#Conversations With Coworkers

[bbbbbbbbatman]

Post-identity reveal galas that Bruce and Clark both attend become a game of cat and mouse as Bruce tries to subtly corner Clark to "accidentally" spill his champagne all over him so they have an excuse to go talk in private about superhero stuff (clark does not find this nearly as funny as bruce does)

#its completely unnecessary #but bruce delights in annoying his coworkers #bruce is filled with satisfaction every time he gets a bill for clark's dry cleaning #clark: there are so many other excuses we could use #bruce: yeah but they're not as fun #spilling drinks on people is enrichment for brucie #clark seeing bruce coming closer but unable to leave his current conversation: fuck fuck fuck- #batman #superman #bruce wayne #clark kent #superbat #dc comics #dc #mine

[transmascissues]

today, my coworkers’ refusal to see me as a man put one of our patients in a position where they felt unsafe for the third time. i’ve been at this job for less than two months total. i don’t even care about getting misgendered anymore, i just want the people we’re supposed to be taking care of to feel comfortable around me.

i work at a hospital where we have to supervise our patients in a lot of vulnerable situations. there are safeguarding rules in place for certain things that male employees aren’t allowed to be present for when it comes to female patients. and yet, the people training me and telling me what to do have repeatedly put me in situations where i’ve been forced to do things that the female patients aren’t comfortable with me doing. and because they have repeatedly failed to teach me the rules for doing my job as a man, i have no way of knowing when i’m crossing one of those lines unless one of the patients tells me.

i’ve had to watch a victim of SA stare at me in abject terror as my coworkers asked her to strip naked with me still in the room. it took several minutes for her to even be able to speak enough to ask if i could leave the room. i found out after that she broke down crying the moment i walked out. my biggest regret is that i didn’t realize what was happening fast enough to leave before she ever had to say something, because she shouldn’t have had to say it. i never should’ve been allowed in the room in the first place, because that’s not something male employees are supposed to be present for. but i didn’t know that yet, because i was training and i thought surely, they wouldn’t train me to do something that directly violated their own safeguarding rules. that moment was the first time, and it’s haunted me ever since, but it wasn’t the last time. not only did it happen for the third time today — it almost happened for the fourth, and would have if someone hadn’t spoken up to say they should pick someone else. i care for these people so deeply, it’s why i took this job, and i’m so tired of hearing the fear in their voices when they have to ask me not to do something i never should’ve been told to do.

i’m very used to the personal discomfort of being misgendered. i willingly deal with it a lot at work as well as in other situations, not because i’m in the closet (at this point in my medical transition that would be impossible), but because it’s such a frequent occurrence with my coworkers that we would never get anything done if i took the time to correct them every time. but to see it get to the point of causing such visceral discomfort in other people? people i’m supposed to be taking care of and keeping safe? that’s something else entirely, and i’m fucking exhausted.

and after all of that, some of them still look at me like i have two heads when they tell me what to do and i say “i can’t do that, only female employees can” because i’m learning now. clearly i’m already seen as a man by our patients, but my coworkers would still rather put them in an unsafe situation than just train me as a man.

#to be clear it’s four different things they’ve asked me to do that im not supposed to #as soon as i find out about one rule they ask me to violate a different one that i didn’t know about #i will never ever forget that girl’s face and i’ll never stop being angry for her #for all three of them but especially her #i hate my coworkers for a million different reasons #the patients are the only reason i didn’t quit this job after the first day #i just want to do right by them and sometimes it feels like i’m the only one working there who does #it kills me because the patients who know im trans have been so great about it too #most of them know nothing about trans people but they’re so willing to learn and so respectful and we’ve had such great conversations #they’re getting fucked over by someone else’s transphobia when they themselves don’t have a single transphobic bone in their bodies #i hate this place because i care about the people in it too much to stand by the way it treats them and it’s killing me #transandrophobia #transandromisia #transmisandry #virilmisia #virilphobia #anti transmasculinity #transmascphobia

[nixster627]

Nie Huaisang: Some of the things you say are so out of pocket.

Wei Wuxian: What do you mean?

Wei Wuxian: Doesn't everyone have the experience of having to fend against dogs for food in their childhood.

Nie Huaisang: See that's what I mean. No one else experienced that.

Wei Wuxian: That can't be true. There's no way I'm special.

#mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #cql #mxtx #incorrect quotes #incorrect mdzs #incorrect cql #wei wuxian #nie huaisang #inspired by a conversation i had with my coworkers

[creakysocks]

"...So have you like... considered... *not* making another collider that could potentially break reality as we know it???"

"I mean I did but then i thought of what we'd be missing out on!"

"And what would that be??"

"More holes!"

idk im just thinking abt this au again

#supervillain sidekicks au #spiderverse #aaron davis #miles morales #the spot #atsv #I just keep rotating this au... have made a whole little dialogue between miles and aaron for this and its just #gaaahhhh so many ideas #between aaron surviving and just how that plays out over the course of a year #and then meeting spot and dealing w him #and the fact that aaron and spot were technically coworkers #i feel like miles would tell aaron abt the whole bagel thing and then it comes back like #iunno i have thoughts and dialogue hard but this au would be really funny in some ways but also lead to some conversations tm in other ways #comic

[quaranmine]

collapses on the floor and Dies

#lmao like a 13 hour day for me with added effect of some. borderline hostile community interactions #their concern was highly valid it just still didnt feel nice to be on the opposite end of that (from a personal standpoint not professional #knowing that i literally can't provide the resources they want/need. both as a systematic legal barrier and a 'i dont have millions of $$' #and that i wasnt even born yet when the thing in question happened.... #my much more experienced coworker diffused the situation and we had a more constructive conversation going forward #where i think everybody left the event feeling like we could do something #but it was uhhh wild there for a little bit #im tired. i gotta go do it all again tomorrow and thursday.

[yardsards]

i needed to express a sentiment in the creative stylings of @dunmeshiminimumwage

#eliot posts #dunme #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi #sorry to put toshiro in the roll of shitty job interviewer lmao #but he was the best fit for ''guy that wants me to read their mind'' #laios being my internal monologue here #i was on my THIRD interview of the day i was Dying #tho since the prev two interviews i had were for similar positions and told me their salaries outright at least i could use that number #(though tbh my work persona is more of a kabru. my customer service voice is unparalleled) #(at my first job even my coworkers thought i was sooo cheerful til i got too comfy and casually made a joke abt wanting to asphyxiate on a #plastic shopping bag like a sea turtle. in front of my sweet elderly coworker. oops!) #(also this job was during quarantine and after weeks of working together i took my mask off in front of one coworker for the first time #and she called like half the department over from their registers to look at how pretty i was??? prettyboy powers unmatched ig) #(also my first interview today went SO well i charmed that interviewer so good despite my lack of qualifications) #(she even complimented my social skills and said i seemed like the type who could get along well and make good conversation with anyone!) #(which is important bc i was interviewing for an elder care position. also old people especially tend to think i am a Delightful Young Lad) #(unless i accidentally make a morbid joke around them ig lmaooo. or. well. some of them like those too. but not that one coworker lol) #(if only that skill transferred over to actually making friends irl. my autistic ass has so few close irl connections) #(i hope my exceedingly short list of character references does not prevent me from getting hired) #AND ALSO my first job asked the same wage question and i said twelve dollars #and they were like all our new employees start at 7.75 #the union insists that we pay all new employees a whopping 50 cents above min wage. (we'd pay less if we could) #like dawg why did you ask that then??? if my answer did not matter at all???

[everysongineverykey]

don't hug me i'm scared episode 6 electricity is really something when you're autistic, huh. yellow guy is made fun of all his life by his only friends and laughed at for being "stupid" when all he needed was a change of batteries but no one would listen to him and give him the accommodations he needed and deserved and when he finally did get new batteries and become more clearheaded his friends didn't like him any better. they stopped making fun of him, sure, but they didn't like that he was "smart" all of a sudden, because they'd gotten used to him being "the stupid one". and he looked in the mirror and saw his former self, and his reflection asked him, "have we gone wrong? they seem upset with us" because the truth is even if the way you are now is more comfortable for you, even if it doesn't hurt to think anymore, people will only ever like you if you're the Right Kind of autistic/adhd/traumatized/whatever. have we gone wrong? have we gone wrong? that's what you always ask yourself. "maybe they're not in charge of us anymore." "maybe they never were." and his reflection walks away, as if accepting that the others will think what they will think, and it won't matter, because yellow guy is his own person, no matter how difficult it is for him to articulate his thoughts, and he doesn't need their approval to think. "maybe they never were."

#dhmis #don't hug me i'm scared #yellow guy's conversation with his reflection lives in my head rent free just so you know. #it's so important to me that although he's 'awakened' now- the part of him that's sensitive to what other people think #is still represented by his former self. the 'stupid' version of him. the naive hopeful kid who was mesmerized by a butterfly #and wanted to work with coworkers in a factory and missed duck so much when he died he dug him up #and hated himself for being 'stupid in the head' when he forgot the computer password. #even when yellow guy is clearheaded enough to see through the fabric of his reality #that part of him is still very much present and important in his life and thought processes. #it confuses me that some people seem to see the batteries as a metaphor for a 'cure' for autism or whatever. #to me the batteries are like adhd or schizophrenia medication or antidepressants. they make life easier #while you're dealing with a condition that would normally make moving through a neurotypical world pretty hard. #yellow guy is still the same person. he still cares about his friends' opinions. he's just much more clearheaded and articulate than usual.

[victorian-nymph]

mfs on the internet: the opening scene of empire strikes back exists cause mark hamill's face got FUCKED UP in that car accident

mark hamill in empire strikes back:

#like yeah i guess thee is a noticeable difference but like... he's still so pretty you guys are so mean #inspired by a conversation i had with my coworker who when i mentioned i kept a photo of luke in a locket they asked pre or post accident #which 🤨 #star wars #luke skywalker #penelope rambles

[sepulchritude]

Annoying when people hear how strict my diet has to be and they lean in closer to be like “but aren’t you ever tempted to eat that stuff anyway?”

First of all, not really. I super enjoy not spending the next 3 days incapacitated by pain and confined to my bathroom shitting and vomiting and crying. “Aren’t you tempted” actually if I could donkey kick the concept of garlic bread off a cliff into an active volcano I would, the rest of y’all be damned.

But second of all, yeah, I do cheat on my diet sometimes. But I don’t think you would recognize what my “cheating” looks like.

Cheating means using two ketchup packets (high fructose corn syrup, major trigger; also includes onion) with my fries when I get fast food (only fries, nothing else on the menu is safe) so I don’t have to eat plain fries for lunch

Cheating means eating a small piece of cookie cake (gluten aka fructans, my worst trigger) at my friend’s birthday party after double checking how much flour I can safely eat (1/4 cup)

Cheating means getting a deli sandwich despite not being able to confirm the ingredients in the meat (garlic and onion (fructans; do not engage), honey (fructose; limit 1 tsp), god knows what else; probably unlabeled anyway because the USDA allows that) because fuck, they have gluten free buns (might still have honey) and that’s better than anything else I can hope for at most restaurants

Cheating means getting a small lemonade because strictly speaking I shouldn’t have that much lemon juice (fructans, 3/4 cup limit) but it’s watered down and probably doesn’t have high fructose corn syrup in it and I’ll only drink half of it and save the rest for tomorrow, and it’s like the only fruit juice I can even slightly have

Cheating means grabbing a small plate of fruit (fructose, fructans, sorbitol. Pick one: less than 6 medium strawberries, less than 1/2 cup melon, 1/3 of a banana, 9 grapes) at the workplace potluck because people feel bad to hear that there’s nothing I can eat

And when I fuck it up, whoops! There goes my next couple days!

So no, I would say pretty definitively that I am not tempted to cheat on my incredibly medically necessary diet by eating a slice of pizza.*

*gluten, garlic, onion

#aren’t you ever tempted to eat glass for funsies? #this is just a tiny bit of the mental math i have to do all day everyday #conversation with a coworker that bugged me but i didn’t realize how much until now #sepulchritudinous #fodmap stuff

[valeriianz]

Hob: why don't you just give her a chance? maybe something could spark, you never know. Dream: *agitated* if i wanted to 'give her a chance' i would have accepted her offer for drinks. why is this such a confounding concept for you? Hob: i'm just saying, sometimes people can surprise you. Dream: fine. what if i flipped it on you? what if i asked you out, huh? still want to 'give it a chance'? Hob, suddenly flustered: i mean... yeah, i'd take a chance on you. Dream: see, this is how you string people along. accepting offers just to be polite and then you realize that oh, it's not working out, and then you break their heart. it's best to just let them down immediately before- Hob: do you want to have dinner with me? Dream: ... what?

#dreamling #this might be nothing lol #its based on conversations ive had with friends and coworkers #when i lament over someone i WORK with suddenly asking me out (why is it always a coworker?) #and they're all 'oooh you should have said yes. you never knooowww~' #and thats so annoying to me! lol #why dont YOU go out on a date with them then huh?? #sheesh #anyway... turn my aggravation into dreamling fodder #free prompt for whoever wants it lol

[cloysterbell]

Alright, no more burrowing.

#fringe #fringefox #fringeedit #mine:photoset #olivia dunham #peter bishop #found out today that one of my coworkers also has a massive crush on jjax so that was a very fun conversation #all of the promotion that's coming out for fatal attraction. he's simply the perfect man perhaps

[tsuchinokoroyale]

World’s 3rd most tired man finally cleans himself up for another night of staying home and doing nothing 😏🤟

#did I always close my eyes when I smile or I have been spending too much time slow blinking with the cats #anyways my barber was so hot he was wearing like full vest suit and he was this tall beautiful salt and pepper’d 30 year old asian dad #and when he wanted me to adjusted my head he’d gently nudge my head like usual but then he got into a conversation with a coworker #and he started just grabbing my hair and whipping my head around I had to bite my tongue so I wouldn’t bite my lip #assigned bottom at the barber shop #gpoy

[sleepinglionhearts]

*goes thru my sketchbook to deliver u some One Piece nonsense from last month*

#doodles #one piece #one piece art tag #monkey d. luffy #tony tony chopper #one piece nami #roronoa zoro #nefertari vivi #black leg sanji #nico robin #one piece franky #usopp #look it even includes an outfit of the day collection #some of the outfits were very carefully considered and then assigned to characters by my coworkers #all of whom i thank for their patience in dealing w my new hyperfixation bullshit #everything else is. well. vine references or silly conversations #more characters will appear the farther i get into reading... #as we can see i have added One Unit Of Franky in this art post #eventually I'll do like... nice pretty artworks #but until then it is just more memes hehe #please enjoy the nonsense

[thatsmistertoyou]

#polls #mine #spawned from a conversation I had with my coworker about a movie he loves but I hated #I remember way more about it than he does and I’ve seen it once #overall my experiential memory is not great but audio? sticks with me forever #I used to do this a lot more but I try not to

[butch-himbo-king]

giving up being masc in 2024 i can’t handle everyone and their mother deciding they can say whatever unhinged shit their repressed horny brains are saying abt me it’s too much i’m retiring from serving butch realness cause these bitches can’t handle it

#personal #literally what kind of person would look you in the eyes and say #IN FRONT OF MULTIPLE COWORKERS #that she’s talked to her therapist about you because she loves her husband but she keeps thinking about me #AND ALSO????? #that she would have fucked you in a public work space AT WORK WHERE YOU BOTH WORK #ON THE FLOOR IN FRONT OF CUSTOMERS AND COWORKERS #with zero prior conversations that would possibly encourage or approve of any of it being said ever #anyways i just really wish i could exist without this shit happening and the fact that shit like this has happened multiple times is horrid #just let masc ppl exist without being fucking creeps maybe #this is all made worse by the fact that up until this incident she was literally referred to by herself and others as one of my ‘work moms’

[lunarneo]

you don’t say?

#my coworker didn't MEAN to make me feel bad #but plEASE consider not saying this kind of stuff to someone <:) this applies to disabilities or physical differences too #cuz for all you know they feel the same and now have to coddle you about it when they are struggling themselves! #I had to turn my hurt feelings into a joke to move this conversation along >.< #web comic #comic #digital comic #furry comic #Furry Art #anthrofurry #furry #Neo #Poor Neo #trans artist #autistic artist #autistic creator