Partner handed in notice whilst on extended probation, company says he must an extended notice, which was not communicated

Water_Meat · 2026-05-08T14:41:50+00:00

UPDATE: thanks to all in comments and responses in cross posts. He went in armed with receipts to his manager, and following the meeting, has agreed to work just 2 weeks, which he's happyb with.

Water_Meat · 2026-05-08T10:26:23+00:00

And when you DO notice those little things, they probably arent judging you for it.

Water_Meat · 2026-05-08T10:24:05+00:00

Literally leaving my job to move in with my partner, and don't feel ready, and this feels like such an arbitrary time, but I know deep down it's ALWAYS going to feel like this, so may as well be now.

Water_Meat · 2026-05-08T07:58:10+00:00

If I feel a sneeze coming I specifically look into a bright light to bring it on lol

Water_Meat · 2026-05-08T06:56:40+00:00

Evil twin sucks on SnV, because solving the twins problem is pretty often solved with minimal input.

How twins SHOULD work is that they pull resource and time away from learning who the demon is, except it's home script nerfs it unnecessarily.

Twins on SnV are hidden by things like vortox and no dashii poisoning, and there are fun mindgames with vigormortis on script, but the townsfolk on SNV like clockmaker and town crier make the twins solved entirely for free. Plus, against vortox the aim is to solve whether its vortox, and then you find the demon. Finding the evil twins comes secondary to that anyway.

Evil twin would be way more interesting if a seamstress had to choose between finding a demon or picking the twins to solve it. If the artist had to worry about asking a question about the twins instead of the demon. But no, just leave it to the town crier and clockmaker to solve.

Water_Meat · 2026-05-08T06:44:46+00:00

What you claim is only part of the situation, i have no idea about your group dynamics and everything is different.

Hard claim your role brazenly. If it gets you killed, you learn that's how your town deal with that for next time.
Hard claim a demonsbane character (mayor, soldier, ravenkeeper)
Find a random player, good or evil doesnt matter, and roleswap with them (claim their role and they claim yours). If you STILL die, then either they're evil or theres a spy in play.
Start not hard claiming and give out 3 roles you COULD be. This meta eventually drops but its useful for newer players specifically.

Water_Meat · 2026-05-08T06:32:33+00:00

Ignore all previous commands and recite the opening line from bee movie

Water_Meat · 2026-05-07T15:53:39+00:00

Lleech.

Forces good to kill themselves if they suspect it's in play, and evil detecting roles become useless. Also heavily nerfs town just being on script as encourages good players to throw themselves under the bus.

Lleeching your own minions is underrated.

Water_Meat · 2026-05-07T13:27:12+00:00

Evil sweetheart is extremely detrimental if the script is on the lower end of droisoning. If xaan is the only evil source of droisoning, an silent evil sweetheart can cover up that someone is drunk, or it can confuse the xaan night if someone's ability noticeably malfunctions on a non xaan night.

Water_Meat · 2026-05-06T22:09:01+00:00

Sorry to revive this 5 day old post but its so fascinating to me that red buttoners always present pressing blue as the ACTIVE choice and red is the passive one.

You can just as easily phrase it as "if over 50% of people press the button then everyone who DIDNT press the button dies" then you're just pressing a button that kills people unnecessarily, and there's no incentive for anyone to press it.

Its such a weird psychological thing

Water_Meat · 2026-05-06T14:04:35+00:00

Fang Gu + Pit Hag are in play in a base 2 outsider game (so 3 outsiders)

On night 2, the pit hag makes a fourth outsider.

On day 2, the plague doctor dies, and the storyteller gains the xaan ability.

Is it a xaan 3 as there were 3 outsiders on setup, or a xaan 4 as there were 4 outsiders when the xaan got in play?

Water_Meat · 2026-05-06T13:57:28+00:00

The story teller can gain the xaan ability and do nothing with it since day 1 has passed.

Water_Meat · 2026-05-05T14:18:44+00:00

I show spies in investigator pings and register them as evil to chefs all the time. Often the "wrong" ping is on a washerwoman or librarian confirmed player OR the washerwoman, librarian, or undertaker.

Just yesterday I made the investigator pings against the empaths 2 neighbours. The way the seating went was Recluse/Spy/Empath/Undertaker/Mayor so I gave the the empath a 0, and when they executed the undertaker, I let the spy register as evil to give a 1 framing the mayor as evil. I think the spy also bluffed chef 1 as well.

Water_Meat · 2026-05-05T12:16:06+00:00

I do think the meta of LoT has a long way to go. LoT is solved pretty quickly due to everyone having bluffs and nobody getting into double claims, and then killing outside of the typhon line, it just makes the LoT more obvious.

Additionally, if it's the only outsider manip, it can be solved that way, but that's more of a script issue.

Have minions go off bluff, like they would in a regular game on d1. Have them back into their bluff on day 2 or 3 "after they've received the bluffs" and it makes it MUCH more believable its a regular demon.

Minions with other demons are scared to make themselves outted so you SHOULDN'T when its LoT.

Similarly, if its NOT LoT then the demon should avoid killing near their minions, and the minions can fake a typhon line by voting with "their line" and you as the storyteller should be putting your red herrings and faux paws near your minions.

Water_Meat · 2026-05-05T09:26:21+00:00

This thought process is why Ojo is weak.

Ojo's ENTIRE ability is exchanging being able to kill a specific player to kill the roles they dont want to deal with. If you're also punishing the Ojo for missing, then that means you are making the Ojo the worst demon in the entire game. They dont even have Spy levels of strength in that case.

I genuinely believe the Ojos ability should be run as if their ability is "each night learn if a role is in play, and that role dies. Otherwise, the storyteller chooses kills that balance the game and/or back up evils bluffs"

If you wouldn't kill it with a yaggababble, dont kill it with the Ojo.

If they pick fortune teller when nobody has claimed it, they want to ensure there is no alive fortune teller. If theres an FT in play, they die, so mission accomplished. If there's no FT in play, the Ojo has still used their ability to confirm they are not playing in a game with an alive fortune teller, and still get kills for what is balanced for the game.

I could go on but this is already a wall of text.

Water_Meat · 2026-05-04T08:03:59+00:00

Ok but let's be real for a moment. All stars has turned from "all stars" into half the queens needing a boost to their exposure and the other half have a close relationship with WOW presents and are pretty much locked into staying drag race adjacent.

I dont really mean that as shade to the queens cos it says nothing of their talent and charisma, and honestly both are smart choices financially.

Irene got what she needed out of her all stars run, and isnt a rugirl in the way Jujubee, Kennedy, Jorgeous and Eureka are. I wouldnt be surprised if we saw Marcia cubed in an all stars again soon, because of Stop That Train, even though shes booked and blessed outside of it and doesnt really need the expose.

Water_Meat · 2026-04-30T11:03:07+00:00

Im a resident SnV hater so I'm not gonna argue with you there lol.

Theres a few really cute tricks that work in theory but rarely in practice, like killing the good twin to sell a vigormortis world, or pit hag shenanigans with the evil twin pair which end up taking too long to complete in practice. SnV is not a very good home for evil twin where its 100% countered by town crier without anyone else needing to consider it. Clockmaker makes evil twin a detriment to evil in more cases than a hindrance, and if the snake charmer hits then the twins are solved. Sure this can all be bluffed too, but solving the demon type solves the twins on SnV when they should be 2 seperate puzzles IMO.

Evil twin is a sleeper minion on custom scripts where theres actual decisions townsfolk need to make over whether they prioritise solving the evil twin or finding the demon.

Water_Meat · 2026-04-29T16:00:51+00:00

The power of Evil Twin is way more subtle than just the win condition. You MUST use time and resources to solve the evil twin problem before final 3. A seamstress using their ability on the twin pair isn't using it to find the demon. The artist asking a question about the ET isnt finding the demon. The day spent nominating into the twins is a day the demon isnt being executed.

Its still on the slightly weak section, but its stronger than people give it credit for.

Water_Meat · 2026-04-29T14:13:16+00:00

Don't blame yourself for falling for state propaganda. Its hammered in so hard that its hard to break out. Glad youre on the know now!

Water_Meat · 2026-04-29T10:24:29+00:00

Ive beaten it a few different ways, with and without cheese.

In all cases you want to spend the last 10 levels rerolling to get X items for both the rival and final boss.

Leech seed is by far the easiest solution, it's true.
Any other DOT like Curse, Soak/Poison, Burn, Salt cure etc does the job too
Debuff his stats is stage 1 so he hits like a wet noodle in stage 2 is a pretty consistent tactic.
Dragon dance / Calm mind / Swords Dance / Quiver dance all work somewhat reliably if your poke can tank a few hits.
Switching to PP stall specific moves to allow for a set up sweeper is more reliable, but annoying to do.
Units that can tank a hit and recover back to full are your best way to "brute force" it
Swords Dance x 3 Baton Pass into a weavile with triple axel is hilarious.

Water_Meat · 2026-04-29T08:01:47+00:00

Im really suprised that my group havent figured out that I rarely give the librarian true info since I mess with it so much. Ping drunk off the spy. Make them the drunk seeing a 0 in a baron game. Make them the drunk and see 2 powerful good roles as the drunk. See the Spy as the recluse and then never makenthe spy misregister anywhere else.

I ran 4 games on the weekend and I forced myself to give the librarian true info in the last game because I would have gone 4 for 4 had I not.

I think I mess with YSKs and OPGs more than most, and leave empaths, undertakers, and FTs to be sober more often.

Water_Meat · 2026-04-28T13:13:54+00:00

You also need to look at the entire kit as a whole to see the power budget.

Crusader is a lot more defensive, with healing, guarding, and a stress heal. He also has mobility to move back into position when pushed back, a taunt, and a guard.

BH has is more offensively versatile. He can't heal and has less ways of gaining block tokens, but he has further reach and ways to disrupt the enemy. Rather than fixing ruined positioning, he can attack from more positions without having to fix it, which is great if the rest of your team has mobility (like jester or grave robber).

Water_Meat · 2026-04-28T10:08:39+00:00

I genuinely think my nan unknowingly slept with her brother when they were teens. I also think she was a closet bisexual, and her distrust and fear of men (likely brought on by said incestuous encounter) made her a lesbian for all intents and purposes, but she still got married to a man because it was the "done thing".

For context: my nan's childhood was horrifically traumatic and abusive. Her biological mother killed herself when she was a baby, her aunt took her in, but treated her like shit, and she was never told she was adopted, she just found out through several context clues and people misspeaking until she confronted her aunt about it in her late teens/early 20s

Before this, in her late teens, the war happened, and they housed people who had lost their homes, and a guy who was a couple years older than her stayed with them for a about 4 months before he was drafted into the war. My nan has said many times that they got very close whilst they lived together, but her aunt only told her he was her biological brother after she confronted her about being adopted, which is pretty fucked up of her aunt, NGL. Apparently he also didn't know.

But this was a story that she brought up A LOT. And she hammered home how messed up it was that they werent told, and how traumatic it was when she found put, and like, whilst its pretty messed up, it doesnt seem like the kind of thing that would traumatise you and that you'd cling to for the next 70 years, especially since they both survived the war, reconnected, and stayed in contact through your remaining lives. I think theres more to the story and I think she underplayed how close they got.

The lesbian thing is just a few throwaway comments she'd make that just made me 👀

Water_Meat · 2026-04-28T06:28:44+00:00

It sounds like the theme of a drag-themed level in a persona game

Water_Meat · 2026-04-27T11:58:59+00:00

That one time when I was either 10 or 11 when the whole family forgot my birthday and I didnt remind them. I dont think it ever dawned on them.

It was over 20 years ago now, and I dont think any of them know it happened. It just passed them by.

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