siliconereptilian

androidmaeosauridae

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tabletop rpg obsessed, particularly lancer, icon, cain, the treacherous turn, eclipse phase, and pathfinder 2e. also a fan of the elder scrolls and star wars, an avid gamer and reader of webcomics, and when my brain cooperates, a hobbyist writer.

 

the urge to share my creations versus the horrifying ordeal of being perceived. fight of the millennium. anyway posts about my ocs are tagged with "mal's ocs" (minus the quotes). posts about or containing my writing are tagged with "mal's writing" (again, sans quotes). posts about my sci-fi setting specifically are tagged "the eating of names". i'd pin the latter two if they were actually among my top 15 most used tags lol. fair warning, my writing tends to be quite dark and deal with some heavy themes.

 

avatar is a much more humanoid depiction of my OC Arwen Tachht than is strictly accurate, made in this Picrew. (I have humanoidsonas for my non-humanoid OCs because I cannot draw them myself and must rely on dollmakers and such, hooray chronic pain)



pervocracy
@pervocracy

unless you are working on an actual natural disaster and frankly sometimes even then,

don't take pride in doing quality work under terrible conditions. don't show off to your boss or your clients how you're such a spunky little scrapper that you can work with half-broken equipment, you can work all night to meet any deadline, you can maintain professionalism in the midst of chaos.

the lesson they will take away from this is that you never need functional equipment, sleep, or organizational support. (and that your coworkers/colleagues don't either. so if you can't summon up enough respect for yourself, do it for them.)

you have to let things fail sometimes. give me an impossible deadline, I'm missing it. schedule twice as many appointments as I can handle, I'm canceling half of them. put me in a work situation where the only way for me to win is to kick in my own time or money, then guess what, buddy, I'm losing and that means we're losing together.

understand, the flip side of this is that with adequate supplies and time I will put them to good use. this isn't spite, it isn't a threat to sabotage businesses. it's merely saying that if someone sabotages their own business, their employees are not obligated to save them from themself.

no more super worker. this is the decade of getting exactly as much worker as you paid for.


shel
@shel

One of the most important things a mentor told me at my job is “Never give more than 90%. You need that last 10% to sustain yourself. You don’t have any more to give. If the library has to close because there’s not enough staff, then the library closes. That isn’t your fault.”


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in reply to @pervocracy's post:

Had to do similar calculation recently when I got trapped at work in a blizzard that technically I could have rode home in without dying because I have elite all weather bicycle skills, but my bosses didn't need to know that so I asked them to cover the cost of a rideshare

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