#reduction in force

[bethechangehr]

Reduction in Force Best Practices - 5 Tips From An HR Pro

Get help from an experienced HR professional and legal counsel to craft a written reduction in force (RIF) plan.

#RIF #Reduction in Force #HR solutions #HR Consulting

[jacelynsia]

Reduction in Force Are Always Painful - Here's How You Can Communicate Them Compassionately

Reduction in force massive layoffs may be the need of the hour, but they don’t have to come at the cost of fundamental humane values This article will guide you on how to communicate these layoffs compassionately

#reduction in force #rif layoff #offshore hiring #software development

[uncanny-tranny]

Part of harm reduction is recognizing that abstinence or sobriety, whenever these terms are applicable, is not the inherent goal for so many people. Forcing complete abstinence or sobriety can absolutely be detrimental, which is why we must not idealize either one or force it on people. It should be an option, yes, but that does not mean it is the only option or the only option worth pursuing.

#harm reduction #mental health #mental health advocacy #ask to tag (genuine) #i practice almost complete abstinence for a particular behaviour but if you forced abstinence onto me i would be livid and scared... #...and i would feel that way because the abstinence is not my choice which means i have no control or agency over if/when i feel safe... #...to engage in 'harmful' behaviour... #...yes i recognize that abstinence is my best option which is why i practice it but i do NOT want my agency over it taken away #while the behaviour i do isn't drugs/drinking which is what people typically mean by harm reduction it counts still #this is related to my 'recovery should be an option not a compulsion' post. they're cousins in fact

[failbaby]

I get why people are saying Shiv and Roman should be doing more for Kendall as his addiction escalates (and they definitely don’t always deal with it respectfully or appropriately—Shiv blasting his addiction on social media, Roman calling him a “junkie,” etc.) but in their defense like. Shiv made a genuine effort to intervene and he wasn’t receptive. You cannot make someone stop using if they aren’t ready. That has to be a step that they take for themselves.

Shiv and Roman have been watching Logan deal with Kendall’s addiction for years, and the way that Logan approaches the issue is by making it clear that he thinks active addiction is unacceptable and Kendall needs to be sober, period. They know (because they’ve seen!) that trying to force Kendall into sobriety doesn’t do anything except create a personal culture of secrecy, lies, and sneaking around that puts him (and any waiters who cross his path </3) in terrifying, life-threatening situations.

It’s not that they don’t care about Kendall’s addiction, it’s just that they know that the “sober or nothing” approach doesn’t work, and so (as of s4) they’ve stopped pushing sobriety, and they’re trying to help him by just being there until he is able to get sober. Kendall talks about addiction openly with them. They know that he’s using. They know what he’s using. They know that he doesn’t use intravenously. He feels safe talking to them about his use because they don’t freak out or threaten him with institutionalization, and that’s a huge step that could literally save his life.

And this isn’t even really a theory because we’ve seen this play out! When Kendall was on that bender and using untested meth at a complete stranger’s house, he called Roman to pick him up (and not Logan), because he knew that Roman would come get him no matter what, no questions asked. No yelling, no outbursts, no interrogation, no ‘after this I’m pink-slipping you out to the desert’ just “drop a pin so I know you’re okay.” Feeling safe calling Roman for a ride could very well have saved his life. Having “safe people” who will be there for an addict until they can get sober is harm reduction

#oc #tw addiction #they’ve done studies on this #harm reduction is empirically proven effective! getting someone sober isn’t the only way to help them! #having even just one or two safe people significantly mitigates the danger of addiction #for example since they know he’s H they know they can carry narcan in case of an emergency #if they were trying to force him into treatment he didn’t want he wouldn’t be comfortable telling them that at all

[sergle]

(feel free to delete<3good luck with the surgery!) Do you know why they got so big in the first place? Bad luck with genetics, a spell from an angry wizard, broken game mods?

Broken game mods could DEF be a part of it, it's a very "No middle sliders" thing for my body to do. lmao but it really is just... random chance genetics!!!

#I'm not the only person in my family who got it- it also hit my eldest sister with a similar amount of Force #she got a reduction too a hot minute back #but like it was just That Way. I was getting too big for the biggest victoria's secret bras when I was like 13 #it just be like that!! idk!! i blame the genetics from my birthfather's side of things #bc my mom and grandmother are both built like yardsticks so that ain't it #sergle answers

[autistic-katara]

there r fics that make u insane (so amazingly good it’s removed ur sanity) and then there’s fics that make u insane (you need to fistfight the author for how they did a specific thing that caused u to rant for hours)

#i know i just posted that other thing but ffs that is NOT how u handle someone in that situation everyone involved made everything 10x worse #yet it’s being treated like the right thing to do (which again ofc they’re cops they don’t understand harm reduction but still) like #seriously everything’s so forceful like u seriously think forcing ur friend to talk to u or forcing a patient to talk to a therapist under #the threat of being admitted to a psychiatric hospital is gonna make her feel comfortable talking to u? or anyone? she’s just gonna trust u #less and get better at hiding it and speaking of which the taking away all sharp objects thing makes sense in theory but like think abt it #for a minute she confirmed she isn’t suicidal and this is her only way of coping so do not just forcibly take away all her coping mechanism #like yes she is hurting herself but it’s a COPING MECHANISM. she’s coping with something. help her with that don’t just take away her penci #sharpers or whatever (which btw since she’s an adult she could easily buy more stuff and yk learn to hide it better) which again has to be #voluntary it isn’t gonna work if u force someone to do smthn they don’t want to like as ur friend u could’ve made it clear u care abt her #and wouldn’t judge her for anything and r here if she wants to talk don’t just say “you have to talk to me” and casually threaten #hospitalisation when she isn’t ready in the moment like seriously if this wasn’t a badly written fanfic she would completely stop trusting #bcz given that this wasn’t even done out of panic i would like ffs u are NOT doing any of this right #oops sorry ranted abt the bad fic in my tags- #it’s not where the author’ll see it and know it’s about them i don’t feel bad abt it #this was my first time even looking at stuff for this fandom so #cw self harm in tags #idk if i need to tag anything else for that 😭 #fanfic #ao3 #ryan shut the fuck up

[masseffectdoctor]

Something that I think people need to understand and remember about Henry Kissinger is the fact that he was a Man in a position of relatively little personal power, in comparison to something like say a president.

However this absolute bastard war criminal is probably responsible personally for more death heartache and pain than just about any other single human being that's ever existed.

So as we crab rave and piss on his grave, I want you all to think about and remember the positions of power we see now. Especially so in the US. Because the decisions we make do affect the lives, happiness, and well-being of people all across the world.

So I'm gonna co-opt his death for a brief second to just remind you that he didn't happen in a vacuum. His destructive and monsterous existence was not born of thin air. People helped make him. People helped give him power.

Lets not be those people again. Let's do better than the people who put these war criminals in power.

#henry kissinger #just my thoughts #soap box #lets do fucking better #piss on him and do better #elect better officials #do harm reduction voting when possible #and when really possible make strides in communities and positions of power to really force and effect change

[kyliafanfiction]

Padme didn’t just “lose the Will to Live” because Anakin fell.

She was witness to three years of horrible war, while she constantly and desperately tried to hold a government she loved and had dedicated her life to defending together, in the face of creeping autocracy and systems breakdown. She endured the stress of maintaining a secret relationship, hiding it from friends and family and all the people in her life.

She then not only saw the man she loved turn to fascism, but murder hundreds, thousands of people, including people she knew, and watched the Senate fucking applaud the death of liberty and the rise of the Empire - organized by a man who, whatever their political disagreements, had once been a treasured mentor and even probably a friend once.

She watched her life’s work burn, and then - and THEN her husband, the man she loved, not only turned on her, but tried to fucking choke her to death and nearly succeeded. THEN after all that, she gave birth in what appears to have been a particularly difficult birth (I can’t imagine nearly dying helped), and the compound psychological and physical stresses killed her.

It’s really not fucking hard. 

But no. It’s just ‘George Lucas is baffled by the Uterus’. Because it’s so much easier to say that than to engage your brain for five seconds.

#Padme Amidala #Padme Naberrie #Star Wars #God that fucking post is so noxious #ooooh it would have been avoided if Padme went to an OBGYN #Anakin was having force visions exactly like what happened before his mother died those visions hit right into his deepest fears and #anxieties rational behavior is not exactly normal for someone in those moments #and Anakin was dealing with three years of war #a lifetime of baggage and enough issues to open a Hudson News #AND over a decade of grooming by Palpatine #A simple reassurance by a doctor that Padme was going to be fine was not going to solve the problem you reductive idiot #Tumblr apparently needs every fucking detail spoon fed to them #MY GOD I HATE THE PEOPLE ON THIS FUCKSITE #Blue Hellsite (Derogatory)

[secattention]

Farmer tells what happened when his Hogs were injected with the new mRNA Vaccine.

#jim crenshaw #on bitchute #awareness #the NWO is going to force You to take these injections one way or another #all part of the agenda #Vaccines in Fruits & Vegetables #Vaccines in Many Meat Products #Who Knows What Else #Population Reduction #We MUST Remove the Carbon from this Earth #the Carbon is You!

[deathlessathanasia]

"Detienne, taking as his key the well-known myth that Adonis' pregnant mother Myrrha or Smyrna (both Greek words for myrrh) was metamorphosed into a myrrh tree, from whose trunk the newborn in due time emerged, sees Adonis as essentially the fruit of an aromatic shrub, a perfume, an anti-agricultural product. His method is to find a counter-phenomenon in Attic society, in response to which the Adonia can take their significance: surely the Thesmophoria, the autumn festival in honor of Demeter at which the women of Athens celebrated the growth of food crops. Detienne finds a further, sociological opposition here: the Thesmophoria were celebrated only by the wives of Athenian citizens; the Adonia were notoriously celebrated by prostitutes. He positions Adonis and the data of his cult within various oppositional codes discernible in Greek culture-each illustrated by a diagram-that parallel one another quite precisely, replicating the same meaning in different terms: aromatically, Adonis stands for heady perfume; botanically, for profitless agriculture; socially, for seduction and extramarital pleasure. The Adonia, Detienne declares, were a celebration of infertility and fruitless sex, a spectacular illustration of the dangers of untrammeled female sexuality, serving to balance and emphasize the autumn celebration of fruitfulness and legitimate connubiality in the service of the polis.

But much evidence slips through Detienne's grid. In several versions of the birth of Adonis myrrh has no place: in our earliest his mother is one Alphesiboea ([Hes.], fr. 139 M-W); in another she is one Metharme ([Apollod.], Bibl. 3.14.3). Philostephanus of Cyrene made him the son of Zeus alone (ap. [Probus] on Verg., Ecl. 10.18).22 As for the carnival of whores, the Adoniac festivities in brothels in Diphilus, fr. 42.38-41 PCG and Alciphron 4.14.8 (based on fourth-century comedy), are to be supplemented by Aristophanes, Lys. 391-96, and Menander, Sam. 35-50, in which wives and daughters of citizens celebrate the Adonia. Most surprisingly, Detienne's theory takes only passing account of the ritual lamentation, which ancient sources make the most conspicuous feature of the festival, and in general ignores what the celebrants themselves thought of what they were doing-unless we are to imagine that the women of Athens climbed onto their roofs once a year deliberately to celebrate their own failings to the community. There was probably another reason, one which feminist studies of the cult have begun to seek.

Another assumption, however, more fundamentally flaws Detienne's interpretation. While proposing to tease an inherent meaning from Athenian cult practice by identifying the inherent correspondences and oppositions within it, Detienne fails to define a perspective more specific than a homogeneous Greco-Roman society. Adonis, for example, must have meant many things to many people at many times (even different things to the same people at different times), but Detienne's formula assumes that he meant essentially the same thing to everybody, no matter how many borders of nation, culture, language, gender, or time he may have crossed-as if any detail of the myth of Adonis tapped into one immanent meaning and could be adduced for the significance of the Athenian cult. Rhetorical motives are undifferentiated: a line of Sappho is treated equally with a line of Philodemus; the testimony of Aristophanes is put on a par with the testimony of St. Cyril. This method is programmatic and derives from Levi-Strauss, who articulates the principle thus vis-A-vis his interpretation of Oedipus: "[W]e define the myth as consisting of all its versions; or to put it otherwise, a myth remains the same as long as it is felt as such." Combining details from diverse myths of Adonis, regardless of date or provenance, Detienne treats the resulting conglomeration as a single sacred tale holding a precious key to the meaning of the ritual. But for whom does it hold meaning? For Detienne alone. Purportedly context-based, his method actually isolates phenomena from their diverse cultural uses and recontextualizes them into an artificial code that transcends the messy inconsistencies of Greek thought."

- The Sexuality of Adonis by Joseph D. Reed

#adonis #adonia #festivals #ancient greece #greek mythology #structuralism #excerpts #article #and this is why I have such a bad time reading the writings of Detienne and other structuralist classicists #not that they don't write a lot of interesting and insightful stuff #but the homogenizing of all versions of a myth (no matter the date or author or language) into one coherent account #and the extrapolation of meaning from that one ahistorical version that the author has just created #is just not something I care about #and I also feel that the interpretation of the gods from a structuralist perspective can be reductive #and necessitates the ignoring or dismissal of sources that don't fit so neatly into the proposed binary #ex: Poseidon=brute force of nature so he engenders the horse; Athena=civilization and technology so she creates the bridle to tame it #just ignore that in some sources it is Poseidon himself who invents the bridle #I mean yeah the idea does have merit #but ancient Greek mythology and religion are complex and messy and diverse and even contradictory

[restinthewest]

It’s been said before and I feel like its tough to talk about this without sounding like a cliche motivational speaker or a cult leader but my inner (conscious) voice can actually be so powerful. Acknowledging it and continuing to work to leverage it within the past few years has been one of the best things I've done for myself. It can't fix everything and I still frequently get stuck in toxic or unhelpful thought patterns or behaviors, but drawing upon even small successes which have been in large part a product of intentional self talk and my dogged resilience give me so much hope that though I may not succeed at fixing some issues now that one day I will be able to.

#I think I was resistant to the idea for so long because growing up the message of this is often relayed as ‘the power of positive thinking’ #which is reductive imo #I think I was forced to face it because I have OCD among other things #and as such my subconscious or unwanted/intrusive thoughts are also so powerful #and being intentional with self talk is so important to combat this #been thinking about this topic a lot as we go into a historically tough time of year for me and I’m really trying to flex this muscle #so I can make the most of things and avoid falling into negative patterns

[thebroccolination]

I remember one of the most influential moments I had on my body image while living in Japan.

One Saturday afternoon, my Japanese coworker and I went out to lunch, and as we left the buffet, stuffed to satisfaction, she said, “I shouldn’t have eaten so much. I’m already the fat one in my family.”

I was distracted thinking about something else, and I thought she was joking, so I made a noncommittal kind of noise. I’d only been in Japan for half a year at that point, and I was already tired of the extensive fat-shaming almost everyone took part in, so I just disconnected whenever it started.

Then I glanced at her and realized she was serious. She had a self-deprecating half-smile, and she didn’t seem to be setting me up for one of those, “No, but you’re so pretty,” responses. She was just stating a fact. This person, who probably couldn’t have pinched more than a pinky’s width of fat anywhere on her body, was ashamed of her size.

Meanwhile, I was twenty-three and deeply, profoundly hated my body. Back then, I would have given most anything to be her size.

And in that moment, I realized: it’ll never be enough.

No matter how petite, how skinny, how svelte, how toned, how whatever. The societies many of us live in profit off of the desperation of mass misery, and no amount of dieting would ever give me a pass from that misery. If I was thin, there’d be some other issue to “fix”, like “weird elbows” or something else that I haven’t even thought about because no one’s had the opportunity to tell me how much it costs to adjust it yet.

I realized in a mall on a Saturday that the joy I’d been chasing had to come from disengaging from the whole chase, not from changing my body.

And I mean, I’m not totally there yet, even over a decade later. It’s difficult to love what you’re repeatedly told is wrong about yourself, and I hated my body for much longer than I’ve been actively trying to love it. I cling to offhand compliments about my looks, and I feel a twinge of guilt whenever I enjoy the “wrong” foods, and I fantasize about how much easier or happier life would be if I looked the way my coworker looked then.

But at least I know to my core that it will never be enough for them. No size, no shape, no degree of perfection will ever be enough for the societies and cultures I’ve lived in that judge one’s morality by one’s body. Relatives of mine in the States over the holidays tortured themselves with “I was being so good so far” and “I’m going to be bad tonight” and it’s just so pointlessly cruel that we’re set up to think this way about ourselves.

I made a lemon-glaze cake over the holidays, and almost no one ate it because so many people were dieting.

I did, though.

I just love the irony that living in a culture so rigid about weight actually freed me somewhat from the chase for an impossible goal. I bought diet pills as a teenager, and I couldn’t believe as recently as last week that a woman I was attracted to was hitting on me, but at least I know I’m in this snow globe now, and it makes breaking out of it easier.

Since university, I’ve been committed to exercising to gain muscle because I wanted to lose weight. But now I do it mainly because I like the strength and the flexibility that comes along with it. My weight’s never hurt me or my immune system or any aspect of my life. My brain did that, and my brain was just reacting to a lifetime of fear-mongering.

It will never be enough until you disengage from the chase.

#this is somewhat about sammy’s ig post but it’s been on my mind for years #the beauty standards in asia hurt so many people #relentlessly #i’m a strong supporter of plastic surgery and body modification in general #if you’re an adult you get to have agency over your body and your life #you should be able to get tattoos or piercings or breast reductions or whatever you want to feel comfortable in your skin #but when that desire comes from a place of shame that you were forced to live with #then it’s cruel #this isn’t really about sammy #i just feel sad for the young fans who look like sammy and admired her for being someone famous and charismatic who looked like them #the entertainment industry can be so impersonal and merciless

[butchfeygela]

harm reduction workers that describe the work they do as 'reducing harm while a person isnt ready to get clean /yet/' honestly fills me with fear like

a) if theyre thinking abt the services they offer as inherently a stop gap before sobriety than they are going to fail a bunch of addicts who dont want to stop and feel condescension when its phrased as a 'dont want to stop /yet/'

b) if they use 'clean' as shorthand for sobriety than they are a fucking shitty public health advocate like??? using 'clean' to denote sobriety or negative sti status explicitly declares all other states as 'dirty' which only further stigmatizes groups tht already avoid treatment and support bc of the stigma

c) i stopped watching tht tiktok at this point bc i was too infuriated but i wouldnt be suprised if there were more red flags

#like at least they seemed to be against forced treatment but if your care giver. the one providing u clean needles and nalaxone. clearly is #waiting for you to make the /correct/ /inevitable/ choice of sobriety and views sobriety as a state of cleanlieness #then are u actually freely choosing to go sober or are you being implicitly oressured into doing so #nikanie #harm reduction

[drbatsponge]

I feel like the Black Bat identity is such a weird note in Cassandra's history because the identity was forced upon her like Orphan was because editorial didn't want her ass to be Batgirl, but a bunch of people like that one? Lmfao.

I do guess it is a better name than Orphan, but she never was given a reason TO BE Black Bat, I would even say the Orphan codename was more developed than Black Bat which is controversial but it's true.

#personally if you ask me she should just be Batgirl #it's her true calling #maybe Batman somewhere down the line but Batgirl is her #and Stephanie can be the other Batgirl or just Spoiler because Spoiler really isn't an identity that was forced on her #nor reductive to Steph #but yeah my opinions #cassandra cain #stephanie brown #batgirl #batgirls #dc comics

[fauvester]

anyone else here truly deeply dislike Lessons in chemistry (the book) (also probably the show)

#its SOOOOOO Checkmate Atheists + manic pixie dream girl + deeply reductive feminism #i wanted to finish it for my bestie that lent it to me but not even that was enough to force me thru the last 30 pages #omg is so ~quirky~ did you get girls in STEM did you Stick it to the man? did you do it??

[moonbeam-fox]

I think the reason my employer succeeded where many other organizations that serve a similar client base have failed is that this job posting essentially asked "can we train a social worker to do security work" and not the other way around

#theres actually a tremendous amount of psychology behind the idea of voluntary compliance vs punishment or force based compliance #kinda neat that they were willing to take a risk on harm reduction and trauma informed de escalation #instead of just hiring a bunch of police academy washouts like they easily may have done