I cannot go 30 mins without someone from the office texting me or calling me. Asking me for advice on how to handle a case. Asking me for the details or specifics of a case. Asking me what my boss' availability is. Asking me to reach out to people to schedule/reschedule meetings. Asking if I can handle something or if they should. Even telling me who called and asking how they should go about responding.
And it's like. Really?
1.) I have file folders for all our casework by Issue, Year-Month-Day, and then Name.
2.) You have access to these file folders to read up on how previous similar cases were handled. The paperwork for these cases includes contact information for both the person we assisted and the people I worked with on the back end to get things resolved.
3.) You have access to the same calendar that I do. Open it up and look.
4.) I am out sick.
5.) You have internet, nearly a decade of casework, and several large books full of every department contact in the government at your disposal. How should you respond?
I was asked if I contacted someone yesterday about a meeting. I replied, "No. I am out sick." I got the response, "Well, you've been emailing and texting, so I didn't know if I should handle this or not."
I--
One. You texted me. You also received the meeting request. You are allowed to take the initiative on something.
Two. I was emailing you all the details for this week. That included meeting details, meeting contacts, and meeting documents. That also included some casework basics.
Three. I included instructions. In everything I emailed to you, I included instructions. Why are you calling me to ask what you need to print out for the meeting today? I sent you the meeting details and contacts and documents with specific instructions on what to print out. I sent you advice on what to do or say if someone contacts us about a specific issue. And I did this for every common issue we're seeing come into our office right now.
Like. I get it. I don't cc the entire fucking office when I contact someone. I also have casework paperwork that I need to catch up on. You are also asking me for advice on how to perform my job seeing as I'm usually the one doing my job and I'm out sick.
But c'mon.
And it's everyone. Even my boss. "I sent you and X and Y and Z the documents."
Do you ever wonder if anyone had enough posts queued up they'd be able to not even touch Tumblr again. Like imagine they have posts for the next ten years, and it's plenty of posts like at least one per day. And it's scheduled in a way that seems like random times of the day. And maybe they were dead for some years now and we wouldn't know because they keep posting, and we wouldn't know until the queue ran out, but they didn't plant to die, by the point they did they might have forgotten about Tumblr, so they'd just disappear one day to never be seen again
Relationship: Yumi/Spacefarer | Player Character (Starfield)
Summary:
The morning after the Terrormorph Attack in New Atlantis, Calitrix wakes at The Lodge alone, but with a terrible hangover and little memory of the night before.
Everyone else knows exactly what she got up to, though. All thanks to SSNN!
She did, what?
Beta read by the amazing @kalliesa . <3
Yumi Live Reaction Cam under the cut:
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Again, massive thanks to my lovely beta @kalliesa sure, I could have have done it without you… but “Not as stylishly, of course.” 😉
I’m so sorry for dragging you into yet another fandom, lol. But seriously, all jokes aside, thank you so much for all your help and encouragement while working with me on this one, you’re amazing and it’s been so much fun. 🙏🏼🥴😂💕
New thought: Griffin and Abraham themselves are the symbolical banana fish
In JD' Salinger's novel "A Perfect Day For Bananafish" the titular bananafish were metaphors for two things: 1: materialism and 2: wartime soldiers' personal experiences.
Number 1: When bananafish enter the holes in the ocean they consume the bananas in there and gain an obsession for them, eating so many that they're too fat to get out, and die.
Number 1 is all Abraham, his obsession with his drug and "justifiable" revenge on the soldiers that bullied him in Vietnam/Iraq.
Number 2: They also represent soldiers who went into war (the feeding holes) and then consumed so many horrors that they were mentally unable to reintegrate themselves back into society, some (many, actually, I've seen some stats and Holy shit) committing suicide out of trauma and guilt.
Number 2 is all Griffin, entering the war as an innocent and then losing himself to drugs and then going into a catamose state before being killed by the other version of bananafish, Abraham