#minimum wage minimum wage pegging minimum wage

[avvocarlo]

like I'm not even sure what it is but across so many work industries it's always the grunt level worker who is to blame apparently. any excuse in the book to counter what you say or did. you feel like you're going nuts, I'm reasonably reflective and can see where something went wrong or where I can do better. does this make any sense?

#the main thing i keep getting pulled up on is my lateness or lack of communication with management #also that i tend to step over perceived boundaries according to managerial points of view/standards #idk it's hard to explain when you're hearing like #oh you're great but keep doing these things and we know you do it on purpose #also you don't know the secret old people cleaning code that only old people know #well why wasn't i told? why is it when i ask they say yes but there's actually something else they need #everyone is different i am giving you the option to express that need and if you say no how is this my fault for respecting that? #what is common sense? #which seems to be more in line with the like. can't please everyone thing TBH #maybe just want to take me down a peg and assert managerial dominance on the lowly barely above minimum wage (like fuckin $24 ph lol) staff #i don't intend to stay long or try ladder climb #also when i said that they said well you only work like part time why should you get more #i said then it'd be even more negative as I'd be getting underpaid doubly so for extra work #i try to say i hurt myself with all the cleaning but yeah nah other staff don't have this issue it must be you #i don't believe that #hell it even pissed me off when i said i wanted to do psychology/mental health #and maybe I'm wrong to say this but that mental game of saying ah well are you sure you could do that? #not to be twitter but it reminds me of abusive relationship power dynamics

[emdotcom]

*makes what I feel is a banger of a post & immediately gets down voted*

#i have a confession. i use reddit sometimes #gale chatter #yea i shoulda known better than 2 make a fnaf timeline post. i should also have stopped when i found out i can't post to the theory board #yea they have a rule requiring u 2 have more than 250 karma & in the year I've had reddit i only have 170 so :( #anyhow. fuck somebody made a point that could derail my whole timeline #but also they didn't cite any sources & just threw a random detail at me that don't make no cents #which was 'fnaf ar takes place in 1993' which. tbh the 2-3 times I've downloaded that i like #never got all the emails or paid that much attention to the opening it is totally possible #real confession is that i made a post thinking i was sooo smart i had all these good-ass links #i linked a .gov for a list of federally mandated minimum wages across the years i felt sooo smug #& i am now knocked down a peg by a stranger on the internet downvoting my post

[rowenabean]

now moving onto looking for a new flatmate and turns out it is hard to figure out how much to charge! the market is straight up exploitative and I don’t want to do that but also really not sure how to figure out how much I SHOULD charge

need to increase from last year (mortgage payments increased) but how on earth do I decide how much

thoughts welcome - I’m in a situation where I COULD cover the mortgage on my salary alone, but house has some desperately needed repairs which I wouldn’t be able to afford, so it’s more for a) having company b) having a bit of money to direct towards that. Market is literally more than 50% higher rents than when I started renting here 3y ago so that seems unreasonable

#considering pegging to minimum wage/pegging to unemployment/having a set rate at which I increase regardless of mortgage #literally the cheapest other house here is still exploitative so I will be charging well under market regardless #also thinking about what couple vs single person rents look like #rowena adventures #fair housing #trying to be a good landlord

[saltygilmores]

Thoughts While Watching Gilmore Girls: Season 2, Episode 17, "Dead Uncles and Vegetables", Part 3

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Please, sir, there is nothing I wish to see more than Miss Patty drunk with power.

How big was it again, Babette?

Nothing brings me greater pleasure than when Luke and Jess exchange silent glances like “Can you believe this corny shit?” The meeting is being held to discuss the feud between Taylor and the Hippie with the farmers market. This seems like a personal dispute that could have been an email.

At the meeting Taylor Karens harder than he's ever Karen'd before.

Why don't you mind your god damn beeswax, Rory-No-Job-Gilmore. This is getting old and frankly kinda weird. I’m really raring for one of those delicious scenes where Jess or Dean takes her down a peg.

After the meeting adjourns, The Convention of the Male Karens + a wildly out of place Kirk meet outside in order to remind Luke what a piece of shit his uncle was and that they’re not going to his funeral. Taylor sure sounds confident that the people of Stars Hollow won’t also spit on his grave and sing a happy song when he croaks. Frankly I don't even think there will be a grave. I've always envisioned Taylor being stuffed into a sack and tossed over his beloved bridge to become swan food along with Shane, who Jess slaughtered after the Dance Marathon.

There isn’t enough rock throwing in this show. In my gritty unrated Gilmore Girls reboot titled The Hollow, more people will throw rocks at Taylor Doose.

I paused just so I could enjoy a few moments of anticipation before she reveals what the exciting Early 2000's internet application is.

Golly! I miss this early 2000's optimism about a Future with Internet.

It's streaming in right now, but sorry Lorelai, she can't send you any pictures of Prague. Corporate tech overlords have deecreed that picture taking is forbidden and must be blocked with a blacked out screen of death. No Prague for you.

Omg.

Out of Context Gilmore Girls.

Sookie: Your mom is getting me 50% off of everything. Lorelai: Yes, but 50% off of loads of money is still loads of money. You don't have that much to spend. Pretty rich coming from “Miss orders take out and diner food 3 times a day."

But when is it ever the WRONG time for you to meddle in people's business? It's a 24/7/365 job for you. And your daughter is quickly on her way to being crowned the next Little Miss Meddler. Sookie understandably has some questions about why Jackson would go to Lorelai Gilmore for wedding planning concerns. Sookie also realizes she can't afford the grandiose wedding that Emily got her into and tries to run damage control. Lorelai tells Sookie that her mother brainwashed her. That's rich coming from Miss "Brainwashed By Dean Forrester".

DIS BITCH IS LEAVING WORK AGAIN! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!

She’s leaving work to help Diner Guy look at coffins!!! Get HR on the phone!

That's what he said.

Scott Patterson without a hat is...mildly off putting.

Is this what you wanted Rory? Are you happy now? Baby is miserable! But you got your damn coffee servant, now start tipping him! I made a video clip of this delightful interaction so please check it out. Milo's "No's" are so acidic they could strip paint off the wall. He needs to win in an Emmy for his No's. They are so good. You can watch my Jess Says No compliation here.

Jess Mariano: Toils in the coffee mines every day and night before and after school for sub minimum wage and eventually, on top of working a second job, minds his business, dutifully pours your coffee, no chit chat, all business. No one tips him. Lorelai Gilmore: Does a mediocre job taking orders for 1 hour and gets a 4 star Yelp review because she's Quirky. Lorelai to me, TWWGG: What's a Yelp? Me: Nevermind.

Rory, I mean this in the kindest, gentlest way possible, because I know you are a sensitive soul... Fuck all the way off. Fuck you and also your boyfriend and your mother (okay, she's not that bad in this episode). The "Get back to work" routine wasn't cute the first time when he was trying to enjoy a few precious moments to himself before school, but now he's literally working. He's like a foot away from you. Let the boy go upstairs and jerk off, sheesh. What a weird z-plot.

Rory works a job for two days and becomes drunk with power.

I really hope that when Lorelai goes back to work, Michel has some choice French curse words for her after leaving him in a lurch to cover her shift 3 times in a week for Diner Guy.

Hey look Rory, a job opening! You gonna apply or what?

This was really sweet.

So many things are throwing off the balance of the Gilly Girls Universe lately. Rory gets a job and becomes a control freak. Rory pays for her food. Lorelai dispenses reasonable advice. Lorelai's meddling is at a minimum. Lorelai is uncharacteristically pleasant. Dean is nowhere to be found (is that why Lorelai is so tolerable?) Scott Patterson without a hat.

#gilmore girls #denise rewatches gilmore girls #gilmore girls season 2 #dead uncles and vegetables #rory gilmore #lorelai gilmore #luke danes #jess mariano #milo ventimiglia #Scott Patterson without a hat

[zooterscooter]

hello!!! sorry if this request makes you uncomfortable and you can totally ignore this if you wanna!! but can I get pegging hcs for junpei iori?

do you guys have any favourite activities to do outside ? personally, i really enjoy walking around and finding cool stuff on the ground, but i can see why that might be weird. i mean, it was probably on the ground for a reason, right ? though one time i did find $5 by a bush and got myself a drink with it. nothing screams summer like using someone else's money to buy a slurpee, you feel me ? it was just as exciting as the time i found a moth at work. good lord was that thing gorgeous. yknow come to think of it, there's been lots of odd bugs in my workplace- and there have been a few times where a pigeon has flown in through the window. it was real funny to see everyone freak out about a bird, but it is understandable because i do work a fast food job. maybe we should've kept it in there and raised it collectively, maybe even made it our mascot. though i don't know what a pigeon would do with minimum wage, if i'm being honest. do you think birds would carry little wallets around if they had jobs ? or maybe small bags they can fit around their wings.. i wonder if they'd have a fashion sense like humans do. maybe a bird would rock a good ol' juicy couture purse.. that'd be the dream

#asks

[thetetra]

what about a federal law that mandates that your pay has to be pegged to inflation... from time of hire

So you never get paid less. Everyone gets assigned one of 4 quarters and that's when it kicks in to help spread it around.

I think this should be a part of the minimum wage debate.

#living wage #minimum wage #cost of living #federal law

[feministdragon]

“Economics is a choice. We could choose to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 or $20 an hour and peg it to productivity growth like in the decades before 1975. We could choose to revalue work so that the majority of Americans once again earn time-and-a-half pay for every hour worked over 40 hours a week. We could choose to provide affordable high-quality healthcare, childcare, and education to all Americans, while modernizing our social insurance and retirement systems so that contract and gig workers aren’t left out and left behind. We could choose to make it easier for workers to organize, and to defend the rights and interests of those who can’t. We could choose to build a more equitable, resilient, and prosperous America—an America that grows its economy by intentionally including every American in it.”

i cannot believe i read this in Time magazine

[thetruearchmagos]

Time, Sweet Time...

Has consistently been one of the most annoying things I've had to deal with when it comes to my WIPs.

Keeping track of dates and such is hard enough, but the tricky bit comes with the fact that I really enjoy carrying various characters across and between different WIPs. While it's relatively easy to pick an age and rank - which is important, considering the military focus of most of my works - for someone to have within the confines of a single conflict, making it internally consistent across several has caused me a lot of trouble.

This being a bit of a 'continuity' related error, it's no surprise that it's struck hardest in my most closely connected string of WIPs. Swift Seas And Whirlwinds is the 'earliest' in that group, taking place in 154 A.S. in the Commonwealth calendar, while the three stories I've collected together in my mind as the 'Gustav Trilogy' - comprising The Commonwealth Calls, Terror Immortal, and The Snake In The Sandbox - take place from 162 to 184 A.S.

Thirty years in all, twenty of which covered by the three 'Great Wars'. And that's where the trouble comes.

Most militaries, you see, have such things as 'minimum times in rank/service', and 'mandatory retirement ages', and usually for good reasons. But, in effect, for me this has meant that:

My characters theoretically need be of a 'minimum' age by the time they've reached a certain rank. And:

For those holding the most senior positions, there should be a firm limit on how long they can stay there.

Take, for example, Vice Admiral Olivia D. Oxley, a leading character in SSAW in her role as Flag Officer Commanding, Task Group MYSTIQUE. My plans for her in the past, as they are now, is that her victories in the Islander War would buoy her career in the future, and end with her as Chief of the Admiralty - the professional head of the United Commonwealth Navy - by the start of TCC at the latest, and to continue in that office throughout the Great Wars.

While climbing two ranks to Admiral of the Fleet in a decade or so is, I'd say, reasonable, it's a little harder for a certainly quite senior officer to remain in their highest office for two decades straight, give or take. Or at least, it feels that way sometimes. Sure, I've come up with excuses here and there, and toyed with Olivia's precise age in SSAW to gel the whole thing, but there's been this nagging feeling in my mind that someone might 'call me out' on this whole affair.

She, though, isn't the worst 'offender'. No, that crown goes to dearest Gustav.

You see, by his debut TCC I've pegged his age at about nineteen or so, and holding the rank of Second Lieutenant in the 3rd Internationals. Promoted to full Lieutenant by the war's end, that, and his ascendance to Captain within a year or so post-War, is 'sane' enough. Things, however, get a little stretchy once TI comes around.

Terror Immortal takes place over around five years, and in that time Gustav goes from Captain / junior Major, to Brigadier, marking his progression of four ranks in fewer years. Suffice to say, that is not common in 'modern' militaries!

Now, the fact that the UC's currently waging an inter-World War entailing the expansion of its military forces by the millions, to meet and exceed losses in the tens of thousands, should, my view, give me some leeway, combined with the good old 'he's just that bloody good' juice. Still, the fact he keeps his very senior rank despite being surrounded by far older - in sheer age, that is - peers even after hostilities... well, for some reason it hasn't rested that easily with me. I've pegged his age by the end of TI at about his early 30s. In comparison, with 'conventional' time in rank and promotion schedules, at around that age an officer would be expected to have reached the rank of...

Major.

Yep.

Suffice to stay, this is the sorta stuff that keeps me up at night.

For the novelty of it, I'll Tag @athenswrites @theprissythumbelina @hessdalen-globe @caxycreations

#writeblr #worldbuilding #? Sure why not. Mostly via 'worldbuilding points which exist to justify all that' #my wips #writing #my writing

[cozycryptidcorner]

People complaining about monsterfucking fiction not being christian friendly enough are hilarious to me, but also shake head because they are digging their own graves??? Its so easy to make such ''christian inspired'' fiction good, you only need three ingredients: 1) You deal with poor and abandoned people set against greedy, welathy and cruel hypocrites 2) you add in eldritch but kind guardian angel causing you to undergo the spiritually erotic euphoria and holy trance like 1/2

"Joan of Arc and saint Teresa and go in mindbreaking ecstasy 3) you write hot but shitty pretty demon boy getting dommed, spanked, pegged and sucking dick. And voila! People, why must we heathens and apostates do your work for you?"

because if they admit that reading between the lines shows a more sexual side of their religion then that's admitting to sin lolol.

but like. American Christianity has been twisted so profusely and profoundly from the source material (that's twisted even more from the big man himself) in order to serve the narrative of the those in charge (in this case, republicans, millionaires, oil barrens, etc) that poor and abandoned people are the enemy. You have "biblical laws" that constrain food stamps, keep minimum wage stagnant, contribute to food waste, etc. It takes either really brave christians or estranged apostates to actually roll up their sleeves and be like "hey bestie. this isn't it," because challenging church authority is a very discouraged thing because you're basically challenging the mouth pieces of god.

[orwellsunderpants]

Today I was thinking about the election season that is going to start probably any minute now, and decided to put together a platform wishlist. Below is what I want to see candidates fighting for in 2024. Feel free to add your own ideas in reblogs or replies.

universal healthcare, including dental and vision care

minimum wage pegged to the median rent for the county, such that the monthly wage of a full-time worker is no less than twice the median rent

monthly disability payments are twice the county's median rent, and the asset cap and marriage penalties are removed entirely

no restrictions on abortion or other reproductive care

universal basic income, with no means testing (yes, on top of the other stuff, and yes, for absolutely everybody, that's what "universal" means)

tax rate of 50% on all income (including capital gains, interest, and other unearned income) above $5m

tax rate of 90% on all income (as above) above $10m

full rights, dignity, and privacy for LGBTQ+ people

full access to gender-affirming medical care for trans folx

major updates to all infrastructure, including crumbling schools

turn internet services into a regulated utility

restrictions on how many rental/AirBnB-type properties one individual or corporation can hold

get rid of standardized testing in schools and pay teachers appropriately

30-hour or four-day work week

expanded access to public transportation, and especially to accessible transportation

I want to see everyone in my country able not only to get by, but to thrive.

#us politics #2024 elections

[partisan-by-default]

Unions want the monthly wage to be raised to $255 (£210) to help deal with the sharp rise in the cost of living since Mr Tinubu took office in May.

The president's $32 increase only brings a monthly minimum salary to $70.

He also pledged to speed up the rollout of cheap gas-powered buses to help with the recent tripling of fuel prices.

This was prompted by Mr Tinubu's removal of a fuel subsidy that had kept the price of petrol low for decades in Africa's largest economy.

In June, the country also abandoned its currency peg allowing it to trade freely, leading to one of the biggest falls in the naira's history.

[ccchloister]

Artificial Inspiration

One of the many things that bother me about the A.I. art phenomena happening right now is the downright glee some people are showing at the idea of artists becoming obsolete. I had no idea there was so much resentment towards us.

I saw someone call it "a big win for STEM over art". Considering people in STEM are already more valued and more hire-able, it's laughable they should act as if it's us who need to be taken down a peg. Artists, who often aren't even paid minimum wage for the labor they do, who feel they have to undercut each other just to get a sale (if they're able to make any money at all), who get offered payments in "exposure". I guess techies couldn't stand to see others have a specialized skill they didn't and couldn't profit off of. They tried to worm their way in with NFTs, and when that didn't work they figured out a way to cut out artists entirely.

I'm sure in several years when the consequences of such technology are more apparent, these programmers will express "regret" at what they've created- after they have profited off of it. I wish there were more ways to hold these programmers accountable who ask if they could, not if they should.

#art #artists #A.I. #ai artwork #ai artist #tech #techie #tech bro #automation #obsolescence #artists on tumblr #text #text post #technology #complaining #digital art #traditional art

[uncloseted]

Lol @ the logic that a celebrity is "problematic" because they make more than minimum wage and haven't magically fixed class/economic strain on greater America society. It's almost like you guys WANT that girl to be some kind of big secret racist instead of actually discussing bridging political views because it's easier to be able to just blame someone for everything wrong. It's also hilarious how people are spreading lies and misinformation about the girl and the post itself to make it seem worse and then being angry at the right for not understanding leftist political movements because they weaponize and believe in misinformation to discredit the movement. Ironic af.

To me, it's also just like... how much of this is actually public outrage that Sydney Sweeney posted a photo in which there's a guy wearing a Thin Blue Line shirt, and how much of this is just schadenfreude masquerading as moralism? Is this really a conversation motivated by moral integrity and intellectual rigor with the goal of combating racism, or is just a pretext for knocking Sydney Sweeney down a peg because people feel like she's annoying and overexposed? I know you all are going to come at me being like, "no, it's absolutely the shirt thing," but is it really? Is this the same level of response you would give a friend who posted a picture alongside a guy wearing a Thin Blue Line shirt? Is this even the same level of response you would give a guy wearing a Thin Blue Line shirt? I find it hard to believe that all the people on Twitter calling Sydney's family KKK members or accusing them of being insurrectionists would do the same to some guy they saw on the street.

And if you're really, 100% convinced that it's about the shirt thing, what do you want from Sydney Sweeney? An apology? A long post insisting that she knows her family is wrong and she's desperately trying to change their minds? As this Mic article says, all that would amount to is virtue-signalling damage control, and I don't think that would have been well-received either. Certainly, the actual response she gave was tone-deaf and not great. I'm not going to argue about that. But I don't think anything she could have said or done would have been considered adequate at this point. Which raises the question... what exactly is everyone hoping to gain from this? And I think the answer is that they're not really hoping to gain anything. The "Sydney Sweeney situation" isn't about convincing racist people to stop being racist or to draw attention to police brutality or to discuss prison abolition or even to spark a conversation about how to have difficult discussions with our own racist family members. I think for a lot of people who have jumped on this topic, it just feels good to feel morally superior to a conventionally attractive, successful young actress who has too much money.

I want to be clear that I'm not trying to defend Sydney Sweeney here. I really don't care one way or another what happens to her or her career, and I'm not upset that people are mad at her specifically. What I am is concerned about the lack of empathy that appears every time a celebrity does something that could be construed as problematic. If we did something problematic, wouldn't we want someone to call us in and explain what we could do differently? Wouldn't we want to be faced with kindness and understanding? Wouldn't we feel defensive if someone called us out on that behavior? Wouldn't we feel even more defensive if thousands of people aggressively called us out on that behavior and made assumptions about us and our family lives? Wouldn't that defensiveness make us dig in our heels and maybe start resenting the people who tell us we're wrong? And so why should we treat celebrities any differently when they fuck up than we would want to be treated? And why are we looking to celebrities to be paragons of morality and virtue, anyway? They're just people.

So before we jump on the train of declaring someone "problematic", I think it's important to take a step back and ask ourselves what we're hoping we'll be able to change by doing that, and what that person could do to redeem themselves in our eyes. I think doing that can help us to prevent ourselves from jumping on a bandwagon just because it feels good, and to make sure that our actions are focused on an actual goal.

[hbclife]

President Biden used student loan reform to 'push the idea that $15 should be the minimum wage,' expert says. Here's how

President Biden used student loan reform to ‘push the idea that $15 should be the minimum wage,’ expert says. Here’s how

Fast-food workers and supporters fight to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. James Leynse | Corbis Historical | Getty Images The Biden administration seems to have pegged a student loan policy announced Wednesday to its broader push for a national $15-an-hour minimum wage. The White House detailed a long-awaited plan to forgive up to $20,000 in federal student debt for borrowers, and…

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[lowkeyed1]

oof y'all... not sure about this job tbh. i could tell right away that there was static between my boss and the office manager and then the office manager went out with covid and put in her notice at the same time. well she finally came back in today to do her notice for the rest of the week and she is mad. says the boss didn't do any of her work (can confirm, all her stuff was untouched until yesterday when someone came in from the parent company to take a stab at it) even though he's supposed to back her up and things have fallen through the cracks. she decided to just leave and not finish out her notice, because of that and because she was told she wasn't eligible for rehire because she only gave 2 weeks notice instead of 30 days. they have literally not had full housekeeping staff the entire time i've been here and there are so many resident complaints about trash not being taken out and cleaning not being done. i'm not surprised if they can't keep staff in that dept bc i'm sure they pay them minimum wage. and now i'm like, how low are they going to peg the salary to replace this woman who seems like she was doing 90% of what keeps this place operational? tl;dr i'm gonna keep job hunting lol... maybe i can find a remote gig this time.

#work fucking sucks #who the hell mandates 30 days notice or you're not rehireable? #a company that gives ONE WEEK of PTO per YEAR that's who #lol

[harrison-abbott]

After an Interview

You wondered what was the point in going to hang out with them. Even in general terms. But you felt compelled. One of them was getting married and that seemed a proper reason. So you got the train ticket down to the other city, thinking it wouldn’t be so bad. The plan was to hook up for some food in town and then cart along to the football game. And you met up with them in town, on a warm Spring afternoon. Soon as you sat in the bar with them you thought you’d try polite conversation. Soon as you tried this, the eldest (the one who was engaged) just took the piss out of the way that you said it. And you thought, Oh, it’s this shit again. Just as you’d expected and known throughout your entire life. And the irony was that you kept trying with the conversational cues – posing dialectic questions. Since that was what you did with people in university, or your work colleagues. Because the job was so boring at work that the only way to head through the hours (at minimum wage) was to try and spark a little bit of chat. This tactic was not working with the siblings. They ate meat burgers in the bar. You didn’t eat meat for ethical reasons. They made fun of you for eating ethically. Then when the pints were drank and gaudy food swallowed they and you bounced along to the stadium.

With ten thousand other folks. Seagulls overhead. The wrangling boom and blast of young men with beer in them. The green and white scarves. At this moment in history the team were still in the second division; which was a fairly appalling considering that they were amongst the richest clubs in the nation. But, they can still get 10 000 punters to come along every week [and that fills half of the stadium]. We’ve even convinced the old man to come. He’s from England and he doesn’t like football and he’s only paid for our tickets because it’s the eldest brother’s stag do. The men run around. In their shorts. It’s 1 ��� 0 to ‘us’ and then the other team score a fluke goal. And for the rest of the 90 minutes pretty much we’re waiting for our team to grab a winning goal.

Your brother takes a photo of you in the stand whilst you’re unawares and you’ve never liked having your snap taken; it’s just something like a bad taste or foul smell or a bodily pressure that you’ve never liked and have often sought to avoid; and folks don’t seem to get that you aren’t comfortable with something when they totally are. Because they love being in photos, they assume that you should too! Even though they know you don’t. And it’s exactly like that with them. [You remember when you were unemployed for a stint a few summers back. You were looking for work in the Edinburgh Festival. And hadn’t gotten any success yet. Had handed in a CV to this pizza joint and were waiting for the boss to get back to you after an interview. And she was yelling at you because you didn’t have a job. And amid the climax of the shouting spree she went “Why don’t you just become a model!” Because you are quite a good looking chap. And to sugar the sentence, she hollered, “Or can’t you do that with your lack of attitude!” You thought it was bizarre how your own parent would say such a thing, knowing how camera shy you were – and then link it in with something like getting a job. Oh, and you got offered that pizza joint job two days later. Worked there for a couple of months, saved up, and then went back up to university to start studying again.] And you looked stupid in the photo – as it pegged you unexpected.

The football team, our team, managed to score shortly after the 90th minute. Yay. Pandemonium. Whoopee. Then the entire team bashed out back down the streets and to the bar again. Your brother who took the embarrassing photo showed it to all of the siblings and they all found it guttural and hilarious. Ant it just cropped up across the entire night, whenever there was an empty bit where something needed to be said. Aside from that, all they talked about was this football team, with a nerdy philosophical vibe. At one point they got talking about movies – and so I thought that, Hey, a Cultural part! I could contribute here! And when you tried to do that they just ripped you up. You think because your voice was too quiet … something like that. You were drinking as well and the alcohol wasn’t helping you toughen up. … At another point they started speaking about one of the old neighbourhood lads, from around the block, who was heavy into alcohol himself and was suicidal, on the brink. When you attempted to offer your thoughts on that, on him, as well: it was met with chuckles and imitation. Urgh. … Father asked them to quit making fun of you. They wouldn’t. He did it in a tame whispery way. And then Dad went home and left you with all of them. And shortly after that, the eldest brother’s best man arrived, having come up to visit from London. He slithered right in to the pisstaking atmosphere.

You knew that they would most likely snitch you out to mother for drinking alcohol, even though they were all drinking heftily themselves. You weren’t 100% sure whether it surprised you how immature they still were. With the biggest bro being 34 years old; and he was still acting like that. And you’d organised the stag do with the entire sibling clan, to try and do something nice for them, to spend time with them. And all they did, all night, was shred you to smithereens. And the next morning: they grassed you up to mother for drinking too much.

Yeah. That’s the way it happened. What the family is like. I don’t see why you should think of certain people as angels, just because you’re related to them. They aren’t, angelic. And you don’t have to be like them if you don’t want to be.

#writeblr #creative writing #writers on tumblr #stories #tumblr writers #spilled ink