here at megacorporation, one of our core values is number go up. our other core value is rate at which number go up go up. these two core values guide us in our mission to exploit you as effectively as possible
on another note, watched The Mummy (1999) the other day and I couldn’t help feel like the O’Connells and the Addams (Addams Family Values (1993) would get on really well ya know? The O’Connells are basically the pastel adventure version of the Addams, surely they would just be vibin’ over tea and crumpets in an extremely haunted mansion having a ball of a time
Morticia: “So what is it you do for a living my dear?”
Evelyn: “We dig up dead people who often have monstrous curses placed on them!”
Morticia: “fascinating”
Gomez: *leaping out from behind a pillar which is encrusted with ominous looking runes* en garde!
Rick: *grabs sword from equally ominous looking wall full of weapons one of which seems to be glowing* fantastic I was getting a bit rusty
Gomez: *nearly in tears* oh he’s screaming nonsensically, what spirit! what reslove!
*Rick and Gomez, still frantically sword fighting*
Rick: Have I mentioned how wonderful my wife is yet, I really feel like I haven’t really expanded enough on how wonderful she is
Gomez: do go on, I would be delighted to hear about how wonderful your wife is, I strongly encourge all men to extoll the virtues of their wives with rapturous praise, however I should perhaps mention my wife is in fact better
*sword fighting intensifies as both men rapturously extoll the virtues of their wives*
Jonathan and Fester and Cousin Itt watch from the bar, where Lurch and Thing are making the drinks.
Jonathan and Thing knew one another from The War; each thought the other to be dead
there is a tendency with history, i think, because we’re so far removed from it, to kind of forget that all of the people were people
a child 10,000 years ago left a handprint on a wall. they were fingerpainting. a viking climbs up a rock just to carve the words “this is very high” 10ft off the ground. somebody centuries… milennia… ago burned their dinner so thoroughly that they buried the ruined pot in the backyard rather than attempt to clean it. shakespeare got drunk and wrote dick jokes. tutankhamun was a little boy who liked ducks more than anything. a roman carves his name into a monument in another country saying “i was here”. a prisoner, centuries ago, in the tower of london scratches lines into the wall as a tally marking the days. a medieval monk scrawls in the margins bemoaning the boredom of his work.
every human being across history has said “i was here. i lived. i loved. i made something. i laughed. i cried. please do not forget me”
You wrote about murder?? Murder is illegal?? You wrote about this dude killing someone and you didn’t even say ‘murder is bad’ at the start of the book, wht wtf, wtf is wrong with you? I can’t believe you condone murder, I can’t believe you’re pro murber, oh my fucking God don'ttalk to me when ou literally kill people, freak. I’m calling the cops, what the fuck, I’m shaking and crying.
[Image Description: A screenshot of a note by fourohfourlifenotfound that reads, “Thought this was going to be a miette meme for a second. ‘You MURDER character?? You murder character like the real life murderer?! Shame! Shame for author! Shame for author for One Thousand Years!’”. End description.]
Fun Fact! Two Weeks Notice is not a REQUIREMENT in any sense of the word. It’s a nicety. A polite gesture, and only polite for the MANAGEMENT because THEY want time to find someone to replace you. They cannot withhold your last paycheck if you refuse to give two weeks notice, and they cannot force you to work the two weeks. Additionally, they cannot report that to any future employers who call them regarding your work history. In fact, they’re not allowed to comment on your performance AT ALL! Legally they are only allowed to confirm that you were an employee during the dates you list - anything else and they open themselves up to civil lawsuits in which they can be sued for damages for any number of reasons. So fuck Two Weeks Notice. if you work for a fucked company, they deserve to get fucked in return.
If you ever feel bad about not giving two weeks’ notice, or like you’re being unprofessional/unfair, think about this:
If your boss fired you, would they give YOU two weeks’ notice? Or would they have you escorted out of the building then and there?
Anything they don’t owe you, you don’t owe them. Fuck ‘em.
Some companies will also attempt to use that two weeks to get you to change your mind. I learned that the hard way.
My first news desk job was not my worst job ever but (other than the fact that it gave me a basis in journalism) it was pretty shit. I was there for years in a tiny company with no advancement (people got hired OVER me) and no raises save to account for market/inflation. I was never spoken to or even interacted with unless I’d done something wrong (which will mess a person up but that’s a story for another time), and I became the dumping ground for anything our manager didn’t want to do so he could take off early to teach tennis lessons.
I gave my notice because I thought I had to. Pretty letter and everything. My manager looked absolutely terrified. Like. He knew. (THEY KNOW.) And he immediately started asking was there anything that could be done to get me to stay. I told him I was going to work at Crunchyroll, and the look on his face because he knew he wasn’t winning me back from an anime industry job.
But damned if the company didn’t spend those two weeks being so nice and talking to me more than they ever had, asking if I was SURE, telling me they’d miss me, having parties at places I actually liked. They talked to me more in those two weeks than they had in going on ten years. Which honestly just made me want out faster.
So yeah. If they clock that 1) they can’t afford to lose you and 2) they really did fuck up, it’s gonna be like flossing the night before the dentist.
at my last job, the shitty CEO would be personally offended by anyone who quit and wouldn’t let them have the two weeks. He’d tell them to leave on the spot out of pure butthurt. This meant a lot of people who had planned their finances for including those two weeks got thoroughly screwed. Now I treat the two weeks notice idea as something that has to be earned by my employer. I have to trust them before I go and give them that opening.
Shameless Essek ‘what if’ scenario for my soul. What if he joined the Nein, and got a dope tattoo from Orly 👀 I was thinking Fire Opal as the gem dust (fire resistance) in a phoenix design???
Posted on my twitter too! Returned to tumblr to see what the critter fandom was up to over here.
