#Ready the Workplace

[girls-and-honey]

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#okay so random tag post even though it's been ages #me thinks the current place i work is actually decent a la accepting-queer-ppl so?? miiiiight. consider actually putting my #pronouns in my email signature (which hardly gets used but shh) but like. the actual ones not the society/people assume anyway ones #idk i attended a virtual tech focused event for trans dov (yes early but they didn't want to put the event on sun) and you know when #everyone is just sharing their stories and experiences and it's just like... an overwhelming sense of community? anyway that #and since it was hosted by a professional org the topics were all workplace focused and mayhaps that's something i'm thinking abt for #this year. at least within our pride group I might be ready? wild bc for a long time tumblr has been the only place I feel comfy being 100% #myself. but hearing real people's stories makes me feel like that kind of community would be nice to have elsewhere too #and the whole looking to others also turns around into the leading by example thing bc then we had some breakout groups at the end for #networking which is not my favorite but! i did my intro and said I use she/her for work but will use she/they for this group and #then the next person said he/him at work but for this group he/they so that made me wonder if it was bc of me saying so first? #which if it was is kind of like oh. the way I'm looking for those people for me.. I can also be that for someone else #anyway this sounds dumb typed out but irl/professional me has always separated out queer identity so it's new to me #i'm allowed to be giddy okay. just a little. as a treat (is tumblr still using 'as a treat' i really hope so) #oh shit is this what gender euphoria feels like #alright that's it for now i think #gah emotions and whatnot #missed you all btw i'll start actually being online again soon #personal

[khaotunq]

Lads. I'm here to say you can just. Walk away. You can leave. You can physically just...vacate the general area. You can. Revolutionary. I am stunned.

#this is not about anything online #this is about my actual workplace and an incredibly toxic staff room conversation #and i just left #i decided no thank you you are all very stupid and it's not even endearing #and i left. i did it. #and now i'm peacefully stewing at my desk #bubbling away nicely #but i'm not ready to rip out throats with my bare hands #so it's an improvement #... i think. #maybe #i can feel the anger in my bonessssss #but it is not winning rn #four hours. four hours and i will be home and amongst my plants. #about jay #so it is decreed

[s-creations]

It's fascinating at how being belittled can just kill creativity.

I'm just gonna wallow for a while if no one minds.

#s-creations #s-creations says #stuff at the workplace has dropped drastically in the last few days #i'm ready for another long break #i wish i could just create for a living...

[4byun]

Hi tumblr dot com. I have officialy finished my first week of internship. a full week of 8 to 5 -w-)b I feel.. exsanguinated. @ people with jobs.. How .

#and I thought uni was exhausting #never making fun of caffeine dependent people again #whoever said graphic design is fun is Lying btw . #i’m just lucky my workplace is comfortable and unpopulated #the entire team including me = 9 people #the hardest thing so far is getting your work done on time and getting ready to receive work any time #</3 I don’t mesh in well cause I’m very… introverted and stoic and I am Trying but my coworkers don’t really engage with me #literally spent 2 hours in a desolate corner just curled up lmao 😔 #burnout is reeeeeaaaaaaaaaaall I was not ready for this but i didnt have a choice either #technically I spend 12 hours out every day and come home after dark and its depressing #i feel like a robot

[chikinan]

this chapter is taking foreved because i made bad chioces btw this isnt even all of the thumbs 🤷

#3 pages ready on ptrn #mati barks #my digital workplace #homebound comic

[chilisaws]

man she must be psychic because she pretty much shot me down before I could even ask 😂

#she talked about her crush on someone else that she wont try to persue because she doesnt want a workplace romance #no big deal because i figured it was a long shot anyway since i wasnt sure we would be compatible anyway #though she is bi so as a matter of fact we are #but i was ready to be just friends so im fine with this outcome #maybe in the future ill try being more direct

[stellerssong]

what monster would you turn kiran estavez into, given the chance?

GREAT QUESTION. SEXY QUESTION. QUESTION THAT i have to think about in more depth honestly because i am still finding my way into Kiran Estevez's character. she has a grounded enough energy that she might be the Token Human tbh, especially if i were to hypothetically take the route of creechuring Saga. and i think Saga creechurs a little more intuitively. she could be a great half-whatever-the-fuck-Jesse-and-Dylan-were-in-that-one-control-creechurfic-i-did-way-back-when. i think she would look very beautiful with a variable number of eyes and also a tail.

well that was a terrible answer to that question. as a forfeit please enjoy my attempts to find my way into Kiran Estevez's character:

She dreamed about Maya last night. Kiran groans, hitches up the scratchy motel sheet, spits out a stray hank of hair. Sticky-foul taste of one too many beers on the back of her tongue. That’s what she gets for letting the old crew from Investigations take her out for drinks on what’s technically a work night. Her tolerance has gone to shit. She doesn’t go out drinking around Bright Falls much; something about a small-town bar full of good ol’ local boys rubs her the wrong way, for obvious reasons, and she’s not so textbook that she’s going to spend her evenings sitting around alone in the thin-walled apartment that still doesn’t feel like hers after seven years, a bottle of Jack in her hand and some skin flick playing in grainy Technicolor on pay-per-view. She can almost hear Maya laughing at that. How well-adjusted of you, baby. Tell your therapist about it next week. Maybe she’ll give you a good grade. Funny joke. As if the Bureau retained staff therapists for its agents. Just thinking about the potential confidentiality breaches gives Kiran a headache. Though, to be fair, that might be the mild hangover. And she dreamed about Maya last night. Right. She’d almost forgotten. Or maybe she wanted to forget. She rolls over on the lumpy mattress with a sigh, blinks at the battered desk and threadbare chair in the corner. (Doesn’t let her hand drift over to the empty spot in the bed, to the other pillow unmarked by the indent of a sleeper’s head.) It hadn’t been a bad dream. They’d been shopping together, or something. Maya couldn’t find her list and had wanted to go home to get it, even though Kiran had insisted she knew what they needed. She’d driven off and left Kiran standing in the parking lot with the shopping cart. And then it had started to rain. Phantom sensation of cold water soaking into her socks, squish-squashing in her sodden boots. They’d probably make something of that down in Parapsychology, but, like—fuck Parapsychology. Sometimes a dream’s not a message from the Astral Plane or extradimensional intelligences or what the fuck ever. Sometimes a dream’s just a sign that you’ve got to get the fuck out of New York. God, she hates that she’s even thinking this, but she’s got to get the fuck out of New York. At a certain point you can’t keep blaming the cheap beer for your maudlin turn.

#chatter #ask games #f: awake alan #f: ctrl #working title of this fic is currently ''exploring racialized misogyny in the workplace with kiran estevez! or something!'' #so like. idk. get ready to explore. racialized misogyny. in a secret semi-independent paramilitary splinter agency of the us government #that deals in the paranormal. or whatever. i know you are all so so excited about this. #@sph you are good at realistically portraying the fbi. please help me figure out what this woman is doing in new york. i beg of you

[dandyshucks]

i think the simultaneously funniest and most frustrating thing abt my brain when things like this happen is that my brain freezes up a bit and can only think of like "aw gee whiz now xyz mundane thing i had scheduled into today won't happen" like girl WHAT there is shit going down and thats what ur thinking about ???

#in emergency situations where i am able to Do Shit i actually am very good at keeping calm though #and doing what needs to be done #in general in stressful situations where im helping other ppl then im such a good person to have around dhdkdl #this came in handy at two of my past workplaces bc i would be able to just do what needed to be done quickly and efficiently #when things got Bad in those places #but shdksl when it comes to situations where I can't do anything or where i dont Know what needs to be done ... augh #then i just shut down a little bit or go numb at least and my brain automatically starts thinking abt mundane and routine things #girl there is a medical emergency happening !!! (''but we've been through this before. several times over the past few months'' says brain) #example a: i feel a little disappointed that i won't get to do crochet with mother like we had planned #example b: i want to go back to sleep even with this all going on #(i feel awful that this is what brain is thinking about rn dhdkdl but. better than incessantly worrying ig? though im doing that too...) #ah well djdlsl I'll go shower so if anything Really Bad happens then at least im clean and dressed and ready to get over to the hospital #dandy.cmd #vent // #medical tw

[ebonyheartnet]

Why, of all things, did I have to be allergic to alcohol? I deserve to be able to obliterate this day from my memory.

#fuckery! at the workplace #for context: master scheduling hath shat the bed. #two of our busiest departments aren’t able to be scheduled with normally. one of them not at all. and I am about ready to commit arson. #it’s Monday. our busiest day of the week. the day with often twice the foot traffic of Thursday/Friday. #No ankle is safe if I find out who fucked up.

[deus-ex-mona]

me when the bacteria c o l o n i s e s

#m a n. i thought that the sample would turn out negative for bacteria (like the rest have been for the past. what. year and a quarter(?)) #esp since the agar testing stick things used were freshly expired (thanks for the expired reagents workplace; cost cutting ftw!!!!) #but. ewwwwwwwwwwww it actually grewwwwwwwwwwww #and the small stick thing was covered from like top to bottom in countless dark red colonies. ewwwwwwwwww #all ​the other agar stick things were completely clean though so it was def a problem with the sample and not with my handling of the agar #in any case!!!!!!! it was the first time i saw a positive for bacteria growth on a sample and!!!! #it was also my first time reporting the results for this test!!!! without any of the test-familiar staff around!!! so!!!!! not fun!!!!!!!! #i didn’t even k n o w what they meant when they asked to ‘describe the colour/appearance of the colonies’ bc the managers’ expectations are. #just. *weird*. sometimes. ughhhhhh im ready for the inevitable groupchat callout on tuesday with ‘who taught you to report like this????’s #well e x c u s e me for not knowing sir you never taught me how to report colony growths or anything auauaaaaaaaaaa #but is ok!!!!!! i’m taking tuesday off anyway!!!! it’ll be the tuesday workers’ problem now!!!!!!!! good luck guys!!!!!!! #at least there was no fungi either… now *that* would’ve been extra gross #the bio class flashbacks were r e a l today… thank god i don’t ever have to open that stupid pharmacopoeia ever again #also reminds me of (one of) my stupidest moments in a bio class though… #back in the days of yore (read: anatomy class in the year of ‘17) i was an absolutely horrible student who’d never fail to nap in class #so when my lecturer asked connecting questions down the class register… #yk stuff like asking student 1 to ‘name a type of cell’ and then asking student 2 to ‘name an organelle that a [student 1’s cell] contains’ #he asked the girl before me to name a hormone. she answered ‘growth hormone’. and i was like. dammit. idk where it’s found. lolhelp. #(bc i never read ahead either + the growth hormone didn’t even show up in lessons during that school term) #so when he inevitably asked me to ‘name the organ that produces the growth hormone’ i answered (exact quote) ‘i don’t know; the ovaries????’ #the class laughed. sad. the lecturer retorted with sth like ‘then are you saying that boys can’t grow?’ and i just shrugged #the girl after me (who incidentally has the same first+last name as me phonetically speaking) gave him the right answer thoughhhh #i hope i managed to buy my name twin enough time to look up the correct answer (if she didn’t already know it) with my stupid guess #yeahhhhhh ​i do n o t miss bio class. at all. giggity #anyways that’s enough flashback sequences for one year. can’t believe the next year’s less than 10 days away tbh. can’t wait!!!!!!!!

[yourcalamity]

isnt life so hilarious

#everyone at my job is getting blindsided by toxic workplace bullshit including my boss #and because of this my entire department is ready to quit next week #i thought it couldnt get worse than people burning their shirts on instagram and working through weeks of 110+ weather with no ac #but oh how the circus continues… #dont let anyone convince you the marijuana industry is glamorous or fun #just needed to put these thoughts somewhere

[whentherewerebicycles]

oof just got CRANKY

#my lead just moves meetings around randomly with no warning #often like a minute before they’re supposed to start #without saying anything I’m just supposed to notice that my calendar’s different #and she doesn’t consult me on the new time #and sometimes schedules them at times I have blocked off as unavailable #maybe this is totally normal workplace behavior and I’m just sensitive to it after life on an academic’s schedule where it’s like #you email or chat to propose/confirm a time rather than just grabbing time on someone’s calendar #but I feel like I just like knowing loosely what my workday is going to look like and when I have to be ready for cameras on #and sometimes it’s like well I had that time blocked off to work on something in a sustained way #and now I have to work for 20 min then interrupt it to get ready for a meeting then meet then work for 20 more min after #idk I could be a grownup and talk to her about it but instead I’ll whine on the internet

[thresholdbb]

I just remembered that last night I finally finished the book I was reading, which means I can move on to Star Trek novels…….

#it was 1000 pages and I didn’t realize this when I started reading it #I fell into the sunken cost fallacy and had to finish it even though it kept knocking me out at night #but HO BOY IM COMING FOR YOU TREK BOOKS #ready for a whole other level of unhinged (and reading is a socially acceptable activity around a workplace #where as my exuberant voy watching experience would garner scorn and judgment #melts into oblivion

[interstitialvacancy]

Monkey brain: sees post with photo of us hospital guide post to a chain fast food located in the hospital

Monkey brain: starts yearning for local hospital's canteen with food 400% better than one served to the patients and how it tasted after 4 days of eating polish hospital food standard (vegaletarian version)

#liveblogging stuff #I've been at hospital back in november and surprisingly that's what i carred out #also had a perfect view at my workplace out of my room's window and it was a specific kind of torture #vegan version bc almost 100% of meat given is pork akq the cheapest option and I'm allergic to pork #so i got white chease inplace of meat and wasn't ready for it #....ak not vegan just vegetarian

[maize-is-lost]

The Magnus Archives season 2 experience is literally hearing “Supplemental-” and going

#the magnus archives #tma season two #like oh boy I am so ready for Jon sims workplace drama of the day

[callibones]

dont know when i got capitalismbrained but my boss had to tell me not to work remote with covid agajsgsjsh i looked back at the email id hazily composed at 8am and i honest to god wrote the words "I apologize for this unexpected barrier. I still intend to work to the fullest extent I can without spreading anything." i dont want that i want to watch speedrunning videos and recover for 10000 days.. im not getting paid to do this job its an unpaid internship

i think i just genuinely dont know like. the Rules Governing unpaid internships. cause im not there to make money im there for the Experience... so i dont know if im allowed to like. take days off cause theyre doing me a favor by letting me work for them for free(???)

#between you n me tumblr im not ready for the fresh outta college life #im all You Dont Owe Your Workplace Shit for paid positions but like #for an unpaid internship aint i supposed to impress them with my Dedication #or somethin