This is privilege. My partner had an "essential job" all through the pandemic. He was not allowed to work from home either. If he'd pulled this he would've been fired.

Well, yeah. But if people who have enough privilege to take a stand against workplace exploitation do take a stand, that helps slow down the ongoing creep of how much they're allowed to dick you around at work.

Make no mistake, by "not allowed to work from home," this employer meant "you will not be paid for work you do at home," while clearly expecting the employee to do work (such as answering work emails and taking work calls) while at home. (If the employer didn't expect that, then they wouldn't have noticed when the worker stopped doing it.)

If you're expected to respond when the boss summons you outside of work hours, you are on-call. If you're on-call, you should be paid.

Expecting white-collar workers to be on-call for no extra pay is wage theft, no different from if a retail or food service employee is told to, "Clock out before you clean up/close out your station, so you don't go over your hours."

(And yes, this example happens a lot. If it happens to you, in the US, you should report it to the Department of Labor. It's confidential; your employer will never find out it was you who turned them in.)

Your exhaustion is not shameful. It is not a moral failure to be physically, mentally or emotionally tired. It is okay to be overwhelmed. You're not inferior to anyone just because it's hard for you to keep up with a fast-paced life.

oh no the horrors-

wait hang on. it’s past 9 pm. false alarm, i cannot trust the horrors

HOW did this get ANY notes

oh no the horrors-

wait hang on. it’s past 9 pm. false alarm, i cannot trust the horrors

HOW did this get ANY notes

house heritage post (reluctantly)

Things I wish I had read in "beginner" sewing tutorials/people had told me before I started getting into sewing

I believe that's all - feel free to add unto it.

I only have one thing to add.

there’s such an unbelievable multitude of this type of (straight) woman who’s like “when he mentions a ‘she’ 😡🥺👀” “when he calls some girl his ‘friend’ 👀👀🔪” etc and this person is like a different species to me. this person is a space alien. this type of person makes me feel like amy adams in arrival

a man’s female friends are like a car’s warranty. a woman has vouched for this guy’s ability to be normal. you should be kissing her on the mouth for her service

You get it

Ao3 search filters legit have me so spoiled. I forget how good they are until I have to search for something in some horrendous corporate website and they don't even have exclusion filters. Like cmon ao3 has these why don't you! Anyway I love you ao3 tagging and filtering system

“I don’t ever want to have kids.”

Normal human response: Ok.

Freaks: But what if you change your mind oh that will change you’re hard-wired to want to procreate who will take care of you when you’re dying you’ll never be fulfilled if you aren’t a parent good luck being miserable when you’re old

“I want to have kids someday.”

Normal human response: Ok.

Freaks: Well I hate children you’re going to hate your life later if I ever get pregnant I’m getting a triple-abortion just to make sure it’s really gone if a child was here right now I’d drop-kick them good luck being miserable for eighteen years

I don't trust anyone who hasn't acknowledged their capacity for evil.

"I'm just a smol bean uwu" No sir, what you are is someone who is so habituated to thinking of yourself as innocent that you will continue to do so even when you're guilty.

Okay but what about the people that are the opposite, the ones that are habitually thinking of themselves as evil while cleaning up their own table at the restaurant because they don’t want to inconvenience the waitress?

I'd say they're two sides of the same coin. When you have a society that's like "if you ever mess up you are evil and bad and irredeemable," then you get people who are like: "I am morally pure and unproblematic and can do no wrong uwu" and other people who are like "there's something secretly Wrong with me and I don't know what it is but I'd better make myself as small as possible so no one notices, and also ask God for forgiveness for breathing wrong."

Instead of just acknowledging that everyone is nuanced and complex. Yes, you too.

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Age-old advice which is more relevant nowadays rather than less. This is the second iteration of it though. The original version is: “Never write anything in a letter you wouldn’t want to see in print.” Advice handed down by my mother from her forbears.

From the IT department. We archive EVERYTHING. And Outlook autosaves every couple seconds.

“Dance like no one is watching.  Email and text like it will one day be read in court.”

using ai to write your papers is so embarrassing stop being a pussy and just dont turn anything in if you dont want to do the work... have strength in your convictions

best thing i ever accepted about people is that most people are just kind of gross like, physically

like most people have gross little bad habits and let the laundry go a little too long and sweat in weird places and are messy eaters and have weird laughs and are a little greasy and asymettrical and have stains and tears and wear on the things they own and its like literally fine and human. we dont need to worry about that stuff and frankly we should kill whoever is responsible for making us think humans are even capable of being perfectly polished made up hygeine machines 24/7. we are little animals we came from the dirt and sometimes you scratch your buttcrack or pick at scabs or what the fuck ever it is literally normal animal behaviour !!! let the soft animal of your body ect ect nd sometimes the soft animal of your body is a little yucky.

some of you just cannot accept that “i just don’t like it” is a complete reason to not engage with media or a facet of media

funniest possible advice

I think Stardew Valley, The Sims, and Minecraft are all in the same category of game in that you play it obsessively for weeks, losing all sense of time, and then don’t touch it for months