This link comes up requiring the app to access. I tried deleting certain things from the string to make it work but it failed.

Do you have a link to this from the web version? Or is this a new user-hostile thing?

I had an interviewer ask me about my gaps, specifically the 7 years I was in college, to which I said “I was in college, on the GI bill, and treated it like the job it was, because I was basically paid to maintain good grades.” And that wasn’t good enough, she asked of I was doing anything else at the same time. She pushed back about it, so I told her I was no longer interested and left.

It was contract work, like all my other work. It was for a year and they had the audacity to be upset that some of my prior contracts were 3-6 mths, even though I did all the legwork to find each position entirely on my own (so direct hire contract, not shitty staffing agencies)

I like only doing a job for 3-6 mths. It makes me happy to learn something new and stop before I get bored and burned out. Why a role that’s only a bit longer would be sus about it… no idea.

I learned yesterday that there’s a limit to that, when I added an extra two full shots of espresso to my single latte, making it the most powerful drink I’ve had in a while. Wow was I wired. Caffeine usually makes me sleepy, this just made me unbearably anxious.

And I just felt vaguely super anxious for no reason, just physical anxiety, as usual (i don’t really have psychological symptoms like rumination or negative racing thoughts, except when I have physical symptoms, when the physical clears up, so does my mental), something my doctors don’t believe me is a valid issue… it’s usually the other way around, the physical caused by the mental.

Biology is weird. I still have my anxiety because I love stimulants, but I still feel better than before I was on an ssri. (Sertariline specifically)

I would love to have a job where random time progress was an option.

But I’ve never worked a steady job where my metric was deliverables, it has always been coverage and service. And handle time ungh.

So stress. Much burnout.

Ah no, too many people genuinely share that view or something likt it that I never assume something like that is a joke. There was no indication.

It’s also really easy to gloss over usernames in threads like this woth multiple tangents.

They… don’t charge if someone is broke, though, or has no insurance or a host of other reasons.

A lot of abortion services and a lot of contraceptive services are donation-driven.

I give to planned parenthood, for example, to help lower income women get care as well as the planned parenthood action fund to help with legal battles.

When I’ve gone to planned parenthood myself, I qualified for free care, and it helped me substantially as a young woman.

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Ooooooh that took me ages to break and only from being harassed about it.

I replaced it, almost exclusively, with the happy sweating emoji 😅 because it properly conveys what I want to communicate. The hope and anxiety. Hope that I will be properly understood, and anxiety knowing I won’t.

Rofl well that was a stupid invention

These are all from my childhood, my mom used to do them, usually while pointing at the thing. Often just to trick us into looking at something dumb so she could laugh, so now I do it too.

When passing a graveyard: look! Dead people!

When passing cows: look! Cows!

When passing cornfields, though not all the time cuz there are so many where I grew up: I had a joke for you, but its too corny.

When passing a sign that says STOP AHEAD: face palm stop a head!

No u-turn sign: no, sign, you turn, I don’t want to!

And a bunch of other little things like that. Needless to say the first long trip with new passengers is a blast for me.

I remember this was a video, he was singing a love song, iirc, to his partner. It was very cute, but the video seems to be gone from the internet. This is the only bit that remains.

And now they’re cutting back on the self-checkouts while not bothering to hire people back to work the registers lol. The lines are getting longer and longer.

Of course, how else to drive you to use their pickup/delivery service for a premium, or to order online where they can really gouge you individually with surveillance pricing.

They were never going to do surveillance pricing in store, that’s too hard, but why have useable stores at all? Throw everything in locked cases, staff minimally, ignore complaints, profit (this quarter).

“Make my coffee look like an egg bagle, and make it taste like you dipped a glazed donut into it, but without actually doing that, I don’t want chunky coffee”

That’s how I used to order my coffee from the donut place at 3 am before my 4 am airport shift. I was young, i’ve grown, but they always got it basically right. I make my own now, much much darker with less sugar. With just as much questionable content. Because I have ONE good coffee and top it off until it sucks and I don’t want more.

“myth of rugged individualism”,

A better name for that that, one which I apply to myself, is “toxic independence”. It covers more issues, I think, because it includes people who don’t see themselves as rugged individualists, but just ordinary people surviving as best they can.

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Did Steve tell you that? What’s he got to do with it? What kind of rapping name is steve?

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