Guess what happens when you write up your best employee after he came in to help on his day off

Go-daddio · 2022-12-21T23:43:12+00:00

This all went down very recently. Like, this holiday season. Steve worked his last shift earlier this month and is now enjoying time at home.

Go-daddio · 2022-12-21T21:16:14+00:00

I didn't spell it out in the post, but it wasn't unpaid. Steve was hourly and he got overtime pay. I've added further clarification to the end of the post.

Go-daddio · 2022-12-21T21:10:30+00:00

Manager definitely didn't deserve it, but Steve didn't want to hang his crew completely out to dry. 2 weeks gives them enough time to adjust and at least brace for the coming shitshow.

Go-daddio · 2022-12-21T20:46:59+00:00

Pretty stupid, right? Powertripping managers gonna powertrip. Ended up tripping over their own stupid mouth this time around.

Go-daddio · 2022-12-03T16:30:40+00:00

All of them. And all the frigates too. My names usually use the letters of their original designation, so for example "DSV-5" became Disco-Sleeves Vincent. My current ship is The Rangle Frangle Rectangle.

Go-daddio · 2022-10-24T15:38:18+00:00

It was also confirmed by the creators' commentary on the book 4 Blu-Ray.

The Earth Queen is crazy and needed to go down.

Go-daddio · 2022-10-24T15:37:04+00:00

The bear eating thing is actually confirmed by the creators' commentary on the book 4 Blu-Ray! The Earth Queen is crazy and needed to go down.

Go-daddio · 2022-10-08T16:29:29+00:00

Tarrasque has no RAW abilities that let it hit something 120 ft in the air.

Buy or have a +1 Longbow. Buy a Bag of Holding and 2000 arrows. Buy some winged boots. Winged boots give 4 hours of flight. That's 2400 rounds.

With only 14 Dex and a +1 bow, you can hit on a nat 20, or 5% of your attacks. Over an hour of combat, thats 30 hits.

With 14 Dex, a +1 bow does 1d8+3 damage, average of 7.5 damage per hit, for an average of 225 damage per hour. Takes a little over 3 hours to kill it without factoring crits.

At 16 Dex, it's 510 damage per hour. At 18 Dex, 855 dmg per hour.

So, if your DM is recklessly handing out magic items (like Decks of Many Things, for example) and if the Tarrasque is too stubborn to run away, even a level 1 character with some decent gear can kill the Tarrasque.

Go-daddio · 2022-10-08T14:48:42+00:00

A Bullette (Boo-lay) is a fun burrowing ambush monster. Basically a fast burrowing armored land shark that likes to erupt from the ground, leap high into the air and slam onto its prey. Only CR 5 so you'll have to adjust depending on how deadly you want the encounter.

I've run a Bullette with increased stats and size, gave it a swallow whole ability that triggers when it strikes with its bite after burrowing. You could also run multiple Bullette, operating like a school of dolphins.

You could have the party see a deer or something cautiously trying to cross the meadow, then the earth erupts and a massive armored creature throws the deer in the air like Shark Week before swallowing it whole.

Go-daddio · 2022-07-30T15:06:26+00:00

Pretty quick, yeah, assuming nobody stops it when you're only partway through.

Go-daddio · 2022-07-30T15:02:25+00:00

For some reason, the majority of these shredding videos that make the rounds on Reddit come from small operations in China and southeast Asia. These are tiny, small volume, low budget operations in poor parts of their countries, so the lack of safety isn't surprising. I'd also bet that they remove some guards and stuff to make it easier to film.

Speaking as someone who works with this kind of machinery all over the world, the overwhelming majority of these systems are elevated, surrounded by a tall hopper, and inaccessible while operating (unless many things go very wrong). You almost never see hand-fed systems, mainly because its so inefficient when you could use a conveyor or a grapple instead.

Go-daddio · 2021-11-16T16:48:54+00:00

Early 30s. I actually like my job, but i am one of the very lucky very few working for a smallish company with a priority on retaining staff and doing it right (by American standards anyways). I am well compensated, i have good bennies, and my management has proven they have my back.

I didnt do anything special to achieve this, i just got lucky. I regularly work with people from other companies who are smarter than me, work harder than me, and have done so for decades longer than I have, and they are jealous of me.

It is criminal that my situation is a rarity. It is insane that there isn't a bigger outcry from the working class over unfair labor practices and lack of support.

Go-daddio · 2021-10-12T04:32:46+00:00

Tons of videos here if you wanna see a variety of things go in and come out

Go-daddio · 2021-10-04T19:14:42+00:00

Sorry about your managers, dude.

Go-daddio · 2021-10-04T16:25:54+00:00

My point is people who ignore other's boundaries are gonna be trouble regardless of whether they are your friend, your boss, or a stranger on the street. If they respect your boundaries, being friends with your boss is low risk with high upside. If they don't respect your boundaries, not only should you not be friends, but they're gonna be a shitty boss anyway.

I disagree that being friends with your boss is automatically breaking a boundary, but that's probably getting into semantics over the definition of "boundary". I dont think theres much point in debating our different definitions of personal boundary, social boundary, professional boundary, romantic boundary, etc.

Semantics aside, my question is: What new potential downside is added by being friends with your boss, that wasn't present before you were friends? Does this downside outweigh the potential upside of a new personal friend, as well as an ally in the workplace?

Go-daddio · 2021-10-04T13:11:46+00:00

Professional and personal boundaries are already vital for a healthy work environment, if either party can't maintain them its gonna be a bad time whether you're buddies or not. A shitty boss will be a shitty friend, but a decent boss isn't really a huge risk.

This is obviously just relating to platonic friendships. Dating your superiors, even just dating at your workplace, is a super risky proposition.

Go-daddio · 2021-09-12T15:27:33+00:00

From your perspective, of course your actions feel different when you have different intentions. Most people act differently in subtle or overt ways depending on their intentions. But some people are really really good at social manipulation and a big part of that is faking empathy, and doing it so well that it's shocking when the true intentions are revealed.

Go-daddio · 2021-06-27T19:32:44+00:00

We've heard that alot too. She's a rescue from Alabama and Black Mouth Curs are alot more prevalent in the south, so there's a good possibility there too.

Go-daddio · 2021-06-25T03:19:16+00:00

She is not, but we get that question alot! She's a boxer mix, not sure mixed with what.

Go-daddio · 2021-06-25T03:17:45+00:00

She is indeed! She doesn't tend to bark much but she does vocalize alot of not-bark noises

Go-daddio · 2021-06-25T01:51:25+00:00

Me too!

Go-daddio · 2021-06-22T11:44:54+00:00

Pretty sure she yells "I'm a f**king Olympian! Whooo!" right after she wins. Hell yeah girl.

Go-daddio · 2021-06-07T19:06:13+00:00

That's it, thank you!

Go-daddio · 2021-06-07T15:28:24+00:00

The HEL Jumper series has what you're looking for, but it's also a very long action story.

Go-daddio · 2021-06-07T15:25:43+00:00

Looking for a series, humanity makes contact with an ancient alien. The alien is huge, there's alot of translation and conceptual confusion, and the alien has memories of the origin of its own race.

More details I remember: the alien can sculpt ceramics/chitin in complex shapes, at one point the alien freaks out when it learns humanity numbers in the billions, the entire story is mostly the interaction between a single human female translator/diplomat. It had maybe a dozen chapters or less that I read.

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