life without shifting is so fucking boring. i actually can’t wait for my break to be over…

is there not a SINGLE bookstore in all of southeastern utah??? so help me I will turn this car around and go back to grand junction

they should make it so that i do not have to see my friends every 3-5 business months

i need to be sedated permanently

Everytime my plans fall through with someone my mom is finally gone all day, IDK why she’s on call for these 2 old ladies anyway they are rude as fuck

workshopping a banger glassdoor review that'll drop the instant I make it outta this shithole job. Hope there's no text limit.

From the first month I was put under extreme pressure to work beyond my assigned role and paid hours as quid pro quo for being graciously allowed to live at work. Little consideration was given to my difficult job transition that involved an hour commute both ways and being briefly homeless. Then I was falsely accused of an actual crime by the manager who hired me. Recently heard she got let go for theft so now we can all agree that that was projection. I was initially offered higher pay and a management role only to have that taken away as punishment for not caving to the then-manager's attempts to bully and gaslight me. I'm a survivor of too many abusive relationships to cave to an amateur manipulator. She hated that.

Management has been inconsistent, at times disappearing for months so that I'm forced to take on extra responsibilities and at others berating me and threatening to micromanage me for having the audacity to do my best with whatever they left me to deal with. All this despite knowing that I'm hugely overqualified for the role they left me in. They have often told me that they appreciate me and that I deserve better pay but seem unable to follow that up with anything other than the occasional pizza. This appreciation for me and other coworkers has a dangerous tendency to evaporate the instant the smallest misstep is perceived, regardless of all records of past performance. Management has shown little to no appreciation or understanding of the role they hired me or anyone on my team to carry out. It is a dangerous and grueling job with a specialized skill set that is typically undervalued in favor of cheaper teenage labor. Other stables get away with that model because they are managed by a personally involved and invested owner who knows the business, and can step in to do the actual work when the teenagers fail. Well, this place will get what they pay for but they probably won't even notice until their business has been run into the ground.

The only place I've ever gotten a lower annual pay raise was a roach infested college café. This year they took away half my benefits because they couldn't afford to offer them anymore. I heard about it through the rumor mill because apparently management deemed it appropriate to discuss my job and my living situation in company housing with junior staff members. I would not be shocked if they had the audacity to offer me another pocket change pay raise this year after I —at times single-handedly— kept their little side project business running and all their clients happy through a second record-breaking summer.

I'm also from South Korea and i appreciate and respect what the kindergarten anon did in making kids comfortable in their own skin and perceive appearance restrictions on women and girls, but really i'm getting envious or even to the point of doubtful here because if i pulled that in any work or college environment, kids would call me a feminazi, or they would report me to their parents and have my license revoked or getting into trouble. I would be brainwashing feminism into the kids or to friends and there's a reason why talks about feminism is shunned in the public sphere and among friend circles(especially if there's a guy, but it included all female groups as well), and children and students are very much affected by harmful MRA and hate logics on youtube and streamers on Twitch-like platforms. To talk about that or ease into tue conversation to anyone, including kids, you either don't do it or start with equally including hardships men face and open with "i believe in ALL sexes being equal and both male and female rights, but - " and still that wouldn't be enough. I know friends who'd gotten attention from their employers for this and professors who'd been called out by STUDENTS and harrasded for the same reason. So anon, you are so gutsy and i wish we could all work up the courage and have that energy around for change and understandment. It's so hard when feminism or anything related to women is villainized or treated like a ticking bomb and no one talks about it publicly in fear of public ostracizement or repercussions. Is it simlar like this in other countries or how does it show in a different way?

that is terrifying, anon, I'm so sorry! It sounds like a nightmare, if you don't make your appearance deviate from the natural and into a decorative form that is required, you can lose everything. What a horrifying world.

I'm from Croatia, and even if it's preferred that women look decorative for male enjoyment, I don't think it's a requirement, I've never owned make-up or dressed in a decorative way. It might have been a problem if I ever tried to work in a professional environment or male-entertainment or service industry, but as I don't do any sort of thing like that, I can walk freely looking like whatever. (okay, I'm a bit on the slob side and just go around the town in my old ripped apart gardening clothing and people look at me a bit weird but I won't get hurt due to it. I only make sure to dress in clean clothes for work.)

What you're describing sounds like a place of no freedom, where you have to preform constantly, have to fight against nature in order to keep the illusion of fantasy that is imposed on you. Is there a way to fight against it if the entire environment is so focused to squash it the second someone stands up to it?

It's also interesting that this specific male society requires women to work so hard to keep up the illusion, and that they're doing it via intimidation, ostracizing, threat of firing, threat of banishment, harassment and grooming. Why is it so important we look like decoration and not people? Can they not withstand even a bit of our nature, would it destroy them to acknowledge what a woman looks like? It's almost like everything would break down as soon as this one fantasy breaks down.

It makes sense why korean feminists are working so hard just to be able to walk the street looking normal, if this is how the world is :(

I wouldn't complain regularly about the weather being hot if it wasn't heat wave after heat wave here. Room temperature water is literally hot. I would need to boil it for less than a minute to make tea. I'm not exaggerating.

I think I'm doomed to be sad forever

Guy who invented keto checking out the local chalk mines: bet I could make people pay to eat this

im so sick of my bed i literally never want to get back in it

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

I honestly and truly believe all good AUs should be a little “”””ooc”””” in the sense that good characterisation involves understanding that changes a characters backstory and circumstances will have an effect on how they respond to the world around them

Good characterisation isn’t about creating a perfect 1:1 canon replica it’s about understanding why a character is different in your work and about grounding the changes you do deliberately choose to make in canon character traits

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

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