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Grilling and smoking food today. Expecting to have easy dinners for a few weeks.

#food

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the sigh of relief i let out after clicking on the last block of spoiler text

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Grilling and smoking food today. Expecting to have easy dinners for a few weeks.

#food

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*tapping the mic*

Ahem-

Ignorance does not excuse racism!

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I’M DEACTIVATING. The fact all of my mutuals ignore me & treat me like the weirdo of tumblr, whilst I’m not any person on of ft is unacceptable. 10 likes in 24 hours? PATHETIC. I’m so ignored & neglected on here it makes me so beyond infuriated & sad.

Goodbye, friend!

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@boog-shitposting-edition that's giving me some very unpleasant flashbacks to "I don't drive, why should I be expected to look at street signs to make sure I'm in the right place?"

Document everything. But you need to document effectively. Issue; date; time. If the exchange happens by email or instant message, that's even better.

You also need to make sure your documentation isn't petty. If there's a basic personality difference causing a specific conflict, then it's not a legitimate issue to document. It needs to be things he's doing that actively disrupt the work.

Here's an example: "04/26/24, 1:30 PM. Guy complained that project wasn't worth doing. He didn't do x, y, and z, which caused the project to fail in [this way]. Employee 2 and I fixed it by doing a, b, c. We attempted to show Guy how to perform the task, but he said, 'I did it right already. I don't know why it didn't work. Just leave me alone.'"

It's important that your coworkers who are equally affected perform the same documentation when it happens to them. Why? If your manager is any good, they will assume one person complaining is having a personality conflict, and may try to get the team to bond more.

That's because it looks like an isolated issue and can be explained by your approach: maybe you speak in a way that he's misinterpreting, and if you get to know each other better, your communication will improve.

It also demonstrates that he's making the same mistakes even after being informed. It's mostly fine if someone is learning from their mistakes and making new ones to learn from; but if he's making the same mistake after correction multiple times, that's a problem.

In our case, it was the 4 people most closely working with the individual who were complaining. Ultimately, the behavior was not isolated, and the individual learned that attempting to yell at their manager in front of the next level manager and the client, while throwing a tantrum about not accepting responsibility, and pretending they've never been corrected on a documented issue, is an easy way to get fired.

After that point, a dozen other people said they had bets on when this person would be fired, because all of the overlapping work was done incorrectly, and with a nasty attitude towards those affected who asked for fixes.

None of them had documented the issues or raised complaints because they assumed the problems were so obvious that everyone would see them. Our management did not see these issues happening because they all occurred in private.

Also. If your concern is that they'll keep him because he has specialized knowledge of software. Learn the software. Take any chances you have to perform the tasks he does in that program. Watch YouTube videos about it to widen your knowledge.

If he's going to create a hostile workplace and keep everyone miserable for an extended time because his knowledge of that software makes him too valuable to fire, then do what you can to take that value away. Honestly, spite it's a great motivator when it comes to learning new skills.

Once you have a handful of situations documented, have a conversation with your manager about it. "I'm struggling to complete my work on time because Guy is continuously making it more difficult. His part of our projects are consistently done incorrectly, and I have to spend more time fixing his mistakes than doing my work. Here are some examples of when that happened, and how significantly it impacted my workload, but it's been ongoing for longer. I've attempted to provide context about how these errors affect my work, but he's not open to correction. How should I proceed?"

You may be asked directly about what you want your manager to do. Don't say "fire him." Show that you're reasonable and suggest specific areas of training. Such as, "I think he would benefit from learning a,b, c process more formally. It would also help if he understood how his work affects us down the line, and should accept correction that's meant to prevent this impact on our productivity."

That not only shows that you're reasonable, it provides tangible explanation of what would fix the conflict. It gives your manager the opportunity to fix the problem without taking drastic action--something you would want if you were unintentionally in Guy's place.

Tough it out while he gets that training, but continue documenting issues. When training doesn't improve the behavior, your manager will probably put him on a performance improvement plan.

That gives him a set amount of time to correct specific problem behaviors--this would be explained to him, along with the specific metrics he must hit. He would also be told that, basically, if he improves to the minimum expected level he'll keep his job, if he doesn't, he'll be fired.

Once it reaches that point, though, it's unlikely that he'll improve after turning down every other chance to do so. It essentially becomes 14 - 30 days notice of termination.

Huh. So it's staying on my mind and I figured I'd ask the overbrain. Have y'all ever had to deal with a total asshole at work that hated your guts?

We got this dude at work, Kevin, that throws little tantrums whenever he's asked to do anything. We mostly keep him quarantined in the upstairs workshop but he'll huff and puff and whine when anything comes in, finishes maybe 3 projects a day, and fucks up 2 of them in the process. Any attempt at telling him he's making more work for others or getting him to correct his process nets you a tantrum and a sulk. He's now decided I'm his personal enemy because I leave at 5 and sometimes use the same equipment he does. The dude actively resists anything I'm supposed to bring him, ignores my questions when we have to coordinate, and throws blatant fucking insults at me whenever we're in the same room.

I aint really had to deal with someone this unprofessional in any workplace before, and I don't know if he's going anywhere because for now he's the only one who knows a program the boss wants us to use. Has anyone dealt with a guy like this before? What's yer advice? My own stance has always been that no matter how shit a job is you don't take it out on the guy standing next to you, that just makes everything worse, I honestly don't know how to process someone who gets handed an assignment and responds to the messenger by snapping "I'm already doing MY work!"

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It's the gigantic elephant in the room.

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if you often like or reblog my posts i 100% remember your username and mentally go “oh yes friend” every single time i see you in my notes or on my dash 

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Israel has deployed auto-firing quadcopters that emit the sounds of crying babies.

https://xtwitter.com/jam_etc_art/status/1780038184828608975

There is no possible reality where this is in any way capable of being passed off as self-defense. It was never self-defense. It is, and always has been, a genocide.

Crying babies. Crying babies. This is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, meant to draw out and kill civilians while also making it far more difficult to locate and aid children who are trapped or alone.

If you have money to spare, please consider donating to some of the fundraisers on Operation Olive Branch to help people escape this genocide.

End the occupation. Free Palestine.

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i love laughing and orgasming and sleeping those are the 3 divines

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#it would help if these professors went on strike

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I have friends at Indiana University and they've been saying there are snipers on IU Bloomington campus. And theres a bunch of cops everywhere. This is wild.