retail-hell:

hasufin:

samiholloway:

peanutworm:

adrianianam:

peteseeger:

“everyone else already confirmed that they will be there tomorrow”

I guarantee they say this to everyone who asks in order to make those under evacuation think they’re the only one considering not coming in. It’s something that unless you can contact your coworkers you have no way to verify.

I cant fucki g believe that dude literally said “I Understand your house is on fire but come to work anyways” how is this real life

Yeah no. I’ve worked through blizzards, but my house was fine then. Your neighborhood burning down makes that a nope.

You know what blows my mind?

The lower you are on the ladder – the less you are paid, which is to say ostensibly the less important you are – the more likely you will have this shit pulled on you.

I make, um, a very healthy salary nowadays. And I can call out of work for anything. I know perfectly well that I can tell my boss tomorrow “I’m not going to be working on Friday, I need to shampoo the carpet.” And I am 100% sure my boss would be fine with that. Blizzard? Forest fire? Totally not an issue.

But back when, when I was working helpdesk and making scarcely above minimum wage, I couldn’t take off for being sick. Nor for blizzards or flooding. Or, well, anything at all. I mean, I could, but my manager always managed to hint that if I did that, they might see about replacing me.

This has nothing to do with needing the employees to come in.

It’s absolutely a power thing. It’s about making sure the employees never, ever feel like they have a say, like they can possibly exercise control. Because then, they’ll want time off, and holidays, and sick days, and getting coverage will take work and the company will have to offer real incentives to get people in on Christmas and New Year’s. And we can’t have that.

There was a day where I got off work at 8pm, went out to my car and my car wouldn’t start. I literally had to go back in, tell the MOD what was happening and ask her if she could let the store manager know I wouldn’t be abke to make it in to work tomorrow morning at 3am. I borrow one of the store phones to call my mom and have a tow truck come out and tow my car home. As it turns out, my car had an oil leak, and when we got it home, I had almost no oil in my engine at all, and my car wasn’t starting, because the built-in safety computer was shutting my car off before I could causr damage to my vehicle!

Now, most bosses would understand that, given that I live 20-30 minutes away depending on how fast you drive, and that my car wouldn’t start at 8pm, a whole 7 hours before my next shift, that I wouldn’t be able to feasibly make it to work. And I didn’t. I also made triple sure to call-in that morning, and told the store manager over the phone what was going on, and that I planned on taking the day off to get my car fixed, since it wasn’t drivable. Instead of getting a ride to work, I called my dad, and had him come over that morning and fix my oil leak, give me an oil change/fill my car with oil, and make absolutely sure my car was driveable for work the next day.

When I came into work the next day, I had multiple people confront me and tell me that the store manager, and freight manager were both P-I-S-S-E-D that I had missed the previous day of work to get my car fixed. According to a manager I am close friends with, the store manager in the Manager’s Group Chat, said I should have gotten an Über to take me to and from work at 3am in the middle of St.Louis Missouri, a city which is literally known for its high crime rate. (And for the record, I do live in a pretty sketchy neighborhood.)

But here’s the kicker about all of this:

I am just a “Team Member”. I don’t have any special perks like health care coverage, dental insurance, nothing. I am part-time (less than 40 hours a week), and at the time of this incident I was only being paid $8 an hour, which is only about 25cents higher than the minimum wage in Missouri. So it’s not like I make a ton of money, am important, or irreplaceable. Me not being there merely meant about 3 aisles didn’t get stocked on whatever day I happened to miss. No big deal.

But apparently it was a big deal, because the store manager proceeded to punish me by giving me crappy shifts, finding every excuse to scold my work ethic, and cutting my hours before anyone else.

It is absolutely a power thing, and it’s The Worst.

Speaking of, St.Louis is currently getting pelted with snow, and I have work at 3am (it’s 11:30pm right now), when the roads will still be blanketed in snow, and every school district around is closed. And who wants to bet that when I call in, my manager will be pissed. Nevermind that there have already been several accidents on the highway I take to work, which is reportedly COVERED in snow.

theruleset:

I’m polya because I don’t think love is exclusionary.

I’m polya because I don’t think sex is some magic ritual that only 2 people at a time should perform, (but hey dude your magic isn’t my magic so you do you.)

I’m polya because I love having people in my life for 5 or 6 years, through distance and continents and career changes, without feeling like either of us are missing out on other experiences.

I’m polya because I love being able to hold hands through the Met with the art student who’s smile lights me up as she explains why Monet was so influential on Tuesday, and then caress the head of the hard-working social worker as she lays it in my lap and recounts her day on Thursday.

I’m polya because I have the emotional bandwidth to support more than one other person, and love to share my life and experiences with others.

I’m polya because all those experiences help me grow and shaped a deep emotional maturity that I do my best to nurture day in and day out.

I’m polya because it feels good and right to me, and to the people I love.

I see that spiteful impulse you have to pop into some person you don’t really know’s inbox and try to tell them that their lifestyle is invalid, and I wonder which one of us lack’s maturity. Anyway have a good holiday.

shock:

tikkunolamorgtfo:

katherinebarlow:

vvaterling:

boringangel:

A Good Thing To Know!

https://www.tribecafilm.com/stories/the-truth-according-to-darren-wilson-a-narrative-ferguson-mike-brown

“The Truth According To Darren Wilson” Directed by Ezra Miller and Sol Guy | Tribeca

He made it with filmmaker and BLM activist Sol Guy and you wouldn’t know from the title, but it’s actually a short film, not a documentary, about Darren Wilson being a fucking liar.

Tumblr completely erasing the work of a Black activist/artist while simultaneously finding ways to slander an LGBTQ Jewish person at the same time due to literally not bothering to find out what the film was about in the first place? I’m shocked.

I’d just like to say they worked together in 2012, as well:

“Ezra Miller… and hip hop producer Sol Guy… are appearing in a documentary-style film with Last Real Indians founder Chase Iron Eyes. Their goal is to raise $9 million by the end of November to buy back a piece of land in South Dakota that Native American tribes consider sacred.”

“’I came out here with the intention of being an observer … I felt kind of removed from the story. But now, it’s fairly clear to me that nobody is removed from this story,’ Miller says in the film… ‘This story is central to all of our history and this struggle also cannot be removed. We are all inherently involved in what is going on out here.’” (X)

I don’t know if anyone has watched the video, but it’s extremely discomforting – it’s meant to show him manipulate, use his fear of being prosecuted the way he and many white people have have had no problem dishing out to give him an advantage in sympathy, to show his lies, hypocrisy, his recitations and his practicing of a false testimony as being so transparent, and to show how deeply set he is in his victim complex now that he’s backed into a corner and determined to portray himself as the good guy and deny any real blame. 

Humanizing doesn’t always mean portraying positively, sometimes it means acknowledging that humanity has history and culture inseparable from racism and it looks like their solution is never exempting yourself from your own judgment no matter how flawless you think you really are. It was an analysis on the mental leaps required to justify killing the innocent because of your bigotry and how sick these mental leaps are, but they are nonetheless present in our society and are part of a massive problem. I think they’re trying to get across that these things are systemic and looking at it as an isolated incident prevents people from doing any self-reflection to check and make sure THEY’RE not perpetrating violence, + seeing it as human nature to create hate and violence gets you into the depressive mindset of there is nothing to be done and there is nothing you can do and it drifts society into apathy and makes you feel isolated and hopeless and that doesn’t help anyone. Instead encouraging introspection and self-critique and constant bettering ourselves & facilitating change and surrounding ourselves with that mindset instead I think is what they’re going for. 

sirasanders:

kingofthesun:

So I Have a Tiny Chicken

Keep in mind, it’s not a batam chicken, it has some birth defect that makes it smaller than an average small chicken, we think. I don’t know. We didn’t expect this.

This is Cicero.

We thought Cicero was a rooster, mostly from fear of him being a hen and trying to lay an egg, only to end up egg bound.

Well, today we learned that Cicero the Rooster is actually Cicero the Hen.

AND LOOK

AT WHAT

SHE LAID

A TINY EGG.

I’VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT.

IF WE HATCH IT WOULD A TINIER CHICKEN BE HATCHED??

WILL IT CONTINUE UNTIL WE HAVE THE SMALLEST CHICKEN IN THE WORLD??

WHY DID MY SISTER NAME THE CHICKEN AFTER HER MATH TEACHER??

WHAT IS GOING ON???????

THIS NEEDS MORE NOTES IM LAUGHINGWJSJKD