Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[SnowStar]

I have a crush on someone at work
and everytime i get around him i either force myself to act disinterested or I get super high anxiety and act oddly around him, and i cant help it! my option is to just try to act normal but the anxiety takes over and BLEH
he wont make eye contact with me
i guess he picks up on it and wants to avoid me like the plague ; -;
i dont wanna date him if ill admit, but i would like to at least get to know him to some extent!

Ask him to help you with something work related and then thank him profusely when he does

[QiyoJoyo]

I have a crush on someone at work
and everytime i get around him i either force myself to act disinterested or I get super high anxiety and act oddly around him, and i cant help it! my option is to just try to act normal but the anxiety takes over and BLEH
he wont make eye contact with me
i guess he picks up on it and wants to avoid me like the plague ; -;
i dont wanna date him if ill admit, but i would like to at least get to know him to some extent!

Well you could dive into the cold water and simply tell him?

[Boblawblah]

I have a crush on someone at work
and everytime i get around him i either force myself to act disinterested or I get super high anxiety and act oddly around him, and i cant help it! my option is to just try to act normal but the anxiety takes over and BLEH
he wont make eye contact with me
i guess he picks up on it and wants to avoid me like the plague ; -;
i dont wanna date him if ill admit, but i would like to at least get to know him to some extent!

Try to make an effort to at least smile at him

[Larirawiel]

Cheers

[Local_Custard]

Hewwo! I pop in to once again talk about my crafts!

in class I had cast in bronze! I would have more bronze bells but when I was pouring I hesitated and the metal cooled. The bronze bells are made of a bronze called bell metal (20% tin, 80% copper). Centrifugal had to be the way. I melted the bigger bell (middle right) and had to fix it because there would be no more casting after that QwQ
I wish I could cast more... I would like to experiment with silver in the alloys and maybe try making pewter.
You may not notice by the way I took the pic but I patched the hole with brass.
The two bigger bells are both brass. I attached brass handles to all of them. Unfortunately, I melted a brass bell so the bigger one has a single throat instead of two (I did not feel like repairing it). For now, I cannot make any more bells- I'm on break.

I look forward to when I can work on raising these bells further. For now I'll need to settle for the unfinished shape.

I also cast some charms!

I made the shapes out of wax and cast it with ancient bronze (10% tin, 90% copper)

Here is a lineup of all the bells I had made excluding the bronze bells (left oldest, right newest)

there are three other missing bells- my first ever bell (big, ugly, and made of copper. You might or might not remember it) and two cone-shaped brass bells I have since gave to family for crimmus. I played around with copper for bells but alas, the metal is too soft so its sounds aren't the nice. The big box bell and those two half-sphere shaped bells are copper. The smaller copper bells are super quiet but do ring clear.

Extra note: bell metal sounds so so good. I wish with work with it more in the future

[Vyrerus]

Square is a small indie company, please understand :P

[TheMightyMollusk]

Eh, I'll care if they ever make a statue of a character I'd actually want on my shelf. Where's my Ravana or Alexander Prime?

[Cincierta]

Note to self: stop sacrificing so much of myself to a company you work for that doesn't care for all the hard work I put into it.

A couple weeks ago my boss made the incredibly stupid decision to let 3 people go on vacation the week before Easter, including himself. He then scheduled two of the most unreliable people to work on holiday stuff, and one of them has turned into an absolute flake during her current pregnancy. She's also quite underweight and small to even consider having a safe pregnancy.

The other can't work more than a handful of hours at a time, and she came in suffering from flu-like symptoms.

I got left with a ton of the Easter production and normal production, ended up skipping my breaks and pulling in 45 hours last week and got a decent chunk of them done by myself. Instead of getting thanked for pulling a near miracle, I get reamed for not taking breaks.

If three people didn't go on vacation at a critical time, not only could we have had more holiday stuff out, but I would've been able to take my break AND not have a ton of overtime.

*angry hamster table flip*

[Kacho_Nacho]

Note to self: stop sacrificing so much of myself to a company you work for that doesn't care for all the hard work I put into it.

A couple weeks ago my boss made the incredibly stupid decision to let 3 people go on vacation the week before Easter, including himself. He then scheduled two of the most unreliable people to work on holiday stuff, and one of them has turned into an absolute flake during her current pregnancy. She's also quite underweight and small to even consider having a safe pregnancy.

The other can't work more than a handful of hours at a time, and she came in suffering from flu-like symptoms.

I got left with a ton of the Easter production and normal production, ended up skipping my breaks and pulling in 45 hours last week and got a decent chunk of them done by myself. Instead of getting thanked for pulling a near miracle, I get reamed for not taking breaks.

If three people didn't go on vacation at a critical time, not only could we have had more holiday stuff out, but I would've been able to take my break AND not have a ton of overtime.

*angry hamster table flip*

It sounds like it's time to look for another job.

I was brought up with the idea that if I worked hard and kept a good attitude I'd get somewhere too. It's all a lie.

You just get used while other employees get promoted because you're indispensable in the lowest job on the organization's tier chart. And, when you go above beyond, it isn't appreciated. It's expected.

Then, after years of busting balls for them, you get called in by HR, and they threaten to fire you for something petty.

Meanwhile, your supervisor is enjoying the largest bonus she's ever gotten.

It's all a lie.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I used to put in extra effort at previous jobs. Nobody ever appreciated it, so I stopped bothering and worked down to the level of everyone else around me. The bosses sure noticed that real quick.

Give them exactly what they pay you for, and no more.