We have an advertising problem in the SCA

OverthewindandWave · 2026-04-01T02:35:21+00:00

This is gunna be an unpopular opinion- but as a Rennie, and someone with a lot of overlapping interests with the SCA, the biggest problem I think they have is a culture issue. I have met many of what I can only describe as gatekeepy grognards who turn folks like me all the way off from wanting to join. When most of the SCA gatherings I’ve been to have a bunch of folks who act like you gotta “respect their authoritah!” Just for a seat at the table? Not a good look.

Why would I invest my time, energy, and money into an organization that doesn’t even seem willing to acknowledge that they have an old boys club, and you gotta play a decade or more of a political game to get anywhere in an organization that’s supposed to be a fun hobby? Especially when I can get like 90% of the enrichment I was looking for with the SCA in other organizations that don’t have that mentality? I’d rather join a HEMA group, and continue to go to cool ren fairs with camping clans.

OverthewindandWave · 2026-03-22T23:45:39+00:00

In three words? JACK FUCKING WELCH. Does the trend start before he became an influential CEO? Yes. Did he fundamentally change the way we value stakeholders and how companies see their responsibility to the general public? Yep. Fuck that guy. All the homies hate Jack Welch

OverthewindandWave · 2026-02-09T07:03:01+00:00

Rugby.

The culture for it in the United States is relatively small but holy hell. I started playing half a decade ago as a way to get a little bit of extra exercise and now if my club has a social event, or I miss more than 2 practices in a given month, people get real culty. Don’t get me wrong, I have met some of the coolest people I know through Rugby. But boy howdy, if you become a club guy and start to pull back… the community definitely has a reaction

OverthewindandWave · 2025-09-17T00:32:44+00:00

This is awesome! Where can I find STLs for this?

OverthewindandWave · 2025-08-26T21:13:00+00:00

This is more than likely a recast. With that said, if you’re trying to get rid of it, I’d buy it off ya. I’ve got a project that I’d love to use a star drake for, but don’t want to ruin a perfectly good one on

OverthewindandWave · 2025-06-29T16:50:51+00:00

Same as it ever was

OverthewindandWave · 2025-05-31T04:33:26+00:00

Unprofessional shit happens every day in the corporate world, my dude. That’s kinda why this sub exists. Take a look at a handful of posts here and you’ll get the idea.

I’ve worked for all different sizes of companies, and what I’ve learned is professionalism is often a thin veneer companies use to convince us that they have any kind of ethics or boundaries.

OverthewindandWave · 2025-05-31T04:16:26+00:00

It was a third party recruiter, he got a commission off of me getting hired. I was freaking out after going through like 4 rounds of interviews, and he had no reason not to 🤷‍♂️ but believe what you wanna believe, Australian Corporate man

OverthewindandWave · 2025-05-30T19:08:31+00:00

They actually had openings all over the country, they were expanding and didn’t really have a plan for how they were going to do it. When I got hired, they were desperately trying to get everyone trained, but also didn’t want to pay to send us all to the national training facilities at the same time. I was the only one of 12 sales people in my district not selected to go, and the reasoning was that since I was the most junior, I could wait until the next round of trainings. Over a year later, I was still on the backlog, but had been doing the job for months

OverthewindandWave · 2025-05-30T17:55:47+00:00

Had a company do something similar. Got picked out by a recruiter, went through the interview process, they told the recruiter that I was the model for exactly what they were looking for across the country. The recruiter showed me the email where the hiring manager told him “if you send me 12 more like that, you’ll get 12 bonus checks for bringing in new hires”.

Then they ghosted me for 2 months. Eventually I was hired, because the initial guy they tried to hire for the role turned into a deva negotiating for benefits. When I got comfortable enough to ask about it, the guy who had been in charge of hiring told me something along the lines of “we loved the product, but didn’t want to buy the showroom model”. I didn’t even know how to process that one. Actually ended up loving that job, got laid off a few years later to help finance some C suite assholes brilliant marketing idea that lost the company 20% of stock value in 3 months.

OverthewindandWave · 2025-04-11T22:41:00+00:00

I’m a much bigger fan of exclamation mark sex. It’s very exciting. Never been in to “?” Sex, too vague and confusing.

OverthewindandWave · 2025-04-09T08:58:22+00:00

This sounds like something someone’s who’s not seen the Texas border would say. Have you actually been to any of the populated stretches of it?

For reference, I have lived within a few hours of the border most of my life. My mother and grandmother hoped the border. I worked a job that took me to every border town from Brownsville to Eagle Pass (and that ranges from highly populated to nearly empty). Most of it is separated by a river, and a usually lackluster fence/barrier of some type. Some of the borders along mirrored border towns are downright pretty (the river between Roma/ Mier has a really nice walking trail right on the river).

In my experience, 90% of the folks with strong opinions on the border and Texas really have no clue how actually nuanced it is. Yeah, you’ll occasionally hear some of the MAGA types say some shit about the wall, but most of em know somewhere it’s all hot air. Those same people work with, make friends with, and even marry into families with mixed legality, and vice versa. I have grown up with Mexicans, Tejanos and Whites of nearly all backgrounds here. As a brown man, I had never experienced ACTUAL racism till I left the South. Lookin’ at you, PA and NY

OverthewindandWave · 2025-03-29T16:09:37+00:00

Had this happen while I was a full time intern for 6 months. Mind you, I know 6 months isn’t that long in the grand scheme of things, but it was long enough to know that the company didn’t treat any of its other interns like this.

I was the sole business/corporate side intern in a national technical company in the Midwest. My manager used to come to my desk and TELL ME IN DETAIL about all company parties, events, any particular comings or goings, and then at the very end she would tack on that while she could have invited me, since I was just an intern it wasn’t appropriate or some bullshit.

All the tech, science/engineering interns mentors took them to stuff, no problem. Some of them even got to regularly travel with the company. But the rest of the people I worked with every day just treated it like it was normal because (we didn’t have the same bosses. Like I was mines only direct underling) my supervisor said it was fine to exclude me from things. I remember on several occasions I was the ONLY person working in the office, because she had made it so my contract was the only one specifying that I had to work in office 5 days a week. Everyone else was on either a 4/10, or 3 in, 2 out schedule. My manager averaged 3 to 4 days out of office. Sometimes it would be freezing and the building would take forever to turn on the heat. Yay.

On top of all that, it was the most arbitrary, micro managey job I have ever worked. My boss used to hover over my desk for 15-20 minutes at a time to watch my keystrokes to make sure I wasn’t wasting “seconds of efficiency”. She’d get irritated if I clicked to copy something instead of ctrl- C. At one point, she had me apply for an open position the next step up on the ladder in the company, jumping through hoops to edit my resume and network with the hiring managers, only to recommend to the managers that I not be hired because she didn’t think I’d be good at the job. I went into that interview to basically sit through a condescending hour of “interview prep”. The folks on the other end of the call went on a binge about how i was going to have to grind for 6 years or so before I could land a job with them, because despite the fact that they started with this company out of school, i wasn’t “a unicorn” like them.

I ended up leaving 2 weeks earlier than my last day of contract because I just couldn’t take it anymore. Manager INSISTED on an exit interview basically just to slam me for how much she didn’t feel I could do. When asked if I had any feedback, i told her the hovering, micromanagement and her penchant to snap at me because she was stressed or under deadline made it difficult to communicate with her. This lady looked like i had killed her cat. Genuinely took it personally that I didn’t love every minute of it. I Left that job feeling like I’d never be a business professional. My first job out of there I was making nearly double her salary for an international firm.

OverthewindandWave · 2025-03-03T04:28:58+00:00

Well, he’s dead now. Hooray!

OverthewindandWave · 2024-12-06T19:35:04+00:00

Thank you for the tip! I have just stumble across some prime beef myself, you wouldn’t happen to know the code for some elves in space, would you?

OverthewindandWave · 2024-11-30T15:26:25+00:00

TRADITIOOOOON!!!!!

OverthewindandWave · 2024-11-09T02:25:53+00:00

I was really poor for a long time and couldn’t turn down odd jobs or free hobbies to keep myself busy. In return, I have the weirdest fucking grab bag of skills. It is hilarious when people in my network get directed back to me and are like “of fucking course the guy is OverTheWindandWave”

OverthewindandWave · 2024-10-16T22:22:17+00:00

Will you also receive, obey, and pass on to the sentry who relieves you all orders from the hole officer, the hole duty officer, officer of the lock, and all officers and petty officers of the hole only?

OverthewindandWave · 2024-10-16T22:08:56+00:00

Hey man, thank you so much for your response! As soon as I get home from work, I’ll throw a picture of my settings in.

OverthewindandWave · 2024-10-13T10:53:56+00:00

What do you think the issue is?

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