#Work post

[youraveragemiscellanyenjoyer]

The B in Christian Borle stands for Babygirl

[solarsmith49]

When the going gets tough, the tough grab strong sativa edibles, large mocha with extra espresso, and cardiocore synthwave playlists and parry incoming emails into the stratosphere

[satansfavoritestripper]

[leam1983]

Tactlessness

"It's not so bad, Grem. I mean, I know some people you care about now feel genuinely threatened, but things might look up for American manufacturers!"

I pretended not to hear this... staggering piece of wilful blindness, knowing that Walt and Sarah would take care of the withering glances to be dished out in my stead. I kept scrolling through Helpdesk tickets, pretending not to relish Walt's perfect response:

"I know. It's just American queers and others in the community, right? We're Canadian! We're safe, aren't we?"

I didn't need to answer, being aware that Walt's question was rhetorical and was loaded with sarcasm. The Sales rep blanched, stammered and pretended to brush it all under the rug for a minute.

"Oh, no. It's no problem, Steve. The Old Place was callous as Hell with its employers and it crashed and burned; Grem, Sarah and I are just going to burn through our goodwill in the community by slapping on some MAGA hats for shits and giggles!"

Steve was in the reeds, by now. "That's not what I meant; I just meant that-"

I piped up. "I know what you meant, Steve. You'll have to learn, eventually, that being part of an organization means being part of a community. We don't throw people under the rug under the pretense of their living across the border - that's not human. This thing that we're doing? It isn't really about booking referrals or selling cars; it's about putting food on plates and a roof over people's heads."

Walt nodded. "Let's be clear, here. If Canada had to inherit its own full-bore version of Trump and the only way to save these people who work for us would be to close down and turn the office into a shelter, I would. Without a heartbeat's worth of hesitation. Profits mean nothing if there's nobody left to reap their benefits."

Steve blinked. "So, what? You'll just stop carrying American-made automakers? You'll let Chrysler and the others in the reeds?"

Walt nodded. "Not now, but if Chrysler, GM or Tesla pull a Volkswagen and become the preferred brand of an autocratic regime; if Trump ever does go full-bore; I'm pulling us out of their contacts."

Steve seemed confused. "But the business-"

Sarah barged in. "We're not pushing Nazi car frames. End-of."

It's funny how events like those of the last few days can really crystallize who's willing to take a stand, as opposed to those willing to bend the knee if some shred of normalcy can be preserved.

[lalalychee]

@ everyone who ever told me that getting a degree in art was a waste of time: i won the coloring contest at work, so eat shit

[potheadpophead]

Censorship on radio is so weird to me. Working at Walmart and they played the Gaga and Bruno big hit song “Die With A Smile” and they censor the word “die”. Like why even bother putting that song on rotation.

[abstractkind]

I regularly find myself wondering at what point was I too far gone– when exactly was it that I established myself as the one that's good at auditing and fixing up Fucked Up Files so the accountants started specifically sending the nightmare files my way.

[spytap]

I genuinely can't wait until Meta replaces most of its mid-level engineers with AI

It's such an own-goal, and will absolutely fuck that company in the long-term. But we're gonna be hiring engineers later this year, and a lot of really fantastic engineers are gonna be available. I'm looking forward to working with them.

[youraveragemiscellanyenjoyer]

at work. straight up "looking at it". and by "it," haha, well. let's justr say. my phon

[sleepywinchesters]

Ijust hate how much I have to learn and how much I know I dont know. And how useless I am as a result. I couldn't even restrain a slightly aggressive puppy today. I hate it and i hate that no one wants to teach me. It's It's frustrating wanting to learn and constantly getting shoved aside instead. Like literally shoved aside.

I just want to learn and be afforded the opportunity to. Like hearing everyone complain about not having enough techs then refusing to teach me is honestly a new, weird form of rejection. Idek where I'm going with this. I just feel like I suck and hate myself for not magically knowing things no one has taught me.

[bobcatblahs]

Microsoft Teams be like:

‘Meeting in 25 minutes’

Me, staring at my email icon, willing it to ding that the meeting was cancelled:

[isnotanoctopus]

So I work at an afterschool program, and I love working w/ kids so much, but I especially love working with teens who have the same sarcastic friend-foe sense of humor I do, cuz like...

I have a ''rivalry'' with a fourteen y/o at my job. He has proclaimed himself the best artist in the building, and routinely says he can draw better than me, based off of having only ever seen my shitty one minute whiteboard doodles - and anything I show him he responds to with 'I could do better tho'.

So today he was showing off his artist skills, and I whipped out my phone to show him what I drew last night, expecting the usual response.

Only for him to stand there gaping. And then finally gesturing and going ''ok well that's GOTTA BE CGI--''

I had to zoom in to show him the grainy pen texture. And finally... I have won the hard-won battle. He admitted defeat, and proclaimed himself second best artist in the entire building. I am the winner. ᕙ(•̀‸•́‶)ᕗ take that, fourteen year old child.

[leam1983]

Tech Literacy

When people think of Cosmic Horror, they usually bring out Lovecraft, Chambers - or maybe Junji Ito if you're a bit younger. Primal dread is something that's only seen as being this distant thing that's only reserved for far-off eventualities along the lines of asking yourself what would happen if, like Tetsuo Mukoda in Long Dreams, you ended up living through millennia within the span of your eight-hour sleep cycle.

For me, horror is a bit more common. Not in my own life, mind you - I'm generally copacetic with the status of physical life and base Existential concerns as we know them - but the Sales reps I work with walk a razor's edge between blithe confidence and the kind of toe-curling, balls-shrinking primitive dread that's purely the product of the modern world.

You know the kind: looming deadlines, interest rates hiking, promos falling by the wayside - or if you're exceptionally dumb on the technological level, realizing on your own that, after years on end, your entire structure depends on Google. Not Google Business, mind you - you were too cheap to spring for a plan. You just cannibalized or created a throwaway "master" Google account and tied terabytes of customer data and CRM notes to it - out in the open.

You were too cheap to spring for a plan - and now a competitor's literally and quite simply copy-pasted your entire customer base to their own Google Sheet.

What do you think happens? What happens is I'm torn out of bed, scraped out of my warm nook between Sarah and Walt, by a screeching douchebag already ODing on caffeine at 7:40 AM who's just seen decades of customer loyalty go poof.

You realize that in this moment, you're the unknowable entity, from their end of things. You're Randolph Carter with the Silver Key, you're Tetsuo Mukoda with the body-warping and mind-altering brain-crystal that turns his dreams into Chtonic excursions, full to bursting with Fel knowledge.

"You're telling me public accounts aren't secure?!"

I grunt out of sleeplessness, aware that I probably look like HAL 9000 to Dave, in that moment. I'm the Sales Rep's idea of an inscrutable being that knows things.

"I don't know what to tell you, Steve. I've been telling you this since I started at the Old Place, but you never listened."

Douchebag howls into the morning air, I hear some sort of metal bowl clatter to the floor on his end, and his voice turns thready with the sudden and full grasp of his ignorance.

"The Sales Director's going to be so pissed; they'll probably fire me..."

He hangs up moments later.

There's something strange to seeing someone else's black abyss as it yawns under their feet - and you're just some guy with front-row seats to it all.

[gallium-spoon]

Today a case manager at work stopped me in the hallway to tell me that our patients say "really great things" about me 🥺😭

I'm the youngest person in the therapy department and I struggle a lot with imposter syndrome and wondering if I'm doing enough for my patients so hearing that they're saying nice things about me...

Excuse me a moment 😭😭😭😭😭❤️😭❤️

[mandiemegatron]

I HATE MORNING SHIFTS WITH A FUCKIN PASSION !!!! NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO WAKE UP AT 6:45AM TO GET READY FOR WORK 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭