#she's in the wrong industry

[fazcinatingblog]

Would my boss hate that there's like three desks downstairs that are all sort of mine, there's my normal desk (without a computer) then my other desk that has the computer and then Jenette's desk that we use to lodge things but three desks for ONE PERSON

#no but like she's so gung ho that 'every desk must be filled' #to the point where there's technically only three offices upstairs plus her own (which she never goes up to any more) #and she plans to have four accountants up there #like??? #so there's three bookkeepers downstairs & she'll have four accountants upstairs (hired a guy today & apparently another interview on Monday) #and one admin #see she would justify this by saying the business is growing #i naturally internally freak out at 3am because no we're not really growing #she was worried there wouldn't be enough car spaces and I'm worried there won't be enough desks and they'll have to sit on each other's laps #colleen was right #colleen got out at the right time (Colleen would probably say she left three years too late) #i mean with more staff means more wages for her to pay and then she'll expect the invoices every week to match that???? #like come on that's not what's going to happen #my boss' brain doesn't work like a normal brain #she's in the wrong industry #she'd be much more suited to running a theatre restaurant #yeah I'm fine #this all just drivel at 3am and I'm sorry #i need to get it out and hopefully i stop tossing and turning and getting annoyed by the number of accountants being employed and #i just #i don't know

[st4rbwrry]

nicki is the prime example of an older bitter woman. she need serious help fr. like to hear her on live stuttering and going on and on about megan and her deceased mother is sickening. she stooped low af fr. all over one line. megan ain’t even say that girls name and it got her yapping out her mouth like somebody grandma. and she’s only proving everyone’s point about her nasty ass husband. now if megan say sum bout her father or brother???? don’t go crying to kenneth or papa about how everyone’s against you cs you’re the queen of rap blah blah.

#and don’t get me wrong. ADORE nicki’s music. i was too a barb. but time and time again has she lessened her value #she continues to bash every woman she collabs w #she has beef with EVERY WOMAN IN THE INDUSTRY. she’s clearly the problem. #she hates seeing anyone be great or do more than her. #i hope megan say a lot more about her lil ass. talking about a mother like that would get a bitch STOMPED in my city #also her doing this dr seuss ass rhyme #LMAOOOOOOO. #giving one fish two fish #talking about her foot but didn’t you say she was lying??? so you agree??? she got shot? oh okay. #៹ ࣪𖥔 ━━━ ꒰ 𝑚𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑎’𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 .ᐟ ꒱ #megan thee stallion #nicki minaj

[blorbocedes]

it's kinda crazy the only person on my f1 Instagram whose stories are full of pro palestine posts is Kelly Piquet

#good for her #cause all these other f1 celebs are Quiet. and Charles unfollowed that pro Palestine page he used to follow #I don't think it's a virtue signal cause she's actively losing followers and even the hadids -- the world's biggest models -- talked ab #losing job opportunities bc of being pro 🇵🇸 and Kelly wants to be within the fashion industry #people are multifaced beings if you can hate them for being wrong you can also acknowledge when they're right #kelly piquet

[squarebracket-trickster]

Sorry guys, rant incoming. I considered deleting this but I put too much effort in.

"girlboss" "girl dinner" "girl math" "boy math" "gen z are making fun of us for wearing x" "here's how to dress like gen z:" "girlies" "girl's night" "boy's night" "me and the boys" "90s kid"

"I don't feel like an adult" "I'm 34 and I can tell you, I still don't feel like an adult either." "My parents seemed like real adults when they were my age." "I still feel like a teenager."

Maybe you'd feel more like an adult if you started calling yourself one. Maybe you'd feel more like an adult if you stopped trying to dress like a teenager. Maybe you should move your bed out from the wall and get a wallet. Maybe find a calendar app that works for you.

You are an adult. Even if you live with your parents. Even if you do part-time shift work at minimum wage. Even if you haven't graduated college. Even if you are single. These are adult things to do. Because you are doing them. And you are an adult. Start treating yourself like an adult. Fake it 'till you make it if you have to.

In other, writing-related, news:

That trend on TikTok of 20-40 something women authors (and writers yet to be published) promoting their books like,

"Omg! I can't believe I've sold X number of copies!! I never thought I would!" "Ahhhh imagine publishing your book and all your dreams come true and now you get to meet famous authors and work with big names in the industry!!" "Would you read a book where [proceeds to list a bunch of oversaturated tropes that tell me nothing about the actual plot]?"

It reeks of infantilization. If you didn't believe anyone would want to read your book, why should I? You made it on the NYT bestseller list! Stop acting like a mega-fan who got to meet a celebrity. You are their peer! "Would you read a book--" What if I wouldn't? Why does it matter to you what I think of your book? And for the love of god stop hiding behind tropes you know are already popular. "Here is my book: This is what it is about." Have some goddamn confidence.

It is fine to mention in passing "this idea was really far-fetched so I didn't know if it would appeal" or "I was struggling with self-esteem when I wrote this". It's fine to fan a little bit. It's fine to discuss the tropes in your book. But why are you building your brand as an author off of your inferiority complex? You are using your poor self-esteem as a marketing tactic to seem "humble" and "relatable" but it's coming across as unprofessional and desperate for reassurance. You are an adult. You are competent. The more you act like it the more you will believe it.

And of course, I haven't seen a man promote his book this way...

On another note, do any of the 20-40 something women writers who do "write with me" videos on TikTok actually enjoy writing or are they just doing it for the aesthetic?

They all have gorgeous minimalism writing spaces full of white and pink and a macbook beneath a window. Their makeup is done and they are conventionally pretty to start with. But their entire video is just them talking about how little progress they made, how many pages they deleted, how often they got distracted, how frustrated they are. And like, yeah. We all have those days. But what about the good lines you can't wait to share? The days when the words just flow? The cool stuff you learned while researching? Why don't you ever make videos about that?

Is this some other attempt to seem "relatable" by only talking about the "bad" side of writing? Because again, it's coming across as lacking confidence at best and, at worst, that you don't actually know how to write. And that is not the brand you want as an author.

Again, its always women. Why must women market their self-esteem issues in order to sell their art? Why must we be perpetually awestruck children (girlies, book girls) in over our heads?

#also why do I get the sense these women are selling a lifestyle more than they are actually promoting their own books? #I feel like someone more qualified than me could link this to modelling good christian gender roles #and cultural conformity or something #it isn't lost on me how much of this is about trying to seem humble #and how much validation is tied to protestant success and hard work ideas #is this where the indoctrination starts? #give us 'role models' as influencers #also Alex Aster of Lightlark fame is the WORST for this #her content makes me physically sick to watch #and again interesting that it is pretty widely agreed on at this point that she is an industry plant #interesting that the industry plant is leaning so heavy on the humility and infantilization of women tactics #as though appealing to protestant christians is a major concern of the industry #what's that about? is it just sales? or is it related to those evangelical groups trying get books banned? #how much influence does conservative christian america have within the trad pub industry? #maybe I am really reaching here idk #I don't have any sources #it's just speculation I am open to be proven wrong

[sternenhimmel-mond]

If I had a nickel for every time an adult cartoon showed an elderly white couple that was the parents of one of our main characters being taken care of by a male, black, live-in nurse that was in a polycule with them, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

#and like. im not disgusted or anything i just thought thats a hella specific scenario to show up in two completely different adult cartoons #and im pretty sure theyre unrelated too. but i dont know much about the industry so i could be wrong #anyway i watched the first episode of carol and the end of the world and while i really like carol. i also had three pretty intense cries #during it so i think i have to take it really slow or even wait until im in a more stable place #whoda thunk. the person who cant think about death for more than five minutes without ha jng a complete mental breakdown cant watch the show #about a woman trying to figure out how to cope with the impending doom of everyone she knows and loves #the other was rick and morty #life adventures #my shit #carol and the end of the world #rick and morty

[muppetminge]

the obsession the beauty industry has with fixing shit is fucked up. there’s nothing to ‘fix’ about how someone naturally looks. 

i’ve got this thing, keratosis pilaris, google tells me, often known as chicken skin, goosebumps, whatever. basically, tiny red bumps, all over. chances are you’ve probably seen it, i’m told it’s pretty common. 

the thing about it is, it’s entirely cosmetic. i’ve no itchiness, or irritation, or other bullshit. just tiny, red bumps. all over. 

the other thing is that i entirely don’t mind. i’m quite fond of them, actually. this is how i look. it’s how i’ve always looked. it’s me - why should that be an insecurity? 

as a young kid, i remember my mom telling me, you know, your sister had that. you can get some stuff for that. fix it. 

no thanks, i said, and in my head that was that. 

my mom brought it up more, but i never budged. my mom shrugged it off, ‘it’ll come someday,’ she insisted, apparently counting on the outside world to do it’s job and shame me into being ashamed and insecure. 

(i was a stubborn kid. i still am. recently, i off-handedly mentioned not wearing makeup (i never have) and my mother insisted, knowingly, ‘oh it’ll come someday’. don’t count on it, i insisted, as an adult in my 20′s, who’s had to listen to ‘oh, it’ll come someday’ for all of my teenage years for a whole matter of issues and is frankling tired of waiting. ‘oh well, i guess you can look nice without it anyway.’ yeah. thanks. should think so, that my natural face is nothing to be ashamed of. anyway)

i remember vividly p.e. class, a friend pointing to my bare arms, what’s that? being asked if it’s contagious (it’s not.), my best friend off-handedly mentioning, ‘oh yeah, you’ve got that thing’, in high school, a classmate curiously asking, ‘can’t you get something for that?’

and yeah, i’m still that stubborn, contrarian kid. and i’ve still got my little bumps. all over. and i still haven’t shaved. and i still haven’t covered my face. and i still haven’t conformed to a whole host of other bullshit we expect women to put up with, whatever issues we’re supposed to ‘fix’. 

and i’m still happy with how i look. every part of it, even when i’m told i shouldn’t be. supposed ‘imperfections’ or not. maybe them especially, actually.

#anti beauty culture #anti beauty industry #beauty standards #anti makeup #mona mona mona #this got so rambly lmao sorry #love insecurity being conflated with maturity <3 #self love is for children i guess <3 #(also to note - i love my mother dearly. she's a lovely woman. she really really is. she's just also wrong sometimes)

[sunmisbf]

sunmisbf/sunmi divorce arc

#i’d rather she release an album w 13 songs n disappear for 3 years than release 1 single every year but whatever #i hope she’s happy staying w that deadbeat ass company that did nothing for her except kill her ambition n convince her she’s nothing #compared to boy groups #the need to stay relevant n popular in the kpop industry is like shackles keeping her tied down #sunmi who cares!!!!! release what u want!!!!!! #she’s never releasing a full album or even mini albums like it’s over #n of course seungyoun has to be in the middle of mandatory enlistment rn like 😭 fuck my stupid gay life #anyways it’s not even that serious but i have real problems so i like to pretend everything wrong w my life is bc of this one specific thing #.txt

[robotpussy]

yea we are never making progress ever the more people I talk to about unions and striking the more I keep hearing the same excuse of "they're selfish, they should just find another job if it's not paying them well/the conditions are bad" because last night my cousin called the people that work for national rail and other train services doing a walk off/striking are selfish for doing so and when I tried to explain to her that no act of striking the workplace is selfish when this is done to change the workplace for EVERYBODY not just those striking she started saying I'm doing too much over a "fake scenario" because she said would never strike when I wasn't even addressing that I felt like I was in a twitter arguement but in real life because at this point it's willful ignorance if you try to flip over the tables and say what I'm fighting for isn't even real when you just said people that strike are selfish....

#shes one of those ppl that nobody can ever tell them they're wrong so when the one time everybody else was like #you're wrong striking isnt a personal thing ppl do it so they can eat and not be at risk of losing their homes due greedy ceos #she got mad as fuck at me and shes now holding a grudge against me like 😭 you can stay ignorant if you want #but just know the rights you have now at your job were there because people unionised. those ' #'selfish' people are the reason why you are able to even have breaks at work #this happened when a film and tv union came to my uni and somebody said it felt like a cult.... fighting for better #environments in the film industry is cultish? we are DOOMED.

[tskumoyuuma]

it is very telling seeing whether people come out after watching "quiet on set" w the mindset of "yes drake bell was sexually abused as a minor BUT he also plead guilty to inappropriate interactions w a minor a few years ago" or "yes drake bell plead guilty to inappropriate interactions with a minor a few years ago BUT he was also sexually abused as a minor".

#quiet on set #drake bell #my 'take' is that there are no 'but's in all this #drake bell was severely sexually assaulted as a minor. #drake bell as an adult shared inappropriate messages w a minor. #drake bell has pleaded guilty to those charges and has acknowledged his wrong doings. #that minor has accused him of worse and says she is traumatized by what hes done. #drake bell is in therapy and has gone to rehab to discuss the effects of what happened to him as a teenager. #these all coexist. there are no 'but's here #its very interesting to see how people here talk about the cycle of abuse #they acknowledge that it happens. but to some people. if u do continue that cycle u no longer are a victim anymore #thats not how this works #everything that has happened to drake bell and everything that drake bell has done #none of it makes one thing less true than the other #and i think what we should be focused on instead of 'oh so is drake bell canceled or not?' #is what the documentary is really about. child safety in the entertainment industry

[dancingdorito]

i have thoughts on the leaked photos from bath today

we've SEEN this dress before... (season 1 episode 2)

so i honestly think this can't be a flashback because nicola's makeup is too nice to be s1 penelope.

i think that this is penelope's first attempt at trying to change her look, and the reason why it looks bad is to show us that she's going to fail at her first attempts to find suitors because she was never confident in the ill fitted dresses portia made her wear.

i think that the poodle hair is not as "poodle-y" as s1 and you can tell because the curls are bigger.

obviously this is all speculation, but i would also like to point out to people worried about filming delays...

the "bridgerton-verse" is made up of a LOT of locations, many of which are not even near london. to film a scene episode by episode would take too much travel and too much time, so they film by location even if the scenes are out of order, so that they can use these areas and be done with them instead of repeatedly coming back. so yes, these images are most likely the first episode, but that does not mean they are extremely far behind. big productions like bridgerton use a lot of crew and to move everything around and film in order is near impossible.

obviously i could very well be wrong, but i thought i'd put my two cent in. i'm still a firm believer that they'll finish filming in february at the latest and we'll get season 3 around june/july.

#netflix bridgerton #bridgerton season 3 spoilers #bridgerton season 3 #bridgerton season 3 speculation #polin #nicola coughlan #penelope featherington #bridgerton s3 #colin bridgerton #in the synopsis for s3 it says she fails at trying to get suitors before colin helps her #i hope to the dear lord above madame delacroix is the one who helps pen glow up #it would feel so wrong if colin was the one who decided what pen wore #pls take this with a grain of salt as i am not in the film industry #bridgerton #i am merely a fan trying to cope with this wait

[thottybrucewayne]

Fashion girlies are spineless, we know this. But I find this insistence on trying to blend both faux activism and praise of the bigots and fascists in the industry of yesteryear aggravating. If you spend more time waxing poetic about how Coco Chanel, John Galiano, or Karl Lagerfeld's work shaped the industry than you do detailing the various bigoted or outright fascist things said or did, what do you think your audience is going to come away with? How do you not see that you're lowkey painting their actions as just flaws of an artistic genius and visionary? Are the pretty shapes and colors more important to you than the human cost of their bigoted ideals? Really?

#thotty speaks #thotty rants #I saw big fashion blogs posting about Karl all through the met gala and leading up to it and it made me wanna puke #that ontop of the 'y2k we need Anorxica trending again' jokes that starting not to sound like jokes anymore shit #its making feel like the faux woke bullshit mask yall been wearing is starting to crack fr fr #I saw someone saying that it was wrong to shit on COCO CHANEL of all people because she 'help shape the industry' like that's a good #thing???? This idea that if you make something beautiful or iconic then you should be above reproach is so sick to me

[serethereal]

she’s just so annoying

#she will never miss an opportunity to sic her rabid fans on anything and anyone it’s so exhausting like girl just scroll it’s damon albarn #he used to wish aids very publicly on gallagher like this is tame by his standards idk what to tell you #and u know They were writing essays on the “rampant misogyny in the music industry” completely #ignoring that he praised billie right before her. just annoying loud and wrong

[doux-amer]

I watched The Menu and loved it because it featured every single thing I hate about the food world and the arts in general. It’s brilliant because it's multilayered and multi-pronged in its satire and reducing it to just ONE aspect of its criticism (“rich people suck”) is too simplistic; even if you took away their richness, each character from the customers to Slowik and Elsa on the opposite side stands for a certain type of person who interacts with food and I hate every single one of them. :))))))

Also, it's hilarious because 2022 had The Bear and The Menu and people who work in the food industry/service industry or are have some connection to it talked about how they got stressed out by one and felt catharsis through the other. Both of them let them feel seen, but one was feeling seen in a bad way and the other one was in a good way even if you liked both fkasjflksajf.

#i don't particularly want to look at what people say about the menu #because i feel like i'm going to be benafflecksmoking.jpg about it the way i did when i saw some stuff about the bear #there are several things going on and if you just think it's about one thing you're wrong and i don't want to talk to you #like yeah rich people suck but the class and privilege satire got muddied because this is not a case of one good guy #who's a champion of service workers vs. all these rich snobs who make everything suck #but that's the point! #and it's not entirely about wealth because you can't look at someone like tyler for instance and think that's the point #and i assume people think tyler is the stand-in for obsessive foodies #when in reality all of the diners are different types of foodies all of whom are despicable and who are in fact bloodsuckers #although the way that slowik judges some of them is so binary and narrow and he's conflating everyone's sins to the same degree #and slowik is a hypocrite and a delusional egoistic bitter man but he's also not the only one perpetuating the abuse #he is culpable in contributing to the destruction of his own soul and life as well as his passion and the industry #and there are people like elsa who enable that and the way she does her job is just...EVERYONE SUCKS! THEY ALL SUCK! #the only person who's right is margot/erin for a lot of reasons #she is the only one who understood the assignment #the only one who didn't belong there yes...but as someone who's a service worker herself #she understood the fundamental basics of what a dining experience is #what providing that means and what someone is supposed to receive #and acknowledging what goes into it (her acknowledgment of the sous chef as the person who puts in the work #knowing there is a person whereas tyler couldn't give a damn) #what food is there for at the end of the day #even if someone else had gone into that room none of them were capable of coming to that conclusion #anyway i hate the culture around fine dining and i hate foodies :)))) #every time i see a fellow millennial say they're a foodie or write that they love food on their ig/dating app profile/twitter bio/whatever #i roll my eyes so hard and it's HATE on sight!!!!!!! #you and everyone else in 2023 buddy! #and you can love food and i know if you love food versus....that #the bear and the menu are great in different ways and i appreciate and like them for different reasons #and i was SO interested in seeing which would stress me out. for me it was the bear (even though i enjoyed it) and the menu was fun #without any stress while the opposite was true for some people who HATED the menu (loved it but felt understood/seen/reminded of stuff)

[just7frogsinapeoplesuit]

I get tips at my job (laundromat wash/dry/fold service) which usually equate to over $40/wk for the 3 days I work.

Today, my boss came in and said he was going to start cashing out tips at 95% because he has to pay a fee on all credit card transactions.

I informed him that that's illegal, and also that with the total amount of tips processed per week he's paying less than $5 in fees on tips because Square charges a flat 2.6%, which I know because I own a Square reader.

He told me that he pays 4% for processing (blatant lie, I can verify it on the register itself in about 2 seconds) and "see what happens when you assume"

Then, he said he's going to just remove the ability to tip from all registers. Customers will now have to tip in cash, which none of them carry. According to him, it is simply to make things "fair" with his other locations since not all of them have tipping enabled on their registers (🙄).

Fuck me I guess.

#he's an out of state landlord and the epitome of Condescending White Guy #he literally will not believe anything I say is wrong with a piece of equipment unless he can replicate it in person on the first try #the perks to working here still outweigh his existence because it's just me here 99% of the time #and it's super easy work and down the street from me #but he has been slowly wearing me down #his partner isn't much better. she's much more human toward employees but still a Landlord at heart #last week she told a guy whose car broke down that he needed to move it out of her parking lot within an hour or she'd call to have it towed #she was incensed that he pushed it into the lot after it broke down ON THE SIDE OF A BUSY ROAD WITH NO SHOULDER #anyway fuck landlords #service industry #capitalism bullshit

[todayisafridaynight]

yakuza 5′s plot makes me feel bad for haruka ngl

like Y5 really had great potential to focus on her and her internal struggles, though i guess Obviously that wasn’t really somethin they could expand too much on

#spoilers #snap chats #what rubbed me wrong bout the whole of Y5 is like. the entire time i was just asking What About Haruka #like she insists she WANTS to do this for park's sake #and sure she quits after she fulfills park's dream #but like.... poor haruka.... shes just kinda bein passed around without much thought #i can't be wholly madat kiryu either even tho i should #i understand where hes coming from and hes right to assume he doesnt know how to raise a kid properly #but dude cmon she's 16? at this point?? and she seems to have been doing just fine up to now #the idol industry is always something im interested in looking at in regards to idols and their mental health #and Again i get it we can't expand on that in a game about the yakuza but its just.. poor baby #and of course park suffered from RGG Woman disease and died so haruka couldnt even keep her new-pseudo mother figure #like ima b real i like park's tenacity right. Girl Boss Shit or whatever but i just hate the manipulative tactics she employs on haruka #itd be great if we were supposed to see park from a villainous standpoint but we aren't #tho i guess that also makes her really interesting- to actually have a female character somewhat antagonistic #of course the game doesnt really treat her like an antagonist but you catch my cold #thats enough y5 ramblin tho im supposed to be doodlin The Usual bullshit

[whatachillkill]

so jini just wants to be taylor swift? i thought with an album title like 'iron hand in a velvet glove' it would be more?

#its nice but tbh nmixx makes better music #it just seems like since shes banned from the kpop industry bc she left jyp shes just pandering to the us markets in the worst way #its just bts shit but a pretty girl is singing it. which is a big improvement dont get me wrong