#anyways starting pay is 25/hr

[aurosoulart]

HELLO if you have a graphic design portfolio and are interested in some freelance work pls send it my way 👀 we are hiring juniors to do various social media graphics for Figmin

[1ovestay]

wont lie im having a terrible fucking time with it! fuck applying for jobs what if i end it all instead

[brettdoesdiscourse]

I get so fucking tired of this same conversation. So, let's break this down one last time because some of yall still do not get it.

Service workers know their employers should be paying them more. There isn't a service worker out there who is thinking, "no it's totally fine that my employer can pay me less than $3 an hour."

This is a systematic issue, it's not easily fixed by "go on strike or unionize!"

I don't know how detached you all from the reality of the working world, but if people could afford to just unionize or strike and have it work well enough, we wouldn't deal with nearly as much worker mistreatment and exploitation.

Let's start with unions.

Does your work already have a union or would you have to form one yourself? Do you know how to find and join your union? Can you afford any union dues you may have to pay? Let's hope you're not one of more than 60% of Americans who are living paycheck to paycheck.

And let's say you are in a union, are you comfortable with your job now being threatened? While it's certainly true employers can't legally fire you for being in a union, they can fire you for tons of other reasons and people in unions often experience this problem.

So, you've potentially hard to start a union, paid money you may not really have, and now fear job insecurity. Now, let's hope your union successfully works to raise your wage to an acceptable level.

Assuming it doesn't, let's assume you have a strike.

Strikes aren't like they seem on social media. These aren't just cute little walk-outs. You will lose your pay from your employer during this time. If you're in a union, you'll usually receive strike pay. Although, this is not usually a full paycheck. Again, let's hope you aren't one of these more than 60% of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck. Let's hope you and your family can afford to live off the strike pay.

Let's also hope you get enough people on board with your strike to actually make a difference. Let's also hope that the wage increase you may or may not get is significant enough to make it worth it.

A recent record high showed that wages were increased 25% which sounds great! I hope you enjoy making $3.75 instead of a generous (although you're likely getting paid closer to $2/hr) $3. Anything helps and that extra 75 cents does help, of course, but let's hope you find it worth it. And of course, most workers don't see an 25% increase. Assuming your strike was successful, you're likely going to see about 13% instead.

So after scraping by even more than you already were for about a week or so (assuming your strike actually works and doesn't drag into weeks or months), you're looking at a solid $3.39 per hour. Sure, that's less than half of the lowest federal minimum wage and it's far below the lowest cost of living (per hour) for a single individual which is about $13.80, but hey it's something right.

(None of this is to say you shouldn't be in a union and that strikes don't work, that'd be ridiculous. It's just to point out that this isn't a feasible option for a lot of people and acting like striking/unionizing is an easy option that magically fixing everything is beyond ridiculous.)

Now, let's move onto the actual point of "tips should be a nice bonus" and "we are not the problem."

Ideally, yes. Tips should be a nice bonus and customers shouldn't have to pay workers wages. In an ideal world, everybody would be getting paid a livable wage.

But this isn't an ideal world. You can't really treat tips as "a nice bonus" when they're not a nice bonus. And you can't really claim you aren't the problem when you're actively contributing to the problem.

You know these workers are being exploited and you're choosing to use their service anyway. This makes you a shitty person.

If you genuinely want to make a stand against that company's policies, you boycott the company. You don't continue exploiting workers by still going out.

If you can't afford to tip or don't want to tip then you can't afford to eat out at a service restaurant where workers are paid below minimum wage.

I'm very tired of people thinking "well they should pay you more!" absolves them of being a shitty person. Companies also shouldn't use child labor, but guess what? They do and if you're knowingly using a non-necessity company that uses child labor? You're a shitty person.

[astramthetaprime]

Counting to Potato

I GOT A JOB!

Finally.  

It’s not a good job, it doesn’t pay enough and it isn’t enough hours but it will cover my mortgage and probably my electric and water.  I still have a few hundred left in the bank so I may be okay for a while if I’m careful.  It’s going to be 25 to 28 hours a week, working at a grocery store.  It’s 5 minutes away so there won’t be a commute to speak of.  It starts tomorrow the 15th.  

I called the temp agency I’ve been signed up with today about 9 AM to tell them hey I got a job.  These are the people who told me “it’s rare we get straight data entry jobs” and not 2 hours later they text me with “We have a data entry job for $17 / hr, 40 hrs a week, are you still interested?”  I’m like, dude, you couldn’t tell me this yesterday before I said yes to this other job?  Feels very suspicious.  I’d rather have the actual not-temp job that I can maybe get more hours at than a temp job that pays a lot but I could be out of work after 1 day.  But I said sure, send them my resume.  Anyway.  

IN OTHER NEWS!

I’ve finished another IceMav story today.  I don’t have a title yet, but the manuscript is finished.  Needs title and formatting to post.  As of yet I don’t know what my schedule will be for the next few days so I will let you know.  Look for it in your feed if you have such.  It’s the incident in 2010-2011 when someone sent the blackmail material.  Ice whump, forced separation, DADT, the repeal of DADT, baby duckling fighter pilots, dogfighting, Hondo gets the best lines, making friends, and eventually happy tears.  

[reincarnatedonthefirst]

Client Recap…

The appointment with the client who texted last week went really well this morning.

First, I made the mistake of assuming the rinky dink hotel I booked would not have keyed doors. I’ll never make that mistake again. The guy at the front desk was kind of cool (more on him later) and told me that it was fine to have guests and they could even get their own key. Me and my client agreed that our backstory would be that we’re married. I told the front desk I was expecting my “husband”, and when the client arrived, front desk just gave him a key to my room. Still, it was an inconvenient and potentially embarrassing situation that could have been avoided.

Anyway, you can imagine my surprise when the client actually used my key to get in without knocking…

After the client got comfortable, we 69’ed for a little and I slipped a condom on him. I bounced on him for a while, did a little grinding, and then bounced some more until he came. All the oral and sex took maybe 13 minutes.

After that, he didn’t want to stay and wanted to go about his work day. But before he left, he talked a lot about the companies he owns and how he started them. It was very interesting to hear! He was actually born in the south and has a strong blue collar background but started, acquired, and grew very successful businesses.

He talked a lot about his philosophy on grooming and taking care of his employees. He’s a very decent person and really smart. And he has a very positive attitude. I appreciated him for passing his wisdom onto me.

He was so pleased with our session that he said he would definitely be back to see me (yay!).

He also enlightened about how people are scamming clients through ads. It’s screwed up. But he made me realize that there really l are lots of good guys who are sincerely afraid to screen and pay deposits because of the scammers.

I am going to step back, take a look at my business, and figure out how to reach the guys who are good potential clients but too afraid of deposits.

Anyway, about the hotel: I was very annoyed by the management at this shtty place. Earlier this morning, someone over the phone told me there would be a $25 fee for early check-in but when I arrived, this obese, blob of a man at the front desk told me the fee was $45 instead. He definitely pulled that number out of his ass. He had me in a corner so all I could do was plead for him to knock $10 off the fee, bringing the fee down to $35.

It’s all good though. Because I should be making the money back. After my appointment, I got a text from someone interested in an appointment for this evening. It was actually from a guy that’s been following both of my personas on Twitter. Hopefully, I can make him a regular too but he actually lives 1 1/2 hrs away. We will see.

I’m starving (as usual) and just passing the time in the hotel room, watching Married With Children. This show was hilarious.

[gettingbyy]

3/16/2024

this post is for mouse, but you can read it, too, if you want.

i hope you like the random photos i've been choosing. xD you've probably seen them all before, but it's still kind of fun to try to match them up with how i think the current post might go. the magnolia trees downtown will be blooming again soon so this one felt appropriate. i had another idea of what photo i might've used for this one, but i can't remember what it was. maybe next time.

anyways.

things have been going okay lately, with spring getting here and daylight savings happening, i'm finally starting to feel like a human again. it's been getting a bit better since i started working from home anyway, but more light is definitely helping. that said, i think the time change fucked me up real bad. i haven't been able to get out of bed before 930-945 all week (yay for working from home and working in my bed), i've been exhausted and i still can't sleep at night. shit's problematic. hopefully next week is smoother, but if this is the price i have to pay for daylight, i'll gladly pay it 50 times over.

A's internship/job is over now; she was hoping she could stay there, but long story short her manager and one of the HR people are both super ableist and discriminatory. she asked for disability accommodations (4 days of 8 hours a day instead of 5 days of 8 hours) and everything blew up in her face even though her request was perfectly legal and reasonable. i had just gone to a deep-dive webinar about the Americans with Disabilities Act a week or two before all this went down and i was appalled at the actual laws her workplace broke. to make it even wilder, she works at a community health center, doing things like, y'know, helping clients get accommodations at work for disabilities (among other things). the full story is kinda long, but i can tell you someday if you want. needless to say, she's back to the drawing board but has some prospects. fingers crossed.

my job is going okay right now. it's been a week since a bunch of articles came out saying we'll be declaring bankruptcy soon, but so far we haven't heard many peeps (other than a ton of us being anxious about it). allegedly, the type of bankruptcy we'd file would let us stay in business without making major changes, but we have over a billion in debt so....yeah. it's funny, on the website/earnings announcements they always say $1,xxx.xx million because it sounds a lot better than $1.1 billion. they're not really fooling anyone, though, or at least not us as the employees. they're especially not fooling me, because i know how far behind we are on paying our invoices.

i'm working on going through my books and sorting out what doesn't speak to me anymore. i have some of yours that you got when you were here last - i'm going to box them up and put them on a shelf in the basement so they don't accumulate cat hair like mine all are lmao. so far, i have about 25 books i'm going to be giving away or selling to a used bookstore i recently found. that's just the shelves in the blue room; i still have to go through the 9-cube white shelf in mine that's double-stacked.

where i'm at so far.

the main shelf in the blue room did have a couple double-stacked cubes, but mostly those were A's terry pratchett books. it's been an adventure. next step is cleaning my room (pack up unused bags, get my cameras and gear organized, etc.) and then i can use the space in here to sort out the other shelf. i'm telling you this to inform you of my life, but also to hopefully hold myself accountable. xD

this is pretty long so i should probably wrap it up. it was definitely way more stream-of-consciousness than the other one so hopefully it's not too rambly. miss you bbg, i hope you're doing a bit better now. <3

[shop-korea]

8:15A EST - WALKED - INTO - BLDG 6 - NOT LIKE - THE MAP

HOSPITALITY - TRAINING - ARE - AGENCY - SPONSORED - &

FREE - 2 WEEKS - BUT - NO ONE - HAS - APPROACHED YET

NONE - AT - THE - MOMENT - SO - THEY - TOLD - ME WHAT

IS - AVAILABLE - CAREER - CERTIFICATES - 6 MONTHS AND

CHEF - APPRENTICE

OVER - $8,000 - TUES - AND - THURS - 8 HRS

OR - SATURDAYS - BUT - LONGER - THAN - 6 MONTHS

PHOTO - IS - APPLY - NOW - 4 - THEIR

KICKSTART - SCHOLARSHIP

AS - LONG - AS - I - DO - ALL - THEIR - REQUIREMENTS

I - GET - THEM - FULLY - PAID - AND - 1ST - COME - 1ST

SERVED - WHILE - THEY - HAVE - MONEY - AS - THEY

DEDUCT - 4 - UNEMPLOYED - STUDENTS - LIKE - ME

SO - SENT - 2 - BLDG 2

WHILE - THERE - DIDN'T - NEED - KIOSK

TOLD - APPLICATION - $30 - BUT - WHEN - I APPLIED

ONLINE - IT'S - FREE - I'M - NOW - AN - OFFICIAL YES

COLLEGE - STUDENT

MIAMI DADE COLLEGE

WOLFSON - CAMPUS

MIAMI - CULINARY - INSTITUTE

WENT - THERE - AND - GOT - INFORMATION

ALL - I - NEED - SEND - ELECTRONIC - TRANSCRIPT

PARCHMENT - DOES - THAT - ONLY - SENDING

HIGH SCHOOL

BAD - GRADES - USC - IGNORING - THEM - FOREVER

UPLOADED - STATE ID - VOTERS - CARD

THEY - SAID - DESTROY - FORMER - STATE - ID - BUT

HAD - INFO - CALLED - DATE - OF - ISSUE - NEEDED

2 - ESTABLISH - FLORIDA - RESIDENCY - 1 YEAR REQ

REQUIRED - FOR - IN STATE - TUITION - CHEAPEST

2 - DOCUMENTS - UPLOADED

NEXT - OFFICIAL - STATE - DOCUMENT

MARRIAGE - CERTIFICATE - BIRTH - CERTIFICATE

GOOGLED - THEY - DIDN'T - GIVE - INFO - BUT - I

RESENT - I - WAS - TOLD - 2 - PAY - $30 - WHEN IN

PERSON - BY - ONLINE - FREE - 2 B - COLLEGE

STUDENT - OF - MIAMI DADE COLLEGE - CLICK

GRADUATED - OR - GRADUATING - HIGH SCHOOL

ID - NO - GIVEN - EMAIL - GIVEN - USERNAME

GIVEN - ALL - WON'T - EVER - BE - CHANGED

MDC - PORTAL - IS - WHERE - 2 - GO - WHEN I

CLICKED - EMAIL - ENTRIES - DIDN'T - WORK

SO - UPLOADED - OFFICIAL - FEDERAL -

DOCUMENTS - SSI - DISABILITY - BENEFITS

LATER - 2 - FORMER - AND - CURRENT ADRS

FLORIDA - ADDRESS

UPLOADED - NO - SIGNATURE - LEASE - PROVES

STARTED RESIDENCY - 03 DEC 2012 - IN - FLORIDA

FORGOT - MY - FEDERAL - OFFICIAL - DOCUMENT

PROVING - RESIDENCY - ALSO - IS - MY CALIFORNIA

NATURALIZATION - CERTIFICATE - SHOWING - OVER

8 YEARS - FORT MYERS - FLORIDA - APT - ADDRESS 2

THEY - WANTED - ALSO - OPTIONAL

LEASE - 12 CONSECUTIVE - PAYMENTS

DILEMMA - I - PAY - WITH - MONEY ORDERS - THOSE

ARE - BLANK - NOT - GREAT - PROOFS - LEFT - THERE

WHEN - I - LEFT - 4 - MIAMI

2 DOCUMENTS - ALL - I - NEEDED

STATE - ID - FLORIDA

VOTERS CARD - FLORIDA

BUT - ADDED - ANYWAY

NATURALIZATION - CERTIFICATE - FEDERAL

SSI - BENEFITS - LETTER - FEDERAL

THEY - WANTED - OFFICIAL - STATE - FEDERAL

OR - COURT - DOCUMENTS - SHOWING - THAT

I'M - A - RESIDENT - OF - FLORIDA

ADDRESS - LISTED

SO - VERY - HAPPY - WITH - THAT - APPLICATION

ONLINE - CHECKED - OUT - TRANSCRIPT - SENT

BY - PARCHMENT - ELECTRONICALLY - $9.40

HIGH SCHOOL

THEN - APPLIED - 2 - KICKSTART - APPLICATION

MUST - SEND - THEM - CLASS - SCHEDULE - EA

SEMESTER - 2 - SHOW - ACTIVE

SPRING - 2024

JAN - APRIL - 16 WEEKS

TOTAL - 6 MONTHS

TUES - THURS - 8 HRS - EACH - DAY

OVER - $8,000

AS - LONG - AS - I - FULFILL - REQUIREMENTS

ON - TIME - ASAP - THEN - I - QUALIFY - FULL

SCHOLARSHIP - VERY - EASY - 2 - PAY - ABOVE

STARTS - JANUARY - 2024

METROMOVER - FREE - TRAINS

EXIT - COLLEGE - BAYSIDE

VERY - FAST - FR - MAIN - LIBRARY

CHEF - APPRENTICE

CERTIFICATE

APPLIES - 2 - ASSOCIATE IN SCIENCE

CULINARY - ARTS - MANAGEMENT

2 YRS - IF - I - WANT - 2 - PURSUE

OVER - $7,000

LAB - OVER - $18,000

HENCE - MY - SHOPIFY - STORE

$10,000 - EA - MONTH

AFTER - CAN - B - $5,000 - DAILY

THEIR - FINANCIAL - AID - IS - SUPERB

CAN - QUALIFY - 4 - KICKSTART

SCHOLARSHIP - BECAUSE STILL

NOVEMBER - 2023

HEALTHCARE - FINANCE - OWES - ME $40

TAKING - THEIR - TIME - 4 - MY - REFUND 2

THAT - WILL - PAY - 4 - MY - TRANSCRIPT

PARCHMENT - REQUEST - OF - $9.40 ME

ALREADY - GOT - MY - ELECTRONIC - GIFT

CARD - $25 - GETTING - 2 - ITEMS - FROM

AMAZON - FRIDAY - 17 NOV 2023

BLUETOOTH - PURPLE - HEADBAND

BAND-AID KIT

HUB LOCKER - HOMESTEAD - SUITES

TODAY - STARTED - WITH - HOSPITALITY

ENDED - WITH - CHEF - APPRENTICE AS

6 MONTHS - CAREER - CERTIFICATE

OVER - $8,000

FREE - HOSPITALITY - 2 WEEKS COURSE

THEY - HAVE - 2 - WORK - WITH - OTHER

AGENCIES - 2 - SPONSOR - SO - THERE

WILL - B - RIGHT - NO - OF - PEOPLE IN

IT - BUT - THAT'S - JUST - 2 WEEKS - MY

6 MONTHS - IS - A - BETTER

CAREER - MOVE - AND - YES

CERTIFICATION - MY - JOB - CHANCES

ARE - WAY - BETTER - EDUCATED AND

TRAINED - AND - LARGEST - COLLEGE

IN - THE - US - MIAMI - DADE COLLEGE

SO - THAT'S - MY - GOOD - NEWS

I'M - A - COLLEGE - STUDENT - AGAIN

AFTER - 15 YEARS

MIAMI - DADE - COLLEGE - STUDENT

HOORAY - AND - FREE - FR - ONLINE

PRAYING - ABOUT - KICKSTART

SCHOLARSHIP - OF COURSE 4

I - NEED - 2 - SUBMIT - TRANSCRIPT

2 - GET - THE - BALL - ROLLING YES

JESUS - IS - LORD - MIAMI - WE'RE

ON - OUR - WAY - 4 - FINANCIAL YES

SUCCESS - FR - UNEMPLOYED - 2 BEING

EDUCATED - AND - TRAINED - (+$8,000)

BETTER - CERTIFICATION

CHEF - APPRENTICE

MIAMI - DADE - COLLEGE

NEAR - BAYFRONT MARKETPLACE

REAL - NICE - AREA - McDONALD's

THEY - HAVE - COFFEE - SELLERS

WE'RE - ON - OUR - WAY

BACK - 2 - COLLEGE

HOORAY - I'M A - STUDENT AGAIN

MIAMI - FLORIDA - MDC - ME - ME

[fusion-ego]

gonna bitch more at length under the cut about the job situation, don’t mind me

i’ve already talked to family and friends about it but this is really just to try and get it the rest of the way out of my head so that i can, hopefully, focus on something else finally

so, long story short, i’ve been employed through a state program at a women’s shelter since May. this is important, as the state program is paying me minimum wage ($12/hr) to do a job that i had, at the time, decided i loved very much, because at the time the shelter had no paying positions available.

in july, the board of directors here held interviews for both the director and assistant director position. at the time, it was the assumption of myself, the president of the board, and the previous director (who was still director at the time) that i would be receiving the director position. i had even been assured by the board president that i was “next in line. if we hire anybody for anything, you’re the first on the list.”

both at and prior to the interview, i made it very clear that i would be willing to quit my state program on the spot if i were to be hired.

well, in the end, i was hired as the assistant director so that a more experienced person could take the director position - i was not upset about this, i’m of the opinion that the director should be more experienced! i was upset that i ended up having to train her, yes, but that’s just life. anyway, the board told me to finish out my program and then the assistant director position was mine officially!

well.

this is where it gets long.

on the one hand, i’ve been working for about five months now for six days a week, 40 hours a week, and i’m exhausted, so i was both looking forward to and dreading the day that i got hired on officially and got half my hours cut down because the assistant director position is part time. i was considering if i really wanted to stay at this job doing 25 hours a week maximum for one more dollar an hour, likely having to get a second job to stay afloat, or if i just wanted to seek a different job where i would at least get two days off a week for full time.

on the other hand, over the last couple of weeks i’ve just been getting more and more irritated with the way that the board runs things. put very simply, the board is a bunch of old christian white ladies from the conservative midwest - i shouldn’t have to elaborate past that on why i, a 20-something agnostic, might disagree with their policies. but when those policies include turning away people who are smoking weed, even medicinally, riding the residents’ asses about rules and regulations to the point that they would rather live on the street than be here, etc, we have bigger problems. it was pissing me off something fierce anyway.

add onto that that over the course of this week, i  - come into work to one of the residents apologizing to me and asking me to get her an exit form so that she could start packing and leave because the board president made her and her roommate cry and she just can’t deal with it anymore. (monday) - worked for seven hours (7am-2pm) because it’s just easier for me to take those hours than to struggle to get a volunteer in for them, went home, and was then called back because someone forgot to remind the director that the board meeting was that night at 6 and she had to go (she was scheduled for 6pm-10pm), and ended up sitting in the office for 2 more hours because they couldn’t get anyone else to cover it on short notice. (tuesday) - my day off! all volunteers and employees know that i am not to be bothered or asked to come in unless it is an emergency. i do my shopping early in the morning because my mom needs to have her truck back by 11am. i finish up at the store at about 8am. i know that our overnight worker for tuesday agreed to stay until 7:45 so that one of the board members could come in to work 7:45-10am. i spend my entire shopping trip dreading a call from her telling me that the board member, who is notoriously tardy, didn’t show up and we need to figure something else out. come 8am, i have not received the call and assume that the board member showed up. at 8:30, i drop my mom’s truck back off at her work and begin the 1 mile trek back to my apartment from there. i do not step foot off the block my mom’s work building is on before i receive the call i’ve been dreading all morning. i end up walking almost all the way to work (an additional 0.3 miles away) before i receive a second call saying i can go back home because the board member is almost there. i walk the 0.3 miles back home in an understandably foul temper. (wednesday) - go into work as usual for my once-a-week overnight shift at 10pm. i nap on and off throughout the shift because i’m exhausted, but nothing happens. (thursday) - i leave work at 7am, head back home, and go to bed, knowing i’m scheduled to be back at 4pm. the day goes fine, and i return to work as expected. i arrive on time and am sat down by the board president to receive a talk that apparently she was asked at the board meeting on tuesday to give me, which boils down to “since you’re not actually employed by us, we’re revoking your back office key. also you’ve been late a few times lately and the board is concerned about that. and you’ve not answered your phone a few times when we’ve called. also the board thinks more people would volunteer if you’d put your name down less on the schedule in advance. and also the board isn’t sure if we’ll actually be hiring you or not, k thx bye.” understandably upset, i sit with the director (who was present because she was asked to be and because she wanted to support me) and cry for several minutes after the board president leaves. i return to my old place in the front office and spend most of my shift looking for other jobs and conversing with a resident who is doing her best to help me feel better. (friday) - after sitting awake until almost 3am because i can’t stop thinking about all this bullshit, i return to work at 7:35am, 5 minutes later than i was supposed to arrive, because i mistakenly didn’t get out of bed until 7:29 and ran to work because i didn’t want our friday overnight worker to have to stay any longer than our previously agreed upon 30 minutes after when she was actually scheduled to leave. i’ve only been here for about 2 of the 7 hours i’m scheduled for and i am already ready to leave. i’m working on a letter of resignation. (saturday)

(tl;dr - it’s been a rough week, we lost a resident monday, i was asked to work after i already finished a shift tuesday, i almost had to come in on my one day off, and then on friday i was reprimanded and had my back office keys taken over some stupid shit. i am now seeking other employment.)

now, on the subject of the reprimand i received yesterday (friday, oct 7, 2022), i am not going to deny that i’ve been late a few times recently, or that i’ve missed calls. i have! i know i have, i own up to that. but i’m frustrated over it because, one, no one is going to pick up their phone every single time that someone calls them, even if it’s work. what if i was in the bathroom and my phone wasn’t? fuck’s sake. and two, i’ve been here both as a volunteer and then as an outsourced employee for almost a year, and in that time, i have been late a grand total of five times. i’ve missed a shift i was supposed to come in for twice.

concerning the hours i’m scheduled for in advance, i work here 40 hours a week, week in and week out. i do this not just because i need a 40 hour paycheck to be able to save any money at all, but because the hours i put myself down for, i have repeatedly had trouble getting volunteers for.

and, do you remember that bit up top? where i was hired as the assistant director and told the position was mine after my state program finished? well, now that they’ve taken my key to the back office because i’m “not employed by them”, i can no longer complete my duties properly. without access to the back office, i cannot access prior resident files, i cannot finish an intake because i cannot access the photocopier to have a printed record of new residents’ ID, social, and drug test, i cannot update the schedule officially because i cannot print it in color in the front office, etc.

so, since my program ends on november 16, i have decided that i’ll go ahead and take an hours cut and i will find any reason i can (unless the director, who has been on my side the whole time, is the one to ask) to not be here during hours they can’t get volunteers for. i’m also turning in a letter of resignation, even though they don’t deserve one.

i’m hoping, to some extent, that they’ll realize how bad they fucked up and scramble to try and keep me, but whether they do or not, i won’t be staying. not unless they’re offering me a whole lot more than $13/hr to put up with their bullshit.

i might come back as a volunteer after i get my new job squared away, but ultimately that will depend upon how the board reacts to my resignation and whether or not i decide to give them an MLA style 8 page paper on why they should all get fucked.

i’m not generally the type to overhype myself or suck my own dick about how much i contribute to a job. i’m an average worker by all measures.

but i was willing to work 6 days a week for them for the rest of the foreseeable future because i truly cared! i have been here for a year, and even before i was actually working for them i was keeping this place afloat by volunteering for 30 or more hours a week.

they fucked up by thinking they could fuck me over.

they’re going to realize that, one way or another.

even if they don’t, that’s fine. it’s not going to matter after i leave, anyhow, but i guess a person can dream about having that kind of power.

[bezella]

I can't believe I'm gonna start working an actual 9 to 5 job...

[mybrainproblems]

Not to flex but it’s kinda wild that five years ago I was unemployed and hella depressed and like shit, even two years ago I was in a kinda precarious situation financially wondering if I could really make it work financially living by myself. And now I’ve actually got my shit pretty together and stable.

Like. As someone who at multiple points in my 20s has had less than $50 in my bank account the fact that I live alone and have actually significant savings is fucking wild man.

[manifestingoddess]

rq b4 bed since it was feeling like it was impossible for me to get what i want earlier which is perfectly fine

a reminder for me bc there is nothing i can’t do, nothing is too hard, or takes too long i fkn got this bitchhh

what i’ve manifested!! 💅🏼

time crunch

my sister lost my lil baby bella (dog) and i was like 5hrs from home so she was dog sitting, ig bella was locked outside all night until around 12 pm when we got back and i was looking everywhere for her screaming her name. So i kept imagining being with her like bella i found you, you know and i was like “no imma find her idc, imma find her rn” and boom long story short someone found her earlier in the morning someone claimed bella was theirs and gave bella to their friend they gave us theirs friends # and we got her back

manifesting by / b4 a specific date

i shared a big bed with my little brother and i wanted my own bc he was a lil slob so i said imma get my own bed b4 my bed and b4 bed most nights i would imagine myself like doing my lil morning routine with my new bed and my mom randomly bought us new beds b4 my bday

manifesting in less than a week

i moved to a different school b4 7th grade started and fast forward to 8th i decided that wants to go back to my old school but there was some circumstances that i thought would get in the way, sooo i would visualize walking into school and all my elementary school friends greeting me and everyone being surprised that i came back and then literally 4 days later my mom told me we were moving back and i didnt even bring it up to her and everything happens exactly how i imagined it

manifesting on a time crunch (less than 2 hrs!!)

one day i wanted to see a purple car while in the way to the beach and we had about 2 hrs ahead of us till we reached the beach so i told myself “imma see that damn car” and “omg i can’t believe i actually saw a purple car!!” i switched between those two affirmations and we got to the beach and i still hadn’t seen the but j don’t get discouraged i said nope imma see one rn b4 we even reach the actual beach!! and guess what car was parked right next to us in the parking lot

manifesting money 💰

i wanted a job but i was too young (13 yrs old) so i would imagine myself counting my money and saying i love having a job, a few days later my moms bf at the time says he’ll pay me 25$ a week (i can’t remember) and it was all his idea!!

making it on the school dance team

gurll lemme tell you i am an amazing dancer and i’ve always been really good at dancing (rhythm, choreography, etc) so me and my friend tried out for my schools dance team for fun and during the audition it was 4 people at once(me, my friend, 2 other people) so to make the team we had to hear the wyd on our own, point toes and stuff so i would say me and my friend did just about the same . i was really nervous and i forgot a lot of it so did my friend but guess who made it on the teammm me bitch 💪my friend didn’t. anyways i would say i can’t wide to choreograph dances and perform and be with my team b4 i even made it on

this was when i knew nothing about manifesting!! i manifested all this bc i naturally have a “everything always works out 4 me assumption”

[quinn4635]

Since so much is coming to light as far as how she treated her staff, I do want to put this out there on it as well.

I had reached out to Kah in June 2020 about possibly helping with the website rewrite. I was super excited about it and she had agreed to take me on and even to help teach me the ropes since I know very little back-end coding that would've worked for Mweor's system.

She was willing to pay me $15/hr to start, with a bump up to $20/hr once I was able to do projects on my own and not need to buddy code, with possible pay raises above that as well down the line.

She got me set up with accounts for the back-end work, gave me a handful of directions on how to install the programs I would need, and also got me set up with the official discord for just her staff, which later became the actual discord of Mweor that she later shut down. Throughout our emails back and forth, she was super friendly and treated me incredibly fairly.

Nobody ever really knew about this because shortly after signing an NDA agreement, I had a lot of stuff I was dealing with in my life, as well as just a break in my mental health. Instead of reaching out at any one point to make sure I was okay since I wasn't active on Mweor OR Discord, she just took away my access from everything but the discord without a word two weeks after giving me access to things.

That told me enough to not try to pursue things further if she couldn't even ask me if I was still trying to set things up or if something had happened. I'm not saying she's fully to blame - I am too. It would have been professional of me to reach out and let her know I had things going on suddenly, and I fully admit it's wrong of me that I didn't. But the fact she only gave me 2 weeks before stripping me of everything.. oof. After that happened I basically stopped playing altogether.

Anyways. I'm telling you all this because she was willing to pay me actual money, not MP or statues. The going rate for a freelance coder starts at $25/hr or so, and I have a feeling she would be willing to pay up to that once I had proven myself in the role. My long-winded point is.

She values coding, which she could do herself, above art, above lore writing, above modding her sites.

I'm including a screenshot of one of our emails back and forth about pay. To all of the artists and to Niddy, I'm so sorry you guys weren't paid even relatively close to the going rate for your work. Mweor was a great game to play because of you all.

[mendrax]

My first review of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time

Here’s my first impression under the cut...

The franchise as art.

Not just the Eva franchise but the concept of a franchise itself. Because franchises, as they exist in the world of filmmaking, are inherently a capitalist product designed for escapism. Let’s go to the movies for a brand new chapter in the ever-sprawling saga of commoditized characters conquering a new mile in the millennially trotted hero journey, yay! Isn’t that how you can describe the act of purchasing a ticket to the latest entry in your favorite franchise? And what’s so wrong with that, anyway? After all, we need our escapism when life becomes unbearable. It’s just a public service really!

And is Eva really that different? At the end of the day, no matter how avant-garde it can be, it’s still a product that we’ve come to consume, quite literally, again and again. Not only that, but it’s also a damn good profitable IP with millions of merchandise goods, box-office record numbers and, now, a distribution deal with one of the gods of capitalism: Amazon. Long gone are the days of non-profit experiencing of it. You can now legally pay to watch its whole audiovisual canon in Netflix and Prime.

Still, even after its paradoxical commodification, the text of Eva itself remains as a message of anti-escapism. No matter how many figures, blu-rays and streaming services you pay for, the message of Eva remains the same. A message that quite starkly opposes itself to this escapist consumerism. Even if, ironically, is this very message that, due to its humanity, has touched the hearts of millions who have then turned it into another comfort food. This is so sad, alexa play komm, susser tod…

Now, cynicism aside, the reason 3.0+1.0 elevates the concept of a franchise to an art form is, quite simply, because, at its best, art is a method of communication delivering a message that could only be delivered through its chosen medium. I could very easily tell you to go outside and touch some grass, talk to your parents and hug your dearest, but that’d never have the same impact as experiencing the Eva franchise from start to finish.

3.0+1.0 is a film that can’t work without experiencing all the films and TV episodes before it. I mean, it has its own beginning, middle and end but, really, its message can’t be as impactful without the other entries in its franchise. The film itself rehashes images and situations we’ve come to intimately know from its predecessors. Not only that but it converses with them, presenting nuanced and overt contrasts of key moments. Particularly in its final act, we see the reversal and echoes of a lot of moments from End of Evangelion. Asuka gets mangled, not by outside forces, but by her own doing. Misato gets shot but she survives this. Ritsuko shots Gendo, but doesn’t kill him. Shinji doesn’t punish Gendo by devouring him through Unit-01, but instead saves him by getting close to him. This last one might be one of the most heart-wrenching moments in the whole movie, which, it’s worth noting, serves as the wholesome counterpart to EoE’s bitter ending. To say nothing of the contrast 3.0+1.0 presents to EoE’s beach scene…

But these are all narrative points that, with some serious talent, could even be conveyed through literary form and film, as we know, its powerful because its an audiovisual medium. And here’s where Eva, time and again, separates itself from most, if not all, franchises in recent memory. Its images are not only narrative but discursive. I’d even argue that, come its ending, Eva uses images that don’t really advance its plot, but rather help to cement its discourse, its message. And its been doing that since eps 25-26… The last minutes of Eva will always be a Brechtian assault on the senses with images that demand to be studied and interpreted. They’re not there to finish the bedtime story with a kiss on the forehead of your overworked soul, but to shake it out of its zombie state and fill you with emotions you can’t even describe through words until much later, if at all… I believe that’s why a lot of us have come back to Eva again and again. Not necessarily for its plot, but for the rise of emotions and thoughts that bolt through your core as you experience its final moments and how they re-paint the whole journey you’ve just travelled to get there.

3.0+1.0 is filled with such images that, one day, I’d love to analyze. I’m still too shocked from having watched it almost 20 hrs ago and this is already too long, so I’ll leave this task for subsequent viewings… still my mind can’t help but replay certain images over and over, even as I write this… from Misato looking at the photo of her son and Shinji… Kaworu crying as Shinji extends his hand to him… the juxtaposition of Unit-01 lying on its side, staring at the phallic ruins of Nerv HQ, and Shinji, on the same position and equally sized, staring at the piano he played with Kaworu… baby Shinji blatantly rejecting Gendo, only to find comfort with his mom, and baby Asuka painfully looking at this from afar… to the shot of Shinji and Rei, discussing the neon genesis, on an dismantled theater, as frames from the TV anime are projected onto them and the brick wall behind them… I can’t word what these images mean yet, but I’m looking forward to doing it one day…

I suppose this has turned into a long ramble, but I’m still sure of my opening thought. 3.0+1.0 takes elements of every entry on the Evangelion franchise to express a message that could only be conveyed with such impact by having consumed the entire franchise beforehand, and it does so in a way that doesn’t perpetuate the comfortable escapism of other franchises. Its very message of anti-escapism and use of images that converse emotionally, aesthetically, and intellectually with the viewer prevent it from being purely a capitalist product designed for escapism. It’s a piece of art, worth of being discussed at the same level of any work from a grand master of any other type of art. But it’s also a franchise… hopefully this will inspire more franchises as art forms.

And now, as a post-scriptum, because no review of Eva is worth anything without some shameless personal history, I must say that my journey with Eva has been like none other piece of media… I was introduced by it at 18 years old, fresh out of high school, by the person who would become my best friend, and I remember, back then, finding it incredibly comforting and enigmatic. It helped me through a period of drastic change in my life, from changing majors halfway from English to Film, to becoming an older brother at 19 (after a life of being an only child). I was incredibly depressed and struggled with addiction for years after that. I related to Shinji and his perpetual running away from life but, now, seven years later I got to see the conclusion to that journey my best friend invited me to… I also earned my bachelor’s degree in film, have a comfortable job and have been sober for 10 months. I don’t run away as much but I’d be lying if I wasn’t still, somewhat, disconnected from most people in my life. To be honest, I related so much to Gendo’s story on this film and that scared me. It’s still hard to let people in but, still, there’s been some growth. Small victories that allowed me to accept this final film’s message as completely valid. It’s just so wholesome, isn’t it? And yet, there’s a bittersweetness to it… like in every ending, you’re glad it happened but it’s painful coming to terms that it’s over. I cried for a good thirty minutes after it was over, washing the tears away, only to stare at my reflection and turn into a sobbing mess… I’ll never get to experience anything like this for the first time and that’s just incredibly sad… still, I’m so fucking glad for it all, even the wait (as shorter as it was for me) and I do believe I’ll be able to say bye-bye, all of Evangelion… one day.

[lyingawxke]

Just venting for a second

I wanted to vent about work but I’m too tired to actually write it in my physical diary.

So tomorrow is my last day working in child care. I will have a week home and then I’ll be going back to my old job in Quality Control.

If anyone is thinking of going into childcare, just don’t. Especially if you’re immunocompromised or have sensory problems.

I have been in constant sensory overload and my life outside of work has suffered greatly from it. I’m so touched out my husband knows better than to try and hug me. I need at least an hour of complete silence when I get home at night. I hear kids crying and screaming in my head after I clock out. 

In addition to the constant back and sciatic pain I’ve been in for the last year from having to bend down all the time, picking up toddlers and spending all day on the floor with them , I also had several colds, flu, two cases of walking pneumonia, two stomach viruses and a case of Hand Foot and Mouth disease. I cannot stress how absolutely horrible this past year has been for my physical and mental health.

When I had pneumonia I would cough so hard that I wet my pants more than once. I coughed so much and so severely and at such random times that I couldn’t eat unless my husband was right next to me for fear of choking. I’ve coughed so hard that I’ve nearly passed out, I’ve coughed so hard that I’ve thrown up. 

The entire top layer of skin on the bottoms of my feet peeled off and on the tips of my fingers too. Hand foot and mouth was so painful that I could barely walk, but I had to go in anyway despite being contagious because my director threatened to fire me if I called out sick anymore. And Hand foot and mouth makes you feel absolutely disgusting. I’ve never felt so unsanitary and unclean in my life. 

When I gave my director my notice, I could only give her a week. I thought my new job started 10/25 but I’ll more than likely start on 11/1. She was incredibly rude to me. She told me that the job I am going to is a scam and that I will be begging to come back when I get furloughed right before christmas. She said she worked there for six years in HR and they just furlough people left and right. My boss tells everyone who’s leaving that she used to work at wherever they’re going and that it’s bad just to scare them into staying. With the amount of people that have quit lately, my boss has changed jobs more than she’s changed her underwear. 

When I found out I wouldn’t be starting till 11/1 I thought maybe I should do the right thing and ask to stay another week. But then I remembered how she talked to me, the condescending way she told me I’d be begging to come back and I realized I don’t owe her shit. 

And that was really offensive to me. First and foremost, I’ve already worked there before and had a good experience. She got offended that they didn’t call for a reference. They know me already. They don’t need a reference

Second of all, my dad has worked there the entire 28 years I’ve been alive. So I guess my dad’s just been getting scammed for 28 years. I  told her that and she still insisted its a scam and I’ll be begging to come back. How dare you tell me that the company that kept me fed and housed as a child, and the company that helped pay for the degree that I’m wasting in this germ infested shit hole is a scam? This place took me in when I had been fired from my receptionist job after 3 months and nobody else would hire me. IDK man I’m not huge on “loyalty to corporations” but don’t call the place that’s treated me and my family well for a very long time a scam. 

Anyway, I’ll miss my daycare kids and all the funny things they do. I’ll hug them all extra tight as they go home tomorrow. But I won’t miss their germs. 

I just wanted to get this off of my chest before I settle into a week of being a happy home maker before going back to a good job with good people where I can check my texts and listen to podcasts at work :) 

[reddit-aita]

WIBTA for leaving my new husband for 2.5 months for a personal hobby?

I’m [27F] about to marry my fiancé [35M] (let’s call him J) in 25 days! Lots of emotions as you would imagine but mostly wanting to get it over with cause I’ve been planning this wedding basically all by myself for almost a year now. Anyways, J moved to another state for professional school last June where he will stay for the next 3.5 years. I plan to move in with him in late March after the honeymoon.

So a little bit about me, I’m an amateur self-taught baker. Had a short stint with selling my creations but now it’s mostly for fun and family events. I was also laid off from my FT job right before Thanksgiving (awesome I know) and have just been planning the wedding, applying to jobs in J’s state, and preparing for the move since.

I recently found out one of my idol bakers, Amaury Guichon (seriously go watch some of his videos if you aren’t familiar) hosts a 10 week long course in Vegas for about 1.5k. Includes course reference material and a tool set all for keeps. Luckily for me it’s only 4 hrs from J so it wouldn’t be costly to get there and I could potentially come home on the weekends. The only thing I’m sort of hung up on is finding an affordable place to stay during the week. J isn’t on board with the idea of me leaving family (aka him) for a hobby for that long nor does he think the price tag is worth it. He compared it to getting a degree in basket weaving or philosophy (no offense if you have either...he’s just a very pragmatic guy).

My arguments are 1) it’s a temporary leave and short compared to his 2) I have the flexibility atm since I’m still jobless 3) it could potentially be lucrative 4) it’s a hobby, I shouldn’t have to justify it? 5) his hobbies include gaming which he has a desktop for albeit he didn’t build it just for gaming and he bought himself a fairly nice piano that he doesn’t play regularly. But I should add he purchased both before we started dating. 6) I would be paying for this course and my lodging myself. We don’t have any joint accounts yet 7) I deserve something for myself after planning the bulk of the wedding

So WIBTA for leaving my new husband of 2 months for a 10 week course in Vegas for personal enrichment?

[intomybubble]

hmmm... i realized something i could do during events, but to start

when you’re doing a show, you have a certain amount of time to clear it. for a finale it’s 20 minutes, while for an encore it’s 14 minutes. 20 minutes is also the same amount of time that it takes to 1 SP to restore if your bar is not already filled up.

if your SP bar isn’t full, and depending on how much time is on it, you can use this time to allow your SP to fill up for your current show, or for a later one if you get an encore right after or for another finale. it would be really wise to set up a timer to end at least 2 minutes before which ever countdown occurs first (SP refill, or until the show ends). those extra few minutes is just in case your phone is being slow or the app refreshes or you’re trying to quickly find a good guest support. it’s also an easier amount of time to wait out. anyways, i die in the inside whenever i forget to set up a timer and then i realize i missed a show (i just missed a finale while typing this up RIP)

here’s an example of how this can be helpful. so let’s say you have 3 SP on hand, you just got a finale (20 min), and in 9 minutes until your SP bar refills by 1. it’ll take 2 SP to clear the show so you can easily just clear it now and be left with 1 SP and and it’ll still be 9 minutes for it to increase to 2. but you can set a timer for 17 minutes, allow your SP to restore to 4 before clearing the show and being left with 2 and it’ll be 12 minutes until another SP restores. 

after the finale is cleared, you have an encore (14 min). it takes 4 SP to clear. if you didn’t wait out the time from the earlier finale, you’d have 1 SP but you still have 1 more restoring in less than 9 minutes. for the remaining 2 SP needed to clear the show, you’d either have to use kame buns or gems. but if you waited out the time from earlier, you have 2 SP plus 1 more in less than 12 minutes. now you only need 1 kame bun or gem for the remaining SP. 

basically this is so you can save on resources while getting points, but not in cases where you’re trying to farm as much points as possible and can’t afford to wait. anyways, with that out of the way this is actually what i wanted to talk about lol

so this is for when you start a show with a full bar of SP. if you didnt know already, if you’re unable to clear an show (most likely it’ll be an encore) with the max multiplier at 5 SP and proceed to do a show, you’ll be taken back to the screen where you pick out your team afterwards and you can try again to fulfill the remaining points. so you can technically clear an encore with 6 or more SP if that situation occurs. this has happened to me when my cards weren’t strong enough, but also when i choose the wrong multiplier or support on accident because i wasn't paying attention. 

so if i have a full bar of SP and i get a finale, i can do a show for part of the points and then use up the time given to clear a show to allow my SP timer to also go down and then do the show over to get the remaining points. this way, i can still have an SP on the way just in case i get an encore. right now, it takes me either 3 or 2 SP to clear a finale depending on the guest supports that are available. i dont know how i’d be with 2 SP, but in the case where i need to use 3 SP i’d go with using 2 SP first because usually there’d be a smaller amount of points to make up later on which i can do with 1 SP. if it ends up being 2 SP, making me use 1 more SP and i actually needed to use, then doing this in 2 parts would be pointless. but idk if i can actually remember to do this lol

oh and after my SP bar is emptied out, i set a timer for about 1 hr 25 min since it can sometimes take several practices for a finale to show up. this way you’re wasting less SP throughout the day. if you start doing practices 15 minutes ahead of time and it takes 20 min to find a finale you only waste like 5 minutes that can be used for the SP to regenerate. if you start with a full bar and spend 20 minutes, you waste a 1 SP that could’ve regenerated during that time.