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    • Auspice
      Auspice last edited by

      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.

      Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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      • Bananerz
        Bananerz @Ghost last edited by

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

        Warning: snappy turtle is snappy.
        Creating the world of Aesca.

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        • surreality
          surreality @Auspice last edited by

          @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.

          Oh fucking well.

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          • Auspice
            Auspice @surreality last edited by 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.

            Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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              bored @Bananerz last edited by

              @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.

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                RightMeow last edited by

                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.

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                • Bananerz
                  Bananerz @bored last edited by

                  @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!

                  Warning: snappy turtle is snappy.
                  Creating the world of Aesca.

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                  • Ghost
                    Ghost last edited by

                    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.

                    Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
                    I really don't understand He-Man

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                    • Rinel
                      Rinel Banned @Tinuviel last edited by

                      @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.

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                      • Ghost
                        Ghost last edited by

                        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

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                        • Rinel
                          Rinel Banned @Ghost last edited by

                          @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.

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                          • Ghost
                            Ghost @Rinel last edited by

                            @Rinel Good ole Nicea 2

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                            • Rinel
                              Rinel Banned @Ghost last edited by

                              @Ghost

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

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                              • Ghost
                                Ghost @Rinel last edited by

                                @Rinel Derp. Right.

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                                I really don't understand He-Man

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                                • mietze
                                  mietze last edited by

                                  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.

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                                  • peasoupling
                                    peasoupling @Rinel last edited by

                                    @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

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                                    • Rinel
                                      Rinel Banned @peasoupling last edited by

                                      @peasoupling

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

                                      Oops.

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                                      • boneghazi
                                        boneghazi last edited by

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

                                        The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

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                                        • Arkandel
                                          Arkandel Admin @boneghazi last edited by

                                          @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.

                                          • He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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                                          • Roz
                                            Roz Banned last edited by

                                            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.

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