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Jeph Jacques decided to go out in a blaze of shitposts and in his honor I think it's only right to share these tweets with a wider audience

goodnight, sweet prince

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Fave new twitter thread

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Twitter Blue going about as well as everyone expected.

Shame Elon Musk fired the team that rigorously tested how new features would impact their global social media platform.

What advertiser, company or person of interest is going to want to use Twitter now?

It’s almost like he’s not that smart.

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Ik the tumblr dev team is like 5 ppl and a cat but like they really need to hire more cause I just deactivated my twitter account and the first vid I watched here made the app crash. Pls. for my sanity.

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washing your face is actually multi tasking because you are also washing your hands and forearms and shirt and countertop and feet and floor and hair

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I’m screaming

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trans guy who finally figured out his name, about to come out in the funniest way to his friends: hey guys can i be frank with you all

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“They’re trying to discharge her constructively. Do you know what Constructive Discharge means?” She asked.

As soon as I heard the term ‘Constructive Discharge,’ I knew I’d never seen it on a vocabulary quiz.

“No. What does it mean?” I asked.

She explained.

“Constructive discharge is a fancy way of saying “being forced out.” It’s not good. And if you’re not a lawyer or in human resources, you’ll probably learn what it means when it’s happening to you.”

“Oh my God. I’ve seen this my entire career and never knew it even had a name.” I thought.

You’ve seen constructive Discharge too. You may have experienced it. We’ve all made choices to avoid it.

Constructive discharge defined

“We can’t fire you, but we’ll make you so miserable you’ll quit, and then we won’t have to pay your unemployment.”

Then there’s the textbook definition:

“A constructive discharge occurs when your employer has made working conditions unbearable, forcing you to resign.”

Or as one person put it.

“I didn’t get handed a pink slip, but when you’re not wanted, people have a way of letting you know.”

HR isn’t always the secret police.

Employees aren’t always victims of evil-doers.

However, employers push employees out all the time to maintain and protect the, “We didn’t do anything wrong, YOU did,” power structure.

Constructive Discharge looks like this:

— Meeting invitations slow to a trickle, and you’re excluded from emails and generally looped out of what’s going on.

— People stop talking to you or stop talking when you walk in.

— Your emails don’t get answers, or they arrive too late to be of value.

— Suddenly, your work is not good enough, though nothing about your work has changed.

— Reviews, once good or even glowing, are now mediocre or bad.

— Instead of a bonus, you get a Performance Improvement Plan.

— Warnings and write-ups start so they can justify your eventual termination with documentation of your “poor performance”

— Your work, clients, assignments go away, or they overwhelm you with work.

— The words “Set up to fail” were practically invented to describe this scenario.

Constructive Discharge is illegal

It isn’t easy to prove you’re a target, and it’s even more challenging if you don’t even know constructive discharge is a real thing.

If you’ve ever experienced this and don’t fully understand what’s happening to you beyond knowing you’re in the process of being excommunicated, it can be hell. It’s not uncommon for the experience to leave long-lasting scars.

Talk to anyone who’s ever been through it. They’ll tell you.

Knowing constructive discharge exists and how it’s used gives you power to predict what’s coming and to protect yourself.

Seeing the endgame helps you in two ways.

You know what to expect. Having a sense of what’s coming next is enormously empowering. You can go on the offensive and protect yourself. Constructive discharge works to crush your ego, making you feel you did something wrong and deserve this treatment.

Without strategy, you end up being a miserable pawn in your employer’s endgame.

Remember, they’re almost certainly building a case to fire you in the event the hellscape they create for you doesn’t persuade you to quit.

If you’re getting pushed out, and you know what to look for you can prove constructive discharge and you can get unemployment benefits, be released from payback obligations on a signing bonus, and protect your mental health.

You’re not crazy, incompetent, or a failure. This is real and it’s carefully executed to leave you holding the bag and feeling like you did something wrong.

If they force you out, in addition to feeling horrible, you lose your paycheck, benefits health insurance, and possibly owe them money.

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i think "take a hike" is like the funniest response to someone. like dude just get outta here. and go experience the wonder of nature for a bit

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you should listen to people with different experiences instead of surrounding yourself with only people like you because then you get this weird idea in your head that there is ANY disability or symptom or level of support or life expectancy or severity that makes abled people universally nice to you, or more nice to you, and that is not true

listen to people with different disabilities and chronic illnesses than you. listen to people who have been considered disabled their whole lives. listen to visibly and invisibly disabled people both. listen to people with terminal illnesses. listen to people with higher support levels. listen to people with additional marginalizations you don't have. listen to disabled people you don't have ANYTHING in common with

because there are experiences you're all completely unaware of and you would know how much of a fucking fantasy experiencing no or less ableism as a disabled person is if you ever just listened to people who aren't like you

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This kind of bread could be dangerous because when you start eating it you won’t stop.. But it’s delicious

How to make it /youtube

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Death Note is only good by accident. Death Note is brilliantly written. It's a comedy. It's a drama. It's a psychological thriller. It's just a fucked-up story a crazy guy wrote. It challenges us to think about criminality and morality. Everything it had to say about criminality and morality is absolute dogshit. It's incredibly entertaining. It's a modern classic. It's just something people liked when they were 14. It's a modern classic but for the wrong reasons. It's my best friend, my greatest enemy, my girlfriend,

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the thing about me is that i will NEVER complain about a series having too many weird hairstyles. the weirder the better. if two plot-relevant characters have the same color hair and vaguely normal haircuts it will take me three months to tell them apart

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