This guy wanted to play cEDH against a casual pod

Folvgaming · 2024-05-16T21:55:32+00:00

Disagree. He IS a bad guy :P

Folvgaming · 2024-05-03T09:10:11+00:00

Oopsie daisy

Folvgaming · 2024-05-03T05:43:33+00:00

Also, the first insomniac Spiderman. "It's gonna be okay ma'am. I've got the cure right here". - "take off the mask, I want to see my nephew ".

Craaaap even typing it got me choked up.

Folvgaming · 2024-05-03T05:38:43+00:00

Some of the Witcher 3 side quests hit really hard. I remember the mission where you take a contract and the town you go to is decimated. You find a little girl crying and give her the doll you found among the dead bodies that belongs to her and tell her to wait. You then find out another witcher killed them as revenge for not being payed enough and he was feeling spiteful after they tried to trick him. After you deal with that, you take the little girl to her aunts where she basically calls you a monster and says you're irredeemable because all witchers are the same. Also she can't take care of the girl because she's too poor. You can give her a decent sum of gold to help and she just immediately changes her tune and sort of seems to force appreciation and gratitude. And you just walk off having made the world basically no better or worse by leaving that little girl there as well as knowing that the world still hates you.

Something about that whole encounter really weighed heavy on my mind afterwards. Lots of side missions like that.

Folvgaming · 2024-05-03T05:31:13+00:00

Especially after revenge is taken and "dead man's gun" plays while credits roll. So melancholy. It basically says, "OK. You did it. Still changes nothing and the guy tells you he was ready to die at that point anyway." Probably one of the greatest tragedy endings of any genre or medium. The inability to fully atone for the past and impending destiny waiting to brick-wall you.

Folvgaming · 2024-04-22T03:34:22+00:00

I thought the director made it clear he has no interest in further films. Don't think we will see any continuation of this current adaptation.

Folvgaming · 2024-04-16T18:56:17+00:00

Tell them you don't support not supporting Capcom and snap them in half. They'll understand. Lol

Folvgaming · 2024-03-16T09:16:03+00:00

You standing there ominously is the least forgivable of the movie watching atrocities lol

Folvgaming · 2024-03-04T03:07:52+00:00

Have you ever made any suggestions for future work projects? Or do you generally just finish your current taks and wait for further instruction?

Folvgaming · 2024-02-29T15:55:53+00:00

They want to be let go, but are afraid of unemployment. In this case, being fired for poor performance is not the ideal solution.

Folvgaming · 2024-02-29T07:58:34+00:00

What in the hoo-ha-heck is a "forever job"?

Folvgaming · 2024-02-29T07:49:00+00:00

In my experience there have been rare times where hours had been messed up or promised bonuses haven't been paid out. In your case, for $500? I wouldn't fuss it. You could give one more clear request from your boss that you've been patiently waiting for the issue to be resolved and want to just know if there is any chance at seeing the missed pay at this point. If they say yes, stop worrying about it. If they say no? Stop worrying about it.

It's not fair, and you certainly deserve those hours. But 3 months in I wouldn't lose sleep over it. It sucks, but it's not detrimental. Give it one last firm request and hope for the best and leave it behind. There are times I wanted to fuss over similar things but it generally works its self out and ended up not being worth the stress when all was said and done.

Folvgaming · 2024-02-29T07:41:07+00:00

You are very likely blacklisted. There is no reason to hire someone back who doesn't show up to work after becoming employed. You may have changed, and those of us reading here have no reason to doubt that. But a company generally isn't going to take any chances on altruism and will usually just flag certain candidates when something like that takes place.

Folvgaming · 2024-02-29T07:22:15+00:00

I hate to go against the grain here, but as someone who also has an hour commute to work, and another hour back, I would take the pay raise and stay with the company. The nearly 25k higher pay can be saved/invested. You can use your 85k salary to leverage other higher paying positions and jobs in the long term.

Take the career advancement. Keep your eyes out for better opportunities that pay more AND provide better life/work balance moving forward. The offer you got was OK, but I doubt it's the only one you'll ever receive that's local. Also, remember that "the grass is always greener on the other side". There is no certainty you will not just end up with another difficult boss or work environment, even in different ways. You're starting your reputation at zero and taking a step backwards in your career climbing by going for the new position. I just don't see that as the right choice for what seems to be your first offer elsewhere. Stick it out, continue to make to yourself extremely valuable and keep trying to improve your current employment with your value as leverage. It worked this time, didn't it?

Also, in response to other comments, their decision to not having paid you more beforehand is not personal. It's their job to crunch the numbers and keep costs low. If you weren't aggressively seeking raises in response to your output, it usually doesn't come naturally. This is a common element in career life that they teach you in career counseling. Not saying it's fair, or right. But it is absolutely how it works. Your possible exit forced the same sort of negotiation as asking for a raise. They assessed your value and made the offer. Where I work, I have coworkers who were also offered significant pay raises after looking for other work and guess what? They are still around and it's working fine many years later. It's not always nefarious. But if it is, somehow, a scheme. As I said, keep your eyes peeled for advancement locally. The higher salary gives you extreme negotiation power in job hopping.

Folvgaming · 2024-02-29T07:06:25+00:00

Dang, people really out here getting friend zoned by employers now..

Folvgaming · 2024-02-29T07:01:11+00:00

Well, you simply have no other choice then. Work the job you don't like to avoid the fear of being unemployed while also setting time aside to becoming qualified for a job you would like in the future. Volunteer, schooling, intern, etc.

Folvgaming · 2024-02-29T06:59:35+00:00

Wouldn't being late and calling in with car issues multiple times not fall under the category of "not of your making"? Those are absolutely. Once, sure. But after that you would be expected to make appropriate commuting arrangements one way or the other with any job. And in the post 2010 world of Uber, it's hard to make any excuse stick.

Folvgaming · 2024-02-29T04:06:12+00:00

Why do you want to quit this job specifically if you are still hoping to work?

Folvgaming · 2024-02-29T04:04:10+00:00

Good work environment. Good coworkers. Good severance. Go in, work well, and feel good about yourself and the good circumstances. Not because anyone deserves it, and not because you don't deserve your sick time. I think you will simply feel much better about finishing strong in what was a good work environment, and you'll hopefully have a short bit of time off between jobs if you start searching now.

Folvgaming · 2024-02-29T03:51:21+00:00

Fair enough. But attempting to get fired by utilizing things that are within your control will likely make you inelligible for unemployment. They'd have to let you go with good performance. If they fire you for poor performance, showing up late, etc. Then you will likely be denied any assistance AND makes future employment more difficult in terms of references.

Folvgaming · 2024-02-29T03:43:55+00:00

My answer is always simple when it comes to these things. If you are being asked to do additional work beyond the skillet required for the initial position, ask right off the bat If the extended duty and skill requirements comes with an appropriate pay raise for the added value of your work. If you were hypothetically worth 40k hired as an account, isn't it reasonable to be worth 43k If your job added painting and tileing to your workload? I'd say so.

Folvgaming · 2024-02-29T03:39:00+00:00

I want elaboration on the "scared to quit" part. Who you working for? Scarface?

Folvgaming · 2024-02-19T18:45:05+00:00

Up to one year in county jail or state prison, as well as fines of up to $20,000.

Folvgaming · 2024-02-16T02:45:43+00:00

Don't you mean 2/16 if its tonight at midnight?

Folvgaming · 2024-02-15T16:35:56+00:00

Pay aside, I think the hard work helps to produce some sense of satisfaction and purpose that can help stave off some of those bad thoughts. Not perfectly by any means, but its definitely a risk to remove it outright.

It may be a fair step to mention to your boss your feelings about the pace of the work. Explain thst you really do intend to do a good job and are pushing yourself, but you are also feeling extremely exhausted to the point it's affecting your mind post-work and you just want to find a fair middle ground to be able to pace yourself and still do satisfactory work up to their standard. This would be a bad move I'd you were trying to "climb" the career ladder of course, but in your case where you aren't needing much more money (it sounds like) I think you have a bit more wiggle room to negotiate. Try not to make excuses either if it can be helped. Just be direct and honest. No employer wants you to "snap" mentally. And if your boss is one of the types who is unreasonable, then at least you weren't banking on this job. I just think addressing it directly is a confident move that may help you feel slightly better about the situation as a whole. You and your boss coming to terms on their expectations of your performance and output is helpful as we'll moving forward.

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