#work talk

[woundjob]

hi friends! the latest book i’m in is kickstarting starting today! it’s a book about inspiring trans adults meant for kids, but the comics in it are awesome for anyone! it would mean a lot to me if you backed it!

[catboyattorney]

the only megacorp likely to pushback on unity charging the installation fee is microsoft because developers are paid to let their games be hosted on gamepass (or be exclusive, even) and to compensate for no xbox revenue MS usually gives a healthy chunk in return. however, that money usually goes towards funding the game being made at all. if their game is a game pass exclusive then they do not get revenue from sales at all, but would presumably still be charged by unity for every installation on an Xbox or pc; gamepass has around 25 million subscribers. if unity follows through on this, Microsoft is gonna have to shell out a LOT more to developers to make their offers seem lucrative. companies like MiHoYo are more likely to shrug it off and pay the fee, because they make bank and this will ultimately not impact their revenue because they're sustained by gacha whales. (mhy is also an investor in the Chinese unity counterpart, for what it's worth)

in general, there's a huge misconception with how money in games works. indie games rarely break even when considering the investments made, because they tend to have recoup that demands revenue from the game sales making up for the money invested to pay the development teams. the hope is that games eventually make enough revenue to pay back the recoup and then go towards helping sustain the team. game studios RARELY make enough money to sustain themselves from sales alone-- most indies are afloat on a pitch-by-pitch basis, with a few viral exceptions that afford studios time to breathe and maintain their releases without immediately scrambling to get the next game pitched and funded.

anyway, this supposedly goes into effect on January 1st 2024. there's time for it to be rolled back, but knowing unity's habits, even though they've hit rock bottom I have a feeling they brought a drill with em

[rosesgrownbytheseaside]

how I feel after sending a email

[stonebutchooze]

whenever I say I worked at a care home people always assume I mean an OLD PEOPLE'S care home and start talking about dementia, and even when I correct them and say no, it was adults of all ages with disabilities like cerebral palsy, some of them younger than me, people still don't listen and start talking about how hard it is "when you get to that age".

like people who live in 24/7 care for their entire adult lives exist!!!! residential care is NOT something that only comes into play at the end of your life. lack of awareness and funding is, in my opinion, partly why negative experiences of full time or respite residential care are so widespread.

ALSO when I successfully clarify that I worked with people of all ages, people start talking about how SAD it is when young people who have conditions like cerebral palsy can't move or talk or whatever. and I ALSO take issue with that. I think seeing disabled people's experiences as wholly "sad" or "what a shame" pre-emptively dictates what kind of life we expect disabled people to live. people in residential care CAN be happy, largely independent, or happy with their level of control where they are dependent on others. if we assume they can't, we won't even try to help them get there.

some people have high support needs at home and then go into residential care. some people spend their whole lives in residential care. some people won't need it at all with proper support and funding at home. people need support, not pity and people seeing their lives as lost causes.

[torque-witch]

I would rather change my identity and become a hermit than confront my boss a second time because she deliberately lied to my face about giving me accommodations. I have lost 14 lbs because I can't eat before or during work hours and I told her that. She agreed to have me work 10-2 or 3 in light of that (crohns, IBS, POTS) and then proceeded to schedule me to work 2-5, 4-9 and 3-7 over the next few weeks. No shifts from 10-2.

Wondering if I hallucinated our entire conversation about my HEALTH.

[otteritos]

was at work today (i work with little kids) and i was bored so i doodled bp and party poison gee on my sticky notes and a kid asked me what i was drawing and i said "my mother"

[sharkneto]

Working on a skunk today at work. Wish me and my no-sense-of-smell luck on getting out of this and not walking around for the rest of the day unknowingly smelling of skunk

[gladstones-corner]

Hephaestus and The Grind™

You know who I owe some offerings to? Hephaestus. If it weren't for him, I couldn't have completed this project with time to spare.

For reference, I joined this team about eight months ago. It's taken eight months for me to understand what they need and build it for them. And honestly? 80% of the effort has been done in the last month and a half because of 100 tiny little roadblocks and a very rough learning curve.

But it's almost done now--well, it is done, I just have to clone and tweak it a few times to make sure it covers everything my team could need. And without the endurance and grace of Hephaestus I don't think I could have done it.

So the only question is this - do I offer bay laurel, or frankincense? Or maybe a blend of both?

[bunnyb34r]

So RC and I caught the rest of the team up with BaldBastard's stupid ass shit yesterday and I was getting "excited" (loud) adding on to things RC forgot like the fucking tote, and they lost it agsgsgdgd they were like "god he's so lucky I wasnt there when he said that. What a joke"

And they thought it was so funny how I was all fired up bc usually I'm very calm and quiet. Which was funny bc I wasnt even mad, I was annoyed. Like stop telling me how to do my job when YOU can't even do yours right. Which reminded me of how BratBoy was afraid of me bc the only times he would hear me talk outside of greetings/goodbyes, was when I was pissed enough to bitch to him (like when we all started bitching ab how NewLady works and he was like :0 that's the first time I actually heard you talk (and you're yelling at me 😢) and he was like why are you all yelling at me??? And RC was like oh Mar isnt yelling, this is just her being irritated. You haven't seen her yelling.) Anyway I went to do my job like nothing happened agsgdgdgdg like that's just me blowing off steam.

Then! We get an email (printed out and handed to us by RC) from the regional manager on clothing expectations. Again, don't fucking tell me how to do my job when you can't do yours right. (Managing BaldBastard into being an actually decent store manager)

AND!!!! the fucking example pictures WERE WRONG. All the shit BaldBastard fucking yelled at us for, suddenly is the RIGHT way to do things. Almost like we FUCKING KNEW WHAT WE WERE DOING THE WHOLE TIME. But the packaged clothes being flipped every other one, IS wrong and looks bad, so I'm gonna keep doing it the right way, bc I KNOW I'm right. But for the hard to stack shit I will alternate and be like well the pictures shooow....

Anyway days like these make me miss BratBoy bc he knew to respect the clothing team (after we "yelled" at him) sgdgdggdgd fucker learned his place then

[doggobrie]

Customer at work siad I'd "Make my future husband very happy " cause I make pizza for a living.

I cringed at first but then remembered my favorite Stardew Valley Bachelors are Shane and Sam.

So it wasn't just being called het in public that man knew my fictonal babygirls.😭

[woundjob]

the almalexia swag i accidentally gave Kristin in this little superhero section of the book

[catboyattorney]

hiya! a game i worked on just came out and i curated a lil playlist of songs that make me think of it. link here

[nevertrulyset]

I've been trying for so long to convince myself otherwise, but after today, I just have to admit it: my workplace is a toxic environment. I wish I had made drastically different choices in the past so that I never had to get this job in the first place. But now it seems like I kinda have no other options.

[stonebutchooze]

at my old job as a care worker for adults with disabilities such as cerebral palsy, I worked for 11 months and dealt with situations such as epileptic seizures, life threatening infections and unidentified allergic reactions....

and THEN in month 8 I got my first aid training.

the sector is fucked, man

[torque-witch]

Quitting my job???

Friends, I need help. I am normally a long-hauler worker (stayed with the last corporate job 6 years even tho it was terrible) but I'm really not sure how to manage doing this job going forward. My art show season starts soon and that is ideally enough money for me as it's usually more than I'm getting paid right now. One show is literally two weeks pay for me. I can always add more shows or use that time to actually use social media and make sales again.

The other thing is I signed up for this job specifically because the hours were going to be 10-2 with some exceptions Mon-Thursday because shows are weekends.

For example this week was Sunday 3-6, Monday 10-1, Tuesday I worked a different job, Wednesday off, Thursday 2-6:30, Today 1-4:15, Tomorrow 3-6, Sunday 3-6. Which is 6 days, not 4. Didn't know for sure if I was working tomorrow until today because my boss forgot I exist apparently.

I'm aware that it's not good for me and completely disorganized but I'm trying to decide how to get out of here. Do I turn in 2 weeks like an normal person, try to be nice and say end of March? I'm so behind on show prep it's not funny, because this is not what I signed up for at all.

[1spooky-dad]

Sometimes, work is good actually