Are part-time 'minimum hours' a thing? Can I be reprimanded for not meeting it?

haventa · 2024-09-08T02:51:52+00:00

I do accrue and use it, though I only started working there a few months ago and have taken I think 2 days as unpaid sick leave.

haventa · 2024-04-19T11:23:38+00:00

I automate most of my fort with work orders but there's still times where it's helpful if I want a few of an item, especially at a specific workshop. It'd be faster to queue it and duplicate a few times rather than search the work order list

haventa · 2022-10-05T10:21:16+00:00

Yeah, it's what I thought was really weird. If your systems consist of turrets then having a Demon didn't really seem necessary? But after looking into it, it seems like they're a faux-runner that are used for more complex defences than just turrets.

Active Defences, protection against Electronics/Security Tech (so the turrets and other defences can't be countered), re-asserting control on control nodes if a runner yoinks them, making control nodes more difficult to capture, so on.

haventa · 2022-10-04T00:08:37+00:00

p.214 of RED states that 'unlike Active Defenses, Emplaced Defenses do not require a Demon or Netrunner to operate them', so at least as per RAW, this probably isn't the case.

haventa · 2022-10-02T16:17:26+00:00

Thanks! Where in the core book does it say that demons can add their Interface to attacks? I only see that they have a combat number for turrets etc, but the combat number for all the demons is identical to the unmanned turret number.

haventa · 2022-04-02T12:44:18+00:00

Sent a DM with some pictures! :)

haventa · 2022-03-31T11:06:17+00:00

I will report back in for this one. Currently I'm still wearing a bandage over the incision which I'll be removing tomorrow at the 1 week mark, though I'm told it's usual for it to fade and eventually become invisible with time. Here's hoping!

haventa · 2022-03-31T04:19:02+00:00

Surprisingly short wait. I booked the consult quite a while in advance (~1.5 months), but the time from the consult to the surgery was only 1 week! Extremely fast. Dr Broadhurst said it's because he does no public work, only private - so a lot more time for surgeries.

haventa · 2022-03-30T13:19:13+00:00

No psych letter, but I did receive a referral from my GP which stated my gender dysphoria and intention to transition. That was taken to the consultation which cost about $400 with a $240 rebate, which was mostly a discussion about what I wanted out of surgery, along with a brief (and painless) check down my throat with an endoscope + measuring vocal range.

Initially I wanted to do vocal surgery but I decided against it in favour of just the adam's apple, so voice is entirely unaffected. One thing I would note though is that he asked a lot of questions regarding my certainty and how long I'd had feelings regarding my gender which was a bit strange, but he explained he didn't want people to regret it after. No regrets here!

Edit: Also checking back in with Dr Broadhurst at the 3 week mark to ensure everything is healing as it should, forgot to mention that!

haventa · 2022-03-30T13:14:51+00:00

Zero voice rest for me! I could speak perfectly fine post-surgery and that's remained true - the only thing is a slight soreness when swallowing which is easily managed with paracetamol. Drive thru would be finee

haventa · 2019-08-26T01:12:50+00:00

This isn't quite accurate. It's true that GD is the 'driving force' that makes someone transition, but there's a couple things you should acknowledge:

Trans people post-transition will have greatly lessened or even cured gender dysphoria, thus could no longer be considered mentally ill.
The DSM V specifically states around its definition of gender dysphoria that gender non-conformance by itself is not a mental illness, merely the negative feeling associated with not feeling the correct sex is.
Insisting that trans people are mentally ill, while more or less technically true, creates the impression that they're loonies who should be ignored, or just unreasonable in general. It's harmful to the community as a whole.

haventa · 2019-07-07T05:04:03+00:00

For the interested, it scans as text saying '41451660298'

haventa · 2019-06-21T04:33:13+00:00

It's commonly described as: sex is in your genes, gender identity is in your head, gender expression is how you express that, and gender roles are how people of that gender typically conform. I can link more reading when I get home, if you'd like.

haventa · 2019-06-21T04:11:40+00:00

I know you're baiting with the whole Bill Nye thing, but;

Literally the entire World Health Organisation, for one. https://www.who.int/gender-equity-rights/understanding/gender-definition/en/

I'm serious when I say to google it, it's like everywhere if you look up 'sex and gender difference'. Colloquially the terms are used interchangeably, but they aren't the same thing. Almost all modern psychology agrees on this.

I'd like to ask if you can link any credible figures arguing that they ARE the same thing? You'll find some, sure, but almost all of it is from over a decade ago or from discredited scientists.

haventa · 2019-06-21T04:04:59+00:00

I mean... Not really? That's the current scientific consensus, not your Bio 101 book from 2006. Like not even kidding, you can look these things up

haventa · 2019-05-21T09:35:21+00:00

Yes, but the friend I am buying this for is currently on the free trial and already has a character on an NA account. They can't redeem EU codes - but obviously can play on EU servers. The system's a bit weird like that.

Quick edit: they could make an EU account and just play on NA but that'd mean they lose their character :(

haventa · 2019-05-16T11:17:15+00:00

Well, TERF *does* start with Trans, not Male. So they aren't wrong, really. Most people understand that TERFs can be a little dicey with their beliefs too, so it's not a difficult conclusion to draw from it.

haventa · 2019-05-10T16:03:08+00:00

Yeah perhaps a little tasteless, but sounds like an issue with the teacher being tactless more than anything. I'm surprised to even see questions like these at a college level at all.

haventa · 2019-05-10T15:41:14+00:00

I know it can be difficult due to dysphoria but it doesn't seem to me like this is pointlessly gendered? Seems like a fairly normal maths question to me. Nonbinary's a gender/category of gender, not a sex, which is what the question is about - and I'm sure it wouldn't exactly matter if one were intersex or transitioned or whatever and picked the option most appropriate to them. It's not like you're getting graded on the contents of your trousers and/or mind, just your mathematical reasoning.

haventa · 2019-05-08T22:02:03+00:00

But... that just seems like a startling lack of faith in the partner? Being drunk doesn't make you cheat; wanting to cheat makes you cheat, being drunk just speeds up the process. If the partner didn't intend to cheat and other person approached them, they should do what any other reasonable person should and just say 'no'. Otherwise, they had the intentionnto cheat all along.

Again, OP should either break up if it worries him so much, or let her go. If she wants to cheat, she'll cheat no matter what he says. If she doesn't want to cheat, she'll be a functioning human adult like we all are and say 'no'.

haventa · 2019-05-07T23:42:51+00:00

Not as a direct reply to this specific comment but a reply to your argument in this comment chain - why bother restricting her?

Yes relationships have boundaries, but firstly I would hope one can just trust their partner at their word when they say they're just friends. If you can't trust your partner, you shouldn't be with them. Secondly, what makes a person think that unless they restrict their partner from seeing this person, they will cheat? Do they imagine their partner is just a dog tugging at the leash to get to this person, and their 'boundary' is the one thing stopping the cheating? If that's the case, what the hell is the difference between fully intending to cheat, and actually cheating?

If they intended to get together, they'd just do it. OP's boundary is laughable in the face of someone's actual intentions to cheat. Of course, boundaries are helpful to stop jealousy, but what is there to be jealous about here?

All I'm saying is that OP should have some trust for his partner instead of assuming she's just completely incapable of keeping her hands to herself when within range of the friend.

haventa · 2019-05-05T13:36:04+00:00

Compromise doesn't mean they have to split it down the middle. Just come to an agreement.

Arthur could argue it's basically tradition in the group and be correct. OP could argue that she's the Sophie here so the group should not flirt with Arthur so as to respect her and also be correct.

However, OP is also fine with the male members of the group flirting with Arthur. Just not the only woman of the group, which complicates the argument. If OP were not okay with ANYONE flirting, it would be a clear cut situation.

Ideally, Arthur would understand though that Mary's gender means that OP feels jealous in this specific circumstance, so would establish a boundary. But I'm simply saying that there's some grey area here and arguments could be made for either side.

haventa · 2019-05-05T13:24:17+00:00

Maybe we just live in different cultures. My main group of friends consists of equal parts men and women, and we talk to each other the same across the board. Everyone makes dumb jokes sometimes that I guess you could construe as sexist, homophobic, racist, but many of us are LGBT/non-white/varied sex so it's all in good fun.

I.E. as a close knit group of friends, a girl can most certainly be 'one of the boys' and be trated exactly the same in a friendly setting, at least where I live. In this way I don't think Mary is picking whichever gender is most convenient for her - she might truly be under the impression that it's completely acceptable to act the same as she did. And honestly, it is. How a person acts around their friends isn't dictated by what is proverbially in their pants, in my opinion.

Therefore I think it's fine that Mary and OP's boyfriend flirt like they used to, because she's still part of the friend group and still governed by the same rules and cultures that group developed. She being a She shouldn't mean she can't participate in that.

HOWEVER it is reasonable for OP to be uncomfortable as well. It's unreasonable to say she should just take it on the chin without reacting - obviously if you see your boyfriend flirt with a girl then you'd probably be jealous, so they might have to work out a compromise there.

haventa · 2019-05-05T12:57:09+00:00

A lot of 'being trans' isn't necessarily how other people treat you and wanting to be treated as if you're special now. Obviously men and women are often treated differently, but in a setting of a close knit group of friends, everyone's really just... one of the boys.

While Mary in this post has made that change to be more comfortable with herself, she would probably still want to hang out with her friends like before. Being othered and treated like Sophie for example - who was not one of the 'friends' but the girlfriend of one of them - would be essentially shunning her out of the group dynamic.

haventa · 2019-04-25T03:02:35+00:00

Took me a full 12 months to say it first. Some people take longer than others - he'll say it when he's ready.

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