Dear work
No, I will not engage in your "apprenticeship". I understand you get extra money if I do but it is 300 hours a year, for two years, and unless you take some of my work off me I'm not adding it to my already packed workload. I also will not be using my scholarly time to do this because that is mine and I use it to maintain clinical competencies. Get stuffed.
Best wishes
Me
@L-B-Heuschkel said in MU Things I Love:
@Ifrit said in MU Things I Love:
reaaaaaaach from the worst timezone
CET says hi. Get up when everyone else goes to bed, go to bed when everyone else gets home from work.
Sing it! GMT also greets you from the passing in the night area of rp...
@Goblin he came after you left and never made it on the grid.
From my recollection, he was reasonable with @L-B-Heuschkel who had logged in with a male name, and focused entirely on me, with a female name...
@GirlCalledBlu That is exactly the gaslighting behaviour I was talking about.
@Scissors said in A bit of trouble on Firefly:
It's morbidly fascinating to read about this sort of behavior. The fact that when this guy's loudly blaming people for not having "adult conversations" with him, there is a complete and utter lack of self-awareness of the irony. I mean, even a dog will recognize its own reflection after looking into a mirror enough times.
Can people really be this blind to their own faults? Sometimes I think it is by choice.
I don't think this person lacks self-awareness. I don't think he's blind to his own faults.
I think he knows exactly what he's doing and is being purposefully manipulative by accusing others of faults he knows they might care about, but that he personally doesn't. He's playing gotcha. Can't accuse people of being immature if you can't conduct yourself maturely, now can you? Don't lose face. Stay dignified. Be tolerant. Even as I behave in a manner that is undignified, intolerant and inconsiderate towards you. Gotta prove you're better than me! Otherwise we're the same, you and I; don't stoop to my level.
It's just another variation of the ol' 'so much for the tolerant left'.
I definitely got this. He gotcha'd so gleefully that as soon as I banned him he ran to discord channels with the log claiming he caught an Admin treating him badly because I called him on his shit. I was grateful for both channels owner's disinterest or rejection of his bullshit.
@Roz said in A bit of trouble on Firefly:
He has stalked the RL-facing social media of game runners on at least one occasion after he was banned from the game, IIRC. (Along with, of course, his targets of harassment.)
He rocked up on my personal blog to leave me messages. I deleted them but yeah,... Reminds me of my exhusband. Slimy oxygen thief.
Can confirm all that @L-B-Heuschkel said about our time with this tedious little oik on Discworld.
@faraday said in A Lack of Imagination:
@Ninjakitten said in A Lack of Imagination:
Kinda take a little exception to it being called 'a lack of imagination', though. My imagination is fine, thanks! It just doesn't make actual images.
This is supported by a number of the articles I've been reading. From the researcher who's primarily studied it:
An inability to visualise does not imply an inability to imagine: imagination is a much richer, more complex capacity than the specifically visual ability lost in aphantasia.
I would agree with this. My daughter definitely has a fabulous imagination. She has struggled with therapies based on visualising and also with seeing a future based on the things we are going through. So she struggles to motivate herself with visions of the future. That is why she never came to Australia with us..
That might be a YMMV thing!
My daughter has this. It causes her major issues at times, but she didn't know it was not how everyone thinks...
@Sunny said in The Work Thread:
@Rinel said in The Work Thread:
@tek said in The Work Thread:
I feel useless and worthless.
Your worth is not defined by your job.
Repeating this because it is so important that it NEEDS repeating yet another few times. Your worth is not defined by your job.
Your job is one passing feature in your life, sometimes it is a bug. I don't know if we have RPed but you have talents and interests beyond the job, and are someone valuable in your own right 
I agree with most of that which has been said!
I often use breadcrumbs too. The plot takes as long as it does but breadcrumb scenes happen anywhere, anytime I need something to have happened that either was caused by the players' actions or was not prevented by them, or just happened. Those can involve random players and may never be picked up by them, or might.
The breadcrumbs draw new faces in, or bring the plot back to the attention of the player base, and make it clear that sometimes they have to act.
For months, we worked on a plan for data storage in our dept. I worked with admin and IT to work out the best plan for storing the vast quantity of data that had blocked our drive up. All with discussion and keeping team informed.
Six months later, the new lead has tossed it all out, decided to use Teams instead of Onedrive, and not actually told anyone this, just started doing it. Instead of the carefully designed system, we are now working on three different, in a mishmash of the worst. People are using the wrong file.
Instead of the collaborative storage as designed, we are going to fragment the information and therefore reinvent the wheel, over and over.
I have no words. None. Or many.
I can't wait for her to realise that her choice has a data impact. I can't wait for admin to hear about this. I REALLY look forward to her plan to educate people who struggled with grasping cloud.
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@Tinuviel Truth! Now I have our work paramedics threatening to use me for assessment tests.. 
@JinShei said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Aria thanks
I admit to being a typical health care bod, and listened to my chest. It is just two different bugs... And I have asthma. So I upped the meds.
And got emergency meds from doctor. I can hear my lungs. I dislike this. Stupid asthma.
@tek I maay buy one. I owe a debt of loyalty to the Jayne hat my grandmother knitted for me (and the ear flaps make dog walking much more comfortable).
