transister.social

my ideal job: software engineer team counselor

basically my role is similar to a manager or team lead, except I have no power whatsoever and leadership actively ignores what I say. I am simply an outlet to hopelessly vent, sort of acting as an emotional rubber duck

this is a serious suggestion as the biggest impact i've made at work so far this year is keeping co-workers moderately regulated

realizing "less housework and self maintenance" is my kink

bodycon clothing is a great way to emphasize I have no boobs or butt or hips and keep my ego in check

trying to watch Red One but my media server keeps crashing possibly because it knows

ginny's "dealing with conflict with boys in the workplace" strategy:

• start out with a thank you; ideally related to the argument at hand, but be careful not to sound sarcastic. "Thank you for bringing up , i'm glad we have a champion for this effort since leadership hasn't paid it much attention!" oh leadership, you're so silly

• compliment them on the thing that is frustrating you most. "I've always been grateful for your dedicated stewardship of our shared libraries, and have aimed to emulate that in my own work". This has an added benefit too - it sometimes helps them keep emotions in check if they think your behavior is really their behavior (because you're just a silly girl emulating him).

• make your request seem a huge imposition you wouldn't waste their time with except, gosh, i was so silly and messed up earlier and this will help us out of a jam. Cram compliments in here too! "Last quarter was rough and we had to make a lot of compromises to execute at the speed leadership wants. You've been so helpful in our attempts to get out of our hole ha ha!!"

• never appeal to your own authority especially if you don't actually have any authority, but especially if you do.

• never escalate the disagreement; if you want an escalation it has to be their idea (even if you are the one that puts it in their head). You doing it will piss off the people involved and leadership will assume it's petty emotional squabbling. basically, you can't do this for the same reason you cannot appeal to your own authority.

• sign off all emails cheerfully, making sure to point out how excited you are to be working closely with them in the coming new year

first class support for tone tags would be cool

Fedi communication pro tip: not everyone has the same context and information as you. Don’t assume everyone talking about “puppy girl horny posts” is talking about serious moderating issues.

Sometimes they’re talking about the fedi courtship ritual that goes by the same name.

I’m in my straight girl arc but still wanna ring in the new year by kissing a girl

after all it’s new years eve, not new years steve :neomouse_nerd:

the true transfem struggle, being cold but unwilling to wear pants

Im a single mother to a 10 year old and parts of fedi

guess toxic masculinity is doing eggs now

I’ve got a three christmas ghosts kinda thing going on rn but with hookups I haven’t talked to in months and maybe shouldn’t have given my phone number to

I get so excited when a show has a character named Ginny

When I was most of y’all’s age the big deal was we could get 3D pre-rendered toasters to fly across the screen if we didn’t type or move the mouse for 5 minutes ($29.99 plus tax and you had to go to a store to buy a boxed copy of the software on 3 1/4” floppy)

Be careful opening google docs as it is an excellent way to accidentally dox yourself to the author and others, who can see the people opening the docs. Use private mode or make sure you are logged out of all your google accounts when opening one.

IMO posting it as a google doc response to a community where privacy is critical, in and of itself, is suspicious as fuck.

What is the secular version of “y’all need to find Christ”

One time at work i said “what’s the good word?” to a coworker and he immediately said “Jesus Christ lord and savior” and he didn’t seem religious and never mentioned religion before or again

I also found out he had a dead pan sort of humor

So like my white whale is finding out if he was serious or joking , also this was 20 years ago or so