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Target is evil.

Let me elaborate: hours, post-holiday rush, dropped.

But instead of putting us on three or four 8-hour shifts a week (which is what they said would happen) corporate decided they’d give each of us 5 or 6. 4-hour shifts a week instead. One of the managers let slip (though this is the good one so idk if it was deliberate) that it’s to let people extend shifts to cover if people call out.

It’s essentially using lean staffing tactics to keep part timers working almost full time hours. That made me angry, for obvious reasons, but also afraid, when I saw it, and it just clicked why afraid.

Here’s the thing: the CEO of target studies military theory as a hobby. He’s said as much in interviews about places he looks to dos ideas on resource management. When I remembered that, I realized what the scheduling reminded me of.

This, to me, looks a lot like a staff/scheduling equivalent reticulan (netlike) reserve deployment - when you spread out units, each with a reserve force, so that if any given unit is wiped out or routed, you can deploy a nearby unit’s reserve to plug the gap.

There’s been a lot of call-ours lately and Covid keeps spiking. And you only use a reticulan reserve deployment with a 40-50% reserve when you’re anticipating 15-30% casualties and need to be able to push on regardless.

This is after they didn’t enforce capacity restrictions at all during the holiday rush. They’re anticipating 15-30% of us being killed or incapacitated by Covid and they’ve set it up to work our coworkers double to cover the slack. And they’re not the only ones doing that.

If you’ve been seeing a bunch of 4-hour shifts on your schedule and you’re part time, now you know why.

I want this shit spread like wildfire. Reblog it. I want to radicalize as many people as we can with this.

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Make Do and Mend: Darning

OMG DIAGONAL!!!

To keep it S–T–R–E–T–C–H–Y–!

Why hasn’t anyone told me this?

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Unlocked a new achievement:

Alternate between crippling insecurities and hot flashes of menupause and the horny rage of teen boy puberty. I'm both too young and too old to deal with this shit

Second Puberty: Achievement Unlocked

I have reached that stage in my transition where I cannot stay awake long enough to eat all the food that I crave 🙄

#transguyproblems #transguy #ftm hrt #ftm transition #transgender #testosterone

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:-)

not mine, taken from facebook group - if this is yours lemme know and ill credit you or take it down

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Rereading old feedback

Because my mood just wasn't quite low enough, I decided to reread the feedback I received from a prof in the first semester of PhD. Hardest theory class as my first course in my degree was so brutal, we were expected to write theoretical, analytic papers applying theories that I didn't even understand.

I would like to think that I have come a long way in the last two years but jeez that feedback still hits right in the self confidence.

Sometimes I think profs forget that they need to actually teach their students. I am in a theory-driven program and not once have I been properly taught how to write theoretical papers, I just keep being told that I am doing it wrong.

#phd life #student life #student #feedback

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This seems so spot on as a feminist, trans male scholar 🙄

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Roommate, talking online to friends: ....menstration!

Me: are you talking about menstration while gaming?

Roommie: yeah, menstration. When men get frustrated, you know, Men-stration. You might even be experiencing this right now.

Me. ....🤨

Roommie: pushing the boundaries of your transness for humour!

🙄

#ftm transgender #ftm #ftm transition #menstration #roommies #roommates

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I'd very much like to punch a feminist.

I’d never, ever hurt a lady but I’d be happy to punch a feminist. It’d bring me great joy.

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Totally would! And so would my cis male partner. We started dating early into my transition and had been super supportive.

Reblog if you'd date a trans guy.

Being a pre-T trans guy it’s kinda discouraging to look for romance where I’m from sometimes. So I’m just curious, hit the like and reblog buttons if you’d consider it.

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Relating so hard to this right now. It's true, though, even if I am royally unqualified no one has asked me to leave yet 🤷‍♂️

#academic #phd life #phd #student life #student

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I am a Virgo and that's why a few years later and now I just want it back so I will have a lot more time 🤔

I’m a Pisces and that’s why I gotta go home.

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Second Puberty: Achievement Unlocked

I have reached that stage in my transition where I cannot stay awake long enough to eat all the food that I crave 🙄

#transguyproblems #transguy #transgender #ftm hrt #ftm transition

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Someone: “People would never do anything without monetary gain”

Dungeon masters, Minecraft players, fanfic writers:

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This is so wholesome

here’s a little comic about taking out your insecurities on others, positive outlets, and forgiveness :3c

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Poverty and classism is much more harmful than we acknowledge

Granny: No printer, just fax!

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Life magazine, February 1916

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