#which is so stupid!!! because it obviously willl!!! It will ALWAYS be so much more difficult than english

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Rant

Omg so we have this new manager at my work. He’s been here since July but one of the other managers (the one I worked mostly with) quit a little over one month ago and so the new guy took over his projects and I have been working almost exclusively with him ever since.

Idk what his job was before this but I can’t imagine it involved a lot of teamwork and project management/delegation because this guy just constantly does stuff without telling me what or why which is a big issue because then either I miss a whole lot or we end up working on the same thing and obviously that messes things up because not only is it inefficient but then we also have to take time to reconcile the differences between the documents.

He also treats me like an intern, constantly asking me to do little tasks while he hogs the other tasks (still a mystery because he never shares what he’s working on or what his game plan is). And willl just message me here and there and leave out important details when necessary and add superfuous details when it’s not. That last thing really gets to me, every time he adds super obvious instructions, I feel insulted, as if I wouldn’t know. Here’s an actual example of something that happened today:

Ex not enough detail Manager: Please calculate a growth rate for me from 2015-2019

Me: Okay. The growth rate of what?

*radio silence* 

I literally got no answer from him even after asking him a second time so I spent way too much time calculating multiple growth rates hoping that one of them was the one he was looking for.

Ex insulting amount of detail Manager: Will you double check and make sure the GDP numbers we used are the most recent? I think they might have released the second quarter for this year

Me: Ok, one sec

Manager: The GDP for Canada

Manager: For this year, so 1st and 2nd quarter

THE REPORT IS ABOUT THE CANADIAN ECONOMY WHAT OTHER MFKING GDP WOULD I USE

Also, I have told him multiple times that I’m a hardcore planner. I am constantly thinking about my to-do list, updating it, prioritizing things, etc. I have a hard time working if I don’t have a sense for what is most important, how long it will take and when is it needed. Plenty of this information I can fill in myself but not all of it and so I ask him all the time if he has a game plan, or if he has an idea for a deadline for this or that, and nothing. I told him that I understand if he doesn’t work that way, but as often as possible if he could try and give me even the roughest estimates when asked, I will be able to work so much better. And he hasn’t done that at all.

Finally, he can absolutely not take criticism. And not only am I very good at giving criticism in a constructive, non judgemental and positive way, a lot of what I have to say is regarding how we do things at the company so it’s more of training/onboarding than anything else. One time we received feedback from the boss, I hadn’t seen the final version of the document my manager handed in, and stylistically it was rough. The feedback didn’t mention the formatting, however, I immediately reached out to my manager and told him that I would take the first pass at the feedback since I would also need to work on the formatting. Then I told him that generally, anything we hand in to the boss has to be “client ready” i.e. formatting has to be perfect, that way, the boss only has to look over the content and if there’s little to change, he can do that right away and send it off. My manager should have said “oh that’s right, thanks for reminding me,” or “Oh I didn’t realize, thanks for letting me know!” Instead, he vehemently defended himself (despite me never commenting negatively on his work or his choices) told me that it shouldn’t matter because it was not a final report and that who cares because the content was all there, looks don’t matter. I calmly told him that it takes a few months to get used to our formatting and that for the time being I would look over all his documents before handing them in to double check the formatting, something that others did for me when I started. I told him that eventually, he’d get used to it and would start to get the formatting done while creating content but until then, I’m here to help. He didn’t respond....

On multiple occasions with me, or other people, when given advice he immediately goes on the defensive, refuses to see things from our point of view and reiterates that he is smart and has experience. It’s exhausting. Today, I lost my cool a little bit and I told him honestly that his tendancy to be closed to advice, to share as little as possible with me and to constantly insist on his own work as being the last word and that I should always just do exactly as he tells me and never stray; that that gives me the impression that he doesn’t value my advice or my intuition. Whether that’s the case or not, that it how it comes off. I told him that I trust his input, but that even though he holds a higher position than I do, he should never discount my input. We are a team, we are supposed to collaborate, I will give him the last word but that does not mean that mine are of no value. 

I’ll probably end up talking to him again, and also our boss....evaluations are coming up. 

Anyway so that’s been my life for the past month and a half. This manager honestly makes me want to quit but I’m going to stick with it because there’s a possibility that things will change once we’re done with this stupid project that he and I are on together.

Fingers crossed

rant over

#rant #personal

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I actually wanted to wait with this until I hit, like, a nice follower count milestone or something like that, but… I felt like it. So, I just wanted to thank everyone of you who’s following this blog from the bottom of my heart. It’s still a pitifully small number, but I feel like I actually have loyal fans. So, thank you all for every single like, reblog, and especially those among you who commissioned me or even donated to my Ko-Fi! You know who you are. Some people also like or reblog my stuff frequently (you probably also know who you are), these people are heroes. Honestly, you are all so, so sweet, and you might not even know how much this means to me.

And the best thing? Your tags. No kidding.

Rest under cut for length. You’re not gonna regret clicking it, though!

I hardly ever got tags on my original art (which also got much less notes in general, but still!), but very often I get some on my fanart. And they’re… like… the best thing… ever? 
So what I did is this: I’ve collected some of the most ridiculous tags I ever got. I probably missed some of them, but I try to collect them all! I’m getting so many funny and/or sweet comments in the tags, you’re making me weep! Sometimes I got really long comments in the tags, and I’m speechless. I didn’t put those in here, but I wanted to share the most hilarious ones.

Without further ado and also without any context, I’m gonna share some of the funniest tags. (a few of them obviously were posted under the same images, but in general, I mixed these quotes up as wildly as I cold for maximum out of context hilarity). Like some kind of… gag reel.

Which ones are your favourites?

(alternatively, you can try to guess which image/post got which tag)

#goddammit hug her mikleo

#edna needs hugs just sayin'

#SOBBING

#MY BABIES

#YES PLEASE

#what the fuck this is adorable

#i love this a lot omg

# this fandom

# I am drawn more and more

#😭 good best beautiful;

#what is this sorcery

#yeutdkydlckhckh

#canon real perfect beautiful amazing

#rose my queen

#WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

#rip meebs

#!!!!!!

#bless

#excellent

#oh my god lol edna

#*Mikleo screeching in the distance*

#asedxrftghj

#awwww <3

#don't you yell at pun mama rose

#also Meebo is totally a Disney princess he just needs to get over his fear of dogs then he'll even have animals that love him

#Dhddlagjwlejh

#aaaaAAAAAA

#AAAAA

#AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

#15/10 would recommend

#rose please marry me

#*crying dying noises*

#*gross sobbing*

#would also 100000% pay to transform dezel and zaveid into parrots though holy shit

#'im abraid your hair is going to need some work mikleo'

#'i dont mind combing over to do this'

#'you're really growing into your hair style'

#lailah is banned from helping

#'no need to turn this into a hairy situation'

#also wtf are 10-20 or 1000 shades of malevolence in a person 

#WHAT KIND OF STUPID DIALOGUE IS THAT  

#tag yourself i'm a category type 27 malevolence kaiju  

#game!sorey please use your mark-5 jaegar luzrov rulay to punch and purifying the SALT IN ME  

#dip 'im sorey d i p ' i m

#rip mikey boy though

#brotp for the ages

#/silent tears into the abyss

#hey...thgats fucking gay

#give rose a shepherd cloak 2k17

#!!!!

#GIVE SOREY A CAT 2KFOREVER

#TOTALLY AGREE OP

#honestly this is canon

#EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED

#now I need a fic for this too

#i'm crying omg

#kfhdkf edna

#i cry :')))))

#please let mikey boy lay his head on sorey's lap and have sorey caress those alabaster locks

#petition to release metal band t-shirt costume DLC for velvet

#CONSTANT BITCHY RESTING FACE IM CRYING

#please marry each other :'''''')))))

#GOOD

#I'M LAUGHING SO HARD LAKJDSLFKJSDLFKJSDLKFJLSDKFJLSKJFLSKFJ

#her fujikgbd

#face

#GIVE YOUR GF A CLOAK ALISHA

#pretty much

#op's art keeps me living

#rose no

#edna plz

#JESUS F U C KING CHRIST SAVE MIKLEO

#*hyperventilates*

#hhhhhhhhhhh

#cy8cyciyvuf

#gay...............gay thank you

#omg

#i’m with you velvet

#beautiful

#jyyjdgjdkydjydkyfkyfyykfflflyfludkyfkydyidkydkyclhckhckhxkh

#tsutitdkhdkhdkgsykdkgxkgckhchcykfkycykfkycjt

#y e a hhhh h h hh h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h hh

#SO ACCURATE

#GIVE ME ALL THE ZESTY/DESTINY CROSSOVERS

#1000/10 will pay to get this as a DLC costume

#thiS IS SO GOOD GOD BLESS YOU

#[SLAMS HANDS ON TABLE] hi yeah this is my Jam

#BABY

#i always love when people make sorey do the tongue thing

#because he totally does the tongue thing

#i support this 800% a good post

#never ever forget dezel dual weilding twin trumpets

#meebs is beautiful with waves just sayin'

#i'm crying

#i love this

#AAAAAA

#oh my god

#edna's face i can't

#i just died

#rip meebo

#*plays My Heart Will Go On on kazoo*

#what a post

#sorey: miKLEO WILLL U MARRY ME

#mikleo: u idIOT DOn"T ELECTROCUTE URSELF

#sorey: ur right i am prty cute

#mikleo: did u even hear what i said

#rose what an icon

#my inspiration

#PURE

#perfect

#bye mikleo

#baby ******** is like something from a splendid lisa frank fever dream

#I laughed

#gaahhh this is too cute

#Jhwgshshaksehhwsnbxj

#15/10 they kiss after a performance and i cry a single tear

#the universal constant

#is sorey has NO SELF PRESERVATION

#LIKE NONE

#BOY WHERE IS IT

#YOU LEFT IT IN A RUIN SOMEWHERE DIDN'T YA

#GDI SOREY

#<- a memoir by mikleo

#MY SONS

#*sobs into hands* god this is lovely

#hush rose let him be

#was almost disappointed when the link didn't actually lead to part of your world

#this is so gold

#also the HEighT diFFEREncE ♡

#also thank you for the blessing that is mikleo clinging onto sorey's buff arm

#the sweet baby slumber party is off to a rollicking good start

#lkjsdlfkJ I'M ALL FOR SOREY DIPPING MIKLEO YES

#TOOOO FUCKIN GREAT

#IMGOING TO CRY

#TOO LATE ALREADY AM

#nerds omg

#aaaaaa

#edna NO

#kajfrbnkjrebdgkhrjgbnkurjthhgnkuihjiuHLUIHFLUhglnueh

#aaand I don't know the Protagonist-kun and Protagonist-chan's names yet so in my mind they are now named Losers thanks to your art xD

#no matter which game Edna will always roast everyone

#ohhhh nOOOOOOOOO

#run while you can meebo

#told you you were gonna pay for the toddler quip

#I LOVE TJIS

#the smol tsun tsun grump is a big softie deep down

#...deep...deep...very deep down

#omg

#awwww

#will someone

#will someone write this au please..

#but i love this!

#♡

#this feels so melancholic and also i need more

#this is a gold au idea

#someone please give Mikleo a hug

#friiiiick

#PHI PLS

#HEY YOU KNOW WHO ELSE WOULD BE WILLING

#SOMEONE WHOSE NAME STARTS WITH AN M AND ENDS WITH IKLEO I'M JUST SAYING

#SUGGESTING

#LAILAH....

#Y E S

#so cute awwww

#<3333333333

#dogs are for petting and torturing meebos

#ajenfnjen

#bless Rollo

#awwww cute

#omg yes

#omg

#RUN MEEBO

#gosh...

#bless everything

#ALKJSDFLKJSDLFKJDSF

#I M AO SSODSF

#aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa......

#I will never look at anything else ever again

#plz capitalize German nouns thx

#headcanon accepted!!

#BLESSED

#GOOD AND PURE CONTENT I LOVE THIS

#rip i love this artist and i love this post

*takes a deep breath* …I’m done. And I love you!