Jan 16, 2020, 12:19 PM
The Work Thread
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@Auspice said in The Work Thread:
@GreenFlashlight said in The Work Thread:
@Auspice said in The Work Thread:
Someone put up posters all over work for a fundraiser they're doing for Australia.
And I'm like.
This is cool what you're doing but covering the poster with glamor shots of yourself plus like, two stock koala photos is weird and means I am prob just gonna look for an official foundation thanks.(p.s. Australia is more than just koalas.)
Yeah, I won't take shots at anyone trying to help, but I'm really suspicious of how basically every story I hear about the Australian fires frames it in terms of animals dead and contains no mention at all of the effects on the indigenous population. It makes me think there's a horror going on there we're not being told about.
I figure it's just 'people like cute animals and koalas are v. fetch rn'
because I adore flying foxes and there's reports entire populations of them are gone, but you don't hear much about them at all in the news.This exactly. It's why you get images like this:
Very moving. Also very odd that a eucalyptus is a white skinned, white featured woman instead of, say, a brown skinned one with aboriginal features.
But if it were that, then it wouldn't be popular. Activism sometimes perpetuates things it's technically against in order to reach a closer goal.
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Not even two weeks - I haven't even gotten my first paycheck - and already I had to spend over 3 hours on the road today for a mandatory staff meeting - In shitty and sometimes dangerous weather - that could have been a fucking email. Headache is real.
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@Rinel said in The Work Thread:
Also very odd that a eucalyptus is a white skinned, white featured woman instead of, say, a brown skinned one with aboriginal features.
Eucalyptus trees are white.
ETA: Also probably not a good idea for folks to draw Aboriginal people, you know, on fire.
He/Him
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TFW the director of IT Security calls you, and in the span of 10 seconds log off and delete your MU client from your work machine in paranoia that it is related to that, even though it likely isn't the reason.
Then the continuing paranoia that prevents you from logging back in.
Yeah, I know, I probably shouldn't be doing it from work...but I need SOMETHING to break up the day.
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I discovered Alt+mousedrag to get columns out of pdfs and into excel easily. Made my day in this frigid january snowpocalypse.
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Tiny happy feeling. I started a news-centric thing with my kiddos and they asked "how do they decide what becomes news?" Even after ten years married to a professional reporter I am not totally sure.
So I called my husband and asked if he (or anyone he knew) might be interested in speaking to my kids about it.
He asked in the break room at work and got an instant volunteer. One of the most experienced reporters in Denver's market is coming in this morning to be peppered by questions by my students.
It is pretty cool.
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@Tinuviel said in The Work Thread:
ETA: Also probably not a good idea for folks to draw Aboriginal people, you know, on fire.
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re: the new tool being developed (to replace a mass of spreadsheets that was the old method):
Coworker: "I'm trying to train people to use a tool I've never used!"
Me: "But you're asking me questions about it and I've never done their job at all!"
CW: "But you wrote all the training material!"All I could think: 'Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.'
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice said in The Work Thread:
All I could think: 'Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.'
And those that can't teach go to Law School.
He/Him
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@Tinuviel said in The Work Thread:
And those that can't teach go to Law School.
In my case, I did both.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@Ganymede said in The Work Thread:
@Tinuviel said in The Work Thread:
And those that can't teach go to Law School.
In my case, I did both.
You weren't educated. You were programmed.
He/Him
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“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@Ganymede There's an argument to be made about the "education" public education systems provide, of course...
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@Tinuviel said in The Work Thread:
@Ganymede There's an argument to be made about the "education" public education systems provide, of course...
Heeeey, we do very well, thankyouverymuch.
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@JinShei said in The Work Thread:
@Tinuviel said in The Work Thread:
@Ganymede There's an argument to be made about the "education" public education systems provide, of course...
Heeeey, we do very well, thankyouverymuch.
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@JinShei said in The Work Thread:
@Tinuviel said in The Work Thread:
@Ganymede There's an argument to be made about the "education" public education systems provide, of course...
Heeeey, we do very well, thankyouverymuch.
No, no we don't.
He/Him
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We have those giant sticky notes. On one, we've just been writing various forms of Hello (or jokes: 'Oh hi Mark').
Coworker just walked up and wrote 'Hello' in Hebrew. He turned to me, points at it, goes 'It's Hebrew.'
Me: 'I can recognize Hebrew. I just can't read it. I should, for having taken it for five years.'
Him: '..... Five years? We're discussing this tomorrow.'