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What is 'a lot of work?'" (cw: late state capitalism) [3/4] 

That time you stayed 2 hours after the end of your shift to fix something you fucked up? That's putting in extra effort. (Anyone who would tell you otherwise is a bootlicker. On healthy teams, fuckups are opportunities for everyone involved to learn something. The whole team offers the hand up, any necessary lessons are learned, and everyone is better off for it, but I digress. :blob_grinning_sweat: )

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What is 'a lot of work?'" (cw: late state capitalism) [2/4] 

Honestly, I wouldn't call that a lot of work, I'd call that a _fuckton_ of work.

and when the end product doesn't seem to justify the effort it took to produce, that's just late stage capitalism drilling into your very fucking soul "you are worthless unless you have something tangible to capitalism to show for your efforts."

I'm here to tell you that is fucking BULLSHIT, and that Your Every Individual Contribution Counts.

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What is 'a lot of work?'" (cw: late state capitalism) [1/4] 

A burned out friend of mine said, after listing a huge list of accomplishments, "I have no concept of what is 'a lot of work'" - so I thought I'd help explain. :blobowo:

"a lot of work" is what happens when you stop and think about the past 3 years of your life and you realize a lot of them are a blur because you spent so much of them furiously working the problems of multiple conflicting deadlines that a lot of it looks the same.

Bleh... should have taken pto today.. and tomorrow.

Just woke up after an hour and half of sleep and having trouble getting back to sleep...

Blessings upon you and yours, frens. May 2020 provide all you need, and enough still to help others. :blobheart:

Sending hugs, love, glow and all the positive vibes I have to give. Thank you all for being here for each other. That's been a lovely thing to be apart of.

Let's continue to be excellent to each other. Cover each other's sixes, clear doors and corners together, and share your joys together.

Cause you're not alone.

welp... apparently I mixed up cherry preserves and strawberry so we are having sour strawberry glazed ham.

wel mi ta du im. Mi wrote wa guide ere spinning xox wa azure k8s cluster wit wa lot fo belta ere im unte mi bosmang approved im fo milowda.

Oh hey! Infinite character limit on CW'd post is back! Thanks Awoo!

So... my boss explicitly asked me to find ways to work "Spin the drum." and belter creole into the internal docs I'm writing for our AKS and K8s platform..

I wanna cuddle every kobold :blob_aww:

( but consent is important :blobstop: )

"SPIN THE DRUM!" has supplanted "Fuck it, we're doing it live." at my workplace..

Followed by "Do we have gravity?" and "Yea bossmang" or "Na brudna."

Thanks "The Expanse" I'm not really complaining. Mostly just amused.

I have too many hobbies. :blob_grinning_sweat:

But I don't want to stop doing any of them :blobsob:

I need to figure out how to fork myself. :thinkhappy:

Hnngg... 2am pages because a dev in another hemisphere restarted a bunch of things without putting them in maintenance first. :X

First late night oncall page in 8 months though... so yay.

Give dragons nuggies.
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RT @ThiccLoafs@twitter.activitypub.actor
Comic Commission for @Malfaren with his kobold kids. Very cute idea and I had a lot of fun bringing it to life!
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Home issues 

The food thing is trauma.. they definitely eat like someone who access to food was used as punishment. The flip side they have some really bad eating habits and over eat to the point of pain if left to their own devices.

I don't fucking know how to deal with that when I make dinner for everyone. I can't be around to make their plate all the time.

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Home issues 

Like... I might as well be talking to a fucking brick wall.

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Home issues 

I may delete this... just super frustrated.

They don't have anywhere else to go and I can't make them homeless. I just don't fucking know what to do or how to address someone that literally completely shuts down and ignores me when I try to talk to them about this stuff.

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Look I fucking get it.. they struggle with depression and ptsd... but I got my own pile of issues and work 40-50 hours a week and so does Aurora.

Don't ask them to pay for food or rent and they don't work... I don't think it is outrageous to ask for 15-20 minutes of house work a day.

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Home issues 

Getting more and more frustrated with this person... they live here with us for free.. barely contribute to house choirs... I spend a lot of money on food and stuff for them and I might as well be asking them to climb a fucking mountain when I ask them to unload and load the dishwasher or take the trash out (to the cans.. instead of piling shit on top of a full 30gal can with a 30gal bag in it)

Aurora and I fight about what to do with them on a regular basis...

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