@cobaltasaurus said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
If I could just stop being ill.
If it helps, I know how you feel. I'm not ill myself, but I've been constantly injuring and reinjuring myself at work due to management understaffing us, to the point I had to cut my hours down to 32 per week. I've no idea how I'll live on 80% of my current paycheck but I can't keep living in pain, either.
I know I'm like a year behind the curve on the Owl House but Gus is our most precious shared resource and we must all be willing to die to protect him.
@cupcake said in Tell me what you want -- work edition:
Let me bring my dog to work.
That's it. That's all.
Must disagree. As much as I love dogs, that makes for a very unprofessional work environment.
Get around that by letting ME bring Cupcake's dog to work.
@jennkryst said in Interest Check: Exalted 3rd ed Mu:
Also really hope you critique every game over needing to track their characters' caloric intake to make sure they maintain their stats.
Only games where divinely granted power alienating you from humanity is the general point, because making a character who is already alienated from humanity by preexisting factors and not exploring how much more or how much faster Exaltation fucks with your head would feel like a seriously dropped ball.
I knitted Arlo a sweater. He disapproves.
Then he is objectively wrong because he looks his BEST.
@jennkryst said in Interest Check: Exalted 3rd ed Mu:
Bold of you to assume that the 10-13ft tall HUGE Solar even cares about disguise charms.
I really hope that character app mentions how lonely it feels and what it does to your psyche when you're unable to enter most buildings, when you have to make your own clothes using needles and thread so small you can't even hold them between your fingers, when you have to spend most of your day hunting and foraging because your body mass probably requires 8,000 calories per day (a lot of it meat to keep up your muscle mass) and it ain't like Creation has McDonald's: what it does to your brain when you're so far removed from the human experience even prior to Exaltation, in other words.
@kumakun I am so sorry for your loss. Thank you for being the best parent to your furbaby that you could be, and for making Kai's life so comfortable and happy.
@rightmeow First, I want clear communication. I want to know what my duties are, I want to know how I am expected to fulfill those duties, and I want to know what conditions exist that will affect my ability to fulfill those duties when those conditions arise.
Second, I don't want anyone to ever fucking call me a hero unless they give me a goddamn pay raise or some extra banked vacation time or something that isn't hollow, meaningless words. I already know my employers are exploiting me; at least don't insult my intelligence by pretending they're grateful for me.
Third, I'd like to feel as if my workplace is something better than a place where the vultures at the top of the ladder are just harvesting profit from my labor. Donate to a civil rights advocacy group or volunteer to clean a highway or something.
Fourth, recycling bins are nice to see around the office. They just make me feel good.
Fifth, and this one may be too specific to my line of work to be applicable to you, I like diversity in the workforce, not for ideological reasons but for practical ones. I would really like to have a male coworker somewhere in the building when I'm expected to provide care for a man who likes to lift his leg like a dog taking a piss so he can show me his boner and demand I take care of it for him.
Actually, related to points one and five, I'd like it if management was proactive about identifying and communicating issues in the workplace. Reporting the previous situation is bad enough; having your supervisor tell you, "Oh yeah, we knew about that" makes me want to kill myself.
@buttercup I'm sorry. I hope you do take some time for yourself. No matter what the diagnosis, it sounds like you could use some decompression.
Thank you for sharing your vulnerability with us. We are strangers, but we are also cheering for you.
Is there anything you need from us, or that you feel more comfortable asking us than others?
@scissors said in Enervation, et al., banned:
I am gradually turning into a misanthropist thanks to DownWithOPP and his ilk. My logical brain simply cannot fathom how someone fails to decipher that they are not wanted or welcomed after repeated bans.
Not being wanted is the point. It's about having the power to take what you want without your victims being able to stop you. It's sad as hell to get your dopamine fix from something as petty as being able to log in to an internet site that would prefer you not log in to it, but everything about them is sad as hell, so at least it's keeping in character.
@jennkryst Not for nothing but I think it's okay to institute a policy of "you're not allowed to play a lunatic who is compelled to murder the whole world until and unless you prove you can handle it well."
@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
A friend of mine posed the following retort:
The true metric is not with the person who used the cart, but the person who sees the cart in the parking lot. Who left the cart there? Why did they not return it? These are pointless questions: the real question is whether you will return it for them.
I appreciate the sentiment but I'm not sure that's a good idea in America at this exact instant. I'll revisit my reluctance after more of my countrymen get vaccinated.
From an outcome-focused viewpoint, there's no difference between not returning your cart because you can't and not returning your cart because you don't want to, because the kid pulling carts has to go get it either way.
But if we're taking an outcome-based viewpoint, there's no difference between arguing for responsibility and being judgmental, because people feel judged either way.
All things being equal, you should return your carts. I hope people can remember that very few things in this world are actually equal.
@testament said in RL things I love:
@greenflashlight I have lists of youtube videos of exactly that.
If they are set public I would probably enjoy watching them. If they're private, then I withdraw the request out of respect for your boundaries.
@greenflashlight He ages like Tom Cruise -- he's 10 this year!
Wait, you've got to enjoy that much kitty ear for ten years?!
Aw! Looks like a teenager who hasn't grown into their ears yet.
@puppybreath said in Critters!:
It's probably just that I'm old but I love that he looks like he's about to say "Hey there, Wilbur."
@packrat said in Critters!:
I was about to say something about how I knew people from other countries could have different kinds of faces but it never occurred to me that a cat might until now because that is a very un-American kitty face; but then you posted this image and just really sir, how dare you
I die of envy. You've killed me. One day you will answer to your maker for this sin of sharing pictures of the world's cutest cat.
