#organization change management

[mel-loly]

-I'm back, my dear people! Did you miss me? :]

(I hope so, because it took a while for me to find time to come back- also.. sorry for the bad art😃👍)

#hey everyone!! I'm alive :DD #are you all okay? I hope so! and if not. I hope you be better soon❤️ #(I basically took this time off because because I wasn't well.. I was really and really bad... #with several anxiety attacks and depression problems again.. thank god it got better and now I feel okay ^^ #also- a lot of things changed in my life and I still haven't managed to organize everything.. as well as the drawings... #I have just a “few” drawings to post.. but I hope you still like it and bear with me :'] #I promise to do more and answer you guys when I have time! <33) #a little spoiler: there will be some new things coming to this blog- hope you guys like it :D <33 #i'm back! #i'm mel and this is my blog✌️ #my art blog #art #my art #my art <3 #art mel #my art style #mel designer #mel loly #my oc character #tw vent #? #random vent

[queen-mabs-revenge]

always on my organizing grind gonna get my building unionized

#just ran into a neighbor who was asking about my electricity bill bc hers is obscene #and we started talking about the building upkeep and how she's nervous to ask for anything bc of the housing market #when the building was furnished 20+ years ago they put in wool carpets and at this point they're literally all infested w moths #but the management agency only changes them out when ppl get on to them #and only then after months of asking #and she's not the only neighbor i know of who has these issues #and yeah gonna talk to the tenants union organizer here and see if we can get a meeting together w people in the building #better to get organised now instead of scrambling when smth shitty happens like a mass eviction attempt #build trust and solidarity in the low moments so that when the crisis moments hit we've already got the infrastructure in place

[sassmill]

Me looking in terror at the amount of admin meetings on my calendar for tomorrow: I make less than 40,000 a year in this full time position

#I am an assistant manager #but also the living history coordinator #but also group sales coordinator #and also responsible for hiring and training my direct staff #but I don’t have a manager title for that I only get coordinator #so I don’t get any additional pay even though my position is 4 rolled into one #because we’re a nonprofit that is barely keeping its head above water in an absolutely buckwild period of executive transition #I’m trying to learn more about the financial side of my department so that in a year or so I can argue for a title change #from assistant manager of interpretation AND living history coordinator #to associate director for living history #because listen I might not have a lot of experience yet but I am a fast learner and the number one thing I know #about working for an organization in transition #is that that is the PRIME time to learn how everything works and plan your upward trajectory #especially with the trial by fire I’ve gone through #I’m very confident in this plan #anyway #it’s a nonprofit kinda day #museum musings

[3amsnek]

saw your answer about stripe ask and i just want to say for anyone out there: don’t use paypal unless that’s the only option for you.

i made a paypal account and immediately, within a minute of making it, it got permanently limited and after days to contacting paypal they still refused to fix it (saying they can’t reveal why it got limited for their safety) and didn’t let me close my account. basically i can’t use my account and i can’t delete it either so my info will always be stored on paypal, which is ridiculous and not safe.

anyway, like i said, if you have another option besides paypal then use that because paypal sucks. be careful!

^^^^^^ no yeah exactly same hat (og ask)

I have a solid guess on why mine is dead so tiny psa if you’re making a paypal account & have legally changed your name in the past like year before that pls triple check that everything official is as consistent and already changed over as possible and you have new IDs already Before you make the account bc they’ll find one tiny thing that hasn’t fixed itself yet and shut you down for possible identity fraud no matter what you do :)

(also if you feel like you need to have paypal so you have an option for customers who don’t have a card I will once again recommend stripe bc I’ve discovered their direct email invoices allow you to accept bank transfers as a payment method (including internationally) so people can just pay using the online banking account their paypal is linked to without having to go through paypal)

#more than anything they seem to loveeee to break accounts :) #and then ghost you when you send them ids to try to fix it :) #like thanks man glad you have even more of my information now that was soooooo helpful /s #buddy I’m not some carefully organized crime ring im TRANS #I’ve also heard that if you Do manage to delete your p.aypal account it will probably never let you make another one so #I haven’t tried to delete mine bc it’s such a commonly used thing that I feel like I need to keep the option as open as I can #just in case shit changes in like. years. #which Sucks #so if it’s broken and they won’t tell you why trying to just start over will likely only land you in More trouble/fraud suspect from them #so we just get stuck in this stupid position #of them having our info and refusing to let us use their service or properly Stop using their service. wtf man #and the only way they say it can be fixed!! is by giving them more information!!! that they then ignore!!! #anyway. thank u anon for joining my anti-pa.ypal yelling team #for the record none of this frustration is at you at All im just tired & mad at paypal #support beams to you for that stupid website that sucks #snek asks #anon asks à la snek #edit: #ok i will concede that there is One good thing pay.pal has done: apparently it’s how we paid my baby doggo’s adoption fee 7 years ago #but that’s it

[icewindandboringhorror]

Current temperature inside of my room right now in the middle of the night whilst about to go to sleep... villain origin story...

#You just get SOOOOO tired of being hot all the time for multiple days straight.. with very little relief ever... hhHHHH #I forget that I literally lose my mind and become evil every summer like clockwork #I don't evenknow what I mean by that because I'm just as calm/monotone as ever lol.. but I just feel more evil.. low level pent up rage #or something. nothing changes on the outside but on the inside it's like hmm.. I'm like 5% more hostile than I usually am #not outwardly expressed still of course. but just.. my bones are made of a little more violence recently.. #percentages moving around. My character stats get a temporary modifier all summer where I feel chronically just a LIIIITLE more noticably #unhinged. like I will never do it of course. but I will think about. maybe I'll just throw all the plates at the wall and break every wind #ow with a baseball bat. No. I shant. I would never.. but .. I could. 5% more than I usually could. But I shan't. but let it be known.. I #c o u l d ...i COULD.. if I had to. but I don't.. but still.. keep the notion in the back of the mind.. hmm.. lol #And this is not even during a heat wave at the moment it's just like.. normal summer.. >:') #I think it's also largely the shitty apartment which was not built for coolness. Like older houses will have tall cielings and those window #above the doors and ceiling fans and be built high up from the ground and all these other ways to manage warm weather #naturally. but cheaply constructed dinky city apartments with no ventilation and windows only on one side and blah blah #It retains heat insanely like being trapped in a green house or something #even with all the windows open & fans in the house and stuff it just doesn't really move air well because the space is not made to do that. #Also really testing my anticapitalism/leftism/etc... sitting and thinking 'damn maybe I should play the stock market.. I should sell #some sculptures and overprice them.. howmuch could I charge for these clothes..' < *is desperate to afford a living situation with central #heating and air conditioning* #Haha! Guillotines?? who said anything about those? I LOVE rich people.. haha.. now what's a guy gotta do to instantly get about $50.000 ar #ound here? haha! kidnap someone and sell their organs? okay haha! I love the free market! going to home depot right #now to buy an axe! Don't you just hate taxes? so glad I live in the best country in the world under the best economic system on the planet #USA! USA!! USA!!! *visibly shaking. nose starts bleeding. you notice i am also levitating off the ground slightly* #ANYWAY gfgfgh.... winter......... my sweet child....i miss you so so much.... SUMMER you are my ENEMY #ah well now it's gone down to 80.4 Farenheight. cancel post. thats such an improvemtn surely I'll be able to sleep soundly now /s #what was I ever worried about? it's all good! haha!! *still levitating a little * #In better news - I have finished the Victorian Pharmacy documentary series and am now watching them build a medieval castle! and one of my #goofy joke song snippets suddenly got 6.000 views on youtube which was cool?? though very random? I made kale chips again. and had asparag #us. And saw a duck. carved a lot of things out of avocado pits. Little tidbits to keep me sane.. #See a funny little duck outside and go 'hmm... life is okay actually :) I no longer want to break windows :3' #then it gets like 85F inside again and you're liek NEVERMINDaaaaaaahhh!!!!! then you see a duck next morning and calm down :)

[hvcmixtape]

this is so project manager of me 😭😭 i did conditions too so that when i type in a name, the background changes

#i want to be a project manager so it makes so much sense that i wanna organize my requests/fic ideas #THIS IS WHAT MAKES MY NEURONS TINGLE #i will probably change the colors at some point #but i love this so much #elle.says

[bl00dw1tch]

You should become a muslim.

I don't ever plan on joining any kind of organized religion, because i already know that the stuff i believe won't mesh with any specific one. Um. So thanks but no thanks !

#horse.txt #i believe everything has a soul #reincarnation is real #theres no afterlife (good or bad) #so existence isn't about earning your way into a vip club in the sky #it's about collecting as many experiences as possible #good and bad big and small #kindness is natural and so is cruelty--all creatures will be inclined towards one or the other and theres no way to change that fact #so its best to just focus on whatever you can manage. no one is required to try to change the world for the better #that is an opt in activity. the natural way to live is to seek your own happiness--so if thats all you can manage #then just do that #organized religion has never worked for me; i grew up going to christian churches and i hate it #and even doing group pagan events feels off and disingenuous to me--and its strictly a Me thing its not to do with the religions themselves #though i do genuinely hate christianity with a fiery burning passion that grows with every passing day #i do not care that not all Christians are 'bad' because its becoming increasingly obvious to me that even still #being Christian Keeps those people from being as good as they COULD have been #'hate the sin love the sinner' or you could just learn to have compassion for your fellow man and quit being a debby downer #sins don't fucking exist theyre just activities that you don't like. just say thats what it is. applying morality to everything under #the sun is just semantics. you are wasting our time when we could LITERALLY be outside eating fruit and watching the clouds #grow up #sorry didnt mean to get aggressive my train of thought just does whatever sometimes

[froqgy]

in other news i did finallyyy start on my portfolio site on neocities today

#barebones and not even to what the wixsite is but im looking forward to deleting my wix account lol. there is such a thing as too many #accounts <- trying to keep track of everything as best i can i should keep offline files tbh. txt or rtf i think its called so i could #hyperlink if i need to but it's better than docs. and i need to double check #and change passwords probably i should... and write that down too #so much to manage youd think it would be easy to organize things digitally but

[carmenpeach]

really enjoying my job so far... i get along well with everyone and have a lot of fun conversations and so far it's been good with setting up accomadations so i can sit for the most part while i work too, and the customers are generally polite so far and its above minimum wage too <3 i had thought about applying there for a while but wasnt sure if i could handle it cause im limited to only being able to stand n walk for so long and i can only really use one arm for the most part too and its limited nearly every place i could think of too and im really happy it's been going good so far and i feel good about the future of it too ^-^ plus we all just stand around and chitchat without management getting mad (usually its standing around talking with them too lol) and theres constant music playing thank god i go insane if its silent (and once christmas is over it goes back to playing actually good music) and we get to wear basically anything we want so i can wear fun outfits again too ^-^

#welcome carmen shes the newest employ say hi to her #i think everyones realized im autisic hy now cause im incapable of fronting most of the time #but no ones been weird at me and everyone is pretty lgbt friendly too which is a big change of some other jobs ive had >_< #not that i out myself or anything but theres other trans ppl there and everyones realized im trans by either assumption or asking pronouns #and on the whiteboard was a #and idc about correcting pronouns anymore cause ot just complicates things #but someone changed it to but they them... idk who but ilu ^-^ #plus all i do is sort and organize things which is an autism win #and managment said they can train me in the jewlery making stuff so i can say my art degree isnt for nothing lol

[agoddamn]

There's a lot of Nart fanfic where Amaterasu and sometimes other Shinto gods are real, and it always gives me kind of an odd vibe. It's usually the same script where the gods are angry at the Sage for something something fate ruined everything yadda yadda bad parenting.

It gives me an odd vibe because Nart lore always gave me the opposite impression, in that cosmic sense. The inmates are running the asylum. The Sage is the biggest dick on campus, but he doesn't run the universe in the cosmic sense either; he just sees a lot. Nobody is driving the bus. Everyone's on their own.

It gives me a similar kinda frenetic energy as stuff like the Pern series, where the myths and histories we're familiar with are apocryphal cargo cults. Seat-of-the-pants making-this-up-as-I-go bullshitting. Fits with how Kaguya was never intended as a goddess, either, and merely ended up amassing power as a means to escape her fate as a sacrifice. There were never gods, just people strong enough to make others believe that.

If there were ever any gods in Narutoland, they're long dead and everyone involved is merely propping up their chosen corpse.

#you can't look at the naruto universe and tell me anyone ever organized that shit #nobody is in charge. there is no manager #just a crusty old volunteer who's been there for years and knows how it all works but can't do anything to change the business practices #and that's the Sage #nart opinions #naruto

[femmegiggles]

your tags under the "don't smile" post that you reblogged is, politely and respectfully, so fucking cute and relatable

How dare you fluster me further. In my own inbox 😤

But really I’m glad someone finds this relatable djsjfjsjg I literally cannot help but react these days it’s high key so embarrassing!!

#STORY TIME OKAY i was doing some group training for my new job and we were talking about how our music venue’s organ got the keys replaced #wooden keys swell with changes in weather yadda yadda whatever right #coworker 1 asks what the keys are made of now. i INSTANTLY start sweating and thinking ‘please don’t say ivory’ #manager gives an answer. it’s not ivory. I can breathe I can relax it’s fine #coworker 1 proceeds to say ‘ohh I thought they were ivory since they’re white’ #then coworker 2 comes out of NOWHERE with ‘oh ivory like tickling the ivories?’ MY FUCKING GOD #my jaw literally dropped. like my chin was peeking out of the bottom of my fucking mask this is RIDICULOUS #I pretended I was yawning and it was fine but FUCK I couldn’t even think about holding that reaction back #I didn’t want to make a separate post so I’m dumping this at the bottom of this ask lmao enjoy

[noxtivagus]

SHADOWBRINGERS.... listening to the song again n oh god i love the lyrics so so much we r ignoring the fact that i have to wake up in like less than 4 hours

#🌙.vent #i just have 1 assignment due tmrrw n i don't want to do it :') like yeah i'm definitely still going to but. it's a letter to ourselves.... #i write a lot to myself that is very much evident but it's so hard to actually organize it. & fuck too bcs it's due 10 pm later today #i hate doing things for the sake of academics. says me w my grades lmfao but despite how well i manage i really do hate the school system #i wanted to ramble abt ffxiv oh no i get so distracted when i start writing. but. god my mind rn i don't understand #🥹 this stupid mental block ???? w the break nearly ending there's sm more i have to do but i need to sleep . but not having this started is #messing me up sm rn. i want to put a lot of effort into it but i'm at a loss for words. i wrote some ideas days back but i've changed a bit #this moment ideally right now where i'm in a better mood than i have been for the past few days but not as brain empty #a balance of fiction and reality. enough to keep me not sad but enough to keep me stressed? #i would like to get it started now. i know i want to. but i can't. i just can't seem to. it's not lack of motivation right now. it's. #....maybe a fear? a fear that gives me some sort of mental block. because i really really want to at least start writing something but #i can't start. & goddamn this is not what i meant to write about i wanted to write of shadowbringers & maybe a little of today #but i guess this just has been. bothering me for a while. buried somewhere in my mind #i've been this age for like. more than a week now huh. it's daunting it's scary but i've always loved & sought the thrill of challenges. bu #alright i wasn't able to read anything i wanted to. nor did i watch as much as i would've liked. & i didn't really bond with my friends #save for texts here n then. talking in ffxiv w that one too. & that very one call on bday yh. & tumblr too ofc c: but i didn't do the schoo #stuff i wanted to do this break. but my rank in pjsekai's lowering. nor playing arknights/nier again yet. & fixing my sleep. but.... #i didn't wake up any later than 4 pm. i went out for a walk earlier with apollo. i wrote asks to a friend here on tumblr. new books. #new game. plans to make an fc in ffxiv. i ate what i could. i got up even when it hurt. i'm playing gbf again. i'm rlly happy abt that #perhaps it's not enough for me. i can't get rid of my heavy regrets so easily. but acknowledging what i have done that was good enough #trying my best to be kind to myself in this moment even though i feel like crying. acknowledging my pain. maybe. maybe that's #i'm listening to ashes of dreams rn fuck i'm actually going to cry i think bulbel is next in my queue i #it hurts yes n i feel like crying right now but there's. this ache in my chest that replaced the cold emptiness earlier #maybe that's not a good thing uhh but the warmth. that warmth. i'm alive i'm real n there's a tomorrow n that's enough hope #it has to be. it fucking has to be. just. little steps. guide my own self slowly n softly like i do for others. i deserve that too. #i'll give it to myself. surely i must owe myself at least that much. being human comes with its many burdens but i don't need to be #so harsh to myself right? ironic saying that right now while i know there's something so dear to me i'm denying right now #it's like i'm a wilting flower fighting against time to stay alive. but the petals slowly decay n it gets colder the longer the dark night #would an outside light help the blossom find its own light? or would it make it disappear. i wonder #did the flower grow to be meant to be undeserving of such kindness? or are there thorns on its petals that serve as an unbeknownst barrier?

[croakings]

y'know. despite everything. i do find it a little bit funny that an increasingly prevailing opinion of the left is "only idiot liberals bother to vote"

#* #chatter #uspol #that's not a smart thing to think or say at all u r not immune to propaganda #''liberals(derogatory)'' the left 🤝 the right #which. i don't necessarily disagree but also #not thinking very hard about ''hot takes'' and having chronic incurable brain worms: the left 🤝 the right #i literally just. y'know. people in power..... make decisions occasionally. sometimes those decisions may affect you‚ personally. #sometimes change is slow and The Work™️(the great work)(the little work)(the things that regardless must be done) is. well #a slog. undramatic. ineffective. disappointing. and yet. #it matters if you can win one small insignificant bloody crumb of relief for someone. anyone. in any capacity. #there are lesser evils and at the same time there're greater goods. y'all're so fatalistic and negative #howre u gonna meet the revolution if u can't even suck it up and learn who's on ur city council #or god forbid participate in electing any of the members #the work is to do what good u can for literally anyone or anything u can manage. #it costs u NOTHING to vote or certainly nothing more than actually organizing would #literally do not understand sobbing into my hands y'all're so stupid.... #leftist infighting is truly just. fucking lmao. YOU CAN DO MORE THAN ONE(1) THING GOOD FUCKING GRAVY #im actually incapable of crying so u really do just have to laugh

[mello-jello]

Have you had a really stressful situation at your work? Or something that you can’t forget?

Ok read this post cuz it's funny and I will never forget.

I will say that the pandemic has just made the average day that much more stressful. My least favourite part is having to tell family members that they can't visit their loved ones. It's different on palliative units and the ICU, for example. But I was on the general surgery ward, so the patients were stable and allowing visitor exceptions was very rare.

Probably 7/10 people were just sad about it, but the other 3/10 would try to yell and scream their way in, and I get the brunt of it because I'm the one answering the phone :/ All I can do is tell them the policy and then direct them to the manager.

The WORST situation was when there was nothing else that could be done for a patient, and they were going to die, and the doctor had told the family and everything. But the policy at the time was that family could come in groups only if the patient was IMMINENTLY dying. (actively deteriorating, vitals unstable, less than 48 hours kind of thing) ((I don't agree that this is the most compassionate policy, but it's not my decision))

So when like 8 people showed up to "say their goodbyes" and the nursing staff said only one visitor per day, it sparked a mini riot and huge arguement. The nurses maintained that the patient's vitals are stable, and the family was like "well, you're just NURSES not DOCTORS" and then security and management got involved and it was all around not a good time. This was at the end of my shift and I wasn't sticking around lol so idk how it all played out, but management and doctors had to communicate better after that.

#ask jello #it wasn't like this every day #but the very begining of the pandemic was an utter shitshow #no one knew anything #and they changed the rules on a weekly basis but communication was lacking #my hospital had just done a merger with 7 other organizations to make a new hospital network #so management was new and the command structure was being reworked #it was just a real bad time

[neixins]

imagine if everyone involved in this literary residencies project listened to the website’s managing editor (me) even once

#managing editor sounds so fancy i'm literally just posting what they send me and resisting the urge to snap #bc nobody ever listens to me about organizing their shit and making sure it's actually postable before sending it over #and the dude who designed the website still hasn't changed it even tho both me and a coworker have said it functions poorly #scream whine complain!!!!

[management-consulting]

#change-management #organization-change-management #organisational-change-management