#Job Insecurity

[sketchysubstance]

Got my shitty job back, but tbh im still mad at the realisation that i have no workers' rights or laws protecting me from getting fired on the spot just because they feel like it bc im a casual worker. Fun.

[hoaxghost]

Girl failed the med school exam like 8 times I dont think she'd do all too well when faced with the burnt crisp of her captain

[biggoldbelt]

Unpacking the Magic of 'SCRAP' with Anthony Rapp, Lana Parrilla, and Vivian Kerr

SCRAP review by Big Gold Belt Media –Synopsis:Beth (Vivian Kerr) has recently been laid off and struggles to maintain the appearance of a successful middle-class lifestyle as she bounces around Los Angeles. Hoping to land a new job and change her situation before her estranged older brother Ben (Anthony Rapp) finds out, Beth must confront her own pride in order to reconnect with him and provide…

[roostro]

ATC is serious shit.

[cyber-soul-smartz]

Navigating Economic Instability Wilderness: Strategies for Thriving

Navigating the wilderness of economic instability can be overwhelming, filled with uncertainty and challenges. However, by building resilience and adaptability, one can find a path to financial stability. I hope this article inspires you. #Resilience

[myguidetogrowth]

Difficult Employee- Supervisor Relationships

I recently quit my job due to difficultly meshing with my supervisor. I am glad I am on to better things where I feel supported and uplifted.

Managing a difficult supervisor can be challenging, but with the right strategies, you can navigate the situation more effectively. Understand Their Perspective: Try to understand your supervisor’s perspective and motivations. Put yourself in their shoes to gain insight into their expectations, pressures, and concerns. This understanding can help you approach interactions with empathy and find…

[fem-fatalist]

These programs, where they exist, are often critically underfunded and understaffed. There are so many applications for help that wait-lists are sometimes YEARS long.

Very frequently, the existence of programs aren't widely advertised, so people who need them have no idea where or how to access them.

On top of this, the process to apply can be arduous and easy to mess up. There are restrictions (like income caps). If you forget one step, or a renewal window, or have an extra $20 in your bank account, you're cut off or dropped. There is no grace period or leeway for people who may have difficulty with those steps or renewals--people who may have inconsistent access to a computer or phone, or require assistance to use those tools.

The mere existence of these programs doesn't mean they're easy to use, easy to find, and easy to acquire.

If you're of the opinion of Steamboat Jimmy you clearly have not ever needed these programs or know anyone who does. You just straight up have no idea what you're fucking talking about.

[reformthesystem]

TACKLING THE MAIN CAUSES OF HOMELESSNESS

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[glitter-soda]

It’s wild to me that there are people over like…25 who identify as nonbinary. It’s literal “not like other girls uwu” bullshit and it’s honestly embarrassing that grown ass adults buy into it

[gods-favorite-autistic]

Arthur Aguefort stop hiring the worst staff possible challenge

[legolambi]

[meanderingstream]

Eliot at peace with being Damned

One of the things that makes Eliot hard to write for in-character (but also such an interesting character to explore) is that he believes he is damned to Hell and he is at peace with that. He has a lot of guilt, oceans of guilt, but it's not so much the tortured, anguished catholic guilt à la Nate or like, Daredevil. 

He has done monstrous, unforgivable things. But, on his own, he came to a realization of what he had done, and pulled away from that world. On his own, he left the worst person he ever worked for, and stopped using guns, and stopped killing. On his own, he switched from wetwork to retrievals. This all occurs before we ever meet him, so while there are many hints and inferences, the specifics of how that happened, how he came to those decisions, are left up to the audience’s imagination. 

Eliot wants to make the world a better place, and he works everyday with the team to help people, and he genuinely enjoys helping people and the work he does on the job. But he does not believe that he can be redeemed. (Not my own personal belief about him, but it is what he thinks). When he dies, he will go to Hell for his sins, and there is nothing that can possibly be done to change that. He doesn't need to angst over it, because it’s just a fact. It is what it is. There is no point agonizing over whether his soul can be saved, because he knows it cannot. This is both a keystone of his character, and also something he doesn't spend a lot of time thinking about day-to-day, because it’s a settled matter. 

And as much as we love Eliot the character, he has a point that lives are not tradable for equivalent exchange. If he killed a specific family 25 years ago, that was snuffing out the light and potential and future of those particular parents and children. The surviving extended family lost those particular relatives. Saving a family now does not balance that ledger, because each person is a unique life and not interchangeable for another. While I may have different beliefs about Hell and redemption than Eliot, I still want to acknowledge that he has a point. That changing now doesn't necessarily help the people he hurt in the past, and unlike Harry, he can’t work down a list of making amends, because almost all of his victims are dead. There is no atonement to the dead. 

Eliot’s redemption is in seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, and helping others get to it. Particularly the team, and particularly the pair he’s going to protect until his dying day. He will stay down there in the dark forever (he believes), but getting the others out is his redemption. 

I do not believe that Eliot will actually go to Hell when he dies, but his belief that he is damned is fundamental to who he is as a character, and he is going to believe that for the rest of his life. It can be really challenging to balance that when writing his POV, particularly when delving into events that dredge this stuff up for him (which we writers love to do because it’s so delicious). Eliot doesn’t exactly have a low self-esteem. He knows he has many skills and is exceptional at them (cooking, fighting, grifting, guitar, sports, etc). He pretty much knows his teammates love him, and care about him, and want him to stay alive for them, and spend the rest of his life with them. He has professional pride, and he will argue when he wants something. He is certainly not a doormat. However, he also believes he is fundamentally and irrevocably a bad person. Balancing between him not being too self-deprecating in normal situations / about his usefulness to the team, with his inherent belief in his own moral depravity can be a thin blade to walk without falling to one side or another. But it is also one of the biggest aspects of his psyche that makes him such a fascinating and complex character to explore.

[goobbgoober]

Kremy gets mistaken as a crocodile so often he's not even phased. Offended, but not phased.

But imagine him getting mistaken for a different crocodilian

"Hey, you're a, uh, a gharial right?"

Kremy standing there completely baffled: "So you know what a gharial is but you can't tell the fucking difference from a fucking alligator???"

Like, my guy would not be able to let that go, he'd be thinking about it years later.

"Gid, does my snout really look that thin? My nose isn't that big, is it?"

He'd bring it up at least once a year and just gets super insecure. An alligator mistaken for a crocodile is normal. An alligator mistaken for a gharial? A caimen? Insane, it's the other way around.

[pearlsdiamondsandvodka]

the sandra lynn / fig conversation is driving me Insane. fig saying that sometimes she doesn’t wanna exist as herself at all…not wanting to ask her friends how they see her (because she’s afraid to hear their response) saying that to someone she is a monster and she Cannot stop thinking about it. sandra lynn starting the conversation saying she needs to step up but is also simultaneously taken aback about what fig expresses and doesn’t know how to responds to it and suggests getting ice cream. sandra lynn saying “convincing people they deserve good things is really tough” talking about herself but how it also reflects fig. insane!!

[cyber-soul-smartz]

Navigating Life's Wilderness: Recognizing and Overcoming Signs of Chaos

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[balladofthe101st]

Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings by Langston Hughes // Elegy While Listening to a Song I Can’t Help But Start to Move to by Chen Chen // War of the Foxes by Richard Siken // Erika Sanchez // Untitled // The Day You Died Because You Wanted To by Andrea Gibson // Invasive by Ada Limon