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I've worked my ass off, worked overtime, worked insane jobs, and every time the rate wasn't specified, I made a huge stink about it. I refused to even pack my bags until I was given a number and an appropriate arrangement. When they got my checks wrong, I made a huge issue of it. Sometimes, I would remind them that I could and would go home "TODAY" if they didn't get me my money. One time, I did. That company loved me anyway.

If they're trying to get you to do free labor, they're testing your limits. Even a shitty company won't give up a good worker just because they won't do free labor. Answering emails off the clock is free labor. If you like your job, work hard on the clock, ask clarifying questions, and absolutely refuse to do free labor.

Hell, if they're asking you to give up hours to do a different job, make them pay you for the lost work.

Also, if you want something, ask for it. I've said, "can you get me to Utah once every two weeks?" And they said, "we can't get anyone to go to the stores on the way to Utah. That would be amazing!" I said, "I want to go to Arizona," and they said, "we'll pay you $2,000 just to make that drive." I spent the first 2 years in that company stressing that everything I asked for was too much, but when I asked, I was always ready to make a deal. I knew what I wanted and what didn't matter to me, and because I was willing to make trades to make shit happen, and I knew what I could and could not do from the jump, they loved me.

friends, if I can give you one piece of advice for those of you who are new to work, or are about to enter the workforce, especially if you have any sort of office job:

Do not work on your days off.

"But--"

DO NOT WORK ON YOUR DAYS OFF.

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happy pride month to religious queer people, who feel like they’re contradictions, or told that they’re contradictions, but stay true to these important parts of themselves anyway. happy pride to the queer religious people who have to explain their identities, and who have to defend their faith or their queerness in either circle.

i love you, i am one of you, thank you for being in this community with me.

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hey! you shouldnt make jokes calling cis people eggs, especially when they are real living breathing human beings with intelligent thought and critical thinking. if you do, you're weird and i think you should consider the effect your words more often, because as someone who was a very public facing cis person who had a lot of Egg jokes made about me before transitioning, it still makes me fucking sick to think about. it fucked me up so bad that i refused to transition until i quit my job and wasnt under the eyes of people making bets on my psychology. how dare you fucking speak down to me regarding my own identity. how dare you fucking claim to know me better than i know myself.

it is not the privilege of trans people to have their stated gender identity believed, nor is it a sin of cis people to acknowledge their option to transition and still remain cis. make egg jokes about fictional characters, fine. but accusing a stranger of not being the gender they claim to be is not something you get to reclaim when you're trans.

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Idk about just sun, but sun and chlorine for hours a day can definitely turn dark hair golden.

as a scientist i think that the debate around "does white people hair actually turn blond in the sun" should be put to a rigorous test where we control for all variables...like all these adults are going off confirmation bias and ingrained beliefs, so what we need to do is find a white person who has never been outside and put them in the sun for like, i dont know, 5 hours

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Okay, but like... they want the crumbs, and also, their own souls weren't big enough for the hate they have, so they hate you with both their entire souls and also the souls of the damned (which they have access to because of their deal with the devil), and they will do everything in their (shocking amount of) power to cause you pain and misery for at least the next 3-5 business days, given you don't have the misfortune of coming across them again in that time frame. The guy who makes statues out of molten metal and ant hills has the right idea. Send them back to hell, my guy.

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The first time in my life that I ever really heard the word, "dyke," frequently was to refer to angle cutters. People have thrown fits over it being offensive in different companies, but tbh, it took all the sting out of the word for me.

It's the same concept as my coworkers, who had watched customers be sexist toward me, making sexist jokes on the daily. When it's primarily (and overwhelmingly) something you laugh about with people who love and respect you, it doesn't bite so bad when you hear it from people who don't, because your first instinct is to laugh and move on.

The thing about reclaiming slurs is that once you've been affectionally called 'faggot' by friends, loved ones, and amiable fellows on the internet for long enough, you almost forget that it means something else to people who hate you.

Honestly at this point if a stranger on the street yelled "hey faggot!" after me, I'd probably turn around like "what?" like they'd just casually called me by name, and they were only trying to get my attention because they wanted to tell me something, before processing that they're being hostile.

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Hey kid you want a job?

Great get online and go to a job board. Indeed, Linkedin whatever. Now you're gonna search for a role that's in your city, fits your qualifications, and doesn't seem like a bad time.

See that easy apply button? Don't hit it they just throw those in the trash. Now you're gonna want to go to the company's website and check their careers page.

Oh? That job doesn't exist anymore. Cool go back to the job board and find another one.

Great you found another job, you're on the company's career page and the job exists!! So you're going to need to make an account on the career page website. They're using Workday, the same site as the last job you applied for? Who cares? You need to make another account for THIS job's workday page.

Now you're going to upload your resume. That'll autopopulate about 15 boxes with everything on your resume, except formatted wrong and with tons of errors. So just go through and painstakingly check the dates on all of that and rewrite everything you already laid out in an aesthetically pleasing format on your resume.

Ok time for the cover letter, explain why this specific job and company are deeply important to you. You love their mission statement and wouldn't even laugh if their ceo was gunned down in the street. You'll really want to reiterate the things you just spent the last 20 minutes filling out on the resume section

(Remember to include language from the job description, people who work in HR are lower than dogs and they need patterns or they get confused.) Write about a page, but hey don't sound too desperate or robotic this is where they judge your character!

Maybe add your portfolio site at the end here, who knows if that helps no one has ever clicked mine haha.

Anywayyy time to hit apply! Congrats! You'll see that confirmation email come in and you should be getting the rejection letter in about 2 weeks. Unfortunately your resume didn't have the right buzzwords and the AI auto rejected you :(

Time to start again and try not to kill yourself!

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I used to work a job that was non-stop for a few weeks, and then I'd take a week or two off at a time. For the off weeks, I'd altogether forget about work as a concept. The amount of times I was told, "No. I have WORK tomorrow," was ridiculous. Also, I was shocked and disappointed every single time. There were fun, interesting, and productive things to be doing every day.

I actually do feel like the "unemployed friend on a Tuesday" meme actually helps de-stigmatize unemployment because it frequently affirms that when you don't have a job you're more likely to be getting up to some weird shit rather than just lazing around. But I also feel like the unemployed friend is frequently up to some random shit because there's a whole pile of miscellaneous life tasks that full-time employment keeps people from. The unemployed friend is helping their cousin move, or babysitting, or checking in with a neighbor with mobility issues. The unemployed friend is a walking thesis on the inflexibility of our current labor landscape and just how much work exists outside of work.

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Also, nobody warns you how much better life gets after 25. They warn you about the things that get worse, but like... there's so much to look forward to, guys.

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One thing the mormons did get right is that if you believe it's a sin to work on the sabbath, then it is also a sin for you to be the reason someone else has to work on the sabbath. I hold to that whole concept way stronger when it's about holidays.

got asked “why are you open on Easter Sunday?” by a very angry woman at work today…my literal sister in christ it’s because you are also here

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One of my favorite authors talks about how in writing, any advice you get from a successful author is just what they did, not necessarily what worked. Very few people actually know why they're successful, but people generally want to help. So, when you ask successful people for advice, they'll tell you what they did. It's then your job to take that advice and figure out what works best for you.

I used to do cross country in high school, and there was this guy on the team that was wonderful. Great guy. But his advice to everyone that asked how to get good was to run 20k a day.

If you don't run, I'll just tell you, most people's bodies cannot take that kind of abuse. No matter how much you train, you will not be able to run 20k a day. It's like how you can't train to make your cuts heal faster. You recover as fast as you recover. So while a big part of what made this guy so succesful was the dedication and mental toughness needed to actually run 20k a day, an equally big part was that he healed like fucking Wolverine. And that's fine, but it would've been nice if he knew that and stopped telling new guys to commit suicide by jogging.

Different guy on the team ran like, 5-6k a day, which actually isn't all that much. His problem when he gave advice was that he didn't really get that 5-6k a day doesn't generally produce elite results for most people. He was lucky in the sense that he didn't have to work all that hard to get great results, and unlucky in the sense that if he pushed himself much further than that, he fell apart.

I think about those two whenever I get advice from succesful people. The very things that make them outliers also make their advice useless to most people. Worse, they're often outliers on totally separate ends of the same spectrum, so their advice will be contradictory.

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God must be a youngest child.

if god is real then how come younger siblings can grow taller than older siblings

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because apparently my friends said its insane I've never seen real snow. trying to prove a point.

please reblog to increase my sample size!!

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reblog this rat until staff gets involved

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Sokka: It's not that children make me uncomfortable, it's just that, why be a dad when you can be a fun uncle? I've never heard of anyone rebelling against their fun uncle!

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It only lasted 15 minutes, but this is the funniest shit ever.