Crisis turns good bosses into douchebags. Mediocre bosses into hell, and bad bosses into procesed food.
Dang, that kind of makes the ideas of promotion a bit more intimidating than it should be.
"A position just opened up :ninja:"
Post how your day was…
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Did you ever ask for one? Just checking XD
Oh yes, of course but the budget was cut and tightened so they gave me more hours at a different branch (working at 2 different branches now) but same pay. I don't want to sound ungrateful or anything because the people I work with are great and I like my job but I'm about to get married now and they know this. I can't support a family on these paychecks so I need to seek full-time employment elsewhere. Unless I can figure something out with them by year's end but the prospects for that aren't so good.
I'll miss the kids! T____T
(most of them >__>)
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That's too bad. I'm pretty sure they can afford to pay me more. I got a really tiny automatic raise last year but it was just a token increase. I haven't asked for one yet because I, too, am pretty grateful of the opportunity they gave me. But now it's been 2 years, I've heard nothing but good things about my work, and I'm definitely underpaid given my job. So the time is nigh heh.
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got an 85 on my Library class final….but hey, the final weighed average of all the work is above 93. So yep, that's definitely an A. Nice.
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Today and yesterday was nothing special other than watching what may possibly be THE best video game-based live action series that I have ever seen called Street fighter: Assassin's Fist!
It was full of win! :)
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I bought a computer today. I'm no longer limited to browsing the internet on my phone and Xbox now.
The Dark Days are over.
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Yesterday I felt while riding a bike, and now even though I'm an early riser, it hurts.
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Went to the championship play-off final at Wembley yesterday.
My team lost, which is bitterly disappointing (even the TV pundits said we should have won) :(
I also started a minecraft world with someone i met online, and i've rediscovered the fun.
Everything becomes fresh again when you're sharing the world with someone else.And today I renamed my xbox gamertag to "MyFedoraFellOff",
because i couldn't stop giggling when i saw someone sarcastically write "i laughed so hard my fedora fell off". -
@Monkey:
What's your point? That naturally it goes away given freedom?
It is evidence that most women who veil themselves have no choice, yes.
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It is evidence that most women who veil themselves have no choice, yes.
Uh no, no it's not.
Look I know Sweden and the Nordics in general have a hardcore sense of secularism. And that's cool and all. But on issues like this you start sounding an awful lot like a teenage internet atheist. Making it this wild either/or sliding scale. Like eventually all those silly Muslims will slide over and be atheists who follow no rituals at all and buy all their furniture at Ikea and go to alternative theater.
That's as naive as it is clueless about the real natures of the beast. Harmful as well because you basically shake the hand of the extremists and agree to frame the discussion on their terms. As once again, a sliding scale between one extreme and the other. -
Ah IKEA. Other important Swedish rituals include drinking coffe 5 times a day, buying booze on friday and smattering your sentances with words that imply that you aren't quite taking a stand on anything but at the same time make you come across as a know it all.
In other news i just voted in the EU election. And front national were apparently estimated to take home a fourth of all the votes in France. I can assure you that the air in the election center went quite dead when that was announced.
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And people wonder why I don't generally have a very high opinion of France.
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Huge day…I´m tired...My back...:sad:
I Danced "Eternal Reality" with my girlfriend, than she bought a Marvel encyclopedia for me and I bought a Hatsune Miku figure for her (Valentines day)
Then, I bought the big prize for my quiz game, you want to see ? Click on the Cirno in my sig.
Now, I will enjoy the encyclopedia with a big smile in my face...
When AP used to be good:
NEVER FORGET !!
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Huge day…I´m tired...My back...:sad:
I Danced "Eternal Reality" with my girlfriend, than she bought a Marvel encyclopedia for me and I bought a Hatsune Miku figure for her (Valentines day)
Then, I bought the big prize for my quiz game, you want to see ? Click in the Cirno in my sig.
Now, I will enjoy the encyclopedia with a big smile in my face...
Face melts off from the awesomeness D:
Working thru some stuff. Dunno how long i will be here.
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And people wonder why I don't generally have a very high opinion of France.
Eh sannfinnarna and danska folkpartiet ain't that far behind 'em. I'm hearing 13% for the finns and 20 something for the Danes.
And sverigedemokraterna are rounding things out with about 7ish percent. It's a big ol anti-immigration wave it seems.
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Welp now the final votes are tallied, and what's in is socialism, enviroment, feminism and anti-immigrantion.
And what's out is christianity, communism and farmers. Now i just wonder what Germany's turnout was/will be
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Ah, an afternoon spent with grandparents is an afternoon well spent.
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Huge day…I´m tired...My back...:sad:
I Danced "Eternal Reality" with my girlfriend, than she bought a Marvel encyclopedia for me and I bought a Hatsune Miku figure for her (Valentines day)
Then, I bought the big prize for my quiz game, you want to see ? Click on the Cirno in my sig.
Now, I will enjoy the encyclopedia with a big smile in my face...
Ok, I usually don't participate because I suck at trivia, but damn I want that. It's on!
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Oh boy! more than 50% of abstention in my circonscription. It allowed the Front National to arrive in second there. Phew!
AAAAAAAH!!! 5/8 circonscription winned by the FN in France, what the hell ?! We were supposed the be the good guys…weak, but good !!!
Grrrr!!!Well, at least our country is still the second when it comes to manga sales, right ?
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@Monkey:
Uh no, no it's not.
Look I know Sweden and the Nordics in general have a hardcore sense of secularism. And that's cool and all. But on issues like this you start sounding an awful lot like a teenage internet atheist. Making it this wild either/or sliding scale. Like eventually all those silly Muslims will slide over and be atheists who follow no rituals at all and buy all their furniture at Ikea and go to alternative theater.
That's as naive as it is clueless about the real natures of the beast. Harmful as well because you basically shake the hand of the extremists and agree to frame the discussion on their terms. As once again, a sliding scale between one extreme and the other.Well, we more or less concluded that once we reach more moderate muslim states, we see less veiling. We also concluded that the veil is enforced by law in certain parts off the muslim world, and that in the remaining once, we see that women who don't veil themselves get more or less expelled from their own community.
In other words: there is little freedom for the women to speak off in this context. If this wasn't the case, well then the hijab would just be a benign piece off cloth. Sort off like turbans for sikhs. There is a pretty good reason why we don't speak off sikhs and their turbans the same way we speak off muslim women and their veils.
Well yeah, I will give islamic fundamentalists that they are the ones who are the ones who are most right about their religion.
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yesterday felt so…off to me. I hate making mistakes, but at least the shift went by fast? Today is Memorial Day......one year ago, I had a nasty work experience involving a customer and a misinterpreted gesture. ...so naturally, I'm a little anxious 365 days later. But gotta get through it.
Then, I bought the big prize for my quiz game, you want to see ? Click on the Cirno in my sig.
….time to win tournament #3, baby.
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Well, we more or less concluded that once we reach more moderate muslim states, we see less veiling.
Some of them never really had the tradition.
Some of them are products of having been under communism for upwards of 60 years.
Some of them are well penetrated by globalization as I pointed out, which homogenizes clothing across the earth and favors western fashion.
Some of them have shifted to being sort of 50/50 depending on how religious the people are versus how not.
Some of them were historically more feminist than most of the west, giving women full suffrage in 1918 before either of our countries.You keep trying to see this so simply. It can't and will never be as such.
We also concluded that the veil is enforced by law in certain parts off the muslim world, and that in the remaining once, we see that women who don't veil themselves get more or less expelled from their own community.
Oh wait I'm sorry but we never did that. Nor would we. I guess the president of Kosovo got elected by Swedes and not her own savage people.
In other words: there is little freedom for the women to speak off in this context. If this wasn't the case, well then the hijab would just be a benign piece off cloth.
In many cases it is a benign piece of cloth.
Sort off like turbans for sikhs. There is a pretty good reason why we don't speak off sikhs and their turbans the same way we speak off muslim women and their veils.
Sikhs wear the turban not because of the clothing but because they aren't allowed to cut their hair, so it's a pain in the ass, so they wear turbans to wrap all that hair neatly up. That's the origin of their turban.
Well yeah, I will give islamic fundamentalists that they are the ones who are the ones who are most right about their religion.
Oh cool, I'm glad the barely concealed islamophobia finally just came right out of you. Good job on completely failing at being a secular minded person, or following the discussion at all.
So I'm gonna go back to the start here and re-accuse you of not really knowing anything at all besides emotional sensationalist sources + one 14 year old girl from Iran.
And whatever happy tolerant hand holding society you imagine you're building up there, this clueless hillbilly talk is the antithesis of.
One wonders if the Euro elections took your breath away like Wolfwood said, except with joy.Just out of curiousity, as pertaining to my own tribe I wonder what cool 1910's era views you hold on Catholics. I get the feeling that Nord Europeans have some somewhat archaic views in that regard, and in your case that's probably multipled a good ten fold!
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In my Rhetorical Skills class today, I had to lead a debate pro Legalizing Assisted Suicide, and I think I really rocked it
I made peoplelaugh, I made people tense, and I totally destroyed the opposing team. I got a lot of positive feedback, too.
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In my Rhetorical Skills class today, I had to lead a debate pro Legalizing Assisted Suicide, and I think I really rocked it
I made peoplelaugh, I made people tense, and I totally destroyed the opposing team. I got a lot of positive feedback, too.Your avatar works very well with your comment. For future reference:
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Ah IKEA. Other important Swedish rituals include drinking coffe 5 times a day, buying booze on friday and smattering your sentances with words that imply that you aren't quite taking a stand on anything but at the same time make you come across as a know it all.
You mean like "lagom" and "nja"? I've heard about those magic words that are so essential to Swedish speech.
Also, I kinda noticed how the Swedish lady at our uni uses faktiskt very often. Every other sentence or so.On another note, I kinda turned my friend repairing a pc sound sexual. Hilarity ensued. Don't ask~
I love how everyone around me wants me to learn how to cook
(that was an unnecessarily complex sentence):
love: I wanted to eat something sweet, but my grandma wasn't home, so I baked myself a strawberry cake.
me: Oh that's ni- YOU CAN MAKE CAKES?
love: haha, it'd be stupid of me if I was able to cook but not to make a cake!
me: ooooooooooooooooooooo
love: You'll cook too, you know, you can't escape!
me: D:Every day we don't talk for some reason (damn you internet) I feel a little empty even though I talk with my friends and whatnot. I just miss him :(
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Wow, your family (well, your parents) really know how to bring you down. Horrible depressed since they are pressuring me to change my job for one, probably, at the company they work for. It's appealing for the social security but being in an office really depresses me (My past office job almost destroyed me). I'm feeling really bad right now.
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You mean like "lagom" and "nja"? I've heard about those magic words that are so essential to Swedish speech.
Also, I kinda noticed how the Swedish lady at our uni uses faktiskt very often. Every other sentence or so.Yeah those and kanske, möjligen and väl are all essential to being a Swede.
You can't pin shit on us cause our speech patterns make you wonder if we ever really took a stand on anything.
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Kanske is probably my favourite Swedish word. It's fun and simple to pronounce, it fits literally everywhere, and saying that never makes you seem like you have nothing to say even though most of the time you just don't. It's a miracle in word form.
Try inserting 'maybe' everywhere in English and you end up looking like an indecisive idiot who knows nothing about anything. With kanske it's the complete opposite.
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Maybe you're right.
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Ya kanske has that oh i haven't quite decided on that yet, i want to ponder all sides of it feel to it.
Master those words, and the delightful art of Swedish cursing and you've got it made.
Imagine all the doors that would open up for you. I'm talking crawfish parties, bitter booze and huge phallic poles to dance around.
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Today was more of a lazy day for me, the most eventful thing being that I went to have my bangs trimmed again. Also tired from sleeping at the foot of my bed last night and having a really not fun dream that kind of lingered with me through the day. But on the whole, today was pretty good.
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sigh Am I the only one around here who feels like shit right now? :sad:
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I called out of work a few minutes ago, not because I'm sick or my car blew up or anything. But because it's the first real muggy day of the year and I am in the throes of some class A insomnia. The cool kind where after 2 hours of tossing and turning you give up out of misery.
I dunno if I should feel bad, like I'm misusing the call out system. But I feel like I'm going to not catch ANY sleep in time for work. And frankly I do feel like complete shit bodily because of it + the weather. Blegh. -
@Panda:
He may be right.
I may be crazy!
Billy? …is that you?
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@Monkey:
I called out of work a few minutes ago, not because I'm sick or my car blew up or anything. But because it's the first real muggy day of the year and I am in the throes of some class A insomnia. The cool kind where after 2 hours of tossing and turning you give up out of misery.
I dunno if I should feel bad, like I'm misusing the call out system. But I feel like I'm going to not catch ANY sleep in time for work. And frankly I do feel like complete shit bodily because of it + the weather. Blegh.Well damn, that really sucks, dude. :(
I hope you get better so you can get some well needed sleep.
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I was walking my dog, and we passed this guy who looked like a stereotypical burglar. (black beanie, black sweater, black pants)
He called out to me, and i turned around and acknowledged him. But then he said:
"I fucking hate dogs. If your dog comes near me i'll start on him AND you. Prick."
His tone of voice said that he meant it, and he looked the jock-ish, bruiser type too.
Uncomfortable, I just nodded and carried on with my walk. He kept looking over his shoulder at me though.What the fuck is that guy's problem? I wish i didn't have the dog to worry about, or i'd have said something back.
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@Monkey:
I called out of work a few minutes ago, not because I'm sick or my car blew up or anything. But because it's the first real muggy day of the year and I am in the throes of some class A insomnia. The cool kind where after 2 hours of tossing and turning you give up out of misery.
I dunno if I should feel bad, like I'm misusing the call out system. But I feel like I'm going to not catch ANY sleep in time for work. And frankly I do feel like complete shit bodily because of it + the weather. Blegh.Insomnia is definitely one of the more miserable experiences in this world, I think. For what it's worth, I definitely wouldn't say that you're misusing the system in any way. The whole point of such things, at least to my mind, is to provide a way for people to take the time they need to recover when they're not currently one hundred percent; the specific reason shouldn't really be all that relevant.
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Yeah, I'm with Panda. I, too, suffer from pretty bad insomnia every once in a while, and when that happens I usually skip whatever I have to do that day, be it lectures, a day at work (if I'm employed at the time), or some other arrangement.
Using the call out system feels bad every time because we've been pressured to think that only if you're unable to clamber out of the bed you're sick enough to skip whatever, but having spent so many really shitty days at school or at work because I'm feeling terrible I've really come to think that taking care of yourself comes first. Especially when you're working – doing something poorly might be a lot worse than not doing something at all for a day.
Just take a day off, Zeph. It's honestly worth it. And it happens to people all the time, so it's not like people will penalize you for it unless they're jerks.
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Did some stuff today. Did my laundry, got a haircut…..although having my money for the week almost depleted is a bummer. Just 3 more days and I'll finally get that darn Wii U.
And today is the last day of my 5 consecutive work days.....then I have to work on Friday, but hey! Finally a break tomorrow.
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Job = Today I had to classify some new book and I helped people find what they wanted. Ah ! A girl wanted to make a "hate" poem for Putin, in russian.
Life = I´m happy that I can spend more time with my girlfriend, but I´m scared of the next monday, that day, I will do a course of "how to repair old books", I think I won´t be a good student.
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I actually had a case of insomnia last night, got up like 3 am and bounced around the kitchen to the it girl dance remix.
And made a porter steak that was kinda successful despite me diverting from the recipe at atleast three turns.
Tried making something fun with the blender too, but with a 750 watt engine it just sounds like a jet plane anytime i turn it on lol
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woot! just found out 2 of my 5 class grades.
A for English (Intro to Literature) and A for Calculus II!
and I got a A on my final Library paper. hahaha!
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And by porter steak i of course mean a stew made out of porter.
Not whatever strange thing you yanks would call a porter steak
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I think I might have jacked up my stomach lining or my kidneys from taking allergy pills
Eating kinda hurts and I generally feel really uncomfortable in the kidney zone
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I think I might have jacked up my stomach lining or my kidneys from taking allergy pills
Eating kinda hurts and I generally feel really uncomfortable in the kidney zone
Too many of them can cause that, yeah. If it persists, get it checked right away. It's better not to take chances with these things. :/
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@Monkey:
Some of them never really had the tradition.
Some of them are products of having been under communism for upwards of 60 years.
Some of them are well penetrated by globalization as I pointed out, which homogenizes clothing across the earth and favors western fashion.
Some of them have shifted to being sort of 50/50 depending on how religious the people are versus how not.
Some of them were historically more feminist than most of the west, giving women full suffrage in 1918 before either of our countries.In other words: I am still completely right and always was. Less religious influence and less threats of violence = less veils. More religious influence and more violence = more veils. Thus, many women don't want to wear veils if given a choice.
@Monkey:
Oh wait I'm sorry but we never did that. Nor would we. I guess the president of Kosovo got elected by Swedes and not her own savage people.
It feels like you've forgotten what we've talked about all along:
What I spoke about more specifically were countries where we see more or less all women wear veils ( Pakistan, Egypt, Morocco, citing a few examples ). In these countries women are expelled from their communities if they don't conform to their dresscodes. While some more conservative communities may have these roles for women in Kosovo, not all of it does. But it is truly the case in many communities where veils are commonly worn, that women will suffer intense discrimination if they break taboos.
@Monkey:
In many cases it is a benign piece of cloth.
Sikhs wear the turban not because of the clothing but because they aren't allowed to cut their hair, so it's a pain in the ass, so they wear turbans to wrap all that hair neatly up. That's the origin of their turban.
I know, and that is precisely the point: the reason I'm not talking about sikhs and their turbans is because that is something that truly is just of a different cultural origin. Veils serves a completely different purpose.
@Monkey:
Oh cool, I'm glad the barely concealed islamophobia finally just came right out of you. Good job on completely failing at being a secular minded person, or following the discussion at all.
So I'm gonna go back to the start here and re-accuse you of not really knowing anything at all besides emotional sensationalist sources + one 14 year old girl from Iran.
And whatever happy tolerant hand holding society you imagine you're building up there, this clueless hillbilly talk is the antithesis of.
One wonders if the Euro elections took your breath away like Wolfwood said, except with joy.Just out of curiousity, as pertaining to my own tribe I wonder what cool 1910's era views you hold on Catholics. I get the feeling that Nord Europeans have some somewhat archaic views in that regard, and in your case that's probably multipled a good ten fold!
You can accuse me of anything. I am still pretty convinced that in a huge part of all cases where veils are worn is not totally 100 % mandatory and as long as that is the case, I'm not interested in looking at silverlinings.
Okay well… Not that I have many thoughts about catholic people themselves ( same way I don't have many thoughts about any religious people, just certain ideas that may or may not be subscribed to ). The bible however, I would describe as an engine of genocidal, bloodletting and terror ( at least books like Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Second Samuel, Ezekiel, Exodus, Joshua, Numbers etc etc. My favorite one in terms of brutal Khornishness is Revelation ) and has proven to be quite a handy tool in justifying genocide of pagans for both jews and christians.
I also think that the current catholic church is a criminal institution, with a moral blindness of epidemic size. This is an institution that is actually more concerned with stopping contraception and gay marriage than they are concerned about the rape of children and genocide. The church preach the sinfulness of condoms in AIDS-ravaged parts of Africa, causing millions of people to die from aids, all the while sheltering an army of child rapists.
And that is just the two past popes. Travel back 800 years or so and the papal state was more or less in charge of every tyrannical monarchy in Europe, pulling their strings like a virgin puppetmaster. The newest one seems to have something going for himself, but I think 1600 years of oppression,genocide and scientific ignorance outweights one guy, who will just inevitably make a fool out of himself in the end.
Maybe this is just ''mediaatheistpropaganda'' I don't know. Maybe you don't like the pope, maybe you are one of those moderates or you just like having crackers and wine every Sunday. I have no idea what your position is on this, but I'm pretty certain you can find one way or another to excuse this perverted institution.
I might as well add that my mother ( from Trinidad and Tobago ) was raised catholic. I'm saying this so you can accuse me later of ''having learned this from my mom and some emotional sensationalist sources''. I'm just wondering: Am I also christophobe? Or is that a makebelief term?
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