#international companies

[ixhalo]

I wanna take a moment to just talk about SHEIN for a minute.

Now I'm obviously not defending their poor working conditions and the underpaying of their workers, however what I don't understand is why other people feel the need to demonise and judge people who happen to buy from the brand.

Of course what they are doing is bad, however we cannot pretend that SHEIN is the only business that does shady things. It would be very naive to think that there are any brands out there that work by a code of ethics and have good morals and whatnot. Running a business requires you to do some shady things behind the scenes to keep it up and running, because if they solely prioritised working by moral code they would go bankrupt since it wouldn't be as profitable - that's just how the business world works unfortunately. I'm not trying to be pessimistic I just think it would be unrealistic to want corporations to stand by good morals whilst also trying to make as much profit as possible to cover their costs in order to continue production.

What bothers me is when people act really self-righteous and shun people for buying from the brand - spreading awareness is one thing but actively trying to shame people for buying from some company they don't like in a forceful away especially is not the way to go.

First of all, people can do what they want with their money - who are you to tell them how to spend it at the end of the day? Second, like I said before literally EVERY BRAND HAS DONE SOME DIRTY STUFF BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.

We do not know everything that goes on within the company, only what is revealed to us online or from any source of information. For all we know the brands that claim to be "vegan" or "fair to their workers" or whatever crap they try to say to convince consumers to not feel guilty for buying from their brand (and in most cases make them pay more for the products because of this selling point) could be complete BULLSHIT. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this can be true and people should keep that in mind when evaluating their opinions on something like this.

Now I've known about SHEIN for a few years now, and my family started buying from their brand a year ago. However even before buying from the brand I had already had these thoughts about it when seeing people demonise the company online and then shame others for buying from it. So I don't BELIEVE I am being that biased when saying all this for that reason.

Also, another point I would like to mention is that in a lot of countries, especially in Europe and in my country, there are shortages of materials due to conflict, such as the Ukrainian War, and a whole other multitude of issues that could affect manufacturing and importation/exportation of materials needed to make products to sell internationally. This has caused a significant decrease in the importation of clothing especially, or else the decrease in quality of clothes due to brands perhaps having to improvise by using cheaper materials from other sources and whatnot and also inflation comes into play making the situation worse. This is a major reason as to why MANY, MANY people, especially families, recently have been relying on SHEIN to purchase clothing, or even other products such as household items, cosmetics, personal care items, and so on. My family especially isn't that rich, we would be considered middle class technically but we have other financial priorities aside from buying clothes and whatever. So therefore my mother and our neighbour decided it would be more efficient and beneficial to just start buying from shein, especially because the shipping cost goes down when you spend a certain amount of money - and mind you, my mother and my neighbour aren't the only ones involved in a single order as a lot of the time my neighbour or my mum get their siblings or friends in on it to prevent paying the shipping cost, which in my opinion seems like a smart move. Even my friends do it.

However there is one issue I do have with shein, and it is the absurd amount of packing they use. Lately I have been seeing shein plastic bags on the street sometimes. However aside from me thinking that SHEIN should invest in more environmentally friendly packaging, I think that people should make the effort aswell by reusing the plastic bags or even the cardboard boxes. For instance my family and I reuse these kinds of packaging for storage and it is quite efficient and practical if I do say so myself.

Anyway, to anyone who may be reading this I would appreciate it if you commented on what I've said or just on this subject in general.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk lmao

#shein #fast fashion #consumerism #discussion #debate #corporations #international companies

[andthebeanstalk]

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.

#hlep #original #mental health #my sympathies and empathies to anyone who has to rely on this kind of hlep to get what they need. #the people in my life who most need to see this post are my family but even if they did I sincerely doubt they would internalize it #i've tried to break thru to them so many times it makes my head hurt. so i am focusing on boundaries and on finding other forms of support #and this thing i learned today helps me validate those boundaries. the example with the milk was from my therapist. #the example with the towing company was a real thing that happened with my parents a few months ago while I was age 28. 28! #a full adult age! it is so infantilizing as a disabled adult to seek assistance and support from ableist parents. #they were real mad i was mad tho. and the spoons i spent trying to explain it were only the latest in a long line of #huge family-related spoon expenditures. distance and the ability to enforce boundaries helps. haven't talked to sisters for literally the #longest period of my whole life. people really believe that if they love you and try to help you they can do no wrong. #and those people are NOT great allies to the chronically sick folks in their lives. #you can adore someone and still fuck up and hurt them so bad. will your pride refuse to accept what you've done and lash out instead? #or will you have courage and be kind? will you learn and grow? all of us have prejudices and practices we are not yet aware of. #no one is pure. but will you be kind? will you be a good friend? will you grow? i hope i grow. i hope i always make the choice to grow. #i hope with every year i age i get better and better at making people feel the opposite of how my family's ableism has made me feel #i will see them seen and hear them heard and smile at their smiles. make them feel smart and held and strong. #just like i do now but even better! i am always learning better ways to be kind so i don't see why i would stop

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

I just want to keep my job even though I don't know how to make memes. Buy our coffee. We've got holiday gifts for the coffee lover in your life.

Awesome Coffee is different because 1. we source our beans directly from small farmers collectives, 2. it's better and fresher than grocery store coffee, and 3. ALL of our profit goes to fight maternal and child mortality in impoverished communities, whereas almost all other coffee makes rich people richer, which is the dumbest thing that can be done with coffee (or other forms of wealth).

#coffee company #i am an unpaid intern #because otherwise some of our profit would go to me #and I don't need it and shouldn't have it #buy our coffee #so I don't get replaced by someone who knows memeology #god I wish I could make better memes #I see young people memes and I feel so envious #not of their youth which is overrated but of their memetic creativity

[willheis]

i mean, what a slap in the face to your audience to tease and hype up a paywall of all things

#watcher tv #watcher #and sure they’re gonna say they’re a company and it’s just about the money blah blah but if you lose most of your audience bc of this… #then it wasn’t a business-savvy decision now was it #don’t even get me started on the international subscribers issue

[desidov]

#lethal company #queer #digital art #eldritch horror working for min wage sorting scrap from the annoying interns #and they keep telling new hires to ring the bell 20 times as a joke #i get it man i get it #my art

[stocktok]

#geely automobile holdings ltd #geely #cars #stocks #international companies #Youtube

[kaneidae]

Just bros bonding

#lethal company #lethal company art #lethal company fanart #lethal company intern #lethal company meme #kaneurysm art

[wormboyfriendcentralstation]

i love the contrast between ishmael and heathcliff's revenge plots because ishmael was willing to steer a boat into a whale of skyscraper proportions to tear that old lady limb from limb with her bare hands, whereas heathcliff was trying really hard to increase his credit score. ishmael is here not speaking of hubris. striking the sun if it insulted her. she is madness maddened. she is that wild madness only calm to comprehend herself. in the meantime, heathcliff has trodden on the bathtub mixed timeline moonshine landmine that cathy made in her basement

#limbus company #ishmael limbus company #heathcliff limbus company #i guess if you look at it from a certain angle it's also about revenge and toxic codependency on someone who irreversibly changed ur life #but the difference is SO funny to me #that said it's also like #interesting to see that ishmael coped with her situation by sort of unconsciously trying to emulate the person who was so much stronger #in that moment #to guard herself from further harm #while heathcliff has internalized a lifetime of abuse so hard that he's literally jumping the walls between dimensions to act it on himself #guards. put these people in therapy

[gelatogelatogelato]

this came to me in a vision

#coffee company #nerdfighter twitter #nerdfighteria #cheers to the unpaid intern of the coffee company #unpaid intern to unpaid intern i hope he has a good time

[yeehawpim]

wwwo oc painting the sword of the citadel!

The Wizard Smile

paints propaganda murals and portraits by day and creates children's books by night

wrote and cast a spell that erased all visual representation of themselves in retaliation to pictures of themselves existing without consent

the public facing reason to the spell being cast is that they would rather the heroes of the empire they paint to be remembered rather than their own face

#worlds beyond number #wwwo #wwwo fanart #wwwo oc #wbn fanart #wizard steel #i imagine the spell is a more dangerous variation of name cloaking where you risk cloaking ur entire self from existence lol #is probs in their 30s? pretty well known for a decade of work #probs has lots of colour coded ink demons for company #and a hord of interns to do the full scale murals after the proof is done #i have lots of thoughts lol

[cod-dump]

Gaz: *trying to infiltrate Shadow Company disguised as a Shadow*

Graves: Hold on there, soldier. C’mere for a sec

Gaz, internally: shit shit shit-

Gaz: Yes, sir, Commander?

Graves: I don’t think I know you… what’s your name?

Gaz, forgetting everything he went over in the briefing: Uh- Stacy!

Gaz, internally: WHAT THE FUCK KYLE?!

Graves: Stacy?

Gaz: *sweating* Y-Yes

Graves: well, don’t forget dinner is later than usual. 0900 instead of 0800. Need a snack or a break just go ahead, hasn’t been a busy week. Don’t overwork yourself, sweetheart

Gaz: *shook* Yes, s-sir

#gaz internally: SWEETHEART #call of duty #cod mwii #modern warfare ii #kyle gaz garrick #phillip graves #incorrect quotes #shadow company

[tomi4i]

Keep boycotting 🔻

#free palestine #palestine #‘i support a boycott’ #keep boycotting #boycott zara #boycott disney #boycott mcdonalds #boycott starbucks #boycott nestle #boycott israel #boycott #israel #international #important #companies #be the change #do not be silent #be a human #don't stop talking about palestine

[discocholforever]

I’m sorry I can’t subscribe to ‘Kim doesn’t care about Harry or anyone really’ bc wowwww like he sees the most pathetic miserable stinky creature on the planet and becomes infatuated (either platonically or romantically, whichever floats ur boat) enough to do a silly little dance in a church-slash-nightclub and play a silly little board game even tho it’s got nothing to do with the murder and oh yeah he deadass ditches his precinct to work with (and keep an eye on) this sopping wet man who reeks of dysfunction but gives him hope

don’t even speak to me about the car in the ice I’ll start sobbing uncontrollably he’s so patient and gentle w harry the whole time and heals his morale if u address how bad he fucked up. Kim isn’t a perfect guy for many reasons but he cares about Harry and that’s more than most ppl in game

#cmon with a high enough interfacing skill you can turn kim into putty in Harry’s hands #harry: hey kim love ur ride :) I like tiptop too! here’s a shoutout on speedfreaks. oh u have helium headlights? lets put em on together :) #kim externally: sure might be fun #kim internally: I want you so bad it makes me feel stupid #he lit says ‘you think you can dance? THIS shit is dancing’ and throws it tf down in the church #like he actually enjoys harrys company enough to let his guard down a teeny bit #that’s a LOT for him #disco elysium #hdb #harry du bois #kim kitsuragi #kimharry #harrykim

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

Thoughts on unpaid internships?

I made you a flow chart.

#coffee company #how to become the world's only ethically sourced unpaid intern #flow chart #procrastination

[radiantmists]

the whole "it would be kinder to kill them" exchange re-contextualizes murderbot's initial willingness-- even eagerness-- to kill other SecUnits in an interesting way, doesn't it.

#murderbot diaries #system collapse #the murderbot diaries #system collapse spoilers #murderbot spoilers #i still think a big component is that it's internalized the idea that secunits are dangerous #and that their lives are of less value than human life #but it's also like... even after it hacked its governor module it spent what. three years still working for the company? #because the idea that it could be anything but a slave who would eventually die in violence was so inconceivable #even as boundary-breaking as it is murderbot is still coming to grips with the idea that it can change the way things are #even for individuals #that killing other secunits probably feels like the only feasible way to end their suffering #even if its better judgement has always been vaguely aware there are other options #its instincts are still coming along

[bearotonin-international]

3000 posts!

Alright tumblr, call the team out for being on tumblr too much. It’s valid

#3000 posts #tumblr milestone #It ain’t a lie #We post at least thrice daily every single day #And often much more if we’re answering asks #But oof #At least we can say we provide that promised daily bear programming #Sticking to the bearotonin international company mission and promise: #Daily bear programming to make your life bearable