Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[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?

[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

[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.

[Vyrerus]

I can echo that sentiment. Employers will try to take advantage of you. Don't let them. A consequence of cellular phones becoming mainstays in culture is that even the most menial jobs are practically always on call. If you're old enough to remember the 90s, pagers were a thing for business men and healthcare workers and few other vocations. Your employers might have your landline number for emergencies, but it could be tied up by dial-up or other phone calls, so they couldn't always get through.

Basically their access to you was fettered and consciously limited to your working hours.

Nowadays with cell phones as a main stay and the internet being prolific for all forms of communication, your employers expect you to basically be on call 24/7. Most aren't so unreasonable, but they design schedules around not letting you take vacation and with the expectation that you will come in on a moment's notice to fill in for anyone who calls out. If they can't reach you, they get angry as if it were a breach of contract.

I remember in 2020 when my own employers filled out paper work and passed out papers to mark us as essential workers (after Zero Houring every hourly they possibly could). What I do is nowhere near essential, but god forbid profits take a backseat to anything. They tried to get me to take on duties for positions that I was not trained for without training me on them. "Rise to the occasion! Be thankful you still have your job!" - "Is my pay going to rise with the extra work?" - "We can't afford that right now!" - "Oh. Ok. Will you train me on the extra duties?" - "No, just learn by doing it!"

So I did the extra work without knowing how to do it, got lambasted for doing it poorly, but they soon stopped expecting me to do it at all because it just had to be redone anyway.

[Boblawblah]

Me trying to get used to a PS5 controller instead of keyboard/mouse

[Tersi82]

Keep at it I’ve been using a controller for 10 years but my button map is custom so I can’t offer much advice