Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

[Auspice]

I think part of why it upsets me with my job in particular is that most of these people are salary / can work from home.

They won't lose money. And they're encouraged to 'go home and feel better or at least work from home.'

The contractors around the office, like me? Do not get PTO unless we've been here at least a year (most of us have not). So the people who come in to work sick (and don't at least work from home?) are just negatively impacting us. Who aren't salary. And can't work from home.

So yes.
I'm gonna be annoyed.
Because I've felt worse as the day goes, I'm gonna go home and probably crawl into bed or at least wrap up in my blanket with a huge mug of tea.
And I'll be lucky if I can come in tomorrow.

[Bananerz]

@Ghost When rage transcends the character and fills the player!!

[surreality]

@Auspice Yeah, if 'work from home' is a freely available option and they're sick, that's just stupid on so many fronts I can't even begin to describe it.

Staying home to recover while working would be better for them AND everyone else.

[Auspice]

@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice Yeah, if 'work from home' is a freely available option and they're sick, that's just stupid on so many fronts I can't even begin to describe it.

Staying home to recover while working would be better for them AND everyone else.

Exactly. A few people on my team do it regularly cause you can dial in to meetings, too. One guy was 'gone' a whole week while moving because it was easier for him to work from home and just dial in to meetings while getting his move done. (ETA: Another did it for a few days in October while his kids were sick! Again, nbd! We just ribbed him a bit when he'd be unmuted and we'd hear kids squealing in the background.)
No one batted an eye. The company is perfectly fine with this.

So long as you get your work done and 'show up' (even if dialing in) to meetings, no one's gonna come down on you.

Us contractors don't have that luxury. If we aren't here, we don't get paid. So yes, I am gonna be pissy when someone who DOES have that luxury is here sneezing and coughing and telling everyone how she has the flu and she's soooooo sick but-

lady, come in, grab your laptop, and go home for the week. Don't sit five feet from me with that.

[bored]

@Bananerz I was DMing on Monday, we have an assassin rogue and let's just say he's gotten some very underwhelming surprise auto-crits. Also the conjurer summoned a shadow demon, which preceded to get lose, hide, and then sneak-crit one of his allies for... well, a lot more than the assassin rogue.

Basically they almost TPKed to a throwaway fight where all the monsters were <half their level in CR.

[RightMeow]

I work with food. If someone on my team is sick, they stay home. I'll try to work with them and hopefully they have paid days, but STAY HOME.

[Bananerz]

@bored Heh! I've heard from DM's that sometimes a TPK could be that you wake up and all (or some) of your stuff is basically gone but you're not dead.

I know on one of my groups, I'm looking forward to my character dying so I can make a new one. Lizardfolk druid plzzzzz!

[Ghost]

TMW you find out you may have been on the wrong side of something you were once neutral on, and that by remaining neutral you have been inadvertently allowing someone to get away with something horrid.

[Rinel]

@Tinuviel

I'm saying that because the two traditions share the common ancestor of 2nd Temple Judaism, the use of Passover in a Christian context is not appropriation. Cf. Christians trying to celebrate Hanukkah by lighting chanukkiot, which is cultural appropriation--that tradition arose after the life of Jesus and the destruction of the Temple. It is solidly a holiday of Rabbinic Judaism and is inappropriate for Christians to celebrate.

[Ghost]

Its so crazy coincidental that super important things happened to Jesus on days revered by Pagans of the Roman Empire, who Constantine wanted to convert.

socrazycoincidental

[Rinel]

@Ghost

Christians have believed from early times that Jesus was not born on Christmas. And Easter, though named in the West after a pagan holiday, is tied directly to Passover.

Also, Constantine wielded rather less authority over the Church than most think. He supported Arius. Arius was anathematized at Nicaea.

[Ghost]

@Rinel Good ole Nicea 2

[Rinel]

@Ghost

Nicaea 1. Second council was about iconoclasm and happened about 400 years after Constantine died.

[Ghost]

@Rinel Derp. Right.

[mietze]

There are fundamentalist Christians who reject halloween, christmas, and easter celebrations because of their pagan roots (or papist roots which is sometimes even worse to these people.) Or because you have to show that you're better than everyone else because you pay more attention to the important part like his death and resurrection rather than pansy things like a baby's birthday. Though you can have hell houses, bloody passion plays, ect, at least at some of the churches I went to. People get off like whoa on that stuff.

[peasoupling]

@Rinel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

And Easter, though named in the West after a pagan holiday, is tied directly to Passover.

gestures at Romance languages

[Rinel]

@peasoupling

What's particularly embarrassing about this is that I've studied Latin, French, and Spanish.

Oops.

[boneghazi]

If my sister in law doesnt lay off the nagging I will batman into her room and pee on her bed. That is all.

[Arkandel]

@nyctophiliac said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

If my sister in law doesnt lay off the nagging I will batman into her room and pee on her bed. That is all.

I read that issue as well! I think that was Jean-Paul Valley though.

[Roz]

My laptop is OUT for REPAIRS. (Swollen battery needs replacing.) I am lucky enough to have a desktop PC I can use in the meantime, but 90% of my computer usage is on my Macbook. MINOR GRUMP.