#Redundancy

[mmm-whatcha-saint]

STAY CONNECTED!

The best time to exchange emails, signal/telegram/Whatsapp/etc or whatever accounts, alt accounts and every other possible thing was a year ago.

The second best time is right now.

How long before discord or tumblr or any other service shits the bed? Have other ways to keep in touch with your friends. Have backup plans. Don't lose your friends because a service goes down. Better yet, this also helps if you need to recreate an account because a moderator on a certain website decided you needed your entire blog deleted. Now you can make a new one and your friends can know for sure that it's you!

When all we have is each other, it's important to be connected in more than one way.

[thirdity]

Form — in its specific idiom, style — is a plan of sensory imprinting, the vehicle for the transaction between immediate sensuous impression and memory (be it individual or cultural). This mnemonic function explains why every style depends on, and can be analyzed in terms of, some principle of repetition or redundancy.

Susan Sontag, "On Style"

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[ultraweathercoremax]

DOUBLE UPDATE: here’s a third view of those trees, in case you were indecisive about the first two. Lookin Spring-like

[crmsnmth]

Forever Infinite

How many poems start with the word she? How much art is created because of someone's her? We scratch at the surface, looking for a way to let the pressure out The ache is much more than I ever could have thought it would be How many poems start with the word she?

How many ways can I pine without seeing the forest? It's been so long that it seems like it's for forever Is this how my mind is going to work now? Always staring at the past with lustful eyes and I wonder why I walk into things all the time

How many times can I put her face on the page Or show the world her perfect soul? I'm not sure there's a number, so we'll tattoo that symbol right there on your ring finger A reminder that I will always think of, forever infinite

How many notebooks have I filled still missing her after all these years Private journals with public dedications It's you, it's always you Before I blow this candle out and head to meet you in my dreams I'll proofread the letter I placed on your pillow the night after you left

How many times can I pass you off as the same subject With the same words, just in a brand new order the taco bell of poetry

[businessmemes]

Self-care is important for the discerning human resources professional, and mandatory.

[tips-from-a-tech-worker]

I have redundancies at work just announced. Confused as hell. What can we do?

If you have a recognised union (or even an unrecognised one) that you are a member of, get in contact with them immediately. Odds are, if there is a mass redundancy, they will already know about it.

If there are more than 20 folks being made redundant, the redundancies are in one establishment, and the redundancies are being proposed in a 90 day period, then your employer is required by law to hold a collective consultation. Of course, quite often your employer will not know the law around this, and its worth arguing that you should have a collective consultation anyway. The consultation wont necessarily stop the redundancies, but it gives you time to plan.

Additionally, if anyone who is being made redundant is either pregnant, on maternity/paternity leave, or on adoption leave, then your employer must find alternate work for them if there is any available.

Your employer can only make people redundant if they have no more use for your role. If your employer is looking to use contractors, or alternate provisions to fulfil that role, you can make a fairly good argument that the dismissal is unfair or wrongful. Protections are weird in the UK around this if you haven't worked at a place for at least 2 years, but again with all of this, argue the point anyway.

Your employer probably wont know any of the law around redundancy and it is good to push that fact as a strategy. It is also very useful to be talking to all your co-workers in this process. Make sure everyone knows what is going on, their rights, and what you can all do collectively.

Ideally you will have done some workplace organising beforehand, but these things can happen unexpectantly.

Finally, if you do not have any union representation nearby, join a union as soon as you can (*cough* IWW *cough*). They may not be able to help you with something on such short notice, but it is another strategy to scare the boss shitless if they think you're going to be a problem for them.

See also: https://www.tumblr.com/tips-from-a-tech-worker/725120769477214208/how-do-i-improve-my-workplace?source=share

All of this information is available on the ACAS website, and you can contact them free of charge. Also recommend Citizens Advice as well. Sources used: - https://www.acas.org.uk/redundancy - https://www.acas.org.uk/your-rights-during-redundancy - https://www.acas.org.uk/redundancy-protection-for-pregnancy-and-new-parents - https://www.acas.org.uk/collective-consultation-redundancy - https://www.acas.org.uk/dismissals/unfair-dismissal - https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/work/redundancy/check-your-rights-if-youre-made-redundant/

Hope this helps!

[unscramblerer]

Todays Word Of The Day is: Rigmarole

Rigmarole originates from the phrase "Ragman Roll" which referred to a long, rambling document listing Scottish nobles who pledged loyalty to King Edward I of England in the 13th century. The words meaning in English was a long, confusing and pointless process. In the 18th century the modern meaning became a tiresome, complicated, nonsensical conversation.

[sj-the-great]

10 Dec. 2024: House of Quotes, S3:E10

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face" - Mike Tyson

As per his profession, Iron Mike has delivered a quote based on his years of experience taking (mostly giving, really) punches. Going beyond the obvious reference to boxing, this quote basically references how life's unpredictability ruins the plans of us mere mortals. SJ wishes to go beyond the metaphor, and also point out that this quote also acts as a warning. It acts as a reminder that while it is a very useful thing to plan, one must also remember to account for variables beyond one's control. In other words, just as we must have plans, we should also have plans for redundancy. Consider the margin of error, if you will.

Plan B is often just as important to make as Plan A.

[obamousse]

Before they became lovers, Osasuna found each other very interesting people.

Suna was interesting to Osamu because he was a lone wolf - someone who did not give a damn about what the world perceives of him, who will go against it to follow what he wants and what he thinks is right. Osamu, meanwhile, thought everyone needs approval from others, everyone needs to get along well with one another and socialize. He was intrigued: how could Suna be alone so well, like he was born for it? How could he be his bitter, sarcastic self without getting hurt by people or caring about hurting other people? How could he be so uncaring, about anything at all, not having any passion, anything to love? He had never seen Suna cry in any of the matches or show a genuine smile. Osamu was plain confused -and curious - because Suna was so emotionally unavailable or mentally tough, but he could come in handy when Osamu asks him for advice on whether he should leave volleyball. Until he peeled back, layer by layer until he found a vulnerable boy behind that heart of stone, a boy who also loved volleyball with all his heart like his brother, who was as willed to win as, or even more, than anyone else on the court.

Suna found Osamu interesting because he was a walking contradiction. Everyone sees him as a nice person - until he flips his brother off and anyone who crosses them. He's calm, mature - until he has to compete with his brother and becomes a 5-year-old. He always seek advice from everyone - until he decided to quit volleyball, something he could have an entire career and secure a wealthy life in, to pursue what he is truly passionate for. Suna has always thought Osamu would pursue volleyball as expected of him. He heard Osamu's reasons to pursue a career in cooking, Suna wonders at Osamu's determination, passion, and way of thinking, which even Suna would find utterly foolish. He is impressed, because even though Osamu appears not as brash, passionate, stubborn or strong as his brother, he has strength and fortitude that certainly makes you curious. Suna better saves Osamu a word of gratitude - because the moment he spiked to the other net for the last time in third year, it all clicked in to him those words Osamu said. He knew it was a calling he could follow even though he was blind, how Osamu would relish in his love for food at the end of the day, no matter what their parents expected of them, no matter how everyone convinced them and tried to pull them back.

All in all, they were hooked onto each other, though it was only a light, tingling feeling of curiosity at each other's character.

TLDR: Osamu and Suna are foil characters of each other, and they realized so when Osamu confessed to Suna he wanted to pursue a career in cooking, which made Suna realize his love for volleyball he had not recognized for years.

[willcodehtmlforfood]

Digital skills academy CodeClan goes into liquidation - BBC News

"Scotland's digital skills academy, CodeClan, has gone into liquidation with the loss of nearly 60 posts.

CodeClan called in liquidators from Quantuma Advisory after struggling to place students into employment."

[apocalypticink]

00011100.

Time for a new arm.

She reaches to her parts wall

Robs another corpse

Obsolete parts are not built

So she must steal what she needs.

[animemaniac21]

ALL MUSHOKO TENSEI LINKS COLLECTION:

[comparatorclock]

One of these days NASA is gonna finally run out of redundancies on that probe and it'll finally die

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

[unscramblerer]

Todays Word Of The Day is: Circumlocution

Circumlocution originates from the Latin circumlocutio(a roundabout expression). English usage of the word began in the 16th century.

[willcodehtmlforfood]

Ugye megszűnik a munkám, utolsó miting klienssel "gratulálunk, és hova mész tovább?"

Lol