Posts made by Ganymede

@runescryer said in Decriminalise Pretty:

Why is it always Glimmer as the standard bearer of non-traditional attractiveness?

Because that's what the creator was going for?

But you could say the same about Scorpia, Perfuma, and Mermista, yes.

@derp said in Decriminalise Pretty:

Thesaurus Abuse is real.

@kanye-qwest said in Decriminalise Pretty:

Ed is absolutely supposed to be good looking.

I was trying to find a good GIF of Alphonse, and that's all I found.

@arkandel said in Decriminalise Pretty:

As for comic books how many heroes and heroines aren't drawn to be absolutely gorgeous?

Depends on who your superheroes are.

@betternow

I concur.

It is yet another example of the unfairness of life, a lesson that I still can't describe to my kids even after 15 years of legal practice.

Arise.

So, I've been getting on a folk music kick. I'm re-discovering music that reminds me of my first girlfriend, and I can't get enough of it. I tried to explain what it was to my partner, and she was all, like, this is Canadian country music.

And she is so very right.

Anyhow, here's a sample.

And another.

And a supreme cover of the same.

@Selira

One person's breaking point is another's selling point. I wasn't a fan of Laguna's little side-story, but whatever. For me, it was a beautiful game. I liked most everything about it. Final Fantasy X-II can eat a bullet, in my books.

Anyhow, I won't change the title here unless the OP wants me to, but I was a little confused because Square Enix has a long catalogue of these games, even though XIV is the long-lasting MMORPG one.

For a moment, I thought there was some Final Fantasy MUSH out there that wasn't run by Nuku.

@derp said in The Work Thread:

If the employer determines that a set schedule for the position is an essential function of the job, then you don't really have too much choice in the matter.

The employer will bear this burden, which will be difficult to prove in situations where the employee demonstrably met all objective performance benchmarks in spite of their attendance record.

That said, if your employer won't give you a day off because you were in the hospital being treated for hemorrhaging, yes, there's going to be a helluvalawsuit.

@tinuviel

Petty Ass Bullshit Leveled at Unnamed MUSHes.

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

Because you're now seeing what everyone else on Facebook sees regardless of your political affiliation.

I don't see right or left articles or stuff, but I have elected not to repost a lot of political stuff like I used to. Instead, it's mostly kitty videos.

Unsurprisingly, I have a lot of recommended cat videos only.

So, maybe avoid politics on Facebook?

@roz

In your opinion, sure. In my experience, not at all.

Ultimately, it is my choice to work as I see fit. Frankly, the vacations I was forced to take did more to disrupt my flow of work than any sickness.

We are currently working on options 1 and 3. The current issues have forced me to consider option 4. My problem is that I lack the skills at the moment to set up a new board, and I haven’t the time right now to teach myself.

But we are working on it. Let’s keep talking. The cost to maintain the place currently is minimal, so there’s no need to worry about it.

@wizz

I am from the school of people who believe kids are assholes, but we give them a pass because they are kids.

If a bunch of adults pulled the same shit on me, I’d call them assholes, even if they were parroting the shit their parents believed.

I warn my kids all the time: if I find they are excluding another kid for liking a different TV show or wearing different clothes, there will be severe, life-altering consequences.

One time they asked me why and I told them, simply, that excluding another kid based on what they believe or have is just as life-altering.

@roz

Some people don’t want to take vacations. Or some people like the idea of working on their own time and at their own pace while on vacation.

When I had vacation time, I felt compelled to take it. If I don’t, I lose it. But forcing people to go on vacation is just as fair as taking away their earned benefits … like the vacation time.

Where employment is at-will, I still don’t see the benefit of the existent customary earned-benefit, hourly system.

@wizz said in RL Anger:

Three of my son's school friends today told him they will no longer be his friend because he doesn't believe in God, and when he went to his teacher for help and explained the situation, she refused to intervene and said that it's their choice and that it's okay.

Frankly, I wouldn't intervene either.

I would just tell your son that his friends are assholes.

@sunny said in The Work Thread:

Rewarding people for not using sick leave encourages them to come in sick.

It does not appear that I communicated my idea, so I'll be blunt.

Awarding sick leave encourages people to come in sick.

I mean, think about it. It is a benefit you get for showing up to work. Any benefit for showing up to work incentivizes coming in to work. And while I realize that it is cruel (and arguably unconstitutional in a public setting) to make a person pick coming to work or losing an earned benefit, the entire system could be obviated by not awarding sick leave at all.

Bear with me.

It is far more equitable to make employees salaried without accrued leave. We live in at an age where going to the workplace is getting obsolete. You can use technology to simulate a workplace meeting room, for example. And production is a matter of results, rather than process, in a virtual economy.

So, get rid of sick leave and PTO for employees you want to keep. Put them on a salary and give them benchmarks for performance. Get rid of the workplace attendance and focus on the results. And for those jobs where showing up is half the battle, make up the holes with part-time independent contractors or make sure you have coverage overlap on your roster (like sports teams do).

@alamias said in The Work Thread:

Yeah, and people wonder why teachers are going into work sick. This is why, they can't afford to take days off even if they want to.

I swear, with what they are doing to nurses and teachers, I would burn some motherfuckers down.

@sunny said in The Work Thread:

I apologize, but I don't understand how that makes a difference. If It's PTO that's used for being sick, and you're rewarding people for not using PTO at all, then...it's rewarding people for coming to work sick, whether you call it Sick Leave, PTO, or lollipop time.

In Ohio, sick leave, PTO, and lollipop time are treated differently. I presume that there's a difference between them for the OP because I thought they worked as a teacher, and therefore are in the public sector.

In Ohio, the public sector just works differently than the private sector, thanks to constitutional protections and the work of union lobbyists. Most public sector jobs earn twice as much per cycle in sick leave as a person gathers in vacation time. So, where I earn 120 hours of what may be called PTO in the private sector, I also get 240 hours of paid sick leave. Most other public sector jobs in the state follow the same process. If you run out of sick leave, you can use vacation time.

As for rewarding people for not using their leave, I'm not sure how to get around your accusation. Sick leave also gets paid out (on retirement or death), so I have an incentive to not use it and show up sick because I get a benefit from doing so. All leave systems are like this.

But if I earned a benefit, it's my benefit and I should be able to keep it, but limits are in place to ensure that a mass exodus of public employees doesn't cause a budget crunch.

@sunny said in The Work Thread:

Rewarding people with financial value if they don't use days is straight up encouraging people to work sick.

My reading of the original post is that this is a discussion on PTO, rather than sick leave. In Ohio, these are separate kinds of leave, but both are compensable in the public sector.

@arkandel

What did I say about the cute?

(No, that was not a safe word, so keep going.)