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Whovian, amongst other fandoms, but I always come back to the Doctor.
Human Rights defender in my spare time.
I'm working through tagging my past posts in a systematic, unsystematic way. May take a while, bare with me.
Spoilers can exist here, so tread wearily. | Blogging on stolen, unceded land.
Compare paychecks with you co-workers. It is the best way to get equality.
If you are confident youâre not being fleeced then you are the one holding the magic number the bosses donât want your coworkers to know- the number the job is actually worth. You now have the power to do immeasurable good by making sure the people getting screwed over know that number.
That was me, once. Itâs not hard. Do the thing.
[ID: Reddit comment by Boibi:
The several times in the past Iâve had a company tell me to not discuss pay, I immediately did. Itâs federally protected, so why not. Every single time we found huge pay discrepancies between people in similar roles. Every time you hear âdonât discuss wagesâ immediately discuss your wages. You are probably being fleeced. /end ID]
- the lady at the welfare office cancelling my benefits
- the lady at the welfare office cancelling my b
The lady at the w
âChoosing not to work is morally wrong. Being too disabled to work is fine though.â
Okay, now how do you dictate who is disabled enough not to work? This is a major part of how systemic ableism happens.
Think for a second.
Think.
90% of disabilities are invisible. Those with power able to determine if weâre fucked up enough to be unable to work are often ableists. They rarely give a flying fuck about us and would rather we were no longer a âburdenâ in order to make space for someone willing and able to work.
Landlords are evil, we know this, but how tf can you look at someone and decide theyâre opting to just not work? Do you consider the retired to be lazy because theyâre not working? My disabilities ate invisible until theyâre not, and it took going to court in order to get on SSDI. Because of dumbfuck ableists like you, I have to deal with other dumbfuck ableists telling me Iâm evil/lazy/faking it and therefore Iâm the evil category.
Kindly take a few seats and sit your dumbass down. Youâre making an annoying fool of yourself with this noise.
Landlords arenât evil because they âdonât workâ, landlords are evil because they hoard homes, force us to pay for housing and create homelessness.
CEOs arenât evil because they âdonât workâ, CEOs are even because they extract profit from what others create (which is wage theft) and force us to do their bidding or get fired, which creates poverty.
Their power and parasitic nature is the problem. Whether they work is irrelevant.
Get this ridiculous âwork as morally goodâ shit out of your system or sooner or later you will find yourself believing some fucked up bullshit.
You know the distance never made a difference to me I swam a lake of fire, Iâd have walked across the floor of any sea Ignored the vastness between all that can be seen And all that we believe
whenever im sad i just think about how the welsh word for microwave is popty ping
OH FOR SHITTING GOD’S SAKE
JUST WHEN I THINK I’VE EDUCATED THE WORLD ABOUT THE WELSH WORD FOR MICROWAVE THIS PIECE OF SHIT POST MAKES AN APPEARANCE IN MY LIFE SO LISTEN UP YOU GULLIBLE PLANKS AND GET YOUR SCHOOL BAGS READY BECAUSE I’M ABOUT TO EDUCATE THE ABSOLUTE ILL-INFORMED SHIT OUT OF YOU
THE WELSH WORD FOR MICROWAVE IS MEICRODON WHICH IS A LITERAL FUCKING TRANSLATION OF MICROWAVE WHEREAS POPTY PING MEANS ‘PINGING OVEN’ AND LET ME TELL YOU NOW THAT NO ONE FUCKING SAYS POPTY PING IN WALES AND IF YOU HONESTLY THINK WE EVER USE POPTY PING AS A TERM I WILL PERSONALLY DELIVER MYSELF TO YOUR FRONT DOOR AND SHOUT AT YOU FOR TEN DAYS STRAIGHT
ummm this is obviously a passionate subject and im sorry i was just wondering if anyone knows how this got started? was it a knowing prank, or like someone’s aunt in wales who didn’t really speak welsh panicked when asked “what’s microwave” and said “popty ping” and the lie escaped
Oh damn, this post is old now!
It’s a children’s word. It’s exactly the same as how children in English call a train a ‘choo choo’. And then English people thought it sounded a combination of cute and stupid, which tied in with the whole ‘Welsh isn’t a real/valid language’ thing, and from there it continued because no one listens to Welsh people (I’ve literally had more than one conversation where I’ve explained all this and an English person has looked me in the eye and said “Well I prefer it so I’m going to keep saying it’s popty ping, tee hee”. I also vividly remember an English person on Tumblr - who is otherwise lovely - responding to me on this topic to explain to me that if people start using a word then it becomes a valid word, so actually popty ping now IS the Welsh word for microwave, and I had to explain back that no one is using it outside of nurseries and English people, now please will you actually believe us.)
Basically… imagine if the internet decided that “the English word for a set of carriages pulled on rails by an engine is a Choo Choo” and then either patronisingly simpered about it or sneered about how your language should therefore be wiped out about it and you have the issue
And as a final note, the whole thing is extra ridiculous because Welsh has three different terms for ‘jellyfish’ and every one of them is way more charming and batshit than popty ping on its best day AND are the actual genuine terms, so it’s a missed trick
Do Not Let HR do this to you. It is not illegal to talk about wages in the work place. I did and got a 12% raise!
True info. Now let me add something: The power of documentation. (I was a long time steward in a nurses union.)
Remember: The ââEâ in email stands for evidence.
That cuts both ways. Be careful what you put into an email. It never really goes away and can be used against you.
But can also be a powerful tool for workplace fairness.
Case 1: Your supervisor asks you to do something you know is either illegal or against company policy. A verbal request. If things go wrong, you can count on them denying that they ever told you to do that. You go back to your desk, or wherever and you send them an email: âI just want to make sure that I understood correctly that you want me to do xxxxxâ Quite often, once they see it in writing, they will change their mind about having you do it. If not, you have documentation.
Case 2: You have a schedule you like, youâve had that schedule for a while, it works for you. Your supervisor comes to you and says âWeâre really short-handed now and I need you to change your schedule just for a month until we can get someone else hired. Itâs just temporary and you can have your old schedule back after a month.â A month goes by and they forget entirely that they made that promise to you. So, once again, when they make the initial request, you send them an email âIâm happy to help out temporarily, but just want to make sure I understand correctly that I will get my old schedule back after a month as you promised.â Documentation.
[Image ID: Text reading: In the middle of a busy clinic at our practice, I got pulled in by my manager to speak to HR, who must have made a special trip because she lives several states away, and told I was being 'investigatedâ for discussing wages with my other employees. She told me it was against company policy to discuss wages.
Me; Thatâs illegal.
Them: (start italics) three slow, long seconds of staring at me blankly (end italics) UhâŚ
Me: Thatâs an illegal policy to have. The right to discuss wages is a right protected by the National Labor Relations board. I used to be in a union. I know this.
HR: Oh, this is news to me! I have been working HR for 18 years and I never knew that. Haha. Well try not do do it anyway, it makes people upset, haha.
Me: people are entitled to their opinions about what their work is worth. Bye.
I then left, and sent her several texts and emails saying I would like a copy of their company policy to see where this wage discussion policy was kept. She quickly called me back in to her office.
HR: You know what, there is no policy like that in the handbook! I double check. Sorry about the confusion, my apologies.
Me: You still havenât given me the paper saying that we had this discussion. I am going to need some protection against retaliation.
HR: Oh haha yes here you go.
I just received a paper with legal letterhead and an apology saying there was no verbal warning or write up. Donât even take their shit you guys. Keep talking about wages. Know your worth. /End ID]
At one of my old (shit) jobs my boss would continually come have these verbal discussions with me and would never put anything in writing I took to summarizing every discussion we had in email. Like âjust to confirm that you asked me to do X by Y date and you understand that means I wonât be able to complete the previous task you gave me until Z date - 2 weeks later than originally scheduled - because you want me to prioritize this new project.
The woman would then storm back into my office screaming at me for putting the discussion in writing and arguing about pushing back the other project or whatever. At which point I would summarize that conversation in email as well. Which would bring her storming back in, rinse and repeat ad nauseum.
Anyway I cannot imagine how badly that job would have gone if I hadnât put all her wildly unreasonable demands in writing. Bitch still hated me but she could never hang me for âmissing deadlinesâ because I always had in writing that sheâd pushed the project back because she wanted something else done first.
Paper your asses babes. Do not let them get away with shit. If they wonât put what theyâre asking you to do in writing then write it up yourself and email it to them.
Nah, fam. Itâs not about âtakingâ criticism. Itâs about the fact that unless a writer asks for it specifically, itâs a dick thing to do on a website that is rooted in community.
If a writer wants critique they will ask trusted friends or professional associates (in the relevant field). When a writer shares a fic on AO3 itâs not necessarily with the aim of improving their craft (there are better places for that). Itâs about sharing joy.
Positive comments enhance that feeling of joy and community. Negative comments do not.
Fic isnât a product to be evaluated. If itâs not for you, then you can just walk away. đ
Iâm so tired of this discussion - why do all these people think theyâre entitled to offer critique on a fic authorâs work?
When you get a hand-made gift from someone, do you verbally rip it apart in front of them and point out every flaw or perceived flaw you can find? Congratulations, that person will never put the time, love and effort into making anything for you again, and they may question themselves so much they wonât ever make anything for anyone else again, either. Well done, youâve now deprived a whole community of art and an artist of their source of joy because youâre an ungrateful walnut who canât say âThank youâ and appreciate what you got for free.
Your opinion is not universal. Your tastes are not universal. Your preferred style is not universal. Authors can write whatever the fuck they want and unless you specifically commissioned a fic, you get no say in it.
Tl;dnr: If you donât like a fic or piece of art, hit the back button and keep your mouth shut. If you didnât like something, it likely wasnât meant for you and your 'criticismâ is not wanted or helpful. Fandom is about community and lifting each other up, not about you shitting all over another personâs work because you think your opinion matters.
thinking about the person on the whatisthisplant subreddit yesterday who had never been able to grow anything successfully in a garden but last year their dog stole a whole acorn squash of their table to run outside and play with it like it was a ball and now they have acorn squash growing in their backyard. dispersal via dog toy shape
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