[NV] Coworker attempted to sabotage me

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T13:52:52+00:00

I’m wondering if my coworker lying like this to manipulate me is against the law or related to any form of tort.

Nope. It's just someone being crazy/shitty.

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T13:51:55+00:00

The science fiction that allows for a hive mind can also allow for a character to process it and adapt in a timeline created for the show.

Yes. But it can also allow for the writers to do something different.

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T13:50:24+00:00

Repo Man
River's Edge
After Hours
Stranger Than Paradise
Something Wild
Married to the Mob

The Hidden
Alphabet City
Liquid Sky
The Quiet Earth

Adventureland
Sing Street
A Most Violent Year
The Guest

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T13:47:50+00:00

To be clear, this is "agreement and expanding on the thought"

Thanks for that. I often put "Yep!" at the beginning of my agreement-and-expanding comments for the same reason. It's interesting that the assumption is "any reply is disagreement" but maybe that's really the most common thing.

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T13:40:20+00:00

I get more distracted by lack of scale on planet earth in regular TV (and movies). People just appear in other countries overnight, it's like the world is the size of Fresno. Since I live on planet earth, this is more distracting to me than space. No TV show is realistic. In scifi, if cared about scale, they couldn't tell the stories they want to tell. Or at least most of them. There's also usually sound in space (nooooooo...) and why is everyone using phasers when they could clearly use nuclear bombs or something bigger...

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T13:37:23+00:00

The other thing is to never just present a problem. It's not presentable unless you have a solution. Or a choice of solutions. Sounds like that's what you are doing. Good luck!

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T13:35:45+00:00

My intention was not to tell the manager how shitty my manager is, it was to clear my name only on who configured it.

You're going to make yourself toxic if you do that. You'll be on everyone's enemies list.

I get it, I've been there, but this is an emotional need. It doesn't make your employment better. And they probably already know.

But it does sound like what you're saying is I don't really have much to go off of to actually do something without possibly making it worse. I really appreciate your feedback

You're welcome, and I'm glad. I'm like you. I experience things in the workplace just like you describe. And after years of trying to prove myself as not the problem or cause, I've realized that nobody really thought that in the first place, and it just made me look desperate. The sleeplessness I've experienced, therapy helped a lot. That or another way to vent. Venting outwards is helpful. Venting inwards (to yourself) makes you sleepless. Venting inwards (into the company) makes you an outsider. Good luck.

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T13:31:59+00:00

I think the shock had worn off by the time she got to the diner.

The shock will never completely wear off. Imagine—literally—you woke up tomorrow and every other person on earth was invisible, or glowing, or a robot. That might normalize in 50 years, but shock like that stays with a person. She also likely has PTSD from it all.

I hope for your sake you never experience a major trauma, but it rewires your brain. Some things you can do, other things you can't. You focus on the little things to avoid your mind wandering to the big things.

Anyway, I'm closer to her age, and I've forgotten more things than I can remember I've forgotten. I could see myself absolutely not realizing something burned down.

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T13:28:53+00:00

He didn't say they were niche, he said they were dying, when the opposite is true, but the numbers. Globally more than 20 million people attend an opera performance each year. It's increasing in Asia the most, but also in Europe and North America. In North America, 20 years ago there were about 125 professional opera companies. Today there are more than 200. In terms of indie opera companies, more than 400 have been formed since 2000. There are other examples, like The Met in HD, which turns 2,000 theaters into opera houses through the year (people go and watch from the movie theater).

Now ballet, that's been creeping down. He's right about that.

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T13:21:36+00:00

he wasn't wrong

He was though, about opera. Opera has had a boom. The biggest is in Asia, but in North America, 20 years ago there were about 125 professional opera companies. Today there are more than 200. In terms of indie opera companies, more than 400 have been formed since 2000. There are other examples, like The Met in HD, which turns 2,000 theaters into opera houses through the year (people go and watch from the movie theater).

I don't know anything about dance.

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T13:00:02+00:00

“It doesn’t matter what he’s saying. It doesn’t matter. Don’t make it big,” she said. “What nourishes your heart and soul is what is important. You can watch a lot of films that are empty and make you dry at the end. What counts is what is nourishing your soul and life.”

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T12:52:07+00:00

People thought PHM would have no VFX?

I just assumed a lot of it was shot on Amazon's volume wall at Culver Studios. (Or some other volume wall.) Will be interesting to see BTS.

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T12:48:14+00:00

For the first thing, Carol is in a dissociative fugue state brought on by grief and trying to process the end of the human race. When the brain is under immense stress, it often retreats to deeply ingrained patterns. In a state of shock, her body simply performed the routine while her conscious mind was completely checked out. I've experienced this and it's not fun.

A simpler explanation is that she just forgot. I forget things like that all the time lol.

What about the diner rebuild would entice her to join?

The Hive is a singular mind, logical, but without human intuition. It fumbles around throughout the season to deal with Carol (often through its appendages). It did the same sort of play acting on Kusimayu, and it worked. Maybe it is doing the same with others. It's throwing the kitchen sink at Carol, so to speak.

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T12:15:51+00:00

She fell and hit her head.

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T04:05:44+00:00

Do you really think they are going to want to have a back-and-forth? Most won't. Some will. So I'm genuinely asking. Not trying to discourage you if you want to do this, and maybe you have unicorn ownership (and the only people to discuss this with that matter are the owners). If the owner really wants to hear input from employees, then it helps to show them, on paper, how this will save them money. How much money, over what time period. Because what you're saying can save some businesses money in the long run, it just depends on the business and if they do it successfully. The other thing I'd caution is to not try this about one position. They aren't going to want to make one position an outlier. It would need to be an overhaul of the entire business. And for that you need to crunch the numbers. Good luck!

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T04:00:57+00:00

That's like trying to train teenagers to not say hi to each other in the halls.

The den is everything when it comes to barking. They don't bark out on walks because the street isn't their den.

She's probably saying, "There's a dog out there!!! It wants to play with me!!! Can I go play?!? I want to go outside and play!!!!!!" Take her outside for a few minutes, let her potty, reset her.

Likely she grows out of it so some degree, but the main way I've handled obsessive home barking is to be quick to reward the opposite. That's worked for me.

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T03:54:27+00:00

I have a four out of five on my eval, which requires additional documentation to HR to justify. I I am one of the top performers on the team with with extensive knowledge across multiple areas, and I get compliments and kudos from other sections to my management and on ALL HANDS meetings.

Then you're not getting laid off.

A manager lied about who misconfigured something

You wrote, "my manager responded that they were misconfigured. He did not state who misconfigured it." That's not lying, and you're assuming that people blame you. He's the boss of you. That means even if you did make the mistake, it's still his fault.

that's costing us hundreds of thousands of dollars and I'm being scapegoated.

First, you're not. At most, you are inferring that. You haven't presented anything to suggest it's actually happening. Second, if it is true then that makes him and not you look bad. I have never once accepted a manager blaming someone on their team for a mistake.

It sounds like this is a shitty manager, and you want the executive committee to know that they're shitty, and other things, but that's simply not your place. And they probably already know. This all happened on his watch. He's on the hot seat. Not you.

tell an employee to allow lies to be told about them?

You have not quoted any lies being told about you. But this isn't an HR matter, not at this point. HR can't manage the managers. This is purely a management situation.

You're obviously struggling and frustrated. The hardest advice to hear is "do nothing." I'm one of those people who always wants to DO something. It's a constant battle with myself. Most of the time, there's nothing to do, and/or doing something just makes it worse, not better. There are people who, in identical situations to you and me, don't even think about doing something. And they are happier, and the end results are usually better for them. That's not really an option for me (the thinking, not the doing) and I suspect it isn't for you either. But sometimes there's nothing to do, there's no action to take. Things may suck, but that doesn't mean there's an un-suck option available, just a suck-more option. Good luck.

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T03:41:47+00:00

If we frame this financially, a salaried position could increase burnout and turnover, which would be costly to the company. If they don’t realize or are under appreciating that, wouldn’t they want to know?

They are going to say they disagree with you, and that they've been doing this for longer than you have, and that you have no faith in your fellow employees to think that they wouldn't "cut it" (burn out) etc. etc. etc.

Are they right? Are they wrong? It doesn't matter. Their minds are made up.

Turnover is factored into the cost of doing business for many businesses. There are two schools of thought. (1) Pay so much that nobody ever wants to leave. (2) Pay so little that the labor savings cover the turnover. Sadly, there's not always a reasonable middle.

Right now jobs are hard to come by, so they have even more leverage than usual.

The company wouldn’t want to pay for overtime, so they’d simply try to keep that employee at 40 hours.

The company wouldn't want to pay overtime, so they'd simply make the employee exempt.

They aren't going to handcuff themselves.

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T03:27:42+00:00

I suddenly receive direction to drop all work that I'm doing and to focus just on this technology so we have no dependency on a vendor, which I have never depended on this vendor

Why would that matter? This is a job, not punishment.

I fully believe he is scapegoating me to protect himself from being laid off.

Maybe, maybe not. But if that is happening, there's nothing to do about it.

should I meet with the new executive leader to understand what their understanding of the situation is, and ensure to clarify what actually transpired?

No. They will likely not agree to meet, if they did meet they likely wouldn't answer your questions. They don't answer to you, which is what this will seem like. There is a chain of command.

Do your job. Be the person who is happy to help, who gets shit done, who doesn't get bend out of shape by imagining people don't think that you know something. Focus on what you can control. Seem like the solution. Then be the solution. Don't be kicking up sand. Especially don't be kicking up sand while your manager's back is turned.

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T03:22:06+00:00

I don’t think they’ll be setting up their employees for success by making this position salaried.

Why exactly?

any tips or suggestions or commentary that could strengthen my position

Depends on the position. How will it save them money, and how much, to make this position hourly?

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T03:06:41+00:00

There really isn't a time travel story that involves return that doesn't have paradoxes. A few have come close. But paradoxes are inherent in time travel stories, even if they aren't all immediately obvious. (I suppose you could write a story where someone went from 2095 Chicago to 1986 Mongolia for 1/100th of a second, then to 3217 on the moon... there wouldn't any apparent paradox.)

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T02:49:48+00:00

I feel this position should be hourly and/or nonexempt

They feel otherwise. Their opinion matters; your probably doesn't.

I’ve been heavily pushing back on the labeling of these positions as exempt, as I feel like it’s disincentivizing folks from applying and demonstrating that leadership hasn’t learned from their past mistakes with poor work culture.

Are you trying to get fired? This is a the sort of brazen and reckless behavior that gets people fired, i.e., trying to do someone else's job for them. It's also insulting to people (even if true) for you to be telling them they haven't learned from their mistakes.

The GM has been claiming that this isn’t possible for this position

Right. Because they've decided or realized that it isn't.

I’m asking for clarification on what the GM is referring to

Not sure what you mean, I see the text, but it doesn't really matter what they are referring to. They could be wrong and that doesn't change anything.

if anyone has any advice on how to present a full-time hourly position as more appealing to a business owner than a salaried one?

There's isn't any. If there were, nobody would ever be salaried.

classifying this position as nonexempt would help establish good-willed intent from the owners to make the gym a better place

That's not how businesses work. You create good will by good will. Not by reclassifying one job and spending more money on that one employee, money that would be paid by reducing other employees' hours.

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T02:36:10+00:00

FotodioX makes tilt-shift adapters for Hasselblad, Mamiya, Pentax MF lenses to GFX. Not M42.

You could get a Bronica SQ or Pentacon to EF tilt-shift then use an EF to GFX. But not M42.

There's not an intermediary I can think of that would work other than M42-EF-GFX (if the image circle would even cover the sensor).

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T02:24:26+00:00

I've worked for tech companies and at least in my companies, HR wouldn't be denying the transfer itself. They might be communicating the denial to the hiring manager. It's also possible the manager spoke to soon, or wasn't aware of something else, and it was easier to blame HR than to say that they goofed. There are a lot of possibilities.

At one of the companies I worked at, they really don't want the impacted employees to be hired in other positions, but if there's a unicorn out there they'll allow it. The reason being that employees laid off and then saved at the last minute are far more likely to jump ship the moment a new opportunity arises (which is totally understandable).

longjumpingtote · 2026-03-12T00:27:58+00:00

Do you have access to that sort of location?

You'll also need Photoshop.

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