dykepuffs:

steampunktomboy:

psychoticallytrans:

If a worker who isn’t the owner says ANYTHING similar to “I’m not really supposed to do this but-” and then does something that helps you, under no circumstances inform the business, including through reviews. You tell them that the worker was polite, professional, the very model of customer service and why you like to go there. You do not breathe a word of the rulebreaking.

Employee-customer solidarity

Even if they don’t- Your review can be the thing that wrecks someone up accidentally;

“Janie was so helpful when I wanted to buy a new washing machine on Friday, she stayed with me for half an hour and wasn’t pushy at all, we had a good laugh about our cats’ silly antics and she got Adam and Suzy to carry it to the car for me- 10/10 excellent service, I’d come back any day!”

-But Management has a policy that workers should spend no more than 10 focused minutes on any customer at a time, and that they should always try to upsell the insurance and the higher price model, so Janie was breaking policy.

-And they aren’t supposed to have their phones on the sales floor, so now Janie is going to be quizzed on whether she was showing photos of her cat to a customer.

-Adam is a warehouse worker and shouldn’t have been in the front-of-house at all, Suzy is a porter, and store policy is both to use a trolley to move heavy items, and that only the porters should do it, so now Janie is in trouble for pulling Adam off-task, Adam is in trouble for walking through the shop floor, and Suzy is in trouble for poor handling procedure. Maybe the store even has a paid delivery service that Janie was supposed to upsell as soon as you said “I can’t put this in my car without help”, so this was all against policy.

Your review should always be as bland as possible, “10/10, five star service, will shop here again, thank you to Janie at the Town Street branch” You NEVER know what was technically a rule-break, capitalism is not your friend, the review process is part of the panopticon.

FIVE STARS, TEN OUT OF TEN, VERY GOOD, NOTHING MORE.

forsapphics:

Innocence (1899)

Arthur Hacker (1858 – 1919)

ilikesallydonovan:

invisible-goats:

quantumfeat72:

quantumfeat72:

for the past few years i’ve had a personal rule that i do not sign anything i haven’t read - mostly because i genuinely think it’s a good idea, but also as a kind of social experiment - and i wanna share some observations

• when i worked at an amusement park, i was one of like two or three people in a group of around twenty young adults who read the employment contract
• i gave up on reading every TOS and privacy policy early on - now i only read them if it’s a website or company i’ll be giving personal information to (and even then i only skim them) - but i’ve never found anything super suspect in one
• i also have an exception for when i’m made to feel like i’d be an asshole for stopping to read something. notable examples of this going into effect include the patient-intake paperwork at the ER when i went in a few months ago. (i really wish i’d just gone ahead and been the asshole in that situation, even though i have no reason to think there was anything bad in it)
• i think the only time i was the only one to read something that the people who gave it to us actually wanted us to read was the waiver at a cat café, which included a lot of safety information about how to interact with the cats
• one time i was approached by a guy with a petition who told me it was an anti-fracking petition (which was a real petition that was going around at the time), but the paper he handed me was a petition to instate a “citizenship requirement” for voting. i pointed this out to him and he tried to convince me that even though that’s what it said, it’s not really what my signature meant, and then named the university he graduated from as though it gave him some level of extra credibility??
• i have more than once been given a HIPPA form at a doctor’s office where my signature certifies that i’ve been offered a copy of their privacy practices, when i had not, in fact, been offered a copy of their privacy practices. the last time this happened, the receptionist didn’t actually have a copy of their privacy practices, and had to get me to me sign it several days later once she got a copy from her manager
• 99% of people are very accommodating when you tell them “i want to read this before i sign it,” but it’s never what they’re expecting
• on a related note, if someone thinks it’s important that you know what’s in something they’re giving you to sign, they won’t wait for you to read it - they’ll go through, point to each section, and tell you what it says. this is what happened when i signed my lease, and it’s actually a pretty common instance of using my asshole exception, because then i feel like i’m calling the person a liar if i stop to read it myself

the moral of the story is… like… we treat a signature like it’s the absolute most surefire way of saying “yes i understand this and agree to it,” but in practice there’s not even a pretense that a signature means you’ve READ whatever you’re signing. in fact, handing someone a piece of paper and saying “sign here” is one of the LEAST effective ways to make sure they understand and agree to something, and PEOPLE KNOW THIS, and we do it ANYWAY because what else are we gonna do? notarize it??

i don’t have a solution but like. that’s kinda fucked up, you know?

i need to practice saying “most people are fundamentally honest, but by handing me a contract/waiver to sign you’ve already chosen not to take me at my word. it’s only fair that i should do the same by reading it first”

Honestly I do this without the asshole exception. Narrowly avoided a zero-hours but also you can’t work for anyone else job by reading the contract even though the guy “explained it all to me”. He was a fucking liar

I hate those things where you sign something on a computer and you’re just shown the signature field, without any context. Even if I’d been shown the text of the contract beforehand and had it explained to me I’d like to know which bit precisely I put my signature under.

(Yes, I am also one of those people who reads stuff I’m supposed to sign. With GDPR stuff I quite often find that you’re handed stuff with all the boxes already ticked, which is the opposite of what you usally want).

redshiftsinger:

fionn-o-nassus:

kaleidoscopecatiii:

keynes-fetlife-mutual:

real freedom includes the right to be a fucked-up dysfunctional weirdo. when you lack this right, your inability or refusal to comply with social norms will be used as a pretext to take away your other freedoms. all of us are fucked-up weirdos on the inside, so with sufficiently hostile and intrusive surveillance anyone can be unpersoned.

Fucked-up dysfunctional weirdo with full rights to and supports available to ensure whatever needs can be functionally met and are desired by said weirdo are filled.

If you don’t support the rights of kooks, weirdos, freaks, oddballs, and funky fellows then get out.

The pathologization and criminalization of pecularity doesn’t only affect the neurodivergent and the mentally ill, it can and will be used by the state against “normal” people the moment they step out of line.

Not only is it good to support the rights of freaks and weirdos on the grounds of protecting the rights of the neurodivergent and mentally ill, it’s also good on the grounds of cutting off a vector of state repression against the general public.

As soon as you start deeming it acceptable to take away the basic rights of “freaks”, you open the door to being deemed a “freak” yourself as soon as those in power decide you’re inconvenient.

Throwing “weirder” people under the bus will never guarantee you safety. You gotta park the bus so it stops running people over in general.

orbleglorb:

orbleglorb:

i wanted to show everyone my favorite tiktok

the creator of this tiktok, zainah.mb, has many family members in palestine who have been martyred. at least 37, in fact. if you would like to help her out financially, she runs a hijab shop called modest behavior, and sells sister minnie merch. here’s a link to her paypal as well.

as far as i know, she doesn’t live in palestine, but she is palestinian. consider supporting her

cemeterything:

cemeterything:

yes it’s cool when unrequited love isn’t treated as this huge tragedy and people can still be friends or accept it and move on but i do love the fucked up dynamic you get when someone is so utterly obsessed with someone else that they beg and plead with them just to be allowed to devote themselves to them like a dog even if they get nothing in return for it. when the love is completely one sided but it isn’t any less intense for it.

just let me stay with you. let me sleep at the foot of your bed. i would kill for you. i would die for you. if you won’t share a life with me, at least let me dedicate mine to you.

thesparkleslugs:

“I didn’t say “I love you” to hear it back. I said it to make sure you knew.”

— (via blk-yeezus)

ginsengsheetmask:

I was out with a bunch of people this weekend and this guy suddenly went “man I miss my wife” and went home. like…I want that

thesparkleslugs:

“You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”

— John Green (via quotethatword)

twinprime:

ON FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, BLURRED LINES, AND A LACK OF CLOSURE

1. hard feelings/loveless - lorde / 2. @unsenttextsuggestion / 3. el lenguaje del limbo II - mariana restrepo / 4. blue nights - joan didion / 5. @blossomfully / 6. “the pillowcase” in everyone i love is a stranger to someone - annelyse gelman / 7. let me hold you - malcolm t. liepke / 8. the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us! - sufjan stevens / 9. talk me down - troye sivan

prisonhannibal:

completely unable to stop thinking about this post

shoyohnt:

my favorite trope is when someone believes they’re hard to love and someone who loves them like it’s breathing.

not-withoutyou:

battle couples has gotta be one of my favorite tropes though. The “you got me?” “Yeah, I got you.” The kiss for good luck. Fighting alongside each other for so long they know every strength and weakness. The dichotomy of being fucking terrifying to their enemies, but so soft with each other. When one is in danger and the other goes feral, protects them at any cost. When everything is over and done, it’s all “let me see where you’re hurt,” and washing off the dirt and blood.

ruhlare: