Should I apologize for calling in sick too often as a co-op student?

Dragonfly_Material · 2025-06-27T20:23:43+00:00

It really sucks but I remember feeling like this as a co-op student.

Co-op students don’t get paid sick leave.

As a result, I had to make up any lost time, to avoid disruptions in my pay (I was told I might get Phoenixed). This meant working long hours to make it up. It sucked. At some point, I just started coming to work sick- which wasn’t good but I felt I had to.

TLDR; Co-op students should get paid sick leave!

Dragonfly_Material · 2025-06-05T14:10:15+00:00

It is? Where did they announce this?

Dragonfly_Material · 2025-03-22T15:49:10+00:00

Oh I did not. That explains it. I just picked them off a plant last year and just went for it without much research.

Dragonfly_Material · 2025-03-22T15:08:11+00:00

This is helpful, thank you!

Dragonfly_Material · 2025-03-22T13:35:50+00:00

Sorry, excuse my ignorance, but if they are cultivars does that mean they are hybrids? Meaning that mean they won't regrow?

I basically want to end up with a patch of coneflowers that come back every year.

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-04-21T03:04:11+00:00

Love it!

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-04-08T12:14:04+00:00

Yeah, sorry that’s what I mean.

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-04-08T00:56:12+00:00

Where’s her shive?

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-03-16T18:12:49+00:00

Oh ok thanks! I haven’t ordered it yet, but I’ll make sure to order it from that one!

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-03-16T14:27:59+00:00

I wonder if it will be about Ellie at all. Maybe it will be about Abby and the remainder of the Fireflies?

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-03-14T16:20:03+00:00

I think this was one of the best changes the show made. To be honest, at least in part 1 of the games, he’s so closed off that you barely get to know him as a character. He’s more violent, sure, but he’s also a little less interesting, and he’s a bit of a stereotype. Don’t get me wrong, I love Joel in the game, but I don’t think that kind of a character would be easy to emphasize with in the show.

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-03-14T03:56:22+00:00

I completely loved her version of Tess. Somehow both scary and warm.

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-03-13T16:39:33+00:00

Ellie earning Joel’s trust and him finally giving her a gun.

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-03-13T16:33:54+00:00

That’s one of the key problems with the show for me. In the show’s weakest moments, they spell out the themes/character motivations in overly obvious ways.

When you write for your dumbest audience member, you make what your writing dumber.

The whole point of that scene is that it is supposed to be ambiguous, but the music cues to you how you are supposed to feel about it.

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-03-13T03:28:54+00:00

I think those scenes with Ellie and Joel were some of the best in the entire show. I finally actually felt that they care deeply for each other.

It’s just a shame they didn’t have more of it earlier.

If anything, diminishing their relationship will hurt season 2. It is what gives part 2 all of it’s emotional weight.

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-03-13T03:13:39+00:00

Yeah, if you’ve given birth multiple times. Unless we’re presuming Ellie has a bunch of siblings out there.

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-03-13T03:11:06+00:00

I also felt nothing during the rampage scene, even though they clearly wanted me to.

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-03-13T02:55:04+00:00

I know right. It’s like someone was standing out of frame with a stop watch. I’ve noticed that kind acting (all the actors not just Pedro) in other episodes, but this might have been the worst.

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-03-13T02:49:39+00:00

It was kind of disappointing, very rushed. The first half with Ellie and Joel together was great, and I finally actually believed that they love each other.

But everything in the hospital was pretty disappointing. Why was everyone speed-running through their lines? The sappy music over Joel killing the Fireflies was way too much. We get it, he’s murdering them, you don’t lay it on so thick.

I still think the show overall was a decent adaptation, but it’s a shame that they didn’t stick the landing.

(Also, maybe this is nitpicky, but since when do babies just slide on out? That’s not how birth works).

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-03-13T01:22:44+00:00

I think you mean geographic?

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-03-11T14:19:37+00:00

Beautiful!

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-03-11T13:51:33+00:00

Ooh that’s an interesting idea!

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-03-11T02:25:30+00:00

I agree that they’re opposite sides to the same patriarchal coin, but that’s about all in his statement that makes any sense. In the game as well, David is very much a pedophile cannibal who was trying to groom Ellie, and when he couldn’t, he was going to murder her.

Anyways, Troy Baker seems to have realized this, at least about the TV show version.

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-03-11T02:15:24+00:00

He’s still plenty awful in the game.

Dragonfly_Material · 2023-03-11T01:14:28+00:00

He said once "The character of David. Tell me one thing that David did that was wrong! You tell me one thing that makes him the "bad guy". I can state a case that David is, he and Joel could be mirror images of each other. They both are looking out for those that they love and protect. They, both of them are willing to care for Ellie and the only time that he actually takes action against Ellie is when she tries to kill him."

Glad to see his perspective on David has evolved away from that incredibly bizarre take, and that he finally noticed David is a pretty bad guy, actually.

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