’s locked” out loud to no one to fulfill my dreams of being an adventure game protagonist
Do Not Let HR do this to you. It is not illegal to talk about wages in the work place. I did and got a 12% raise!
True info. Now let me add something: The power of documentation. (I was a long time steward in a nurses union.)
Remember: The “‘E” in email stands for evidence.
That cuts both ways. Be careful what you put into an email. It never really goes away and can be used against you.
But can also be a powerful tool for workplace fairness.
Case 1: Your supervisor asks you to do something you know is either illegal or against company policy. A verbal request. If things go wrong, you can count on them denying that they ever told you to do that. You go back to your desk, or wherever and you send them an email: “I just want to make sure that I understood correctly that you want me to do xxxxx” Quite often, once they see it in writing, they will change their mind about having you do it. If not, you have documentation.
Case 2: You have a schedule you like, you’ve had that schedule for a while, it works for you. Your supervisor comes to you and says “We’re really short-handed now and I need you to change your schedule just for a month until we can get someone else hired. It’s just temporary and you can have your old schedule back after a month.” A month goes by and they forget entirely that they made that promise to you. So, once again, when they make the initial request, you send them an email “I’m happy to help out temporarily, but just want to make sure I understand correctly that I will get my old schedule back after a month as you promised.” Documentation.
[Image ID: Text reading: In the middle of a busy clinic at our practice, I got pulled in by my manager to speak to HR, who must have made a special trip because she lives several states away, and told I was being 'investigated’ for discussing wages with my other employees. She told me it was against company policy to discuss wages.
Me; That’s illegal.
Them: (start italics) three slow, long seconds of staring at me blankly (end italics) Uh…
Me: That’s an illegal policy to have. The right to discuss wages is a right protected by the National Labor Relations board. I used to be in a union. I know this.
HR: Oh, this is news to me! I have been working HR for 18 years and I never knew that. Haha. Well try not do do it anyway, it makes people upset, haha.
Me: people are entitled to their opinions about what their work is worth. Bye.
I then left, and sent her several texts and emails saying I would like a copy of their company policy to see where this wage discussion policy was kept. She quickly called me back in to her office.
HR: You know what, there is no policy like that in the handbook! I double check. Sorry about the confusion, my apologies.
Me: You still haven’t given me the paper saying that we had this discussion. I am going to need some protection against retaliation.
HR: Oh haha yes here you go.
I just received a paper with legal letterhead and an apology saying there was no verbal warning or write up. Don’t even take their shit you guys. Keep talking about wages. Know your worth. /End ID]
At one of my old (shit) jobs my boss would continually come have these verbal discussions with me and would never put anything in writing I took to summarizing every discussion we had in email. Like “just to confirm that you asked me to do X by Y date and you understand that means I won’t be able to complete the previous task you gave me until Z date - 2 weeks later than originally scheduled - because you want me to prioritize this new project.
The woman would then storm back into my office screaming at me for putting the discussion in writing and arguing about pushing back the other project or whatever. At which point I would summarize that conversation in email as well. Which would bring her storming back in, rinse and repeat ad nauseum.
Anyway I cannot imagine how badly that job would have gone if I hadn’t put all her wildly unreasonable demands in writing. Bitch still hated me but she could never hang me for “missing deadlines” because I always had in writing that she’d pushed the project back because she wanted something else done first.
Paper your asses babes. Do not let them get away with shit. If they won’t put what they’re asking you to do in writing then write it up yourself and email it to them.
If you don’t have this kind of job but someday you’d might: start practicing.
After a casual conversation with friends, write up a brief synopsis of what you discussed & agreed to. (…Do not email this to friends unless you have their agreement that this would be a fun group project.) Get practice with,
“A, B, and C had a brief meeting about food options after the big game. We decided on pizza, with A&B agreeing to contribute X dollars each, and C agreeing to contribute Y dollars and also bring soda. A will call for pizza on the day of the game and schedule it for delivery at 8:30 pm.”
“A, B & C discussed movie options. A wanted something lite and fun; B wanted something scifi; C was fine with anything but horror. Nobody wanted superheroes. Decided on Lost Space Wanderers which opened last weekend; C agreed to research theatre options and report tomorrow.”
…and so on. Practice describing the results of “meetings” with friends and you’ll be ready to sum up “boss told me to set aside Project A to focus on Project B for the next two weeks” - because what’s likely is that boss didn’t say anything that clear; boss talked about how important Project B is and how the company needs parts X and Y done asap and you have the best skills for that, and when you mentioned how much time Project A was taking, boss said “eh don’t worry about that right now; marketing is breathing down my neck so we really need part X by Friday, okay?”
…at no point did you get a direct instruction.
Which is why anyone who is not the screaming-drama boss mentioned above would think it was perfectly reasonable for you to say, “I want to clarify the discussion we had earlier - you told me to focus on Project B to the exclusion of Project A for the next two weeks, even if that means Project A will miss its deadline; is that correct?”
Genuine question: what do I do when the boss in question doesn’t reply to my confirmation email, then says that he never approved the project delay?
In person or over the phone you say “that doesn’t match with my memory of the project but let me check my records and I’ll get back to you about what happened on this project.” Then go back to your desk and write the pettiest email in the world.
To: Boss
From: you
Cc: work group, team lead, project partner, direct supervisor, etc.
(Depending on severity of problem) Bcc: your personal email
“Hi Boss, I’m trying to resolve some confusion here. After our conversation about priority projects on [date] I reached out to you for confirmation of these details (see attached outlook item) and didn’t receive an update to the timeline since that communication. I have been working from the agenda we discussed (summarized in attached outlook item from [date]) in absence of further direction. Do you have a copy of your response updating the changes or correcting mistakes in my summary? It’s possible that I didn’t see your email and I’d like to identify where a communication was missed so that we can avoid issues like this in future projects.
Best,
[Name]”
For this to work you have to be militant about sending summary emails and firm with coworkers and supervisors that you will be documenting project plans via email, but once they’re used to your MO it’s worth the work.
nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon’s stuck in a time loop. nasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon’s stuck in a time loop.
nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon’s stuck in a time loop. nasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a pistol* moon’s stuck in a time loop. do you have extra ammo? this won’t be enough. nasa employee: enough for…what? astronaut: *finding extra clip of ammo, pocketing it, and getting back on the rocket-ship* don’t worry about it!
nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon’s stuck in a time loop. nasa employee: what? astronaut: *emerging from supply closet with a space harpoon, getting back on the rocket-ship* moon’s stuck in a time loop.
nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon’s stuck in a time loop. nasa employee: what? astronaut: what? nasa employee: how did you know what i was going to say? astronaut: *punching in key pad code for base evacuation signal, getting back on the rocket-ship* i told you…moon’s stuck in a time loop. *red warning lights begin flashing*
nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon’s stuck in a time loop. nasa employee: what? astronaut: *rifling thru bookshelf of operating instructions, selecting one that says “AIRLOCK MANUAL OVERRIDE INSTRUCTIONS,” getting back on the rocket-ship* moon’s stuck in a time loop.
nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon’s stuck in a time loop. nasa employee: what? astronaut: moon’s stuck in a time loop. hey, do you have anything to eat? i’m starving. *opens random drawer, finds nothing, closes it* nasa employee: a time loo- uh, we don’t have food in here…we can’t…eat in the control room, only the break-room. astronaut: *sighs* nasa employee:…my lunch is in like 10 minutes, though, and if my lunch is actually STILL THERE and not STOLEN, AGAIN, i can share it with yo- astronaut: nah, that’s ok…no time. *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* or…too much time. but thanks, anyway. OK, bye! *alarm begins blaring* nasa employee: you’re…welcome? wait, a TIME LOOP?!
As a public service announcement, someone scraped every single text file on GameFAQS in March 2020 for archival purposes, and you can find it on archive.org with the title “Gamespot TXT GameFAQs - Full Archive.” You can download the whole thing (it’s about 2 gigs) if you want to spite Wikia’s attempts to make themselves the gatekeepers of all fan knowledge.
You are a werewolf and you are an expert at living among humans undetected. You are so good, that a vampire thought you were an ordinary human and bit you.
i’m enamored by the specificity of this blog. like this is the only post they’ve ever made. this account was solely created for this special little guy. does he know?
To be clear, THIS is how nights of the future should be lit
This is bat friendly street lighting, which not only looks sick as fuck but allows bats to pass through without disturbance, as they cannot see red.
orange and especially white lights deter bats and prevent them from reaching feeding grounds at nighttime. Please if you can, write to your local council and encourage red street lights!!!!
The joke is that “there are more molecules in a single glass of water than stars in the galaxy” is a common thing to say. So the reader immediately sees “hydrogens in a single molecule of water” and assumes that the writer of the statement has made a mistake. It can take a few readings before noticing that the writer said “stars in the solar system” and not the expected “galaxy”, the writer was correct all along, it is us who is the fool. Such fun.
as an entire queer trans allosexual i think it’s weird when other allosexuals don’t like the term allosexual for themselves. it just means not asexual. smacks of cis people who scream and howl and pee their pants about being called cis
“it lumps me in with my oppressors I don’t like it” cis does that too. lumps your lgbt ass right in with cishet people. so like. why are you ok being called cis but not allo
allosexual isn’t a slur it isn’t perjorative it’s just a word for not asexual. so that ace people don’t have to feel othered as hell when talking about people outside their community. what the fuck do you want them to call you? “normal”? your mask is slipping
ok im done with discourse now i prommy. please treat me really niceys
There’s a few people in the notes complaining that allo- is a stupid prefix because it means other. They think that the categories should just be “asexual” and “sexual.”
But, like, that’s what we did. When I was first realizing my sexuality and hanging out on thr AVEN forums a decade ago, that’s what the categories were.
And you know what? It didn’t work. Virgin and celibate allos didn’t appreciate being called a sexual being. Even those who have sex often don’t like just being called “sexual.”
So we needed an alternative. One of the earliest definitions of asexual is “self-contained sexuality.” It’s been put aside in favor of the current definition of lacking sexual attraction, but it still resonates with a lot of people. And especially did back when we were trying to figure out a better term for “not asexual.”
So allosexual was proposed. It was chosen because allosexual means that you are sexually attracted to other people. To people not yourself.
So yes, the etymology does make sense. You just didn’t bother to look into it.
(I hope the people complaining are doing so in good faith, but I’m not willing to test that by replying to anyone directly. Now the information is out there if anyone wants to bother to look.)
If Staff ever implements the editing method from Mastodon, we’d be fucked.
Currently, on Tumblr, if you edit a post, all the former reblogs stay exactly the same.
On Mastodon, editing a post changes all the boosts and simply notifies the people who interacted with the post prior to the edit.
Now, can you imagine that on Tumblr?
Surely giving the OP the ability to edit their post after hundreds of thousands of people have reblogged it would be a perfectly balanced feature that I’m sure the Tumblr’ userbase has never abused before.
The number people on this site just solidly convinced that the Nazis and bad people are around because staff loves them and not because moderation of millions of accounts is very very hard and expensive is. Staggering.
“oh just use automation.” You mean the one currently mismarking trans accounts as mature? You think they just need to flip a no Nazis switch on the moderation-o-matic?
“oh why did they manage to get rid of that post about staff being Harry Potter fans” because there was a lot of targeted harassment and it was a single account, not the millions that make up Tumblr. And actually it’s a very straightforward labor protection to make sure your staff don’t get harassed. It’s actually very bad to insist that staff gets harassed as long as there are other moderation issues.
half of the posts on nazi and terf blogs is like. ‘well. they banned me for the 32nd time but they haven’t seen the last of me, racistName33! [gets banned within a week]. like at some point without asking for a phone number (bad) or an id (even worse) the problem of sufficiently dedicated assholes can make a new account is probably basically unsolvable
Pretty much this. I don’t think the people complaining about staff not doing anything against Nazis or Terfs actually see how much discussion there are within these spaces of how often they get nuked and just re-create new accounts. There’s a reason they use tags to find each other.
Not to mention there is no way i’d ever find automation or AI in any way to accurately detect hate speech or harassment, when human beings who are trained and can detect context, dog whistles, and known rhetorics of certain communities can still get it wrong when moderating hate speech.
My favourite complaint is always the “omg, why is staff allowing X on here”, like… Do you think staff just goes “Well this is usually against our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, but let’s make an exception for this one right here, let’s get them in here and fuck shit up and let’s not do anything about it”…?
My favourite is the people who get banned themselves for harassment or whatever and then make a new account 30 seconds after their ban to complain that the presence of nazis and terfs makes it obviously undeniable that staff is allowing them to stay.
Ok here’s a tip. If you’re new and are wondering why you follow people, like their stuff but then suddenly get blocked it might be because of this.
I just was followed by a group of pages
If you notice they all have the default avatar. So I went and checked their pages.
And you’ll notice they all except one have the default page and are Untitled. This right here is one reason you are getting insta blocked by a lot of people on here. This is what almost all the porn bot pages look like. For that this is almost always an instant block by a lot of us on here.
Take a moment and try and personalize your page, even a little bit. Make it look like someone lives there.
Just a friendly FYI to all the new people on here.
/edit/
I’m also finding out that new accounts are being asked to pick blogs to follow when they make an account. Make sure to adjust the things above so you aren’t insta blocked just creating a page.
I need every single person to understand how horrible tumblr’s tagging system is
I go into the tag for epilepsy and its all flashing lights. We can’t use our own tag because people without epilepsy fill it up with improper warnings.
Use ‘flashing’ in place of ‘epilepsy’ in your tags. You aren’t warning people of epileptics, you’re warning us of flashing lights. Please please tag properly. Epileptics say this endlessly and constantly and it’s ignored. You are risking lives by doing this.
Here’s proof of what I mean:
THIS POST IS 100% OKAY TO REBLOG, I ENCOURAGE PEOPLE WITHOUT EPILEPSY TO ESPECIALLY DO SO!
I have exciting information for you! Bird bones are not entirely hollow, rather they are filled with large air pockets. I find the result both delightful and terrifically unsettling!
To expand upon this: a lot of birds’ bones aren’t hollow in order to make them lighter, but instead so that they can take in more oxygen. This is because when you’re flying through the air at speeds of Fast™, it’s very hard to convince the air around you to flow into your nostrils at speeds that let you get enough to breathe. So, birds evolved hollowed out bones to circumvent this, as it allows them to store air.
I feel like not enough people are aware of the fact that birds are nightmare creatures that have respiratory systems that extend directly into their bones. And the same thing was the case with lots of dinosaurs, light bones let birds fly and let dinosaurs grow huge.
I had a dream last night that tumblr came up with a pride flag for closeted gays and it was just a light blue flag with a shrimp on it. People would also wear shrimp pins on their lapels for some Reason???
and the vegan gays started Discourse because shrimp deserved more respect
Wth that’s brilliant
like this?
closeted queers, you now have a discreet pride flag. wreak havoc.
This is the funniest video concept I’ve ever seen. The backhandedness is killing me.
the best part is he had to cut it into parts bc he didn’t trust the game to not glitch and eventually he just had to make a rule that if he can’t see the glitch happening then it’s not a glitch and it doesn’t impact the gameplay. then he began to purposefully look away from glitches to try to ignore them.
To elaborate further, at one point he literally had to pull up a cat picture to cover the screen so he wouldn’t see what was happening- meaning he essentially created shrodinger’s glitch on pure technicality
We should be fine as long as we do not reblog bread.
Question.
I’ve rebogged bread.
What?
I have done nothing but reblog bread for the past three days.
Where, where have you been sending it?!
I love how there are more reblogs than likes
This post. This fucking post. I cannot believe after nearly 7 years its still going around. Let alone ON MY OWN DASH! A kid born on the day i posted this would be entering 2nd grade right now.
The single serve double chocolate chip cookies that I pretty religiously make like four times a week are from Broma Bakery and they are so decadent and rich and amazing, I def recommend their recipes.
[Video description: 3 old nokia-type cell phones are placed upright on a table. As they play a ringtone version of Tchaikovsky’s “Waltz of the Flowers,” they rotate slowly as if dancing in time to the music.]
The ringtones are rather shrill, for anyone sensitive to that.
“The ringtones are rather shrill, for anyone sensitive to that.”
“The ringtones are
rather shrill, for anyone
sensitive to that.”
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Okay so I found the most incredible horse statue while doing research for my job and guys. Are you ready for this. Are you sure you’re fucking ready for this thing
Okay so I found the most incredible horse statue while doing research for my job and guys. Are you ready for this. Are you sure you’re fucking ready for this thing
